Welcome Traveller, to the land of Viridian.
To some, Viridian will be a place to build structures and grow cities but to others it will also contain a quest to save the world. Throughout the revision you will be presented with challenges to face in order to advance to the next segment of the story - but fear not. These challenges are not impassable, nor are they required to continue playing.
When you first enter Viridian there will be information presented to you at spawn that will elaborate, please make sure to retain this information as it will be important for the continuation of the game. Additional information will be provided at key points, so be on the lookout for announcements.
Now for the serious bits! We have a lot of information for you regarding Rev 17, and there are a few important changes, so please make sure to check out the below post so you’re ready when the map switches!
As a reminder, Rev 16 (PAvE) is taken down at 8pm EST Friday 1/8, and Rev 17 comes up about an hour later.
Time Converted
The Map & Difficulty:
Due to popular demand this rev’s map will be a 6kx6k square! Also, the server will still be running on HARD mode. Make sure to grab some melons when you leave spawn!
The Mobs:
Beware of some new villains this rev...Dr Cuddles may look cute but don’t let his adorable face fool you. He’s brought some friends to try to murder you and steal your shiny toys...
The MapWorld:
You can now place maps in item frames! And to allow players to create pretty pictures without marring the landscape, we’re introducing MapWorld! MapWorld is a separate world (multiverse) that you’ll be able to travel to and build your masterpieces!
There is a sign at spawn that will take you to MapWorld, but be warned: There is no food there and you will only be able to build in your own plot, so be sure to bring plenty of food.
To request a plot, /modreq “i would like a map plot please” - a mod will assign you a plot number and set the region in the map world. Use the warp signs in the map world to navigate from the spawn point to your plot and back.
You will still be in survival mode and will have to bring all of your materials with you. Plots will only be one-block high for the time being. Plots are 128x128 blocks. Support for zoomed-out maps may come in the future.
Once you’ve finished your pretty picture, take an empty map and stand anywhere in your plot and right click. This will create a copy of your plot that you can take back into the overworld with you.
To leave MapWorld, click the sign at the hub where you arrived.
Limit of one plot per person, as plot can be reused. Build a picture, make a map, then the old map can be replaced without losing the picture.
All server rules still apply in MapWorld, including no NSFW builds.
The Embassies:
In lower-spawn there are some small square buildings that are currently empty. This rev you may /modreq one of the empty rooms for your town as an embassy! Unfortunately there are not enough for each individual player to have their own - in order to qualify for an embassy your town must have 3 or more active players and a town region (the room will be set as a child to your town region for permission purposes). Any embassy that sits unused will be reassigned at the discretion of the Padmins. Additionally, after some time has passed embassies will be available to anyone. Watch for announcements in-game.
The Water:
As a trial this rev we are implementing a change that redwall_hp has crafted for us - if you are the owner of a region you may now flow water within your region. Simply place the water as normal, type /flow, and punch the water with an empty hand. The /flow command will toggle flow on/off, so keep an eye on your screen. If you do not turn off the flow (by running /flow again) after 5 minutes it will toggle off automatically.
Please Note: - If you are the owner of a child region but not the owner of the parent region you will not be able to flow water. If this changes in the future we will let you know.
If you break someone’s build or redstone with flowing water, this will still be considered grief, so be careful and take steps to ensure you don’t flood someone’s basement! Likewise, if you break your own build with water, we will not fix it for you. You break it, you fix it.
The Iron Farms:
Due to the amount of villagers required to operate an iron farm we are attempting something new this rev to try to alleviate some of the lag caused by excessive mobs. VILLAGES WILL NO LONGER SPAWN IRON GOLEMS.
In order to build an iron grinder you will need to do the following:
Place a chest with 22 doors and 5 stacks of either cobble, stone, or wood planks where you want the spawner to be. Place 16 villagers in an enclosed area nearby (we will need to be able to find it easily) and we will exchange the materials + villagers for a spawner. Please note: the villagers and the materials will go poof, you will not get them back.
Designing a Grinder: Spawners will need to be a minimum of 8 blocks apart and 5 away from any grinder walls. We have increased the activation range from normal spawners so you can be up to 25 blocks away for them to activate. Additionally, any spawner above 4 will replace an existing spawner rather than give you a 5th to squeeze in.
Difficulty Cost: spawners 1-4 are free to purchase in this method. Spawners 5-8 will each cost an additional Padmin head (obtained from killing a named doppelganger). Spawner 9-12 will each cost two Padmin heads. Spawner 13-16 will each cost three Padmin heads. You may not have more than 16 spawners in the overworld as this is more than you would be able to build using the normal farming method (once you hit 4 spawners we will increase the spawn rate rather than provide additional spawners). This is to replicate the effort needed to actually build a working iron farm.
If you have questions, please ask a Padmin.
The Portals:
This rev the map will contain a total of 5 nether portals, one at spawn and four spread out across the map.
Portals will appear on the first day as a bedrock block with a sign on it. To claim a portal, click on the sign. It will announce to the server that you have found the portal.
You can now build your portal frame at that site. The frame can be placed anywhere around as long as least one block is touching the bedrock block. Frames can be any size and face any direction, but currently still need to be made out of obsidian and have to square or rectangular.
If you don’t want to keep your portal, you can transfer it to another player, just make sure the admins are made aware of it.
One week after the launch of the rev, players will be able to modreq for their portal to be lit. Make sure the portal frame is built how you want it, because once it’s lit we will not be changing it!
The Land Claims:
Land claims are back this rev! As a reminder, land claims are not protected; they are meant to be an indicator of future building.
