Fixes & Changes

The changes today contained quite a few fixes, mostly behind the scenes stuff (less console spam, yay!), but here's a couple of fixes that I know many players, including staff, will be very happy about:

Timers etc - The minimum time is now 1.5 again instead of 1.6, you'll need to manually lower any currently set to the old default of 1.6 seconds.

Quarries - One of our oldest bugs has finally been squashed, you can still only place 1 quarry at a time, but you can now pick up and replace it as many times as you want.

Project Table & RM Furnace:

Another change made this morning has almost eliminated console spam created by blocking these dupes, so they are now restricted to Member rank or above rather than Member+.

/help Command:
This command is now enabled for all ranks but restricted to just showing commands for the plugin 'Essentials' for everyone except Admins, unfortunately for other plugins it was showing every possible command (25 pages!) whether you had permission to use them or not.

Enjoy!

Downtime & Bug Fixes

The server will be down from 8:30am for a full backup and to test a plugin upgrade which includes some bug fixes.

Sorry for the late notice but I only got the upgrade today and as it contains some small but important fixes & changes and Mondays are always quiet I decided to just go for it this morning.

The server will be back up as soon as I've tested everything, I'm hopeful that this will be by around 10am, but if something goes wrong or takes longer than expected it could be as late as midday, I'll update here once I know more.

UPDATE: 08:30 - The server is now down.
UPDATE: 09:10 - Full backup has completed.
UPDATE: 10:00 - Testing has mostly gone well, but looking into a potential problem.
UPDATE: 10:30 - Made a couple of adjustments, server should be back up very soon!
UPDATE: 10:55 - Server is coming back up now!

September Challenge

As you probably know already Pixel Art was chosen in the poll for the September challenge, however we've decided to move that challenge to October.

Instead we'll be running a different kind of challenge this month, based around the Halloween world being worked on. I don't want to ruin the surprise but what I will say given this challenge is that it will be in a similar style to marble end, but darker, with puzzles to solve and very 'Halloweeny'.

So on to the details of the challenge...

The challenge is to build something for the Halloween world, it could be a statue, fountain, graveyard, crypt, furniture, garden, maze, or anything else you think would add to the Halloween theme!

Rules / guide:

For inside items (furniture etc) assume a room size of 12x12, 6 blocks high.

For outside items (fountain, statue etc) keep it to no bigger than about 25x25 blocks.

Keep builds above ground and at least 2 blocks from any surrounding buildings, so they can be easily copied and pasted using WorldEdit.

To submit your build...

You need to send your name/s, coordinates, and a brief description of the build. This information can be sent either by skype (DiggyWig or DigginChickin) or e-mail (admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk) but must be received by midnight on Friday 4th October so we have time to get them into the world etc before Halloween!

Players will get credit for any builds used in the world and will receive a special gift at Halloween! 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!

Nether Reset

The Nether has been reset this morning as it was running low on some ores and glowstone within a reasonable distance of the spawn building. All chunks have been pre-generated within the world border again to reduce lag for anyone exploring.

Two New Player Portals

Two New Player Portals were activated today!

International Trade HQ (001GameFreak) - available to all ranks.

Madsurfers Newbie Town (madsurfer) - restricted to New Builder rank only.

Protection Stones

Some of you already noticed but as of our anniversary Member+ players can place 4 protection stones instead of 3, this also applies to higher ranks including VIPs (so it's now VIP region + 3 stones). Information on the website and in the Admin Store at the Mall have already been updated.

Enjoy!