I'm Back!

If you were wondering about the lack of posts recently it's because I was on holiday!

I'm now back and catching up with the backlog of admin stuff as well as my studying, see you all in world soon.

DiggyWig

September Challenge - You Have Spoken!

For the second time the monthly challenge has been chosen by you from a selection of player submitted ideas, the voting has now closed and although it was very close we do have a winner!

The September Challenge will be... Pixel Art

I'll start working on the details and will post them here in the near future, thanks to everyone who voted, this is going to be another fun one to judge!

The other ideas submitted will be reused for the poll next month along with any additional ideas submitted, if you'd like to make a suggestion just drop me an email, skype message or in game /mail if you're a high enough rank, I'll need at least one or two extra ideas before I can put the poll together.

Free Golden Apples Ends Tomorrow!

Tomorrow the hourly free food changes from Golden Apples to normal apples so make the most of the golden ones while you can!

I can also confirm that to mark the 6 month anniversary of the server becoming open rather than whitelisted there will be an extra special hourly freebie on Sunday 1st September between 9:30am (the time the whitelist was removed) and 9:30pm, you are not going to want to miss this!

Server Status Added To Website

I've added a little server status box on the right hand side of the website, it will update with the number of online players and server status every 10 minutes. 

It's pretty self explanatory, if the background behind the number of players is green the server is up and running.

Free Golden Apples for 14 days!

As a little summertime bonus we decided to change the free cookies to golden apples for 2 weeks from today, so for 14 days you'll receive 2 Golden Apples once an hour!

Marble End & Weapons Mod Changes

I managed to get hold of a patch for Balkons Weapon Mod so I've made a few changes this morning...

Changes to all non-PvP worlds:

Knives are now banned.

Changes to Marble End:

Right-click is now enabled for knives, meaning that they can be thrown!

Javelin is now enabled.

Crossbow is now enabled.

Blowgun is now enabled.

Arrows are no longer given at the resource points.

Bread is no longer given at the resource points (wheat is instead).

Flint is now given at a couple of resource points.

Feathers are now given at a couple of resource points.

Wooden planks are now given at one resource point.

The addition of flint, feathers and wooden planks means that players can now craft the Javelin and Crossbow (including darts) but must also now craft arrows instead of finding them ready made.

The blowgun and poisonous darts are only available in the new addition to marble end... a second ship has docked (although the dock is a quite badly damaged) and it seems to be some kind of portable jungle, maybe something to do with oxygen generation? Or maybe just to manufacture a rather dodgy poison? who knows!

I've had to remove the protection around the spawn room in Marble End, however I've added signs asking that players do not kill in that room, anyone caught deliberately spawn killing (i.e. within that room) may be banned from Marble End.

I've also adapted the plugin that handles banned items to ban certain items in Marble End only that can be made using available parts but have no use there, i.e. saws, buckets, shears & beds.

Enjoy!