Howdy, thought I would just let everyone know that I will be around a bunch less for the next few weeks. I am moving to a nearby city for a new job. I am excited about it, but unfortunately, it means I wont be able to play much. I will prob log on at irregular intervals to see how things are going. I might be able to access this site with my phone too, will have to see. Anyway, see you when I can and respect the slimes!
ray73864
20 April 2012 at 12 : 30 pm GMT
Serenity and Miranda
2 new SMP worlds have since been created and are usable by members and players.
Serenity is open to Members and above (for all you young whipper snappers out there, that means: Member, Mod, VIP and Admin).
Miranda is open to Players and above (again for you youngin's that means: Players, Members, Mods, VIPs and Admin).
Both worlds are vanilla generated with an additional multiverse plugin called 'GiantCaves' for spawning really nice large giant caves.
Have fun!
Ray Herring (ray73864)
29 March 2012 at 8:26 am GMT
Craftbukkit 1.2.4
Craftbukkit have FINALLY created a Recommended Build for Minecraft 1.2.4 . The server has been updated to it, this means, a new SMP world will be getting created soon, possibly in a week or so, whenever i have free time to do it.
Please Note:
Gallery will remain unchanged
Plotsworld at this stage, will NOT be getting reset.
Worldguard will be installed and the arcade will be moved to its own world, with appropriate permissions so that game creators can fix their game.
The old 1.1 SMP world will run concurrently against the 1.2 world EXCEPT for the 1.1 Nether and End.
Members will be able to transfer over most likely 2 double chests of items from 1.1 to 1.2.
The 1.2 'End' will not be accessible till i have made it more interesting :)
There will be 2 1.2 worlds, 1 for players and members which will be reset probably once a month with a different seed each time.
A regular 1.2 world for members and above for building stuff in, please no resource gathering in that world :)
Most likely a redo of all the permissions, because the current set up is a complete mess.
Possibly other changes, but my brain fails me at this moment in time. You WILL be made aware of them though.
I finaly managed to do it! When i listed our server on MCServerlist.net i did so for mainly one reason and that was the .png banner they offer when you join them! But guess what, it is broken,
they are having troubles with a lot of their non paying subscribers and that is unacceptable by me, so the solution was obvious and i started making one of our own as soon as i had some time to spare. Here is the result,
All the data on it are live meaning they update as soon as the image is called by where ever it is posted, making it a very nice indicator of what to expect in the server,
I hope you guys like it and use it to invite your friends on our server to play with you, or if you have any suggestions on what other info it should have or about the background image please let me know either be e-mail
or on the Contact us page. It is a simple .png image and you can use it anywhere, and we would apreciate it if you would! You can use it in your signatures in the
Minecraft Forums or Facebook or Twitter or anywhere that you can use an image, which is pretty much
everywhere! And if we start updating it with even more info or better grafics you don't need to do anything at all, we are taking care of all that!
If you want to use it simply use the image location which is: http://mcaddictgallery.info/shared/live.png and thats it! I hope you like it!
JohnKapsis
15 March 2012 at 7:00 am GMT
A few days with PitFrenzy
A few days have passed since we had PitFrenzy installed in our server and i want to share a few things with all of our players.
It was quite redstone and mob intensive resource wise and it did help us to improve our server quite a bit!
From re-evaluating our start up scripts and GarbageCollection methods to using plugins that will reduce things like entities and game thread behaviour.
It is fun for 99% of the people that play it and still people come to play it.
Overall since the debut of PitFrenzy our experiencce with it has been positive and not only fun wise! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
We are looking forward for more games like that from Sethbling and maybe even our own players! They certainly are a nice change from the usual minecraft gameplay we offer.
JohnKapsis
11 March 2012 at 7:00 pm GMT
PitFrenzy by Sethbling!
It's not uncommon to see SethBling making games in Minecraft, but with 1.2, we've got something special! If you are a regular on our server, you might have seen a hint here or there, but now it's official! Pit Frenzy is the name, and we're running 100 instances! I will not be explaining how to play, since I'm sure SethBling will take care of it, but here are some details on how to get to the Pit Frenzy arenas on our server.
There are 3 warps around the new world where Sethblings game is at and they are: /warp pitfrenzy, /warp pitfrenzy1, /warp pitfrenzy2 !
Also if you have a friend in here and you want to find him easily you can ask him to allow you to teleport to his location using the /tpa *playername* command or if you wish him to teleport to you use the /tpahere *playername* command.
I should also note that the server will propopbly run at full capacity at least the first few days so I apologize if you can't join and I promise will try to increase our player limit if we can, chat will propobly be a nightmare if it is unregulated so this is what you should keep in mind, HeroChat channel global (which is the default when you join) will be used by everyone in the entire server so if you are a regular player of our server and not here to play Sethblings game you should stay away from it! Instead use the Plotsworld channel /ch join plotsworld (or /ch join pl for short) and keep in mind you must leave the global channel with /ch leave global (or /ch leave G for short) and that should keep out of your chat all the messages coming from people that are here just to play Sethblings game.
And with all that said have fun and enjoy your stay!
JohnKapsis
8 March 2012 at 6:40 am GMT
1.2 at last!!!
Yes i know the dev builds are not the best way to go and that a few problems might wait for us down the road but to be honest i wanted to try this. I dont think we will run into too much trouble and that soon we will have our stable builds and everything will be back to normal.
A few things you should keep in mind are, lighting issues here and there especialy corners, your double doors are probably broken, that "%country" thing is there cause GeoIPtools has not updated since August, RedstoneClockDetector has not updated as well as LagMeter, ChopTree, RotateThings.
Keep in mind that we will not be making the new SMP just yet, we think it will be better to wait until everything settles down and stable builds are a fact. So, i hope you like the update and i wish you all many many many hours of fun in our server!
