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Server updates posted here!

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Mickket

The server now uses a very small resource pack for future new items. Players who already use a resource pack will be able to use the servers resourcepack without effecting their current ones. Future new items will not look any different if you do not accept the servers resource pack. The resource pack may expand to more blocks/items in the future and it would be advised to use the servers resourcepack fto experience full gameplay enjoyment on the server. If you have server resource packs disabled for our server you can enable them via the edit button in the server list.

 

New Item(s):

Treasure Chest Key - Opens a treasure chest

Mickket

Premium & VIP[+]

  • Premium: %100 cosmetic token increase
  • VIP: %200 cosmetic token increase
  • VIP+: %300 cosmetic token increase

Classes

  • Adventurer: No Changes
  • Excavator;
  • ► Precision Mode (Removed)
  • ► Cleave Mode (New): Similar to the old precision mode. Breaks all ores near the player.
  • ► Light Sphere: (Removed)
  • ► Phantom Torch (New): Similar to the old light sphere, the phantom torch is placed floating at the players location providing light for 30 seconds.
  • Soldier: No Changes
  • Spelunker;
  • ► Goldsacks (Changed): Goldsacks will no longer drop from mobs for Spelunkers. Instead they will sometimes drop an emerald.
  • Magician;
  • Spell: Mining Minion (New): Conjures a floating pickaxe that will mine ores for you.
  • Spell: Fly (New): Allows the magician to fly slowly for 30 seconds. Effect is lost on disconnect.
  • Ender Magi;
  • ► Foci (Removed): Ender Magi no longer use foci
  • ► Water Damage (Removed): Ender Magi no longer take damage from water blocks/rain.
  • Magi Archer:(Removed)
  • Bard;(New)
  • ► Bards can play various songs to provide buffs for themselves and nearby players. They can also damage and calm mobs with their songs.

Plugins

  • Slimefun (Removed): Waiting for Slimefun 4
  • Exotic Garden[Fruits & Vegetables] (Removed): Too much overhead and were generally useless
  • Protocol Support[1.5.2 - 1.7.10 Support](Removed): Too many features on the server require 1.7.10+
  • DynMap (Pending): This plugin may not return

Worlds

  • World-Epic: Enhanced noise generated world
  • World-Ancient: Complex generated world with structures

Mechanics & Other

  • Player names are now colored depending on their server rank.
  • Class names on the tab list have been changed to icons to reduce clutter.
  • Traders have been excluded because the new currency system works well with villagers.
  • Crafted shears have been adjusted to compensate for the no-decay leaf blocks in the worlds.
  • Players can obtain cosmetic tokens for participating on the server (digging/hunting/crafting) which can be used to buy cosmetic unlocks, equipment, and other uncraftable items.
  • The cost of epic and legendary items has been significantly increased.
  • Players can now gain EXP and standard mob drops off mobs spawned by mob-spawners. They cannot obtain special items from said mobs though.

SpitefulBatman

Some Minor fixes and adjustments to the server today as well as some tax adjustments.

  • Creating a New Town
    Was: $20.00
    Now: $30.00
  • Creating an Outpost
    Was: $15.00
    Now: $22.00
  • Claiming a Town Extension/Plot
    Was: $10.00
    Now: $15.00
  • Death Price
    Was: $0.15
    Now: $0.50
  • Tax Rate per Plot per Day
    Was: $3.00/plot
    Now: $5.00/plot
  • Since Version 2.0, The map has increased almost double the size with more to come.
  • New Tutorial Section is in the works, so far we have opened up the towny one. Due to some void fog it may be moved, but it is still usable.
  • Those who have been with us for some time will remember the old town of Argenta. It is now being rebuilt and the Red Gods Revenge looks to be travelling there soon!
  • Towny Has been readded to the Dynamic Map (http://www.ldshadowlady.com/map) now that players have established their towns.
  • New Item in Secret Shop!

Mickket

Here is the list of benefits that come with premium and V.I.P statuses.

