Economy - 17 Hours Left To Vote

If you haven't voted already then please read this post...

http://diggyminecraft.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/should-we-enable-economy.html

...and vote on the poll to the right, you only have 17 hours left to have your say!

Mojang Session Issues

Mojang are having issues again today, as of writing this sessions have been down about 30 minutes so far and logins are up and down, if you haven't already you might want to bookmark this:

http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/

It's a very useful site for checking the Minecraft related servers statuses.

Number Of Slots / Players

I've done some testing and decided to increase the maximum slots / players from 30 to 32, we've hit the 30 player limit for periods of at least 2 hours on 4 days this month so it should help a little on busier days.

Unbanned Items!

Balkons Weapons Mod

Thanks to a patch provided to me yesturday Balkons Weapons Mod is now working correctly with non-PvP areas and region protection so the following changes have been made:

Firstly all weapons available in Marble End are now also allowed in the normal world, so that's:
Knives (all types, throwable), Crossbow & Dart Gun

Secondly the following are now craftable in both Marble End and the normal world:
Spear (all types, throwable), Warhammer (all types)

And finally the following weapons are now craftable in the normal world:
Musket (including bayonet version), Blunderbuss

So the only items in the mod that will remain banned are:
Training Dummy (due to glitches), Flail (due to glitches), Cannon (too destructive) & Dynamite (explosive)

The Musket & Blunderbuss may also be added to Marble End at some point in the future.

Black Hole Bands

As I mentioned yesterday we can now fully block the right-click ability of the Black Hole Band, so it has now been enabled for Member rank and above!

In addition to right-click being disabled it is blocked from being placed into alchemy bags to prevent a well known dupe, you can however place it into an Alchemical Chest, or activate it in your hand to suck up any dropped items in the area!

Enjoy!

Plugin Upgrade & Patch Applied

A plugin has been updated to fix the issue of right-clicks not being properly blocked, this now works as it used to again. As an added bonus it appears we can now block the water / lava eating function of the Black Hole Band and Void Ring so we are looking into unbanning these two items!

I've also applied a further patch to Balkons Weapons Mod which we hope will fix most issues with the mod, most importantly that thrown / fired weapons bypass PvP settings, we expect to be able to unban a few more items from this mod once we've fully tested them.

Server Down

The server is down due to a problem with a management interface update, unfortunately this may take an hour or so to resolve. I'll update here when I know more.

Update: 17:40 - Turns out the problem isn't with the update, Minecrafts legacy login servers are down, as soon as Mojang resolve that I'll test the update and another patch I was about to apply when it went down and will get the server back up asap!

Update: 18:10 - The Mojang server is back up and we've almost finished testing already, the server will reopen any minute!

Update: 18:13 - The whitelist has been removed!