Hey guys! As you may know, Sbrough and I have been working on a newscast for the server since videos get more ad revenue. As of now, we've decided that the name will be teh3l3m3nts Today, and we've got the basic idea for the intro. We're a little stuck though. Here's what we need from you guys. If you have an amazing structure, please put the coordinates in the comments with a short description. You could see your structure on TV! :D Thanks!

QUEST WORLD IS NOW ACTIVE!

Quest world is a new map that will be our opportunity, as a server, to play the survival version of minecraft as a group. There are some principles for this world:

• Don't bring in items/tools from other worlds.
• No admin powers, and no commands. I am working to disable this technically, but until then, honor system.
• Once we reach the end portal and fight the ender dragon, the world will be reset with a new map.
• Ideally everyone should work together...but the more I think about it, the less offended I get at the idea of a rogue team making it a race, getting there first, and causing a world reset :D

There's some logistical issues...Portals to the nether may not work, and even in that case, there's still only 1 nether, so getting blaze rods is a little broken. Try to go to the nether honestly if you can...I don't wanna make a separate nether for this. But that's the deal...ENJOY!

Sup homies! Now that we're all back from vacations and whatnot, time for getting down to some updates.

Yea, the temporary server is working ok for most people (sorry cncr) but it's not nearly a long term solution. For example...it's running on the system I keep backup PDF's of all my financial documents and such...so I can't give other owners access to it to do things, like, say, fix it when it breaks. Also, my residential internet sucks. We're looking into hosts...we found one I kinda like, I just asked them some ?s and hopefully they'll get back to me soon.

We figgered out the shiz with the .com domain name...should have it back within 5-6 days. The current message about that is at the bottom of the link...it's very boring and the links are removed, but it's proof it's in progress :)

Finally, this week we're gonna enable the 1.0 map for the 1.0 survival challenge. It's a new world where like we talked about, no bringing in resources from other worlds and we play to get to the ender dragon as a team. I want to make it after we move hosts to a permanent deal, but realistically, we just need to do it. My plan is to enable that map Friday evening, so anyone that wants in gets in this weekend to play. I actually think we keep resetting this world each time we beat the dragon, then leave update map as 1.0 map since some people (::cough cough:: kermit) built permanently in update world.

So, I've started a little town in the new update world and I've been making a lot of progress. So far I've managed to make a few buildings including a green house, a tower, a safe house, and, what I like to call, a cobble house. After a simultaneous copyright law suit and company buy out, though, the family owned business Enderman Industries now owns the cobble house and, as I discovered, they have already hired their first employee. As part of the payment for "damages to the Cobble House© reputation", I am legally obligated to post this message from their "newest branch".

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good morning/early noon/late afternoon! I hope I didn't leave any important time zones out.