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Cropping should be prioritised. Everyone can mark areas on this map to show which areas they want preserved. If there are no clear settlements, add a reason as well.

Of course, significant settlements will not be cropped

https://i.ibb.co/72Z8cxd/20211130-Blacraft.png

Note the new generation smoothes new chunky borders, so they should not be as ugly as past ones.

Let's start organizing the new year event for 2022. Here's the thread from 2021:
http://blacraft.createaforum.com/blacraft-general/blacraft-new-year-2021/

First, we need a list of candidate locations for hosting the event. Post here 1 or 2 places where you'd like the event to be hosted. (And don't submit places without agreement from those who manage it.)

Later we will start a poll on the location, and you can't vote for locations you submitted - manager of location doesn't matter.

These are some of the solutions I imagined, cyan is ice road and blue is ocean, white arrows are flowing water, so you could have like the upper one where there's just a small segment of ocean that flows down onto the ice road, allowing boats to cross and transfer, which would slow down the ice boat but not a lot as long as you don't have a lot of those segments.

Alternatively you could have something like the bottom where you need to move out of the actual ice road to get to a segment where the water flows down and transfer to the sea. Then sea boats would have to cross the ice segment but ice boats wouldn't have to slow down.



I also imagine that for this to look nice there would need to be some nice support infrastructure built around the ice roads in the ocean as well that separates them from the water. I'm a bit worried if the ice roads would become massive eyesores.

If people prefer elevated ice roads I think we should go for something quite a bit higher than 2 blocks above sea, maybe something like 10. I think that would look nicer, especially for long bridges, that it's not that close to the water, and it wouldn't have to cut as deeply into the land terrain. But I don't know how the boat elevators work or how they depend on the altitude change and that would also be important.

The wider the better, I was imagining you could start with something like 4 blocks but expand it to ~10 if you have enough ice and time.

Part of the idea was to have them not just for transportation (Nether/elytra is already very fast) but also with the possibility to turn them into racing segments, and for decoration, so my idea was they would have some curvatures though less than regular cobble roads. But that could vary from place to place.

Nova will host BCNY 2021. Due to a desire to move the BCNY 2021 event, please indicate your availability in this spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KjYivFxTE5p534xWzDr8TDUv0-4aF_xQDmu11FFxbvA/edit#gid=0

Edit: There wasn't so it will stay the same but you can indicate your availability anyway in case there are any problems

Let's start organizing the new year event for 2021. Here's the thread from 2020:
http://blacraft.createaforum.com/blacraft-general/blacraft-new-year-2020/

First, we need a list of candidate locations for hosting the event. Post here 1 or 2 places where you'd like the event to be hosted. (And don't submit places without agreement from those who manage it.)

Later we will start a poll on the location, and you can't vote for locations you submitted - manager of location doesn't matter.

I vote yes

The temporary world is available for public download again for a limited time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yqd42zpaz7kpz2/Blacraft%20Creative%20Multiplay%202013-2014.gz?dl=0

Leikigo will host New Year 2020. We'll skip the poll as it's the only submission

A few days ago I posted a link on irc to a plugin that might work similarly to the old Multiverse plugin. Ideally I wanted Blacraft to have a plugin like that, so we could connect the regular world with the creative world and even other worlds as we used to. But I don't see myself having time to getting into Blacraft plugins anytime soon, unfortunately. I think hosting it on a separate server is uneconomical vs using such a plugin, if there is such a plugin.

What are the plans for developing the region?

Alteus will host the New Year event of 2019!

The poll for the 2019 New Year location is now up!

Vote before November 1st in Blacraft Voting Center in Spawntown!

https://blacraft.wikia.com/wiki/Blacraft/Kaktoland/Spawntown/Blacraft_Voting_Center/201810182140

Let's start organizing the new year event for 2019. Here's the thread from 2018:
http://blacraft.createaforum.com/blacraft-general/blacraft-new-year-2018/

First, we need a list of candidate locations for hosting the event. Post here 1 or 2 places where you'd like the event to be hosted. (And don't submit places without agreement from those who manage it.)

