The server has been updated to the latest version of Bukkit. Hopefully this causes no major problems with plugins. If a plugin is acting up, you should report it using the /modreq command or just tell a mod.

We’re also testing running the map on a ramdisk, which will hopefully reduce lag. Right now, only the End is running on the ramdisk, and the mods will be testing it out just as soon as Minecraft’s login servers come back up. Hopefully the whole map will be running on ramdisk later this weekend.

In other news: after more than a week of voting it seems that people like the idea of weekly payouts to VIPs instead of a lumpsum amount. This will be set up ASAP and the first payout (which will combine all the weeks we’ve been on this map) could come as early as Sunday. People who were given the initial 25,000r will be ineligible for the weekly stipend unless they pay back the 25,000 rupees.

Now that the VIP rewards have been figured out, market plots can be priced and can finally go up for rent. More details will be available soon.

I(D3athrow) do not have a job and with the server cost being around $85/month can take any help i can get when it comes to the bill.

Donations of $5 or more get VIP for 1 month, reserve slot and the ability to set your /home

Donations of $10 or more get VIP for 2 months, reserve slot, /sethome, and access to all magic spells! NEW:1 /warp location that you and people you tell can use.

Donations of $20 or more get everything above for 4 months PLUS you get 5 protection zones(protected from griefers and monsters). NEW: 3 /warp locations

$40 or more you get 10 protection zones! and you get to ask d3athrow(me) for 1 thing you would really really want(think of it as asking the Don something on his daughters birthday). Lasts for 6 months! NEW: 6 /warp locations

$100 or more by popular demand 30 protection zones, ask d3athrow for 2 things, 500k rupees and LIFETIME VIP + 3 months of vip for a friend 20 /warp locations

All donations get 1k rupees per dollar donated. Ready to donate?

And to celebrate, all new and returning players will also be given a wood sword, a wood pick, and four loaves of bread when they first log in to help you get started on our new adventure! VIP’s and those who had custom prefixes will also find that they have been restored.

Information regarding plots in the new marketplace will be available soon.

As we work to get the server back in order following the hard drive crash, we’re also examining ways that we can better serve the users of the server and streamline processes behind the scenes. One of the ways we’re doing this is by enabling MCBans, basically a shared ban list. Hopefully, the addition of MCBans will help cut down on some of the griefing activity. MCBans will also eliminate the need for staff to post time consuming ban reports, as MCBans will store and display this information automatically.

In other news, we’re in the middle of preparing a new spawn and the new map will be here within the next day or two!

Late Tuesday evening the server was unexpectedly power cycled, which caused a catastrophic hard drive failure resulting in near total data loss. This means pretty much everything (map. wallets, inventory, forums, wiki, etc) is no longer available to us.

Thanks to the recent conversion to Bukkit, a handful of files (mainly ranks and custom prefixes) were available offsite, as was a partially finished Bukkit server, which allowed us to get back online relatively quickly using a temp map. We’re now working as fast as possible on getting the server back in order, at which point we will get a the new map that’s been talked about for some time!

We thank you for sticking with us through these hard times!