Hey Guys,
It's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central.
If you connect to MCFun Central right now, you will notice a big change: Halloween decorations!
We have decided to start switching the server a bit every holiday to keep up with holidays while still keeping the mood of the MCFun Servers. Since Halloween is approaching at greater speed than we thought, we have decided to start decorating for Halloween.
While we want to continue to make the server especially exciting by switching the server theme every major holiday, we didn't want to make a complete change to the server. Therefore, we will only decorate the main spawn and not any of the minigame spawns. However, you can always voice your questions or concerns in the comments section or on Twitter!
Big thanks to our co-owner and decorator for every theme, sharpdomino. She knows what she's doing when she starts decorating.
Now, moving on to a bigger update: The MCFun Overhaul.
Back in August, we announced that we would be turning the MCFun Servers into a network linked with BungeeCord. Some major changes included that the servers would be connected with portals, we would be making our own plugins for our minigames and possibly our own minigames, we would hire builders to revamp our spawns to match the theme of our new name, The Extrillius Network. We announced that changes would start taking place in October, but we ran into a few problems:
1) All the plugin APIs are crumbling down due to riots involving money, so there is no way that we can get new plugins until the new Sponge API comes out.
2) Switching from Elementary school to Junior High has put weight on my shoulders that I have not learned to deal with, and as a result, is keeping my busy even during the weekends.
3) Because of the busyness and the fact that Codecademy doesn't have Java, I haven't set my mind on learning Java or the Bukkit/Spigot API.
4) In addition to me being busy, all the other staff members of the MCFun Servers have been busy as well, and since Bernard moved, it's more difficult to find a good time to talk to him.
Therefore, while we want the changes to start taking effect now, we can't have that. We are trying to plan the overhaul, which includes both ideas and money balance over the (currently) three servers. The changes might start taking effect next month or even in December, but what I know is that we will try our hardest to get the overhaul out for the MCFun Servers' 1 Year Anniversary, which is on December 9th.
We're sorry for all of this trouble, but we'll find a way to put the overhaul onto our calendars.
~ Matt
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
The MCFun Overhaul Project
This post is probably going to be the post with the biggest news for not only MCFun Central, but for the entire group of MCFun Servers.
Go on any of the MCFun Servers right now. Count how many players are online with you.
If you counted 0, that is about as many as we get on average, and even if we do get any players, it's usually people we know, or staff members. On top of that, we have never gotten a single donation, except for MCFun Survival, which did a great job at advertising. It was a relaxing and fun environment to play in, and it made people want to donate. The only thing MCFun Survival was missing was stability, and that was because Daniel had trouble paying the bill, and there were hacker problems on the server constantly that forced Daniel to reset the world over and over to the point where people just gave up on playing, since it was almost certain their work would be wiped away again. The player count dropped significantly, and Daniel shut the server down. Since then, the MCFun Servers rarely received players. Especially MCFun Central, which had 8 minigames, eventually just died out. It is a small server with an unoriginal spawn, and minigames that just "don't" after a while.
We want to completely redo the MCFun Servers. Don't worry, this won't affect MCFun Building Plaza, other than the name, but I'll get to that. This is mostly going to affect MCFun Central.
Here's a simple way of putting it. We want to redo EVERYTHING, including the name. When the MCFun Servers first started, I came up with the first name that popped into my head (MCFun), and it just stuck. We want a professional and original name, along with professional and original servers. No, that was not a typo. I said SERVERS. Why? We are going to become a professional network, meaning that there will be a different server for each minigame, all connected together with BungeeCord and sub-domains (e.g. KitPvP.mcfuncentral.net (we are not going to be called MCFun Central, that was just an example)).
Since we are going to turn into one big network, we will not have separate servers. This means that MCFun Building Plaza will join the network, and will be part of the nine minigames, even though it is not counted as a minigame, at least to us.
So, what is planned so far for the overhaul? Here's the list:
Any other MCFun Servers that may join in the future will be part of this network.
And finally, what are we going to be called?
Our big network is going to be renamed to The Extrillius Network.
These changes will begin to take effect starting next month and it will probably not be until the end of the year until the changes are finally finished. For now, everything is normal.
If you have any questions or concerns about the overhaul that I didn't mention in the post, don't hesitate to tweet to us @MCFunCentral, PM me on YouTube (TechBug2012), or just leave a comment on this post!
