Looking Hot!

Please welcome the newest member to our server 'smeagol' give him a warm welcome (not to warm though he melts)

UPDATE: We've had some plugin crashiness, I try to respond as soon as possible, just assume it happens until all plugins are resolved. Sorry for how often it dies!

Bukkit is out, server is updated, join and play!

SOME NEWS: Skyland is kinda broke. Read here and you'll see that notch removed skylands code, so new chunks can't load, and the sky won't wrap around to the bottom (meaning perma-night until I fix it). Sorry, not our fault!

hi guys, i made a mob trap using the zombie spawner just outside of noob spawn (turn left from the dome) and well.... lets have a look at the results

i got 2 and a half stacks of rotten flesh, mmmmm yummy!

So I've been thinking. We voted to keep main world, clear and update "update map," and make a 1.0 map. I never understood the whole specific 1.0 thing...it's just a point rev of the game really. Do we need a permanent map there?

Then I got to thinking. I'm loving 1.0 single player...hunting for stuff like a noob. Why can't we bring that to multiplayer? It brought me to the idea of treating the 1.0 map as a protected environment to play the actual game as a group.

Here's some parameters I thought of for this experience:

• Everyone works together towards a single goal; the map isn't just for going into and diggin. We have other maps for that.
• No bringing resources, with the exception of tools or armor, into the world. If we need it...mine/grow it.
• Admins/owners spawn no items in this world. Game becomes pointless otherwise.
• No warps allowed. No setting homes either. We build a house at spawn...when you die you go back to your real world house and have to map switch back to spawn.
• When we find the portal to the end...we plan to go in as a group. No renegades. Everyone that helped get there gets to help in the fight.

Basically, we go in as a group, set up a necessities-only shop, make as-needed teams (think "you three...we need a lot of wood" "you two, hunt for ender pearls" "can the four of you make a wheat farm and stock us up?") We could even have a planned out nether expedition (for a 1.0-specific nether)

What think you?

So here's what's going down. Since Bukkit is refusing to cooperate, I'm going to drop the mail system until after the recommended build is released. During this time, I'll be making archives of all the people who have used the server. This will make it easier on me to choose who's next in line for a letter. Sorry, Pirate, but no letter this week!