Later we will start a poll on the location, and you can't vote for locations you submitted - manager of location doesn't matter.

I would like to make a formal claim for the region of Witherfree, which currently features a walled city project (which is not finished) and future plans are horse roads connecting to the east and industry.



Voting can begin

It's TMCMR
http://www.nuke24.net/projects/TMCMR/

Quite sad there's so few projects to map the worlds as files anymore and all of them are opting for some fancy online maps style things that are a mess to set up.

RIP blacraft communism 2011-18

Komrage creating a currency won't change UBSR's policies on infrastructure and property

I don't get why you guys see it as punishment if you can't put an account to gather items for you for days without doing anything.
Was it punishment when you had to strip mine to get diamonds for your first diamond picks? Kill the first mobs?
Now you've made extremely efficient farms that can gather items far faster. See it as a reward you have that instead of punishment? It's a luxury problem really.

I think the issue of alts and afking are orthogonal to each other. alts just allow for more afking to take place in the same amount of time, and arguably gives an unfair advantage to people with alts. whether we should allow afking is a completely separate issue (and imo, the more important issue here).

It's somewhat separate but it seems alts have been mainly used recently for pretty much perma-afking, and brought to my attention this thing because we used to have policies against afk'ing that I just started to ignore after we moved server, Essentials got deleted, there was no kick and stuff.

Most if not all of the new farms that have been built recently have taken great pains to be extremely lag efficient, for example, explicitly avoiding *redstone dust*, which is an extremely laggy block. Sitting in the middle of desertopia with no farms in range causes far more lag than any of my farms.

I disagree about the need to be playing actively to gather items, because no one likes to grind forever for large amounts of items.

It's nice people have been building for performance. From what I had seen recently it seemed like we were having performance problems partially because of alts.
I don't think it's true you need to spend a long time to get a lot of items. Monster farms are extremely efficient, iron farms, chicken farms, I'm sure many types of farms can produce way more items in a short while than you could ever have time to use. Gold farms I haven't yet figured out a very fast design for, and some other items are slow, ok. But still a huge advantage compared to going out in caves or fighting mobs to get them, and I think that's enough.

Here's a theoretical situation which will hopefully make it intuitively clear why I think this is legitimate. Suppose there's this very useful new item you can craft, except due to some bugs in the game, crafting it causes extreme lag to the server for the next 15 minutes, which is annoying. To get around this until the bug is fixed in the next update, we allow players to throw away the crafting ingredients and spawn in the item, which is a no lag replacement for crafting. To me, this seems very legit. I don't know about you.

I don't think you can compare it to a bug. The basic gameplay of Minecraft is mining, gathering, killing mobs and stuff. People are too lazy for that so they build giant farms and stuff, ok that's pretty cool. But that doesn't entitle them to a constant theoretical output from their farms because they feel it's too boring to wait for the way faster farms to produce. I guess we'll just have to disagree on how we view it.

To Blotz: Nice you got yours for free, but it's risky, few people give accounts away for fun without expecting something shady in return. Paying for alts or going to risky, shady sites to get them for free isn't a good thing to reward in the game imo.

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I think we should ban alts, but maybe we could make some compromise:
1: We leave a month where people can still use alts freely, and everyone have the opportunity according to syule's calculations to be compensated if they don't have alts, so people can get more out of their new farms they expected to use with alts
2: We set the kick time on afk'ing very high, to maybe 8-12 hours, to compensate people for losing their alts. This may be lowered in the future, but that'll be a later discussion not for the next 3 months.
3: The alts may only be used during this period (until March 1) in existing infrastructure or something that's in progress that several hours has been spent on, not infrastructure we begin to make after this post.

I think by the end of February we should have alts phased out of the server for anything else than testing.

