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News 2015 Week 4
Welcome to all our new residents!
“Factions” without Factions
Recent and Future Events Valentine's Day Giveaway and End Reset
Landmark Builds
Rot Tower Around Ravenkraft: A look at some of Zothique's thriving regions
Since the last news post, there have been happenings and we’ve used Facebook to share that. Here is a recap. Oct ‘13
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Server Meeting This Weekend
Poll results are in! Due to the even distribution of the results, we will have one primary meeting on Friday, August 30th -- 9:30 EST and then followup meetings on Saturday and Sunday at the same time. These will be to continue the discussion through multiple days, though the primary discussion will be on Friday. 5. Which of the following are you personally most interested in?Here are those time is all relative timezones: 5:30P PST, 6:30P MST, 7:30P CST, 8:30P EST, 11:30P BST Meeting Roles Half of those who took the poll showed interest in being a meeting moderator. We will also need someone to take meeting notes. These will be discussed prior to the meeting start time. Poll Results
2. What topics do you want most to discuss?
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Server Meeting & Poll
I had told many of you we would be having the server meeting this week but many of our moderators are going to be travelling or busy this weekend. The weekend is generally the best time to do these things, but we will have to wait until next weekend. Please fill out this poll to help me decide which time is best for you and what you are wanting to discuss. Thanks, wizardofire | ![]() |
News 2013 Week 33
Please welcome all our newest Ravenkrafters!
Welcome back, roblindofmalice, dougflournoy3, Lukee412! Publishing Builds To have your builds listed in the news posts, please post them at board.fourz.org in the Showcase forum. New and Updated Plugins
| It has been some time since we've had a news post. No, the server isn't dead, dying or going anywhere anytime soon. Simply put, the summer has been a busy time for a lot of people. Nothing wrong with that. I expect we will start seeing a lot more people returning as school starts up again in the U.S. Despite the lack of updates, there have been some changes to Ravenkraft. Read this article for the details. The Gold Crash of Summer 2013 Not too long ago, we legalized gold grinders. This upset more than a few people and in retrospect, we probably shouldn't have... However, It has brought about a few positive changes and most of the negative was caused by the need for change that it incited. To get back on track with our barter economy, a few things need to be done: New Base Market Values - One reason we have a barter economy is that I, as admin, don't feel that the prices should be set by the owner. Ideally, merchants should set prices according to their personal values for each item. This is difficult since there is some disagreement. The way it should work is that the owners would adjust their prices to fit the market, setting it up so prices are not more than customer want to pay, but not less than the effort it is worth to mine/farm, collect and ship to market. Shop owners and their customers should take into consideration the convenience there is shopping in a particular place. Prices should be adjusted from time to time to meet the demands of the current state of the economy. This doesn't seem to work, possibly because its more trouble than it seems to be worth. To get us to a fair starting point, I would like to suggest my estimation of exchange rates between the prevalent rare minerals and an explanation for each 1 diamond : 2 emeralds 1 emerald : 4 gold ingots 1 emerald : 20 iron ingots 1 emerald : 96 logs 1 emerald : 112 stone/stonebrick 1 diamond : 8 gold ingots 1 emerald : 24 nether quartz 1 emerald : 20 nether quartz ore Now remember, these are only suggested exchange rates. A shop owner's personal value of each should be based upon supply and demand. One thing about the gold crash that many people don't know is that gold still has plenty of value. The people grinding it appear to be hoarding it and thus, nothing changes until its spent. These values inflate gold by only a factor of 6. That could change if the market becomes inflated. A Merchants Guild - A consensus on best practices, market trends and demand could be addressed better in an organized effort. If you would like to join the Merchant's guild, you need only be a shop owner and join our upcoming server meeting. It will announced in the next week or so. Anyone unable to attend can still be a member, you will just need to attend a future guild meeting. The guild will discuss changes in the market and make adjustments based upon any inflation and supply/demand changes. Subsidies - are "a grant or other financial assistance given by one party for the support or development of another." Basically, incentives will be provided to shop owners who bring their shops up to date with emerald prices AND new shop owners. The defacto grant amounts are 8 diamonds, 16 emeralds, 96 gold or 192 regular logs, but alternatives are negotiable. Please contact wizardofire. These items are not spawned, but from my personal inventory. If you would like to donate to this effort, please do so in the donations chest in the Ravenport Enclosure. Obviously we are accepting diamonds, emeralds, gold and logs. Anything of value is welcome. If you would like to purchase a plot in Ravenport, please see wizardofire. These are currently on sale for only 16 gold. The subsidy will be granted after the shop is finished/updated. Upcoming Server Meeting In the next week or so, we will be having a conversation on our Teamspeak server where everyone will have a chance to talk and give input. It will be announced on the Ravenkraft Facebook at the FourzSMP Twitter which is also mirrored on the front page of this website. Some topics already mentioned for the meeting:
