Tart's totally awesome Minecraft server!

The server has the following rules:

Allow Nether
Spawn Monsters
Spawn Animals

All other options are off (including flight and PvP) 

Basic etiquette rules apply - Build to your hearts content, but don't destroy other people's constructions
and don't steal peoples stuff.

You should be able to tell what areas are peoples constructions. Basically if it has stuff that's manufactured (excluding hallways full of torches and nothing else) then don't fuck it up.

The difficulty is currently set to 1.
I can change it. Muahahahahaha. 

The server uses the bukkit essentials and craftbukkit plugins.
I'm not entirely sure what that means. 

Thanks! I'll help donate to the cause, look forward to seeing what eveyrone makes :)

What is exactly the addiction to this game. I see some people call it legos for adults, but others just like to do other "stuff".

I'm just really curious what all the hub bub is :)

I'm sure some of you might remember Fuzzy, this is still one of her all time FAVORITE games.

Buckets don't seem to work properly. I can neither actually use one (the water/lava disappears as soon as it's placed) nor actually even break a block while the bucket itself is equipped. From what I could find it's because of a permissions error, apparently the solution is to open "config.yml" in the "Essentials" folder. Go to the blacklist and remove 325, 326 and 327 (buckets, water buckets and lava buckets respectively).

Put a box outside of the igloo with the extra slimeball's I got last  night if anyone would like them for sticky pistons. If you need more I set up a Farm section in my dungeon, just let me know if you need any and I'll show you where it is.

Endermen should also no longer steal blocks.

do you have to pay for minecraft? or can I just go somewhere and download the client?

I'm not sure how it works these days. It was originally free, but that was public alpha. It's in beta now with official release set for November. I remember when it first went into beta, you could get it for 10 bucks. I think it's 20 now, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to try it out without purchasing. Can anyone verify for me?

The site is at http://www.minecraft.net

Kib's post made me realize that some people may not be aware of the whole Minecraft phenomenon. I'll try to explain it as best I can.

Here is the description, cobbled together from Wikipedia:

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Minecraft is a sandbox building indie video game written in Java 

The game is focused on creativity and building, allowing players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world. The game has two variants – free Classic and paid Beta – where Classic is focused entirely on construction with unlimited material supply, Beta requires players to acquire resources themselves, and contains mobs, player health, and additional features and items. The gameplay is heavily inspired by Infiniminer by Zachtronics Industries, Dwarf Fortress by Bay 12 Games and Dungeon Keeper by Bullfrog Productions.

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(so the above seems to answer Kib's question. Free for lego-style building, Paid for the mining/adventure/resource gathering (really fun) part.)

Continuing... 

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The core gameplay revolves around construction. The game world is essentially made of cubical blocks arranged in a fixed grid pattern which represent different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, and tree trunks. While the players can move freely across the world, objects and items can only be placed at fixed locations relative to the grid. The player can gather these material "blocks" and place them elsewhere, thus potentially creating various constructions. Currently, there are no set goals to achieve in Minecraft, so the game cannot be won.

Minecraft has two currently available gameplay modes, Survival and Creative, both with single-player and multiplayer options. Classic is the earliest free version and initially featured only creative game mode with only building (block placement and removal) aspects of the game and unlimited block supply. The game was then split into single-player survival mode (referred to as "Survival Mode Test"), which contained monsters and a much greater variety of blocks and items available, as well as requiring players to mine their own blocks.

The game starts by placing the player on the surface of a huge procedurally generated game world. The player can walk across the terrain consisting of plains, mountains, caves, and various water bodies. The world is also divided into biomes ranging from deserts to snowfields. The in-game time system follows a day and night cycle. Throughout the course of the game the player encounters various non-human creatures. During the daytime, non-hostile animals spawn, which can be hunted for food and crafting materials. Hostile monsters, such as large spiders, skeletons, zombies and the dangerous exploding "creeper" will spawn in unlit areas, such as in caves or during the night.

Complex systems can be built using the in-game physics engine with the use of primitive electrical circuits and logic gates. For example, a door can be opened or closed by pressing a connected button or stepping on a pressure plate. Similarly, larger and more complex systems can be produced, such as a working arithmetic logic unit – as used in CPUs.

The game world is procedurally generated as the player explores it. Although limits exist on vertical movement both up and down, Beta allows for an infinitely large game world to be generated on the horizontal plane, only running into technical problems when extremely distant locations are reached.[† 1][13] The game achieves this by splitting the game world data into smaller sections, called "chunks",[† 1] only created or loaded into memory when the player is nearby.

