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On the 19th of October 2012 from 1am until around 5am BST (Check your timezone), noobscraft.com will be brought down completely for major web-host updates. All features which use the noobscraft.com site will be completely unavailable during this downtime.

Features which will be unavailable during this downtime include:

• Access to the site itself
• Site registration/Account activation
  (This includes new members attempting to register)
• Use of Points
• Donation options
  (Do not attempt to make a purchase around this downtime as payments may be taken but goods may not be correctly delivered; do it early or wait until we are completely back online)
• Any contact with us via any @noobscraft.com email
• Updates to VIP
  (I recommend if your VIP is going to run out during this downtime that you renew it before then)
  

I would like to make this clear though: Just because the site is down doesn't mean our server will be; this should stay online completely through the site downtime.

This downtime is important as part of a major change which our web-host is making with their data-centres. During the downtime their teams will be moving our site servers from their old data-centre to a brand new state-of-the-art one; this should improve site loading times and improve reliability.

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If you have any queries about this downtime please feel free to post them below.

As part of a progression with the site that you are likely to see later this year, we have decided that it is a good time to initiate a change to your site avatars. The changeover will progress as follows (providing we experience no issues):

• 30th Aug - All current avatars will be locked and no new ones will be able to be added.
• 1st Sept - All current avatars will be deleted.
• 2nd Sept - All users will receive their user (skin) avatar.

This timetable of transition will allow anyone who needs to, to get their avatar from our server before it is deleted. If you are wondering what we are replacing avatars with; look at what has been my avatar for a few weeks now, every user will receive their own Minecraft skin face as their site avatar automatically; you won't have to do anything (providing we have a suitable skin on our records).

This change should be a good improvement for the site, it should make reading posts and seeing who has made a certain post much clearer for everyone. As normal if you have any questions please reply to this topic.

During the transition period you may experience some momentary changes to the site, these should be fixed soon after they occur. If you notice any serious issues please contact me.

UPDATE: We have now updated the server to 1.3.

As most of you will be aware the 1.3 version of Minecraft is supposed to be publicly released tomorrow.

As a server we will take time to update to this version of Minecraft. This is because we have to wait for our server software and plugins to be updated, before we can go live using 1.3. As a result of this delay in converting to 1.3 we recommend that ANY player wanting to continue playing our server after the update has been made live, declines any update requests by clicking "Not yet!" until we have announced our server has also been updated.

If you want to play the server you will need to continue using 1.2.5. (Until we announce that we have also updated.)

We will try to keep downtime during the changeover period to a minimum however it is likely that some will occur.

For more information regarding the updates check Mojang.com.

From this Friday we will be hosting a huge array of events each day until after the end of the month!

We have produced a simple events timetable listing events and times and dates for those events. These are all correct at the time of the page being published and may change. The timetable can be found by simply visiting http://www.noobscraft.com/summer.

If you feel that we haven't really put on an event in your timezone we will do our best to add something into the timetable to suit all areas of the world. Please just post below and look for changes to the timetable.

I hope you can all attend a few events and that you enjoy what we have to offer! We will be holding random unannounced events too so make sure you are online to see if we are doing anything!

Have a great summer,
- The Noobscraft Team

This topic has been moved to Server issues.

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After many hours of being down we are back open and running stronger than ever! (Sorry about the extended downtime we came across complications during our permissions system transfer, it took time to resolve these.)

While the changes you visibly see may be minimal we have changed a lot during the recent downtime, some of the public changes include:

• Migrated to the permissions system.
• Converted all 39,866 user records to the new permissions system.
• Improved security against "hacking".
• Improved security for the chat.
• Improved automated saving of the server files to reduce any possible rollbacks.
• Improved the connection between the site and the server. (These changes will be noticeable soon!)
• Increased server stability.
• Added a custom whitelist message system. (No need for people to keep posting and asking now)
• Added better fishing rewards.
• Changed deaths in different worlds to cause you to respawn in that specific world.
• Added a spleef system.
• Added a mob arena.
• Increased Mining World border.
• Performed general plugin updates.
• Increased our player limit from 100 to a massive 550! (You should never have to wait while it's full again!)

We hope you enjoy all of the changes we have put in place, and would like to remind you that our Summer Events Schedule will be released soon!

As always if you notice any errors with our changes please report them to an admin via PM as soon as possible! Bug abuse is against the rules!

We have finally reached 10,000 members!

The user PeBachiega was our 10,000th activated account on the site. To mark this occasion they will be given a permanent 'Veteran' status on the server and site! We would like to thank you all for playing on our server and hope that you will all join us for the next big milestone.

Don't forget tomorrow night we are holding a party to mark the occasion. More information can be found on the post here: http://www.noobscraft.com/server-announcements/10-000-members-party!/

As many of you know the money and other things have been going on and off for sometime now. We are now trying to work on a fix for this.

We are sorry, but as part of this we have put the server into "maintenance mode" (Offline). We will be back as soon as we have sorted some of the issues out.

Again we are sorry for any problems this may have caused, we will be back soon!


We are finishing up maintenance and have now added new and fixed MCMMO Abilities! we know that you were very eager for these we have also added that if you die from either falling into the void, or get killed in the PvP World, you will always keep your items, however you will lose your items if falling from high places and falling into lava, to keep the server as 'survival' as we can Now we can all enjoy PvP without the risk of losing our items!

The money error will also be fixed, and you won't be put back to 50 Nbz again.

Again apologies for the inconvience, but we can assure you that it will be a better experience for you now on Noobstown.

-Edit by Waterworth

We recently updated the server. A few changes were made.

• Removed the spawning of easter eggs! You can still get a prize from eggs but no more will spawn.
• And long awaited:

Spawner Changing
Using spawning eggs you can now change artificial spawners to different animals. All friendly mobs can now come from spawners if you change them. All you have to do is left click on your spawner with a friendly mob egg and it will use the egg to convert the spawner to that type of animal. (If you want the little entity in the spawner cage to update straight away you will need to leave the area or reload though.)

You will need to claim any spawners of yours by clicking on them with a mob egg (if you use the same egg as the spawner it will lock it without using up the egg), this will lock it so that only you can then change what animal the spawner spawns.

You can keep changing the spawners to any of the animals as much as you want, but it does use up spawner eggs.

Spawn eggs are available from the Points shop and from events!

The following animals can be set:

• Villagers
• Pigs
• Cows
• Chickens
• Sheep
• Wolves
• Ocelots
• Mooshrooms

Some of you recently noticed that the site had a larger more in-depth statistics about things site related. (http://www.noobscraft.com/stats/). People commented on how interesting these stats were, so I decided to make a page listing some of the in-game stats.

Simply visit:
http://www.noobscraft.com/gamestats/
for a large number of stats on the server, including leaderboards for the in-game skills!

Enjoy!