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Hey all!

Just wanted to post a quick update on the state of the server, as well as our shift in plans.

We've made some progress with our chat and titles plugins, however I've decided to take some time off from Java development in order to create some custom web software for both this server and some personal projects.

This means that our first game will be delayed for a bit, and our new target goal is late March to mid April.

For the time being, we're posting our old maps from the survival server, you can download them below.

These links will be active for at least a few weeks, but may go down any time after that.

EDIT (3/11/16): Links removed

Hey all!

We've been hard at work on the server, since the last announcement at the beginning of this month, we've made significant progress, including

• Creation of the hub & creative servers
• New chat & title plugins written from scratch, will be deeply integrated with our other games
• Start of the first map for our first game mode (More on that later)

We've made progress on much more than what was listed, however those were the biggest points so far.

From here on out, we're able to let everyone follow our ideas for the server, as well as our progress a bit more closely.

You can view my progress on plugins here under the 'contributions' section, each green square represents a day I've worked on a plugin (or site) for the server, the darker the color, the more work done (in theory). Once the server is more developed, we'll enable plugin access to our issue/feature trackers for plugins.

I'd like to especially thank @WinterSolstice8 for his help with building the hub as well as a map for one of our games, he saved us a lot of time and allowed us to deploy much more rapidly than we otherwise could've.

We'll be releasing more information on our first mini game, Zombie Survival, in the coming weeks. Our current release estimate is optimistically mid/late february. This is a unique and completely custom game, coded from scratch, we've put a lot of careful planning into it, and we know you'll love it.

Hey all!

After much thought to the current state of the server, the staff of The Storm has decided to take the server in a new direction.

We have been operating as a survival server for many years now, and we have seen periods of success although it's evident that it doesn't keep players, and is very hard to grow a player base out of, despite seeing periods of success we feel that a change is needed in order to both provide new challenge to myself, as well as make the server more accessible to others, and draw new players in.

Because of this, we will be shutting down our survival and creative servers this month, and will release our maps for anyone to download. Shortly after this, we will be opening a hub server as well as a unique game mode, with more to come in the future.

In addition to this, many areas of the forums will be cleaned up.

Premium ranks and other purchases will remain, although their effects will change.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this post. More information will come soon.

Hey all!

In celebration of Christmas, we'll be having a Christmas sale from this Friday, December 18, until January 2nd! All items on the shop will be 50% off, including all premium memberships as well as disguises!

If you're interested in seeing what you can purchase, you can click on this link to go to the shop

In addition, we've also added a new Christmas theme to the forums in both light/dark! You can change your forum theme by scrolling to the bottom of the page, on the left you'll see a button that says your current theme name, just click on it and you'll be able to pick the theme you want to use!

Theme Chooser
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New Christmas Theme


Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone!

As mentioned before, we've been working on the town plugin, and we're happy to announce that it's now live on the survival server!

This plugin should help make the server easier to start out on for new players, as well as simplify the way towns work for everyone else. Anyone can start a town with /town create, and /town help will give you a list of all available commands.

If you run into any bugs/errors with the plugin, please report them in the bug reports section of the forums.

We still have a long way to go with this new plugin, however it's a good start and it'll only get better from here!

Hey all!

We're still working on adding new features to the server, as well as improving old ones. I've been working on a custom town plugin for our server for around a month now, and it's approaching the point to where we can start using it on the live server. Currently it cannot be used to claim land (This will be added soon), however you can create towns, nations, invite players to them, etc.

You can test this plugin now by going to /server test, /town help will get you started. We ask that you report any bugs or suggestions under feedback on the forums.

We have a lot planned for this plugin, and it allows us to have some special integration with the rest of our custom plugins such as
- Chat channels automatically created for towns/nations
- Special titles for town/nation owners, maybe even town members
- Town/nation specific storm shard improvements

This new plugin will be going live hopefully by the end of the month, however the old one will remain until land claiming is completed and thoroughly tested.

With this new plugin, we will also be making a few changes to how land is managed. Currently we use a cuboid plot system, allowing great flexibility at the cost of simplicity, which is nice however it marks a huge barrier to new players. We will be going to a chunk based system similar to Towny.

Along with this, we will be allowing breaking throughout the entire main world to help new players get started with less confusion, however we strongly encourage you to gather in the mining world so the main world stays pristine for as long as possible.

We have a lot planned for the server, and we are slowly getting there. Every new plugin created allows us to have new possibilities for the future, as well as a much greater amount of customization.

Some of you may of noticed the downtime/extreme lag today, this was due to an optical fiber cable at our servers datacenter being accidentally cut.

It lasted around 6-8 hours before the cable could be repaired. Our server, website, and other services were down for that time. Everything looks to be fine now, and you should be able to connect without issue.

Hey all!

We've been working on another update for the server, which will reintroduce a few old features. This will be releasing in parts over the next week, and we'll be working to add more to the server as time goes on.

Skylands
A new world will be added soon, in which all tier I towns will receive a free 500x500 territory. This world doesn't reset, and uses a new skylands generator to provide a new style of islands. This world will be the only one in which you can harvest storm shards



Storm Shards
If you played before the reset in August, you probably know about storm shards, they are special items that drop occasionally when killing mobs or mining. These items can then be used to enhance your weapons, armor, and tools, allowing them to do more damage, decrease the damage you take, or work faster.

