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We hope you have fun on the server, see ya!
We hope you have fun on the server, see ya!
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25/06/2012: New Monitors & keyboards & mice! And a new plugins!
Your donation money has also gone towards 5 new HD 1080p monitors and 5 new keyboards & mice! The keyboards allow for faster typing, which means the plugins will get done faster, and our old mice were breaking on us, so we had to buy new ones!
As for the monitors, Hostcraft supplied us with our old 720p ones, and now that they've been shut down they need the monitors back, so we gave them back.
One is for Jake's own computer, one is for Danielle's (me! <3) computer and one is for Dell's. The extra 2 are for Gabrielle and Trisha.
Also, we have most of the plugins back and some are in the final stages of polishing. But we haven't had a server update since November 2011, and it's almost that time of year again! So with the recent boost in popularity of The Hunger Games, we thought we'd celebrate like any other server, and add in the Survival Games with custom made maps.
The second new plugin isn't really 'new', we've had it before. That plugin is spleef. Yes, remember the days before Beta 1.6.6 when we still had that wonderful plugin with the beautiful arenas? Well a freaking bug in 1.6.6 disabled it and in 1.2 that bug was fixed, so we added the spleef arenas and the plugin back in with some new elements.
There is also a new feature where donators can submit arenas that will be playable in their plots. And there's also a new chat channel designed specifically for spleef. We connected the website up with our server again like it used to in the alpha days, and the spleef now has leaderboards.
So we're calling server update 56 the spleef update. See ya around!
As for the monitors, Hostcraft supplied us with our old 720p ones, and now that they've been shut down they need the monitors back, so we gave them back.
One is for Jake's own computer, one is for Danielle's (me! <3) computer and one is for Dell's. The extra 2 are for Gabrielle and Trisha.
Also, we have most of the plugins back and some are in the final stages of polishing. But we haven't had a server update since November 2011, and it's almost that time of year again! So with the recent boost in popularity of The Hunger Games, we thought we'd celebrate like any other server, and add in the Survival Games with custom made maps.
The second new plugin isn't really 'new', we've had it before. That plugin is spleef. Yes, remember the days before Beta 1.6.6 when we still had that wonderful plugin with the beautiful arenas? Well a freaking bug in 1.6.6 disabled it and in 1.2 that bug was fixed, so we added the spleef arenas and the plugin back in with some new elements.
There is also a new feature where donators can submit arenas that will be playable in their plots. And there's also a new chat channel designed specifically for spleef. We connected the website up with our server again like it used to in the alpha days, and the spleef now has leaderboards.
So we're calling server update 56 the spleef update. See ya around!
23/06/2012: Progress report
So, we've ordered a new computer, thanks to the money from all of your donations! The reason why we needed one is because the fan split in two because the server had too much TNT exploding at once, the tower overheated and the fan split. We tried fixing that but it was no use, and the computer was severely damaged anyway - Everytime we tried to run the server it would lag.
This time, for much more positive effects, we've decided to go with an intel liquid cooler. Basically what this does is keeps the tower from overheating by cooling it with water. It's less noisy too!
Also, on Dell's laptop we managed to safely transport the backup of the town world onto there, aswell as some undamaged server code and plugins. The majority of the plugins need to be rewritten again, and the database needs more protection. This could take well over a month, but we promise you guys we're working as fast as we can! We also needed to update the database anyway, the oldest messages and information came from the very first Minecraft Alpha, and the code was very sloppy!
This time, for much more positive effects, we've decided to go with an intel liquid cooler. Basically what this does is keeps the tower from overheating by cooling it with water. It's less noisy too!
Also, on Dell's laptop we managed to safely transport the backup of the town world onto there, aswell as some undamaged server code and plugins. The majority of the plugins need to be rewritten again, and the database needs more protection. This could take well over a month, but we promise you guys we're working as fast as we can! We also needed to update the database anyway, the oldest messages and information came from the very first Minecraft Alpha, and the code was very sloppy!
20/06/2012: Server down!
This is an emergency! While we were sleeping, we had a major overnight grief. It appears that a team of griefers overrided the database of the server, and done what is known as 'Force-Opping'. They used the antioch command multiple times, and this command isn't blocked in plots if it is used by admins.
They then disabled spawn protection and griefed the spawn building, pouring lava all over the houses below. Then, the wasteland, being the weaker of the worlds, was worldedited to have its spawned land as TNT and the newly generated blocks were also spawned as TNT.
Here is a quote from AppleRubix:
"I had no idea what the fuck was going on. I heard a massive bang from the spawn, and I saw about 20 guys hovering around the spawn entrance. They looked at me and waved, then antioch'd my plot's front garden. Just as I was collecting my diamonds from my chest, I heard burning. I looked and the wall was entirely on fire. I grabbed the last of my diamonds, with more still in the chests, and ran out the front door. There was lava all over the city!"
Thanks to this quote we were able to get a picture of what happened in our minds.
"Then, I turned to look at my house. One year of work wasted in a few seconds. I was just about to log off when I seen them go through the wasteland portal. Then I saw somebody in the chat screaming 'MAKE THEM STOP!'. I asked her what was happening and she said her entire wasteland base was made of TNT, and the ground was smothered with the explosives. She said she heard the sound of a TNT go off, and then she died because of TNT. The server froze for 10 minutes, and then finally crashed"
The server should be back up soon! We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, a world backup was made but the server's code was altered also, so we've had to update the plugins all over again!
