Coming straight from Game Master Himochi:

The results of the 2015 Halloween Event are in!

Our winners for the escape ladder collection event are:

Kagato, axe_y, primagen102

Each of them will receive a Zombie Horse!


Next up, the winners of the scavenger hunt are:

Kagato, Coneva, DrCossack, axe_y, primagen102

The prize here is a custom-tailored zombie skull! As previously mentioned, when the 1.9 update occurs, these will offer additional protection against zombie hordes ...

Coneva has prepared a new activity for next Events Night, themed after this mining game of ours, which will put pickaxes to good use! As the title says, "thar be gold in dem hills!"... Quoting our showrunner:

Upon arrival players should stop at the bank to withdraw some "silver" which they can use to purchase their mining supplies at the store. At the designated time all teams will go to the mining grounds and choose a mineshaft. A timed challenge will begin; the goal? GOLD! The idea is ...

The standard resource pack has been updated tonight by Sphenicus with a few new additions!

- Some new paintings!
- One replaced music disc!
- New sound effects!
- Improved cake taste!

If you have the pack set to be automatically downloaded, you'll get the updated version the next time you connect to the servers. Otherwise, you can download it and its addons, or get more information on all this, on the Resource Pack info page!

Greetings and Salutations to the Netizens of Miranda,

I know all of you are fond players of our affiliate, Creeper's Lab, infact you're required to be trusted there to even gain access. As such, you're all familiar with the weekly awesome that is Event Night on Saturdays. In light of the offerings of Event Night on Creeper's Lab, I thought to offer a similar, but completely different approach in Miranda to add a bit of change to the gameplay.

As most players know, ...

Last night's event took a bit of time to get started, but once things went underway, lots of fun and deaths happened... as we were hoping! Details below from Link, plus a Miranda-related PSA!


Several players attended and died for their love of... I dunno, I told them to kill each other! Seven players paid their admissions and fought bravely in PvP and Spleef until victors were chosen. Our brave fighters were; DrCossack, Toad_, MurderMerls, axe_y, Beetledoze, Primagen102, and Coneva ...

The season may be cold, but many of you showed good spirits in participating in the Christmas village contest last month! Once again, three judges went from entry to entry, scoring them from 0 to 10 and providing comments. This was done by myself (Dr. Cossack), Magic, and a special team of MediaKlepto and her mom, the latter being known for loving such villages!

Without further delay, our winners...

First place: Kagato
Second place: Anonymous_SoFar
Third place: AshaLina

Congratula ...

Everyone is invited to join us next Events Night, this Saturday at 10pm Eastern time, for the launch of the Games section of the Creeper's Lab! You'll be able to see how it's all structured and play the first rounds of what will hopefully be many! A first game will be introduced that night, with at least two more set to be added in the next few weeks.

I'm not telling just yet which game will be the one first available this Saturday, but I can give you a hint: it's ...

I'm adding a new toy tonight: a test 1.9 server, called Nena.

This is primarily a place for you to play around the new version while still being linked to the community, while I gradually work my way through addressing all issues related to the upgrade. There are many broken commands and several defective plugins at this point, which will gradually be fixed. On the positive side, you can already enjoy the basic gameplay and cross-server chat!

To access Nena, all you need to do is ...

Judging

Please note that the judging period for the parkour contest will take a bit longer than usual due to the preparations for our move to Minecraft 1.9 being done at the same time. Likewise, the additions of selected parkour courses to the Games section will happen only after the network has switched to the latest Minecraft version.

If someone wants to help, it turns out that I'm short one judge to evaluate the various courses that have been built. If you haven't entered ...

All survival servers have been successfully upgraded to 1.9, so please upgrade your game version and join us for new adventures! There are no remaining bugs as far as I can tell; please tell anyone on the staff team if something appears to be out of place. Also, I invite you to read the following as some important things are worth noting.


