Well, the time has come for the last week of the server's existence. I wish it didn't have to get to this point, but alas we are here. Some of the server's builds have been around for around 6 years or so, so there is quite a lot of history here. Rather than just let everything go quietly, I figure we could just celebrate by destroying everything. Kind of weird, isn't it? That alone can create memories. Given the fact that we will have no server after March 15, there's no better way than to see it out in a way that will be remembered.
I can remember the TNT party on a map of a previous server that I had built some stuff on with some friends. Seeing everything get destroyed was at a time that I really liked to be a part of, even though we were destroying stuff it took a long time to build. Gosh that was memorable; the build, the TNT event, everything. That event was partly the inspiration of what I'm doing here; taking all the hard work and destroying it all, with a backup of course. It makes for some good memories that I hope I won't only remember, but you guys too. I encourage you to take videos of it as well that can be posted on youtube or somewhere else. I have a video of what we built here (one of our builders was Fangula):
As part of this update, there are some interesting changes that I want to note:
- You may now build/destroy anywhere
- Everyone may use /lights on to see underground. Helps if you're just blowing holes in the earth
- Arrows explode on impact
- Right-clicking with a stick will make a huge explosion
- Everyone is in creative mode, so no one takes damage
- Right-clicking entities will cause a huge explosion
- Fires will burn everywhere, unrestricted
When March 15 approaches, the plan is to continue maintaining the forums, at least for a year after or so, also allowing you guys to download the world files. There will also be backups of the worlds prior to this week long event. I will also publicize the IDP after the server closes. I'm also thinking of finishing the statistics part of the changelog system to get some in-depth statistics on the latest changelog data.
