Halloween!

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls.

We have a new dungeon on the server, for a limited time only! The Halloween dungeon features a new set of bosses: the King of Halloween and his corrupted servants, the Halloween Goblins. They're ready for a long fight and I hope you are too!

Image from NukeLikeTheBomb

To find this new dungeon, you must look around spawn and go trick or treating to find the entrance. I'll give you a hint, it's a recent addition to our Overworld.

Hopefully much more to come for the holiday season! Happy scaring!

Fort Doom

I'm proud to introduce you to the newest dungeon in our little family: Fort Doom.

This is a multi-rank dungeon, with areas for Knights+, Heroes +, and Champions+.
Once you breach the walls, Knights+ can expect to find Knights, FireDemons, and perhaps a Warlock attempting to keep you at bay.

Heroes+ invade the dark walls of the keep to best a vile Necromancer and his Warlock wards.

Meanwhile, Champions+ descend into the deep, past the Wither guardians, straight for a set of new bosses.

First, the Eaters: a trio of Wither skeletons that afflict your Mind, Flesh, and Soul. Second, the Corruptor: while seemingly harmless, this evil figure, when slain, opens a gate to another world and summons forth some greater terror. His dark life force might return as the Corruption that he sought with his life.

A warning

This is not a post that I thought I would have to make, but it appears necessary given recent and continuous behaviors I've seen on the server. I'll accept some of the responsibility, since, even while I'm online, I've often ignored the escalating usage of overly derogatory language exchanged on the server. I don't pretend to run a family-friendly server or ask that you players behave any less vulgar than you normally do; however, there's a difference between playful banter and true insults and threats that can certainly be misconstrued in text-based chat.
I don't care if you name items after sexual organs. I don't care if you discuss which animal has the biggest genitalia. I do care when you threaten other players with physical violence. I shouldn't EVER look at my console and see someone saying that they're going to stalk/kill/rape another player, their mother, or their dog. That is a person on the other side of the screen; a person who will have different opinions than you and will may not realize that you're joking.
I'm a little disappointed in all of us that it has come this far, but no farther.
This next point is in the rules, explicitly, but people can't seem to figure it out. No griefing, no stealing, and no PvP is a pretty simple set of rules. I'm getting tired of these few day bans on players and will shift to full bans again. DO NOT break into shit that is not yours. DO NOT take something from chests that is not yours. DO NOT kill players if both players did not agree to fight. It's not complicated!
Do not cheat, glitch, or exploit guys. No XRay, no fly mods. If you have a mod, or a method, that you might think is unfair. Ask someone. Especially Vellusian or Robot. If you come clean and haven't done anything wrong, we'll likely ignore any transgressions. If we catch you, you will be banned. End of story.
Thank you for your time. Happy mining!

Update 24 Aug 2013

We're only getting started in the latest slew of updates planned for the server and hope you enjoy what's coming.

First, we've balanced the revisited wands mentioned in the last post, cutting the cooldowns and upping the damage. And yes, they still cost 64 emerald blocks each.

We've got many new shops in the Overworld, like a Farmer's Market, a Bakery, an Adventure Shop, and even a rumored Shady Town.

In order to encourage players to play smartly, we've added a penalty for dying. At the time of this post, players rank Hero and above will lose $5000 every time they die, while less established players (ranked Knight and below) lose only $500 for each death.
Speaking of ranks, a new set of perks have been laid out:

Page: 3 gold nugget salary
Squire: Hat (/hat), color in chat and messages, 10 gold nugget salary
Apprentice: Emotes (/me), 3 gold ingot salary
Knight: Access to the PlotMe (Creative) world/commands, 10 gold ingot salary
Hero: Weather (/sun, /rain), AFK kick exemption, 3 gold block salary
Champion: Workbench (/wb), 10 gold block salary
Paladin: Fly (/fly), Join full server
Baron/Baroness: 3 diamond block salary
Viscount/Viscountess: 10 diamond block salary
Earl/Countess: Time (/day, /night)
Margrave/Margravine: Enderchest (/enderchest)
Duke/Duchess: Nicknames (/nick)

Finally, we've established a page over a Planet Minecraft (http://www.planetminecraft.com/server/paladins/) and we've got new domains to replace the old No-IP one. Try connecting with: play.MCPaladins.com or play.PaladinsServer.com.

That's it for this time guys. Plenty more to come!

Magic changes

We've made changes to the magic plugins on the server. We decided to disable the spells from Zephyrus, so all of your old wands and spellbooks are now defunct. However, the special enchantments are still available and will continue to function.
MagicalSpells have been reintroduced to the server with a new list of non-standard wands and carefully selected spells. We're still balancing them and looking for feedback, so let us know what you think. No more scavenger hunting random ingredients for crafting and upgrading wands, instead all wands cost a stack of emerald blocks. (I recommend using the VETE for a ready supply of emeralds).

Wands:
Wizard - Controls lightning and fire with ease.
Summoner - Bring forth animals and mobs on a whim.
Monk - Heals and movement skills abound.
Rogue - Leap about and rain arrows on your prey.
Jester - I can't really say much here...

More changes!

Well, we've got a lot to tell you!
  First off, I want to announce that the Bazaar is now added. By R-clicking the sign in the shop space, you are then allowed to build in the protected region and can setup [Trade] signs in that region and decorate it how you wish! Try ./warp bazaar and go shopping!
  Second, the MagicalSpells plugin (wands) has been removed. It's been causing issues by bypassing the protections put in by other plugins. However, magic is NOT gone from the server. We've replaced it with Zephyrus and hope that it's as interesting and useful as MS. I plan to add a write up for the new plugin soon, but for now, you need a wand and spellbook to make full use of the plugin. Currently, the phase and explode spells are disabled, as well as all of the custom items, but you can read more about it here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/zephyrus/
  We're about to start work on a brand new Adventure dungeon! I hope you're excited too, because this one promises to be a pain yet involves less fighting than the Fire Cathedral. A PvP arena will be coming soon too! And even more ranks!
  Also, talk to Vellusian about getting your orange named weapons renamed. This is done for server stability reasons.

VETE is now open!

We're opening the Villager Emerald Trading Emporium. It's located in the Overworld near to the rank building. The signs represent deals similar to, but worse than, normal villager trades; however, they never run out!
More trades are on the way, so let us know which ones you'd like to see.
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