~ Matt
Go on any of the MCFun Servers right now. Count how many players are online with you.
If you counted 0, that is about as many as we get on average, and even if we do get any players, it's usually people we know, or staff members. On top of that, we have never gotten a single donation, except for MCFun Survival, which did a great job at advertising. It was a relaxing and fun environment to play in, and it made people want to donate. The only thing MCFun Survival was missing was stability, and that was because Daniel had trouble paying the bill, and there were hacker problems on the server constantly that forced Daniel to reset the world over and over to the point where people just gave up on playing, since it was almost certain their work would be wiped away again. The player count dropped significantly, and Daniel shut the server down. Since then, the MCFun Servers rarely received players. Especially MCFun Central, which had 8 minigames, eventually just died out. It is a small server with an unoriginal spawn, and minigames that just "don't" after a while.
We want to completely redo the MCFun Servers. Don't worry, this won't affect MCFun Building Plaza, other than the name, but I'll get to that. This is mostly going to affect MCFun Central.
Here's a simple way of putting it. We want to redo EVERYTHING, including the name. When the MCFun Servers first started, I came up with the first name that popped into my head (MCFun), and it just stuck. We want a professional and original name, along with professional and original servers. No, that was not a typo. I said SERVERS. Why? We are going to become a professional network, meaning that there will be a different server for each minigame, all connected together with BungeeCord and sub-domains (e.g. KitPvP.mcfuncentral.net (we are not going to be called MCFun Central, that was just an example)).
Since we are going to turn into one big network, we will not have separate servers. This means that MCFun Building Plaza will join the network, and will be part of the nine minigames, even though it is not counted as a minigame, at least to us.
So, what is planned so far for the overhaul? Here's the list:
1) Separate all minigames into different servers linked with BungeeCord
2) Remake all spawns (minigame spawns and server spawn)
3) Change the name to something original, yet has a good theme, and draws the attention of potential players
4) Don’t download any plugins (except for Essentials, WorldEdit, and WorldGuard), and make an original plugin for each minigame
5) Make original minigames (we are not sure about this)
6) Make a donation system that complies with the Mojang rules, but that will still attract playersAny other MCFun Servers that may join in the future will be part of this network.
And finally, what are we going to be called?
Our big network is going to be renamed to The Extrillius Network.
These changes will begin to take effect starting next month and it will probably not be until the end of the year until the changes are finally finished. For now, everything is normal.
If you have any questions or concerns about the overhaul that I didn't mention in the post, don't hesitate to tweet to us @MCFunCentral, PM me on YouTube (TechBug2012), or just leave a comment on this post!
~ Matt
Thursday, August 21, 2014
MCFun Central - Another Relocation, Twitter, and a New Member!
Hey guys,
It's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central (I know, shocker, but we'll talk about this further in the post).
This is a pretty late post, since MCFun Central got relocated last week (Aug. 12), but we have relocated once again. Why would we relocate twice within 2 days?
If you have experience with domains, you know that if your Minecraft port is not 25565, the default Minecraft port, you will have to connect to the server you want to connect to with the domain followed by :whateverporttheserverhas. Since MCProHosting servers come with a random port, you will have to purchase their Dedicated IP package to change your port to 25565.
Once we relocated to Chicago, I had some connection trouble with the server. Everything was fine, I was getting 20 TPS like normal, but it started with you having to wait about a second before your chat message went through. That may not seem like a lot, but go on any lag-free server, and you'll notice that your chat message goes through immediately. MCFun Central has always been that way, so I was a little bit concerned once I noticed this.
By the next day, it had reached a point where you couldn't even connect to MCFun Central, even though the server was running fine and the connection was good. I contacted MCProHosting about this, and they told me that they had screwed up when they gave my dedicated IP to me and that it overlapped with another server. If I wanted a dedicated IP again, I would have to move again. Since the server originally was started in Ashburn and things were fine there, I decided to switch back to Ashburn. However, in the time that I was in Chicago, someone had already taken our old IP, 23.235.224.10, which included both the IP and the 25565 port. Unfortunately, unless the owner of the server that took my IP decides to get another IP (or move, if they are on a server host), we will not get our old IP back.
