Empirus – Minecraft Community Server

We will be having a meeting on the current condition of the Argos Server. This meeting will be this Saturday the 18th at 5pm. We will be focusing on the lack of players, Server direction, possible solutions, and changes.

If you want to attend this meeting please reply to this post that you would like to attend and you will receive the details on the web-location. Thank you!

Argos now has maps!

You can view the current map by clicking on the Argos Map link in the menu bar above. You can even chat in the map to player in the game. Fun fun fun! 

With the Minecraft 1.1 update there was a 'fix' to all the biomes. These fixes include 'beaches', and gradual transitions between biomes.

We will NEVER remove maps from here moving forward. However, we may add them. We have multi-verse installed on the server. Multi-verse allows us to have multiple parrell running worlds with transporters between them. This means future updates to map biomes will be accessable as we add other worlds.

Current Map

As you can see our current map is down… it is not gone. The Bukkit server mod is broken and we are running a filler map till its fixed. Once fixed the old map you all love and know will be back up.  We run these filler maps so the tracking websites will mark our server as 'up'.

Minecraft 1.1 is out and Argos is up and running with no errors! 1.1 includes are few things like:

• Bow Enchantments
• Golden Apple recipe
• New language translations.
• Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
• Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
• Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
• Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
• Removed collision box from ladders
• Sheep eat grass and regain their wool

We also have Heroes on!  Heroes allows us to use Classes in an MMORPG environment.

Classes we currently have available are:

Here are some commands to get you started… 

/hero help
/hero choose <path> - Pick a class
/hero prof <path>
/hero paths - List Classes available to you
/hero reset
/hero armor
/hero tools
/hero save
/hero skills - /skills
/hero specs
/hero leaderboard
/hero who <player>
/hero verbose
/hero suppress <skillname>
/level - /hlevel - /lvl
/mana
/health - /hp
/cooldowns - /cd

Enjoy!

So far we have a good percent of our critical plugins updated to the offical release of CraftBukkit that happened last week. About 80% of our critical plugins are updated. This is about 40% of all the plugins on the server. We are waiting for iConomy, and Towny. Its not too long now!

We now have Towny on. But before I talk about that, I would like to quickly mention that we are most likely going to be keeping this map. Minecraft is not sending out and fixes or updates to MC 1.0.0 which means the environment biomes will probably going to stay and not be adjusted.

With towny on I wanted to quickly go over the set prices and taxes for towny. You will also be able to buy and sell goods both in your OWN shop and in a global shop. The purpose of the Global shop is a kind of Federal Reserve distributing money for the economy.

Towny
Below you can find the prices and taxes for town and nations in Argos.

Teleport Travel:
Town Spawn cost per trip: $100
Cost to travel to ally towns(Paid to town you travel to): $200

Cost to settle:
To settle a new nation: $1000000
Settle a new town: $250000
Settle an Outpost: $500000
Town expansion(price per block – 16×16 grid): $2500
Purchase Bonus blocks: $25000

Taxes:
Maximum Tax Amount(will not surpass): $1000
Maximum a Nation can tax its towns is taxing by percent: 25%
Nation daily price for upkeep(real world days): $1000
Towns daily upkeep(real world days): $100
Daily price to keep Neutral from a waring nations barbarians: $100000

Economy
You make be asking… How do I get this money to buy my own town?  Sell your goods to the server gods!  Thats right the server gods will buy and even sell your goods you find. The items the server gods demand the most is gold. 1 gold ingot will get you $1000.

You can check if the gods will reward you for what you have found by holding it in your hand and using the command /checksell. If you are happy with it you can use /sell to sell it.

Ofcourse, you will want to check the player shops first! /stock [player] [page] lets you see what is for sale(or just /stock). You can use /buy [maxprice] to buy items not to exceed a price and /sell to sell something. Shope owners will advertise their shops on signs on their properties.

Right now everyone has access to the commands but that will change as we finalize the testing. To learn about our standard setup permissions setup you can go to our donations page. I hope you enjoy as our little server moves forward.

Its on!

Above: A Minecraft Ender Dragon with rendering thanks a talented artist.

Argos is running 1.0.0 with NO plugins.  Its a chaos world at the moment! A kill anyone, cut throat world.  No plugins, neither and the 'ender world' as some have been calling it are enabled. 

Give it a try. We will NOT be moving anything from the old world over.  Donors will recieve their gold ounces when the currency system is up and they will receive most of the same privileges that they donated for before.

Above: A Mincraft NPC Villager and rendering

We will be adding plugins as they come out, but we are SERIOUSLY considering changing the mechanics of the world. We are considering doing Factions or something of the sort. Your feedback is needed!  What do you want?

The World will be regenerated multiple times over the upcoming months till there are solid plugins available!  In the meantime… have fun and enjoy.

Here is a preview of the Potion Tree in Minecraft 1.9.  These new potions can give you powers like speed, health and more.

New ISP

We have a new server ISP! The previous connection we were on was with an EXTREMELY expensive however they also had extremely kewl capabilities. Like intelligent IP routing where they will server communication threw the fastest internet route to you.

The argos.empirus.net DNS is updating to the new IP.  If you cant connect you can use 69.48.130.172 for now.

iConomy Situation

As some of you know we have been speaking with the guys that make iConomy.  They are slow, unhelpful, and havent developed plugin updated tools that dont cause the loss of bank accounts. We do however have full support from the SQL(the database language iConomy stores data) community.

We have given money back to the donors because we can see what they have donated for and are currently trying to flat file the SQL iConomy database so we can manually move over everyones money. In the future we will be using a SQL backup utily to prevent this from happening again.

We pulled a backup of Towny from 10/5/2011 at 6pm.  If you have added town blocks to your town after that point in time, you may want to check if they are there and reclaim them.

We are still working on the iConomy issue.  We expect to have that fixed tonight.  However if it doesnt happen, we can at least add funds to peoples bank who had donated(we have record of that at least) till its sorted out.