PvE blog
That's right. Those pesky leprechauns are at it again!
Starting tomorrow evening and running through Monday (US Central (cujobear) time) PvE will be teeming with leprechauns who are ready to fight you to keep all their gold for themselves.
Fight back and collect all the goodies they drop. You will be able to turn in drops for special items at a trader in spawn (arriving on Saturday).
This will not be an easy fight. Leprechauns are small and fast! They are armed and pack a bit of a punch! Be prepared for an epic battle.
Happy St Patrick's Day!
~the padmins
Posted by Cujobear on March 14, 2023 in PvE
Roses are red,
Admin Hunts are fun
Hey! Look at that torch
it's on the run!!!
This weekend the Padmins will be hosting 5 sessions of Valentine Day Admin Hunts.
How do Admin Hunts work?
Admin Hunts work like Prop Hunt. Admins can be disguised as blocks, mobs, or even other players. Find them and kill them to earn loot boxes. We ask that players be respectful of each other and make sure the loot boxes get to the player most deserving of the prize. This could mean that a player that found and did 90% of the damage to an admin be given the loot box by the player that swooped in and got the final killing swing in. Since admins are particpants if they ask you to pass a loot box to the player they know deserves the prize, please be considerate and pass the box over.
During admin hunts many of the admins will also be in mumble. While we do try to give hints in the event clanchat, it is quite fun to hear us fret and scream in mumble!
Where is the Admin Hunt?
This Admin hunt will be held at Berrybury from Rev 27. Berrybury was built by TemporarilyAlive and Spook6.
You can get there by taking the carriage at the North entrance of Spawn. You will need an empty inventory to enter the arena. However, there will be chests available at the arena. Use /cprivate to claim a chest and add your name to the sign on the chest.
When will the sessions take place?
Killing admins is fun, but will there be anything else to do at the arena?
Glad you asked! In addition to the usual 20 event tokens and admin hidden around the arena, there are also 20 Valentines to find and collect. When you see a deco head valentine in the arena, look for a nearby sign and click it. Each sign has a max use of 1 per player.
Posted by Cujobear on Feb. 6, 2023 in PvE
The custom dragon fight is finally here!
Starting Friday night after event (9:30pm Eastern US) you will be able to earn an elytra by defeating the Dragon and the 10 bosses that protect it. This is a custom fight, and will not be easy.
To summon the dragon you must place 4 end crystals on the 4 sides of the exit portal in the end. All crystals will be invulnerable once spawned. Each crystal will summon a boss mob that you must defeat before you can do any damage to the dragon.
The player that places the fourth end crystal to spawn the dragon (the fight “owner”) will receive the prize box when the dragon is defeated, even if they’re off-line. If your inventory is full when the dragon dies and you own the fight, the plugin will record your victory and you can claim it later by running /dragon prize. You can check the current stage and owner of the dragon fight by running /dragon info.
Fights that are abandoned by a player unable to defeat the bosses will have ownership transferred by admins to a player willing to complete the fight. If you feel you cannot defeat the dragon solo, please ask for help or ask someone to take over before logging out. Admins can change ownership of the dragon fight for you. If there are no admins online, please run /dragon info and /seen on the fight owner, take a screenshot of that info, then modreq that the fight was abandoned (with an imgur link to the screenshot) BEFORE killing the dragon. Otherwise we cannot look back to see who to contact about the prize box.
The Prize box will be 1 of 10 different shulkers. Prizes will include the dragon head, elytra, and other goodies.
Want to be the Ultimate Dragon Slayer? Trade your dragon heads in for a dragon egg with the number of dragon fights completed as the egg name. Hang the egg in an item frame to show your DragonSlayer level! (DragonSlayer levels will start at 5 dragons killed, for higher levels you will need to trade in your lower level egg plus additional dragon heads)
A few more words from the padmins:
- The DragonFight plugin was developed by totemo, and the bosses were designed by cujobear and totemo.
- We reserve the right to adjust the difficulty of the fight and to make any changes as are necessary to correct any problems discovered. We will factor your feedback into this evaluation.
- We also ask that you be considerate of other players and allow everyone an opportunity to obtain a set of elytras before you start trying to speed run the dragon fight.
We strongly suggest
- Be well prepared with good armor, lots of food, arrows, shield, etc
- Be sure to have at least 30 mins to fight (first time will most likely take longer)
- Try the battle with a group, and take turns summoning the dragon
- Sleep in a bed near the end portal before entering the end to fight
- Keep spare armor, extra food, and weapons somewhere safe nearby
We ask that players be respectful of each other and the arena. Please clean up the arena after your fight including killing left over support mobs, putting out fires, and picking up blocks, boxes, and shulkers.
And finally, I want to thank everyone for their patience while I struggled putting this dragon fight together and while totemo worked through some technical difficulties.
~cujo
Posted by Cujobear on Jan. 25, 2023 in PvE
Some old friends will be popping in to send 2022 off with a bang. Keep a watchful eye on the sparkly ones. They've got a trick or two up their... well if they only had arms...
