Thursday, April 26, 2012

Good News for the Gamblers

New addition to the new promotion area and the new ranking system, some people feel like the sponge price is a bit high and perhaps unreachable? It should be fairly easy to gather the cash for a sponge or two once settled on the server.
If you feel like a lucky person, or know you are skilled gambler, you can now test your luck in the new sponge slot machine inside the promotion hall.
It works similarly to the promotion rooms, you throw in a sponge and wait for something to return.

The chances should be something like this:
50% chance of loosing the sponge.
50% chance of winning either 1, 2 or 3 sponges.

Sponges should be worth alot of money, and although its not possible to sell them directly to the server shops, it should be possible to get a good price by trading with other members.

Keep in mind that its possible you loose everything you throw in and there will be no returns, as that takes away the fun of gambling.

Good Luck.

Broken laptop

My laptop has broke, think its overheated so i might not be on much, probably untill i get a new computer or i can use another one now and then :( chiink.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New Ranking System

All builders and vip's have been placed in the member group. Everyone from the vip group will get a free sponge.

It's that time of year again, after a lot of discussions, going back and forth, including a few breaks, the new ranks you all have been waiting for are ready.
Its not just new ranks, the way you get promoted is different as well leaving most of it in your hands. You pay for the rank you want, except the staff ranks which is still managed by the admins.

Most of the ranks have the same permissions at this time. its not that much we can do to separate so many ranks in a decent functional way without annoying people with limitations everywhere. So after passing the quiz and becoming a member here on the server, you will have a decent set of permissions. after that all the ranks is like the old vip rank, with a variation in the name-tags. Which is all this change is really, the possibility to get a few new tags in front of your name.

Its created a promotion hall near spawn where you purchase the rank you wish. The currency in this room is Sponges, most ranks cost one sponge and some others cost more than one sponge up to six sponges which is the most expensive rank at this point.

In order to acquire these rare sponges, we have set up a sponge shop inside this promotion hall.
Sponges can not be bought at the market.

Each sponge cost 100,000 coins, this might seem steep, but its a choice you will have to make.





After you have decided what rank you wish to purchase, you need to find the right room inside the promotion hall. Each room have an entrance and a payment hole, you throw your sponge into this hole where the promotion dwarfs will process your request and if accepted, open the door for you to enter the appropriate promotion room. Inside here you will find one button, and one exit door.
You simply press this button once, and the exit will open for you leave the room as a completely new person.

Promotion Hall Warp = promotion
Warning: When spending more then one sponge on a promotion, Please throw in your sponges into the payment hole one sponge at a time, and wait at least 2 seconds between each sponge throw.

With the new ranks we have added the option to /stack all members and up can use this command, what it does is that it stacks up all your inventory even those items that can't be stacked normally like signs, cakes, minecarts etc.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Live Map

Since Cartograph G, the map rendering software we used is outdated and we couldn't find any other alternative to render maps also rendering maps took too much time to render which was too much for lazy us, so for the curious minded and for the ever demanding ones we have added Live Map via Dynmap plugin. Read all about the Dynmap plugin here

And the Live Map can be accessed here

Friday, April 20, 2012

The Perfect Mod Combo

Time to showcase some of the features that come with the great combo of mods packed in to one modded minecraft.jar available for download here.

These are the mods with some of their features:

FPS Boost, HD Texture, HD Fonts, AA (Anti Aliasing), AF (Anisotropic Filtering), better grass, better ice and an option to turn off fog + underground fog.
Read all about OptiFine here or the blog here


Inventory Tweaks (InvTweaks)



This client mod for Minecraft allows you to easily manage your inventory. It works out of the box, and will make you gain a massive amount of time, both in single and multiplayer!

