^Server is offline for the moment. We got the main roads in the spawn area laid out last night. We have a few more little things to lay out there and we'll start working on the aesthetics (which we'll need help with). I'm still messing with plugins and mods to get everything working as smoothly as possible. Once we get everything set up there I'll let everyone know so you can start building.

We have a fairly massive spawn protection/no build zone set up. The hope is that it will spread people out and give everyone their own space. It also makes it idiot proof; we've already had a couple people come in and immediately start mining/building near spawn without saying a word.

One thing we did decide to do after deliberating is to keep the older map with the new biomes being generated. I thought the messed up divisions between the old and new areas was weird, but some other people liked it, so enjoy finding those.

Thanks for your patience. Hopefully the new setup will make it more enjoyable and offer more freedom for personal expansion without clutter, as well as fostering some cool community projects. The server will be live again in short order.

11/3/2010 9:53:32 AM

tttx1023402402 booted me for throwing dirt at him

11/4/2010 2:25:38 PM

is the server up?

11/4/2010 2:32:43 PM

^^

I was just on there and tttx1023402402 was giving me shit

I'm hoping that's not saturnine, because he's kind of a cock

11/4/2010 3:03:58 PM

No, Saturnine is named Saturnine. Not sure who ttt003txx 385283523 is

11/4/2010 3:06:26 PM

mr dickface "I hate you after two stupid fucking comments" mcgee

11/4/2010 3:14:24 PM

check this out:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=55700

11/4/2010 3:20:29 PM

ttx50 is the second admin on the server, he's Saturnine's friend (lover, confident, companion, Bert to his Ernie). He is not a dickface and he doesn't hate you. People were coming on the server and mining/building while we were trying to get the stuff set up (i.e. it wasn't open to building or mining yet).

And yea, when the new server is available we'll post here saying so.




Some new rules that you should be aware of:

The new server has a setup to prevent clusterfucks at the spawn, and to promote a "different kind" of building philosophy than before. The spawn location is in the middle of a large, pre-planned city grid which consists of roads that form a grid pattern over a stupidly large area of flattened terrain.

There will be instructions for what you do when you enter the server, but this is basically the idea: the city is a shared community space for projects that are confirmed and built in a certain way. To build within the spawn city, you have to have special permission that we give you. The spawn area is enormous on this map, is the size of a city, and you won't be able to build there.

So when you get to the city and decide you want to go mine and build, here's what you'll do. There will be signs that lead you to brick roads that go out in all directions from the city. Each brick road ends at a "town centre", which is where you can build. You CANNOT build until the END of the brick road, and you cannot build just outside of the city.

So basically, follow the road until the end. When you're at the end, the wilderness is yoooooours.

We will probably be making towns at the end of the road that are smaller communities where you guys can team up and build your own shit without the big permission and planning like it would require in the city.

The new server is focused on a larger presence, more planned projects, and not having clusterfuck areas like we did on the old map.

...also the mods are Lords and you are our plebes. Dance, plebes! Work in the fields of your town while we sit on the ramparts of our castle city!

But yea.

11/4/2010 3:28:27 PM

^^I don't get it... It makes the game only use single color blocks?

[Edited on November 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM. Reason : up]

11/4/2010 3:29:33 PM

^^

ok, as if my opinion mattered, I'm fine with this

I don't like the organization so much, but if there is structure and anarchy combined... I'm cool

and the explanation helps, good job man

alrighty

11/4/2010 3:47:39 PM

whew, I'll keep going on Iron Road tomorrow. My eyeballs are about to fall out of my face

11/4/2010 9:20:12 PM

yea, I'll work on whatever road i was working on some more later, obsidian maybe?

11/4/2010 9:22:23 PM

Im working on the gold road, but for some reason I am stuck at "logging in..."

11/4/2010 9:24:25 PM

So i'm guessing you guys timed out too?

11/4/2010 9:30:41 PM

Yeah

11/4/2010 9:31:16 PM

stuck at logging in also

11/4/2010 9:32:35 PM

yep

11/4/2010 9:44:45 PM

Pirate's epic long Iron Road is epic

11/5/2010 10:21:40 AM

Server down?

Was gonna connect and continue work on the gold road.

11/5/2010 10:59:29 AM

If the server comes back up today, I'm going to time how long it takes to run from the spawn point to the end of the road. It aughta be.. depressing?

11/5/2010 11:09:15 AM

Checked out the new map last night

Can't say I'm crazy about this road business

11/5/2010 11:10:30 AM

I got us to the next clearing, ran out of bricks

[Edited on November 5, 2010 at 11:11 AM. Reason : I like that we will all have addresses]

11/5/2010 11:11:00 AM

^ ha. Nicce. Things started going a lot faster when you got out there to lend a hand.

I like the roads at least as a reference point when you're WAYY out in the wilderness. I guess it will also be useful when we put in the subway.