They then disabled spawn protection and griefed the spawn building, pouring lava all over the houses below. Then, the wasteland, being the weaker of the worlds, was worldedited to have its spawned land as TNT and the newly generated blocks were also spawned as TNT.
Here is a quote from AppleRubix:
"I had no idea what the fuck was going on. I heard a massive bang from the spawn, and I saw about 20 guys hovering around the spawn entrance. They looked at me and waved, then antioch'd my plot's front garden. Just as I was collecting my diamonds from my chest, I heard burning. I looked and the wall was entirely on fire. I grabbed the last of my diamonds, with more still in the chests, and ran out the front door. There was lava all over the city!"
Thanks to this quote we were able to get a picture of what happened in our minds.
"Then, I turned to look at my house. One year of work wasted in a few seconds. I was just about to log off when I seen them go through the wasteland portal. Then I saw somebody in the chat screaming 'MAKE THEM STOP!'. I asked her what was happening and she said her entire wasteland base was made of TNT, and the ground was smothered with the explosives. She said she heard the sound of a TNT go off, and then she died because of TNT. The server froze for 10 minutes, and then finally crashed"
The server should be back up soon! We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, a world backup was made but the server's code was altered also, so we've had to update the plugins all over again!
14/06/2012: The crashes have finally stopped!
Yeah, the crashes have finally stopped. I know you guys have been sick of those fiends for a few months now, and now you can play in peace once again!
2/06/2012: HostCraft, a mistake we'll never make again!
Turns out our hosts, hostcraft, was run by a bunch of 13 year old kids trying to scam people of their money! Atleast, that's what it seemed like. They were 13 year olds, and their service was fantastic until they started demanding a $40 price raise in the monthly bill. Just yesterday, they finally said they were a bunch of 13 year old kids who needed money. There's just absolutely no way i'm paying $200 a month for a server.
I mean seriously, their computers where failing anyways, because Black Diamond and plenty of other servers were crashing every 2 hours.
We emailed them about this an entire month ago, and they said they'll look into it. However, they never did. They carried on charging us with $160 for another 2 weeks. And then came the price rise. Now we've finally just decided to host it off our own computers again.
This means the tower will have to get used to it again, which means some frequent crashes for the first few days, but all will be fine soon!
I mean seriously, their computers where failing anyways, because Black Diamond and plenty of other servers were crashing every 2 hours.
We emailed them about this an entire month ago, and they said they'll look into it. However, they never did. They carried on charging us with $160 for another 2 weeks. And then came the price rise. Now we've finally just decided to host it off our own computers again.
This means the tower will have to get used to it again, which means some frequent crashes for the first few days, but all will be fine soon!
1/05/2012: Sorry about the server crashes!
Really, it's not our fault. Blame our hosts, Hostcraft! All of the servers who are hosting off them have been crashing, and alot have been ditching the hosts and moving onto newer ones. They said it's something to do with their computers and it will be fixed soon - We hope so!
We will email them tomorrow and see what's up, until then, see you guys around!
We will email them tomorrow and see what's up, until then, see you guys around!
30/03/2012: 1.2 land!
Yes, finally! Minecraft 1.2 came out 30 days ago and we'll finally have our wastleland terrain introduced by tomorrow! Sorry for the delay, we were waiting for Mojang to release the last version of 1.2, and this seems to be it! However, implementing this new map, like any other, will require 3 hours of downtime for the server. The reason why is because we need to patrol it with dynmap, make sure it works correctly and make the spawn portals work.
Edit (31/03/2012): All is done <:D
Edit (31/03/2012): All is done <:D
02/03/2012: 1.2 update!
This has to be our quickest time to update the server to a new game version of Minecraft! Just little over a day! Wow, that's a new record for us! Well anyway, the plugins have all been updated, and may have a few new bugs, so be sure to report them by typing /squash *insert glitch here* and we'll look through them! We have not, however, updated the wasteland's map yet! Stay tuned to know when this new map comes out!
15/01/2012: 1.1 update!
We have updated to 1.1. All plugins successfully tested and updated. All maps working correctly. Nothing really new was implemented in 1.1 IMO.
17/11/2011: 1.0 update + New hosting!
Hey guys! 1.0 is finally here, and 1.8 was our last Beta update! We have big news for you, in server update 55!
HOSTING!
Yes, our office is no longer the house of our server. We control our server from the office, but it is run directly off a computer in Canada.
Our host's name is Hostcraft. Hopefully we don't have any lag problems with these guys! Tell us if you've noticed the server running faster, if you don't it is completely understandable as our office is based in Mexico.
HOSTING!
Yes, our office is no longer the house of our server. We control our server from the office, but it is run directly off a computer in Canada.
Our host's name is Hostcraft. Hopefully we don't have any lag problems with these guys! Tell us if you've noticed the server running faster, if you don't it is completely understandable as our office is based in Mexico.
Our first post is below, the rest were cut off because it would make the page take 3 hours to read!
31/10/2010: Server Launch!
Hey there, welcome to Black Diamond! We hope you enjoy your stay here with our highly developed plugins! See ya around!