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.

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Since Cartograph G, the map rendering software we used is outdated and we couldn't find any other alternative to render maps also rendering maps took too much time to render which was too much for lazy us, so for the curious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

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:

OptiFine

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.