PvE blog
Full Listing Now Available -
We are now about 3 months into the revision, and everyone's builds are looking great. We also noticed that the Roadside Attractions no longer stand out as much as they did early in the rev. So, for anyone that has not yet traveled the map, or for those that are only missing 1 or 2 attractions, the following is a list of the Attraction Names, their corresponding numbers, and the builders.
- Historic Greenhouse, Smirkules
- World's Largest Block of Kelp, ixhi
- World's Largest Rocking Chair, LetsBFehr
- Eiffel Tower, CephalonOrdis
- Blarney Castle, AndyJF
- Spire Pond, ixhi
- Vanasauras Wreks, iNerd71
- Historic Spider Station, King_of_queso (Mystery Sand, iNerd71)
- Giant Ball of Twine, fazaden
- UFO Crash Site, Tomzski
- Stepwell, Treppich (nether)
- Western Border Crossing, Block86
- Big Potato, NastyHabits
- The Ruins, tadrogers
- MOW (Museum O' Wonder), tadrogers
- Giant Lapis Block, pez252
- Amazing Giant Geode, buzzie71
- The Mystery Shack, Weird_Grim
- Water Park, Raffone_Bros
- Bonehenge, Smirkules
- Charlie the Chicken, assasymphoni
- Historic Noob Settlement, King_of_queso
- Ooer Monument, sansapants
- Nether Pyramid, Weird_Grim
- Dragon Tower, ixhi (nether)
Upcoming Events
Selfie Scavenger Hunt -
Starting July 6th we will be releasing a series of scavenger hunts! There will be 3 levels (easy, medium, and hard). Each level will have 25 things you must locate on the map and take a selfie with. Send the screenshots in an imgur post to earn prizes! More details and a full list of rules will be released soon.
Admin Hunts!
We will be hosting a number of Admin Hunts over the July 4th weekend! This hunt will be a Gary's Mod Prop Hunt style of admins in disguise and players hunting them down and killing them to earn prize boxes. We will be re-visiting Revision 7's Bromland for this event. Exact dates and times will be released by Tuesday Jun 30th.
Points of Interest -
Many revisions back padmins had developed guidelines to determine if a place request would be granted. Things like number of builders, types of services (farms or villagers) that were in the area, arenas or other reasons to visit, and finally how complete the area was.
Posted by Cujobear on June 27, 2020 in PvE
It’s Memorial Day Weekend!
The unofficial start to summer! Time for a ROAD TRIP!
Wait . . . we’ve been doing that, let’s switch things up a bit.
It’s time for a STA-CATION!
Ok, we understand that sounds like no fun at all, and honestly when we told the moderators that they wouldn’t be able to take their scheduled road trips this weekend they were not happy with us. Actually, they are still REALLY mad. So mad they grabbed their summer gear and took off anyway. They will even attack any player that tries to get in their way.
Starting in approximately 24 hours and going through Monday, May 25th at 10:15pm (CDT) Rev 25’s Summer Sta-cation Event will be running on PvE. Angry moderators will be running amok across the map trying to get away for the weekend. Stop them! There will be a number of summer themed items to collect and you may even make the moderators lose their heads!
Disclaimer: Please do not try to attack or kill any actual moderators during this event
Posted by Cujobear on May 20, 2020 in PvE
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.
And to make things worse, the Easter Bunny is not pleased to hear that a bunch of creeps are trying to take over his holiday.
Join us on PvE for a Very Creeper Easter!
The antics will start in just about 24 hours from now and run through approximately 10pm EDT April 16th.
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.
You can also pre-download the resource pack from here if switching packs with the command causes connection problems.
Here's a breakdown of what you can look for 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, and drowned may spawn holding candies, an easter basket, or some Easter Lilies.
Creepers will spawn with a chance to drop goodies, an Easter Egg skull or BOTH!
Killing Easter Creepers can also earn you Easter Tokens which can be used for special trades at spawn.
Lastly, you may catch a glimpse of the Easter Bunny, be careful, he is cranky, but if you are able to catch him you may earn a unique skull.
Happy Easter from the padmins
Posted by Cujobear on April 8, 2020 in PvE
Introduction
At 6 PM Eastern time on the 13th of March, Chaos of Revision 24 will draw to a close. There will be a downtime of approximately 90 minutes if all goes well, where we’ll aim to launch Revision 25 at 7:30 PM Eastern.
We will be launching on 1.15.2! We aim to run this revision for a minimum of 6 months.
