I started a minecraft server for me and a few friends a while back. Now that I feel it is stable enough to add people, I am posting it up here on the forums. I am using CraftBukkit and try to add useful mods whenever possible. I have three moderators, who I know in real life, but they are not OPs. This means that they moderate, but are not overpowered. They have the ability to jail people. Their names are LilBeastie, mastej, and goldentoad. mcjosh is my IGN. The server runs 1.6.6 and i try to keep it updated with bukkit and minecraft updates, but don't update to 1.7 if you want to stay on the server, because i might not update until bukkit is updated.
Currency
The currency system works like this. You mine for diamond and iron like you would in singleplayer. But wait? What's this? Gold? It's almost useless! Take it over to mcjosh and get 30 slimeballs for it! Now you have money. Feel free to bargain with other players, and, if possible, buy items with gold instead of slime. Like sticking to using only dollar bills instead of paying in pennies. I have a shop without any spawned items, and some items are meant to be overpriced. I am telling you this so you can get a feel for the value of one slime. One diamond costs 50 slime, one redstone costs 2. A piece of coal is worth 2-3, depending on how much I have.
Rules
Rules are not that hard to follow, you have probably heard most of these somewhere before. First, no editing of anyone elses area. This includes houses and any other structure, as well as editing area around their land. One's land is defined by them, it is usually (and should be) the immediate area around their house. A pernon's mine counts as their area, you can kill people who are in a tunnel you built IF they have a way of getting out and chose to stay in. When two tunnels connect, block the connection and change direction. No editing of what someone else built. Pvp is currently enabled, but random killing will get you jailed. When someone is in your house, and you have given them fair warning to get out, you can kill them by any means and give their stuff back to them if you are having a nice day. You MAY NOT kill in a public area without permission from your opponent. Do not be a **** to other players. If you are not being generally nice as you are expected, you will be jailed. X-ray is strictly forbidden, and while there is no way for me to directly tell you are using it, on a small server like this it is easy to notice when things aren't adding up. You will get banned and your stuff will get handed out to random people.
Entry
Getting into the server is as easy as putting in the IP address obviously, but you can't build until I and my mods approve of you. My current host computer is NOT a very nice computer, I usually do not experience much lag at all, but I must tell you slots are very limited.
Community
We here at birchcraft really love birch trees. We really hate regular trees. They are cancer. I used WorldEdit to remove all normal trees from the main town, and we planted birch trees. You probably won't have to walk far to find a normal tree, so you can cut those down too. You MAY NOT plant a regular sapling in an area inhabited by other people. You will probably get jailed for spreading cancer. I give out free birch saplings on request, so feel free to ask. The community is a very nice one, and we encourage using skype to communicate. My skype name is josh1593557. I am open to ventrilo or teamspeak, but I don't see a reason and don't know how to use them. I use worldguard to protect my house, and if you want your house/building protected you can ask.
To speed up the process of being accepted into the community, you may post your age, IGN, skills, screenies of things you've built, skype name, and why you chose BirchCraft.
Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Beauty
We have not yet added some great spawn welcome center and the town is made mainly out of cobblestone. There are random buildings everywhere. The only things beautiful about this server are the birch trees and the wool sphere that I call the moon. If you want to be on a server with amazing things already built for you, this is probably not the server for you. If you are intredasted in making the server look more beautiful by adding public buildings, i will give you materials to do so and reward you afterwards. Server uptime is pretty high, it only goes down when the power goes out or when I am updating critical components. All in all it's 80-90%.
MAJOR EDIT: Decided to add whitelist. Had two griefers come on and try to do something. They were hacking etc. They couldnt even get out of jail. But if i wasnt on, and no mods were on, someone i had recently trusted could just have a grief party. The server backs up automatically and saves automatically. I started a new map also. Still unsure of whether i am going to revert back to my old one.
