Number Of Slots / Players

I've done some testing and decided to increase the maximum slots / players from 30 to 32, we've hit the 30 player limit for periods of at least 2 hours on 4 days this month so it should help a little on busier days.

Unbanned Items!

Balkons Weapons Mod

Thanks to a patch provided to me yesturday Balkons Weapons Mod is now working correctly with non-PvP areas and region protection so the following changes have been made:

Firstly all weapons available in Marble End are now also allowed in the normal world, so that's:
Knives (all types, throwable), Crossbow & Dart Gun

Secondly the following are now craftable in both Marble End and the normal world:
Spear (all types, throwable), Warhammer (all types)

And finally the following weapons are now craftable in the normal world:
Musket (including bayonet version), Blunderbuss

So the only items in the mod that will remain banned are:
Training Dummy (due to glitches), Flail (due to glitches), Cannon (too destructive) & Dynamite (explosive)

The Musket & Blunderbuss may also be added to Marble End at some point in the future.

Black Hole Bands

As I mentioned yesterday we can now fully block the right-click ability of the Black Hole Band, so it has now been enabled for Member rank and above!

In addition to right-click being disabled it is blocked from being placed into alchemy bags to prevent a well known dupe, you can however place it into an Alchemical Chest, or activate it in your hand to suck up any dropped items in the area!

Enjoy!

Plugin Upgrade & Patch Applied

A plugin has been updated to fix the issue of right-clicks not being properly blocked, this now works as it used to again. As an added bonus it appears we can now block the water / lava eating function of the Black Hole Band and Void Ring so we are looking into unbanning these two items!

I've also applied a further patch to Balkons Weapons Mod which we hope will fix most issues with the mod, most importantly that thrown / fired weapons bypass PvP settings, we expect to be able to unban a few more items from this mod once we've fully tested them.

Server Down

The server is down due to a problem with a management interface update, unfortunately this may take an hour or so to resolve. I'll update here when I know more.

Update: 17:40 - Turns out the problem isn't with the update, Minecrafts legacy login servers are down, as soon as Mojang resolve that I'll test the update and another patch I was about to apply when it went down and will get the server back up asap!

Update: 18:10 - The Mojang server is back up and we've almost finished testing already, the server will reopen any minute!

Update: 18:13 - The whitelist has been removed!

Mail Signs and /itemdb

I've enabled Mail signs, players of all ranks can create Mail signs by placing a sign and putting [Mail] on the top line, the other lines can be whatever you want, then any player can right-click it to read their /mail messages. It's debatable how useful this is but cool nonetheless.

I've also added the /itemdb command for all ranks, this lets you lookup information about the item in your hand, from it's id to how many uses a tool has remaining. I'm sure I wont be the only one that finds it pretty handy!

 Enjoy!

Should We Enable Economy?

We've had more interest in the /money command and people asking why the server doesn't have an economy recently. Now I know we had a poll about this a few months back but I thought I'd rerun the poll to give players that have joined since then a voice too.

I'm thinking that with the new mall the addition of at least a basic economy makes more sense, plus if you're not into economy you could quite happily go on building / playing as normal and just ignore it, the minimum of two stocked trade-o-mats per store would still apply and the admin store would continue using them so non-economy trading would still be available as it is now.

As many of you know we already have a basic economy built into Essentials, it's just disabled, so enabling and configuring it would be simple, please consider the options and vote in the poll!