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Building in the Darklands

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I have seen that some of you have been starting to build some larger structures in the darklands, and made them easy to find. I want to make you aware of the following (just in case you wonder): I will not protect property in the darklands, no matter how great it looks. I created the lots in the normal world so that I do not have to go to every user and protect their stuff manually. So I will not go back to “manual mode” in the darklands. If you build there, griefing is your risk only.

Server 1.5 upgrade – Map reset (sorry!)

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I upgraded the server to 1.5 today and made a chain of mistakes. Essentially the issue is that the ‘world’ map got reset to the status of 4 days ago, darklands and nether are fine. For those of you who were on 1.5 already and on the temp map this should not matter at all. For the others who are affected, I am really sorry about this. What went wrong?

  • I did not make a manual backup before moving map files
  • I made a mistake when copying the files
  • The backup failed since 26th. Apparently it does not work when the temp server is running for some strange reason.

As a reminder: There will be NO refunds whatsoever. It’s in the FAQ, read it please.

Upgrade issues in general:

  • The mall is off since the plugin was handed over to a new developer, waiting for the update to the latest version
  • Lightning will cause fire. The fire should not however spread as all other fire too. It will hurt you too if you get hit. Rain seems to have a bug in that it might not rain in some areas. Don’t ask me why.
  • Please check all the functions of minecarts etc and tell me if something is broken
  • You will have to replace your gold blocks on your minecart tracks with powered rails sooner or later. I will make them work for now as normal, but please work on removing them!
  • Sandstone does not seem to kill minecarts. Trying to fix it.
  • The contest for the Egyptian statue will be extended for a week (8th of May)

Oh and in case anyone of you was wondering what I did on my holiday (show and tell, anyone?) check out the best of the 600 pictures here.

Temporary 1.5 server online! [IMPORTANT UPDATE]

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For all of you who cannot wait or upgraded already, I setup a 1.5 version server running on 25565 port. This is a “vanilla” server without any addons, protection or similar stuff. The only thing that is working is the whitelist. Otherwise everything is like Single Player. PVP is off.

Do not come and ask me to keep this map after the plugins work with 1.5. I will not.

The current 1.4 server will be online until all important plugins are working with 1.5.

[UPDATE]IMPORTANT: If you are just joining the server for the first time, the whitelisting function will NOT work immediately. I have to manually restart the 1.5 server for new entries to work. So do NOT complain about whitelisting not working![/UPDATE]

Emergency update done, please report issues

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I just did an emergency update to the server. This has nothing to do with 1.5, you still need 1.4 to play on the server.

This emergency update is to prevent a crash exploit. Read more here:

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mc1-4-new-craftbukkit-build-available-fixes-crash-exploit.13570/

It say that the plugins should work fine with this. If there is however an issue, please post here.

I will be doing my first dive of this holiday in 30 minutes! Wait for the pictures!

City Buildings

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I have transferred now a bunch of buildings to the city. I have come to the following conclusion: I will NOT give the owners building rights once the buildings are in the city. It is just too much work to do and manage that.

So if you want to have your building in the city, I will copy it there unless you want me to remove it from your lot. Those people whose building was already moved by me, can get a copy of the building back on their lot. Contact me here and tell me where you want it. I will put it back.

If your building is in the city and you want to upgrade it or make considerable changes, please change the building on your lot and I will then overwrite the updated building in the city with the new one.

IMPORTANT: Cheat protection

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I now installed a cheat protection software. The important part is that it does not allow you anymore to lag-climb out of holes by quickly placing blocks below you in restricted areas (spawn, other people’s lots etc).

This means that there is a risk for you to get stuck. While in the normal world you can get out of a hole by using /spawn, in the darklands spawn area that is not possible. You would have to wait until I come online and get you out of there. So watch where you walk!

If you get stuck, you can leave a message anywhere on the site with your coordinates (press F3) and I will fix the area so you can get out when you log back in.

 

Egyptian Statue Building Contest! [Update]

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The new pyramid in spawn needs Egyptian statues! So here is a contest:

Build an Egyptian statue! Small or big! But they have to be recognizable Egyptian. Post a link to a picture here.