Missing features

At this point, DynMap is unstable and responsible for the mob freezing effect you might have noticed in Nena. As such, I've t ...

All survival servers have been updated to 1.9.2! This new version is backwards compatible with 1.9, so you can either stay on the old version or switch your Minecraft client to use the latest. Jumping over to 1.9.2 is still recommended so you get the latest bug fixes!


Mu launch

In other news, Skreelink has added something on his side of things: the return of the cinema server, now known as Mu!

For those not in the know, the cinema server allows several people to come online togeth ...

The resource packs have been updated for Minecraft 1.9! There are no changes within this time around, only the version number was increased so that the game no longer complains that the files are outdated.

If you don't want to redownload any packs, you don't need to: just confirm when Minecraft complains that the pack was made for an older version of the game, and it will work just fine.

We've moved over to the latest Minecraft version, 1.9.4, which is no longer compatible with 1.9 to 1.9.2. Be sure to switch your version number before trying to join! This bug fix release is expected to improve on a lot of the server slowdowns that people have experienced lately.

I've used this opportunity to increase the protection options to cover most of 1.9's additions. Most notably, it's now impossible to teleport using chorus fruits in teleportation-blocked areas ...

Another event is being scheduled for this Saturday, this time featuring elytra-based parkour (no relation with the previous news post)! axe_y has prepared a challenge for you, which will be split in two parts:

1- Actually find your way to the launcher, and sleep there.
2- Complete the parkour track while using your elytra.

This will take place in Gondwana, this Saturday, starting at 10pm Eastern time. Interested? Be sure to have your own elytra ready, then join us in Gondwana's K ...

There are two new tools now available in-game to assist people.


Notifications and reminders

Random notifications will now be visible to everyone on the servers from time to time, offering links to useful pages from the website, remind players of contest deadlines, lead people to our various social network pages, and more. This is not a replacement for following these news and updates; it's a supplement to make sure that people know everything that is available.

Some of the no ...

I've upgraded the stats tracking plugin to the newest version yesterday, which involved rewriting a significant part of my own tracking code. As a side effect, it appears to have fixed some achievements targets that were broken while I wasn't aware. As such, the next time you go in-game, you might get a few surprise notifications. It's normal!

Likewise, if you believe that you should have earned a specific achievement yet it didn't trigger, please get in touch with me ...

All were summoned to an island, and 16 of you answered the call. Taking control of an island, the goal was to take it then turn it into something else - with no given theme! This gave many a chance to put their own ideas into place instead of being limited to a few options.

Craftmen0, Raegal and myself have visited each entry and gave them a note from 1 to 10 based on the originality of the ideas featured and the resulting amount of details packed into each entry. This gives us the follo ...

Exodio is inviting everyone to a Block Party, hosted within the Residential District in Central! This will take place this Saturday at the beginning of Events Nights, 9pm Eastern time. The fun will begin at Exodio's place then spread out over the neighborhood. If you live nearby, you're encouraged to set up some display or attraction of your own. Even if you don't, come together and join the other players for the festivities!

A few people have asked me about the results of the Monopoly game event, then I realized that I never did post them. My mistake!

Up to 12 players showed up to participate in the cutthroat world of finance, leading to an initial problem with cash flow. The Central Bank printed more money (hello inflation!), then the game got underway. After a few hours of gameplay, and with the hour getting rather late, we agreed to count each participant's cash and properties to determine the winners ...

Announcement to all survivors.

Some time has passed since the horrible events that happened in the fall of Stone Ville. Since then a few survivors have made a safe haven and invite those who have managed to keep going make a home there. Since it's dangerous to travel overworld in these post-apocalyptic times, access is limited to the underground.
I implore you all to seek refuge and help rebuild a small society so we can start again. It's going to be difficult, but the walls wi ...

You might be aware that, starting in Minecraft 1.9, boats can move at a surprisingly high speed when moving on ice.

