I will be updating the server later today. Please ensure all chunks you wish to keep are marked with blocks that connot appear naturally, such as melons, bricks, or pistons. Iron, gold, diamond, or lapis blocks will also work, as will bookshelves, enchantment tables, and glowstone lamps.

If your chunk does not contain any man-made blocks, it will be regenerated.
WARNING: Contrary to popular knowledge, chests, crafting tables, and furnaces CAN appear naturally, and likewise, will not save a chunk from regeneration.

You have a minimum of two hours. It will probably take me longer than that to get stuff together, but that is all the time I am guarunteeing.

The brackets for this tournament can be found at http://challonge.com/elossia1

Each game will be played when the two people are online and ready.
Should a player be gone for over 48 hours, they will be considered a no-show and lose by default.

Each game will be a best 2 out of 3.

The discussion page can be found at http://elossa.forumer.com/tournament-brackets-t2275940.html

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The bulk of this update is how spawners act.

Monsterbox:
- Added a "normalizing" effect to monster deaths (explained below)
- Removed Wolves (due to players literally spawning an army)
- Added Cave Spiders
- Added Magma Cubes
- Re-Added Pigzombies (explained below)
- Added Snowmen
- Added Squid
- Removed Herobrine

Recently, players discovered methods by which they could effectively grind a full stack of 64 diamond blocks in around 4 hours. This is seriously overpowered, and spawners clearly needed a nerf.

The immediate solution was to remove the permissions allowing players to set "profitable" mobs, but I felt this was a bit heavy-handed, and removed a small amount of fun the spawners allowed.
The new solution, is a "normalizing" effect from mob deaths. The server will now track where mobs die, and if too many mobs have died in an area recently, will reduce the amout of loot and xp the mob drops.

For the average player jumping around, killing things as they naturally appear, you will see no change, since kills are spread out in both distance and time.

For the player who has set up mob traps fed by spawners, you will see a much smaller return. The most efficient spawners will appear to drop nothing after the first 20 kills or so.

The normalizing effects will be fine-tuned in the coming weeks to ensure spawners are still useful, without being overpowered.

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So multiverse is getting a bit too heavy for our server to handle, this afternoon the server nearly scrashed a number of times because of the load. So we were forced the remove it.

Fortunately, most people had already retrieved that they wanted from the old worlds, but the loss of the /spawn command is quite annoying.

I'll see what I can do as far as finding a replacement spawn /command. For now, creative portals and walking will have to do.

Changelog: Monday, June 18, 2012

Factions:
- Configuration 'allowNoSlashCommand' set to false. Players must use '/' before any faction commands. This is to prevent players from bypassing warmups/cooldowns for specific commands.
- Configureation 'homesTeleportIgnoreEnemiesIfInOwnTerritory' set to false. Players cannot use '/f home' to run away if enemies are nearby.
- Configuration 'removePlayerDataWhenBanned' set to true. When a player is banned, they are automatically removed from their faction.
- The Moderator '/tp' command is now properly blocked in enemy land.

Cooldowns/Warmups:
- Added a cooldowns/warmups plugin. This was mostly done to prevent an exploit wherein a player trapped in enemy land can leave their faction, use '/spawn', and rejoin their faction. This addition also returns the Moderator '/tp' command to it's original purpose, to help stuck players and for official assistance.
- '/f admin' now has a warmup of 10 minutes.
- '/f leave' and '/f kick' each have a warmup of 5 minutes.
- '/spawn' and '/f home' each have a warmup of 5 seconds.
- The Moderator '/tp' command now has a cooldown of 15 minutes.

Blog:
- Slightly edited the 'Factions and You' page to remove references to Multiverse.

Buycraft:
- Buycraft premium store added. We can offer many more packages this way.

Recipe Manager:
- Added doubleslab recipes.

AutoAnnouncer:
- Corrected/edited various lines James says.
- Added a line stating death from player afk-ness is not our fault.

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