ShadeCrest: A Minecraft Community

It's a brand new year, which is the perfect time to bring in some new maps!

Mining (status: Reset)
We've reset the mining world with a nice new seed and all of the 1.8 terrain generation features. Just as before, there are 9 different mining spawns, /warp mining[1-9], but this time the spawn regions only extend upwards. You won't be denied diamonds by WorldGuard regions ever again!
This really shouldn't need to be said, but don't dig massive pits around the spawns!

The Mining world has a square border 4096x4096, centered around [0,0], and uses Minecraft's built in world border so you aren't teleported around when you get close.

Nether (status: Reset)
There is also a fresh new nether to explore. There may not be any fancy new terrain generation, but it is a nice thing to have. Reach it by travelling through a nether portal in any world.

The Nether border is 6144x6144,...

Summary

• Survival - Voting Updates
• Survival - PvE Spawn Cleanup
• Survival - Armor Stand Logging
• Creative - Voting Updates on the Way
• Space Engineers - Both survival servers now public, one modded one unmodded
  
• Space Engineers - New "Programming" Board on the Forums

Survival - Voting Updates
Two new items have been added to the vote shop (details can be seen below). I've noticed that the shop hasn't seen very much use, so I've altered the prices/durations of some of the old items to see how it changes things. I encourage you all to check out the changes in-game with the "/voteshop" command! I think you'll like what you see



New Items:

• Unbreakable Armor
  • Armor doesn't lose durability with use. Great for PvP!
  • Cost: 45vp
  • Duration: 25 minutes
• Mob Invisibility
  • Common...

December's contest has come to an end! Here's a recap on how our prize distribution system works:

• The top 3 monthly voters get in-game trophies on survival that they can cherish for years to come, along with a podium display at the hub for the next month.
  
• Those with at least 200 votes will receive 7,500 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 150 votes will receive 5,000 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 100 votes will receive 2,500 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 50 votes will receive 1,500 rupies on survival.

Podium Finishers:

#1 - StephenP67 with 210 votes
#2 - Bkoch5 with 208 votes
#3 - SkittlesQueen with 180 votes

200 Votes Club: StephenP67, Bkoch5
150 Votes Club: SkittlesQueen, Xanna01, k9katz
100 Votes Club: Mega_Spud, epic_poke8, ezeiger92, Mokoum, KorkyOfRoblox, Eman3dude, Halucination, DeanoooO26, Dark_Nightfall
50 Votes Club: madmiket, MrPiggie57, Chandler107, Zachatack5900, msladydeath, GingerSwan,...

Summary

• General - Spigot 1.8 is here! (mostly)
• General - 30 Day Server Statistics
• Survival - PVE Spawn Cleanup
• Survival - 1.8 and World Gen
  
• Survival - Nether Portal Linkage
• Survival - New Commands
• Survival - Christmas!

General - Spigot 1.8 is here!
After a six hour push last night, spigot 1.8 is now running on Survival, Vanilla+, and the hub server. We still need to work on getting Creative up to speed.
No more quasi-1.8, all features are functional (including world gen)

New players can right click the sign in /warp pve to be teleported to a random location on the border of spawn! No more need to walk around though chunks you can't edit in!

30 Day Server Statistics
Here are some numbers we gathered over a 30 day period on Survival and Vanilla.
This...

Hello once again! As the holidays approach us once more, we on behalf of survival staff would like to wish everyone an Early Christmas and a happy new year! Every Christmas we like to deliver presents to those who reply to this thread, but I'm going to spice up a couple things rather than just throwing a present in your face.

• This year, to the people who want presents, I want them to not only reply to this thread, but to also create some form of decorated Christmas tree so that I can actually put presents under it on Christmas day. You can put your /home there to make my job easier or keep it relatively close to your /home, it really doesn't matter. If there is another way to get to your tree via warp please provide it in the reply to let me know in advanced. The presents are also a 3x3x3 so, make it somewhat big.
• Contest: To the person who makes the best decorated tree, i will reward them with something extra so get building! The Christmas tree contest will be...

Alright, we've done this enough. You know the drill Prize distribution system recap:

• The top 3 monthly voters get in-game trophies on survival that they can cherish for years to come, along with a podium display at the hub for the next month.
  Note: I realized a moment ago that I haven't actually been giving trophies out on creative, and keeping a single item handy on a creative server is kind of ridiculous, so they will officially only be give out on survival from now on (placed in people's enderchests).
• Those with at least 200 votes will receive 7,500 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 150 votes will receive 5,000 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 100 votes will receive 2,500 rupies on survival.
• Those with at least 50 votes will receive 1,500 rupies on survival.
• Another Note: If anyone can think of an equivalent prize to be given out on creative (since rupies don't do you much good there), feel free to post in this thread. Otherwise, I'll...