Deleted User 009

Diamond weapons are tricky to make, there is a randomized element to their durability... Everything else should be near full though.

You can /delevel

You still can do NINE, that's 9 hearts of damage on a crit -.-.

It was 1-hitting people!

You can still have 100 blacksmithing, 100 swords, and 75 cooking lol.

Hey Asulon, That's right, time for another HUGE, EPIC content patch! I'm going to keep the changelog as trimmed as possible, because SO MUCH HAS CHANGED! Some changes won't be listed here, but everything is very self-explanatory and easy to understand in-game as long as you read the messages the server provides you with. Before I jump into the raw changes, let me just give you a very quick summary of what we wanted to accomplish with this patch. We are a Role-playing server, and therefore want to encourage roleplaying as much as possible. To do this, we need to make it almost impossible for any single person to be able to go off on their own in the middle of no where, and return to the mainland a few days later with 64 blocks of diamond and chests full of wheat and bread. That's unrealistic, and it kills our server. So, we want to take our skill system and categorize each skill into three categories. Gathering, Crafting, and Combat. By doing this, no one person can mine diamond, then craft it into armor, and use it as a master swordsman all at once. You should have to work countless hours to get your precious diamond, then seek out a master blacksmith to forge it into a powerful weapon, then take that weapon to a master swordsman, offer it as tribute in order to begin your training. The entire purpose of this update is to remind the entire LOTC community that we are all about ROLE PLAYING! All tools, armor, weapons, food, bows, fishing rods, arrows, and other misc. gear now have SKILL LEVEL REQUIREMENTS TO CRAFT. Depending on how advanced you are in the skill, your item will be created with more or less durability than it's max. At low levels, items will be created with very few uses, while at level 100 almost all items will be made with full durability automatically. We've expanded our current skills into a few new sub-categories; although they are not actually seen in-game, the skills should be treated as such. Lumberjacking has been expanded into woodworking and fletching. Farming has been expanded into butchering and skinning. Cooking has been expanded into baking and survival skills. Fishing has been expanded into diving and sailing. Renamed the IRON_BLOCK object from "Blacksmith's Anvil" to "Equipment Repair Table", and removed the level requirement to place it. Repairing now has a chance to fail based on your level. Leather requires archery levels to craft and repair. Wood requires lumberjacking levels to craft and repair. Iron, Diamond, and Gold tools and armor now require blacksmithing levels to craft and repair. Nerfed damage done by golden axes by 1 and 1/2 hearts. Increased chance of sword parry. Unarmed / Wrestling now has 2 new abilities, and a damage and high armor buff. (1) Disarm - Disarms your enemy and forces them to drop their weapon to the ground. (2) Block - Much like parry, but will occur more often. Unarmed is a defensive skill, swords is passive, and axe is aggressive. Fishing has been reworked; you now get additional EXP per fish based on the fish's "weight", a randomized value. The treasure loot tables have also been completely redone, and the chances of getting treasure while fishing are substantially higher. Mid-level fishers (Level 50) can now wear "diving helmets" (glass block) on their heads. While underwater, you can go into sneak mode at any time to consume 1 glass block from your head and refill your breathing capacity back to full. Higher level farmers will now enjoy more drops from passive mob kills due to their experience in butchering. (Pigs, Chickens, Cows, and Sheep.) Shift+click crafting has been TEMPORARILY disabled to avoid an exploit. Refining wood, bowls, sticks, and chests now require lumberjacking levels to create; the higher your lumberjacking level the more you'll be able to create per raw material. Cookies, cakes, golden apples, bread, and mushroom soup now require cooking levels to create; the higher your cooking level the lower your chance of burning your food! Removed magma cubes due to their buggy hitbox, replaced with zombies. Removed slimes due to their buggy hitbox, replaced with pig zombies. Buffed archery's fire arrows, they last longer based on level. Fishing levels are now required to cook fish properly. Many more mix changes and bugfixes that will become apparent in-game! I want to make one thing very clear here; none of this is set in stone. We will adjust these values, the level requirements, and the skills entirely if it becomes necessary in order for this patch to have the full , positive effect we want it to on the server. Have fun #LOTC, and once again, HAPPY SUMMER!

Issue resolved then, thread locked.

Just spoke with the culprit, needless to say I'm pissed. I've censored some parts of the conversation and replaced his name with "Rogue Forum Hacker"

What's to stop this griefer from tieing him up again? This is the second incident.

Hey Asulon, As some of you may have noticed, one of our Forum Moderator's accounts was compromised by an individual they knew IRL, who then proceeded to deleted and grief parts of our forums including the hugely popular "Show Yourself" thread. The account was compromised 3 hours ago, and has since been re-secured. However, we cannot recover the deleted threads without doing a full forum rollback of 6 hours; and at this point we feel that that would cause more damage than has already been done. We're very sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused you and promise we're looking further into this "security breach" to determine whether or not the FM in question should be permanently demoted. EDIT: Just spoke with the culprit, needless to say I'm pissed. I've censored some parts of the conversation and replaced his name with "Rogue Forum Hacker"

We had it during our early days, did not cause a major issue.

Hey Asulon, Wandering Souls have been re-implemented to the game. For those who are unfamiliar with what wandering souls are/were, they are non-accepted users that may still access the server as “ghosts”. They are put into creative mode and set invisible. They cannot build, chat, break, drop, attack, or interact with anything in the world, the only things they are allowed to do is watch and listen. It’s an important aspect of the server, as it allows prospective players to get a glimpse of the kind of high quality game-play that will await them if they are accepted into the game. If you’re a normal player, you won’t even notice the presence of these wandering souls as they will be fully invisible to you. - Vaquxine P.S. Fixed a bug/exploit that allowed players to simply stand over 6 blocks away from a furnace to remove any restrictions on blacksmithing/cooking.

