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Introducing a fun new game: “King Arthur’s Gold” or K.A.G.

The game starts of looking a little like Terarria but you soon realize that this game is ALL about PVP. You can pick from three classes that create a lot of strategy. You can be a solider with a shield that can block arrows and boosts other players over high obstacles; an archer that makes and shoots arrows or a builder who can create castles, dig tunnels, built catapults, collect gold and everything else. Each class is required and creates its own unique strategy.

Two teams start on different parts of the maps and get busy building their fortifications. As the map goes on, you work with your team mates to get into the enemy castle and destroy their base.

There is just enough to build to keep this PVP oriented. Check out the chart below to see some of the things you can build and do. When you are ready, get the game from the King Aurthur’s Gold Website. Then when you like the game, grab a game server for it from us here.

• Terraria really is quite good. It's a buy for 10 bucks. #
• I may have possibly blown up emails from the hgs site and hgs panel today completely and utterly. If you need help email our support. #

Quadranet is having issues with our West Coast datacenter. Engineers are working on the issue right now. Sorry!

From the horses mouth:

We are currently experiencing network-related issues. Our network engineering team is already troubleshooting and working to resolve the issue.
We should have the issue resolved very shortly. Once the support department hears back from the engineering team upon resolution, we will have more details to give. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Update: Quadranet has fixed the issue and we’re back to full capacity. Thanks!

Ok, I know we’re late to post it… but holy crap have you seen the CoD:MW3 trailer? Holy jumping baby skunks it smells sweet. I love the seamless motion capture they’ve worked hard on.

We’re going to host this as long as they get their head out of their ass and release a decent dedicated server. C’mon guys left at IW, do it!

There is an ass load of changes coming to Minecraft 1.6 this week. My favorite? Netherworld in multiplayer!

Here is the full change log!

+ Added Nether support to multiplayer
+ Added craftable maps
+ Added hatches
+ Added tall grass in some biomes
+ Mushrooms now spreads (very) slowly
+ Added server property view-distance. Sets the radius of terrain updates (in chunks) to send to the players. Range 3-15, default 10.
* It’s no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the maps (sorry!)
* Players stuck in walls will slide towards the nearest gap if there is one
* Made booster tracks speedier
* Severely nerfed fire so it spread slower, and doesn’t spread infinitely
* Seeds are now found in tall grass, using a hoe on the ground no longer works
* Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now shows the breaking block particle effect
* Activated dispensers make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer
* Doors make sound for other players in multiplayer
* The record player now supports more than 15 different songs

* Fixed running out of memory corrupting the current level
* Fixed the side textures of grass getting extra dark when mining them
* Fixed anaglyph 3d rendering mode having severe visual bugs
* Fixed the crash screen vanishing immediately
* Fixed not being able to target blocks when at x or z pos 1000
* Fixed the achievements screen messing up the sky color
* Fixed saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground
* Fixed a system clock change messing up the game speed
* Fixed rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled
* Fixed hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players
* Fixed the attack/swing animation not being applied to the armor layer
* Fixed player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game
* Fixed arrow physics, making them not get stuck midair when you open a door
* Fixed arrows hitting reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks
* Fixed keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions
* Fixed the player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti
* Fixed a bug where the player could mine without swinging their arm
* Fixed boats placed on snow being placed too far up
* Fixed submerged boats rising very very fast
* Fixed sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation
* Fixed a game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the nether
* Fixed falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider
* Fixed buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use
* Fixed dispensers shooting through walls
* Fixed fire hurting through wall corners
* Fixed entities reaching water through wall corners
* Fixed placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors
* Fixed buttons and levers being placeable on leaves in “fast graphics” mode
* Fixed furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed
* Fixed dispensers biasing later slots
* Fixed farmland taking too long to dig
* Fixed tilling below some blocks being possible
* Fixed tilling the underside of blocks somehow working
* Fixed fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible
* Fixed walking on top of fences not producing step sounds
* Fixed fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain
* Fixed fences and wooden stairs not being flammable
* Fixed fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location
* Fixed fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking
* Fixed fishing rods being stackable
* Fixed mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass
* Fixed rain falling through liquids
* Fixed items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly
* Fixed water interacting strangely with glass
* Fixed glass not blocking rain sound
* Fixed fences and signs preventing grass from growing
* Fixed rain and snow being incorrectly lit
* Fixed grass staying alive below stair blocks
* Fixed the achievement screen not pausing the game
* Fixed some screens breaking the sky tint color
* Fixed fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes
* Fixed chat messages surviving through game switches
* Fixed ice so it regenerates regardless of whether it’s snowing or not
* Fixed rain falling too slowly
* Fixed levers being placeable on weird locations
* Fixed floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards
* Fixed floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed
* Fixed rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbor
* Fixed minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities (sorry!)
* Fixed wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps
* Fixed creepers retaining charge level when they can’t see their target
* Fixed dying in the nether spawning new portals
* “Fixed” beds in the nether
* Fixed inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens
* Fixed wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes
* Fixed redstone repeaters having the wrong particles
* Fixed saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks
* Fixed ore density varying per quadrant from the center of the world
* Fixed dispenser graphics being one pixel off. ONE PIXEL!!!
* Fixed mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights
* Fixed animals only spawning near light during the night
* Fixed the multiplayer join screen input field being too short
* Fixed IPv6 addresses being parsed wrongly. To connect to a specific port in IPv6, use the format [1234:567::1]:25565
* Fixed network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent
* Fixed entity positions going out of synch sometimes. They get re-synched every 20 seconds now.
* Fixed inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer
* Fixed mushroom soup not leaving a bowl in multiplayer
* Fixed entities above the map height limit becoming invisible
* Fixed healing not flashing the health bar in multiplayer
* Fixed arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer
* Fixed arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer
* Fixed the compass not pointing at the spawn location in multiplayer
* Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer
* Fixed record players spawning client-side fake records in multiplayer
* Fixed records not playing for other players in multiplayer
* Fixed players spawning in the wrong location and quickly lerping to the correct location
* Fixed monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to peaceful
* Fixed pigs getting hit by lightning in multiplayer spawning client-side zombie pigmen
* Fixed loads of exploding tnt generating way too many particles, possibly crashing the client
* Fixed bonemeal use in multiplayer sometimes spawning fake client-side trees
* Fixed saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side in multiplayer
* Fixed weather sometimes changing client-side in multiplayer
* Fixed grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs
* Fixed stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling

