Admin Notes

Issue 1
Hey folks, time for some big news!

We want to give an absolutely huge welcome to both Jared and Andy for their promotions into the higher ranks of staff, as Admins. Along with this, you may have noticed that both Kosa and Myself now carry the “Owner” tag. All this and more will be explained below.

For those not aware, both Kosa and myself are working across the Eximius network now, so if a time comes in which we need to put our time in elsewhere for a while, we wanted to have a dedicated team of Admins able to fill the void; prepping for the worst, if you will. With these promotions, that brings our count of Admins to 3, and also means that in a majority vote for something with the server, they have as much decisive power as the Owner rank would.

Next, there will be some upcoming changes to plugins on the server. The general idea is to have more functional plugins(for example, UUID compatible ones), and also improve performance and make user interactions easier. When the time comes that we’ll be updating, there will be a post for potential downtime.

Lastly, a big thanks to our “Graphics Designer”, CrushedRose, for his work with helping to improve the website. The new slides on the front page, a few edited staff tags, the Point Shop logos, work on the wiki, along with the suggestion to change the website background are all thanks to him!

Admin Notes

Issue 2


Hey,

Quick update here about two plugin changes last night.

First off, $80 donors used to be able to nick themselves, but that's since changed. Now, all $80 donors(or higher) must submit a petition for a nick. That said, with that change comes the option of having unicode text within your nickname, along with special characters. As an example, I could nick myself to be 'Pljz?', whereas before I wouldn't have been able to have the '?'. A full unicode list may be found here, although bear in mind not all of them will be available due to the limitations of Minecraft. Also note, that members are only able to have 1 unicode symbol in their name.

Along with this, donors may notice a change when using kits. The kits themselves haven't changed, but we're now using a much more efficient and robust plugin than before that will allow us to do more than the previous did.

That's all for now,

Thanks!

~Administration

Admin Notes

Issue 3


Hey all,

Been a bit since issue 2, so time for an update! We've got a few things to go through.

Agharta will be updating to 1.9 this weekend, most likely late saturday/sunday night. It shouldnt take too long to do it, so it'll be done at night when less players are around.

Following the Rock The Vote! threads completion, it was decided that we will be opening a new map for Minetown. This map is currently being worked on, and the estimate is that we will release it within a month. Stay tuned, and as we get closer to its release there will be sneak peaks posted on both Twitter and Facebook. Keep an eye out for those!

Seeing as the new map has been accepted as a change to the server, there's lots of work to be done, especially with the BuildTeam. As of today, those applications have been re-opened, and you may apply here.

Lastly, we'd like to give a congratulations to passmesomebacon for his promotion to Moderator. Seeing as this puts our helper count to 2, this means we will be looking into possibly hiring more staff, especially with the new server opening soon. If you haven't already and are interested in helping out, you can apply here.

Admin Notes

Issue 4


Yo yo, update news!

Agharta is now 1.9.2. That's all, yup, enjoy.

For real though, this comes with a few things to note.

The new combat system is now live! This means that there's cooldown timers on attacks, shields, more powerful mobs, and much more. If you weren't geared up before, you'll need to now to handle all the new things! (Also, skeletons are real rude dudes)

The End has now been reset. This means that players can now kill the Ender Dragon again, and then get loot from the new dungeons around the world.

If you keep an eye out, you might find some neat new overworld structures, like igloos!

Only Agharta has been updated to 1.9 currently, though other servers can be connected to using 1.9 clients. As they are updated, we'll update you.

Minetown now comes with 125% more Administrative headaches! Want to know why? Check the full 1.9 changelog found here.

Lastly, We regret to inform you that Jared has decided to step down from staff to handle other Jared related duties. We wish him the best and will welcome him back when he's ready to return!

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