Ok so alot of people have been asking questions on how to do this and do that. So I figured I might try to answer them here.

Q. What do I do?
A. Well this is minecraft after all. Go play and gain exp buy mining and building stuff. Once you gain enough exp you can choose a class, and explore the new part of the game. And read the RPG start guide.

Q. Why can I only use wooden tools?
A. Cause your class does not permit it. Commoner’s class(default) only allows wooden, once you choose a class you will be able to use different tools and better armour. Type “/hero tools” see what you can use.

Q. How do I choose a class?
A. Well you do the quest that pertains to the class you want. After you complete it you type “/hero choose blah”

Q. I hit level 20 what do I do know?
A. Well you can specialize in a profession of your class. Or pay a fee and switch your class. You can switch till you hit lvl 20.

Q. What’s this faction thing?
A. Ohh wow it’s hard to explain It’s about creating a band of players to defend and conquer other faction’s area. For a better explanation check out this post on MineCraft forums.

So I thought I pop in and give alittle update.  RPG is going slowly but going.  We had a little surge, and then it died off.  WombatUnder on the other hand was zooming up the levels and gain in power.  Then some how died in a wall.  Sand or Gravel pit collapse?  But It has been dead otherwise.  Not sure why.  Is it too hard?  Too confusing?

I do plan on doing an ad for this server, but wanted to make sure our players got a foot hold and some power before the masses came in.  And I have figured out a cool way to deal with noobs.

Factions!

It’s a really cool plugin.  Been looking at it and studying the config’s and options.  It has alot.  The main focus is team/clan/guild’s You create/or i create factions, and that faction then grows in power, or loose power depending on how crappy of a player that person is.  The more power you have the bigger your land can be.  You loose power from dieing and other things.  You gain power by playing.  You can regain lost power and blah blah blah.  Now if a faction is overstretched or has a really bad night another faction can come in and try to take that land from another faction.

So how does this deal with Noobs you might ask…We they wont be able to do anything in faction’s land.  I can also restrict what they can do in none fraction land.  I do have great plans for this RPG server.  But I need to finish the secondary classes.  They offer alot more power, but alot more exp is needed.  But got about 75% of the work done on them.  Just need to finish them up and play with them alittle to see if they are balanced.

Till next time….

So tools npc, seeds, hunter series, and caves quests are broken.  But has a fix.  So that will be put in tomorrow.

Also I have removed the ban on the com….

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Ok finally got it Live.  Everyone been wiped, all extra land has been wiped.  So it’s a fresh start and lots of stuff to find.  I have about 10 more quests waiting to people to explore the world and open area’s up.  We also have Drekinn to thank for the continual building.

It has alot of changes and differences then our main server.  So lots of new commands to learn and lots the don’t exist.  SpoutCraft Is almost a must.  I’m not gonna enforce the use of it yet.  But If you don’t use it you loose alot of visuals effects.

So go get SpoutCraft.  And go connect to play.superminerbros.com:23456

So we have updated to 1.2.5 and still haven’t made RPG server yet.  I was convinced to let them have another week to finish of the town, and the following week on my days off the server starts having connection issues, and of course wasn’t able to be fixed till the following Monday 5 days away.  And couldn’t stay more connected to the game for more then 4 min, I was able to pull 15 min on the SSH terminal working on the server.  So after a few hrs i was able to make a copy of the server and get on my machine locally so I can work on stuff.  I got almost 20 new quest coded up.  Now implementing them into the server.  Next few days is my weekend so I will be adding all the npc’s and quest hooks.  AND GOING LIVE!  No more waiting I want to get people in playing.

Once that’s all done and buttoned down I have to finish the second tier classes.  Then back to the chat page rewrite.  Then mall the web pages to the new web server(not used but up) and code the stuff to see both servers.  So got some work ahead of me.

The only thing slowing all this down is I got a promotion again at work and it’s a full time potions so alot of my free time is gone now:(  Anyhow I’m high and babbling but wanted to update you guys a little on what’s going on.

Till next time….

TLDR: Fuck you go read the damn thing!

So 1.2.5 came out today, and well like a pimp we running 1.2.5 on both servers. Havent tested it but I’m felling frisky. And its a Recommended Build so should be safe.