Currency
The currency system works like this. You mine for diamond and iron like you would in singleplayer. But wait? What's this? Gold? It's almost useless! Take it over to mcjosh and get 30 slimeballs for it! Now you have money. Feel free to bargain with other players, and, if possible, buy items with gold instead of slime. Like sticking to using only dollar bills instead of paying in pennies. I have a shop without any spawned items, and some items are meant to be overpriced. I am telling you this so you can get a feel for the value of one slime. One diamond costs 50 slime, one redstone costs 2. A piece of coal is worth 2-3, depending on how much I have.
Rules
Rules are not that hard to follow, you have probably heard most of these somewhere before. First, no editing of anyone elses area. This includes houses and any other structure, as well as editing area around their land. One's land is defined by them, it is usually (and should be) the immediate area around their house. A pernon's mine counts as their area, you can kill people who are in a tunnel you built IF they have a way of getting out and chose to stay in. When two tunnels connect, block the connection and change direction. No editing of what someone else built. Pvp is currently enabled, but random killing will get you jailed. When someone is in your house, and you have given them fair warning to get out, you can kill them by any means and give their stuff back to them if you are having a nice day. You MAY NOT kill in a public area without permission from your opponent. Do not be a **** to other players. If you are not being generally nice as you are expected, you will be jailed. X-ray is strictly forbidden, and while there is no way for me to directly tell you are using it, on a small server like this it is easy to notice when things aren't adding up. You will get banned and your stuff will get handed out to random people.
Entry
Getting into the server is as easy as putting in the IP address obviously, but you can't build until I and my mods approve of you. My current host computer is NOT a very nice computer, I usually do not experience much lag at all, but I must tell you slots are very limited.
Community
We here at birchcraft really love birch trees. We really hate regular trees. They are cancer. I used WorldEdit to remove all normal trees from the main town, and we planted birch trees. You probably won't have to walk far to find a normal tree, so you can cut those down too. You MAY NOT plant a regular sapling in an area inhabited by other people. You will probably get jailed for spreading cancer. I give out free birch saplings on request, so feel free to ask. The community is a very nice one, and we encourage using skype to communicate. My skype name is josh1593557. I am open to ventrilo or teamspeak, but I don't see a reason and don't know how to use them. I use worldguard to protect my house, and if you want your house/building protected you can ask.
To speed up the process of being accepted into the community, you may post your age, IGN, skills, screenies of things you've built, skype name, and why you chose BirchCraft.
Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Beauty
We have not yet added some great spawn welcome center and the town is made mainly out of cobblestone. There are random buildings everywhere. The only things beautiful about this server are the birch trees and the wool sphere that I call the moon. If you want to be on a server with amazing things already built for you, this is probably not the server for you. If you are intredasted in making the server look more beautiful by adding public buildings, i will give you materials to do so and reward you afterwards. Server uptime is pretty high, it only goes down when the power goes out or when I am updating critical components. All in all it's 80-90%.
MAJOR EDIT: Decided to add whitelist. Had two griefers come on and try to do something. They were hacking etc. They couldnt even get out of jail. But if i wasnt on, and no mods were on, someone i had recently trusted could just have a grief party. The server backs up automatically and saves automatically. I started a new map also. Still unsure of whether i am going to revert back to my old one.
IGN : TheBlessed
AGE : Sorry, Privacy, but I'm over the age of 13.
Screen shots : Well, I just cleared out my .minecraft folder, to remove all the client mods.
Skype : I do sustain Windows Live Messenger, but sorry, I don't have Skype.
Why I Chose Birch Craft : It looks like a perfect place for me
to start a " Mansion Project " on, and seems like people are
very nice around there.
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- Thanks for reading! I will post up the screen shots, As soon as I start working on a new mansion proejct..
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EDIT : I was roaming around varieties of servers, looking for
one to become dedicated on. This seems like the one I should be
Sticked-On.
Yes you are allowed to join. I think i will post the server IP in the main body.