A good bow is recommended. Some blast protection armor would be even better. Failing that, you'd better be a good runner.
We'll be kicking off the festivities at the next restart, and celebrating throughout the weekend.
Posted by Cujobear on Dec. 29, 2022 in PvE
What have those Naughty Elves done ???
Starting December 1st and running through Christmas Day, the Padmins will be Once More hosting the 12 Days of PvE Christmas.
It seems the elves ate too many Christmas cookies and drank the Eggnog when Santa wasn't looking. Too much sugar and "Nog" have
led to some Naughty Elf Behavior.
Taking a page from their cousins The Elf on the Shelf , Santa's helpers have been running amok at the North Pole.
Now and through Christmas Day Be on the lookout for proof of their Mischief! They have hidden around the map evidence of their Crimes against Santa.
They are pleased with themselves and want to show-off all the work they have done so they set up a Christmas Market Stall at Spawn.
It's not hard to find , Look for the Candy Canes and Noel the Elf.
He will gleefully sneak you a copy of the locations. Rumor has it they took things from Santa's WorkShop and have left gifts for everyone lucky enough to find them.
New locations will be revealed Every 2 days around 8pm EST , Be sure to look for the Elf Broadcast.
Always make sure you have the inventory space for your Compass and your Gift !!
These Locations will be Visible Through New Year's Day, when the Elf's Christmas Magic fades away and Noel and the Market must return to the North Pole.
Happy Holidays from the Padmin team !
Posted by I_c_e_ on Nov. 30, 2022 in PvE
It's spoopy season once again!!
This year some of the mobs have decided to dress up as their favorite nerd.nu admins.
Hunt mobs dressed as cadmins, techs, heads, and padmins for a chance to collect a jack o'lantern,
Players will work together to earn a prize that will be given out on Halloween.
The number of jack o'lanterns turned in at the spawn trading stall will determine what level prize all players will earn.
9 stacks of jack o'lanterns - Low Tier Prize Box
18 stacks of jack oi'lanterns - Mid Tier Prize Box
27 stacks of jack o'lanterns - High Tier Prize Box
The Halloween Mob Event will start tonight after our weekly event and run through the evening of Oct 31st (US Central (cujobear) time)
Once the tally is done a prize sign will be placed at the trader for players to collect their prize. The prize sign will stay up for 1 week and then will be removed.
Posted by Cujobear on Oct. 21, 2022 in PvE
PvE's Revision 29 will launch on October 7th with the theme: 'English Countryside' and the padmins want your help sprucing the map with your best builds!
For this revision we are looking for Folly style buildings for the overworld. Check out wikipedia for an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly.
We have been doing this style event for a few revs now, but in case you forgot here is a quick rundown. Padmins will hide the builds around the overworld before the revision launch for players to explore and find a collectible. We are limitng the complete set at 20-25 collectibles so the best builds will be chosen.
Due to not having 1.19 blocks available on the Creative server we will allow players to build in their single player worlds and turn in a litematica schem to be pasted into a 1.19 world and judged. For those without litematica we can change some blocks to 1.19 blocks after pasting (talk with cujo via discord before beginning your build if you want blocks replaced)
How To Participate:
In game
- log into the Creative server
- type /warp WeeklyBuild
- Make sure to read the rules below and the category before starting
- Find an empty plot and type /nerdplot claim
- You may build with a friend, and you do have access to World Edit!
- The contest will run from tonight until Saturday, Sep 24th, at 9PM EDT.
Using Litematica
- Keep builds to a 25x25 area footprint, you can build 50 high and 25 deep
- build on flat land
- Send a copy of the schematic to cujobear via discord by Sep 24th
Rules
- Builds must follow all regular PvE rules. No NSFW builds
- builds can be any size, as long as it fits within the build plot, no more than 25 blocks deep.
- you can enter as many builds as you would like, and can even build more than one entry per plot
- All entries become the property of Nerd.nu
- Not all entries will be used in the next map, depending on how the build fits in the theme, build size, and how the build will fit on the map
Recap & Other Info
- 1.19 blocks will not be available on the Creative Server
- these builds are for the overworld
- Like in previous revs, padmins will be adding a collectible to the builds used
- Builds should be able to be explored in under 10 mins
- Your builds will be protected from grief, but also be sure not to include player traps or areas that would require the player to dig or build
~the padmins
Posted by Cujobear on Sept. 10, 2022 in PvE
Hiya Nerds!
The end of Rev 28 is upon us, but fear not, Rev 29 is on the way!
On Friday 7th October 2022 PvE Rev 29 will begin.
We will be launching on 1.19.2 with measures in place to disable the controversial chat reporting.
Rev 28's final save will be on Thursday 6th October and there will be 1 day of chaos before closing for maintenance.
As with previous revs we will be running a build competition for hidden structures, which we will reveal in a separate post soon.
We will have more information about Rev 29 in the coming weeks so look out for that!
In the meantime, here is a teaser of whats to come.
Posted by TemporarilyAlive on Sept. 9, 2022 in PvE
The Return of A Very Creeper Easter
Did you know that Easter is the Creeper's absolute FAVORITE holiday?
