New Arrivals
| A Personal Note For the last several weeks, and for several more to come I, wizardofire, have been working on some rather important home projects. Coincidentally and unfortunately, my work schedule has been shifted into the late-night and morning. The work thing is only for another 2 weeks, luckily. This means I have not been on as much as I was before. There is no reason to think that just because I have been on less, that the server is any danger of being shut down or anything like that. Eventually I plan to move the server out of the cloud and into my home. This would mean less lag, better capacity and the potential for a bigger world. (with more accessible worlds). If you would like to help make this dream a reality, please throw me a couple bucks. I would really appreciate it and your name will get listed among the contributors on the About page. Also...there are ads to be clicked. I've created a new thread on the message board for people to make claim to an army. Please remember that we are only going to get a decent turnout if we can agree on the rules. We are removing potions from this next event because some people decided not to play last time because the disagreed with their usage. There is actually much more talk about the Naval Battle in recent weeks. Please be sure to pledge yourself to a crew if you wish to pirate some booty or make yer mates walk the plank! If anyone would like to propose a set of finalized rules, it would help us greatly to make this a reality. Origin Stories Well I hope you liked the first chapter of the Ravenkraft story. It is a setup to explain our world a bit and create a platform for our future events. I don't want to ruin any surprises, but know that the baseline being created by this will explain all of our past events: our transition from world to world, access to the holiday event worlds, the Armageddon event, everything. I want to help Ravenkraft to be an world of vast imagination. A place that, if you would like, you can explain your coming to this world. In these writings, I will tell the story of each world we came through, and how and why each transition happened. I encourage faction leaders to nominate someone (who writes better than me) to create your own origin story for your faction. Where did you come from? Was it earthly? Was it alien? Was it from modern times or a distant past? Is your story based in another piece of fiction? Write it all up and we can distribute these in books the city libraries and welcome centers. I haven't figured out how yet, but I'm rather sure you can duplicate books like we did maps. Hint: If you wish to write a book yourself, I recommend you write it outside the game in notepad, for example, and then paste it into the book. Bugs in the System With the 1.3 update came some wonderful new bugs along with the new stuff. There is/was a bug that would put you in the wall while riding on a minecart and kill you if you had low health. There is another where people were falling into the void after using nether portals. I do believe this void bug is fixed in the recent 1.3.2 client update and I am hoping the others may have been fixed by today's Craftbukkit update (1.3.1 R2.0). Upon learning that we were playing in Easy mode all along, we had a vote and most of use voted in favor of upping the difficulty, at least until we thought about the bugs mentioned above. I have changed the difficult back to easy for the moment, but in the future, I plan to run in normal difficulty. Notable Builds Well, I hope I don't miss anyone, but here are some recent builds of mention:
If you would like your creations mentioned in the news, please post something about it in the message board or send me an email. Also, it helps when these things have names :) Thanks, everyone! |