Minecraft Survival Servers

We're back, with yet another bribe to get you to vote voting contest, and this time, the prizes are even more epic! And the best thing? You don't have to do anything except vote like normal to enter!

How does it work?
At the 10th, 20th, and 30th of May, anyone with a vote streak over 10 (so voted for every day in that period) is automatically entered into a raffle to win some great prizes (listed below)! Also, anyone who's extra epic and has a vote streak over 30 on the 31st May will automatically be entered to win an extra special prize. Just we can't tell you what that prize is yet. But it's good.

There can only be one winner per 10 days though, as this is a raffle, not a guaranteed prize.

How do I enter?
Simply vote like normal using the links at http://empire.us/rupees. All votes are automatically...

Hey everyone. We now have new residence flags for you to use and they are as follows:

Boats
- boat *
- boatplace
- boatdestroy

Minecarts
- minecart *
- minecartplace
- minecartdestroy
- tntminecart
- storageminecart
- hopperminecart
- poweredminecart

Enderpearl
- enderpearl

Shear
- shear

Fireworks
- firework

Anvil
- anvil

Villagers
- villager

Killing animals
- kill

* - Setting boat or minecart to true is like a "combo" that automatically allows place/destory for both. If you want any of the other flags like tntminecart/storageminecart, etc, you have to have both minecart set to true and that flag set to true.

EMC is proud to announce we now have an issue tracker!

What is an issue tracker you may ask? It's the same thing as Mojang's bug tracker: https://mojang.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Bug/Issue/Ticket system... all the same thing really! (I just really prefer Issue )

You may access it here: http://track.empire.us/issues - Click login as guest if asked

However, our issue tracker will not be open for anyone to post to. Mojang's issue tracker is full of duplicates and junk, and we do not want the same to happen to ours. Also, were limited to 10 users anyways... so we can't!

So, to keep our tracker clean and organized, we have established a small team from the community to post issues to it from the community.

These members are: AlexChance, JackBiggin, and Silken_thread.

These members will keep watch on the forums for bugs and report it to the tracker for us.

If you have a super secret bug like dupe exploit, please send it directly to admins, but these people are the ones you can go to to report general EMC bugs.

They will then search to ensure its not already reported, and file appropriately.

If you send a PM about a bug, ensure to add all of them at same time AND admins.

Thanks to this tracker, it made it alot easier to track and resolve bugs... and the next update is fixing 16 bugs!

Enjoy

Thanks to the hard work of Aikar and the staff that helped with testing we have just upgraded to Minecraft 1.5.1. This means you are free to upgrade your Minecraft and bask in the glory of the "Redstone Update".

I appreciate everyone's patience as we worked on this update. As a celebration we are giving 1,501 rupees away to everyone. You have one week from today to claim the rupees by clicking here.

The new world, Wastelands, is not released yet as we are still working on that. If you missed the previous information on this it is a normal world that resets periodically (with a different seed). Additionally it will be a few more days until we update chest shops to support the new items (this includes the official store).

As usual please report any bugs or issues immediately to any staff member.

Update: all servers have been upgraded to the better hardware, enjoy!

Hey EMC! As you all know we are working towards getting the EMC platform to the new Minecraft 1.5 version. A lot goes into this process and as usual we are going to release as soon as possible without sacrificing the stability of the servers. I wanted to make this post to give some transparency into what is going on with the technology behind Empire Minecraft.

Over the past several months Aikar has provided us with many tweaks and improvements to both improve the performance of EMC game servers but also to fix bugs and implement new features (the new vault is awesome!). My life had changed to where I wasn't able to provide near the time into EMC as the early days. But Aikar stepped up to the plate and has been doing an excellent job as our lead developer. The result is the servers are running smoother than ever.

In addition as part of the 1.5 update we will soon be adding another world to every server. This world is going to be called “Wastelands” and is like the Wilderness EXCEPT it gets completely reset on a regular basis (exact timing TBD). This has been discussed in previous threads so I won't get into too much detail.

So finally the news is that to support the new world, Aikars continued performance improvements, as well as exciting new features we have planned, we are getting all new hardware for the servers that power the EMC platform. We are going all out and each...

Some of you are aware, in 1.5 we will be adding a secondary Wild and Nether to EMC.

These worlds will serve as policy on how to handle wild resets for new updates.

Going forward, any time a Minecraft Update changes how the wild or nether generates (such as new blocks, structures, etc), these worlds will be reset.

This will provide you the players the freshest access to new content without having to venture really far out in the wild.

This also provides a dedicated resource harvesting location, that will be reset often.

The general idea is that this can be the destroyed wasteland that our current wild is today, and that the current wild can be repaired to stay looking good.

The current wild will be for building and establishing permanent residence in the wild, as you should know we are enabling more wild game play with many wild features that supports living in the wild permanently instead of town.

We originally had this secondary world on EMC and it was called the Wastelands, but was removed before as it wasn't as needed.

But now. we realize that it does have a place and it will be returning permanently.

However, we are giving you, the community, the vote on its name. We are also going to give a name to the CURRENT wild to help make it less confusing, so you can be distinct in messaging on what wild/nether your referencing.

The poll lists many of the best names suggested by the players, so vote which you think is best and will be better for the long term of EMC!...

This Valentines day, you, the community of EMC, are the Staff's Valentine. We're going to give you a brand new Empire Shop.. Except it won't be in the old 120x120 residence it used to be in. It'll be it's own world. We tried our best to fit the shop in a 120x120 residence, but it just wasn't working out.

After much debate, it was given it's own world, and we worked on it tirelessly. We hope you enjoy our efforts as much as we do.