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A question I often see on these forums is "How do I make a server?". The responses to that question though are usually a link to bukkit/spigot, and a walkthrough tutorial on how to set it up. I do not feel as if that adequately answers the question. A server is more than just opening your game to the world, it is about community. You can have spigot setup but if no one plays on your server, is it really a server? I have been playing Minecraft since the turn of the decade and I have played on hundreds of servers. I have seen what works and I have seen what fails. Throughout this thread I will give you the knowledge you need to make a server a server.

This is one of the most crucial steps of making your server, even more important than portforwarding. Are you looking for an easy buck? If so, server hosting is not for you since most servers will never see profit. Are you looking to go mad with power? Then you will spend hours building a server no one will play on. Server hosting is a selfless act. You will be investing a good deal of time and effort into something that the community will reap. Being a server owner is not an easy job as this guide will point out. Think very carefully about your "why" before committing to server hosting.

If you go on the server listing page, odds are you will will find at least three instances of the following on the front page:

-Minigame Hub Server

-Kit PvP server

-Faction server

Now there is no such thing as a truly original idea. Over one hundred billion people have ever lived, so odds are someone has thought of and attempted your idea before. When I worked at a consulting company my boss told me something I will never forget: "we (my partner and I) are the most uncreative people around. What we are good at though, and how we make money, is by taking the best of other people's ideas and combining them to make our own."

So for example. Take a prebuilt Hyrule Minecraft Map, set the server texture pack to be one of the many Zelda texture packs, use Citizen 2 for NPCs, and create a Minecraft Legend of Zelda experience. (You can use that one on me). What you want is something to seperate yourself from pack and this relates back to Tip #1: why are you making a server? Does your idea present something different for the Minecraft community to engage in? If you just want a plain factions server, then why are you hosting one instead of joining one that already exists?

First time restaurant owners often make a simple mistake: trying to please everyone. They start out with a simple premise, like Italian food. Then they want the business of the Mexican restaurant across the street so they add in tacos, then they decide to maybe add some Greek food because of the whole Greek yogurt buzz going around, then they add in hamburgers and chicken tenders to appeal to the kids and those with bland taste buds. Soon you get a menu six pages long with almost a hundred different foods.You can tell the quality of a restaurant within ten seconds of looking at their menu since there is no way the chef knows how to make a large variety of food from all over the world as well as a chef who specialises in Italian can make Italian food or a chef who specialises in french cuisine can cook some pot-au-feu. The chef can either be a jack of all trades or a master of one.

Now, you all are wondering why I am rambling about food and the culinary business. It is because the same thing applies to a server. When I see a hub server with a dozen minigames, and two dozen worlds I am going to treat that server like I would the diner by my place that has food from eight different regions. Good when you're drunk, but I would rather eat anywhere else. It is the age old debate about quality vs quantity. The more stuff you have on the server, the less time you have to refine it. If I am a guy looking for a factions server, why would I play on your server that has that and a dozen other minigames when I can go on a specialised factions server.

The specialised server will have:
-More people on the minigame. If you have 30 people on and you have 10 minigames, that is 3 people per minigame on average. If the specialised server has 10 people on, then that minigame has 7 more people than you. More people is more fun.
-More uniqueness. If the server is focusing on one thing, then odds are they put more time into it then the person who divides out his/her time.

The worst thing a new player can see when entering your server is no one there, if they see no one there then they will leave and find one with players on. So before you launch your server go talk to some buddies from; school, a server you use to play on, Starbucks, doesn't matter. Just get about seven people who are willing to commit about two or three hours a day on the server until you get your community established. Few people will play on your server if few people are on day in and day out, even less so if your server idea requires a lot of people (roleplay servers, faction servers, minigame hubs, pvp servers... anything but basic vanilla really).

It is paradoxical, yes, but just like you need money to make money you need a community to build a community.

It is important that those seven or so people you recruited in the previous tip to be the normal rank. If seeing an empty server is the worst thing for a new player, then seeing a server filled solely with admins/mods/builders is the second worst. I for one get two impressions from a server when I see more ranked players on that normal players:

1. This server sucks so much that the only way the server owner can get people to stay is by bribing them with powers.
2. The server owner has no idea how to setup a chain of command.

