Downgrading Minecraft Made Simple

When you have accidently updated to the latest version of Minecraft and you don't even have a backup of the old version and you really wish to play the old Minecraft version. you will need to downgrade Minecraft, Unfortunately downgrading Minecraft can be a little frustrating! but is not so hard to do, you can visit our Minecraft Downgrade Tutorial page for some usefull and updated info.

This tool might also help you in the downgrading process.

MC Downgrader - The Time Machine for Minecraft!

Features:

• Easy Download and Install of Python
• Easy download of patches
• Simple Patch/Unpatch
• Backups

http://fatalfatalis.ca/showthread.php?68-Downgrade-Tool
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tool-minecraft-downgrade-tool.13873/
Click here to Download
Tutorial:

This link might help too.
Minecraft Single Player Codes

Another tool to downgrade Minecraft.
MCPatcher

Easy up and downgrade your Minecraft
http://mojangcommunity.net/thread-448.html
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/352333-minecraft-version-patcher-mcpatcher-185-indev-mc-19pre4-15000-dls/
Click here to Download
Tutorial:

Voxel Generator

And here is our attempt of a Voxel Generator, Hope it comes in handy

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Cool Links and Software

Just wondering around the speedy highways of the famous Internet, I stumbled upon some unique things to share.

Minecraft.print()

Incredible structures have been created within Minecraft. Why can't we take those virtual creations, and bring them into the real world? This is our attempt to create a bridge between Minecraft and the real world, via 3D Printers.

Gallery of Prints


Coordinate tools
Simple enough to use, just enter the location of a block, chunk or region file and it'll tell you all you need to know about it. if you need to do a little mathings to figure out where exactly a block is, or, more likely, which file a block is in so you can delete the giant mess you just made.
Linkylinklink

minecraft level tools
This service processes level.dat files for your convenience.
Seed Scope
Extracts the unique seed from a level file.
Linkylinklink or the other Linkylinklink
Lose Me
Teleports you to another location.
You can use this for an interesting challenge—can you make the journey home?
Because of the unpredictable nature of teleportation, you could end up in an ocean, or above a ravine. Or inside a mountain. We can't guarantee you'll even survive the jump.
Bring a compass.
Linkylinklink or the other Linkylinklink
Go Home
Teleports you back to your spawn point — for when a compass just won't do.
Linkylinklink or the other Linkylinklink
Toggle Type
Switches your 1.8+ world's game type from Survival to Creative or vice versa.
Linkylinklink or the other Linkylinklink

Minecraft Mod Installer The Minecraft Mod Installer simplifies installation of custom graphics and other mods for the Minecraft client. Click here to Download Minecraft Topographical Survey MTS is a fast Minecraft map renderer, capable of processing extremely large maps with an efficient caching system. It supports a variety of modes, and can load both singleplayer and multiplayer worlds. It also includes a command-line interface. Click here to Download Documentation or Tutorial

Voxel Sphere Builder
Yet another Voxel Sphere Builder from you this time it is way back from the past, offcourse not made for Minecraft, but it does the trick very nicely and online, be warned it may take long to generate large spheres though.
Linkylinklink

Voxel Sphere Generator
And one more sphere generator for you almost the same as the above mentioned. although it is faster then the above mentioned but the same warning goes with this one too.
Linkylinklink

Minecraft Blueprint Generators

A bunch of generators that turn shapes into pixel / voxel versions.

Pixel Circle Generator
Pixel Ellipse Generator
Pixel Ellipsoid Generator

Panoramic View Tutorial

Note: This post is nothing about the Movie Paranormal Activity or about the Paranormal nor about Paranormal Phenomena.

To understand Panoramic it is best you read about it on the wiki Linkylinklink,
"An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image."

A panorama can be defined as a wide-angled view of any space, field or structure.  A panorama is usually made from several photographs/screenshots that are merged together to create a picture/image.

Robin's The Great Hall (Inside Panoramic View)

Follow the steps below to create an panoramic image of any structure in Minecraft.

