Hosting Fees & VIP Renewals

The hosting fees for the period October 2013 to January 2014 have now been paid!

VIP renewal emails will be sent out to existing VIP's next week, the minimum donation for the coming quarter will remain at £6, donations for the remaining VIP places will then open on Saturday 19th October at or around Midday (UK time).

Halloween Map

Just a reminder that if you're working on something for the Halloween Map we need to get them into the map as soon as possible after friday, especially larger builds, smaller stuff  isn't as urgent but please let us know what you're working on so we can keep it in mind whilst building.

New Player Portal Open!

The Brown player portal has been given to xXman123x and is now open!

The portal is to his X-Mall and is open to all ranks.

CPU Spikes

We're suddenly getting occasional CPU spikes from CoreProtect and I'm unsure why, it doesn't happen on the test server so I'm having trouble pinning down the cause.

If I can't figure it out by next week I'll take the server down for a couple of hours, do a full backup and replace all the plugins, configs etc with copies from the test server to see if that helps, if that doesn't fix it I'll contact our hosting company as it could be related to a management interface update (the interface has a small plugin of it's own to add functionality).

Creepers & Exp

Player damage has been enabled for Creepers, you will now take damage from Creeper explosions, however block damage is still disabled so they cannot damage your buildings etc!

Exp will therefore now be awarded for killing them, this has been set to 15 (the same as Cave Spiders), Exp awarded for killing a Ghast, Enderman or Blaze has also been lowered from 50 to 40 for a better balance.

Finally, I've added some rare items to the Admin Store which can be bought for Exp, these are:

8 Coffee Beans for 3000 Exp or 32 Coffee Beans for 10000 Exp

8 Hops for 4000 Exp or 32 Hops for 13000 Exp

Enjoy!

Spleef & PvP Arena

These have been updated to use the minigames plugin as well so:

PVP Arena - This is now a 2-4 player last man standing style deathmatch.

Spleef - This is now a 2-4 player game, with automatic floor replacement.

Enjoy!