Kit Bug Fixed

Due to a typo one of the kits was behaving a little weirdly, this has now been fixed!

Enjoy!

Introducing Kits

For technical reasons we can't use the automatic kit feature of Essentials but we've come up with an alternative that is now in place and working.

Typing /kit will show you a list of available kits, the kits we've set up are as follows:

Starter:
Consists of - Stone Axe, Stone Pickaxe, Stone Sword, Stone Shovel, 2 x Bread & 1 x Mushroom Stew.
It is intended to be claimed once only by new players, although existing players can also claim it if they want, this kit cannot be claimed more than once per player per year.
This kit is available in all worlds except Marble End.

Daily:
Consists of - 1 x Golden Apple & 4 x Alchemical Coal.
Think of this kit as a daily bonus, it can be claimed by any player once every 24 hours.
This kit is available in all worlds except Marble End.

Marble:
Consists of - Stone Sword.
This kit replaces the chests in the Marble End spawn rooms and means that you can now get a new stone sword if it breaks or you die, without having to leave the world and return. This kit can be claimed by any player once every 2 minutes.
This kit is only available in Marble End.

Make sure you have space in your inventory before claiming a kit.

More kits are likely to be added in the future, Enjoy!

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.