Hey everyone,

Our traffic has been back to lagging again as of late, and I'm really looking to up the traffic. To do this, I need to be able to update our server listings for the first time in years.  This means that we need more admin coverage around the clock to follow new players and make sure they're ok.  The only other options are to be alright with when we find a griefing incident, using /give and helping players re-build anything they lost, or rollback to a recent backup where people could lose the work they had done in that time frame.  These were our options for the first year or 2 of the server, so I personally have not problem with that, and I know that there are other newly again active owners and admins that are fine with them.  BUT, the more old school players we can get around the clock, the more we can prevent that from having to be an option.  Summation:  Everyone that can, hop on any time you have the time.  Let's get this server staffed so we can get big again, and have the kind of large but tight community we used to.

Thanks for reading... if you did.

Nate

(IMGar)

Date:  November 7th

Time:  4:00PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

As some of you are aware, loganwerty545 and rheindel found the End portal on the new map.  They would like as many of us as possible to venture in together, explore, and kill that motherfucking dragon!  Thus, the date and time above (adjust for your own time zone) we are getting as many people together as we can to fuck this shit up.  If you plan on being present for it, please reply in the comments.  any comments, question or concerns can be addressed to me, IMGArY or to loganwerty545 or rheindel.

Hello!
I have finally updated the server to 1.8, its the 1.8.1 pre2 release. I hope that doesn't cause issues with the current 1.8 version, let me know if it does.
Well beside that, we are now on vanilla minecraft. That comes with potential issues, no locked storage, grief stuff. If any one has any ideas to limit greifing potential, let me know.
I went with a random generated map, so it is how it is; spawn seems to be in a mountainous area, with some plains. This will present interesting building choices.
You are free to build in spawn, provided its not your main house. Be respectful of others work.

I see that some one has already added a few things to spawn, that's great! Add more!
I hope that more people come back, it was nice bout of activity we had this year.

Hello, We had a recent bout of activity, which was great! But I suspect that 1.8 is the reason many people do not come to play any more. In fact its probably been the main reason all this year.
So, knowing this and knowing something else that I'll let you in on:
Bukkit is the software we run to have our server, and its mods, Unfortunatly Bukkit is dead project now. It won't be updating to 1.8, no reason to keep running 1.7.
So knowing both this, I want to start to run the server on Vanilla 1.8, this is the normal minecraft software.

I'll be making the switch soon, I want to get peoples opinions on if we should use an existing world, or create a new world.

I'd like to add that, going this way, we will lose access to multi worlds, everything in them. We'll lose locked chests(lockette) as well as lots of other mods.
It's a big change, going back to the roots, but as far as I know there is no other server software we could use that is updated as frequently as vanilla server.

building a monument to everyone who plays on the server but i need your skins to do it, if you could attach a photo of your skin below that would be awesome!!!! thanks guys!