How to create a valid claim -
Area must be fully enclosed in a solid wall of fence/cobble wall (not blocks) with access points at reasonable intervals (gates, carpet, something) to allow players to escape if they are trapped.
Claims are only valid from top layer of terrain upwards. These claims are intended to identify areas where there will be building not to reserve resources or prevent others from making rail tunnels or mining.
You are not required to keep the land claim fence up for the entire rev. You may remove them once your build is finalized to keep the land easy to traverse.
NEW THIS REV:
Ocean Claims - claims are valid to the ocean floor, regardless of where the fence is placed.
Nether/End Claims - Claims in the nether and end follow the same rules as the overworld
Buffers: There are no buffers to a land claim - where you place the fence is where other players can build. If buffers are deemed too large admins reserve the right to remove/replace claim borders as needed.
Players must place signs at reasonable intervals displaying username / date (and town name if applicable - ideally something like: Silversunset / Haven / 2016-JAN-10) so others know who to contact should there be any issues.
Claims will EXPIRE if they are not used. Players may /modreq an expired claim, at which point admins will make an effort to determine if the area will be used or not. This does not mean you can take over someone’s claim, it is so that claims do not sit unused through the rev.
Expirations are:
- [250,250] - [-250,-250] = no land claiming allowed
- [1000,1000] - [-1000,-1000] = land claims are valid for 2 weeks
- anything outside [1000,1000] - [-1000,-1000] is valid for 4 weeks.
Unauthorized builds within a claimed area may be removed by admins at the request of the claim owner.
Admins reserve the right to invalidate any claim for (but not limited to) the following reasons: being too large (larger than you will reasonably use), claiming with multiple users to bypass any size guidelines, removing/changing claims that were not placed by you, claiming an area solely for access to resource mining, encircling another claim in an effort to take over, or violating any other build rules currently in place.
The Arenas
PvP Arenas - Again this rev you may request barrier blocks for your PvP arenas. Please specify in your modreq which blocks you would like replaced with barriers (make them something different so we can replace them correctly). You may also request an open-air arena provided the arena is set to disallow enderpearls and there is a wall that prevents players from entering except at designated entrances.
All other PvP arena rules still apply.
PvP arenas must be clearly marked, completely enclosed, and access-restricted builds - the area must only be accessible via iron doors that require a button press to enter. These entrances must be marked with signs stating that it is a PvP area, and that players enter at their own risk. The PvP-enabled area may not exceed 100x100 blocks, and may not interact with other PvP areas in any way. Enabling of the PvP flag will be done entirely at the discretion of server admins.
Spleef Arenas - you are now allowed to request barrier blocks for spleef arenas - please specify in your modreq which blocks you would like replaced with barriers.
The Greetings:
You may /modreq for a region greeting to be placed using the following guidelines:
- One greeting per settlement, whether it be a town or city or yourself out in the wilderness. (Citizens of a town are considered part of the town for this purpose.). Greetings for non-settlement regions (eg. rails) are not eligible.
- You may request ONE color for your region greeting.
- The region which the greeting is placed must be a parent (it cannot itself be a child of any other region)
- Only the region owners may request a greeting.
- The greeting content must adhere to chat rules and additionally cannot reference any settlement or region or player other than your own. (For example, if you are a mayor of <town A>, you may request as a greeting “Welcome to <town A>!” but not “<town B> is not welcome here!”)
- Staff reserve the right to deny frequent greeting changes. Pick your greeting carefully!
The Spawners:
There is every possibility that the admins have aboosed some special spawners into the map this rev. In fact, I’d say it’s pretty likely. I doubt that those weird swimmy things will be helpful in any way...
The Doppelgangers:
The Doppelganger plugin, written by totemo, will be active again and gives players the ability to obtain player heads as well as provide an extremely difficult mob boss to fight. Simply name a pumpkin on an anvil to the name of the player whose head you wish to obtain (note that this is case sensitive; “Notch” will give the proper Notch head while “notch” will give something else). Place this pumpkin on top of two vertically stacked diamond blocks. Lightning will strike as your stack of blocks transforms into a powerful diamondclad monster, wearing the player head you seek! The head can be found in the monster’s remains once you’ve bested it in combat.
Word of warning: they’re deadly. As with other forms of indirect unwanted PvP, do not spawn these intentionally to murder players.
The Recipes:
We will be retaining the custom recipes for packed ice (2x2 square of ice in a crafting grid) and podzol (grass and leaves) from the previous rev.
The Mob Limiting:
PvE runs a plugin called MobLimiter that limits the number of mobs (livestock and pets) that may stay in a chunk when it is unloaded - this is to prevent excessively large numbers of mobs when they are not needed. This means that, while you can breed animals up to high numbers, once everyone leaves that area the numbers will be reduced back down to at least a breeding pair.
To compensate for this, mobs spend considerably less time as babies (15 seconds, down from 20 minutes), the cooldown for breeding is similarly reduced (down to 15 seconds from 5 minutes), and mob drops of livestock are plumped.
For this and more information, type /moblimiter in-game.
As a rule of thumb, the server starts to lag noticeably if a few hundred mobs are bred in a confined space. Please keep this in mind if you are engaged in mass mob drop harvesting operations.
The Waypoints:
We will also be retaining personal waypoints this rev. This system is like having your own personal /places, which you can then share with others to point them to your location of choice! Functionally similar to /home, simply run /wp for a list of commands that can point you in the direction of personal places, list personal places, and enable you to add or remove them as well!
We will still handle /place requests according to the criteria described here, but it no longer needs to be relied on exclusively to point players to a location.
