Here is an update from CraftBukkit. Sorry to all those who have updated to 1.4.2 and cannot access our server.
With the Minecraft 1.4 release date fast approaching, a lot of people are wondering when we will be releasing a CraftBukkit Recommended Build for Minecraft 1.4. We hope this short announcement will answer those questions.
Due to the rapid release of preview builds for the impending 1.4 update, we are unable to guarantee that we'll have a compatible CraftBukkit Recommended Build out in time for the release of Minecraft 1.4.2. Although we started working on the update immediately after the Minecraft 1.4 preview was made available to the public, each new preview build leads to delays in our update process as we, essentially, need to start over with each one.
In the past releasing a Recommended Build has caused apparent confusion within the community, as a result for this release, and moving forward, we will follow the "Dev -> Beta -> Recommended Build" release methodology. We are going to release a Beta build as soon as we can get a stable build devoid of any significant bugs.
As we have done a significant amount of important work on CraftBukkit 1.3.2 builds, we have promoted a new Recommended Build recently. This was done so that people have a reliable, stable build to use until we can get a 1.4 compatible build out and so that everyone who relies on Recommended Builds are able to take advantage of all the fixes, improvements and so on we've done since the last 1.3.2 RB.
Thank you for your patience, understanding and continued support; we greatly appreciate it!
Although NghtShad is the one featured in the Server Story I figured a little more of a backstory would be appropriate. So with no further waiting:
The soft whispering of the wind in a tree overhead tickled his ears. Opening his eyes, NghtShad noticed the season was mid-summer based on the foliage in the branches above. Sighing to himself he wondered how long he had been gone this time. Lying there in the shade of the tree he let his senses roll out to explore the state of his body. Was anything broken this time? Did everything feel like it belonged?
Last time he woke up he had found a peg in place of his leg from the mid calf down and a hump on his back. Thankfully that had been a short episode to add to the collection of experiences in his life, if you could call what he had a life.
NghtShad started at the fingers, moving them one at a time and then his wrists, elbows and shoulders. He leaned his head from side to side on the soft turf and noted he could feel the grass. He moved his toes, ankles, knees and hips. “So far so good” he said out loud for no other reason than to see if he could talk. Slowly propping himself up with his elbows behind him he peered down at himself. Cringing he remembered the one time he awoke as a 300lb man no taller than 5 feet. He had almost worked off that weight by the time that life was added to the past. This time it looked like he was in decent shape and not far from 6 feet in height.
Satisfied that he was in a suitable condition, NghtShad sat up all the way to look around at his surroundings. He was in a field spotted with the occasional tree and a path heading off to the east and west based on the sun. That was something that never changed, he always awoke near a path, and there was always the same town to the East about an hour or two away. Noting the sun he decided he better set out if he wanted to make it there before the sun set. Trudging along the trail NghtShad wondered how many times he had been taken away from this world and eventually placed back. Quite often there was something different about his appearance but occasionally the fates would leave him the way he looked now. Tall, dark and handsome was the cliché but he took heart in knowing this time the villagers would recognize him at least. On the occasions when he would awake in a different form it always took a little searching and then explaining to find someone that remembered him from the last time.
