99thTimeLord's Survival Journal
PROJECT CIVILIZATION
The objective: Create a network of towns to colonize the world.
Things to note: I am playing in release 1.10.2, and am using Command Block Modules. The world is a preset made by Electroflame618, and the seed is -4633834095424224137.
DAY ONE:
My first day went well, as far as first days go. I found a good amount of wood to start off with, and a very scenic landscape. Time was flying, though, and I needed some food. As I was walking, I found a flock of chickens, most of which I killed with my bare hands. Don't worry, it was for a good cause. I began setting up home base, but eventually ran out of wood.
Thankfully, there was a village not far off, letting me spend the night and come back later. The residents were quite nice, even offering an abandoned house to me for the time being. I hope they don't notice the peculiar absence of some of their farm crops. When night passes, I plan to return to home base and get it into living conditions.
-99th.
Modules added:
Ink Spitting Squids-Potion Swords-Weighted Armor-Speed Paths
DAY TWO:
As soon as I got back on, I noticed something a bit off-putting. There was a zombie at my temporary home's door! Since I was inadequate in the combat department, I decided to just wait him out. Of course, this never seems to work out. Ever. Not only were there some villagers wandering the streets, there were more zombies, with hungry looks on their faces.
Something else caught my ear; some of the unmistakable groans were a bit hoarse. My mind immediately realized the situation: Husks. The casualties were piling up, and fast, too. More mobs were coming, even some skeletons and creepers. And I just stood there like an idiot, watching the massacre. Suddenly, as I was despondently peering out through the windows, I noticed the horizon glowing a faint red. The stars were winking out of sight, and the zombies were burning. Daytime had come at long last.
Unfortunately, The door on my home had an awning of sorts, and the door was blocked by the undead killers. Using my only, weak pick, I broke a hole in the wall to escape, replacing the blocks missing. Using my horrible combat skills and my wooden axe, I engaged combat with the zombies at the doorstep. Feeling successful yet famished, I reaped some more beetroots and potatoes, and headed back towards my base, cutting trees as I went. Out of seemingly nowhere, one of the skeletons caught me by surprise. He hit a wall the first time, but got me after pretty bad.
I swung my axe and lead him into the sun, vanquishing my foe. When I got back home, I realized that my chicken breasts were just sitting there, and since it would be helpful anyway, I needed a furnace. Since there weren't any hills or caves in sight, I started carving a staircase into the ground. Once a sufficient amount of stone was acquired, I made a furnace to cook the chicken and make some charcoal. Once I finished the Walls and roof, I cleared the grass away and called it a night. I really need to get a bed, grass isn't the best sleeping material in the world.
-99th.
Modules added:
Disable Enderman Griefing
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Concerning your first bit: we are always willing to make adjustment. And yes, the server is very much trial and error, and we're happy to go through this process to give people the best experience we have to offer.
1. How long are you keeping this map active? Is this a season or are you planning a certain period of time to keep it active before resetting it?
We currently do not have any plans for map resets, thus cannot give a certain period of time in which we'd like one to happen. But as with anything on the server, everything is open for debate. All major decisions will pass by the community in some sort of way.
2. You mentioned about the community town build at spawn and requiring people to get involved with that. In almost every case in every server I've been on, this kind of 'rule' has varying results where everyone will work on the town for a few days and then one or two decide to leave for their base, trying to get 'the best' area, leaving a partially constructed area for the rest to build.
Building at the spawn town is not a requirement (spawn town is also not in the spawn chunks, for they are reserved for mob farms) we expect people to help out as it's part of the community we'd like to build. The spawn 'town' will mostly function as a shopping district.
How are you planning to call the project started and more importantly finished and thus freeing up people to go exploring and work on the things they want to do?
We have a discord with an event message board, all contests, events, projects etc. will go in there. We'll also be making progress posts on this forum, to show our community and possible applicants what has been done, what's being done and what's been finished. In the case of the spawn town, it'll be a project that will likely never be finished until a possible future map reset, because as players join, they add on to it. And as people progress, they might add onto it as well.
We do not have rules or guidelines requiring people to HAVE to build somewhere, to HAVE to help with projects etc. but, we are looking for people who are willing to go the extra mile and invest their time and resources into what our server might offer others.