Features:
  • Tools and items are automatically replaced
  • Sort your inventory and your chests in a single click/keystroke
  • Customize entirely the way your inventory is sorted, thanks to configuration files
You can sort your inventory just by pressing R
Read all about InvTweaks here

REI's MINIMAP

Features:
  • Fast processing
  • Beautiful map rendering: (Expression of semitransparent blocks, Bump-map expression of height, Expression of dynamically changing lighting, Automatically generate the block colors from your texturepack, Biome color
  • Entities radar
  • Cave mapping
  • Waypoints (Can not teleport)
  • Ingame keyconfig
  • ZanMinimap frame appearance
  • Indication of slime spawning chunks (Does not work in multiplayer after minecraft 1.2)
Macros / Keybind

Features:
  • Ridiculously easy to use! Just activate the mod then just press the key you want to bind. No memorizing key codes or names!
  • Bind keys which are already used for something else! Want to put a macro on the number keys or WASD? Using the override function you can use these keys for both their normal function or as macros when you need them.
  • Edit keybinds quickly. Change your binds whenever you want. You can even copy and move macros from key to key with drag 'n drop.
  • Multiple configurations. Different binds in different servers? No problem! It even switches automatically.
  • In-game text editor. Want to make a complex macro? No need to alt-tab to notepad, create and edit text files inside minecraft.
  • Lots of easy-to-use parameters. Lists of friends, automatic responses, warp points, towns, you name it.
  • Scripting! Build custom auto-announcers, time-delay messages, or create your own auto-walk, toggleable-sneak or sprint keys.

WorldEditCUI (Client User Interface)


WorldEditCUI is a client mod that adds an in-game GUI for WorldEdit. It shows your current selection in a visible, adjustable box with the corners clearly marked. This helps admins reduce errors while using WorldEdit, select more complex areas, and visualize the area that they are actually editing. It is an essential tool for any server that uses WorldEdit.




Thursday, April 19, 2012

Remaking Chiinktown

Remaking Chiiktown :D, old town might be destroyed, havn't decided yet, going from a sandy look to more stone and moderny look hehe :p pictures below will show the first town which is made out of sand and the second showing the start of the new one.

Picture 1: (old one)
 Picture 2: (new one)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Scheduled Server Downtime

Between the time 05:30 and 16:00 (gmt-0) April the 18th, the server will be down due to maintenance in the area.
Power will be gone for a while.

We suggest you take a walk outside this day, enjoy the nice warm weather while thinking about people less fortunate than yourself.



Monday, April 16, 2012

The Clock



Scary dorky block,
Loy ran up the clock.
The clock struck one up his big bum,
Loy ran down broke his crown,
Toy came tumbling after

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Server Updated to MC 1.2.5

Unlike previous Minecraft updates this was not as urgent as they actually had some backwards compatibility in mind, I really liked this as it doesn't put so much pressure on everyone to rush the updates, everyone had a great time while waiting for things to get ready, and here we are.
Our server is running the latest Bukkit reccomended build, CraftBukkit 1.2.5-R1.0 (#2149)

Its been some rumors about a new ranking system and that is still in development, this update had to come before we made the new ranks. This will come slightly later as its still some work to be done around it.

There is some changes in the plugin list:


+ xSigns
Re-added this plugin that we lost a while ago, the author started updating this again which is great news, its simply redstone toggleable signs. I am glad to have this back, although very few actually used it.
Read their informational forum post for some info: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-xsigns

+ ButtonPromote
New plugin we intended to use with a new promotion and ranking system, this is in working order at the moment and will probably be used later. We will make a new post when that time is here.



Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Minecraft update again

Minecraft will update again tomorrow on Wednesday April 4, at 15:00 CEST to version 1.2.5.
This is no prediction it will happen for sure,
Sometime that day while starting to play Minecraft you will get this option which will ask you the same stupid question again to update or not to be updated

New update available
Would you like to update?
[Yes] or [Not now]

Tempting it might be very but our beloved Minecrafters are advised not to update in order to play on our minecraft server, we won't be able to upgrade until we have all updated plug-ins available and that of course might take a week or so.

And of course it is not the end of the world if you do update and receive this message


Disconnected by Server
Outdated server!
Back to title screen

All you will require to do is take a few painful steps to downgrade your client in order to play again on Our Minecraft Server, just follow the downgrade tutorial or download the downgraded minecraft.jar from the download section to the right ---> if you wish to have some extra features you can also download the modded minecraft.jar from the download section too.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Happy Birthday Pig and the Worlds Autists

Today we celebrate World Autism Awareness Day.
Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and
awareness-raising events.

We will not host any fundraisers but feel free to visit their website for more information about autism.
http://www.autismspeaks.org/



A huge coincidence is the fact that our dear member, lookapig5 got one year older the same day as autism awareness day. We are all very happy for you and wish you a great day with alot of cakes, candy and fun.