With nothing more than his thoughts to occupy his mind he remembered the first time it had happened. He was 13 or 14 years old at the time, full of curiosity and little brains. He had wandered out of town to see if he could find the dragon that lived up in the passes to the north east. Along the way he had come across an old traveler sleeping under a tree, not unlike the one he just woke up under. He tried to get close to the man without waking him up but the traveler sat upright just as NghtShad got within 5 feet of the prone form. No matter how hard he tried he could never remember what the old man had said to him after that but he did remember that at the last word the man disappeared leaving only a slight indentation in the grass to show that he had even been there at all. Shocked, NghtShad had run back to town in a panic but by the time he was half way there everything had gone dark. When he came to 4 months had past and there was snow on the ground. Confused NghtShad wandered back to town shivering in the cold all the way. The first person to see him had screamed and ran into her house; the second had run to the blacksmith yelling nonsense into the cold air. It was the old lady on the corner of the square that had finally wrapped him up in a blanket and ushered him inside to a warm fire. As the village gathered the blacksmith, his sometimes caretaker, explained that NghtShad had been missing for 4 months and everyone had given him up for dead. His family had moved away and no one had heard from them. Looking back NghtShad was glad he had returned that first time in the form everyone could recognize him in. While everyone was prying him with questions that night, the Mystic had come and sent everyone away. She spent quite some time listening to NghtShad’s story about the old man under the tree. She insisted he tell it to her over and over again, each time asking more questions about what the old man looked like and what he had said. It was then that he found out he could not remember hearing anything the man had spoken to him. After several hours of questioning, the Mystic told him of an old legend. The legend was of a young boy from a village on the other side of the mountains who had been cursed by a witch woman. The curse was said to have been a very nasty one that fed off his determination and resolve. The more determined the boy was to rid himself of the curse the more it would act on his life. People said the boy would disappear for days, months or even years at a time whenever he would take it into his head to find the cure for his curse. When the boy returned he would not remember anything that had transpired and in many cases he would come back looking like a completely different person. The only way the town people had known it was him returning to them was a brand that was on the back of his neck. It was then that NghtShad had learned he too, now had the brand on the back of his neck, just below the hair line. The brand resembled an hour glass struck through with a sword from top to bottom, the hilt still on the outside but the blade feeding into the top and becoming sand at the bottom. The Mystic had told NghtShad that it looked like the old man he had met on the path that day was the young boy that had been cursed so long ago. The curse was everlasting but the young man had grown old and could not die until he found another boy to pass it onto.
At first NghtShad had been determined to find the cure for his curse, he had sought out the Green Dragon on the upper pass, for everyone knew he was the smartest of all the dragons that resided in their corner of the world. The Green Dragon knew the curse but could do nothing to free NghtShad of it. He had told NghtShad that the eldest of the Gold Dragons could aid NghtShad in curing himself but the only one he knew of that could do so lived across the mountains in the coastal cliffs in the land across the great ocean to the west.
Still determined, NghtShad had set out for the ocean but was taken by his curse, not to be seen for another 8 months. His return was the first time he appeared in a different form, a blonde toothpick of a boy that must have missed every growth spurt most kids would have from the age of 9 and onward but thanks to the brand, the villagers still knew who he was.
Many of the villagers were afraid of NghtShad and his ailment, shunning him or running from him no matter what they were doing when he was nearby. Others took pity on him, giving him a place to stay, clothes and foot whenever he first arrived. Those first couple times were the hardest though. Each time he awoke he would go to the town for the night and then leave in the morning for the great ocean to the west. Sometimes he would make it to the edge of town, others he would make it to the highlands, and even once he made it to the beach. But, no matter how many times he tried his curse would sink him into darkness and bring him back to the village with no pattern regarding how much time had passed or what shape he would be in.
Eventually NghtShad gave up on making it to the Elder Golden Dragon and succumbed to staying around the village doing work for the people around, he even once apprenticed to the blacksmith since the man had never had a son. Everything would go along fine until one day he would look out to the West and think of reaching the great ocean again, it was at those thoughts that his curse would take him and leave him in another time to rebuild what had been lost during the most recent absence.
Puzzling out his last disappearance, NghtShad had known it was coming. He had gone back up to see the Green Dragon and pleaded with him for a way to have the Gold come to him instead. It was as he was asking “Is there a way the Elder Gold Dragon could come here?” that the curse had swept him away. NghtShad could only guess the state his disappearance had left the Green dragon in, but he did not think the Green had given it a second thought afterward.
So it is that NghtShad could see he was doomed to live out his life either jumping around in time while attempting to reach the Gold, or stay near the village or some other place if he could keep his thoughts from wandering to the curse and getting rid of it. For he knew if he ever thought of finding the cure, he would disappear once again with no way of knowing how long he would be gone or what he would look like when he re-appeared. The same would occur if he ever resolved himself to this life, letting himself believe he could live a full and complete life without another occurance of the curse. He dared not even think, let alone hope, of the Elder Gold Dragon coming to him.
NghtShad reached the village for what seemed like the hundredth time and headed for the blacksmith, the one true friend he still had in the town. Although the blacksmith was getting old, NghtShad knew he would be welcome there if not in the mines that he had worked at loosing the weight from his last form.