When you are just starting out you do not need head admins or a team of moderators You need players. If 90% of your staff is command rank then who are they suppose to be managing, each-other? Below is a list of potential ranks, what they are used for, and the Player Count Per Each Rank that you should stick by so you do not overcrowd your server with ranks (so if the PCPER is set at 10, then for each 10 unranked players, you can (but don't have to) add in another of the rank)

Co Owner: This is an optional rank for someone who shares the ownership rank with you. This person should be able to match the hours you put into the server and the cost as well. (PCPER: N/A)
Administrator: Too many people use this as an upgraded moderator rank. It is not. Administrators handle the behind the scenes work: Rules, recruitment, what plugins to use, who should be what rank, what server events should be held, and potentially a website. (PCPER: 25)
Head Administrator: Leads your administrators, and is your second in command. Only really needed if you have a giant server and/or no co-owner. More than likely you will end up with just one or two administrators unless you become the next mineplex so you don't need someone else to manage them when you can do so fine on your own.
Moderator: These are your community managers. They keep the peace, run community events like drop parties, and some recruitment. (PCPER: 10)
Head Moderator: Leads your moderators. When you have about five moderators you can pick out a head moderator.

Another important note is to make sure your staff is qualified to do the job you assigned them. Sounds like a no-brainer but I see it all the time on the forums: "Help me do such-and-such and you can be an admin on my server." They might need help for anything from setting permissions to massive building projects, but the promised reward is an official position. The problem with that is that the skillset for being a server admin is nothing like the skillset for being, say, a builder.

When you choose admins for their building skills, you get the same kind of problems, just in different ways, that you would get if you picked builders for their admin skills. You wouldn't want your server to have nothing but 7x7x4 cobblestone buildings and a lopsided castle, right? People would laugh at you. The same thing is true of the way all too many people choose their server staff. They get people who play favorites, people who abuse their power, or people who simply aren't really capable of, or interested in, the behind-the-scenes work of managing users. They may be very skilled in their specialty, but it's the wrong specialty for that job.

If you want to run a good server, then choose people for official positions because they are skilled at doing what those positions require. Don't pick people for that because they're good at something totally unrelated. Having power over other people isn't a reward; it's a responsibility. It's not a prize, it's a job.


It will take about a few months for your community to grow the beard and come into its own. During that time the odds you getting a donation are about zero. Few people want to take the risk donating on a server that might not be there tomorrow so during the initial startup of your server have the money set aside to fund it for at least three months. I would take it a step further and prepare to not break even 90% of the months even with an established community. Donating is a rare occurrence on servers. Most Minecraft players are young and don't have money of their own to donate; especially when they will not get something out of it.

Think of your server host subscription as a World of Warcraft subscription. You do not pay the $15/mo to Blizzard thinking you will make it back, you pay that $15/mo because you enjoy what it gives you. The same I say holds true to Minecraft server hosting.

If this is not an option for you, you can try hosting off a computer. I would not recommend hosting a server off a computer that is actively being used as Minecraft can be quite the cpu hog when you have an active server, however if you have a spare computer or willing to buy a used computer then it can be a great alternative. With a dedicated computer, you could possible recoup some money by renting it out to your neighbours as well to make some money back depending on how powerful it is.


The absolute most important step. If you do not follow the EULA then you cannot advertise your server on these forums (which cuts down your potential player base severely) and you open yourself up to Microsoft's legal arm. It is not worth it. If you are to take anything from this thread, follow the EULA. It is tempting to break, especially when your doors have been open for six months and you only received $20 in that time, but best case scenario Microsoft sends a cease and desist shutting you down and all that work you did for half a year was for naught. It also turns your game into a Pay2Win that few people besides whales (though with the funds to over power themselves) enjoy.