They will be reintroduced and will initially work as they did before, however we do have future plans to improve the plugin as we add in new features. Storm shards will only drop in the skylands, and can upgrade and weapon, armor, or tool up to 5 times, giving you up to a 50% damage increase on a sword/tool/bow, or a total 23% PvP/PvE damage reduction on a full set of armor.

Stargates
A staple of the Mechanic perk, Stargates will be reintroduced as the main method of transportation between towns, worlds, and spawn. In the near future, TP cooldowns will be increased, and the town spawn command will be removed

New Horse Plugin
I recently created a new version of the horse storing plugin from scratch, which will allow us to store all horse data, such as speed and jump strength. This means when you store your horses in a saddle, they won't become slower or jump lower, they will be an exact copy from before!

This plugin is already live, and due to this all of your old saddles can't be used to spawn the horses, they can however will be used as saddles to tame new horses.

New staff rank, and new trial mod
We added a tester staff rank recently, with the goal of better balancing the server as well as testing out new features before they go live on the survival server. We're also introducing a new trial mod as of today, @CookieMage107, our testers as of now are @Grijzejager3 and @WinterSolstice8

We're also going to be getting scratch cards and banks available as soon as possible, and we're working on re enabling NPC shops as well. We have more plugins being worked on to introduce even more new features, and hope to have a few more out in November.

If you have any suggestions, as always, feel free to reply to this thread or post in the suggestions subforum.

Hey all!

Just a quick announcement, our Halloween event is now live. You can go to 11 different doors at spawn, open them up and receive a random trick, or a treat!

This event will last until the end of October 31st, meaning you can knock on these doors 44 times!

Rewards are random, currently there are
- Items such as music disks, diamonds, and beacons
- Crystals in various amounts
- Food

We will be adding more rewards such as Storm Shards on Halloween as well!

Hope to see everyone on!

Hey all!

I've been working hard the last few weeks getting everything in line for the server, we're progressing slowly but it should start picking up in a few weeks now that I've finished updating our older plugins.

Just to recap, here's what I've done

• Rewrote chat plugin to easily add more multi-server features in the future
• Rewrote titles plugin to sync between servers
• Rewrote server messages plugin to cover more death messages as well as function better
• Created NPC plugin to re-add talking NPCs as well as NPC trading at spawn

This has been my focus for a while, and now that these plugins are up to par, I'll be free to work on making some more in the near future, hopefully getting another 2-3 out in the next month.

We've also updated to a new anti-cheat plugin, as well as upped our x-ray protection, this should help ensure that everyone on our server has a fair playing field no matter their playstyle.

As far as features go, we've added some recently as well!

Eclipses free-for-all PvP arena has been completed and is now open to add, use /pa ffa join in order to play. The kits are still needing to be balanced, and we'll try to get that done soon.

And here are some screenshots of it
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As a reward for creating this arena, Eclipse has received a 500x500 territory in the main world, any town can create an arena and receive a similar reward, if you're interested feel free to contact me.

As mentioned previously, NPC shops have been added back, with more coming soon. Many shopkeepers such as the florist, baker, butcher, and blacksmith's assistant have been given shops such as these, where you can buy and sell items to the server. Please note these prices are meant as a 'last resort', you should always check player shops, they will almost always have a better deal than these guys.

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Guards at spawn have also been buffed, receiving more HP, armor, and damage. They will in the near future be buffed again to compete with the end-game armor many have acquired. Speaking of NPCs, we've also added back NPC talking, simply download and apply our NPC resource pack, then right-click any NPC at spawn. Be sure your sound is on!

A long awaited addition, banks are ready to be added, but for some reason they aren't working anymore. I'll announce it later when they actually work..

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A preview of something pretty cool that Shopkeepers will be receiving soon, are scratch cards! These are currently still being developed, and will be released when rewards and card tiers can be finalized.

Scratch cards are special items that when used, will spawn a map in your inventory, but it isn't just any old map! If you hold shift, and move your mouse around, it will 'scratch' away part of the map, allowing you to win rewards, or not.

Shopkeepers will be able to purchase these in bulk and sell them to others on the server, or use them themselves.

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Lastly, we will be holding a Halloween event on the 29th through the 31st, we'll reveal some more info a few days before the event takes place!

Here are a few rewards you'll be able to receive during the event

• Choice of a Skeleton or Zombie title, obtainable only from this event
• A Zombie or Skeletal horse, limit of one per person, also only obtainable from this event
• Various premium memberships, as well as disguise packs
• Crystals, items, and more!

Hope to see you all on!

We have another 3 quests added, with 3 more that will be added within the next few days! As always, the wiki has the latest info on them.

Ready for Battle
Alchemy and Metallurgy
Trouble's Brewing

Ready for Battle will begin a new quest line, so you'll want to get that one done if you want to continue through it to earn a special title when the rest of the quests are done.

We're also going to be adding new quest types in the near future, now that we have plenty of quests that you can use to get easy crystals, we can spend more time on fun quests.