hi all,
i wanted to give an update as to what's new in herocraft. minecraft 1.7.2 update launched last friday 10/25/13 and will be implemented into herocraft in about 2 weeks. this update includes an increase in the number of trees and plants available in mincraft, enhanced fishing rewards, and a whole slew of new biomes (the lands of minecraft) which include some pretty neat combinations of existing biomes as well as some altogether new areas. what that means for the hardcord rpg server is:
an expansion of the radius of the current world from 2300m to 5000m (in other measurements, 1,354,240,000 available blocks to 6,400,000,000 blocks - yes billion - that's a big sandbox!);
new classes (to be announced)
new player v. everyone (PVE) games;
and the implementation of quests
it is Ravenhold's goal (Ravenhold is the name of our township within herocraft) to establish our township in stride with the release of 1.7.2 on herocraft. we wish to immediately explore the new areas and find a biome that is appealing to our agreed-upon township design (we are making a lothlorian-esque gigantic tree for our home that will be as tall as the sky cap (256 blocks) allows it to be), which will likely be an "extreme hills spruce forest" or a "canopy forest," but might also be one of the other unique biomes as well. we also wish to be close-ish to a graveyard as well as a dragon travel station (used by contributors to gain safe travel to hero city - the central hub of the world of Haven).
we have collected all of the necessary material for our township except for souls. the currency standard changed from gold to "souls." for those who play league of legends, this is akin to the champion "thresh," who collects souls from fallen enemies in order to increase his armor and ability power). with this change in souls (which is gained from killing PVE mobs, mining, and to a lesser part farming and livestock management), the economy has been a little slower to grow, but the method of soul acquiring is more diverse (before gold could only be gained by mining). currently, we are about 4000 souls away from meeting our goal, and all of the townsfolks are donating their souls toward the cause, of which their contribution will offset future weekly taxes that Ravenhold requests of its townsfolks.
our current town is called "TabulaRasa," or "blank/clean slate." it was built in reponse to a hostile group of folks on herocraft building a township literally 150 meters away from our old place, Homestead. the folks of "Hamburger City" were unable to be negotiated with, and in the interest of safety of Ravenhold's members, i elected to move the town to a quieter, more remote area. TabulaRasa gets visitors on occasion, but all in all see about 10% of adversarial traffic that Homestead did, and has been a pleasant and aestetic place to live. Our rooms are all filled at the moment, as we also have farms built and the noisy livestock protected within our small establishment, but within a couple weeks we will have a gigantic amount of space to work with once we establish the township of Ravenhold in the new expansion (we will go from 14,490 protected blocks to 1,440,000 protected blocks, or about a 10,000% increase in size).
if any of this sounds interesting to you, please feel free to check out the herocraft website or the herocraft wiki at the following addresses:
website:
http://herocraftonline.com/main/
wiki:
http://herocraftonline.com/wiki/Main_Page
herocraft has a "whitelist" process, in which you begin as a greylisted member on the server with limited access, and then can apply on the website to become whitelisted to gain full access. they do this to monitor your behavior, make sure you know and abide by the rules, and aren't a bot or web spammer (promoting other servers). the process takes a couple days (applications are reviewed within 24 hours of submission, the approval can take anywhere from an hour to a week, depending on the backlog and the strength of your whitelist application).
good gaming to everyone
-yav
and hi all,