It was then that he heard the voice of Feyrim and witnessed The Impact. Although his village was lost NghtShad had a new focus, for the first time since he was cursed he worked to find out what brought upon the wrath of the last remaining God. As a result of his searching and lack of focus on the cure that had driven him for so long, NghtShad remained in the world for longer than ever before. His research brought him to the notice of the lords in Anglasia and the great feast where he told the story of Anglaia and The Impact.
* UltimateArena * HeroScoreboard * Shield - Available to Swordsman class and higher * Assassins - Taking contracts available to Thief class and higher - All players able to place contracts * MagicalSpells - Available to Magician class and higher
/hero specs command isn't working. how many levels does apprentice have? because its very annoying not being able to do much damage and having to level more then five levels.spent two days working away the hours by attacking slimes, and whenever possible zombies etc, although they almost always killed me as i have no strength at all.
and now i'm level five, and highly dissapointed that i can't choose a path that allows me to survive a single night.
I'm sorry to say, i could seriously consider leaving the server if the apprentice level isn't fixed, or at least the apprentice is given a bit more strength. it really is maddening.
Thanks MrZerify.
I have found that after hiding in holes and attacking from places out of reach of mobs (namely by digging a hole and attacking them as they pass over, as they are too large to fit inside) i can level up quite well by using slimes. It would still be good if you could strengthen the lower leveled apprentices, that would make it much easier, and maybe make the mastery level 15 or 20sorry for my aggressive approach, i was just a smidge frustrated.and wooden swords are quite handy.(i hadn't bothered making one before hand due to my constant deaths, and thiought it would be pointless to make one and just lose it moments later.
What alterations do you suggest, I am open to suggestions. Keeping in mind that Swordsman starts at base health of 20 with an additional 30 levels at 1 extra point per level and Magician starts with 10 health with an additional 30 levels at 0.5 points per level. Thief starts with 15 with 0.5 for each of the additional 30 levels and bowman has the same health stats as thief.
Here are the stats for the mobs to compare against.
Where every single hit from a mob counts for 2 points against your armour so when you are hit by a zombie it decreases your helmet points by 8 even though it is 4 when you are not wearing any armour.
Just something as simple as making fist damage 1.25 would be a life-saver.and maybe reduce snowball and egg projectile damage to 1, as they aren't really as good as arrows.
i can walk away from a snowball to the face with a minor bruise at worst, but an arrow would kill me...thats it really. it wasn't so much that i had little health (it makes sense for the weakest person to have low health) but more that it felt like i couldn't kill anything.as i said, level 15 would be good, as after leveling up a bit it becomes considerably easier to survive.
Just something as simple as making fist damage 1.25 would be a life-saver.
and maybe reduce snowball and egg projectile damage to 1, as they aren't really as good as arrows.
i can walk away from a snowball to the face with a minor bruise at worst, but an arrow would kill me...
thats it really. it wasn't so much that i had little health (it makes sense for the weakest person to have low health) but more that it felt like i couldn't kill anything.
as i said, level 15 would be good, as after leveling up a bit it becomes considerably easier to survive.
I have decided to install Quests seperate from Citizens and try that until Citizens 2 gets their questing system up and running. This will hopefully allow for players to accept quests from NPC Citizens and receive experience as a reward to level up faster then just mob hunting. First quest will be a prank quest so watch out for the Citizen when he appears
Looks like a Beta of Bukkit was released the other day and I can see there have been a couple updates to the beta since its release. I expect there will be a recommended build for Bukkit available soon.
This server is now updated to Bukkit Beta Build 2455 (1.4.2-R0.2). If you have been unable to connect in the past due to the 1.4.2 update you can now get on this server. Thank you for your patience and we hope to see a Recommended build of Bukkit 1.4.2 available soon. Until that time we will be running the Beta build
The world of Anglaia can now be seen from your browser by going to http://play.shadowrpg.com:8123 thanks to DynMap. We welcome everyone to take a peek if you wish to see the world before actually logging in.
Also all un-used houses at the spawn city of Slimoth are now up for sale thanks to BuyRegion. At a price of 5000 Dollops (in game currency) you could purchase your own pre-built place for the equivalant of 20 slime balls. Hurry now as there are only 12 places and they may not last long.
HeroChat has now been installed and the below channels are available to keep conversations flowing.
Global = Basic/General Chat
RP = Role Play Only Chat
Admin = For use when admin assistance is required.