Anyone is invited to come and bring forth any ideas you have. Lets just be sure to remember that Ravenkraft is a semi-vanilla server which means plugins that overhaul the base mechanics are not going to be accepted by most established players. |
When Worlds Collide
The Two new worlds on the Event server are being merged into Ravenkraft! They will be made available from the spawn portals at Sol Sanctum. In order to make this possible, please empty your armor slots, personal inventory and ender chest inventory into you house (or wherever) and respond this this post so I know you are ready. The import will happen Monday afternoon. I will still be able to import your things after this time but people will have to be imported one at a time and while I (wizard) am online. Also the two new worlds are being named Kepler 22b and Dagobah and will be available on the dynmap. |
News 2013 Week 19
Please welcome all our newest Ravenkrafters!
Welcome back, krekka5911 and beebee766! Congrats to bonerus for becoming a server moderator! Notable Builds
* If you would like to have your builds listed here, please post them at board.fourz.org in the Showcase forum. Naval Warps and Naval Battles In the last news post, naval battles and ship-based fast travel were announced. There has been a lot of ship-building but no connections have been made yet. I wanted to explain further how this will work:
Age Restriction Set Ravenkraft will now only accept applicants that are 15 or greater unless referred by another player. | New World Spawn The spawn has already been moved to the new floating spawn island, Sol Sanctum, a name selected by a Facebook poll. New players will join into this protected area with no build permissions in the regular survival world. There are 3 active portals in this area and some info buttons that provide links to the application, dynamic map and Facebook pages. One of these portals links to Zeal and the other two to random obscure NPC villages to the far northeast and southeast. This is so new players can, if they want start in fresh areas. All of these portals are one-way and labeled as such. Gold Grinders Legalized There has been a lot of discussion about allowing these grinders but the final decision was made after a few key details were noted:
Rules Updated
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News 2013 Week 10
Please welcome all our newest Ravenkrafters!
The Fight Against Lag People on Ravenkraft come and go and its a constant uphill battle to keep the server populated. I often find myself wondering why. Is it because people are bored? Is the PvP spawn scaring people away? Are they just not reading the rules online and quit when they find out he have no /warps? And then it hit me: Lag. Sometimes multiple people sit in grinders for hours at a time with entity counts far exceeding three and four hundred. It causes the server to lag, sometimes horribly. To fix this we now have an AFK auto-kick that will tell players they are AFK and kick them after 30 min on inactivity. Players can still grind...to a point. But there is no reason that anyone should be able to build a machine that can affect others' gameplay. Notable Builds
Events Upcoming 1.5 Update
| A new plugin has been installed that creates a chance to drop a Player head in PvP battles. This plugin also allows drop mob heads at a change below 1%, and higher using a looting sword. Enjoy! The Bartersigns plugin has been one of my favorite. It doesn't break away from vanilla mechanics, it allows an iConomy-free way of trading with other players and does all this without using commands. Unfortunately, the developer hasn't updated it in a while, so it has a few bugs and it doesn't work with enchanted items and fireworks. I will be taking over the development of this plugin and enabling these features... and perhaps a little more. To show that I am serious about this, I've created this BarterSearch site online. These listings update every hour but in the future, this will be real-time data. Remember, Bartersigns allows you to sell any item (save the ones mentioned above) and accept one or more forms of payment in exchange (all items). I am still learning Java so please be patient. This will be the first of many new unique plugins on Ravenkraft. Fast Travel with Player Ships There are many methods of travel available on Ravenkraft: our portal network is extensive, the rails and roads sprawl the spawn and there is a few Zeal portals for getting between worlds. Even with all this, there seems to be a demand for /warp and /home commands. Rather than use such a cheap mechanic, I propose fast travel using player-built ships. Players can now build a ship in their city's docks and connect it to a neighboring port. Here are the rules:
Frigate: large vessel greater than 90 blocks in length. Examples.