The first prize: You get the amount of blocks used in diamonds AND

  • 1 stack of lightstone OR
  • a level upgrade! (You choose)

The rules:

  • Build a statue that is recognizably Egyptian out of any material. I will convert it into sandstone once it is accepted.
  • Post a link to the image of the statue here in the comments
  • If someone posts the same statue (or an extremely similar) as you built first, your entry is disqualified. So the simpler the statue, the more risk! The point here is not that 2 people might build a sphinx. The point is that 2 people might build the EXACT same sphinx.
  • The statue has to be 3D and not just 2D pixel art.
  • There might be bonus prizes for cool/funny stuff. Don’t expect the same amount of prizes as last time!
  • provisional deadline is end of 1st of May. If the upgrade to 1.5 delays stuff a lot, I might extend

Please do not post those google image links. most times they do not work. You can click through to the actual page and post the proper link.

 

Xama45 banned for using fly-mod

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Xama45 was banned for using a flymod.

This is not allowed regarding the rules:

Do not cheat to get achievements or to mine blocks. This includes client-side scripts, mods, transparency texture packs or any other way that gives you an advantage over the standard and intended game play.

I made this even more clear now with the following update to the FAQ:

I have this client mod “x” that I want to install. Is that OK?
No. The only client side mods that are allowed are normal texture packs and a minimap that shows you your immediate surroundings. Texture packs that show you things that the normal texture does not show, are not allowed. All other modifications are not allowed either. No flying, speeding, no-clip (walking through walls), whatever it is – is not allowed.

Please read: http://minecraft.uncovery.net/bans-appeals-second-chances/

Mob-spawning & Minecraft 1.5 info

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Worldguard received a minor update today which allows me to prevent mobs from spawning on selected lots. So I disabled mob spawning completely in the spawn areas of all 3 worlds. This does not prevent mobs from other lots to walk over into those areas, which might be an issue in the nether. The other areas should be fine though due to size or walls.

As you might now, Notch has announced minecraft 1.5 for next week. On the other hand I announce holiday 2011.3 next week. This means that I will be off for the second time this year after XMas and Chinese New Year. I will be going to some obscure island in Indonesia for diving (yay!) with some limited internet access (nay!). Which means: I might have trouble updating the server in time if the plugins are quick updating or even to setup a parallel server for those who upgrade their client.

So rather wait with updating your client until you see an announcement here that a parallel server is running OR that your old client tells you it’s outdated when you try to connect.

Darklands now functional as intended!

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Today I had the time to update the darklands as I wanted to have them since the beginning:

  • They are endless big
  • You can mine and do as you like
  • creepers explode
  • all kinds of illumination except lightstone is impossible
  • it is impossible to /warp, /tp, /home, /spawn, /sethome etc

So infinite riches have their price and the play there should be even harder than SSP. Have fun!

To be clear(er): You have to either die or go back through the portal in the tower through which you came in to get back to the normal world. Please do not come and ask what happens if all sand/whatever in a reasonable distance is gone. Once this happens, we will see what we do.

New Warp Gate to City

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I have added a new warp gate in spawn that brings you to the city. The city currently has 2 actual buildings and 4 more that are more placeholders than anything else. The streets layout as width is concerned is final. The materials used can be changed anytime. I would also favor a non-car-related design. I would be interested to get more proposals. Please think about how it would look like when the streets become really long.

New FAQ about signboards etc

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I made a new FAQ about signboards/info walls etc since the topic came up several times in the last few days. Since I do not think a lot of existing members re-read the FAQ too often, I post it here also:

I would like to have a notice/sign board in spawn or elsewhere with rules, ads, information, whatever
Sorry, this will not happen. I have enough to do keeping the website up to date with stuff. Also, writing/editing the in-game signs is a really big pain. I do not want to do that. Also, I do not want that people rely on several places to find info. If you have one watch, you know the time. If you have two, you never know which one is correct.

Map issues

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I updated today to the latest versions of the plugins etc. and something must have gone wrong because at least one building got completely messed up etc.

I realized this some 2-3 hours after updating the server. So instead of trying to fix something that is almost impossible I rather opted to revert the map to the status it was when I updated. This means that if you logged in right after I updated, all what you did until this blog post is undone.

Sorry about this, but but could not help it.