• Set the screen resolution. It is best to set your Monitor/LCD screen resolution to as high as you can, to get the best quality screenshots for your panoramic view.
• Set Minecraft to fullscreen mode. press F11 to toggle fullscreen mode. you can use ALT+TAB to switch out of Minecraft AND switch it back to windowed mode.
• Stand still and mark where you will be standing. mark with any block type. it is best to place another block directly behind you so that you can't move back.
• Start from the extreme left side of what you want to capture. move and adjust your view by moving the crosshair with the mouse only, keep the crosshair at an specific height.
• Take a few screenshots by pressing F2. Press F1 to toggle the Heads Up Display (hide the crosshair, inventory etc.), check the screenshots if you are satisfied with it then move on. if not goto step one. The screenshots are saved in
  o   %appdata%\.minecraft\screenshots on Windows
  o   ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/screenshots in OS X
  o   ~/.minecraft/screenshots in Linux.
• Choose a reference point, move the crosshair from left to right. Press F1 to toggle the crosshair, Choose a reference point a tree or a specific block the reference point should be in the previous screenshot, Move the crosshair from left to right keeping atleast 20% to 30% of the view that you have already taken a screenshot of, we need the images to overlap, do not move your cursor in the vertical (i.e. up or down) direction. If you don’t overlap enough, as Adobe Photoshop’s Photomerge tries to blend and merge the shots it wont be able to blend them well, resulting in a messy image. take a few screenshots.
• Follow the above step as many times as you'll need to capture the whole structure.

Alien's Temple (Inside Panoramic View)

Now merge all the screenshots together using Adobe Photoshop.

• Open all the screenshots that you wish to add to your Panorama in Photoshop.
• In Photoshop go to File > Automate > Photomerge
• In the dialog that appears choose Auto and then click the “Add Open Files” button
• Check the filename numbers of the photos that are added, The images in the list should be in correct order, meaning the extreme left screenshot or our first screenshot should be listed on top then the next screenshot you took and so on, till the extreme right or final screenshot at the bottom of the list.
• Click Ok to start the photomerge process. if you followed the steps correctly you should have a panoromic view of your structure by now.
• Crop and adjust as you need and save it.

The GNU Image Manipulation Program - GIMP

As the name explains GIMP is a free way to manipulate/edit images. GIMP it self doesn't have a builtin photomerge option, you can however download plug-ins to do the magic for you.




click here to download
tutorials
documentation



Stitch Panorama: a GIMP Plug-in
Stich Panorama is a plug-in for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) which takes digital images and overlays one atop the other to make a panorama.
click here to download
documentation and tutorial (PDF)
examples

Pandora: a GIMP Plugin for Making Panoramas

Pandora is a GIMP script which helps in stitching together multiple images to make a panorama.

click here to download
tutorial

phfluuh: a GIMP Plug-in

phfluuh is a software package consisting of two gimp plugins (lineup and enfish) which allows you to make panorama images without too much trouble.
click here to download
documentation and tutorial
examples

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
Hugin gives you an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
click here to download
documentation
tutorials

Cool Links and Software

Following are a few more additions to our cool softwares list, While hosting a server or just playing on one there are certain usefull software and links that we use and/or would like to share.

Cartograph G

This is a nifty little software to render your minecraft world map. Sure it takes time to render big maps but the results are amazing and I am sure you will like them too.

click here to download







MCEdit - Minecraft World Editor

This software lets you edit your Minecraft map very easily. we have never used it but it is worth mentioning a great software indeed.
click here to download
FAQ
Tips and tricks



WorldPainter

This software lets you create/generate new maps quickly natural looking landscape with full control over the terrain.

click here to download






Minecraft Note Block Studio

This software lets you:

• Compose note block music
• Convert MIDI files into note blocks
• Import your creations into a Minecraft world
• Edit songs made in Minecraft
• Save/Export your song as a MIDI file.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/136749-minecraft-note-block-studio-50000-downloads/
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Note_Block_Studio
click here to download

click here to download exe
click here to download zip
Tutorial

Redstone Display Maker

This cool software creates redstone displays for you without any basic knowledge of redstone circuits.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/385854-redstone-display-maker

click here to download

Tutorial

Minecraft Redstone Simulator

This software simulates the behaviour of redstone circuits.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/16084-baezons-redstone-simulator-v22/
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_circuits
click here to download





More to come soon

Cool Links and Software

Minecraft building isn't easy you need to plan it before you can actually start building it, specially if you are going to build spheres or arches, it is not as easy as just grab the materials and start making a sphere you will require blueprints for it, same goes with if you wish to replicate a real life build in Minecraft.