The thread will be most people's first introduction to your server so you want to make it eye catching. Make sure you describe your server and it's purpose in sufficient detail and what separates you from the pack-- Why should I, Steve Minecrafter, pick your server over all the others? Consider putting in a status indicator as well so that your thread won't become clogged with posts stating it's not online (While you should try for 24/7 uptime, sometimes server maintenance is required and sometimes acts of God causes problems). A few images can help to draw in players; not only are they bright and colourful, but it makes it seem like you put a lot more effort into your forum post. If a player sees you put effort into the thread, then they assume that you put effort in the server as well.

Being active on your server accomplishes many tasks. It allows you to help new players out with any questions they have, provides an extra person online so that people do not play alone, and finally it shows people you care about the server. After all: If the server is not fun for you to play on, then why are you asking us to play on it?

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Now I can not guarantee you success. You are at a disadvantage as a server owner since there are more servers than there are people who are looking for new servers. It is a fact of life that the world runs on supply and demand. Right now, supply is higher than the demand so the players can be as picky as they want to be when it comes to choosing a server. I can say though, if you follow these steps then you will have the best chance of becoming successful.

Thank you for reading the thread and I wish you the best of luck when it comes to your future server. Be sure to post in the thread if you like what I wrote as posting keeps the thread on the first page where others can read it too.

Servers live as long as the owner decides to keep putting money into it. They can last forever if the owner bought a computer to host it on as they avoid having to pay every month to a server hosting company.

Quote from Bluberrypie478»

Hey all, it's been a long while since I last posted here, and I hope to be able to get back into texturing soon. I've decided to continue working on this, which I'd started during the Simple Pack Showdown 3, but then stopped because of real life things.

Anyways, here are a couple things that I created recently/a while ago, but never actually shared:

Just a large mish-mash really (from upper left to bottom right): cobblestone, oak plank, jungle plank, mossy cobblestone, spruce plank, and jungle log. Thinking of naming it either Nautilus or Cinnamon Roll when (if) I'm done, but leaning towards Cinnamon Roll.

Wrote a thread a few years ago on how to maintain and grow a playerbase, going to post it here since it is relevant to the question. This is more tailored to someone who has no players already but the advice can be used on any server big or small. It is a bit of a read so if you just want a tl;dr it is this: Server market is saturated so you need to do something to stand out.

For your case specifically I recommend reading points: 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10.

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1. Ask yourself why you want to make a server.
This is one of the most crucial steps of making your server, even more important than spigot. If you are just out for donation money or power then your server -will- fail. Running a server is a selfless act (very few servers make money and those designed to make money will scare off players before they have a chance to get comfortable). You are doing something for the community and more than likely you will rarely see any donations never mind any profit and if you start banning people at will then your community will die before the end of the week. Lets say though you don't want to be a rich dictator, but you just have an idea for a server you think is cool...
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2. Is your idea original?
If I go on the server listing right now I will guarantee you on the first page I will find at least three of the following:

-Minigame Hub Server

-Kit PvP server

-Faction server

Now there is no such thing as a truly original idea. Over one hundred billion people have ever lived, so odds are someone has thought of and attempted your idea before. What you have to do though is add a twist. Maybe a faction server where everyone must be in a penguin skin and fight each other with snowballs? Or if you have the coding skills, or know someone who does, create your own custom plugin. No one will join your generic hub server if they can join a generic hub server with a community already setup.
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3. Specialise.
First time restaurant owners often make a simple mistake: trying to please everyone. They start out with a simple premise, like Italian food. Then they want the business of the Mexican restaurant across the street so they add in tacos, then they decide to maybe add some Greek food because of the whole Greek yogurt buzz going around, then they add in hamburgers and chicken tenders to appeal to the kids and those with bland taste buds. Soon you get a menu six pages long with almost a hundred different foods.

I can tell you the quality of a restaurant within ten seconds of looking at their menu since there is no way the chef knows how to make a large variety of food from all over the world as well as a chef who specalises in Italian can make Italian food or a chef who specialises in french cuisine can cook some pot-au-feu. The chef can either be a jack of all trades or a master of one.