To have some fun with this, Prima has built a racetrack around his base, and he's inviting everyone to come try it out! We'll hold a main race event first, where people will fight to be the first to complete a set of laps, then individual and versus competitions will be done for those interested.

This will take place this Saturday, October 8, after the start of ...

The Creeper's Lab is getting close to its fifth anniversary (next month!), and I'm looking to do something to showcase the best locations and builds that have been discovered and created over the years. To do this, I want to highlight the Seven Wonders of the Creeper's Lab... and I want YOU to help me identify them!

The goal is to compile a list of the seven most impressive things of the Creeper's Lab, as chosen by the players. These are features seen in-game, on any o ...

UPDATE: Here, have an Halloween wallpaper! Click for the full version! -Dr. Cossack




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Hey corpses and pre-corpses, Sora here for that time of the year again!

For this year's pagan celebration of evil, we have a special pvp contest-event planned for you all on Saturday, October 29th, at 10:00pm est!

Horseman's Hollow, the big (only) forest within central's walls, has been converted into a natural PVP maze.
The objective?
Kill as many contestants as pos ...

A new addition is now ready to join TNT Tag in the Games section of the lobby! What it is will remain a surprise until then; all I'll tell you is that it offers a new spin on something that some of you had a chance to play with before, while adding new possibilities.

Curious? Please join us this Saturday, the 12th, at 10pm Eastern time in the lobby. The official unveiling will take place then, along with the first matches!

Before anyone asks: no, this Saturday's launch is not ...

We've tried racing before in many formats. We've got pigs with carrots on sticks in the dark ages. We've rode horses going in circles. We've used command blocks to give us speed bonuses. We've even used boats on ice (!?). The point is, we want to race. Yet, no method is perfect. The pigs never want to stay still. The horses don't have any speed bonuses. It lacks depth.

What if we had racecars that controlled using sane controls? An organized system to make su ...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Pokemon Day. How many of you have picked up Sun and Moon yet? That's all fine and good, but are you looking for something to complete them? Something a bit more... blocky?

I'm introducing today my first attempt at a Minecraft modded server, featuring PixelMon - play Pokemon within Minecraft! Budding trainers will be exploring the new region of Takao (map). There are a total of 429 different critters that can be found and collected at this point. ...

Our seven days of celebrations for the fifth anniversary wrapped up yesterday! As a recap, here are the seven updates that happened:

Day 1: Launch of the racing minigame
Day 2: Reveal of our Seven Wonders
Day 3: Launch of Cimmeria, the starter world
Day 4: Miranda's first anniversary
Day 5: Launch of the parkour minigame
Day 6: Addition of 50 achievements
Day 7: Launch of Takao, the PixelMon modded server

I've had a lot of fun putting all this together, and I hope you&# ...

All Minecraft servers have been succesfully upgraded to 1.11, so update your game version today to continue your adventures with us! Please read on for some important changes.

Several configuration changes have been applied for this. Most notably, the new shulker boxes will automatically be locked to private, just like the regular chests. You can /cremove and /cpublic them as you're used to. On a related topic, as it was requested before, all doors and trapdoors will now default to a ...

Achievements fixes

Some of the achievements weren't working quite right when they were added. Some were identified and fixed quickly, while others took a bit longer. As of tonight, I've reviewed the list and can say that all of them should be running as expected. I had to change three of them to trigger properly; they now read as follows.

Wings!: Find an elytra
Cart Snob: Ride 2 kilometers on a horse
Cart Hater: Ride 50 kilometers on a horse

If you had already scored any ...

Dear Diary,

I thought that I would be safe after escaping from The Disaster. Unfortunately, there's no such luck in this wretched world of today.

Like many others, I barely made it out of Stone Ville. We immediately banded together as a group, no matter what our origins or stories were. We were alive, we needed to survive, and that was enough for us. We walked away, walked and walked... so much walking. I didn't know feet could endure this much. Still, we needed to get far, f ...