Following are two great additions to our cool software list that we use from time to time.

Plotz voxel sphere creator and 3D modeller

http://www.plotz.co.uk/
http://www.plotz.co.uk/plotz.php

If you'd like to build sphere, ellipse, lighthouse, observatory, or wizardtower then Plotz is what you need. It is online so no need to download or install it, just goto the website and get started.

DAVID-laserscanner

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/

This is an amazing "free" software to scan any real life object, just follow the instructions and very soon you'll have a 3D Model of the object you scanned you can then use binvox to convert it into 3D voxelized model you can then use that blueprint to build your real life object in Minecraft.

click here to download
click here to download


binvox and viewvox
http://www.patrickmin.com/minecraft/
click here to download binvox
click here to download viewvox

Loytoy

Our dear freind Thomas aka Loytoy had a small stroke last Sunday he is still in hospital, Hope you get well soon Thomas, wish you good health and a great recovery, hope that you will be back home soon.

The Game

News

Since we have removed the global shop the alternative is to buy from other players or from Admin sign shop, we have made one for your shopping and selling needs at the market near the spawn, so far most of the hard to find items are added the rest will be there shortly please let us know if you can't find an item that was previously in the global shop and now is unavailable we will make necessary arrangements so that you get that item. the rates remain the same as of the global shop please check out Admin shop rate list for item rates and availability. the warp to the market is of course market.

And there we are!

Yes, it seems like things are working nicely.
The server have been updated to the latest recommended build (#1240) witch means MC 1.8.1 support finally.

With this update we have changed a few things, the most important change is the new permission system, although few of you will notice this too much.

Besides that, all plugins are updated to the newest versions, where this was impossible I found something else to replace it with.
The new plugin list looks like this:

• ChestShop
• CommandBook
• FalseBook
• iConomy
• Jail
• Log
• LWC
• MineBackup
• MinecartMania
• MyHome
• MyWarp
• PermissionsEX
• QuickSign
• VirtualShop
• WorldEdit
• WorldGuard
• XSigns

The main changes here is the removal of command costs, the global shop have been replaced by an global command based community shop where everyone can sell and buy things from each other with commands.
For the rare items we will instead set up a few chest shops around the spawn area to replace the functionallity of the old global shop.
The plugins CommandSigns and ColorSigns were removed, I don't think many of you ever used them or even knew we had them available. instead we got QuickSign now that allows you to edit signs and add some color to them for extended fanciness.
Thats the most important things to know so far. for the mods there is a few new things with promotion and such, and we don't have a help system to guide people. I apologize for that.
Ill look into getting a different help plugin later.

OK, everything should be transferred; homes, warps, protected areas, money and such. let me know if there is a mistake made here.
There is a new map render torrent too, please look in the downloads area and check it out, it was a complete failure last time and I can only hope its working better now.

Time for changes?

Hello everyone.

Just to fill the blog with some mildly useful information, I can tell you that the process of updating the server to 1.8.1 have started now again. This is now the second time I start updating the server to 1.8.1 and I can only hope its going better this time.

This turned out to be alot more work than what we had with previous updates, as many of our plugins have died out and has to be replaced with something new and similar, or removed completely in some cases.

From what I can see so far, this is going great. Many things work nicely already, so it doesn't have to be that long until you all see a server update, I guess we are something like 30% completed with everything by now and I started this evening.

Also a little note here at the end, although most updates with the 1.8 seems nice enough, I really don't think the void fog area around the bottom of the map was a very thoughtful change to the game as it practically ruins everything built below block 20 or something like that. Sadly I cant do anything about that and we will have to either live with it or modify our clients (witch I know I will).

Thank you very much for your kind support, we love you all. -serverteam.