Take the wheel, culturally appropriate figure of authority (Or "World of Minecraft Newsletter! Issue #9")
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WoM Newsletter! Issue #9

Hey everyone!

It’s February already, and I’m sure you’re all anxious for an update on things. It’s been great seeing more activity this past month and we welcome all the newcomers who have joined too. Many thanks for the feedback on the last newsletter.

Also, you may have noticed the last post didn’t have a lot of color formatting or pictures included...unfortunately the editor is pretty much broken… please blame Jupiter. :D

Announcements:

1.7 Network features have been disabled - SMP 1.7 will remain on until a 1.8 SMP option is ready
The Lobby has temporarily been disabled (see below), but SMP will stay online until we can get it updated to 1.8
We’re still working really, really hard on bringing NEXUS up to a level that we can say is appropriate for public use (and it’s starting to look good)!

*BREAKING NEWS REGARDING SMP*

MrSnowGlobe has decided to to start on SMP 1.8 - this means Spigot. Yes, that’s right. We’ve waited patiently for months checking the progress of Sponge, and now the 1.7.10 SMP is having fatal errors and is not expected to last more than another week. We’ve no choice but to move ahead fast. Work is expected to start on the 6th of Feb and finish within the following few days.

Player vaults are still intact, and have not been affected by the SMP errors. Your transfer chests will be available to you on the 1.8 SMP.

As we update SMP, vaults and build transfers will follow. Please bear with us as things are bound to get crazy quickly. Also please take special notice of the following info on name changes and some of the expected problems, as that is hitting the fan as well. Thanks to all fellow World of Minecraft members, you have been awesome during all this!

Network

Our 1.7 Proxy has been disabled along with CMP. SMP will now be the one and only server you reach when connecting to our IP.

Due to recent issues (Remember that downtime earlier? Yeah.) we have disabled the Proxy system that was keeping the servers connected with each other. Because of this, we’ve also temporarily disabled the Lobby (we don’t really need that thing right now anyway). We’ll turn it back on as soon as we can, though!

SMP

So, you may be wondering, “How close is sponge now?” and “Is the map resetting soon?” If you are, you’re probably just skipping through this post. Shame on you!

CMP

As mentioned in the last newsletter. CMP has now been taken offline. Its old server portal has been replaced with Nexus’ portal, and CMP will always be remembered in our hearts.

As for the build moves from CMP: they will happen within the next two weeks. Anyone who contacted MrSnowGlobe about their buildings should watch their inboxes, as he’ll contact you soon!

NEXUS

NEXUS has since gone through some exhaustive testing and updating. Now you may be wondering, “So is public testing open?” Some unforeseen issues revealed themselves which have slowed down our current plans.

Special thanks to everyone who has helped test so far! Bear with us, you won’t be disappointed

Ever since we started working on it, Nexus has gone through a lot of testing and updating. Sadly we came across some of those nasty bugs earlier and someone seems to be stealing MrSnowGlobe’s milk, causing progress to slow down a bit. We’ll get everything working again as soon as we can, though.

It’ll be worth the wait, though. It’ll be good. You won’t be disappointed.

Minecraft Username Changes

As some of you have most likely noticed by now, Mojang has recently enabled the ability to change your Minecraft username. While this is an amazing feature, I’d like to make a few things clear:

Staff Impersonation is a very serious offense. Don’t try to take a Staff member’s username and attempt to pretend to be said staff member. It’ll get you banned.
User Impersonation is also a very serious offense. We’ll ban anyone who pretends to be someone else, regardless of who’s doing it and who you’re pretending to be.
When you change your username, SMP won’t know who you are and consider you a new user. Your claims, money and inventory are still there, but they’re still assigned to your old username. We’re not entirely sure how we’re going to fix this yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we do.

A personal note from Sonardo: I'd like to openly thank MrSnowGlobe, Spudsrus, and the rest of the crew for their hard work and dedication to doing stuff. Keep it up, guys!

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Exciting!

This is so exciting! Great job on the letter Erik!

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yesssssss

YAY! Thanks everyone for working so hard, I bet it will be great!

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SwissCheese

As always, well-written and interesting newsletter you got dere. Can't wait to experience World of Minecraft 1.8! Better actually fill in the transfer vault soon :P

Goat

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Thanks!