But as I was trying to move to Ashburn, MCProHosting told me that they had run out of Dedicated IPs in Ashburn as well! Since Washington DC is fairly close, we are now in Washington DC. However, I'm trying something new. Since there were so many IP changes going on, I am not going to give out the new numerical IP. If a bunch of IP changes like these happen again, I want people to be on either the sub-domain or the domain, because I immediately point the domains to the new numerical IP after the IP gets changed, if that decided to happen again.
It's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central (I know, shocker, but we'll talk about this further in the post).
This is a pretty late post, since MCFun Central got relocated last week (Aug. 12), but we have relocated once again. Why would we relocate twice within 2 days?
If you have experience with domains, you know that if your Minecraft port is not 25565, the default Minecraft port, you will have to connect to the server you want to connect to with the domain followed by :whateverporttheserverhas. Since MCProHosting servers come with a random port, you will have to purchase their Dedicated IP package to change your port to 25565.
Once we relocated to Chicago, I had some connection trouble with the server. Everything was fine, I was getting 20 TPS like normal, but it started with you having to wait about a second before your chat message went through. That may not seem like a lot, but go on any lag-free server, and you'll notice that your chat message goes through immediately. MCFun Central has always been that way, so I was a little bit concerned once I noticed this.
By the next day, it had reached a point where you couldn't even connect to MCFun Central, even though the server was running fine and the connection was good. I contacted MCProHosting about this, and they told me that they had screwed up when they gave my dedicated IP to me and that it overlapped with another server. If I wanted a dedicated IP again, I would have to move again. Since the server originally was started in Ashburn and things were fine there, I decided to switch back to Ashburn. However, in the time that I was in Chicago, someone had already taken our old IP, 23.235.224.10, which included both the IP and the 25565 port. Unfortunately, unless the owner of the server that took my IP decides to get another IP (or move, if they are on a server host), we will not get our old IP back.
But as I was trying to move to Ashburn, MCProHosting told me that they had run out of Dedicated IPs in Ashburn as well! Since Washington DC is fairly close, we are now in Washington DC. However, I'm trying something new. Since there were so many IP changes going on, I am not going to give out the new numerical IP. If a bunch of IP changes like these happen again, I want people to be on either the sub-domain or the domain, because I immediately point the domains to the new numerical IP after the IP gets changed, if that decided to happen again.
That being said, if you see "Can't connect to server" for MCFun Central, please edit the server on your server list and change the IP to one of the following:
play.mcfuncentral.net
mcfuncentral.mcpro.co
In other news, we have a new member to the MCFun Servers that has just gone public! Remember MCFun Survival and MCFun Building Plaza? MCFun Building Plaza has become the new MCFun Survival! As some of you may know, MCFun Building Plaza had existed for a while, and it was originally designed as a "creative plots" server, but you could build anywhere in the world. So why is it still called MCFun Building Plaza? We have a new feature to our survival server: Build to Rankup! We have 6 ranks: Beginner (default rank), Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and God! The better you build, the more access to kits and commands you get! But don't get so excited yet: you've got to be an outstanding builder to earn the god rank. Start practicing now! mcfunbuildingplaza.mcpro.co
Lastly, I want to mention that MCFun Central has a Twitter! Most of you come here for updates on the MCFun Servers, but most of these blog posts are pretty long, and infrequent. If you want quick updates on MCFun Central, follow us on Twitter @MCFunCentral
For now, the only twitter account with the MCFun Servers is the MCFun Central, but we will soon add a Twitter for upcoming servers! Also, Orion, the owner of MCFun Building Plaza, will start posting updates about the new server, since MCFun Building Plaza became public.
We hope to see you on our servers!
~ Matt
Sunday, August 10, 2014
MCFun Central - New IP!
Hey guys,
Once again, it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central.
As you know, we finally got our new domain play.mcfuncentral.net to work. However, some of you still may notice "Cannot connect to server." This is because you either are connected with the long IP (23.235.224.10) or you are connected with the sub-domain of MCProHosting (mcfuncentral.mcpro.co). I have some good news and some bad news.
Bad: My server has been reloacted, and because of this, we have a new IP, meaning if you are connected with 23.235.224.10, you will never reach MCFun Central.
Good: play.mcfuncentral.net still works and is still pointed to the server.
Good: The sub-domain is still pointed at my server.