This year the creepers wanted to go all out with a major celebration. They got all dressed up, gave candies and gifts to their friends, and dyed eggs to hide. It turns out that mobs not only don't like to share, they are greedy and they ruin everything! Now the creepers don't want to give up the beautiful eggs they colored and are keeping them to themselves.
The antics have started and will run through approximately 11pm EDT April 17th.
To get the full experience use tict0c's Easter resource pack by typing /usepack to list your options.
There are 2 options /usepack easter or /usepack easter-no-music.
You can use /resetpack to clear the resource pack you were using.
Here's a breakdown of what you can expect during the event-
Most regular mobs (zombie varieties, skeleton varieties, witches, and of course creepers) will be replaced with an Easter version. All Easter mobs will appear in the overworld only. Zombies, skeletons, witches, spiders, and endermen may spawn holding Easter goodies. Creepers will spawn with a chance to drop an Easter Egg skull or an Easter Boomer!
There are 20 Easter Eggs to collect, as well as 7 deco skulls and 4 different candies.
Map Wide Easter Egg Hunt
Can you find them all?
Also returning this year is a map wide egg hunt. The hunt will begin on Friday and will stay in place until the end of the revision.
Explore the map or check out the live map to find 50 eggs hidden in the overworld.
All eggs are 2D and are 9 blocks tall (N/S) and 7 blocks wide (E/W). Some eggs may be slightly hidden (partially under a tree or half in a cave) but all should be mostly visible on the live map.
Once you find the egg you must find the hidden sign with 25 blocks of the egg to claim your prize. You will receive 2 items when you hit the sign, an Easter Egg (deco skull) and an Egg Token.
If you can find all 50 Eggs you can turn in the 50 Egg Tokens for a Grand Prize! (the prize box will include event tokens, Guilders, a few other goodies and an Eff VI pick!)
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 2 OPEN SPACES IN YOUR INVENTORY BEFORE HITTING THE SIGN!!!!!
Struggling to find some of the Eggs (or just too lazy to put some effort in?) on May 1st a trader will arrive in spawn to sell Hint Tokens for a hefty price. The hint tokens will be a compass that will lead you to the egg, but you will still need to locate the prize sign on your own.
Posted by Cujobear on April 11, 2022 in PvE
The custom dragon fight is finally here!
You are now able to earn an elytra by defeating the Dragon and the 10 bosses that protect it. This is a custom fight, and will not be easy.
To summon the dragon you must place 4 end crystals on the 4 sides of the exit portal in the end. All crystals will be invulnerable once spawned. Each crystal will summon a boss mob that you must defeat before you can do any damage to the dragon.
The player that places the fourth end crystal to spawn the dragon (the fight “owner”) will receive the prize box when the dragon is defeated, even if they’re off-line. If your inventory is full when the dragon dies and you own the fight, the plugin will record your victory and you can claim it later by running /dragon prize. You can check the current stage and owner of the dragon fight by running /dragon info.
Fights that are abandoned by a player unable to defeat the bosses will have ownership transferred by admins to a player willing to complete the fight. If you feel you cannot defeat the dragon solo, please ask for help or ask someone to take over before logging out. Admins can change ownership of the dragon fight for you. If there are no admins online, please run /dragon info and /seen on the fight owner, take a screenshot of that info, then modreq that the fight was abandoned (with an imgur link to the screenshot) BEFORE killing the dragon. Otherwise we cannot look back to see who to contact about the prize box.
The Prize box will be 1 of 10 different shulkers. Prizes will include the dragon head, elytra, a mob skull and other goodies. Want to be the Ultimate Dragon Slayer? Trade your dragon heads in for a dragon egg with the number of dragon fights completed as the egg name. Hang the egg in an item frame to show your DragonSlayer level! (DragonSlayer levels will start at 5 dragons killed, for higher levels you will need to trade in your lower level egg plus additional dragon heads)
A few more words from the padmins:
- The DragonFight plugin was developed by totemo, and the bosses were designed by cujobear.
- We reserve the right to adjust the difficulty of the fight and to make any changes as are necessary to correct any problems discovered. We will factor your feedback into this evaluation.
- We also ask that you be considerate of other players and allow everyone an opportunity to obtain a set of elytras before you start trying to speed run the dragon fight.
We strongly suggest
- Be well prepared with good armor, lots of food, arrows, shield, etc
- Be sure to have at least 30 mins to fight (first time will most likely take longer)
- Try the battle with a group, and take turns summoning the dragon
- Sleep in a bed near the end portal before entering the end to fight
- Keep spare armor, extra food, and weapons somewhere safe nearby
I ask that players be respectful of each other and the arena. Please clean up the arena after your fight including fixing carpet breaks, killing left over mobs, putting out fires, and picking up blocks and boxes / shulkers.
And finally, I want to thank everyone for their patience while I struggled putting this dragon fight together and while totemo worked through some technical difficulties. I think I was more disappointed in my self that I was late then any complaining or criticism I heard from the community. You guys are the best!
~cujo
Posted by Cujobear on March 16, 2022 in PvE
