With interest in the Tempest seemingly waning, I've looked into putting Minecraft back online. There's one important plugin I'm having trouble getting updated--and haven't found a simple replacement yet--but I should be good to go after that.

Also...
With the Stargates being able to take us between separate worlds, if you have a fancy world you'd like added to the server, let me know. It can be a way to have our own personal playgrounds without bumping into other peoples' tunnels.

1.8 is shaping up to be awesome and I will totally play on the server again. I think it would be a good idea to make a new "1.8 world" that we can all play on. But if everyone goes off into their own worlds it kind of ruins the fun of multiplayer for me.

Okay. Jury's still out on 1.8. I like some of the stuff they've added but it feels like Notch is pushing the game away from the sandbox it is, more and more towards combat/adventuring. Endermen in particular seem devastating to the idea of a long-term SSP/SMP world, but are great in concept for shorter term worlds with a focus on adventuring over building.

They've already begun picking apart my mob traps in my new city. I've had to turn on Peaceful mode. -_-

The new passive mob mechanics will also make material collection more difficult, depending how it turns out. I guess there's "breeding" coming in 1.9, so we'll see...

An adventure game doesn't need the kind of building and resource gathering Minecraft has, which has been what has defined the game before now. Why would anyone buy Minecraft to hunt monsters and explore caverns when you can do that in any number of other games, including Skyrim which is about to be released? *Those* are adventure games.

If Notch wants more adventure in Minecraft he can always add another mode with mechanics that emphasize on it. It's a pretty easy way to make the game offer more variety while also avoiding alienating a lot of the existing players.

Someone buy me minecraft, dammit.

I have a birthday coming up!

We all still love you Rik. ='(

Is the server still online? I might come play on it, but I don't think I know the IP anymore unfortunately, could someone PM it to me please?

I'm glad that its becoming more of a game than just a lowfi 3d modeling engine. The reason I stopped playing it was because I was losing interest in exploring. I wanted more stuff to find!

Ideally I'd like a deep survival game with all the creative outlet that minecraft had before. That way (unless you're a cheater) you know people are really good at the game when they have towering skyscrapers in their server. You know? I was always really proud of mega-projects on the server I played on because we always had 1-7 people working on it, and we all harvested materials for it. So while some people were building, we had a team of people out exploring for the really valuable stuff too. I really liked that cooperative building spirit.