Now, you all are wondering why I am rambling about food and the culinary business. It is because the same thing applies to a server. When I see a hub server with a dozen minigames, and two dozen worlds I am going to treat that server like I would the diner by my place that has food from eight different regions. It is the age old debate about quality vs quanity.

The more stuff you have on the server, the less time I know you have to refine it. If I am a guy looking for a hunger games server, why would I play on your server that has that and a dozen other minigames when I can go on a specalised hunger game server.

The specalised server will have:
-More people on the minigame. If you have 30 people on and you have 10 minigames, that is 3 people per minigame on average. If the specalised server has 10 people on, then that minigame has 7 more people than you.
-More uniqueness. If the server is focusing on one thing, then odds are they put more time into it then the person who divides out his/her time.

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4. Get your buddies to sign up.
This is the next crucial step of running a server, having a community in place for launch day. The worst thing a new player can see when entering your server is no one there. So before you launch your server go talk to some buddies from; school, a server you use to play on, Starbucks, doesn't matter. Just get about seven people who are willing to commit about three-four hours a day minimum on the server for the next month or so until you get your community established. Few people will play on your server if few people are on day in and day out, even less so if your server idea requires a lot of people (roleplay servers, faction servers, minigame hubs, pvp servers... anything but basic vanilla). Ironically, since no one goes on servers with few people on it they never build up a community. This leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy I call the Minecraft paradox: You need players to start a community and you need a community to have players.
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5. Do not give ranks away like candy.
It is important that those seven or so people you recruited in step #3 be the normal rank. If seeing an empty server is the worst thing for a new player, then seeing a server filled solely with admins/mods/builders is the second worst. I get two impressions from a server when I see more ranked players on that normal players:

Quote from Guard_Alex»

incase you werent told already, it is against the EULA to sell resource packs

That is only for ingame items. Since OP drew the art himself, he is legally allowed to sell it as it is his property.

Quote from Pandolen»

Only if I can use your soft belly, your other scales seem a little hard to me.

First time restaurant owners often make a simple mistake: trying to please everyone. They start out with a simple premise, like Italian food. Then they want the business of the Mexican restaurant across the street so they add in tacos, then they decide to maybe add some Greek food because of the whole Greek yogurt buzz going around, then they add in hamburgers and chicken tenders to appeal to the kids and those with bland taste buds. Soon you get a menu six pages long with almost a hundred different foods.

I can tell you the quality of a restaurant within ten seconds of looking at their menu since there is no way the chef knows how to make a large variety of food from all over the world as well as a chef who specialises in Italian can make Italian food or a chef who specialises in french cuisine can cook some pot-au-feu. The chef can either be a jack of all trades or a master of one.

Now, you all are wondering why I am rambling about food and the culinary business. It is because the same thing applies to a server. When I see a hub server with a dozen minigames, and two dozen worlds I am going to treat that server like I would the diner by my place that has food from eight different regions. It is the age old debate about quality vs quantity.

The more stuff you have on the server, the less time I know you have to refine it. If I am a guy looking for a hunger games server, why would I play on your server that has that and a dozen other minigames when I can go on a specialised hunger game server.

The specialised server will have:
-More people on the minigame. If you have 30 people on and you have 10 minigames, that is 3 people per minigame on average. If the specialised server has 10 people on, then that minigame has 7 more people than you.
-More uniqueness. If the server is focusing on one thing, then odds are they put more time into it then the person who divides out his/her time.

Quote from SleepingPie»

"From a Com-Sci major with a concentration in Information Security" nobody understands what this means.

I am a college student majoring in Computer Science, this major has concentrations (things you can focus in), and one of those concentrations is Information Security.

Things that involve DRM, especially with something has hard to secure as a Resource Pack, naturally peak my interest due to what I am studying.

I agree with Bar, and I bought this pack. Patience.

A question I often see on these forums is "How do I make a server?". People then post a link to spigot and tell them how to install it, give them a good host, etc. What I rarely see answered those threads however is "How do I make a server successful". I am here to answer that question in just a few steps.