Yup, I'll post traffic reports each week.

Reddit is dangerous. If we were a planet in a galaxy, they would be the universe with a billion galaxies in it.

Yup, it'll be a .jar

There are links on the main site post... I didn't want to convert the HTML. http://www.lordofthecraft.net/?p=3006

For an x-post with links for every bulletin point, click here. Hey Asulon, I want to make a deal with YOU. Yes, I’m talking to YOU, YOU who is a member of the Lord of the Craft community. I’ve been developing for Lord of the Craft for almost a year now, and I’ve loved every minute of it. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank not just me, but our entire GM, FM, Application Team, Villain Application Team, Lore Masters, Media Team, and other seniority staff for all the amazing work they do day in and day out, dedicating themselves to this community. With that being said, school has just gotten out for the majority of people (including me!) and it’s time to rip the internet up and move ourselves up toward the pedestal of RP we know we have! What do I mean by this? Well let me lay things out in plain English: WE. NEED. VOTES. WE. NEED. REVIEWS. WE. NEED. DIRECTED TRAFFIC. WE. NEED. PROMOTION. I can code some pretty amazing things, but I’m only one person; we need an entire community to accomplish these goals. I need YOU to take the ‘minecraft’ portion of the internet by storm. I’ve spent a few days now collecting analytic traffic data, and determined the most efficient ways to get Lord of the Craft more widely known; methods that can only be successful if YOU want them to be. We’ve updated our Voting and Social Center sections of our website with new links to make this assault as easy for you all as possible. Just hit the “vote” button and a dropdown menu with links to voting sites will appear. Everything else will be listed under our social center. Here’s what you need to do: Once a lifetime (or account): Like us on Facebook. Follow us on twitter. Smack the Google +1 button on our main page. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Once a month: Submit some let’s plays or video footage of LOTC to our YouTube channel. Once a week: Leave a positive comment on Minestatus. Leave a positive comment on Planet Minecraft. Leave a positive comment on Minecraft-Server-List. These comments can all be the same, just write it up once and C&P; I.E. write a quick 2-4 sentence summary of the server and why people should join. Make a post on facebook to your friends about Lord of the Craft. Check out our YouTube channel for new videos, like them and leave a meaningful comment! Every 24H: Vote on Minestatus. Vote on Planet Minecraft. Vote on Minecraft-Server-List. Vote on MCServerList. Vote on MinecraftServers.net Vote on MinecraftServers.org Leave a positive comment on our Minecraft Forums thread. (“bump” it). Every 12H: Vote on XtremeTop100. Your vote only goes through if after you click “vote” it redirects you to the front page. Send out a tweet talking about @lordofthecraft. As much as you can: Recruit / Refer friends you think would fit into our community. A full referral system will be implemented soon. Stay active on our forums, update your statuses often about what YOU’RE doing in LOTC! Anything else you can think of that will help us get known to the world. Smack ANY Google+ buttons you see on our pages, this is done by simply clicking in the middle of the “google+” image under social center. It helps our search ratings on google DRAMATICALLY. I know some of you may be looking at this list and laughing to yourself that you would never take the time out of your day to do so much work, right? Well I’ll tell you what; I know from monitoring our traffic that we get over 4,000 unique visits to our site every day. I want that number to reach 10,000 unique visitors, which is a very realistic goal if we follow this plan. So here’s the deal I want to make with all of you, the day we reach 10,000 unique visitors to our site, I will release Patch 3.0 and a custom, LOTC-exclusive game client. So, let’s get to it shall we? P.S. HAPPY SUMMER! Also, don't forget to show us off using our Banners! https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22140669/lOI9H-1024x575.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22140669/images.jpg Below is a link to each website that you can vote on! Click on every link here!

Why a bit.ly lol, why not just vote.lordofthecraft.net :P.

1. If it redirects you to a non-404 page it went through. 2. "In" = amount of unique visitors who have voted. 3. "Out" = amount of unique visitors who have visited the voting page.

Remember, you can vote every 12, that's TWELVE hours!

Cause I only just registered us on this site :o.

Keep trying lol.

Hey Asulon, I’ve been looking into some traffic analytics lately and two things have become apparent: MineStatus contributes to 0.4% of our traffic. XtremeTop100 contributes over 20% of traffic to 6/10 of the top minecraft servers. With this in mind, I want to try and get LOTC to the top of the XtremeTop100 listing; which is not a difficult task as it’s not nearly as over-flatted with votes as minestatus is. So I’ve replaced the vote button on the upper right side of our main page from the minestatus link to the XtremeTop100 voting page link. Please make an honest effort to vote daily on this site; you will not receive any in-game rewards, but it will get us HUGE amounts of traffic, which is just what we need now that we’re heading into summer break. I’ve also included a direct link to the voting page bellow this post. http://www.xtremetop100.com/in.php?site=1132329774 P.S. If your browser flags the site as unsafe as a result of it having contents from some WoW private server just ignore it; it’s some legal BS that Blizzard is pulling on the site because they’re also the most popular site for listing WoW private servers.

Hey Asulon, I was sick of these terrible chair / sitting plugins so I just made my own which uses packets to send and receive the character animations. To sit in a chair, just shift (sneak) + right click any wooden stair in any position and you will appear sitting to yourself and everyone else. Enjoy your RP and new chairs!

-.-. As I said, I cannot add new items to the game, I can only add new recipes for existing items, or blacklist old recipes lol. Great ideas though, will sure to be very useful when we make client mod ;p.