And just that day when I was planning to spend entirely to Minecraft :/

They are copying files to a new system. Hopefully one that isn't broken (ie goes down every 2 weeks).

S'back up.

If you need more let me know. I got a stack of diamonds now from digging a straight tunnel for 3 hours, ran into loads of it.

Nice arena Bone. I can start playing again!

Just wondering if I could claim the land to the right of spawn, near the beach? I have plans to make a World Trade Centre, with certain requirements for features I plan to add, plus its near spawn so not a big hassle to venture to, making it rather conveniant.

Link for reference:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2ik49ig.jpg

...16 hours go.

I dont know when I will be able to get MC, so how long is this claim thing going on for ? I should get it about Christmas if im luck and get money, if not some time in january maybe.

Man it's 10 euros for a lifetime* of enjoyment.

*experience may vary.

You aren't allowed to build skyscraqers in spawn, so something tells me that making huge skyscraqers right next to spawn is also not allowed. If you want to make skyscraqers it's best you go a good distance away from spawn. I understand you want it to be close for convenience sake but there's a very good reason we all didn't start building massive structures around spawn.

umm please dont that is right next to my land and kinda ruins the view

change my circle to red by the way, I don't wanna be totally peaceful.

So someone thought they were going to come to BlockTec in search of riches. All they managed to get was some coal. Thanks for the dirt too! All of my riches were perfectly safe.

With the aid of mrcrazy_monkey and Xkira (kaitou kid), Shadowvia is proud to announce the near-completion of an Arena.

When it's completed, or I get some free time (whichever comes later), I have intentions of holding a Grand Inaugural Tournament to celebrate it's opening. Would anybody be interested in attending?

So I had an idea of buliding a spleef arena near spawn where we could have tournys and stuff. Could I get admin approval for this?

Shadowvia's arena is going to be converted to allow Spleef matches, and we're only five minutes (on a bad day) from spawn. We could just do it there.

EDIT: The first screen of the Arena, nearly completed (we've got to build corridors). The large amount of glass on the far end is the luxury box and lounge, where those who shell out (or those who are invited by the Duke of Shadowvia (me) or the Arena Grandmaster (mrcrazy_monkey), or are a member of the Southern Alliance) watch the game (you can literally see everything from up top, but from the bottom, the view is, sadly, limited, which is why it's the lounge). The luxury box is actually higher than that (you can only see the lounge).

You can see the raised seating (the view isn't bad at all) and the beginnings of the Fighter's Access. Most of the non-smooth-stone walling will eventually be replaced with smooth stone.

Not pictured in that shot are the entry to the Arena (complete with ticket desks and a lobby).

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff74/SkyShadowing/NewBitmapImage-4.jpg

wouldn't you need a soil based or weaker floor for spleef in Alpha to truly be efficient and fair? Though you could have some damn fine duels to the death in that Arena.

GDL started building our own city of arenas earlier this week. We have one martial arts themed arena ready and more to come.

It's not even visible from spawn, it's around a 2 minute walk making it more than far enough, and I think you all are drastically overestimating the size of this. It's not going to be some 100x100x100 megascraqer, just a medium sized tower.


1. The tower itself is where the hills are, not in the ocean so you can barely see it from your home, I checked. It's not out the back where you porch is with the view, it's by the lake on the other side, barely visible, as well as this it's going to have an awesome waterfall and garden, don't worry the view will be amazing.

2. The tower won't be big. What I plan now is 5 stories, 5 blocks high, with 2-3 stories as a condo/view point, total = 40 blocks high, give or take a few blocks. This as well as the fact it will be in the ditch, meaning around only 30 blocks will extrude, the tower won't be massive. Just large enough to facilitate trade at the level it will be done as organisations like BlockTech are already becoming popular, making something like this rather conveniant, even necessary in the near future.

Should all this fail, admins can easily move it to a more suitable spot should you still maintain the same stance as you are now, but I assure you, it will be spectacular upon it's completion.

Okay then. The way you made it sound at first I thought it would be some massive structure.



Not really. You could move your territory and rebuild it yourself, but the mods wont do anything for you. The new world has a very strict "no using mod powers" policy, unless it involves you paying them gold for items that you can only get via spawning them.

Jeez to whomsoever keeps on visiting me, kindly close all doors and stop digging holes in my walls.

Well even then, I'm sure it won't be intrusive into his view, relative to what it was, being a massive pile of dirt... Plus it's going to have a pretty awesome waterfall lift thing I've been prototyping as well as a sweet garden, etc. So in the end I think it will be beneficial for all, not only as a place of commerce, but as a place of relaxing and hanging around with fellow forumites.

Btw, if whoever is willing to sell some diamonds can please just hop on and trade me that'd be awesome, I've got a fair amount of gold from doing a project within the tower project but have yet to find any diamonds. I only need 3 so I can make a pick, as I've calculated the blocks I'm going to dig and 1 pick will suffice, namely for the purpose of speeding this up. Thanks.

I can't help you with diamonds, however you should know that you can simply drop your pick (or any tool) onto the ground when it's low on health and when you pick it back up it will be at full health again. Using this bug you'll never need more than one pick. However you should always keep at least one spare pick on you just in case the server lags or something when you drop your pick and it disappears, something that happens very rarely.

Notch is about to release some kind of musical chime thing related to/activated by redstone. Either tomorrow or very soon I'm really excited. Love updates.

Although if the past is anything to go by this will either break redstone altogether, result in the loss of all sound or create gigantic 64-block high Creepers that detonate with the power of atomic bombs.

Oh god, please no... :cold: