Deano

I believe that people are having problems voting on Minestatus.net and recieving errors such as:

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This is due to the protest against SOPA. As this is only a 24 hour protest everything should be fine in the morning.

I just wanted to let people know what was happening especially those who do not know what SOPA is. If you do not know what SOPA is then all i can say is, have you been living under a rock?

Here is some brief information on SOPA:

Q: What is SOPA anyway?

A: There are actually two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA, in the House and sister legislation called the Protect IP [Intellectual Property] Act, or PIPA, in the Senate. Both are designed to tackle the problem of foreign-based websites that sell pirated movies, music and other products.

Federal law enforcement has the authority to shut down U.S.-based websites that offer pirated content, but they can't directly do the same to foreign sites like Pirate Bay. The Motion Picture Association of America, the legislation's main backer, estimates 13% of American adults have watched illegal copies of movies or TV shows online, and it says the practice has cost media companies billions of dollars.

Also feel free to watch this video from John "TotalBiscuit" Bain who does a very good job of explaining the whole SOPA situation.

For more information on why SOPA is affecting your voting and various other internet experiences please visit these links.

http://americancensorship.org/
http://online.wsj.co...=googlenews_wsj
http://www.minecraft.net/

Thanks for reading.

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What new cauldron recipes would you like to see? If we get some popular suggestions i will think about adding them.

Also include what you think you should have to put in the cauldron to get the item.

Thanks.

We are currently looking to push out the Minecraft 1.1 update tonight. So be prepared for lag and downtime.

Also if the homepage looks a bit weird its because we are currently doing some work on it.

To get realtime updates and news on our progress make sure to follow us on facebook and twitter.

I have decided to start a project that the server can work on together. We are going to try and recreate the RuneScape world in Minecraft in as much detail as possible to scale. RuneScape is a free to play MMORPG so if you want to help us develop this new world, go get an account at RuneScape.com and start checking out the world/map.

I was going to do Middle Earth from LOTR but it turns out another server is already very far ahead with that and it is a huge project so i decided to do something a little simpler and everyone can help as RuneScape is free to play and explore.

This world can be accessed by using the Worlds StarGate in the Zagora pyramid.

World Information:

• Creative Mode: ON
  
• Weather: OFF
  
• Mobs: OFF
  
• Animals: ON
  
• PVP: OFF
  
• Dynamic Map: ON

Rules:

• No Griefing - You will be banned!
  
• Only Veterans and above can build/destroy.
  
• No underground mining tunnels.
  
• Follow the map scale and details as much as possible.
  
• If you don't know what your doing, don't do anything.
  
• If you need help ask someone who knows or post in these forums.

I will be looking for people to lead the development of this world. If you have experience in RuneScape and are interested in helping then let me know. Lead developers will get an [RS] tag in-game.

Overhead Map:


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Mojang have released an update for Minecraft, bringing us to Minecraft 1.1.

• Along with several bug fixes, this update provides the following:
  
• Bow Enchantments
  
• Golden Apple recipe
  
• New language translations.
  
• Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
  
• Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
  
• Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
  
• Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
  
• Removed collision box from ladders
  
• Sheep eat grass and regain their wool

As usual DO NOT update your client until you know that we have updated our server or else you will not be able to play. As soon as bukkit release a recommended build we will update. Hopefully it shouldn't take anymore than a week as they are already working on it.

While you wait for us to update the server, check out this video for a sneak peek on what Minecraft 1.1 has to offer:

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