Scheduled Downtime Next Week

The testing of the new TekkitRestrict is going well, so far everything works as it should apart from a couple of small bugs I found which wont affect any functionality for players, the developer is aiming to fix these in another new version which will be released in the near future.

What fixes / changes I can confirm so far is the following;

Tank Cart glitch / dupe: working as expected, item will be unbanned for all ranks.

Project Table glitch / dupe: working as expected, item will be unbanned for Member+ or above.

There's likely to be some other changes as well, but I won't give any details until we've fully tested them on the live server just in case they don't work as expected.

We'll be updating the server to the new version on Wednesday 24th July, the server will go down at around 10 am (UK) for a full backup and will be whitelisted while we test the changes, we expect the server to reopen by 1 pm if all goes to plan.

August Challenge - You Have Spoken!

We decided to let you choose the August Challenge from a selection of player submitted ideas, the voting has now closed and we have a clear winner!

So the August Challenge will be... Water Slides

I'll start working on the details and will post them here in the near future, thanks to everyone who voted, this sounds like it's going to be fun 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.

VIP Donations Open!

If you wish to become a VIP for this quarter then please head over to the VIP Benefits page where you'll find the PayPal links!

If you wish to pay for more than one player at once or wish to donate more than the standard amount then you can use the 'Larger Donation' button. 

Please remember that VIP places are limited to 12 and are first come first served, please be patient when it comes to setting up your VIP regions etc, I will get around to everyone as soon as I can. VIP Island will open later on today.

Update: As of 21:00 21st July - 11 / 12 VIP slots are taken.

Update: 18:00 - All existing VIP regions have now been renamed to the new naming system, so for example if your region was previously called 'diggywig-home' it is now 'home-diggywig', this won't affect any other aspect of your region.

Update: 19:00 - VIP Island has been opened, whether you are a new or renewing VIP your free items are waiting for you in your chalet!

Commands Page Updated

The Commands page of the site has been updated, many of the changes were just to tidy it up and include some variants however some commands have been removed and some new ones have been added, here's a brief summary of the changes:

/stack - has been officially added.

/hat - has been added for Member rank or above.

Most /region commands have been removed for VIPs, all the Protection Stones equivalent commands can now be used for your VIP region instead which are far simpler and easier to remember.

There have been significant changes to the flags available for players to set on their regions, these changes affect all ranks.

For more details check out the Commands page!

VIP Renewals & Donations

Just a quick reminder to existing VIPs that you have just over 24 hours left to guarantee your VIP status for this quarter.

VIP donations will open to everyone tomorrow, 20th July, sometime after midday (UK time).

Update: 19:00 An appointment I need to attend has been moved to a later time tomorrow so the VIP donations may open an hour or two later than planned, I expect them to open at 3 pm (UK) at the latest, apologies if this inconveniences anyone!

Update: As of 14:00 20th July - 6 / 12 VIP slots are taken.

Further updates will appear on a subsequent post and not here.

Downtime This Morning

I'm taking the server down for 40-50 minutes at 10 am as it's fairly quiet today, this is to clone the server so I can start testing the new version of TekkitRestrict which was released a couple of days ago.

It has a lot of changes, making it more efficient (server restarts should be slightly shorter and memory / cpu usage will be decreased) and fixing / improving some features that have been somewhat buggy in some previous versions.

If all goes to plan we'll be upgrading to it once my testing is complete (probably around a week) and I'm sure everything is working as it should, the upgrade will involve at least 3-4 hours downtime as the plugins config files and logging methods have changed meaning a lot more work to migrate and test our settings etc.

It will be worth it in the long run though as for one thing it should mean unbanning Project Tables!

Update: 10:00 - Server is down and the backup / cloning process has started.

Update: 10:50 - Server is back up, but whitelisted while I test a small last minute change.

Update: 11:00 - Whitelist is off!