Lucas, my 5-year old, has started to play and he and I made a giant floating sky city over the ocean called Gullopolis. It's a rapidly developing place, but our first order of business is mega farms. We've built a subterranean under-ocean slime farm, and used the resources from that dig to make our platform. I'll be doing some blogs where I feature some of the builds, but to start, here's our "Farming Quadrant" where we have a barn featuring all the farmable neutral mobs (including skeleton horses!) and a fully AFK wool farm of all colors.

Hey everyone. The server kind of chugged along in my server rack for years and I didn't touch it. Carian and Cnc had it up with mcmyadmin for a while, then it had a hard drive failure, then it kind of powered off for a while and I didn't notice...bad on me.

BUT. Then something crazy happened. My kid, Lucas, turned 5, and I got super sick and was hospitalized and took 3 weeks off of work, and we just accidentally discovered Minecraft. Now he's obsessed, we're playing a single player game, then he'll probably join the big server. Because of this, we needed to make sure the server was revived, and I rebuilt it. New MORE POWERFUL hardware, new OS, using Spigot...just in general refreshed. I was able to revive most worlds, though it looks like we lost some time since the last backup I have due to the hard drive failure :(

Still, it's all back up. The worlds have been renamed based on the generation they existed (so, the oldest world is 1-world, then 2-world, then 3-world, etc). The current world has no number. The backups are re-posted here on the website in the sidebar, and this time backups go offsite so it should be more secure. We've rebuilt things with newer versions of plugins but there's still some tweaks to make. All user ranks were reset, so they need to be re-done as people join.

Once the kid and I beat the ender dragon, we'll be playing too. Until then I'll pop in and out (like when he's a punk and loses Minecraft for a few days :P ).

Yo, surf here. Potential brief downtime today...I'm having some work done on my house. Getting a new 70 amp sub-panel put in for the server room! Good news is vacuuming won't trip the breaker in the server closet anymore; bad news is they may have to shut the power down today for some time. I have a UPS which will keep it alive for 30-45 minutes, but it's possible we may go down for a bit.

BTW...I'm obsessed with Lego Marvel Super Heroes on the 360, you all need to play it.

Do you? Do you? DO YOU???

Well...I just put 4 more GB of RAM in the server, upping the amount the java process gets from 3400M -> 7000M.

That much.

Surf here...seems we're down. I can see the server and ping it, so it's online, but it's STUCK. I believe the beta bukkit is causing some out of control resource usage, meaning interrupts aren't getting to it. I'll have to actually reboot the box when I get home at like 5PM PST...I'll keep hammering it until then.

We may have to schedule a periodic reboot to keep system resources under control, we'll look into it, sorry all! This is life on beta bukkit :/