ShadeCrest: A Gaming Community

Ok guys, I'm kinda tired of the elephant in the room so let's get a productive, CIVIL conversation going here. People start throwing shit or pointing fingers at what individuals have done in the past and I'm going to slap the shit of them. If you're going to be critical, at least do it nicely and be productive. Overall, this isn't about the past or misdeeds of individuals, let's focus on the future and how we can bring this community back together.

Some people still love Minecraft.
Some people still love FTB.
Some people love ARK.
Some people love Overwatch.
Some people love random other games.

For the most part, aside from some particular individuals not getting along, for whatever reason, we all love each other's company and there is a desire to still play games together and possible increase the overall size of the community.

So what is stopping us from doing that?
Why do people feel they have to leave the community to start a generic gaming community?

Here's how I see it....

All Minecraft servers are now running the full 1.11 release!

If you are still on 1.10, you will have difficulty connecting, so please update!

Please note that satchels has not been patched to deal with shulker boxes. When patched, shulker boxes and satchels will not fit inside each other. Please respect that until the patch.

If you put a satchel in a shulker box in a satchel in a [...] You run the risk of crashing the server. Do this, and I'll wipe your shit

I have a temporary procedural ARK server online on my local machine. Connectivity isn't ideal, but it works. Linux support for procedural ARKs was supposed to have been fixed over the weekend, but still waiting for a fix from the developers. In the mean time the server that is currently up and running, all the map / player files will be moved to ShadeCrest's instance as soon as it's working again for Linux.

I've updated the link in the sidebar to include a link to my temporary server. It's the one called "Ark: Test"

Server setup information is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CbRCJDBPuXRFHGOqx5hC4x_ZCLGtSTjMzUj3uAUGbIg
Mod collection (for easy subscription) is here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=667875586

I'll never be able to fully automate this post, which dooms it to ALWAYS be late. At any rate, the semi-frequent update post is here!

Summary:

• Survival - Vote Trophy Automation
• Survival - Vote Milestones
• Survival - Dynmap New Blocks
• Survival - Starter Kit
• Survival - TownyTweaks (plugin)
• Survival - Dungeon Spawning Tweaks
• Survival - QuestWorld Fixes
• Survival - Helper Rank
• Survival - Prefix Command Tweaks
• Survival - Archer and Warrior Halls
• Survival - Pvp Arena Fixes
• Survival - Vote Reward Messages
• Survival - Build Projects
• Survival - Voter Podium

Survival - Vote Trophy Automation
Thanks to some new fancy code, the "Top Voter" trophies are now automatically distributed via the vote reward system! When you are a top voter, you receive a "Trophy" reward. Claiming the reward gives you a trophy just like the ones we've been handing out for months now.

Survival - Vote Milestones
The new reward system:...

August 2016
#1 Voter with 155 votes: ezeiger92
#2 Voter with 93 votes: King_Videot
#3 Voter with 92 votes: WCTech

150 Votes Club (4,000r)
ezeiger92(155)

105 Votes Club (2,500r)
none

70 Votes Club (1,500r)
King_Videot(93), WCTech(92), Joe_Lorodeth(85), Faelisa(75), Legend9468(70)

With 2 and a half hours left in the month, we cleared the 1k vote mark to reach 1,014 votes! Thank you to everyone who worked to reach this!
As I've said, we were going to finish this month before complying with Mojang's view of votes as hard currency. Trophies should be distributed by a fancy new automatic process in 10 hours or so, along with the lobby podiums. All prize money has been distributed.

So is this the end of voting?
No, of course not!
This marks the end of our old reward system, and the beginning of a brand new one! We've only had a few days of preparation, so things will be rough around the edges for a while,...

June 2016
#1 Voter with 139 votes: ezeiger92
#2 Voter with 117 votes: King_Videot
#3 Voter with 76 votes: Alosapien

150 Votes Club (4,000r)
none

105 Votes Club (2,500r)
ezeiger92 (139), King_Videot (117)

70 Votes Club (1,500r)
Alosapien (76), Joe_Lorodeth (74)

With that, we're caught up on voting! 854 votes for July, not too bad.

The podiums on our lobby automatically update, so they currently reflect these top voters. Prize money has also been handed out.
We're working on a new way to distribute top voter trophies through /vtr claim rewards, so those have not yet been distributed.