The past few months since Mojang released the 1.8 game update have been hectic, and here's a summary of everything that's been going on.
The recent moderator electionAs many of you know, we recently had a mod election, the victor being Dshumway62. If you see him, make sure to congratulate him. For this mod election we tried out a new way of electing somebody. We asked you what you wanted in a staff member, and the staff team then picked the candidates, and carried out interviews. The interviews were a great success, and we look to continue this format in the future. With this election, we decided to do a double promotion. Congratulations to Almirith on the promotion to Admin. Be sure to check out the mod election post here:
http://archives.codespeak.org/innectis/forum/index.php/topic,3239.0.htmlIDP ProgressWe recently updated to IDP version 9.4.1. Progress on IDP has been great, our developer, AlphaBlend has been working around the clock to pump out cool updates. We have some pretty cool new features planned and we are excited to bring them to you. The direction IDP is heading in is exciting, and the future of the project looks bright. The 1.8 update should allow us to expand IDP beyond our wildest expectations. Should you have any suggestions as to cool features you would like to see added to IDP, let us know here:
http://archives.codespeak.org/innectis/forum/index.php/board,6.0.htmlThe Next Building ContestYou guys wanted it, and we are proud to announce the next building contest. The theme for the next building contest will be "Winter." Stay tuned to the forums for further announcements regarding the contest. The first building contest we had was held during the week of Halloween. Many great builds were submitted, but there could only be one winner. Congratulations to RoyalSyn on winning the contest, and some pretty neat prizes. Check out the original building contest post here to see the 3 players who placed for prizes:
http://archives.codespeak.org/innectis/forum/index.php/topic,3216.0.htmlThe Vanilla serverWhen Mojang updated to 1.8, we spent a week or two on a vanilla server, as requested by the community. The vanilla server was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see people building in groups. The 1.8 update added some really cool new blocks, and structures, and the builds people made with the new blocks/items were really nice to see. When we changed back to 1.7.10, we created a world download for those who still wanted to work on their vanilla builds. You can find the world download here:
http://files.innectis.net/worlds/Vanilla-18.zipMini-GamesStarScythe7 has been working on a couple of mini-games since we enabled command blocks on the server. Firstly, we have Hide & Seek, which contains a set of 6 maps, created by members of the community. You can find the Hide & Seek lobby at /warp hs. We also have Duck Hunt, a minecraft twist on a retro game. Parkour your way to the top and kill the hunter. You can find the Duck Hunt lobby at /warp dh.