1. Ask yourself why you want to make a server.
This is one of the most crucial steps of making your server, even more important than spigot. If you are just out for donation money or power then your server -will- fail. Running a server is a selfless act. You are doing something for the community and more than likely you will rarely see any donations never mind any profit and if you start banning people at will then your community will die before the end of the week. Lets say though you don't want to be a rich dictator, but you just have an idea for a server you think is cool...
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2. Is your idea original?
If I go on the server listing right now I will guarantee you on the first page I will find at least three of the following:

-Minigame Hub Server

-Kit PvP server

-Faction server

Now there is no such thing as a truly original idea. Over one hundred billion people have ever lived, so odds are someone has thought of and attempted your idea before. What you have to do though is add a twist. Maybe a faction server where everyone must be in a penguin skin and fight each other with snowballs? Or if you have the coding skills, or know someone who does, create your own custom plugin. No one will join your generic hub server if they can join a generic hub server with a community already setup.
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3. Specialise.
First time restaurant owners often make a simple mistake: trying to please everyone. They start out with a simple premise, like Italian food. Then they want the business of the Mexican restaurant across the street so they add in tacos, then they decide to maybe add some Greek food because of the whole Greek yogurt buzz going around, then they add in hamburgers and chicken tenders to appeal to the kids and those with bland taste buds. Soon you get a menu six pages long with almost a hundred different foods.

I can tell you the quality of a restaurant within ten seconds of looking at their menu since there is no way the chef knows how to make a large variety of food from all over the world as well as a chef who specalises in Italian can make Italian food or a chef who specialises in french cuisine can cook some pot-au-feu. The chef can either be a jack of all trades or a master of one.

Now, you all are wondering why I am rambling about food and the culinary business. It is because the same thing applies to a server. When I see a hub server with a dozen minigames, and two dozen worlds I am going to treat that server like I would the diner by my place that has food from eight different regions. It is the age old debate about quality vs quanity.

The more stuff you have on the server, the less time I know you have to refine it. If I am a guy looking for a hunger games server, why would I play on your server that has that and a dozen other minigames when I can go on a specalised hunger game server.

The specalised server will have:
-More people on the minigame. If you have 30 people on and you have 10 minigames, that is 3 people per minigame on average. If the specalised server has 10 people on, then that minigame has 7 more people than you.
-More uniqueness. If the server is focusing on one thing, then odds are they put more time into it then the person who divides out his/her time.

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4. Get your buddies to sign up.
This is the next crucial step of running a server, having a community in place for launch day. The worst thing a new player can see when entering your server is no one there. So before you launch your server go talk to some buddies from; school, a server you use to play on, Starbucks, doesn't matter. Just get about seven people who are willing to commit about three-four hours a day minimum on the server for the next month or so until you get your community established. Few people will play on your server if few people are on day in and day out, even less so if your server idea requires a lot of people (roleplay servers, faction servers, minigame hubs, pvp servers... anything but basic vanilla). Ironically, since no one goes on servers with few people on it they never build up a community. This leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy I call the Minecraft paradox: You need players to start a community and you need a community to have players.
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5. Do not give ranks away like candy.
It is important that those seven or so people you recruited in step #3 be the normal rank. If seeing an empty server is the worst thing for a new player, then seeing a server filled solely with admins/mods/builders is the second worst. I get two impressions from a server when I see more ranked players on that normal players:

Description

Firewolf is a 128x HD resource pack. It uses sharp and smooth textures that are easy on the eyes to make Minecraft look more realistic while still keeping most of the textures faithful to vanilla.

★ Over 300 custom textures
★ 3D models for doors, ladders and rails
★ Connecting textures for glass and stained glass
★ More vibrant grass and foliage
★ HD user interface (under development)

Compatible with Minecraft versions 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13 and 1.14

Download Firewolf

Installation (Featured Video)

Download Optifine and Sildur's Shaders below.

Resources
- Official Website: Stay up to date with development.

- Downloads: Download older versions of Firewolf and the source files.