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News 2013 Week 3
Welcome to all our new residents!
Bandit Roads A new feature is coming to Ravenkraft! Since we don't believe in warps and teleports, long distance transportation is often tedious and hindering to economic and social activities. To combat this and further promote PvP, new portal routes are planned between the worlds of Zeal and Alpha Centauri IV (the survival world). Faraway lands like NPC, Midgardr, Elysium, TAR and the unimproved territories are all good candidates for destinations. These routes would take a player thru a potentially dangerous but short road in Zeal but would be much quicker than rail or road transport through other means. If you are interested in having a bandit road near your territory, please let wizardofire know. Keep in mind that scouts would not have access to your territory since they aren't able to travel to AC4. Notable Builds & Events The Titan Project
Sculpturer's Guild
Nocturne Jek built this city seemingly over night along the Archean railway. Its quite a site to see! Cache and Riddle
New Nether Routes
Ork Camps
Babel Canal
Void Resurgence
Rapture
Bridgetopia
Big Ol' Shroom
| The Zeal Nether This has become a rather hot topic in the PvP world. Basically, there is a plugin that makes multiple nether worlds possible but it has a bit of a glitch in it that causes players without access to the survival world to glitch into that world. Because of this, the nether in Zeal is temporarily unavailable Its unfortunate that is has to be this way it does have one major advantage. When 1.5 comes out Ravenkraft will have its own brand new nether. This will be ideal for nether quartz and glowstone availability. A Message for New Ravenkrafters There have been quite a few new players recently. There are some things that everyone should know to get the most out of Ravenkraft: From Different Worlds There are two main worlds that govern our server. New players join into Zeal, the PvP world. I would say that is vicious and unruly but currently, it is not. We need active PvP factions to attract more PvP players. We have just recently update the Planet Minecraft attract these players. For those not quite as interested in PvP, there is the survival world. To get to this server and all i t offers, new joins must apply online. It takes just minutes to fill out. The main reason for this is to screen for thieves and griefers. A check is done of each person that applies. New players may be wondering where to build. A rather close, unscathed area exists to the northeast of the spawn. Use the dynamic map to find a spot for you. For players wanting to join an existing factions, talk to the faction leaders: wizardofire (RVN), Mattfu (Archea), Justin1243 (NPC) for an invite. Keep in mind that brand new players may not be trusted at first to all the claims. Come join us on Teamspeak and join the community! What Semi-vanilla means on Ravenkraft There is some difference of opinion when it comes to what semi-vanilla really means. On Ravenkraft this means no warps or homes, no major changes to game mechanics and no unfair ranks or preferential treatment. Ranks are earned and donor ranks are not overpowered. As it should be in gaming, players that give will get get back in return either in the way of recognition or access to new content. Tokens and Voting A bazaar has been built in Babel on the coast under a large, blue-roofed tent. This shop accepts tokens, an item attained through voting, ranking and donating. You can get two tokens once per day by voting on these websites (below). Voting increases server rank and brings more people to Ravenkraft. More people means more PvP opportunity, more shops and more group activity. It is all-around good for the server. |
News 2012 Week 51
Welcome to all our new residents!
