Clavus

Southpark predicted it! http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQ47eGSilPc But in all seriousness, it'd been better if they'd taken him alive. Now he has the martyr status and that drives a lot of other extremists.

Expected troll topic. Apparently isn't. Oh well at least that's finally over. The world hide 'n seek champion has been found!

That's not really a valid ban reason.

Alright I went ahead and implemented the /dynmap cloak and /dynmap uncloak commands. Cloaking hides you on the live map indefinitely, until you either execute /dynmap uncloak, get hurt by a player, or do damage to another player. In the latter two cases the cloak command gets disabled for 100 seconds. This means that cloaking can mainly be used for the initial surprise attack on a base.

Nope, no functionality for that right now, and I don't think there ever will be. I temporarily disabled all the dynmap commands for normal players, since apparently everyone could toggle everyone else's visibility, which is bullshit of course. I'll see if I can add a command like "/dynmap cloak" that hides you on the map for 10 minutes or something.

Seems the Butchers faction is the new target of the Mr. Green Hate Machine. Both Scourge and MCrew declared war on them, and I think Mungol is soon to follow.

minecraft.nl and Faction Wars means there are no rules, except for no hacking / client mods. You can read about the new mechanics ingame by typing "f help 1", "f help 2", etc.

We'll probably keep the next map even longer. I just think that with all the new players around, and people having a bit more skill with fortress building, a clean start would be a good idea. You're playing Minecraft dude. You can cartograph the savegame later and pin a print of it on the wall if you want to.

Seems the general reception of starting a new map on 1.6 is positive. So don't start any new megaprojects. Just go Fuck Shit Up.

Really how is it different from survival. Except from being better in every way.

Who thinks it's a good idea to start a fresh map after the 1.6 update? I kinda feel we need something fresh again soon. And if you guys agree, I can announce it on the server.

Live map is back up, but now with flat rendering only. It's less spectacular, but it renders 10x as fast. EDIT: Also landmarks now show x/y/z coordinates.

Q.E.D bitches.

Left click = remove 1 block tower. Right click = count all connected blocks horizontally and upwards. Make sure they don't go over 20.000 (after that point you get read timeouts). Ask for confirmation to remove them (while showing the amount of blocks to be removed). Right click again, and they're gone. Last one can be used to take out entire towers by selecting the base.

Live map is disabled for now, just to see if it influences the load spikes we have on the server.

Testing my first Bukkit plugin, AntiTower. Improved version of the plugin I'm using on the server to quickly remove one-block towers. This one also allows me to destroy entire towers. As you can see it didn't quite work as expected the first few times. My poor test world :'(

If that is serious you are stupid. Nothing wrong with spending a fortune on merchandise of your favourite company The Valve store also has a ton of new interesting stuff. I'll wait for my tax return to arrive before ordering anything though.

I hate you for faking disappointment

We'll be sticking with the Factions mod for the foreseeable future because it's everything we need. How is it that much different from survival?

Installed the Landmarks plugin. It's an extension of the live map: http://minecraft.nl/map/ Contact me when I'm ingame if you want landmarks added for your base etc

Firefox 4. Chrome on backup.

The old way doesn't feed Clavus' dictator-like ego. In the old maps I had to act like a dictator all the time to limit griefing. Now everyone can go fend for themselves. If you keep getting looted and destroyed, just build an underwater fort (uncrackable) and only allow friends in your faction. Anyway, we seem to have fixed the lag spikes FINALLY! The server now reserves 1536M memory instead of 1024M, which apparently fixed the lag. Well fuck.

Server seems to be doing fine again. Just installed a new MOTD / player list plugin. Commands are /motd and /who (instead of the old !who) I'm going to try to promote the server some more at other server listings and communities. There's also a plan to bring Green-Coins to the server, but that'll take a while probably. EDIT: Made posts on Facepunch and the Minecraft forum. It's 3AM and there are 16 players on

That'd be bullshit. Didn't read that anywhere. Anyway the Bukkit team is waiting for a stable Minecraft release to work with, after which they can update their API so we can run the Factions plugin. Patience. Go play Portal 2 or something.

I've cut myself after I heard this game wasn't underrated. And thus we conclude that Portal 2 is everything people hoped for.