Recommended Add-ons
- Optifine is required for connecting textures and HD font support.
- Sildur's Shaders or Chocapic13's Shaders (requires high-end PC).

Firewolf by Keistu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Hey guys, I am presenting to you the Archathean 64 texture pack! This is a texture pack that I have created that uses 3D and 64 bit textures! One day, I wish for this texture pack to be one of the top leading Minecraft texture packs, I have put a lot of time into it already, and intend to do much, much more. Please feel free to discuss the texture pack in the comments! If you have any ideas that you would like to see, or if you find a bug in the textures, just let me know in the comments, and I will try to work on it!

This texture pack will no longer be updated on this website, if you would like to download the latest version, please go to planetminecraft.

Download 0.11.0

Instructions on how to use the texture pack

-New, more better cross hair (it's way better)

-Farmland textures added

-Fixed the mushrooms

-3D Ladder (Not the former)

-Flint and steel is now a lighter with animated flame

-Changed the weird names back to normal

-Removed fire particle from torches and furnaces

-New emerald texture

-New diamond and golden pickaxe textures

-New iron, gold, and diamond shovels

Older update log versions:

Older versions:

-Added bucket textures; plain, water bucket, lava bucket, milk bucket, tropical fish bucket, puffer fish bucket, cod bucket, and salmon bucket

-Added tropical fish texture

-Added pufferfish texture, he's super cute

-New simplistic sun texture

-Updated to pack format 4 (1.13 +)

-Refined some 3D elements with the new pack format change, because i had to

-New Diamond texture, this one is actually good

-Added transparency to the diamond sword

-Added maybe a little too much detail to the iron axe

-Added pork chop textures

-Added wooden shovel texture

-Added stone shovel texture

0.9.0;

-Added quite a few new features, cant remember them all

-Potatoes now have a texture

-New Iron Axe texture, because the other one was kinda eh

-New stone Axe Texture

-New Diamond Texture, kinda dont like it, its going to change soon

-Other stuff i didn't write down

0.8.0;

-Newly refined colors to not be so reminiscent of Minecraft Beta

-Minor U.I. changes, such as start menu and E inventory

0.7.1;

-New painting textures, they are now MEMES!

0.7.0;

-New health bar

-New hunger bar

-New item and crafting tray (not crafting table)

-New equipped items bar

-New armor bar

-New boss health bar

-New buttons

-New Mojang start up logo

0.6.9;

-New texture for all of the different colored hardened stained clays

-New dead bush texture

0.6.7;

-New mossy cobblestone texture

-new podzol textures

-New fern textures

-New brown mushroom texture

-New red mushroom texture

-New red sand texture (is now actually red)

-New spruce sapling texture [///] This texture was a pain in the butt to get it to look presentable [///]

0.6.2;

-New options background texture

-New fancy fishing rod texture

-New dandelion texture

-Fixed issues with mobs on fire

-New iron pickaxe texture

-New stone pickaxe texture

-New gold sword texture

-New gold pickaxe texture

0.6.0;

-New destruction animation textures

-No more crafting table in the furnace

0.5.9;

-New smooth diorite texture

-New smooth granite texture

-New smooth andecite texture

-New bookshelf texture

-Fixed the disgusting furnace texture

-New 3D furnace texture

-New fancy end stone texture

-New fancy diamond sword texture

-New fancy glowstone texture

-New nether brick texture

-New obsidian texture

0.5.3;

-FINALLY new log top textures!!

-New netherrack

-New quartz ore

-New jungle planks

-New jungle leaves

-straightened out the textures for grass and netherrack (no longer rotated)

0.4.9;

-Fixed various transparent pixel item glitches

-New fish, raw and cooked

-New salmon, raw and cooked

0.4.7;

-New ore textures for overworld ores

-New red sand

-Updated pack png

-New cursor

-New hearts

-New ice

-New bubbles

0.4.1;

-New diorite

-New andesite

-New Granite

-New Bedrock

0.4.0;

-New pack png

-fixed stone axe transparent pixel glitch

-New stick

-New wooden sword

-New Coarse dirt

-New red sand

-New redstone ore

-New stone sword

-New falling snow

Older versions:

