The big tedious project I've been doing is removing space around the unbergrinder so that mobs can ONLY spawn inside. This was a mixed blessing...the problem is slimes and endermen spawn at will in the resulting cave. I sat afk overnight...this is what I came back to:

Aaaaaand...the slimeball aftermath:

So...I hate making self-indulgent non-MC related posts, but I get a bunch of e-mails asking if I quit minecraft. NOPE! I'm just going through some life stuff...so if you wanna see about that, read this post, otherwise CARRY ON!

So I've been fucking around with special chat characters...and I discovered some neatness.

This is sort of documented, but it's complicated. For each type of text, you have to type a special character before it, I only know the windows one. It's "&". Also...it looks like it only works for admins...looking into that.

• &0 = Black Text
• &1 = Dark Blue Text
• &2 = Dark Green Text
• &3 = Dark Aqua Text
• &4 = Red Text
• &5 = Purple
• &6 = Light Orange Text
• &7 = Light Grey Text
• &8 = Dark Grey Text
• &9 = Blue Text
• &a = Green Text
• &b = Light Aqua Text
• &c = Orange Text
• &d = Pink Text
• &e = Yellow Text
• &f = White Text
• &k = Scrambley
• &l = Bold Text
• &m = Strikethrough Text
• &n = Underlined Text
• &o = Italic Text
• &r = Reset All Formatting

Reference: Minepedia

So, we moved hosts, bet most of you didn't notice! Thanks to cnc for making the move seamless.

Now that we're on a new host with more resources, we can make a tool we've had for a bit public: Check out DynMap! There's also a link in the sidebar.

This is pretty bandwidth heavy, but the new host should be able to handle it. Check it out, and check out the full screen version as well. I f you knew the old link...use this one so we can get some ad revenue off it since we're paying for a host again :D

I FINALLY finished the ubergrinder. It's insane. However...people often ask if it spawns slimes.

I present to you the following evidence: