Yo, I Heard You Like Games...

...so I put games in your games so you can game while you game!

We have added an area to our server that we are calling "The Game Room" for now. Currently, we have a Spleef Arena and there is a brand new Battleship game in progress. This area can be accessed via a rail line at the spawn point. We will be adding more games to this area in the future, as well. If you have an idea for a game, please let a Moderator know, and we will see if we can find a way to fit it into our existing infrastructure.

TorvServ 1.2 Testing Server Added!

We have added a new server so that we can test out the new features of Minecraft 1.2. This server is running the vanilla version of MC 1.2.3, and is in creative mode. It can be accessed at 108.60.143.138:25567, and the default spawn point is within about 100 blocks of a nice jungle biome. Hopefully this can help to satiate you while we wait on Bukkit to be updated.

Go tame some cats!

-Torv

Minecraft 1.2 is Out!

Minecraft version 1.2 is officially out! Full list of changes can be found on the Dev Blog but a brief summary is here:

New jungle biome
Added ocelots
Added cats
Added iron golems
New AI for mobs
Tame wolves can have puppies
Villagers will have children if there is room in their village
New map height limit (256 instead of 128)
New items and blocks
Doors have been updated so that double-doors work better with redstone
Added rare drops for mobs
Many other minor tweaks and fixes

As is our usual system, the server will NOT be updated until Bukkit receives its update so that we can maintain all of our plugins. The link for a download of the alternate launcher is listed below...using it to download the latest build will obviously give you Minecraft 1.2, but you will have to use a 1.1 client to connect to our server.

Minecraft Launch Switcher

Happy crafting! I will keep watching Bukkit so that we may update our server as soon as possible.

Live Streaming Added

I have added a section to this website for Live Streaming of our servers. Any large live-stream events will be publicized in advance, but you can also use the page to view past streams and other interesting videos from our server. The link is on the right side of the page; check it out!

Terraria Server Addition

I have realized that there is a disparity in the levels of the players who are utilizing the Terraria server. Unfortunately, not all of our users are ready for Hardmode yet, and so our recently Hardmode'd server is not the most welcome of places for them.

In light of this, I have opened up a new Terraria Server that is to be easy-mode only. It will not be hardmoded; and if it ever is hard moded, we will reset the map and start another easy mode map. This will give players a chance to start out new characters and get them leveled up, and get good equipment, and then they can move over onto the Hard mode server.

The new server is at the same address as the old one, but on port 7776. Enjoy.

Recent Developments

Since this is a community-sponsored server, I wanted to keep everyone informed of the things that are happening on the back-end, as it relates to our hosting company.
Recently, I have entered into a partnership with our hosting company as a consultant, and I am providing them with some assistance in a project they are working on. I cannot divulge the details, but I will say that at this time I no longer require donations in order to keep the servers up and running.

I wanted to let you all know about this in the interest of full disclosure; I know that some of you are good enough to donate towards keeping the server online occasionally, and I did not want you to be under the impression that you were donating to keep the server online when in fact our server costs have been reduced to a point that this is unnecessary, (as of this week,) for the time being at least.

Any of you that wish to cancel your automated donations may feel free to do so through Paypal. I will still accept donations, if you feel that you want to chip a little bit in for the time I spend managing the server, but I did not want anybody to think that I was cheating or begging for money for illegitimate reasons.

Happy Crafting! :)

We're on Google+

Just created a new Google+ Page to hopefully get some more community interaction going on, and get some feedback on what else we should expand into. The link on the right side of the page here can take you to it, or let you circle it automatically. Additional link is included below.

Click me! I'm the link!