We are running 1.2.4 on both server’s and no errors.  So if you notice anything wrong let me know.  Enjoy

I plan to have it finished this week and ready to reset and make it live this weekend. I’m gonna go right now and try it on 1.2.4 and see if it works. So cross your fingers it will be 1.2.4 ready with all the plugins it uses. It took 19 plugins to make an RPG server, and might be putting another one back in to give us bed’s for home. Anyhow I will be making a starting page to help you get started with the classes and such. And once we get going I will add the secondary classes.

The only thing I need to work on is noobs coming on. I might have it auto update people to build after they reach a certain level. Or make new people prove themselves first on the main server not sure. Hell I might make a big chunk a noob town so they go there and make it there base till they prove they can earn the right to build. So tell me what you think. Yes I plan to advertise the new rpg server to get more people in. So want to figure that out soon.

PS.  Happy I’m posting more?

Ok so this was posted on twitter today…

Back at work! The bukkit guys have done a lot of fixes while I was away, so there is a good chance for a 1.2.4 on Thursday

Which could be a real bad thing for the main server and RPG server.  If some of you haven’t heard the Bukkit team got hired by Majong.  For those that don’t know Bukkit is what we run for the server.  How could this be bad???  Well means we finally getting our plugin api for minecraft server vanilla so no more waiting for updates.  But the code they have written so far is all open lic which Mojong cant use.  So Bukkit is pulling a HeyO on us basically.  All the plugins will no longer work.  So for a few months while we wait for all the out plugins to switch over we wont have much to use.

But there is a light in the storm.  Spout team said they will make a “adapter” plugin that will allow us to use our plugins with the new setup.  But we shall all see.

Now remember don’t update.

Ok with this new world forming in front of my eyes. I need to start building structure. So I need suggestion and idea’s. There’s so many options to tweak and add. So I need help. My thoughts were to base this loosely off of dungeon and dragons. Since that’s what I play religiously and read the books constantly.

First classes…
So with classes we can have a ton of them We can have them require certain class or classes before hand, you can set the max lvl, you can make the exp harder to gain. Below I will post a class example So say we a priest class, that requires you to have mastered the cleric class to take. But the exp for next lvl is 1.25%. But he gets a badass group heal and rez spell. So lookin for ideas for what kinda of classes.

Second skills….
Ok skills are the meat and potatoes of this plugin. This is where you make it all happen. This is all the cool spells, tricks and major attacks. So other then basic, heal, teleport, and fireball spells. What else are you lookin for.

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So after some testing and working on this update.  I think I have it workin 80%.  Let me know if you have issues.  Right now you cant get to skyworld not sure why but the new plugin might be causing issues.  I also notice a ton of lag now.  But this is a “promoted beta”  So that might be the cause of lag.  I was called in to work tonight so we shall see how it handles.

Also the new punk is in place.  Go have fun!

ZGeek, is being named in defamation case.  Why should you care?  Well there where our community comes from, that’s where we started in a little post in there game section then blossomed to it’s own sub forum.  Then pimp Caveman/CptCabey hook up this this domain and website.

So go look and give your support you slackers!

http://www.zgeek.com/content.php/10247-ZGeek-and-Google-named-in-defamation-case

So it’s been awhile since I posted here.  Alot has gone on with the server.  Completely redid all my code for all the web stuff. so instead of using plugins to give me all my data from the server, I use the built in rcon and query port.  Ohh there’s the chat we have.  You can use our cool little web page.  But it’s down right now so I can beta test the new version the guy releasing.  Umm ohh yeah we have 1.1 installed.

So till next time….

We have updated finally to 1.8.1. It took bukkit awhile and then me a few days to figure out the permissions issues. And we still have a few like chat color being all fuckered. I also have made creative a creative world. I love it! What it should have been all along. Also if you want to see the new stuff go check out the noob/punk world. It pretty much new so you will see all the new terrain and biomes shit.

See ya in there.

Server:
play.superminerbros.com

Ok so this week I have updated the to the latest bukkit and a brand new Live map system.  The bukkit update wasn’t much, just a few plug in updates no massive changes that any of you will notice.  The big thing is the new map system.

The map system is a live mapper.  Every time you update a block the map will be updated.  Show current position of players(disabled in Survival).  Allows for HD maps that are beutiful.  Has texture support, shaders, and lighting.  Multi-map’s views per world.  Chat between the server and map page(disabled).  Man I could go on for hours with what this plugin adds.  If you can think of it, and it has to do with mapping it has it.

The map is a must see.  Click the MAPS link above and then check it out.  Hint there’s a side bar on the right, has a menu.  Seems alot of people don’t even notice it.