[achtung]

If anyone just starting wants to hole up in my leaning tower for the first few plays, feel free to go to the fourth floor, pick a room, and set your /home to there.

[Axem]

So I've been meaning to try Minecraft out for awhile. I knew I would be hopelessly addicted to it, so I waited until I was off from work to buy it. And having now bought it, I was right. After playing around a bit in single player yesterday, I struck out for HLP's server today. Lots of neat stuff you've built!

I struck out south east of the manor. Built up a nice house and stuff. Then went exploring in a vast cave system I stumbled upon. After a lot of not-quite-dead-ends, I finally hit a point where the system ended. So rather than finding my way out, my brother (another avid Minecrafter) suggested I just start digging stairs out. So I digged and digged and eventually ended up... right next to my house. That's some luck there. I think I'll extend my house over top the entrance and label it as "Entrance to Sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub Basement" (characters permitting of course).

[Sandwich]

...So rather than finding my way out, my brother (another avid Minecrafter) suggested I just start digging stairs out...

Check the Minecraft wiki for the article on caves. The section dealing with exploring them has a number of methods on how not to get lost. The third point, using cobblestone arrows, was invented by me.

[achtung]

qaz or rhx should make a warp point near the far lands.

[Flipside]

Just bought this, I'm going to get used to it on single-player first for a week and then might look at some online stuff

[Mongoose]

Crap...I still don't know what the hell I'd build, but looking at what you guys are up to is giving me this subconscious urge to cruise around your server.  Someone stop me before it's too late!

[Tyrian]

I also think I might grab Minecraft and check out the server.  However, I have a question.  I've seen around the Minecraft forums that if you bought the alpha version, you get free updates for life.  But Minecraft has now moved in to beta...  So my question is this:  If I buy the beta version, do I still get the free updates?  Or in speed-reading the forums, have I misunderstood something?

[achtung]

I also think I might grab Minecraft and check out the server.  However, I have a question.  I've seen around the Minecraft forums that if you bought the alpha version, you get free updates for life.  But Minecraft has now moved in to beta...  So my question is this:  If I buy the beta version, do I still get the free updates?  Or in speed-reading the forums, have I misunderstood something?

You get free updates up to, and including, the "final" release later this year. After that, who knows.

I'm an alpha buyer, so I got it 4lifedawg.

[Pred the Penguin]

Well... this is odd, the server is no longer allowing me to join.

[TrashMan]

me neither...

[Pred the Penguin]

I guess the server is down. That does explain why I can't use the map.Ah well, I was looking forward finishing my damn inn after having finally murdered enough sheep for the wool needed.

[Sandwich]

Yeah, it stopped working around 9 hours ago for me.

[TrashMan]

we need information..when will it be back?

[rhx123]

It'd crashed for some reason.
It's back now.
In future ask qaz if im not about becayse he can restart it too.

[qazwsx]

I'm near constantly on the HLP IRC channel, so just pop in there and yell at me.

Quick examination of the server logs shows the downtime to be due to running out of RAM, the garbage collector throws an out of memory error and the server goes warblgarblblarg. However, it doesn't appear to actually crash, there's a period of about 12 hours where all that's in the logs is information on whether the server is raining or not. This means that it's unlikely any data was lost during the restart. Given that this is the first time it had occurred, the server had been running non-stop for the longest time ever, and that a simple restart seems to have fixed the problem, we can assume that this shouldn't be too much of an issue in the future.

[rhx123]

**SAD NEWS**
Unfortunatly, the company which I rent the server from is going to change hands or go kaput very soon (talking a day).
Moving to another server hoster won't be a problem, however I won't be able to afford the price increase.
If this happens, how would people feel about giving me a small donation on paypal every month (I'd only need about £2 each of 3 people) to make it work.
Sorry about this, if the worst comes to the worst I will upload the map and config so you can continue work on the fenris and whatever.

[qazwsx]

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1097710-Brohoster-Proving-their-Excellent-Services-Yet-Again/page
This thread
read what the hell is going on.

also, the auction for brohoster: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1057850

[pecenipicek]

**SAD NEWS**
Unfortunatly, the company which I rent the server from is going to change hands or go kaput very soon (talking a day).
Moving to another server hoster won't be a problem, however I won't be able to afford the price increase.
If this happens, how would people feel about giving me a small donation on paypal every month (I'd only need about £2 each of 3 people) to make it work.
Sorry about this, if the worst comes to the worst I will upload the map and config so you can continue work on the fenris and whatever.

there is also another option...
nevermind.

[rhx123]

Panic Over
The new ip is 64.31.26.227:25574
and the dynmap is http://64.31.26.227:8128
I've got a good price, however I will be putting a donate button up if you wish to help, however it is not at all mandatory so dont feel like you have to

[Sandwich]

Is it just me or did the server just go down?