In this document we hope to lay out the information you’ll need in preparation for the new revision.
Expectations
We strive to design each revision in a way that every player can enjoy playing in their own style.
However -
We strongly recommend establishing a clear claim border before starting work on your builds in earnest.
Please see below for an update to the claim border policy.
Please make every effort to return death pile items to your fellow players.
For restarts, always try to avoid logging out while on a minecart or horse, while flying, or with a chest open - just in case it results in a loss of items.
Please be aware of server performance before logging in any bots to idle in any area. See below for more details.
Staff reserve the right to take appropriate actions against any player in order to maintain server harmony.
Theme
This revision’s theme will be Road Trip! This theme will be represented at spawn as well as through events, challenges, and collectibles for each of you to seek out over the course of the revision.
As always, players are under no obligation to build within this theme, participate in the challenges, or collect the collectibles.
Bots
We understand that many players enjoy the benefits of having a bot sit idly at a grinder while playing on their main account. We also, however, want to make it clear that our goal is to have a playable server the whole community can enjoy. Please do not use bots for at least the first month of the revision. If you decide to use a bot with automatic logging, please set the bot to log out once per hour. Padmins reserve the right to kick any bot (or idle player) found with built up mobs at any time necessary to improve server performance.
Overworld
The overworld for this revision will be 6000 x 6000. We opted to have a vanilla generated overworld, to allow players to experience the full benefits of vanilla features, like the Pillager outposts and bamboo forests. However a few sections of the map have been World Painted.
Special Biomes
Once again, we ask that no player or town make large claims in new and rare biomes, like warm oceans and bamboo forests. Protections for builds will still be granted but unfairly large claims may be considered invalid at Padmin discretion. Please be considerate.
Spawn
Revision 25’s spawn was designed by cujobear and built by the padmin team, with lots of sprucing by staff members.
Points of Interest in Spawn:
- Welcome center - You will begin your road trip in Spawnville’s Welcome Center. Meet our mascot Mr. Safety Moose and be sure to read all the rules!
- Free food - you will find some free samples at food carts just outside of the Welcome Center.
- Transit Station - Rails out of Spawnville and Bus Service to Mapworld, Events, and more will be found just east of the Welcome Center
- Bank - Found some odd items? Maybe the bankers will trade you for them?
- Shops - The shops in Spawnville will start populating with merchants a few weeks into the revision, be sure to stop back often!
- Post Office - Claim yourself a PO box located on the second floor.
- House Plots - There are 40 plots located inside spawn. To claim a plot stand inside and type /nerdplot claim. There is a limit to 1 plot per player and plots are only 10 blocks high. You are welcome to add a house or shop of your own to Spawnville; however please keep the small town feel in mind, follow general server rules, and any unused plots will be reclaimed by padmins.
Villagers
At this time we have decided to keep the vanilla villagers in place. We will be monitoring server performance closely and will make a decision in the near future. Please limit the number of villagers kept in one location.
Nether
Continuing the practice of a non-vanilla Nether, the Nether for Revision 25 has been custom made by Totemo and is 3000 x 3000. It also contains new custom mobs designed by cujobear. Nether spawn has been left undeveloped, in the hopes that its development will be handled by the community.
The End
Cheezychicken has, once again, custom generated the End. There are plenty of resources to gather spread across its 5000 x 5000.
Dragon Fight
The dragon fight will be vanilla for the first month of the revision, and no elytra will be awarded. This will allow time for players to explore on foot. Following that, a new dragon fight will make its debut to PvE.
Elytra
Elytra will once again be a guaranteed drop for slaying the dragon, once the custom fight has been added.
Shulkers
Shulkers will continue to be a respawning mob throughout the end for you to hunt down! We will be adjusting the number of shulkers spawns to less often than last revision.
Land Claims
Land claims indicate areas which you intend to build within. They must be clearly identifiable with a continuous non-natural wall or fence around the claim area. Regular signs (10-20 blocks apart) with your username and the date must be placed on the claim fence If your wall choice requires, reasonable entry points should be provided so the map remains accessible.
Admins reserve the right to invalidate a claim for any of the following reasons: Being too large (larger than you will reasonably use), claiming an area solely for access to resource mining, encircling another claim in an effort to take over, an incomplete or poorly identifiable claim fence, or violating any other build rules currently in place.
Don’t block waterways with your claim fence, place it one block above the waterline or place regular access points.