JohnKapsis
8 March 2012 at 5:30 am GMT
We are currently updating!!!
We will have the server closed for a little bit but we will be back on-line as soon as possible!!
Thank you.
JohnKapsis
5 March 2012 at 6:40 am GMT
A better chat!
Have you ever got the point that you wanna shoot minecraft just because the chat is so hard to read or you can't have a conversation with someone? Or did you just wanted to ignore everyone else and just play?
Well, HeroChat is here for your rescue! With multichannel support we have now six channels available to better organise our chatting and make everybody's life easier!
It is very easy to use and we will not be using any kind of passwords so you can simply join a channel if you have the permission to do so.
You only need to know two very simple commands, /ch join *channel* and /ch leave *channel*.
Also there are a few more neat commands you might find usefull but I will leave that for the plugin's BukkitDev page to explain.
You can find the available to you channels in game at any time using the /ch list command and for help in-game type /ch help.
So I hope that you will like it, that it will make your life easier and the game even more fun!!!
MineCraftServerList
Hey everyone, John here, and i would like to ask something of you!
This is our listing in the http://mcserverlist.net Could you please vote for us there???
I am very very sorry but...
We had to roll back the server because we had a fatal error in the server.
I will not get in detail right now cause i am very tired, took me a few good hours to bring everthing to a working state.
I will release more details tomorow, maybe in a video, i am vary sorry for the incoviniece.
Done!!!
So, everything went quite smooth apart from a small mess i maid the first 3 to 4 hours, and now it is time to go to face two!
If you want your plot to be moved to the new server you will need to send me an e-mail JohnKapsis@hotmail.com with:
a. Your in-game name.
b. Your old plot name.
Also if you want your new plot to be somewhere specific create a plot on the new server with the exact same name as the old one!
Keep in mind that transfers will be progressive in small groups as they come in every 24 to 36 hours.
Thank you for your time and sorry if this an inconvenience.
A bit more on that update...
Hey everyone, John here.
I was feeling like sharing a bit more on the situation about changing hosts so here i am typing my keys in!
First of all, i am not the kind of guy that would be tight about money just like everyone else in the admin group. So you see since the money are not a real issue about the servers growth and we are demanding more and more in terms of performance it is natural to try and find an even better host, since the communication we had with our current one was proven fruitless, yes there was a lot of searching involved and to be completely honest i am still looking around for more options something better to come up, but there is a great option available.
Secondly, I usually do not like to talk about money but this time i feel like i must, you see we are a free and open server why we keep our expenses secret? i will tell you why i always thought why most people do it, in case they make more then they spend, that why i thought they were doing it, i now see a couple more reasons not to share your economics but in our case i would like to choose differently, meaning i will explain in every detail the expensses of the upcoming dedicated server switch along with the main renting plan of it, oh, didn't you know?? you must pay a monthly rent AND a BIG one time fee!
So, (169Euro+23%)+(69Euro+23%) for the first month and (69Euro+23%) for every month after that! You didn;t see that coming did ya? oh! You still didn't see it?? well let me break this down for you! 169Euro is 222 US dollars currently so that plus 23% makes us a good 273 US dollars for the installation fee! now the rent is another 69Euro meaning 90 US dollars plus 23% equals 110 US dollars!! Yay!!! What is that 23% you ask? it is Greek taxes! cause the company that offers the service is based in Greece! (The actual server will be hosted in a datacenter in Germany)
Still think that the money is no issue? well, we choose them not to be and thats that we like our friends here we have fun and laughs and we beleive we deserve this so we do what we can and want ;)
Another thing i'd like to say is that i would like to have some more people on the "staff" side i would like to see a couple of volunteers anyone Player and above can send me an e-mail! Attach your InGame name in the Email and at the Subject type: "STAFF:SIDE" with no quotation marks. send it to JohnKapsis@Hotmail.com
I think i said all i had in my mind, have a nice day everyone, and i hope to see you soon!
Hello everyone!
As you all know we are always trying for the best oft the server, we are primarily have that server as a place that people can meet and exchange ideas and inventions, we have never so far considered the cost of running the server as a stop to evolving with both more player capacity and worlds activity overhead, thats why we think we will be doing the right thing to change hosts again.
Yes, we have come to that point where the hardware is not enough again, so we decided to leave redstonehost.com and to move with another service, this time we will not be signing up with a virtual host aimed for minecraft, intead we are renting a top class proffessional dedicated server with 24GBRam and an i7 with 8 threads!
As you understand we take this seriously! no more lag from now on. Full specs below!!
Processor:
Intel Core i7-920 (quadcore)
RAM:
Ram 24 GB DDR3
IPs:
1 Free IPv4 / (1.5Euro for every extra IP/month in IPv4)
Free IPv6 /64 subnet**
Operating System:
Debian, openSuSE, Ubuntu, CentOS
Windows 2008 Web Edition +Euro20/Month
Windows 2008 STD edition +Euro30/Month
HD:
2 x 750GB SATA (3Gb/s) (Software RAID 1)
Traffic:
Unmetered* / Month
OnBoard LAN:
1 GBit (100 Mbps)
FTP Backup:
100 GB
Network availability:
99%
Hardware Replacement:
10h x 5
Hardware Reboot with 1 click:
Data Center:
Germany
*Unmetered Traffic:
If you exeed 10TB, the Network card locks at 10 MBps with no charge for the additional TB (default option). Alternatevely, the card can remain at 100 MBps, with charge of Euro6.9/TB after exeeding the 10 TB.
Free IPv6 /64 subnet**:
The subnet has available 18,446,744,073,709,552,000 IPv6 addresses.
The video below is the quick guide that shows you how to build in our server.
For more info come in-game!!!
If you feel like helping click the link below and pitch in whatever you want!