Premium

  • Orange Premium suffix beside name. Orange name.
  • Keep inventory on death.
  • Access to additional classes on the LDS server.
  • Access to 2 /sethome locations.
  • Can disguise as animals
  • Access to a wider range of pets (All the animal pets)
  • Can color chat messages using the symbol & and a letter or number afterwords. (a-f, 0-9)
  • Can set nickname using the /nick command. Can also use color codes to add color.

VIP

  • Yellow V.I.P suffix beside name. Yellow name.
  • Keep inventory and experience on death
  • Access to additional classes on the LDS server.
  • Access to 5 /sethome locations.
  • Can disguise as animals and monsters.
  • Access to a wider range of pets (All animals pets. All monster pets)
  • Can color and format chat messages using the symbol & and a letter or number afterwords. (a-f, 0-9, k, l, m, n, o, r)
  • Can set nickname using the /nick command. Can also use color codes to add color and format.
  • Teleporting Compass

VIP+ (Major ABGN Supporter)

  • Purple V.I.P+ suffix beside name. Magenta name. Yellow chat text.
  • VIP benefits.

Mickket

Magic armor crafting

  • Arcanist Sam: Turns enchanted items into cosmic essence.
  • Artificer Dori: Crafts armor using cosmic essence.
  • Gemshaper Enji: Combines cosmic essence and gems to form magical gems which can be inserted into armor crafted by Artificer Dori.

Players can check their accumulation of stats from items by using /stats or /stats toggle

Players can now lock certain entities.

  • Armor Stands
  • Horses (Does not prevent riding)
  • Paintings
  • Minecart Chests
  • Item Frames

SpitefulBatman

I am formally naming the current server and its configuration Version 1.0 of LDShadowLady Server.

Why issue it a version?

As we make improvement and changes, we will refer to version numbers to help us log and maintain the server state. Where possible, we will keep this up to date as much as possible, this will include Bugs, New Features, New Plugins, Removed Plugins, Events and new cities. We will use it for version control and reference.

Known Bugs:

  • Pit of Despair can Kill Players allowing them to go back to spawn.
  • On occasion, items are still dropped by premium (and above) players. This is very intermittent and fairly rare.
  • Shops have been disabled due to a bug causing server instability.

Recent Events:

  • Due to major X-Ray issues and Economy flooding, several players have been rolled back over 3 months, therefore restoring a lot of resources back to the community. The economy is currently being looked at for when the shops are back online.
  • Arena 1 has been attacked and now has a quarter of the field missing. It is all that much harder to PVP there now!

Upcoming Events:

  • There will be a major server reset Poll coming soon. We strongly advise keeping look out for it, its kind of a big deal!
  • Please also look out for a poll regarding server performance since the major upgrade, we want to hear your feedback!

Server Updates:

  • Added Herobrine.

If you know of any major bugs that I have not covered, please report them in the bugs section as we will be handling them over the coming weeks.

SpitefulBatman

Several people have come to be regarding the bug with dropping items near shops. It is a known issue and there is nothing we can do about it right now.

Bug Report:

If I drop items on the ground near the shops, they disappear.

Reason:

The shops use item bundles to display the items. Because of this, Minecraft 'stacks' the items onto the display, which eats the item forever. There is no way to get the item back once it has stacked into the display.

Workaround:

Don't drop items near shops.

SpitefulBatman

The Server Reset Vote has been completed. The results are as follows;

FROM: www.ldshadowlady.com/ldupdate

Vote to Reset: Passed

Vote to Tax: Passed

All new Services are now online here: http://www.abgn.net/services

Any service purchased here will be for the new server. Services/Currency/Items purchased within the past 60 days will be transferred and reawarded to you upon the new server commencing.

If you want to purchase a Build Transfer, please ensure that your build meets the space requirements before purchasing. If you intend to purchase, you may keep building and all changes until the last minutes will come across.

End of the Server

We are hoping to do an apocolyptic ending much like the previous one. A backup of the server will be taken and then the majority of the server will crumble to the horde of zombies and their allies as they take control of the world. If you are transferring a build, this will NOT effect you. ShadowLands will be the final stand to the horde.

Current Transfer List:

- Capitol Building

- Server Maze(s)

- Server Race Track

- Grand Jail/Prison

- Old Spawn Theatre

- Arena 1

- Arena 2

- Arena 3

- Arena 4

- 100 Acre Woods

- Rogue Town

Reset is Expected to be Initiated the weekend of May 25th, 2013.

