501warhead

Title says it all. This is how developers go out, with click-baity titles. This is my last post for a while. I'm leaving. Rejoice in my absence, or mourn it. It matters no longer to me. I am leaving LotC to pursue school, other projects, and other games. I still have a lot to learn, and probably some of the most important things to learn is how to take criticism better. I'm an ass, generally rude and very stubborn. I love LotC, being my first ever and only major Minecraft server that I have easily logged several thousands of hours into, building, writing, eventually moderating, and then developing. I picked up some bad habits while being a global moderator, I stopped listening to players, and even to this day I struggle to see past my own views. I recognize my short comings, and simply wanted to apologize for those who feel like I have wronged them in some manner. Sorry. I have learned a great deal from my time on LotC, truthfully I'll probably always owe any success I have to this server - without Kowaman and the Dev team I likely would have switched majors, wasted thousands pursuing a field I wasn't interested in. I found development fun, I added new things, and enjoyed adding new things. But... sometimes there are places which don't work well with new. Perhaps someday I might return to LotC, with a better mindset and an important asset I lack sometimes - an open mind. Enough of that however, I had planned on taking a break for a while and letting someone else take my mantle. School is starting soon, and while I know I'm going to miss the server - learning all these new things that I would just die to use to make code on LotC more efficient, it is simply the right thing to do. Hope you guys enjoy 5.0, a lot of people have put a lot of effort into it and they're really hoping you'll like it! Goodbye, Sean K (501warhead) To Atles: To Heero: To MedicoreGamer: To Alras: To the Ascended: To James: To GM aspirants: ? To Tythus: To Coders: To Dizzy: To everyone else: Some of you I talk to a lot, and so I dont leave something here for you because I'm going to keep talking to you, like Aengoth. I haven't forgotten you all, but I dont want to be writing this forever. Goodbye :)

Greetings Lord of the Craft! Apologies for the long absence, I have returned and today I begin the first initiative of my return; Review of the 1.9.4 combat system! This is something we're all pretty heated about and there's been a lot of back and forth for a little while, today I'm here to poll public opinion on the matter. Here's a google form link, go on and fill it out! Everything you really need to know about voting is inside. (This requires a google account login to reduce the possibility of forging votes.) http://goo.gl/forms/9gcvgsuqu3oaHduj2 Still around? Go vote! Already voted? Alright. For the duration of the voting (~1-2 weeks-ish, depending on how fast all the votes come in and how slow it dies down) posts which encourage a user to vote one way or another will be removed, there's been plenty of time to discuss it already and there are already quite a few very good, well thought out posts by some of the more outspoken community members which if you need to read you may, you can look for them in the feedback section of the forums! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this ongoing discussion, we're working to make sure that your voices are heard on this matter - so go vote! Thank you for reading, have a good day or night, and stay passionate! -- 501warhead, Lead Developer

issue has been resolved

Moved to the Archive. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

Greetings Lord of the Craft. We'll be doing Scheduled Maintenance at 4PM EDT today to update to LotC 1.9.4. Estimated downtime is 2-3 hours but it could take longer. Finished patchnotes will be released sometime today or tomorrow.

We bought a better live server, not a better Beta server. We're hardly going to dump enough funds into a server which will be used for testing like this for one weekend and then never again for 3 months. 40 is pushing this boxes' capacity, so it's a take it or leave it.

This is just new plugin features. There is no new map or event content located on the Beta Testing server.

Greetings Lord of the Craftians! Tonight at 6PM EDT begins Open Beta Testing, because we all love it when we have too many things to do! The Open Beta Testing will be from Today until Monday, so you have plenty of time to hop in and join the fun! As stated in the previous post you'll be able to test Skills and Combat. Below will be the information for the server for when it unlocks. IP: dev.lotc.co Max players: 40 Minecraft Version: 1.9.4 (the .4 is important, 1.9 and 1.9.2 will not be able to connect to the server) Feedback posts Combat: Click Skills & Crafting: Click These posts are the location to share feedback on the Open Beta Testing. Other posts will be removed - trying to keep the feedback in one location. You may post about any bug you find, any feature you don't like or like, etc. as long as it falls under the category you're posting in. -- 501warhead, Lead Developer EDIT: Updated times to be better for the Warclaim

It's marginal at best. It's not like you're only going to get gold nuggets, also you can drink potions of luck and you'll get 10x better loot from caskets, that's like a bonus 100% luck.

I will consider it based off of the results of the beta testing, Shields block 100% of arrow damage and hard counter bows. I dont want to nerf archery/wood elves/anything archery related until I know for sure that they're still broken even with shields.

As an author of one of the threads you have a high level of bias in this comment. My only response is; I have no intentions of making any large-scale sweeping changes/skill overhauls until Post-1.9.4 at the earliest, Likely such will not be considered before 5.0. Something the beta testing is intended to discover. This would be a bug if true, and thinking about it now I do think this is the case, I'll have that fixed before release.

Be sure to keep up with the latest news, this was already addressed

Fixed date.

