We are looking for community members who are interested in helping us moderate on Valley or Summit. Applicants should be friendly, helpful, and professional, must be a member for at least 1 month, and be 15 years or older.
Applications will be open for a week. To apply go to: https://alttd.com/apply
We will be transferring the server to new hardware Sunday night (JAN 20) starting at 9PM CST (3AM GMT JAN 21). The new hardware we are moving to is very similar to what we have, but is part of a new package that our host offers that now includes 4TB of local storage for backups. We do not expect this transition to affect performance on the servers, but it will allow us to store a much larger history of backups and will give us the opportunity to restructure things during the install to make maintenance easier.
The process of transfering between hardware involves shutting down all of the Minecraft servers, backing up all of the data, transferring the backup to the new hardware, and finally running some tests to ensure it is running correctly on the new hardware. All of the Minecraft servers will be offline throughout this entire process. We do not have an ETA for how long this process will take.
Bugs after a large change like this are expected. We will be closely monitoring the servers throughout Monday (JAN 21) and expect there to be a few reboots that day.
If you have any questions please reach out!
In our ongoing war against the lag, we are implementing a new weapon tomorrow: FarmLimiter. Starting tomorrow, mob counts on the survival servers will be monitored and restricted by this plugin. It works by tracking how many mobs are within a certain radius and killing off additional mobs once an area reaches its limit. Here are the limits we are currently planning to implement:
In addition to this automated system we are implementing two new rules: Mob grinders must have a mob-holding-chamber that is either 1×1 or 1×2 blocks in size. Also, any attempt to circumvent these automated systems is prohibited. This system is in place to prevent lag and make the servers playable – remember we are all in this boat together and nobody wins if someone tries to sink it.
The new rules we posted last Thursday have been revised to better clarify various points and add a couple of things that were initially missed. Key differences include:
Just like before, the overall intended meaning of the rules has not changed. If you were following the rules before, you will have no problem following these “new” rules. If you have any questions please reach out!
Here’s our newest listing on Reddit. I love reading all of your comments!
https://www.reddit.com/r/mcservers/comments/af1hav/altitude_community_smp_mcmmo_land_claiming/
The staffing team came together today and discussed some revisions to the server’s rules. Most of the content of the rules (which can be found at https://alttd.com/rules has not changed, but it has been reorganized.
The rules are now categorized by three main sections: Be courteous, don’t be a jerk, and play fair. Some rules, such as our policy on mods and advertising, have remained separate since they did not fall into any of these sections. The purpose of the new categorization is to make it clear what the big ideas behind our rules are. We believe that as long as you keep these key concepts in mind: be courteous, be kind, and play fair, you will automatically end up following all of our other rules.
Other than this reorganization of the rules, not much has changed. Hacks are still prohibited, griefing still isn’t allowed, swearing is still ok in moderation, and pvp is still optional. One addition we did make is: Never steal from another player after they’ve just died or set something down. (you will find this under “Don’t be a jerk”).
If you have any questions please reach out to a staff member and if you have any suggestions on how we can improve our rules, we’d love to hear them!
After 24 hours it’s time to take the final survey results: nearly 90% of players support removing for the forums (70 in support, 8 against). I’ve officially disabled the forums and made the changes I promised. Here is a summary:
The tips on reducing lag have been moved to https://alttd.com/lag and the requirements for warps have been moved to https://alttd.com/warps. We’ve also added some new information about how to use the warps on that page as well.
The blog is back at https://alttd.com/blog and we will now post all of our announcements on both Discord AND the blog. This gives everyone a place to access the server’s news if they are unable to get on Discord, or don’t have a Discord account.
Finally, the changelog is back on Discord at #changelog. We will post all changes we make to the server that effect the community in some way in the changelog.
I’m very excited to announce that nicknames finally sync across servers! In order to add this feature everyone’s nicknames will be resetting the first time you re-log on any server (meaning log in, then log back off, and finally log back in, and your nick will be missing). Please reach out to any staff member if you need your nickname re-created!
If you notice any other bugs, please let me know immediately! This is a custom plugin and might have some unexpected issues.
Happy (early) new year everyone! As promised we are running a sale to celebrate the new year! Everything on the donation store is 40% off through midnight EST on January 1st (that’s 5AM GMT JAN 2ND).
I hope everyone has a fantastic time celebrating this new year’s eve and I’ll see you all in 2019!
Did you know about /petshop? Well, now you do! The selection of pets has been recently completed, so check it out!