New owner Gorghoppurr has been busy lighting up and completing an almost-natural cave he found. With the exception of some of the glass, he found a natural and HUGE dome shaped cave and lit it up, and lived in it for a while. Check it out:

What a week folks! Obsidian died, we moved to a new hosting company, we got bukkit installed and painstakingly configured its setup, got our most recent backup restored, and are off and running! Here's a list of stuff you need to know:

We've officially committed to the new domain name, www.teh3l3m3nts.com, for this website and the server address (you still need to add the port to the server address in minecraft, so mc.teh3l3m3nts.com:1489).

We've set up the permission structure based on groups, and you can see the official list of commands per-group in the spreadsheet linked to on the sidebar. To see what group you're in, type /list.

Our map got uploaded, but we lost like 3 days of work from the last backup I downloaded. At this point it's been a week since any of us have worked on it, so hopefully it isn't too much of a shock :(

We'll be better about making backups public, you can see the link to the backup AND it's age on the sidebar. They're hosted to my (surf) dropbox in the public folder, so I'm not too concerned about data-loss. They're like 900MB, but whatev.

With the new control of the permissions and such, we're finally gonna list the server and see if we can't get some new players in. Hopefully we'll meet some cool people and get some epic structures going.

That's pretty much it, get the word out for the new address, if you haven't e-mailed us with contact info hit us up at minecraftpisspants@gmail.com and let's get back to some mining!

Greetings patient pups!

We're working on a new structure of groups and command permissions. There will be 5 groups:

• Owners: The people with backed access
• Admins: In-game moderators
• Members: The peanut gallery
• Noobs: New members, limited permissions, the default group
• Retards: People on punishment who can't change the world in any way.

Each group has fewer permissions than the group above it. We're finalizing the permissions structure, and you can view what we're proposing here: Permissions Spreadsheet. Hopefully all this will get rolled out in the next day or 2.

We've been hard at work behind the scenes, trying to get this thing back up to play. Some brief notes:

1. We heard from the obsidian guys...about 6-7 times they said we'd have access within 20 minutes. Never happened. We hope to get that last backup out of there, but let's be honest...they're dead to us.
2. We have a 7 day trial of a new hosting provider, and are working on some setup stuff. We will have bukkit, but bukkit out of the box isn't what we need, it needs to be set up. We're working on getting a bukkit configuration together before unleashing the server to the masses.
3. We're also negotiating things to do about the old map restores, we'll poll everyone before doing anything.

Ever since we've been doing backups, the other mods and I have been occasionally downloading them for some extra backup protection. By leaving backups on the server, we protect against corruption of the files, but by downloading them we protect ourselves from issues like we're having now where the hosting company runs wild and we don't have the files. I'll be honest, I haven't been great about doing this regularly as it's a pretty manual process.

To some degree, it's a bit unfair that we have access to the map when other's don't; it allows us to look at it in a program like minutor and find things others wouldn't necessarily find. Also, if I get hit by a bus and I have all the backups, we're screwed. That's why I've put a link in the sidebar to the most recent downloaded backup.

I download a backup file and save it to the public folder of my Dropbox account, where it will stay linked to in the sidebar. Also, I'll be updating the date of the last backup so you know how old of a map you're looking at. The server has been offline since the 20th, and the most recent backup I have is the 17th, so if we have to move hosts, it looks like we'll lose 3 days of work.