Day One, Bug Busting!

With the voting sites set up we had a fairly high number of new players join yesterday, so a big welcome to the ones that have decided to stick around and help build the community!

The anti-hack plugin turned out to be very sensitive to changes in 1.11 in some unexpected ways so I apologise to those affected. As some of you know I spent a couple of hours trying out different settings and it seems that false-positives are now pretty rare.

Rather than kicking players when a less serious hack is detected they will now receive a message and details will be logged/mailed for staff review.

Anyway, hopefully we can continue to attract new players and now everything's working I can finally join you guys in world and start building!

No More Whitelist, The Server Is Open!

The whitelist has been disabled and the server is now open!

You can connect using wither the vanilla launcher or using our modded client via the Technic launcher, the choice is entirely yours.

I'll be working on getting voting up and running over the next few days which will help with advertising and hopefully help attract new players.

If you find any bugs etc then obviously let me know asap, see you in game soon!

Modded Client 1.0.3 Released

This the the final update before the server whitelist is turned off, feel free to continue making suggestions for more additions though!

This update adds Inventory Tweaks (thanks to madsurfer for reminding me to test this today!) and updates Just Enough Items to the latest release.

Talking about the whitelist... it should be turned off in about an hour!

Open For Player Testing (Temporary Whitelist)

The server is now open for player testing, with the official launch date set for 18th December!

If you'd like to be part of the testing then head on over to Discord for more information and to ask to be added to the whitelist, you'll need to attempt to join first though so we have your UUID.

Testers please note: 

• Please do not use the "Advanced Trade Stick", we are waiting for an update from the plugin developer as at the moment using it can cause inventory loss.
• Changes prior to launching may potentially cause testing players to loose progress on mcmmo and timed events. However, balances, inventories & land claims are expected to be kept.

Coming Soon... Very Soon

Apologies for the delay in getting in the new server open, we'd been waiting for a few fixes for 1.11 and they finally arrived today!

We'll be doing the final testing this week and hopefully officially opening next week, well in time for Christmas! Keep an eye on Discord if you'd like an early testing invite later this week.

You'll start to see extra pages with rank details, command info etc appearing here from today. Please bear in mind though that things may well change during testing, for example if a specific feature has an unexpected problem or if a command doesn't work as intended.

For those that asked, voting will be returning, although this may not be available straight away. Feel free to suggest sites that support Votifier, the more the merrier, as they are a great way to attract new players.

See in you in game soon!

DiggyMinecraft Returning Soon!

 It's been almost two years since we closed the Tekkit Classic server and moved to our own custom modpack, DiggyVerse... but DiggyMinecraft is about to return in a new form!

Times have changed and thousands of modpacks are available now with an seemingly endless choice. It was a fantastic experience developing the modpack, I learnt a ton of Java, drastically improved my Gimp/Photoshop skills and ultimately got to create a truly unique modpack that is far beyond what I originally aimed for. I for one will definitely continue playing it in singleplayer, I'd also love to see screenshots of builds etc you guys create with it, so please do send them to me at the usual email address! 

The DiggyVerse modpack will stay around as long as the Technic platform supports MC 1.7.10, hopefully many years to come, and I will continue to support it and provide bug fixes if required.

On to DiggyMinecraft.. 

Over the last few weeks I've been thinking about the future of the server. With so much competition it's difficult to build a decent sized community of regular players, so I've decided to go back to basics.

The server will be kept relatively simple, running the latest vanilla release and using only open source plugins and/or ones that are updated regularly, so we can move to new versions as soon as possible. It will also be as low maintenance as possible so that myself, Diggin etc can actually spend more time playing like we used to. 

We've got some great ideas for the server and are already testing plugins and putting together the ranks, permissions etc. More information will be posted soon!