It's time for another update!

We're getting our website ready for the rebirth. If you've logged on to the website lately, you may have noticed the "Item Market" link. This is the link to our WebAuction market, up and running on our test server.

Also, you may have noticed the "Play" link on the navbar, just below the logo. Thanks to Matttt/Liiiink/Matthew, we have a free , in-browser launcher. This means you don't need to download a client to play! All you need to do is give it a username, add the IP for The Depths (thedepthsmc.com) and start playing! Easy and simple. The downside is the lack of mods, but if you must have mods, then you'll have to find the cracked launcher. Mods work, just add them as you normally would!

Progress update on the ingame side:

We are nearly ready to switch, there are still a few classes yet to be configured, and stations yet to be made. The current spawn there can be expanded and improved a bit, but we have all our Primary classes (Builder, Fighter, Mage) ready. Some smoothing over may be done, but we're nearly ready!

   - ron975

I could have edited Liiink's post, but I have rather much to say, so, I might as well make my own post.

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Anyways, The Depths will become an RPG/Freebuild server. There will be few worlds, but you'll have the usual Survival/Nether combo. Some of you may have noticed "TheDepthsTest" on the IRC channel. This is, of course, the CraftIRC bot for the test server, were we are testing new plugins.

Look forward to plugins such as Heroes, which allows us to define classes that have their own special abilities. We'll have many classes that add diversity to the game. For our Freebuilders, we'll have a "Builder" class that has some special abilities to make your building, alongside the other classes. Builders are extremely versatile, but have little attack skills. However, they can build complex redstone machinery and exciting coasters with MinecartRevolution and RedstoneChips, along with your conventional Falsebook ICs.
Other classes will have powerful healing and offense abilities. We plan to have many quests, as well as dungeons for you to explore.

We will no longer use our old RealShop trading system, but instead, we now have WebAuctionPlus for shops, and SpoutTrade for ingame trading. Contrary to it's name, SpoutTrade does not require the SpoutCraft client, and will work for everyone. We already have the WebAuction interface set up, where you can access here. All that's required is that you make a WebAuction password ingame, which I'll get to shortly.

We will no longer use Stargates for much of our transport. We'll use it for inter-world travel, and important destinations, but most transport will be by Minecart or by...wait for it..Dragons! Traincarts and DragonTravel power our transport system, and stations will be built in every major town! Stargates will remain, but in an attempt to cut on Stargate use, will be expensive.

Speaking of towns, we will use Factions! Factions allows you to create a side, and claim land to build a city. Much less restrictive than Towny, and ever less complex, a citizen can claim land for their whole town, instead of for 1 person.

We will have monthly events, as well as tournaments. Spleef and PvP will be held periodically between Factions, and even full out Wars may happen! A multiplayer adventure map will be available every so often.



Behind the scenes, we have new plugins to improve your user experience. ReportRTS allows you, the users to report any issues to our staff. Also, our new block logging plugin "Hawkeye" is much more powerful than LogBlock and will help us find those griefers much more easily.

   - ron975

After much wasted time we are rebuilding the server from scratch. RPG is defiantly going to be kept. We are almost certainly going to have a new survival world

   - Liiiink

If you're not currently aware, if the server doesn't improve it's player base, it will be closed down. Once again, I need your help. Bring anyone you know who plays minecraft to the server, advertise on MC Forums or comment on the servers thread.

We currently have
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So help us save the server whether you're new or been here since the beginning.

Thanks

This server is almost certainly going to run

   - xXB3NNIB0IXx

Well, this sure is a interesting (or lack of) week!

Here's something that sure is..

We now have a new Creative world, since our old one was griefed horribly, and we decided it was a good idea start over. However, there are some changes in how we'll be running the world from now on.

We will now give Creative mode automatically to anyone in the Creative world, since we now have a plot management system in place that lets you claim plots so that your builds will be protected from griefing.

Aside from that, we have switched to the InfinitePlots world generator for Creative, so the plots are now clearly defined and accessible. Those longing for some natural landscape, may be possible if you ask an Admin (Red text) or SuperAdmin (Blue text) to build a hill or a cliff, to your liking. However, ask nicely and don't beg.

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One last thing. We encourage you to introduce, and promote The Depths. As many frequent players may know, we've been going through somewhat of a player drought. We'd really appreciate a simple gesture like introducing your friends.

   - ron975

After much wasted time an fooling around we now have ingame registration working. To register and account simply type /register password password. If it says internal error then it usually has created an account but it being buggy.

Ingame you can use /changepassword to change your password.

Also, a new spawn is going to be made soon!

   - Liiiink

So, I decided once a month, I would right some type of report of what we hope to achieve in this month. So...

Firstly, the new Apocalypse map released and is playable right now. Simply go in game and type /mvtp Zombehs. With this we hope to bring more players to the server and make our existing players happy. The world has big plans which I will be adding such as NPC Quests, NPC strongholds and an abandoned prison.

Secondly, some time this week, myself and CountBisquit are going to be migrating permissions to make it file based. This will make it easier to add and edit permission nodes for the server.

Lastly, the new RPG world has been coming along nicely (But Zombehs is still better!) and will be including some awesome features for you to enjoy.

To close, Matthew has added some commands for ingame news (/News), an ingame staff list (/Staff) and a staff agreement (/Agreement).

Thanks

   - xXB3NNIB0IXx

Also MC 1.2.5 is out. Feel free to update

   - Liiiink

We now have a zombie apocalypse map. It's taken us hours and hours but we have a city filled with zombies which is ruined with a hospital spawn point. You can buy weapons, food and armour currently at spawn and there will soon be NPCs giving quests. Now you can explore this vast world and survive. When you kill Zombies you will get Deepbucks which can be spent all over the server.

/mvtp Zombehs (Benni came up with the name)

A new project we have in mind is a new survival spawn. Our current one is a bit rubbish as it hardly encourages shops and it is rather restrictive. Ideas include open air and with a good market place and housing space. Stay tuned for more details.

A new usergroup has been created for long standing members of the community. Trusted allows you to build in RPG and not just look and gives you a light yellow name. This is at staff discretion and begging for it will not get you it.

The server may be a bit more stable as we are no longer restarting and reloading to get plugins to work.

   - Liiiink

So, if you're not aware, there is a possibility of the server getting an Apocalypse World. This world will be filled with just zombies, set in a city, and you have limited resources. The objective is to survive, or what I hope it will be. The world will allow grief, stealing and PVP.

But, there is a problem. At the minute, I am the only person working on the spawn which is a hospital. And it is very difficult because there are many things to do. I'm asking for players/staff to help me build the hospital so we can get it onto the server as quickly as possible.

Information will be supplied on IRC as I cannot make the server 24/7.

Thanks.

   - xXB3NNIB0IXx