Survival Mode:

In this mode, the player has a health bar which is depleted by attacks from monsters, falls, or environmental damage, such as drowning or falling into lava. The player also has a hunger bar, which must be periodically refilled by eating various food (porkchops, bread, etc.) in-game. Armor can help mitigate damage from mob attacks, while weapons can be used to kill enemies and other animals. Health replenishes when the player has a full hunger bar or by playing on the easiest difficulty, where the health bar regenerates by itself. Upon dying, items in the player's inventory are dropped and the player is respawned at current spawn point, which by default is where the player started, but can be set by "sleeping" in in-game beds. The items can be recovered if reached before they despawn.

The player can acquire different resources and craft tools, weapons, armor, food, and various other items. By acquiring better resources, the player can make more effective items. For example, tools such as axes, shovels, or pickaxes, can be used to chop down trees, dig soil, and mine ores respectively, and tools made out of better resources (such as iron in place of stone) perform their tasks more quickly. The game has an inventory system and the player is limited to the number of items they can carry, specifically, 36 spaces.

Creative Mode:

In creative mode, the player does not take damage, is not affected by hunger, and can fly freely around the game world. The player has access to unlimited resources or items through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly. All creatures in the game, including hostile ones, may still spawn under proper conditions but they cannot damage the player.

Classic Mode:

Older versions of Minecraft are also available for players. Unlike newer versions of Minecraft, Classic is free to play, though it is no longer updated. It functions much the same as Creative mode, allowing players to build and destroy any and all parts of the world either alone or in a multiplayer server. There are no computer creatures in this mode, and environmental hazards such as lava will not damage the player. However, some blocks function differently as their behavior was later changed during development. For example, in Classic mode, TNT will act like any other block and break when hit, but in newer versions it will detonate after its fuse is lit.

Note: Classic is intended to be phased out as Beta progresses, leaving Beta as the only Minecraft game.

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The rest of the article is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

The game is incredibly addicting and astonishingly fun. I find it to be equally as addicting as most any other game I've played including WoW, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and others. It's particularly fun in the multiplayer server where you can build alongside other people and see what sort of amazing things have been constructed. 

Note: The multiplayer server I use is a survival mode server, and as such, requires the beta (purchased) version.

The game is more than worth the measly $20 asking price though I'll warn people that when you first start you're not given any guidance. It can be very confusing.

Therefore, this will be your bible: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki

Here's a beginner's guide:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Beginner%27s_guide

Have fun, and come join us!

One thing. The game is playable in a browser window, so you can theoretically play on any computer, anywheres, so long as it has Java installed. It's a flat price, too. One payment, game is unlocked and you get all future patches and content and such. Notch, the creator (and until recently only developer) has actually made a few million dollars off this game, that's how bloody popular it is.

Single player is nice. I like having a world entirely to myself. However, like Tart said, the multiplayer on a persistent server is even better. Cacc put together a trap for a certain type of monster I'd never even seen before, and I found a geographical feature he'd never seen before. If we'd been playing single, wouldn't have those.To put it into perspective. Tart built a giant mushroom fortress. I hollowed out an entire mountain and used the stone to build a giant tower in its place. Cacc build a huge stone dome thing with a massive set of tunnels and mineshafts below it. The potential exists to do pretty much anything you want - one of Tart's RL friends built a stone highway between my fortress and the mushroom one, and I decided walking was for suckers, so I turned it into a rail line. I'd considered building a cannon to lay seige to everyone else's constructions (they're so close together, easy targets), but... y'know, that's not nice. But I could do it.

I saw you set it for 10 players--are you maxxed out yet? Very tempted to give this a try...

I've got something like 600 Iron Bars if anyone needs them, and a bit of gold and diamond. Lots of sugarcane as well.

I saw that there's a minecraft client in the android marketplace. I'm guessing there's one for the other phone as well.

Minecraft is out of beta and has been officially released as version 1.0

As such, the Minecraft server has been updated to 1.0 as well.

Have fun!

Every time I try to join I get an "outdated server" message. 

Should be fixed now. The server still was set for 1.01 as the current one, but I noticed that Minecraft updated to 1.1

The server has been updated to 1.1, and should work now. I think.

How much oral sex would I need to offer you to get the power to spawn in blocks? (I've gotten really damn lazy.)

There is a way to make a machine taht generates stone blocks. It releases lava into water or something. I'll look into that. In order to just "spawn" them, I'd have to give everyone op access or something, and even then I'm not sure how that works.

Sorry I haven't gotten back on this in a timely manner. I had some serious school stuff going on.

Give me character names to add to the opslist. and I can do so.

Tart.

My kids are addicted to this game and I've only played it for a couple of minutes. Maybe I'll come over to the server and try it out. Maybe it makes sense for me to set up a server for the kids to play together in.

Minecraft server is upgraded to version 1.2.3 and should be up and running now. Let me know if there are any issues.

I tried to join the server and got a java error and the connection reset.  Any ideas?  This is my first try at anything other than single player.

I had craftbukkit installed, and it apparently wasn't compatible, so it was returning a java error. I have turned off the addon and tested, and it allowed me to connect.

Tart