Discussion thread:
http://blacraft.createaforum.com/blacraft-general/alt-account-and-afk-discussion/

To Fiah:
Yeah Blacraft is hardly very competitive. But still we're all playing in a survival world, building with resources we gather with some effort. If someone has alts and it lowers the effort, they can build something more impressive than the others, because they spent some irl money. I don't think that's very good and I think it makes the survival world less of a uniform world for everyone, but closer to a Creative-ish world for others.

To Yqt:
I don't see how more afks minimize the cost - why would players coordinate their alts and not just put them in the farms they want randomly and independently of each other?

You've already built the iron phoenix so I understand it would be annoying if the rules were changed and it became ruined. In the future, people might build farms with the rules in mind that you're not supposed to afk for over some amount. Maybe we could consider something higher than 30 minutes. However I also think if it's 30 mins there's still nothing preventing you from checking up on the game, moving your mouse a bit to stay online, or (depending on the farm design) do something in-game around where you're farming.

To Komrage:
Minecraft survival isn't unfun imo because you can't have a beacon per minute or whatever. It just means you'e gonna put fewer beacons everywhere. You're gonna adjust your building to it every time there's a limiting factor. I think that's part of what makes survival good.

You might afk at a farm so maybe you do something else on your comp but still check up on the game every once in a while. At least that's how I farmed xp back in that terrible skele farm back in like 2012.
Alternatively you might stripmine or build something near your farms to kill time, or build them near places you're often at, if the design allows for it.

I would still allow alts for testing server-related things, which was all I thought you and Yqt were using the alts for initially. For testing redstone designs etc. I'm not sure, again I think if you really need to use an alt to test it, maybe find someone to ask for help.

Your solution is smart but I also feel it's a bit... "theoretical" or Idk what word to use to describe it. In theory it's perfectly fair and solves the problem, but I just don't feel we should sit outside the game and calculate how much afk time every player can have and spend time putting alts where people want them. If we have a volunteer for this I may consider it though.

To Kalassak:
Yeah that makes sense. I also feel it's unfair to take away items from people for breaking rules that weren't really there previously. But maybe they could be compelled to share the items.
Mending books aren't that hard/rare to get tbh and you don't need to farm very much to get them. If you get a villager with the trade you can get dozens of them relatively easily, and you probably won't need more than few dozens to put mending on all the stuff you're using basically. If it were wither skulls or they farmed some other item it might be more serious.

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I'd say I'm inclined to ban alts for other purposes than testing, re-banning afk machines etc. and having an afk timer where I'm inclined towards 30-120 minutes, but still open to ideas.

A new form of transportation, elytra flight paths, have started to become a thing in the Nether. Before the network grows too big I think we should think a bit about how we might want this to develop.

We have moved portals, horse roads and ice roads to near the top of the Nether for efficiency, and I think it's been a success with so many people joining it. So having elytra paths near this infrastructure seems useful.

I'm thinking, we could leave the arrow-only elytra flight paths as they are and keep those as a second-hand network, because they're useful and cheap to develop, but I think if people plan to dig out and build elytra flight paths, let's find way to make these fit together for all players in a good way.

I suggest we standardize built out elytra flight paths to be developed around y = 85 to 95. This is the top of the relatively hollow part of the nether.
https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/minecraft_gamepedia/a/a7/Block_layers_nether_1.5.svg?version=e80404f0dd47860240566376aeca098f
There could still be cases where actual elytra flight tunnels are built elsewhere, and connections from this y level network to other elytra flight networks.

Ok. It would be great if you could make the changes on the Blacraft wiki for the state and region as well when you have time.

I vote yes

Phase one completed



Phase 2

Tuto has said he doesn't actually want to host New Year so Newtim has been removed from the voting options.

Everyone who voted for Newtim may submit a new vote in the voting book - you don't need to edit your previous vote for option 3, it will not be counted.

The voting deadline will be extended until the UTC midnight before October 31.

The New Year location poll is up in Blacraft Voting Center! Vote for a candidate of Kaktolake in Kaktoland, Aahrus or Newtim!

Make sure to vote before the end of October 29!