Competitions & Exams

A few people have asked when the next competition will be as it's been a while since the last one.

We are planning to have another one soon, but as so many of our regular players have exams this year we decided to hold off until after the exam season has passed. Watch this space for details in the coming weeks.

Talking of exams... good luck to anyone who is sitting them this year!

Server Patch - Fixes & Improvements!

As promised here's some details about the server patch that's been applied this morning:

Fixes:

• Leaf shearing has been completely fixed (sorry it took so long!).
• Fixed rare portal glitch (strange player positioning).
• Fixed a few rare glitches & potential crashes.
• Hopefully fixed occasional memory leak.

Improvements:

• Improved chunk loading & unloading to give smoother FPS when exploring.
• Improved handling of "active" blocks (furnaces etc) to improve server performance.

There's been some major code changes so please do let me know asap if you find any bugs which aren't already listed on the Bugs page!

Enjoy!

Server Down For Maintenance

I've taken the server down to take a quick world backup and apply a server side patch, this should take between 45 minutes and 1 hour.

Apologies for the short notice, updates will be be posted here.

Update: 11:35 - The server is back up, but the whitelist is on while I check the patch is working as intended, it shouldn't take long.

Update: 12:00 - The whitelist is now turned off and players can connect as usual!

I'll post more details about the patch shortly.

Merchandise - 15% Off All T-Shirts!

From tomorrow (15th June) until 21st June you can get 15% off ALL t-shirts in our merchandise store using the code... TSHIRT16

Enjoy!

Treecapitator & Slimy Trees

After some playing around today Treecapitator now works properly with Slimy Trees from Tinkers Construct! As with other trees you can collect the leaves by having Shears on your hotbar when you cut down the tree. 

Until the next client update is released this will only work in multiplayer.

Thanks to Drifter397 for highlighting the issue.

Enjoy!

Banned Item List

I've added a more detailed banned item list to the 'Rules' page as this was requested by a couple of players recently.

It includes all the currently banned items, the reasons they are banned, and also some general information about how the bans are handled in game.

Update: 2.0.6 Released!

This version includes 2 mod updates as follows:

• DiggysMobs updated to 2.0.9 (was 2.0.8):
• A few recipe tweaks (mainly for drinks).
• General code optimization.
• Railcraft updated to 9.12.2.0 (was 9.10.0.0):
• Several bug and rare crash fixes.
• Improved fluid handling.

This should be the last update for at least a few weeks unless bugs are found.

As always for full details you can check the Changelog on the Technic Platform.

Enjoy!

Update: 2.0.5 Released!

This is a fairly big update with 4 mods updated and notable changes as follows:

• Carpenters Blocks updated to 3.3.8 (was 3.3.8-DEVR9):
• This is the final 3.3.8 release.
• Rotation support added to various block types.
• Ladders can now be placed free-standing (see image below).
• Pet Bat updated to 1.3.8 (was 1.3.7):
• Bat now drops as item where it died if player is dead.
• Backpacks updated to 3.0.11 (was 3.0.8):
• New "Collect" mode, automatically collects items already in backpack.
• Backpacks now render on back if in inventory top row, not just hotbar.
• Dynamic Sword Skills updated to 1.7.0 (was 1.6.5):
• Improved support for non-vanilla swords.
• Improved "Dash" skill (more effective at short distances).

As always for full details you can check the Changelog on the Technic Platform.

Enjoy!

Server Down For Maintenance

I've taken the server down to take a quick world backup and apply a server side patch, this should take between 45 minutes and 1 hour.

Apologies for the short notice, updates will be be posted here.

Update - 23:20: The server is back up, but a client update is required before you can join!