Minecraft Survival Servers

Here we go again, dominating the MC world one server at a time. smp7 is the first server with a fresh MC 1.2 world! It is also going to be immune from the upcoming world resets on other servers

Below is a quick FAQ for questions that I know are going to be asked. If you have a different question please check the Empire Guide first before asking it.

What is the address of the new server?

Can items and blocks be taken between servers?

Can I can claim a residence on smp7 even though I have one on a different server?

Can I check who is on another server?

Who is going to get the dragon egg on the new server?

Hear ye hear ye,

The EMC Amusement Park is now officially open to the public.

To get there, go on smp3 and type /fun.

It's free to use. There is no entrance fee or cost to use the park features beyond the items and materials required for things to work (minecarts, boats, arrows, dirt, shovels, etc). You are encouraged to bring your own. Empire Shops have been set up there for your convenience as well.

Everything is do-it-yourself at the amusement park. Play all you want; explore all you want, and have fun!

We hope you enjoy it!

The amusement park features:

A 13-Hole Themed Mini-golf Course

A Big Ol' Roller Coaster

A 60x60 Hedge Maze

A Multi-level Archery Complex

A Water Funhouse

Well it was a long couple of days but we have successfully upgraded every EMC server to Minecraft 1.2.3! Thanks for everyone's patience as each server took hours to convert to the new world format.

The good news is that we have many new features, such as the build limit being doubled (basically every residence got doubled in size). The bad news is that this version is even more power hungry than before, and smp1-4 are experiencing lag issues. However we have already reacted and I just ordered two new dedicated servers, more information on my original post here: http://empireminecraft.com/threads/new-hardware-for-smp1-4.4735/

As a reminder, please private message me with any bugs you find. Remember that anyone who finds a bug/glitch and uses it to an unfair advantage (duplicating items) or to circumvent the rules, such as griefing, will be banned with no chance of appeal.

A new power has been bestowed upon the great Empire. All sticks are now enchanted with a powerful spell of eggification. While holding a stick right click on an animal or villager to turn it into an egg! The eggs can then be stored, sold, and later turned back into their original form. For animals you can only eggify an adult, and the egg then produces a baby. This is 100% free in Town but costs 100 rupees to use in other worlds.

Additionally we have discontinued the /purchase animal command and added all animal (and villager) eggs to the official Empire Store.

The purpose of this update was to address many different community requests regarding animals and villagers. I am happy to say this solves almost all of them. The community is what gives direction, we (staff) are just here to plot a course along them. Keep the great ideas pouring in everyone!

Eggs were the most exciting part about today's release. The biggest part of the release was a huge rewrite of the custom EMC code to prepare for Bukkit r5 and MC 1.2 (both Mojang and Bukkit changed a ton of stuff). I had to rework a lot of things so please be on the lookout for bugs and report them to me directly (click my name to message me).

As usual the list of other bug fixes can be found here: http://empireminecraft.com/updates

Hello EMC. This afternoon I temporarily disabled "The End" world on all servers. This is because of a duplication glitch involving end portals that some chose to exploit. A few have already been banned (including two Diamond supporters) and I am doing a large search on all logs this afternoon, and I promise you any one else will be banned. We will not tolerate this on EMC.

Two requests we commonly get are the ability to purchase rupees and the ability to donate more to the server. Today we have launched this ability in the Rupees section. We recognize that the ability to purchase rupees is somewhat controversial.

For the past 6 months we have played with many different scenarios and I have tracked data very closely to try and measure the effect of allowing more rupees into the system would have. I measured the impact on prices of different items over several servers. Things like the big Christmas giveaway, and the 1,000 rupees per player give away we did when we hit 10,000 members were also experiments to test the fluctuation of the economy.

We want to prepare even more servers (including the new hardcore SMP, Dystopia), and we want to upgrade smp1-4 to the better hardware setup that smp5-6 run on. This of course requires money, so the more people contribute the more we can do! Every dollar ever brought into EMC has been spent back on it. We didn't even take back our initial investments to get it started.

I will continue to measure the health of the economy closely. The worst case scenario is the economy suffers and we remove the ability to donate for rupees.

Over the next week I will be working to prepare our code for MC 1.2. From the backend MC 1.2 is a HUGE change and will require a lot of plugin rewriting. After I am done with that I will be working on a secret update involving animals....