0.3.4;

-Removed defaults to be in compliance with Minecraft Forum rules and regulations

-New initial release

Download older versions:

Download 0.10.1

Download 0.10.0

Download 0.9.0

Download 0.8.0

Download 0.7.1

Download 0.7.0

Download 0.6.9

Download 0.6.7

Download 0.6.2

Download 0.6.0

Download 0.5.9

Download 0.5.7

Download 0.5.3

Download 0.4.9

Download 0.4.7

Download 0.4.1

Download 0.4.0

Download 0.3.4

Enjoy!

Having managed multiple servers since I bought Minecraft in '11, I'd say (from personal anecdote) that servers las anywhere from a few weeks to a few years, depending on management, player interest, and time of year. Most of my servers ran for 3-5 months over summers when my friends could play, although I ran one for over a year until I got my first job (which, not by coincidence, was running Minecraft servers!). It's really up to you, and how you interact with the community in and out of the game.

One big thing, I'll add, is that most people shy away from hosting and pay unreasonable fees for hosting their own servers just so they can say "I have a server". Don't do that. Either host yourself (use Hamachi if you're not keen on port forwarding) or find a community that already exists, and get your friends to join you there.

Hey guys I was looking for some way, if it includes modding, resource packs or shaders to make the game look something like the artsyle that is offered by Mojang themselves.

I attached and image so you can see what im looking for, what got me thinking of this was the World of Colours update splash art.

This is just a heads-up, posting a solution I just found to a problem that was driving me nuts. Basically what was happening is that using either 64x or 128x MojoKraft v14 or V15, sandstone was getting what looked like the vanilla sand texture — not even vanilla sandstone, but vanilla sand.

I thought this might conceivably be WTF Expedition's fault ... you see, WTF Expedition's Worldgen module creates stalactites and stalagmites in caves, but has an option — enabled by default — to replace sandstone with its own sandstone-alike block during worldgen to prevent stalactites being created in desert temples. (Why it doesn't simply have an option instead to enable/disable stalactite generation on sandstone, I don't know.) But I tried creating a new world with that option disabled, and even with WTF Expedition removed altogether, and sandstone was still getting the vanilla sand texture.

I finally traced the problem to Mineralogy, which — for absolutely no reason whatsoever that I can discern — replaces vanilla sandstone with its own sandstone block, which behaves exactly the same in all respects, but has a differently named texture which is, however, still placed in the vanilla Minecraft texture namespace. (Why Mineralogy felt the need to use a differently named texture, I have no idea.)

The result, of course, is that NO high-res texture pack's sandstone texture will work if Mineralogy is installed. However, once you understand the problem, it's easily fixed: Just make a duplicate copy of the resource pack's assets/minecraft/blocks/textures/sandstone_normal.png texture, renamed to sandstone.png.

what does it mean by basic, medium, and high options (for full version in the download page)?

One day, you're enjoying your survival world...

Until one day...

It becomes dark, very dark!

The challenge is simple, you will be equipped with 25 numbered resource packs, and every minute or so, you will replace the current resource pack for the next level up resource pack. Every level is darker than the one before it, but that slow progression will eventually lead to total darkness!

But there are rules, you only get one life, as in, the world must be a hardcore world. Also, no cheating by reversing the effects of the resource packs by using other resource packs with it, or by switching back to previous levels.

Once you die (or last at least 5 minutes in level 25), your game has ended. It would be wise to go to this post, and share how far you got (I.E. "I survived into level 18").

In order for the sky/lightmaps to work, you need to be using Optifine or MCPatcher (I personally recommend Optifine).

NOTE: If you find any problems of any kind with any of the resource packs, please tell me, I will be grateful, and I will fix them as soon as I can

How long can you survive?

TRAILER:

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/h8vdaqrzstby89d/Blackout - A Minecraft Challenge - By Part Toon.zip

Preview of WIP villager textures, something thats been bugging me and needed to be finished. + they look a little less weird than vanilla.