1.7 Patch

The server has been patched to 1.7. Heavy load on the authentication server is preventing good connections on most attempts. I hope the system will calm down soon.

Still Here!

I've been a bit remiss of late in actually posting updates, but Real Life(tm) responsibilities have been cropping up with frequency around the times I would normally do so. The Minecraft world continues on without me, though. In today's news, additions to the Causeway have gone in, now encompassing Lake Constitution with a path from Arcopolis to Jonored's and Turtletuttle's facility. The Storage Depot at Hyde's Tower still dangles on the edge of having its exterior completed. If there are updates in the Nether, let me know here!

Networking

There have been a few networking issues arising from a thunderstorm and power surge here that I worked to resolve over the weekend. I believe the server is behaving normally again. Because of that downtime, changes have been fairly minimal, but we may be seeing an increase over the coming week.

Ghost Town

There's been very little activity on the server the last two days. I'm not sure if that's a sign of people being busy or if the server is starting to roll to a stop, but I'll keep my eyes on the metrics for the next few days.

Two Towers

Construction seems to be returning to DIM-0. The Storage Depot in Hyde's Tower is now nearly as tall as Hyde's Tower itself, and construction seems to be continuing. Still no word on who is building it. Also, a barn has been constructed behind the Obsidian Works, but no date plate was installed on it. I've also been getting reports of zombies and creepers spawning in the northeast quarter at night and during rainstorms, which suggests lighting is not up to par in that region. Whoever is working up there might look to that.

Serving Its Purpose

The bulk of first-phase construction in The Nether is nearly complete with the installation of the Netherrail running from N-9 to the area Beyond The Wall. At the moment there are only two stations, so the minecart goes blowing past the "DO NOT ENTER" sign to come to a stone-enclosed gate with an iron door. This new rail makes Castle Caineach at N-2 the pole of inaccessibility of major structures in our world, being a long and twisty, if still protected, walk.

A Maze of Twisty Passages

Hyde's Tower Prime continues to become a warren of tunnels and stone corridors carved between Portals. With the exception of the Nethergarden, the only construction there seems directly linked to either transportation or glowstone mining. The network of passages now links N-0, N-1, N-2, N-3, and N-5 together, and N-4 is within sight.

On the other side of the dimensional rift, a new storage depot is being erected in Hyde's Tower, near the Cake. It appears to be being built by "Random Acts of Construction", which I presume is a group of our players as nobody new has logged in recently. Anything I missed this morning?