Thanks for the update on the state of World of Minecraft, Erik!
Yes, it's sad that CMP is going. Yes, CMP was kind of short lived...
But soon, we'll have a better alternative to CMP. NEXUS! The joining of worlds! Everyone gets their own world to work on and build on! In Creative mode! Wow! Such amaze!
As for the update of SMP, it's very much needed. World of Minecraft has been dead... Er, "sleeping", for a while now. With the update of SMP to 1.8, people will be attracted to World of Minecraft again! Like moths to a flame! We shall shine bright like a beacon in the night!

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I have tensed up with anticipation

And I won't relax until SMP is updated for 1.8

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vault

so what happens if we havent added anything to our vault yet. i was waiting until the update was closer  to add my items so i wouldnt have to keep changing them out. so my vault is empty ..

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Then you can go back to 1.7 SMP and add them to the vault. I'll take a note to move your vault with the others when the time comes...

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I only play Minecraft on World of Minecraft so if the server isn't updated neither am I :P

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Why are you suddenly active?

Last time I saw you in game was on realms, and you recently re-emerged. Does this confirm Bigfoot as real? Maybe.

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No

Artbot = 2 words.

Each word = 3 letters.

A triangle as 3 sides

A triangle is in art.

A bot is art.

Slacky is a bot which is art.

Artbot is Slacky

Slacky and Artbot are both apart of Illuminati.

Illuminati confirmed.

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I dropped out of minecraft a little bit after full release.

I started playing again a few months after the 1.7 release.

WoM died a bit after the 1.8 fiasco so I dropped out again for about a month.

I hopped back into SMP for a little bit and SnowGlobe was online and invited me to Nexus.
Since then I've been causing major issues in Nexus whenever I have a chance to log on.

I stopped playing Nexus mostly because World Edit fricked up the mountains I was working on but it's been long enough that I can mess with them again without it feeling like fixing a mistake and more like changing an already existing template.

And I popped in on World of Minecraft in intervals for any amount of time that I wasn't actively playing Minecraft just to see where stuff was at. I've always had World of Minecraft bookmarked.

If that answers your question.

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oh my goodness, dreams come true

Thank you so much for all your hard work on finally making this migration. So sad this is such a big part of our lives.

Happy tears.

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You have literally no idea.

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yeay! does happy dance

been checking back a lot to see news I haven't logged on much to the actual server cause I have been playing in single player :) Can't wait to get to playing again

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For those of us that didn't

For those of us that didn't do build moves to get the early access week, is that still a thing? or is everyone starting out at the same time now?

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Yes early access is still a thing, we'll announce when 1.8 is ready and then finish with the vaults / transfers afterwards

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1.8 spigot

You've stopped using sponge and moved to spigot? I thought spigot 1.8 was taken down due to DMCA and you got it? That's good news, except i have to start my supernova castle from scratch. In case you were wondering what happened to Penguin, i changed my username to Ninjapenguin64x.

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Just so you know, a person can not take a username that is already being used by another person. also minecraft is now set up by UID not by names so if a person changes their name, the servers will see that and will give the user their player data by that UID not by usernames.

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I self-identify as a bear

is...is it safe to come out of hibernation now?

get it? cause it's like hiBEARnation? because it's a bear!

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Oh god the horror

AAAAAH
COMIC SANS
SAVE YOURSELVES

(and the server is still offline)

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We're slowly waking up. Official 1.8 World of Minecraft release date is set at: Soon(tm)

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Yay!

Woohoo, My town shall come alive soon enough! :)

Penguino32
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What do you mean tomorrow? like Pacific time tommorow?

Is it my time zone tomorrow or your time zone tomorrow yenwood or mrsnowglobe

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I never said tomorrow. I said soon.

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But what time tomorrow

And in what time zone

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Valve timezone I think.

Not sure about the time tomorrow or the timezone, though.

MrSnowGlobe
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Friday.

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Okay

Okay, then. My timezone friday or 02/13/15 for you guys? My guess is for you guys. See you tomorrow or friday!

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Tomorrow for America

Very excited. I have friday off for presidents day (thanks #merica) so That means... thursday-sunday all day gaming sessions on World of Minecraft Woo <3

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Friday is a general time frame, no specific time zone

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So close to updating

So much anticipation...

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so much wait.

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That is a meme too!

Nothing can escape being a meme.

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Woohoo!

Tommorow it may be on, or so i say. I cannot connect :(

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It should be up very soon

2AM my time... I am eagerly waiting.

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anticipation

I think I've checked the server a thousand times so far today... wait, I better get back and check it again. Bye.
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