Also the Courier plugin has been installed to aid in offline message delivery. Send a message to your friend and know that he/she will recieve it the next time they login.
The soft whispering of the wind in a tree overhead tickled his ears. Opening his eyes, NghtShad noticed the season was mid-summer based on the foliage in the branches above. Sighing to himself he wondered how long he had been gone this time. Lying there in the shade of the tree he let his senses roll out to explore the state of his body. Was anything broken this time? Did everything feel like it belonged?
Last time he woke up he had found a peg in place of his leg from the mid calf down and a hump on his back. Thankfully that had been a short episode to add to the collection of experiences in his life, if you could call what he had a life.
NghtShad started at the fingers, moving them one at a time and then his wrists, elbows and shoulders. He leaned his head from side to side on the soft turf and noted he could feel the grass. He moved his toes, ankles, knees and hips. “So far so good” he said out loud for no other reason than to see if he could talk. Slowly propping himself up with his elbows behind him he peered down at himself. Cringing he remembered the one time he awoke as a 300lb man no taller than 5 feet. He had almost worked off that weight by the time that life was added to the past. This time it looked like he was in decent shape and not far from 6 feet in height.
Satisfied that he was in a suitable condition, NghtShad sat up all the way to look around at his surroundings. He was in a field spotted with the occasional tree and a path heading off to the east and west based on the sun. That was something that never changed, he always awoke near a path, and there was always the same town to the East about an hour or two away. Noting the sun he decided he better set out if he wanted to make it there before the sun set.
Trudging along the trail NghtShad wondered how many times he had been taken away from this world and eventually placed back. Quite often there was something different about his appearance but occasionally the fates would leave him the way he looked now. Tall, dark and handsome was the cliché but he took heart in knowing this time the villagers would recognize him at least. On the occasions when he would awake in a different form it always took a little searching and then explaining to find someone that remembered him from the last time.
With nothing more than his thoughts to occupy his mind he remembered the first time it had happened. He was 13 or 14 years old at the time, full of curiosity and little brains. He had wandered out of town to see if he could find the dragon that lived up in the passes to the north east. Along the way he had come across an old traveler sleeping under a tree, not unlike the one he just woke up under. He tried to get close to the man without waking him up but the traveler sat upright just as NghtShad got within 5 feet of the prone form.
No matter how hard he tried he could never remember what the old man had said to him after that but he did remember that at the last word the man disappeared leaving only a slight indentation in the grass to show that he had even been there at all. Shocked, NghtShad had run back to town in a panic but by the time he was half way there everything had gone dark.
When he came to 4 months had past and there was snow on the ground. Confused NghtShad wandered back to town shivering in the cold all the way. The first person to see him had screamed and ran into her house; the second had run to the blacksmith yelling nonsense into the cold air. It was the old lady on the corner of the square that had finally wrapped him up in a blanket and ushered him inside to a warm fire. As the village gathered the blacksmith, his sometimes caretaker, explained that NghtShad had been missing for 4 months and everyone had given him up for dead. His family had moved away and no one had heard from them.
Looking back NghtShad was glad he had returned that first time in the form everyone could recognize him in.
While everyone was prying him with questions that night, the Mystic had come and sent everyone away. She spent quite some time listening to NghtShad’s story about the old man under the tree. She insisted he tell it to her over and over again, each time asking more questions about what the old man looked like and what he had said. It was then that he found out he could not remember hearing anything the man had spoken to him.
After several hours of questioning, the Mystic told him of an old legend. The legend was of a young boy from a village on the other side of the mountains who had been cursed by a witch woman. The curse was said to have been a very nasty one that fed off his determination and resolve. The more determined the boy was to rid himself of the curse the more it would act on his life. People said the boy would disappear for days, months or even years at a time whenever he would take it into his head to find the cure for his curse. When the boy returned he would not remember anything that had transpired and in many cases he would come back looking like a completely different person. The only way the town people had known it was him returning to them was a brand that was on the back of his neck.
It was then that NghtShad had learned he too, now had the brand on the back of his neck, just below the hair line. The brand resembled an hour glass struck through with a sword from top to bottom, the hilt still on the outside but the blade feeding into the top and becoming sand at the bottom. The Mystic had told NghtShad that it looked like the old man he had met on the path that day was the young boy that had been cursed so long ago. The curse was everlasting but the young man had grown old and could not die until he found another boy to pass it onto.