It is best practice to allow a ten block buffer between your claim and the nearest claim fencing for server harmony.
Ores
In the overworld, ore generation has not changed significantly. Ores can once again be found in the End! These ores are plumped in some areas and nerfed in others. There are trade offs for this, custom drops do not exist in the End.
Nether Portals
Revision 25 will include 8 claimable nether portals on the map, with an additional portal at spawn, as always.
Nether portal markers will appear as a sign designating the portal location (i.e. North, South, etc) The portal is “claimed” by the first player to punch the sign located on the marker. All 8 bedrock portal markers will be on the map at rev launch, with no additional portals being introduced later. They can be claimed by clicking the sign on the marker, which will make a modreq for you alerting the padmin team to your claim. Portal owners will have 14 days to place their portal and request its activation. Portal frames must be placed within 100 blocks of the marker and cannot exceed the maximum size of 25x9 within the frame. Once portals are placed they will only be moved for technical / padmin error, so make sure you contact padmins for questions before requesting the portal to be lit.
Here’s a link to the portal/custom spawner document that will be updated as each is found: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jC4Vum4PYTofiyz6jwzvXw9LPMe1VQMFYX-B5k9XZUQ/edit?usp=sharing
Custom Spawners
From day one there will be four custom spawners hidden on the map: creeper, slime, squid, and drowned. More may be added at a later date.
If you should find a custom spawner, click on the sign to claim the custom spawner as this will auto generate a modreq from you as proof. From this moment, you will have up to 14 days to request placement of your custom spawner within 100 horizontal blocks of the bedrock marker.
If the spawner is not placed within the required time period the marker will be re-hidden somewhere on the map.
The squid and drowned spawners have placement requirements, talk to a Padmin about where you plan for it to be placed before starting your grinder build!
That link again: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jC4Vum4PYTofiyz6jwzvXw9LPMe1VQMFYX-B5k9XZUQ/edit?usp=sharing
Iron Golem Spawners
We have made a few changes to the golem spawner costs to reflect feedback from last revision.
Cost for a spawner will include 10 golem souls, 3 padmin skulls, 320 stone blocks, 60 wood, 60 wool, 20 workstations, and 1 bell. The cost of upgrades remain the same from last revision. Please note: Any stone type, wood type, wool color, and padmin head will be acceptable.
Acceptable heads are i_c_e_, tict0c, cheezychicken, cujobear
Here is a cost sheet and visual representation of an accepted chest: https://imgur.com/a/06SvWlj
We will continue to allow a maximum of 4 spawners per grinder and 1 grinder per town; however, you may have a grinder containing between 1 and 4 spawners and you may upgrade them to higher tiers individually.
Please keep in mind that spawners will not be moved once placed.
The most efficient grinders use 4 spawners spaced 8 blocks apart from each other and spaced 5 blocks away from any wall.
Grinders
We will be continuing with the established policy regarding grinders, where you can set a grinder to be private and you do not need to share any of the drops.
The exception to this rule will continue to be for guardian grinders, blaze grinders and any custom spawners which must remain 100% public only at all times.
Livemap
We’re continuing the recent practice of having the livemap available from day one, but not having the terrain visible to start with. The live map will become available after 2 weeks.
Mapworld
Mapworld has once more been carried over from the prior revision!
You can teleport to mapworld from spawn. The teleport into map world will now spawn you in the SE quadrant where there are more empty plots available. We will be continuing to do some maintenance early rev, but feel free to use map world at any time.
Please remember that you must have an empty inventory to enter and leave mapworld. We have placed an enderchest near the entrance for your convenience. We have also added a command to mapworld's exit to automatically clear your inventory.
Plugins
We will continue to run our current plugins including hyper-carts and easy rider.
It’s a Trap will be updated to include the new mobs soon.
Gone Batty will be updated to include skulls of every mob soon.
To see a full list of plugins visit http://wiki.nerd.nu/wiki/Plugins
Custom Recipes
At this time we do not have custom recipes added back in. Recipes or traders will be added a few weeks after the start of the revision.
Posted by Cujobear on March 12, 2020 in PvE
Slime Spawner has been found!
The second of four custom spawners on the map has been located by Sir_Didymus. You can find it with /place Slime_Grinder.
And, yes, it was hidden in a swamp. I honestly thought I didn't hide that one very well. Thanks for all the offers of bribes, the messages asking for hints, and the accusations of forgetting to place the spawner before the rev started. It is always more fun to be involved and you all kept me involved for the entire hunt!
