I got a permanent address for the server now!

I did some googling and got our dynamic IP problems all figured out. Just send me a message on Steam sometime an I will give you the new permanent address to the server. Enjoy everyone!

 We have monsters in Minecraft now, and it has already caused some property damage. I encourage all those to enter common town with caution and take shelter if it is night. We must do our best to light up the town better so to keep away the monsters. Here are some pictures of some danger areas.

The church is dangerous, it has a lot of dark areas around it. I saw a creeper get up and walk into the church like he owned the place.

This guy is just waiting to leap down on someone inching out the door to see if its safe.

Beside railroad tracks as it descends into the subway. Its a good thing I put that fence there, cause he was ready to surprise some commuters.

No Fix

After spending a couple hours on the map last night I literally made no progress and probably will not attempt it again soon.

Fix

Trying to do some map back-ups and fixes, will be down for the majority of the night.

24 Hour Server Trial

I'm going to try leaving the server up 24 hours a day, see how that goes. The IP should not change unless I really need to shut down and the computer feels like obtaining a new IP address upon start-up.

Q: If a server is up and running and no one is around to moniter it, does minecraft shut down by itself and piss me off?

A: Yes.

Been trying to have the server up, but the Minecraft server software feels like it needs to shut it self down. Nobody is really playing anyway, but I figure I would make a post on it so all my brick wall followers can be up to date.


Also Merry Christmas, monsters are getting turned on by this Friday (December 10th). You have 5 more days to light your structures up to prevent monster invasion. Our newcomer SolidGopher was the first online casualty. I will build a memorial for his death.

New Map Render time

Fixing my computer

Only two people have really come out to ask to have the server on in the lat few weeks. Because of that,  I have not done much with the server. I have been keeping that computer off since no one has been playing minecraft. Though after all the bug updates and new features notch has been doing, I have finally got around to fixing up my computer. Here is what I did, that I have been putting off.
1. Made a list of problems with my coputer
2. Jiggled parts inside the computer
3. Googled answers to my problems
4. Fix problems with computer
5. Defragment hardrive
I am on step five tonight and I plan on having the server up again. Send me a message on steam if you want the IP.

New Server Mod

Thanks to KaltFusion we have a new server mod up. Type /help for a list of commands. I will try and list some here later this evening.

Admin Privileges

From now on to limit block creation through admin commands, I have created an admin house. you can go in and take what you need and leave signs to make requests. This box is to be used by current admins as well.

I was going to write a big thing on the servers purpose and stuff, but instead I will boil it down.
Server is for survival multiplayer, this means, trading, cooperating, and building community projects that fit the theme of the community.
Don't create blocks for any reason as admins anymore. Its distracting from the servers main purpose and devalues the people who actually play on here to trade materials. I will permanently remove admin powers  if the problem persists.
Besides that, enjoy the server and have fun.

Now thats thinking with portals.

I got to importing our multiplayer map into my single player game. Just one of the many benefits to running a server with an iron fist. I had some interesting adventures and I grabbed a few screens I think you guys might be interested in.

Here are both portals on screen, the left being the GFSC and the right being overrun castle.

Lets try the science center portal.

Wait.. what?

Seems to have made a portal on the farm

Lets take the overrun castle portal next.

Looks kind of like the cave I made it in.

This is way different cave Im pretty far unerground

Make it to the surface and Im in between Kalt's floating island and mini mount doom.

Servers Been Halloween Updated

The Halloween update is up on the server. Portals don't work for now. You can check many of the new fun features out on the server, like new stuff to craft, as well explore our new biomed regions.

Bad chunk! Thats a very bad chunk!

I did some searching on the forums, and found a solution to the "area crashes" we experiance. In some areas in the map your game will crash, this is due to a bad piece of information in the area. I cant really get the bad info and delete it, since I don't know how to pinpoint exactly where it is. I would have to delete entire areas of your hard work to eliminate the bad info.
For now some forum searching has lead me to a tested an true solution. Turning down your view distance to normal makes the game not crash in bad areas.
Oh and minecraft updated to the halloween update.

A string of bad luck

I was able to recover XR-377's house from a massive glitch. Which is pretty good news.
Now the bad news, no map this week. I cant seem to get any map programs to render our map. So until I can find a solution we will have to use the old one.
This Sunday is the big update, so lets build some gates while we wait for it to come up. Monster proof your stuff too, because if he fixes monsters, I will be adding them in.

Well gents I'm going to try some different stuff out, let me know what you think. Also I'm late on the new map, but its been a slow few weeks, so it will be up tomorrow if all goes well.

Map Time

New RAM

Tell me if the server seems faster at all, the CPU has yet to come in, (scheduled tomorrow) but that should effect me more than it does you. Also traveling in all sorts of directions should result in less lag, as well as uncovering new land and filling out the map shouldn't have the same effect as experiencing a resonance cascade.
Give her a try and let me know.

Monsters = True

Ive gone and turned monsters on for the time being. None can attack, and that goes for creepers so you wont have to worry property damage.
I figured its a good way to tell where we don't have enough light. Maybe we can light our towns and homes better so we will be safe from attacks (and more importantly property damage) when monsters go live.
Edit 9/29/10 1:07 pm
I was wrong on the "no property damage" thing, I assumed since no other monsters were attacking that creepers wouldn't either. I have turned monsters off again. Also I will be fixing the church. 

No Power = No Server

Well the power is going down in my town for about the whole night. It starts late, but I am also tired and will be heading to bed early which means a no server night.

On the bright side I got some new parts for the computer coming in soon, hopefully increase the power to the server.

New Map

I got he newest version of our map finished, and made professionally in ms paint. Its not great but gets the job done. Russia is not present on the map as it is too big. I also claimed a little land south of my current that I had previously accredited to ShiningRayde. The reason being that I think if we uncover a little more map to the west of the tree farm he will have more land than he knows what do with. If this is not the case I will alter it again.

Dynamic IP

Ive emailed out a new IP address to those who play on the server. My ISP keeps changing my IP address I guess. If anyone has trouble in the future with connecting to the server, see if I'm on Steam. If Steam isn't up it pretty much means the server is down.
Here is the relevant link that briefly explains my dynamic IP problem.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/keeps-changing

Welcome to Super Neo Gaia X 2 Gaiden Turbo HD Remix

This is where I will post updates to everyone's favorite small time Minecraft Survival Multiplayer Server. Cartographs, map updates as well a few screen shots will be posted here. Feel free to leave comments.