Ready to buy a Minecraft server and try out these changes? Pick one up from us here.

• @Terraria_Blue Hey, is the multiplayer servers going to be supported on linux? #

We haven’t had much news lately, so heres a video of Minecraft on Acid.

Neato!

Disclaimer: Don’t do acid, kids. It’s not as fun as this makes it look.

Want a Minecraft server of your own? Grab one here.

As soon as the developer releases the stand alone server, we will start selling.

When its up you will see order here

From: Andrew
To: killerty69
April 24th 2011

Hello,
I saw that you are running 10 slot server while you are only paid for a 3 slot. Also you are using too much memory. I changed the slots and memory to what they should be. If this changes, I will make your account inactive with no refund.
Thank you,
Andrew

From: Eric
To: killerty69
April 25th 2011

killerty69,

Your services with HGS have been shut down for non-compliance.

Sorry,
Eric

From: killerty69
To: Eric
April 25th 2011

You guys were supposed to come and set my server to run on 512mb. I talked to Joseph, and he said one of you guys are going to fix it for me

From: Eric
To: killerty69
April 25th 2011

My staff told me that you demanded a gig of memory and claimed we have false advertising.

From: killerty69
To: Eric
April 25th 2011

That is completely out of context to what I said. I asked him to fix it so my mod only uses 512mb of ram. He said he didn’t know anything about linux and couldn’t get it working. I said that I would take a refund if you guys couldn’t fix it.

As I am reading over the server chat logs to confirm this was not said, I get another email…

From: killerty69
To: Eric
April 25th 2011

Alright, I will request a refund one more time before I have to report you.

From: Eric
To: killerty69
April 25th 2011

I won’t do a refund for less than 5 dollars. Because you used your server for 20 days your refunded value would come to about two bucks.
I can however, offer you this picture:

From: killerty69
To: Eric
April 25th 2011

Ok, then you need to give me my rights back for the remainder of theh duration then.

From: Eric
To: killerty69
April 25th 2011

I’m sorry. I am afraid I can only supply you the picture in my last email as repayment. That picture and of course this one as well:

From: killerty69
To: Eric
April 25th 2011

Seeing as though I am not immature, I will instead have you reported and my money refunded by paypal anyway. Thanks again.

From: Eric
To: killerty69
April 25th 2011

Ok ok ok… calm down, calm down… Lets not get PayPal involved. I have had problems with the law in the past and I am NOT going down that road again.

Let me assure you, this next picture will MORE than even the score. I’ll give you the other two for free.

Lets just call it even. Deal?

I never heard back from killerty69, so I assume that my pictures were payment enough for him. Want a Minecraft server of your own? Get one here.

• @mlSSStress We dont have an irc channel. #
• @mlSSStress we actually abandoned our IRC room months ago! Sorry. #