Server is up - With Temporary Map

I couldn't get Bukkit and Essentials to play nice together.  And I think I may have lost our warps from our main map in the process.

Since I don't want to run our main map without the typical permissions, and protection from accidental creeper griefing I've loaded our old friend the temporary map back onto the server.

This is the same temporary map that we used the last time we were in this type of a situation, so there are buildings around.

There are NO protections on this map.  Build whatever you want, but remember this is a fleeting world.

There is also NO creative mode on this map, either.  This is pure survival.

We'll get the awesome map back online as soon as it can be adequately protected.   Until then, have fun with 1.3.1!

Minecraft 1.3.1 is NOT running on the server!

Okay, the title used to be Minecraft 1.3.1 is now running on the server, but I had to change it.

But we are using a development build for Bukkit.  What's that mean?  Oh, maybe some things don't work exactly the way they did.

If something is different than the way it used to work, just chalk it up to the fact that it's a new version and things are changing.  I won't be able to 'fix' those kinds of things.

Hopefully it will be mostly stable.  Yay!  Sideways logs!

Update: Yeah, there are some errors during load, so some stuff is probably not going to work but it might just be EssentialsChat.

Update #2: Here is the new MCPatcher: http://adf.ly/2hP31

Update #3: Here is the new Misa's Texture Pack (which is the one I use): http://adf.ly/2Hhy1

Update #4: Had a slight problem chopping trees... trying to get the latest dev builds installed to try to fix that.  If you login, chop a tree and get disconnected that is why.

Update #5: This is crashing more than Charlie Brown's kite.  Very unstable build.  I'll work on it more later today.  Sorry for jumping the gun on this.

DON'T UPGRADE (if you want to connect to multiplayer)

There's nothing more exciting than Minecraft update day!  Except when you want to go play the new update with your friends... :(

But it takes a while for all the plug-ins that we have installed to get updated and verified to work with the latest version.  If you upgrade, you won't be able to connect to StantonCraft until those are updated.

Keep an eye out here.  We'll let you know when it's ready.

New Warp: Archery Range

Zego stood back examining the handiwork of his new wall.  "It's fair, but it needs something.  Aha!  A pine wood beam right across there would be perfect."  Expectantly he turned and looked at the forest behind him.  Tree, tree, tree, birch.  No pine tree.  He set off, deeper into the forest.

He ran through the trees, looking for a pine tree that he could harvest and replant, and almost didn't see that vertical cavern plunging deep into the ground.  No bottom was in sight.  Some black spots on one of the walls hinted at the presence of some precious coal, and he quickly pulled out his pickaxe and set to work.  Zego diligently worked on removing the coal from the cavern wall and wasn't paying any attention to the moaning sounds coming from behind him.  The zombies took advantage of his distraction and gave Zego a firm push, right into the vertical cavern, and then jumped after him.

The ledge was just barely big enough for the three of them, but Zego was able to draw his magical sword and dispatch them in quick strokes with glints and gleams of magic flashing the air, leaving nothing but a pile of zombie flesh upon the ground.  After a brief rest and a snack, Zego set about digging himself off of the wall.

He reached the top of the pit just as the sun was coming over the flat horizon of water in the distance and a gleam caught his eye.  "A roof?  I don't remember a building in this direction!"

Curious, he set out.  The pitched roof soon was quite visible, and as he drew nearer Zego realized the size of the place.  It was huge!  Who built this?  The concrete blocks of the wall were struck through with a vein of obsidian, and supported vertically with barked pine logs.  The roof was made from rough-hewn pine logs as well, but tremendous glass triangles let in the sun to light the interior.

Circling the building Zego let out a slow whistle.  It was built on the shores of a swamp, and the entrance was facing the water on a narrow brick walkway.  He approached the wide welcoming entrance that had no doors and read the sign above it:

WELCOME!

To the

A.R.C.H.E.R.S

Guild!

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This place is really cool.  It's an archery range with raising and lowering targets.  I made a new warp for it called "ArcheryRange".  Maybe it should be named ArchersGuild... but check it out on our server!

HEY YOU GUYS!

We had a small problem with the server there for a little while, but it's back.  It is 100% back.

We had FIVE people on AT THE SAME TIME tonight!  Woo woo!  Gotta love that.

I'm currently going through a renovation (where's the spell check on this thing) of my chasm.  Look for a massive looking thing growing there over the next couple months.

Remember one of our most major rules on the server is GET ALONG!  We're all human and sometimes humans tend to get a little miffed at each other from time to time but do not let your miffed-ness to make you start to break the rules... like breaking other people's stuff.  This is NOT ALLOWED.  Don't do it.  Even when you are mad.

There is a MAIL command that you can use on the server in order to send me, Zego, important stuff.  It works like this:

/mail send Zego Hi there!  I'm so happy that I can play Minecraft!

Whaaat?  It's that easy?  Yes!

Everything after 'Zego' on that line will be sent to me in a message.  And as soon as I log in I will be told that I have mail waiting, and I'll read it.

I do monitor the logs, so I usually can find out quite a bit about what is going on regarding any disagreements that happen.

Always error on the side of happiness!  If you have creative mode, and someone is missing something, please make it for them.  The restriction on the server of creative mode is not to prevent someone from having a stack of stone, or 4 diamond, but to prevent towers reaching into the sky made of diamond blocks or something else rare enough that you wouldn't be able to make a tower into the sky made out of it no matter how long you mined.

Rare stuff should stay as rare as you find it.  Even though iron is fairly common, a tower into the sky of iron blocks is against the spirit of the rules, too.

Common stuff... like wood, planks, dirt, stone, cobblestone... well, whatever. 

Incoming! Multiverse 2!

I'm loading up a multiverse plugin on the server so that we can have multiple worlds.

We can even have different permissions on different worlds, so if you want a world where you have the power of Admin, then we can do that!

I'm still working out the snags... like the fact that whenever a new world is created it is created with nobody having any permissions at all, so configuring any worlds are manual.

I've created a world called NewWorld just for test.  I'll probably delete it, so don't go crazy there.

You can also get to the Temporary world we used between upgrades before, but the spawn doesn't really put you anywhere close to where we were that I can tell.  I've not explored a whole lot.

Minecraft 1.2.5 - Go ahead and upgrade!

When I first saw that Minecraft 1.2.5 was released today I groaned.  Not again... not again so quickly!

Loyally I go out to the Bukkit site... and what is this?  They have a recommended build for 1.2.5 already!

I changed the server login to use the latest Bukkit Recommended Build and it went immediately to 1.2.5 with the latest recommended build of Bukkit!  Quite amazing when technology actually works.

Feel free to upgrade, knowing that when you do you'll have to repatch Minecraft with MCPatcher if you're using the Misa's texture pack.  Looks to me like MCPatcher 2.3.5 still works with the latest version, so you should already have it downloaded.