I hope I've answered your questions satisfactory.
All the best,
Ranger
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1. What are the goals of your community? Is your goal to grow into a large community or to stay a smaller (but active) community?
Currently we only have a few but active players, we are aiming for an active community of asrounf 20 players.
2. Do you run Spigot on your server? What kind of anti-grief measures do you have in place?
Due to a few plugins we use spigot, we use coreprotect to roll back briefs, but we do not and will never use a plugin to block people from building in places.
3. Do you have a world border or do you let the players go where they would like?
Players may go anywhere, but we will be starting a community spawn town soon, and are expecting players to partake in the construction.
4. Are dungeons turned up to max or kept as default?
They're currently kept as default, we might change that in the future, it's up for debate.
5. Do you have a max mob count?
Max mob count is vanilla default.
6. Is your target to stay a minecraft only community or to also bring in other games for the community to play together?
We currently only have a Minecraft community but the discord server has been expanded on for further games. Thus, anyone is free to partake in casual gaming with us in the games we have in common.
I hope I've answered your questions to your satisfaction. I hope to read your application soon.
All the best,
Ranger
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Ah, another original member I myself have also been playing since the start. You've been accepted on to the server, you'll receive the server information shortly.
All the best,
Ranger
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I'd recommend this as well. Learn the basics first, practice different architectural styles, watch some Youtube tutorials and build what they build, then look at the patterns and learn from those. Then try out your own builds while still trying to repeat the patterns you've learned from tutorials.
If you have that all done, load up a generated terrain world instead of a superflat, learn to use either VoxelSniper or Worldedit, or better, use both.
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It's looking grand! Keep up the good work
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I was wondering where you wandered off to, that's just bad luck ... I hope you'll do an even better job this time around and stun me.
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I'm in love with this server, a huge shoutout to Random, Echo and Super for making my expierence truly enjoyable. In a few short days I've come to like the server more and more, especially as my new (huge) project is coming to life and shape. I'm baffled about how the community comes to accept the new players, and honestly I can't wait for what the future on this server has to offer.
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What is your name (or nickname)? My name is Patrick.
What is your IGN? My username is ... Lord_Benevolence ... Coincidence I guess. My previous username was just like my forum name: Rangerblood.
How old are you? I'm 18 years old and am soon to become 19
Have you read the rules, and will you be able to follow them? I have read the rules and think they're not only fair but mostly common sense.
How often should we expect to see you online? Not too often, but most certainly 2 to 3 times a week. I have a busy schedule due to my hospital education and will often choose to study rather than play a game and when I have time to play a game I might not play Minecraft. But I'm looking for a steady place to play in and enjoy my free time.
Will you be able to join our forums? I suppose that I can, there's no harm in being well informed about the community.
What are you looking for in a server, what is it that keeps you around? Mostly good contact with players keeps me around, but also my own urge to build something great as most of my time on servers is spent building.
Do you have any questions or concerns about the server? I do not have any questions.
Do you understand that the IP will be messaged to you after your application is accepted? I understand.
(optional) Tell us a little about yourself? (required if under 16 and requesting an exception) Well, my name is Patrick, I'm an 18-year old med student that lives in the Netherlands. In my free time I like cycling and gaming. I'm just a regular Minecraft player with a little bit of server background, mostly faction servers but the past two years I've been playing Vanilla a lot, adding up to around 6 years of playtime. I'm a very tech-savy person, and spend quite some time on the computer as well due to this. But I also like, exploring the landscape and architecture my country provides, which I try to integrate into the Minecraftian world. I'd be happy to join a healthy community, and once I get my bearings I would love to work on community projects.
I hope you consider my application.
If you're interested in seeing one of my builds, click the link
All the best,
Ranger
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Hello! Time for another build update! Well, today we're just going to finish the great hall exterior, of which you have seen a glimpse of in the previous update. Let's start!
Like the previous time, I don't really feel like explaining what I'm doing anymore, it should be obvious
And well, there we are then, the finished product. (exterior, I bloody hate interiors)
Peace!
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Haha, anyone can apply really. Plus he's the owner of the server. Thanks for the compliment too, it's nice to hear someone out there really likes it.