Awesome Build By Joeygerace

Joeygerace e-mailed us about a build he's working on....

 Looks awesome so far, looking forward to seeing it once he's finished!

Down For Maintenance

The server is down for maintenance as follows:

1. Full backup/clone - Done.
2. Upgrade Ontime plugin - Done.
3. Test upgraded plugin - Done.
4. Management interface update - Done.
5. Small change to maintenance - Done.

This is expected to take no longer than two hours but is obviously very dependent on my internet connection speed so may take longer, I'll update here as usual.

Downtime:

Started: 08:45 (UK)

Est Finish: 09:30 (UK)

Update 09:10 - My internet connection is finally back to full speed, I've taken an hour off the estimated finish time!

Update 09:30 - All done, the server is back up and you can now connect!

Triple Win For Jabbawokkey!

Jabbawokkey got a triple win on the Super Slot at the casino today....

I'm sure she would have rather got Industrial Diamonds instead of Exp but 

still impressive and the first time I've seen all nine blocks come up the same!

At least she got $500 for submitting the screenshot though :)

Scheduled Maintenance

There will be a scheduled downtime tomorrow morning to do the following:

1. Full backup/clone.
2. Upgrade Ontime plugin.
3. Test upgraded plugin.
4. Management interface update.
5. Small change to maintenance.

This is expected to take no longer than two hours but is obviously very dependent on my internet connection speed so may take longer, I'll update here as usual if that's the case.

Scheduled Downtime:

Date: 12th May 2014

Est Start: 08:45-09:00 (UK)

Est Finish: 10:45-11:00 (UK)

Players Stats

I was curious where our players came from so I've been logging IP addresses by country since the last map reset and thought you all might be interested in the stats, so here is the top 10...

1. USA (43%)
2. UK (37%)
3. Australia (4%)
4. Netherlands (3%)
5. Canada (3%)
6. Denmark (3%)
7. Russia (2%)
8. Germany (1%)
9. South Korea (1%)
10. New Zealand (1%)

• Rest of the world (2%)

I also noticed that the the operating system was logged as well so here's those stats too...

1. Windows (61%)
2. Linux (31%)
3. Mac (8%)

Interesting to see that 80% of our players are either from the USA or UK and that almost a third of players are running Linux!

Nether Portals

We've known for a little while that players have been able to light Nether portals with lava or fire blocks despite portal creation being disabled, which has led to at least one incident of a portal being created within another players area without their knowledge. 

This bug has now been fixed and although portals will still light using these methods they will no longer work or create portals in the other world and hence can no longer be used to grief. Existing portals will also no longer work.

So once again the only way to get to The Nether is via the WorldWarp at spawn.