At first NghtShad had been determined to find the cure for his curse, he had sought out the Green Dragon on the upper pass, for everyone knew he was the smartest of all the dragons that resided in their corner of the world. The Green Dragon knew the curse but could do nothing to free NghtShad of it. He had told NghtShad that the eldest of the Gold Dragons could aid NghtShad in curing himself but the only one he knew of that could do so lived across the mountains in the coastal cliffs in the land across the great ocean to the west.
Still determined, NghtShad had set out for the ocean but was taken by his curse, not to be seen for another 8 months. His return was the first time he appeared in a different form, a blonde toothpick of a boy that must have missed every growth spurt most kids would have from the age of 9 and onward but thanks to the brand, the villagers still knew who he was.
Many of the villagers were afraid of NghtShad and his ailment, shunning him or running from him no matter what they were doing when he was nearby. Others took pity on him, giving him a place to stay, clothes and foot whenever he first arrived. Those first couple times were the hardest though. Each time he awoke he would go to the town for the night and then leave in the morning for the great ocean to the west. Sometimes he would make it to the edge of town, others he would make it to the highlands, and even once he made it to the beach. But, no matter how many times he tried his curse would sink him into darkness and bring him back to the village with no pattern regarding how much time had passed or what shape he would be in.
Eventually NghtShad gave up on making it to the Elder Golden Dragon and succumbed to staying around the village doing work for the people around, he even once apprenticed to the blacksmith since the man had never had a son. Everything would go along fine until one day he would look out to the West and think of reaching the great ocean again, it was at those thoughts that his curse would take him and leave him in another time to rebuild what had been lost during the most recent absence.
Puzzling out his last disappearance, NghtShad had known it was coming. He had gone back up to see the Green Dragon and pleaded with him for a way to have the Gold come to him instead. It was as he was asking “Is there a way the Elder Gold Dragon could come here?” that the curse had swept him away. NghtShad could only guess the state his disappearance had left the Green dragon in, but he did not think the Green had given it a second thought afterward.
So it is that NghtShad could see he was doomed to live out his life either jumping around in time while attempting to reach the Gold, or stay near the village or some other place if he could keep his thoughts from wandering to the curse and getting rid of it. For he knew if he ever thought of finding the cure, he would disappear once again with no way of knowing how long he would be gone or what he would look like when he re-appeared. The same would occur if he ever resolved himself to this life, letting himself believe he could live a full and complete life without another occurance of the curse. He dared not even think, let alone hope, of the Elder Gold Dragon coming to him.
NghtShad reached the village for what seemed like the hundredth time and headed for the blacksmith, the one true friend he still had in the town. Although the blacksmith was getting old, NghtShad knew he would be welcome there if not in the mines that he had worked at loosing the weight from his last form.
It was then that he heard the voice of Feyrim and witnessed The Impact. Although his village was lost NghtShad had a new focus, for the first time since he was cursed he worked to find out what brought upon the wrath of the last remaining God. As a result of his searching and lack of focus on the cure that had driven him for so long, NghtShad remained in the world for longer than ever before. His research brought him to the notice of the lords in Anglasia and the great feast where he told the story of Anglaia and The Impact.
* UltimateArena
* HeroScoreboard
* Shield - Available to Swordsman class and higher
* Assassins - Taking contracts available to Thief class and higher - All players able to place contracts
* MagicalSpells - Available to Magician class and higher
and now i'm level five, and highly dissapointed that i can't choose a path that allows me to survive a single night.
I have found that after hiding in holes and attacking from places out of reach of mobs (namely by digging a hole and attacking them as they pass over, as they are too large to fit inside) i can level up quite well by using slimes. It would still be good if you could strengthen the lower leveled apprentices, that would make it much easier, and maybe make the mastery level 15 or 20sorry for my aggressive approach, i was just a smidge frustrated.and wooden swords are quite handy.(i hadn't bothered making one before hand due to my constant deaths, and thiought it would be pointless to make one and just lose it moments later.
