Update

Hey guys, so as you may or may not know, I’ve started high school, so life has been crazy (but good). I’ve been wanting to set up the Coconut Monkeys website and add all the awesome communities PCG has, but as luck would have it, life does not want to let me have time for this. I’ll be trying to get some stuff done here and there, but if any of you guys are leaders or whatnot of one of PC Gamer’s gaming communities and would like to have yourself represented on the website, please contact me, so that it will be a lot easier knowing what to put for what community. You can reach me on Twitter @JpangElite or on Steam as PCG| JpangElite. Thanks!

-JpangElite

P.S. the link is right here to the website if you don’t know where it is. We currently have SWTOR, and bits of Tera and Diablo 3.

http://www.coconut-monkeys.com/

Plan for Evolved (Repost From Forums)

As you have seen, the 1.8 Evolved hasn’t gone much of anywhere. It’s probably because many of our old citizens either left and made their own towns or joined separate towns. Because of this, I haven’t gotten much help to build the city, but oh well. I have come up with a plan for Evolved that I really hope to complete after the reset. Below is a picture of sorta what i want it to look like. If there are any volunteers that would either want to join Evolved after the reset or help rebuild Evolved, or any city that wants to merge with us, leave something in this thread. If a city wants to merge with Evolved, there will be some sort of building in the main city representing that merged city. Below is a plan of basically what I want Evolved to look like, but it might change. Please give me some input of what you think of it.

http://imageshack.us/f/856/evolved.jpg/

Also, here is some plans for how the towny stuff will go and the Evolved nation.

Basically, Evolved will be a nation, with 3 main towns in it. Other towns can join too, but here are the main towns.

First of course, is Evolved, the main city. It will be just like the one in the plan/blueprint shown above. it will be the center of the whole nation and will be the place everyone lives. In order to join the other 2 main towns, you must join the Evolved town, and nation perms will be set so that you can live and explore in the other towns. Evolved will feature 3 section, or districts. The first will be the Main section, which will contain all the commercial buildings and such. Citizens cannot build here under any circumstance, unless specifically told by me. It is because if I let people build in the Main section, it would be a mess.

The second will be the Housing district. This district will have moderate rules on building. All citizens who join Evolved will be given a plot as shown in the Evolved plan above. They can build any type of house in that plot, it just cannot go out of the limits. It can go as tall as they want, but there will be a restriction on how lot it can go. It will probably be around 15 blocks deep, which is plenty of room. Citizens will probably be able to buy more plots if needed.

The third will be the Free Build area. As the name implies, this section will be for building all the community buildings by the citizens and all their creations. This area can be for little trading posts, and building made by citizens, pixel art, any kind of art, and just anything you wanna make. This section will have little to no rules. Probably the only restriction is that everything built has to be appropriate. This means nothing kids under 13 should be able to see. You guys know, just keep it appropriate and everything will be good. There will be no plots given, just use the area as needed. Also, no houses can be built here, because I want all living spaces to be built in the Housing district.

Both the Main and Housing sections/districts will have streets and roads, while the Free Build area will not. Leave a comment if you have a name for a street, because I need need quite a bit of names.
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The other two main cities in the Evolved nation will be Ember and Valhaven.

Ember is a small city comsage and I worked on when i first joined the server in April of 2011. I have always wanted to restore it, and now it will be remade under Evolved, about 20-30 blocks underground. There will be a Minetrak system going down there. If someone wants to join Ember, they must first join the Evolved town, and the nation ally perms will be set so you can live in Ember. It is just easier to have citizens all in 1 town. The same will go with Valhaven. I am not sure who will be in charge of Ember yet, but it will probably be comsage or etnica. I want etnica to head it because we started Evolved together, and he loves mines. If he accepts the position, both he and comsage will be in charge of Ember, because etnica will probably be working on his mines.

Valhaven was an idea chaoswolf55(a.k.a. CW or veurotur) and I came up with some time ago. Valhaven will be a sky city, somewhere near Evovled and Ember. It will be medieval themed (yes, a medieval theme in a sky city) with a castle as the main building. We are not yet sure the exact details, but we are sure that there will be a large castle as the main building.

The head of the other 2 cities will govern the nation with me, and they will probably choose an assistant.

Thanks for listening, more details will come soon, but just know that I want to make Evolved a huge success in the 1.0 reset. I will be working on Evolved whether or not anyone helps me. I I have to do it myself, I will. I know it kinds sounds mean and makes me look like a loner, but just know I want to work hard to make something great for PC Gamer.

PC Gamer Minecraft Server is 1.0

More news about the PC Gamer Minecraft US server: If you haven’t noticed yet, The PCGMCUS Server has been running a dev build of bukkit 1.0, and it seems to be going smoothly for now. If you haven’t checked yet, bukkit has released a recommended build of bukkit 1.0 just today. We most likely will be updating to that tomorrow (12/13/11). Also, there is no news about the IP switch yet, so join 207.210.252.12:25566 if you wanna check us out. Just know that we might switch soon, so don’t get too attached to that IP :P. Also, Towny is up and running now, and hostile mobs are enabled.

PCGMCUS Server Reset

As you know the PC Gamer Minecraft US server will be resetting. It has been 2 weeks since Minecraft has officially released in Vegas, and I have had loads of people asking me when the server will reset. All of us want the reset ASAP, but we are waiting on bukkit, the software that runs our server, to release a stable 1.0 build. We cannot do anything to make this process faster, so go bug bukkit devs if you need more info.

Also, Evan and I have talked to the service provider for the server, and we will be moving server machines. This means a new IP address for the server. I am hoping we will move in the next week or so, so look out for a new IP address soon. Don’t’ worry about not finding the new IP, it will be posted everywhere. For now just enjoy Minecraft 1.0, or be like me, and stay with 1.8 and play on the server.

Random Links:

Our Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PCGMCUS

Our Server Video (worth watching): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcawDxBJnNY or bitty version: bit.ly/PCGMCUS

Out forums: http://www.pcgamer.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=53

My (Jpang) Steam account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/jpang

That’s about it. Until next time! :P