This leaves two spawners left to find: the creeper and the witch. Remember you are looking for a 1 wide by 2 tall pillar of bedrock with a sign on it. If you find it click the sign to claim the spawner! If these are not found soon we think the scientists might be able to help!
Suggestion Box Responses
We have responded to the next batch of suggestions. You can find the responses here
Skull Planet is now Open!
Designed by kumquatmay, skull planet is a place where you can purchase decorative skulls you can not obtain through dopplegangers. There is a transport ship ready at spawn to take you there! You can purchase a Custom Skull Token, then click the sign of the decorative skull you want. And, don't worry you cannot die on Skull Planet. Check out the reddit post here
Events
Admin Hunt
Thank you for all the suggestions for Admin Hunt arenas. We are going through them and have picked out a few we hope to use this rev. We expect to have the first hunt the weekend after the fundraiser.
Weekly Events
We would like to start up holding mini events weekly. This would change weekly from Spleef to Thimble, to PvP and archery events but we want your help! If you would like a week to be hosted in your town, build whatever style of arena you would like in your town and let us know when it is ready for use! More information will be coming soon
Other Events
Just kidding! No information on this until we are ready to release it, but something is being planned.
Around the Map
Pez, the dragon Slayer
No one will ever know the full story. What we do know was that the Pez252 will likely remain at the top spot of the dragon leaderboard for the duration of this rev.
We also know that Pez was trouble shooting the dragon fight, the dragon died and the announcement alerted those online that Pez252 killed the dragon in 3 seconds!
Buzzie71 created an amazing "recreation" of the feat immortalizing the event forever. You can find that video here. Buzzie did check with Hanstra before releasing the animation, and Hanstra is the actual current leader with a time of 6 minutes.
Solace has announced SPUNK, or Solace Platform Used for Nether Kills. It can be found North of the Northwest Nether Portal.
Pez252 has built a killing platform in the end, directly above the spawn area.
Feature Build
Nepenthes
Welcome to Nepenthes.
The town is located in the South at -1373, 1797. Owned by Kirstae and Spook6 this is one place that is a must see this rev!
Named after the carnivorous plant also known as a pitcher plant, the natural beauty is amazing. Besides the town's namesake, you will also find other larger than life flora.
It is quite easy to spend a lot of time just looking around.
Be sure to visit!
Posted by Cujobear on Sept. 8, 2019 in PvE
Life has slowed down a bit and we were finally able to have our first "official" padmin meeting of Rev 24.
Here are some of the things we talked about:
New Rev
We want to thank totemo for getting the rev launched pretty much on time. He had a few tricks up his sleeve which made the change over take a bit less time on launch night and I believed it worked well enough to use those tricks again in the future.
We also want to thank the moderators that helped spruce up the ship before our launch into the new rev. The decorations and secrets are amazing.
Finally, thank you for being patient while we continue to deal with issues as fast as we can.
Suggestion Box
We took some time to go through the current suggestions on PvE and posted the responses on the forum here.
Keep those suggestions coming. We do like to hear from you.
Upcoming Events
It is still early rev, and the 3 of us have barely had time to build in our towns but we are excited to start hosting some events.
Our first big event will be an Admin Hunt. We haven't decided on a date and time yet but we do ask for your help. We are in need of a good arena. In the past players have liked when builds or towns from previous revs were used. So check out this post if you would like to suggest a build from a previous revision to use for admin murderizing.
But while we work out the details of the first admin hunt, don't forgt to go hunting for those spawn secrets. (No one has found cheezy's yet and he's happy he his it so well)
I did not have a chance to place a spawn secret before the launch, so I will be adding a small scavenger hunt this weekend.
We also had a discussion about PvP events. Many revs ago I remember player run PvP fights being hosted almost every weekend, but recently it seems that players wait and expect the admins to set up and host these events. I, for one, would love to see the return of more player run events. I enjoyed heading to the town early to check the place out before heading to the arena to be killed over and over again. So how do we bring back player run get togethers? Is it a matter of newer players not knowing they can host events? Or do players just not like traveling to other towns and would rather be teleported to an arena not on the map? Cheezy is planning something, but we do want to encourage everyone - If you have an idea for an event (PvP, spleef, thimble, anything) go for it! If you need help getting the word out, we will help.
Posted by Cujobear on Aug. 17, 2019 in PvE
