Modpack Preview - Mushlings!

Introducing one of my custom mobs, the ridiculously cute Mushlings... 

These little guys will spawn in any biome containing large 

mushrooms, including the Biomes O Plenty Fungi Forest.

Be warned they go absolutely crazy at the sight of cake and

may get so excited they gang up on you  and push you 

over a cliff, it has happened to me twice now!

They were my kids idea and are voiced by DigginChickin, 

they actually say 'Ouch' if you hit them!

Modpack Update

We now have permission for 59 of the 61 mods we are planning to include in the modpack!

As soon as the final list of mods is confirmed (hopefully including the two we are waiting on) we can finalize the configs, finish a few other small jobs and open the server to selected players for testing.

Mojang sold to Microsoft

Ok so for those that haven't heard yet Mojang, the makers of Minecraft as I'm sure you all know, has been sold to Microsoft, details and a statement from Notch are here: 

http://www.minecraftforum.net/

2 x VIP Slots Available

As we have 2 vacant chalets on VIP island I have decided to make 2 VIP slots available!

This years hosting is already covered for our current server (Tekkit Classic) so the funds from these two VIP slots will be used towards hosting for the upcoming DiggyVerse modpack server, donating for this rank will also give you VIP on that server as soon as it launches!

Please remember to email and confirm availability before donating for VIP just in case someone beats you to it as refunds cannot be given.

More details can be found on the Donations page:

http://diggyminecraft.blogspot.co.uk/p/donations.html

Network Lag For European Players

FragNet have performed some major upgrades in Frankfurt, Germany, which will give them much better control over network routing when tackling issues such as DDoS attacks, however they are still optimising the new equipment and in the mean time this may be causing some players to experience network lag and random disconnects.

The country you are connecting from and even your ISP will affect the amount of lag you experience (if any) until the optimisations are completed. If you do experience severe network lag then please send me an email at; admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk including your country and ISP so that FragNet can investigate, this will help them identify and fix any issues faster.

Hopefully this isn't affecting too many players and will be resolved soon for those it is affecting!

Modpack Update - Texture Pack

We hit another landmark today, thanks to contributions from various members of the BDCraft/Sphax forums the 64x DiggyVerse texture pack is now 100% complete!

The final version of the texture pack is around 107 MB* and consists of almost 16000 files, but don't let the size put you off we've tested it on a couple of lower specification systems and if you can run the 64x Tekkit Classic pack you should be able to run this fine as well!

*To clarify - 107 MB is the total size of the pack, so that's the patch + vanilla textures combined, making it somewhat bigger than packs like Hexxit but half the size of the YogsCast pack and slightly smaller than current FTB packs.