The Unattainables Token Shop at Babel A bazaar has been built in Babel on the coast under a large, blue-roofed tent. This shop accepts tokens, an item attained through voting, ranking and donating. You can get two tokens once per day by voting on these websites (below). Voting increases server rank and brings more people to Ravenkraft. More people means more PvP opportunity, more shops and more group activity. It is all-around good for the server. In the token shop, you can buy spawn eggs, mossy & cracked brick, experience potions and more. There are also two info kiosks which explain how to spend tokens to get building moves, and terrain regeneration. Notable Builds
If you would like your work to be recognized here in the news feed, please send a short email describing your work and I'll post it here. Zeal: The PvP World The whitelist has been removed and the server is now public, however, non-applicants are unable to reach the regular survival world. Zeal is available from a portal in Babel and there you may claim any land not already claimed using factions and PvP to your hearts content. Establishing factions there will bring more PvP oriented players to Ravenkraft. In the future, zeal will be used for long-distance transportation through the survival world but at the risk of bandits. Just a little risk/reward there... The Ravenkraft Arcade There has been significant work to automate instanced worlds using some web scripts, command blocks and some other fun code stuffs. Soon, we will have a fully-automated world management system that allows players to save and load adventure worlds to a file and play them with others, reset pvp arenas and more. Most of these will be available to all users, including non-residents, others will require tokens or upper-tier ranks. All the portals and buttons that make this work will be available in a yet-to-be-built arcade building in Zeal right near the spawn point. There is already a rough version of this there that we have been using to access some pvp and adventure maps. Currently, "From Ashes" is online for public consumption. | Winter Adventure Event this Weekend This weekend, a winter adventure world will be going online using the instancing scripts. This world will have plenty of goodies to include tokens and unique tools, weapons and armor. Upcoming War-zone Event Its been far too long since we had a War-zone Event. Interested parties should read the revised War-zone rules. We will be having a battle sometime in January after all interested parties have had a chance to build a fortress. When will Ravenkraft Update to 1.4.6? When the Bukkit team releases a stable build and our critical plugins are tested against it. This will likely be the beta build, which could come as soon as this weekend. Our critical plugins are Multiverse, Factions, Hawkeye and Bartersigns. How do I downgrade back to 1.4.5 to play on Ravenkraft? If you accidentally upgraded or wanted to switch back and forth, use these files: Download: You will need to rename the file to minecraft.jar and replace the original file in order for it to work. Finding Your 'bin' Folder: Windows Instructions:
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Server Promotion Event
New and existing players will quest to learn how the Realm of Ravenkraft was created and what challenges await them. Puzzles, stories, characters and cities will make Ravenkraft come to life! World Instancing Dungeon Instancing is defined as:
Many players may be familiar ![]() with this concept from games such as Guild Wars and World or Warcraft. We are able to instance almost any world to include parts of our very own Ravenkraft overworld as well as adventure maps and other types commonly found available for download in Minecraft communities. Currently Ikin and Rohal are entire worlds still under construction by our creator players. These will be available in coming months Here are some examples of things you can expect to see in the instances: Server Speed Boost Today, the server has been migrated to new hardware at our hosting company. Basically, I asked about performance upgrades and they asked if we wanted to be moved to a less populated housing for our data. I am very hopeful that we will now be able to provide a lag free environment as the server slots fill over the next few weeks. | Server Ranking - we need your help! Ok... so here is how rankings work on Minecraft-server-list.com. Each month, every servers' vote tally is reset to zero, giving servers small and large alike opportunity to get a little time on the top of the lists. The more votes Ravenkraft gets in the beginning of the month, the better our ranking and the more people will see our server. This will mean an influx of new players. Please help but up-voting the server here. Every day that you vote will help keep us on the top of the list. In addition to MCSL, we will also be submitting a listing on Reddit. If you have an account, please let us have your upboats here. Player Promotions With our new ranking system, many people instantly gained rank they had earned according to the new ranks, roles and rewards rules. This weekend, we will be giving out those rewards as well as any newly earned ranks for those who have earned them. Nickel9, is earning the rank of creator for his hard work on the Ikin project. Congrats, Nickel! The PVP world ![]() Starting tomorrow, new players not added to the white-list will still be able to join the server but will restricted to another world. Zeal is another world entirely and players there will not be subject to rules concerning property or PvP. They will however, be subject to the servers decency rules. You can read more about this on the revised rules page. |