[Edited on November 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM. Reason : ]

11/5/2010 11:18:28 AM

So what all was in the process of getting built last night in the starting area? I remember hearing something about a bank and a jail.

11/5/2010 1:45:55 PM

Server is back up guys. I took it down to keep people from wasting effort.

Apparently the update broke level saving, and didn't do much for stability either. It doesn't do a full save at the correct intervals atm, and it only saves partial chunks when it updates. On top of that the server completely hangs sometimes without saving the map.

I'm working on some scripts right now to force the server to save every 15 minutes, and to restart the server every 5 hours or so. I'm having some issues getting it to work exactly like I want it to. If anyone has a lot of linux knowledge (especially in reference to pushing commands to a detached screen session), I could use some help.

11/5/2010 5:25:10 PM

I can help you if need be.

11/5/2010 6:52:41 PM

Ha ha, its like a Minecraft HOA. Surprised you guys aren't charging membership dues.

11/6/2010 11:22:52 AM

Server down? getting connected refused.

11/6/2010 12:57:03 PM

No minecarts can be parked in driveways.

No nether portals can be visible from the street.

11/6/2010 2:04:08 PM

Pigs and chickens must be on a leash at all times

11/6/2010 2:10:14 PM

What about monsters?

11/6/2010 3:30:15 PM

I'm glad you guys caught on.

The three of us have been making Cary jokes the whole damn time.

It's very much like an HOA in the spawn-area.

11/6/2010 3:53:16 PM

I've run low on building ideas again and I'm looking for suggestions.

11/6/2010 11:55:00 PM

build huge phallic objects

11/7/2010 10:08:16 AM

post a cartograph or something so we can see how it's coming along!

11/7/2010 12:31:56 PM

finally bought this after goofing around on the free version a couple of times. how do i get started? in the free one i could just right/left click on stuff to mine/build respectively. now that doesn't seem the case? help a noob out. nevermind, i finally figured it out.


[Edited on November 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM. Reason : .]

11/7/2010 3:57:10 PM

beat trees with your fist. Collect logs. Hit "I". Put log in 2x2 box. Create boxes. Put 1 box in each square of the 2x2 box. Create workbench. Use the workbench to create picks and shovels and go from there.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

11/7/2010 4:13:29 PM

Quote :

"CREATE BOXES"

11/7/2010 4:41:27 PM

So how do I get onto the TWW server?

11/7/2010 6:13:50 PM

Post your minecraft name so you can get whitelisted.

Server Info: 69.162.71.207

Server is currently down. It's getting tweaked right now. You guys have an idea on when things will get up and running again?

11/7/2010 6:26:51 PM

Minecraft name: SHWADE

11/7/2010 6:28:58 PM

Minecraft name: SHWADE22

11/7/2010 6:28:58 PM

Minecraft name: Chopfz

if anyone is still having sound issues, i figured out (via trial and error) that the resource file posted several pages back goes here:
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\.minecraft\bin\

do you guys pretty much play with the game in one window and the minecraft wiki in the other? it seems pretty much impossible to know out what each block is or what to combines to make what.

[Edited on November 7, 2010 at 7:39 PM. Reason : .]

11/7/2010 7:33:01 PM

Yeah, wiki is essential at first. It becomes second nature after you have played a few hundred hours.

11/7/2010 8:11:19 PM

Anyone know if the server will be up tonight?

11/7/2010 9:05:06 PM

^ditto

Quote :

"It becomes second nature after you have played a few hundred hours."

haha.

11/7/2010 11:43:03 PM

http://www.dekciw.net/

^ For anyone interested in how the map is coming, should have periodic updates and live player tracking with labels soon. I should be finalizing the plugins/mods tonight, as well as polishing the map enough for people to start building. I've got scripts running that should keep the server fairly stable without constant monitoring. If it has any issues I can tweak them pretty easily at this point.

I'll try to have the rules/mod information written up, and the server ready to go, by tomorrow at the latest. Sorry for the delay, but a few of the more important things I've done with the back-end have been a bit of a learning experience, so I had to work through some issues as they arose. Hopefully the end result will be worth it. This setup should let people spread out and come up with some really cool areas/ideas without being on top of each other, and be stable to boot.

I've also got a control panel of sorts set up that can start/stop the server, fix lockups/crashes, and edit the whitelist. If anyone is interested in helping out in that capacity let me know. It's a logged system, so inevitable abuse shouldn't be an ongoing issue. Hopefully I can get a few trustworthy people to manage it.

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM. Reason : c]

11/8/2010 12:09:28 PM

haha:

11/8/2010 3:49:08 PM

haha, that new forest fire biome is enormous

11/8/2010 3:54:42 PM

http://www.dekciw.net/

Should I be seeing anything on this page yet? I see:

Markers
Spawn
Labels
Playerrs


And I can click on "Spawn" but nothing happens. Also Platers is misspelled

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM. Reason : page]

11/8/2010 4:20:51 PM