Base Health: 10
Health Bonus per level: 0.5
Max Level: 15
Base Mana: 15
Mana Bonus per level: 0.5
item-damage: Fist 1
item-damage:Wood_Sword: 2
projectile-damage: Arrow: 2
projectile-damage: Snowball: 2
projectile-damage: Egg: 2
Allowed Armor
- LEATHER_HELMET
- LEATHER_BOOTS
permitted-weapon:
- WOOD_SWORD
permitted-skills:
Mercy:
level: 1
Fear:
level: 5
mana: 5
cooldown: 90000
PositionSwap:
level: 10
mana: 10
cooldown: 60000
experience-sources:
- KILLING
What alterations do you suggest, I am open to suggestions. Keeping in mind that Swordsman starts at base health of 20 with an additional 30 levels at 1 extra point per level and Magician starts with 10 health with an additional 30 levels at 0.5 points per level. Thief starts with 15 with 0.5 for each of the additional 30 levels and bowman has the same health stats as thief.
Here are the stats for the mobs to compare against.
vcreature-health:
Chicken: 4
Cow: 10
Creeper: 20
Ghast: 10
Giant: 100
Pig: 10
PigZombie: 20
Sheep: 8
Skeleton: 20
Ozelot: 10
Slime: 16
Spider: 20
Squid: 10
Zombie: 20
Wolf: 8
CaveSpider: 20
Enderman: 40
EnderDragon: 200
Silverfish: 8
Villager: 20
Blaze: 20
MushroomCow: 10
LavaSlime: 16
SnowMan: 4
VillagerGolem: 100
creature-damage:
Creeper: 49
Giant: 17
Zombie: 4
PigZombie: 5
EnderDragon: 10
Wolf: 2
Enderman: 7
Skeleton: 4
Spider: 2
CaveSpider: 2
SnowMan: 0
VillagerGolem: 20
Ozelot: 3
Slime: 4
LavaSlime: 6
item-damage:
Air: 2
And here is the Experience gained from killing each mob type
killing:
Chicken: 1
Cow: 1
Creeper: 23
Ghast: 50
Giant: 300
Pig: 1
PigZombie: 20
Sheep: 1
Skeleton: 22
Ozelot: 1
Slime: 15
Spider: 18
Squid: 1
Zombie: 15
Wolf: 6
CaveSpider: 10
Enderman: 50
EnderDragon: 500
Silverfish: 8
Villager: 1
Blaze: 25
MushroomCow: 1
LavaSlime: 12
SnowMan: 5
VillagerGolem: 25
Player: 31
Also need to keep in mind that armour gives you some protection as well
Leather
Helm: 56
Chestplate: 81
Leggings: 76
Boots: 66
Where every single hit from a mob counts for 2 points against your armour so when you are hit by a zombie it decreases your helmet points by 8 even though it is 4 when you are not wearing any armour.
i can walk away from a snowball to the face with a minor bruise at worst, but an arrow would kill me...thats it really. it wasn't so much that i had little health (it makes sense for the weakest person to have low health) but more that it felt like i couldn't kill anything.as i said, level 15 would be good, as after leveling up a bit it becomes considerably easier to survive.
I have decided to install Quests seperate from Citizens and try that until Citizens 2 gets their questing system up and running. This will hopefully allow for players to accept quests from NPC Citizens and receive experience as a reward to level up faster then just mob hunting. First quest will be a prank quest so watch out for the Citizen when he appears
NOTE: If you have experience creating quests or with the citizens plugin and its Denizen character I am accepting applicants to fill the role of Citizens Creator at http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1545803-looking-for-citizens-staff-member/
This server is now updated to Bukkit Beta Build 2455 (1.4.2-R0.2). If you have been unable to connect in the past due to the 1.4.2 update you can now get on this server. Thank you for your patience and we hope to see a Recommended build of Bukkit 1.4.2 available soon. Until that time we will be running the Beta build
Also all un-used houses at the spawn city of Slimoth are now up for sale thanks to BuyRegion. At a price of 5000 Dollops (in game currency) you could purchase your own pre-built place for the equivalant of 20 slime balls. Hurry now as there are only 12 places and they may not last long.
Global = Basic/General Chat
RP = Role Play Only Chat
Admin = For use when admin assistance is required.
Also the Courier plugin has been installed to aid in offline message delivery. Send a message to your friend and know that he/she will recieve it the next time they login.