Greetings Lord of the Craft! Today I come to announce the fruits of our hard work over on the development team, the 1.9.4 update. We've been working on this since February and it's shown - we've released far less content than we had been before! We're excited to announce news about Beta Testing as well as the Release date itself! Beta Testing As this is the first update in a while, featuring loads of skill updates, new crafting recipes, new mechanics, the works, we're going to be doing Open Beta Testing. This is going to function simply; An IP is posted, whitelist is disabled, and you log on. You will be able to test the following; Combat Skills & Crafting The Combat Testing will be in the format of a Warzone. The Dwarf Vs. Oren Warzone from earlier in Vailor has been set up already and you can choose whichever side you will be on when you join the server. You can change sides when you die - no need to feel pressure if you're locked in! When you spawn there will be chests which contain well crafted common gear, e.g. tier 2 iron weapons, iron armor, tier 2 bows, etc.. Additionally, you will be able to use the command "/spawnhorse 12" to spawn in an Aengulic-bred horse if you wish to beta-test with horses (also to be provided will be horse armor.) The goal of the Combat Testing is allow a time for players to experience combat and the state of combat for themselves so that they may gather opinions on it and provide feedback. When beta testing goes live a post will be made for players to respond to with how they feel combat is in 1.9.4 and what need to be adjusted. The Skills & Crafting Testing will be accessed when the player logs on the server in addition to the sides they can choose for combat. When selected they will be teleported to an area with bountiful crafting stations and chests of resources to use for creating items, along with provided skill tomes for fast leveling. There will be collection areas and a warp to a mining world to test gathering professions. There will be a separate post for skills & crafting feedback from the combat post, beta testers will still be expected to make a post on here as well with their opinions on the nature of crafting. Beta testing begins this Saturday, 5/21 and ends next Monday, 5/23. Patch Notes These are the current patchnotes for LotC 4.6.1, subject to change post-beta testing. This is not a comprehensive list, three months of development is a long time and some features may have been forgotten. Finished patchnotes will come before launch. Races Races now have luck values which effect skills and drops. Halflings and Goblins have an additional 20% luck Dwarves have an additional 10% luck Orcs and Ologs have -10% luck Constructs have reduced attack speed and increased attack damage, along with bonus armor. Fixed constructs being able to sprint. Orcish buff reduced from 2 bonus hearts to 1 bonus heart of damage. Skills Caskets now drop better loot based off of luck levels. Introduced Right-Click harvest to Farming, allowing you to right-click with a hoe to harvest a crop for it's products without having to break it. Added more seeds to breaking tall grass, including Chorus Flowers and Beet seeds. Added Beets to farming Integrated luck with farming, increasing drops based off of luck. Integrated luck with mining, increasing drops based off of luck. Integrated luck with Lumberjacking, increasing drops based off of luck. Integrated luck with Fishing, increasing drops based off of luck. Reverted previous nerfs to "Grapple rods" Added more moderator support to breeding to allow better refunding of horses. Horse benefits now cap at Aengulic. Crafting Blacksmithing Implemented pikes Can be crafted at the respective crafting stations. Gives a chance to dismount a house-mounted player based off of the quality of the pike, crippling their horse (heavy slowness + half of the damage of the hit done also to the horse), and preventing remounting. Wood: 10% chance Stone: 25% chance Iron: 40% chance Gold: 90% chance (instantly breaks on success) Diamond: 80% chance (requires recipe unlock) Effected by unbreaking Chainmail Helmets have been reduced by one armor value, making them equivalent to leather helmets. Diamond Weapons now require Refined Carbarum (see Stonemason) Slightly reduced the damage values of Bluesteel Reimplemented Diamond Armor (Requires Recipe, now uses Refined Carbarum) Woodworking Implemented Shields Crafted at the woodworking station in the folder Shields Choose your color Craft together with a banner in your 2x2 crafting grid with a banner to apply detailed patterns has small amounts of slowness based off of the woodworker's level. Implemented the new Boats Leatherworking Converted Frost Oil Arrows to be a potion tipped arrow of slowness (same duration and slowness values) Converted Poisonous Arrows to be a potion tipped arrow of poison (same duration and poison values, initial damage from the arrow is still reduced.) Implemented Elytra (requires Recipe) Alchemy Brewing stands now require fuel (Blaze powder) A cheap blaze powder recipe has been added to the anvil which can be used for this purpose, titled Alchemic Fuel. 1 Coal 1 Flint Smoke potions are now an Area Effect Cloud Enchanting No changes (New enchantments will be coming after the 1.9.4 update) Stonemason Introduced a new recipe to Stonemason under Refining: Refined Carbarum 3 Diamonds 1 Alchemic Fuel Implemented Purpur blocks (Chorus fruit cooked in a furnace is used to make these.) Implemented End Brick Chef Added Beetroot soup. Changed cannibal stew to use beetroot soup. Tinker Added End Rods Balance Changes Removed arrow velocity reduction on horseback Re-allowed wearing iron & diamond on horseback but changed arrow velocity reduction occur for each piece of iron or diamond armor equipped. Each iron armor piece results in -15% arrow velocity Each diamond armor piece results in -20% arrow velocity Other Seasons have been changed so that rain/snow and sunshine will last longer before changing outside of summer. (e.g. it will rain for longer if it's raining, it will remain sunny for longer if it's sunny) NPCs can no longer be made in places the owner cannot build in. Release Date Currently the release time for 1.9.4 should everything go according to plan will be on 5/26/2016 at 3PM EDT. Click me for countdown timer.

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