New Dungeons and Quests!

Hey guys, it's Robot here with his first blog post. Hope to do more of these, but for now here is what I've been working on.

The Quest for the Chapel of the Black Knight
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Players journeyed over 20k to find the Black Chapel and the relics of the Knight who there rested. This was a one-time event, with a legendary sword, axe, and armor found in the tomb of the Knight hidden in a maze of catecombs.

The Great Library
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A new dungeon appears! No warp exists to this dungeon, you have to find it on your on at x:3500, y:-4666 in QUEST. Learn the secrets of fire and read from deadly volumes of cursed lore. Read from the Book of Life and Death that the Necromancers guard so well...

PLANET X
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A new realm outside the normal flow of time and space. Planet X is not connected to the rest of the  worlds on the server. No items may enter or leave Planet X. Start fresh and compete for resources without the help of the town! You can get to Planet X from the main steet.

Happy Birthday Paladins!

Today (Jan. 1) marks the first day that Paladins opened to the public. It was very slow going then and a very different place than it was today, but I think the core of the server remains the same.
I want to thank all the players (more than 4 000 unique logins so far) that have made it possible and made the server such a great place to spend time. I've added a new building in Spawn, where the Farmer's Market used to be. Be sure to collect everything you're entitled to.
We've had our ups and downs this year, from crashes and griefing raids to holiday dungeons and mega events, but I think we've come out a better place than we started at and hopefully will continue building and expanding in the future.
Happy New Year!

Minecraft 1.7

If you haven't played, or didn't read the last post, we're running 1.7.2!

Now, this comes with it's own set of issues that we're still working on. The experiment (a few posts ago) was a huge success, with 1.6.2 running much more stable than 1.6.4. With the new box, we're able to increase the RAM for the server, allowing us to run 1.7.2!
(As a small aside, 1.6.2 was running with 1G of RAM, max allowed. When I moved it over and upgraded just bukkit, we needed about 4G of RAM for just the worlds. Without the upgrade, we would still be stuck at 1.6.2.)
Because of the bukkit update process (and the devs), very few of the plugins we use are listed to work with 1.7.2. Only two plugins were plainly broken by this update: the VillageMarker mod, which didn't really work to begin with, and mcMMO, which is very disappointing. In good news, mcMMO is still releasing dev builds and will be updated. Meanwhile, I'll work out whatever other issues there are with the server (lag spikes and what have you).
We have new worlds for you to play in! Adventure+ is a fresh world with the normal Adventure rules and it comes equipped with its own nether and end. The old War was erased to make way for a fresh 1.7 No Rules world, also with unique nether and end worlds.
So, no more going into War and coming out in Adventure!
You will notice 'chunk errors' along the border of 1.6 loaded and 1.7 loaded chunks (yet unexplored regions). If you see these, and they look pretty cool, let us know. So far the best I've seen is Extreme Hills straight into an ocean.

The Upgrade

Thank you to everyone that donated to the new server! If you haven't jump on to try it out, we are up an running 1.7.2. I'll make another post in a few minutes discussing the plans and the problems with the server at the moment. But for now, bask in all of those wires!

That's all the pictures I took of the building process. I didn't want to record it because the webcam audio isn't very good and, well, it was midnight. I had to install the motherboard 3 times, too! (You'll notice that I left the backplate off in pictures 2 and 3). All the expected components arrived without harm and look and run as expected.

One thing not in the picture is the new modem, but it's there waiting to be used!

Thanks guys!

Last few days!

We're at the last week of the fundraising campaign and we're doing swimmingly! And by week, I mean calendar week because the drive ends in:


So please get your donation in soon and thank you to everyone who has donated thus far.

An Experiment

The crashes I've been discussing with you all, and the precipitating factor in the fundraising campaign, have gotten worse. I've spent the past few hours attempting to restart the server after the third crash of the day without much success. I've even tried to switch out possible problematic plugins until I'm left with only one option: a downgrade.

This is a temporary experiment to see how the server runs, but the structure saving feature in 1.6.4 seems to be a huge RAM consuming process, so I want to try running a downgraded 1.6.2 server until we're ready to transfer to 1.7. Using this method, 1.6.4 will only be used right before I transition to the new build and will minimize contact time with the public.

I want to thank you all for your patience with our server problems and hope you're as excited as I am for 1.7, our upgrade, and the future of PALADINS.

Requesting Unbans

Please do not use friends or alternate accounts to apply to be unbanned from the server.

If you are unbanned and would like more information or to appeal the decision, please email your request to PaladinsServer (@) gmail.com.

Thank you.