May is obviously a big month here for us, and this weekend, we’re going to give our wonderful admins the greatest gift in the world…

A BREAK

That’s right, for this weekend only, Friday through Sunday. The admins will be OFF DUTY. That means:

  • No CB requests
  • No help with complex builds
  • No CTRL-Z shop
  • No lottery
  • No fishing contest
  • No birthday deliveries (we’ll get to you after the weekend)
  • No tagging them in the group
  • No enchanted book sales
  • No Toad Hut (and if your power runs out this weekend, you get to keep it until Monday)
  • No CB requests

It doesn’t mean that they won’t be on, and it CERTAINLY doesn’t mean that there will be no one keeping an eye on things (hint: it’s me) but if you do see them on, please treat them like any other normal player unless it is a grave emergency.

This will be an excellent way to learn the real level of appreciation you have for how hard the ladies work on this server to provide you with the best experience possible, while providing them the opportunity to just be one of the regular folks and take it easy (if they decide to get on at all). I’m sure that once the weekend is over, you’ll be quite happy to have them back on the clock 😉

Make sure to wish them a very happy Mother’s Day, and if you have any special plans for them, feel free to PM me (Christopher Morris) on Facebook or leave your well-wishes in the comments.

Thanks everyone!
-Serverus

Update for the Fire Flower (Toad Hut):

We’ve been hearing that people who received this special from the Toad Hut have been a little disappointed with it, so we’ve revamped it a little bit. Starting today the following changes have been made.

1. You no longer have to type /fireball to use this. Understandably, requiring such a long command made it fairly unusable in combat against mobs, so we’ve shortened this to /l (that’s “slash L”). I whipped up this little animated GIF to show you how much easier this is to pull off now

It's SO easy! ;-)

It’s SO easy! 😉

2. All people with this power will no longer take damage from fire or lava, effectively making it so that you can now do some elaborate parkour in the Nether without risking death.

If you have any questions about this or the Toad Hut in general, feel free to ask in the comments. On a side note, I also added permanent water breathing ability to the Frog Suit, however you will still need your command block in order to activate the high jump ability.

 

 

The admin team is excited to introduce the Some Awesome Minecraft Bank! The Bank will allow members of the server to exchange “currency.”  This system grants the community the ability to convert their excess iron into gold or diamonds. If you’ve been down on your luck lately in your diamond mine, the bank will most likely be your favorite new hang out. Iron and gold can also be exchanged for emeralds! The Some Awesome Minecraft Bank does not however accept emeralds for other ores.

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The current exchange rates are:

Currency Exchange

1 Iron Block = 1 Gold Ingot

1 Gold Block = 1 Diamond

Emerald Exchange

1 Iron Block = 1 Emerald

1 Gold Ingot = 1 Emerald

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The Bank is fully automated. Just visit the bank and head into the area behind the safe door at the back of the building to access the exchange system. Signs are posted to help you as well. You will also find admin bank tellers who will be more than happy to trade with you the old fashioned way. Remember to bank responsibly!

 

 

~Aurakiel

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If there is one thing Some Awesome Minecraft loves, it’s theme builds. Admin molly360 had the ingenious idea to build a school house to teach crafting recipes to new players who may not know how to build certain things (or for some of the seasoned players who simply forgot). The school was very popular and quite useful. The more we visited, the more we realized more recipes needed to be added. The school began expanding to accommodate the new classrooms until eventually it was becoming bigger than the space allotted. Since we’re also Harry Potter fans, it was a unanimous decision that the bigger school would HAVE to be modeled after Hogwarts with a Minecraft twist. Thus the Hogwarts School of Mining and Crafting was created.

 

The school is amazing! Not only is it functional in that it is full of classrooms with detailed descriptions on how to craft useful items, including a potions room, but there are so many Harry Potter details mixed in. You don’t even have to be a fan of Minecraft to appreciate all the work and detail that has gone into this build.

Our Hogwarts grand opening was held on Monday, February 24th at 9:30 pm EST. Everyone in attendance received a “Magic wand” as their trophy for the event (a new achievement collection we’ve started on the server).

So join our group, log on to our server, and grab your wands and your robes as you travel through Command Block 9 3/4 to this most amazing recreation of one of our favorite fandoms.

Special Thanks to our builders:
Lorrie H aka Lorelien
Emma M aka molly360
Ashley S aka Aurakiel
Amanda C aka adnamaxoc/MandaLin
Brooke C aka Cat_Grl
Chris C aka Sirhcxoc

With 1.8 coming out soon (we think) there have been a lot of questions around what we have planned, will the main server be upgrading, etc.

Since Bukkit has taken so long with releasing a recommended build for 1.7, we’ve decided that we will not move the main server to 1.8 when it is released. HOWEVER, we’ve decided on something which I consider to be just as good.

Starting today, we are introducing what I’ve coined as Rush Maps. A Rush Map is essentially a brand new, free-for-all, PVP-enabled world that you can raid for whatever blocks or items you wish. On the first of every month until 1.8 is released, we will move over all items in your Enderchest to the main server, and a new world will be loaded.

Once 1.8 is released we will do the same thing, except once the maps are rotated out, you may choose between either storing the Enderchest contents in a file until 1.8 Bukkit is released, or forgoing the 1.8 items and moving over all of the 1.7 items to the main server. Once 1.8 Bukkit comes out, we will move the contents of any stored file into your Main server inventory.

Please keep in mind that this server will be NO HOLDS BARRED which means that slaying other people for their items is permitted, as well as theft, so we recommend that you hide any standard chests as well as you can. There will be little to no admin intervention, as there are few standard gameplay rules (only the normal chat and modding rules, please refer to those pages for more on those if you haven’t already).

The only other thing that may be looked down upon is spawn killing. There’s no point in that other than to be a jerk since keepInventory is off and newly spawned players will have no inventory so obviously don’t do that.

I want to reiterate that this is a voluntary activity with low oversight, so please don’t let anything that happens on this server affect your relationships with folks over on Main GM. It’s a competition and it should be treated that way. If you don’t think your kids will be able to handle this without getting upset, I recommend that you not tell them about it.

As per usual, we will occasionally take down the Rush Map for game nights, and I will be putting the creative server map in the download section for anyone to continue with if they have stuff on there.

Otherwise, the 1.7 version is up right now, feel free to head over there now at rush.gmmc.me

There’s a command block that gives Enderchests in the building near spawn, which then teleports you 1000 blocks away (this is to discourage loading up on Enderchests) to a safe location where you can spend the night if you need to. We ask that you don’t mess with anything in the spawn houses, otherwise we’ll have to turn it into a bedstone hole 😉

Any questions let me know. Good luck!

Last night I popped on the server, while I was happily going about my business I received a whisper from another admin telling me to go peek at another player’s home.

Now don’t get me wrong I know I have the reputation as the joker admin, but what I was about to witness had me literally on my bedroom floor laughing.

 

Someone (and I won’t name names) had teepeed this players home. Why am I sharing this with you all, because of 2 reason, 1st this is a work of shear genius and credit goes where it is due the creativeness of this is beyond anything I could dream up, 2nd it is just too funny not to share with the world.

 

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XX Molly

P.S remember if you’re thinking of playing a practical joke on another player, that is fine just remember there is a thin line between grieving and funny 😉