After many months without a detailed server map, we are pleased to announce the live testing of our new plugin for Minecraft Server ‘Dynamic Map’, local load testing of this Bukkit plugin has proved very efficient in terms of additional server resource overhead requirements. As we have spare physical raw CPU horsepower and 24GB of memory the server should not suffer any in game performance issues once the whole map has been rendered to disk.
The new server map page is here:
The fifth day after their chaotic and ill-conceived assault upon the old monastery, they came again. This time they did not chase our shepherds onto the heights, or attack our villages. The undead poured from the waters of the ocean, filling the valleys, an entire army. They hit us the great western gate in a flood of rotting flesh and brittle bones. Through their lines marched creatures shaped like men, but without any semblance of intelligence, as hungry for blood as the rotting zombies, but with limbs capable of swift movement. They brought the unresting corpses of giants with them, stiffening their lines and pressing us back. Men fell all around me, arrow riddled and crushed under the feet of the giants. We held the lines long enough to see our people safely through the west gate and into the walls of the castle.
Our commanders called a retreat, and we made the evil pay for every step up the long ramp. Corpses, no longer filled with unnatural life, fell like chaff, but there were always more behind, pressing us. We rained stones and arrows upon them from the great wings of the fortress until the stink of their piled bodies threatened to leave us all gasping and wretched. We thought ourselves safe from their advance within our walls, while even the lobbed stones of the giants could not faze our fortifications.
That was when he appeared; a human among the horde. I can not now remember what he wore, but I remember the terrible fire in his eyes. He raised his hand, long out of bowshot and the portcullis was torn asunder. We sought to hold them in the courtyard, but the power of the enemy sorceror rolled through our lines, ripping flagstones the size of a man from the ground and tearing men apart with equal ease. His own horde was hit harder than ours, but that left them unfazed. We retreated into the interior of the fortress, and they pressed us, through the wings and up into the castle above. Room by room we fought, with their inexhaustible numbers and our fatigue mounting step by step. We held at the top of the last stairs, at the highest floor in the fortress. There was no further retreat, and so we fought like men will do in those straits, until the sloppy gore of undead began to roll back down the stairs like an unholy avalanche.
The commander saw a signal upon the hills to the west, and he told us their army was no longer crawling from the water, but was returning to it. With renewed vigor and strength born from desperation, we pushed them back, and as the order to retreat reached these mindless minions, they began to turn back on their own. It was a slaughter, striking down zombies from behind, hacking them with arms gone numb. The rest of the battle was a blur through the hallways and across the broken courtyard, down the stone ramp and across the field. We roared defiance as we pressed for their vanguard. Our commander bade us attack, that we might strike down the sorceror, and win a decisive victory here.
The sorceror, however, was no easy meat. He rained death upon our fragile army, summoned huge blocks of acid and creatures from the pits of hell, raining death down upon us. Great explosions of stone and earth rained from the ramparts at our backs. By the time the last slime was felled and silence returned to the field, there were only two dozen men standing. It was a victory. But every man who fell was one less man to stand before this gate when the sorceror returns. And there was no doubt in any of our men, that the darkness would return.
TeamMojang have released a video of pistons, that will also be in the new ‘Adventure’ update for Minecraft which is expected to drop anytime now.
Piston and redstone circuit mayhem is upon us!
So without delay have a look at Minecraft beta 1.7 new big addition of pistons, this was originally a community mod that Mojang have added to the game. The demonstration in the video is of the piston block in Minecraft beta 1.7. The features of this block is mostly complete, but sound effects are missing.
Day 1:
My wife left, I lost my my job. The house is falling apart and even the dog ran away sometime last week. I’m tired of this modern world and all of it’s traps and pitfalls. I am not brave enough for suicide and I am just strong enough to walk away. Just yesterday I spent my last bit of money on some camping equipment and a trail ticket to the middle of nowhere. I plan to mine for diamonds and gold, live off the land, and only see people when I need to trade for food or goods.