Mickket

Event

  • Significantly lowered the drop rate on presents.
  • Added more goodies to rare presents.

World Portals

  • World portals no longer teleport players to a specific area. They will now teleport players to a random location on a specific world.

Worlds

  • The Industrial Winter and Ice Dimension have been removed. Although these 2 worlds had interesting land generation and world mechanics they often confused the majority of new players. They also lacked player interactivity to warrant having the worlds running.
  • With the removal of 2 worlds The Grand Frontier world has had its world boundary increased to 4000.

Classes

  • Ender Magi foci regen rate has been doubled.
  • Ender Magi teleport should be more responsive.

  • Solders crashing leap ability is much more effective now and should no longer prematurely trigger at the players origin location. It will also knock monsters up into the air and slow them down. This skill now deals damage to other players who are PvP tagged. Lowered the cooldown of this ability to 6 seconds.
  • Soldiers have a new bashing ability. Sneak-Attack to bash an enemy back and slow them for a couple seconds. Bash has a 4 second cooldown.

Mickket

  • Fixed the "random placement portal" at spawn.
  • Added Fastcraft to the server. (Hurray, easy crafting)
  • Updated ExoticGardens (Adds several new recipes/vegetables/fruits/etc)
  • Fixed monsters not dropping gold sacks for Spelunkers.
  • Fixed monsters not dropping treasure chests.
  • Fixed monsters not dropping Slimefun pages.

Mickket

The adventurers glider should once again allow players to glide through the air.

Players should no longer drop their inventory when killed by another player (experimental) (Bug: Premium players will appear to have an empty inventory when they respawn from pvp death. This is not the case)

Mickket

  • Magicians will no longer have their mana set to 0 when they rejoin the server.
  • Ender Magi will no longer have their foci set to 0 when they rejoin the server.
  • Ender Magi class items have been condensed a bit. The ender crafting frame does both transmutation and crafting now.
  • Adventurers first jump will be a regular jump with any proceeding jumps being higher for a few seconds.
  • Soldiers should no longer lose their extra health when ever they open up an inventory.
  • Magi Archers no longer receive a speed buff when aiming their bow.
  • Players who have a bonus to jump height will have their first jump will be a regular jump with any proceeding jumps being higher for a few seconds.
  • Players no longer regain all their health when opening an inventory.
  • Players will no longer die 10 times when they die.
  • Slimefun will no longer hand new players slimefun guides.

Mickket

Seasonal and Holiday Events:

  • Added Wintermas (Christmas) items to mob drops. These items have a chance to drop cosmetic unlocks.
  • Started work on expanding seasonal and holiday events/items that only occur within certain seasons and or holidays.

To see and or activate your cosmetics use the following command: /cosmetic

The current seasonal event this month is Wintermas. Monsters, er-- Herogrinechs henchmen have been stealing presents from everyone! They have a chance to drop presents that can be opened. They may contain cosmetic unlocks which match the theme of Wintermas.

Mickket

- Adventurers an now perform power leaps by sneaking and jumping. (10 second cooldown)

- Players can now link items in their hand into chat by using the command /link.

- The random placement portal will no longer lag the server to death.

- Excavators can now place blocks up to 15 blocks away from themselves by sneak right clicking.

Mickket

- Adjusted spawn and consolidated portals to their own chamber.

- Continued effort to reduce server lag.

- Reset the nether and created a new one using custom generator.

- Added Autosort back on to the server

- Wild Wolves (Wolf variant that spawns in any biome) can now be tamed. Rabid Wolves remain untamable.

- Players should no longer lose access to their town or ownership of their town when changing their name.

- The server will restart every 4 hours instead of 2 hours now.

Premium and VIP additions:

- Premium accounts can now use nicknames using /nick <name>

- Premiums can use color codes within their nickname http://ess.khhq.net/mc/

- VIP and VIP+ can now use nicknames using /nick <name>

-VIP and VIP+ can use both format codes and color codes within their nickname http://ess.khhq.net/mc/