Day 4:
I chopped down a few trees and build a simple cabin that I can call home for now. It’s located out in Mystery Valley which seems to be about as far away from everyone as you can get. There are beautiful mountains everywhere and more trees than I could ever need. This place is my new paradise. I will thrive here.
Day 5:
I work up early and went outside only to be greeted by some ugly green mutherfucker who exploded and took out over half of what I spent the last four days building. Why me?
Day 10:
I guess those green creepy bastards are more suicidal than me, but I’ve managed to stay ahead of them, out run them or trick them into falling off of cliffs. I spent a day recovering when one of them got too close and it broke four of my ribs.
Day 12:
I’ve been pretty successful at finding iron, which is nice because I need it to build more tools. But I’m here to find gold and diamonds not be a stupid iron-farmer. But hey I guess it is better than nothing. Some skinny bastard shot an arrow at my head today too. What the hell?
Day 13:
I spent most of he day mining coal. COAL! Gah!
Day 17:
I found some great streams to clean the coal dust off so I don’t look like a lunatic when I’m in town, Spawn as they call it, selling my wares. These streams move pretty fast, good thing I’m an excellent swimmer.
Day 30:
I spend most of my time underground now. Moved my bed down here because it was easier than climbing all the way up my dark tunnel ever night. I’ve been pretty effective at finding iron and gold and even an occasional diamond, but the new market in Spawn doesn’t pay me a lot for them. Seems everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy. Especially gold.
Day 40:
I have found the MOTHER LOAD of diamonds. I have never seen anything like this. Not even in pictures. The entire ceiling is full of diamonds. Made a tunnel going back and they don’t seem to stop. I even dug a hole straight up through the bastards and the diamond vein doesn’t seem to stop. I don’t care what the prices are at Spawn. I’m going to be the richest man in the world.
Day 50:
I had to kill someone today. I caught them wandering around my property. They didn’t go into my house, or find my shaft, but I couldn’t take chances. I tossed their body into a cave near my house. I’m not sure how they found me, maybe they saw me enter the stargaze I built to get me back and forth to the Hub so I could sell what I have and buy more pickaxes.
Day 76:
Had to move my bed again. Every time I go to sleep I hear what I think are voices. Maybe it’s the weird creatures that live here, or maybe it’s the thief I killed before 00 now haunting me. I don’t know. Either way I found a way to down out the voices so I could get to sleep.
Day 77:
Had to move again. Fucking angry green things!!!
Day 80:
Saw someone else snooping around. But my thinking ahead took care of that! However I still think I need to relocate again. I’ve stopped mining gold and iron, they weigh too much. But all of my diamonds need moved somewhere safe.
Day 83:
Completed my move… and the wildest thing happened. Those angry guys who’s arms stick straight out. A small group of them befriended me and have agreed to help protect my diamonds. In return I had to help keep everything near their camp nice and dark! I don’t trust me too much, so I put in a door that they would be too stupid to figure out.
Day 100:
I’ve been here one hundred days and found more diamonds than I could ever imagine and while my warp to market works perfectly, I simply can’t be around people anymore. I just don’t trust them. I’ve been setting up traps all over my mines to catch and kill any intruders who may come around. 1 of the angry men helped build some rails, and design another trap. I’ve Named him P.Notred in honor of one of the traps.
Day 124:
I’ve left part of my fortune behind – I’m going to try and make it back into civilization but I’ve hidden clues so i can find this small stash, in case something happens to the big pile of diamonds. I’m not sure I will make it. I just know I need to get out of the region. Every time I look at it something is wrong. It reminds me of my ex-wife Vallery in some weird mysterious way. I miss her. Maybe I can win her back.
Day 130:
Society is evil. They all hate me. I can’t go anywhere without people turning up their noses at me. Vallery won’t talk to me. I’m going to hide this book near my old camp in the desert, if anyone ever finds it. Please know that Angus was here and he tried to be a good man.
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