Bad: If you live in Europe, you'll have a harder time connecting to the server, since it's 400 miles further.
Good: If you live in or near Chicago, you'll have a BETTER time connecting to the server =)
Sorry for all of this,
~ Matt
Once again, it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central.
As you know, we finally got our new domain play.mcfuncentral.net to work. However, some of you still may notice "Cannot connect to server." This is because you either are connected with the long IP (23.235.224.10) or you are connected with the sub-domain of MCProHosting (mcfuncentral.mcpro.co). I have some good news and some bad news.
Bad: My server has been reloacted, and because of this, we have a new IP, meaning if you are connected with 23.235.224.10, you will never reach MCFun Central.
Good: play.mcfuncentral.net still works and is still pointed to the server.
Good: The sub-domain is still pointed at my server.
Bad: If you live in Europe, you'll have a harder time connecting to the server, since it's 400 miles further.
Good: If you live in or near Chicago, you'll have a BETTER time connecting to the server =)
Sorry for all of this,
~ Matt
Saturday, August 9, 2014
The Domain Is Ready!
Yep,
Today I tried connecting with the domain, and I finally got it to work! We now have a professional domain! Check it out:
So finally, after all this BS starting in June, MCFun Central FINALLY has a domain: play.mcfuncentral.net. All this time, I've wanted a .com domain, so I might switch to that... or we could just get used to the .net domain... let us know which one you want!
Having a domain of our own provides even more benefits: I plan to have a separate server for each minigame. I could use the one "mcfuncentral.net" to connect the servers with different domains. For example, play.mcfuncentral.net, kitpvp.mcfuncentral.net, colorshuffle.mcfuncentral.net, etc. I can do all that with just the one domain, which is useful. The only reason I haven't set up separate servers yet is because right now, I pay $25/month for my server. The cheapest plan with MCProHosting that allows Bukkit (and sufficient memory for the separate minigame) is the Dirt Plan, which is 5/month, + 8 (soon to be 9) minigames. That's $40-$45/month on its own. Then I might setup some other things that take up money, which is also adds on to the price, but we'll see.
Just to clarify, I did not delete the numerical IP or the MCProHosting sub-domain, so if you still have those IPs, you won't need to type the domain just to be able to connect to the server. You can still connect to MCFun Central with these three IPs:
- 23.235.224.10
- mcfuncentral.mcpro.co
- play.mcfuncentral.net
We hope to see you there!
~ Matt
Friday, August 8, 2014
play.mcfuncentral.net + New KitPvP!
Hey guys,
Once again it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central.
So, you know all this crap I've had with GoDaddy about my domain? It turns out, all along, the domain I was dealing with was mcFUcentral.com (that's not a typo). And even when I was trying to add mcfucentral.com to my server, it just wasn't working anyway. So I decided, screw it. I am now introducing a whole new domain: mcfuncentral.net. But this isn't going to be just a regular domain. I am going to make a website with the domain mcfuncentral.net, and you will be able to connect to my server with play.mcfuncentral.net.
Currently, if you try connecting, it will say "unknown host." This is because GoDaddy is still in the process of pointing the domain to my server. I will notify you once it's ready to connect.
On another note, KitPvP is new and better than ever! Normally, I don't like using KitPvP plugins, but this one was great! It's called KingKits, and it includes everything I've always wanted for my server:
1) Getting paid everytime you kill someone
2) Better payment system (being able to type /pvpkit (kit_name) and still have it taking the money)
3) QuickSoup (doesn't take hunger while you have a kit, but if you right-click a soup when you are missing some health bars, it will heal you, and you can also refill your bowls with /refill)
4) When you select a kit, it puts on the armor for you
5) YOU CAN'T COMBINE KITS! (finally)
We also have a new kit: Ghast! Kit Ghast is available for $250 ingame money per use. Yes, I know, it's pretty expensive, but it's worth it:
Once again it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central.
So, you know all this crap I've had with GoDaddy about my domain? It turns out, all along, the domain I was dealing with was mcFUcentral.com (that's not a typo). And even when I was trying to add mcfucentral.com to my server, it just wasn't working anyway. So I decided, screw it. I am now introducing a whole new domain: mcfuncentral.net. But this isn't going to be just a regular domain. I am going to make a website with the domain mcfuncentral.net, and you will be able to connect to my server with play.mcfuncentral.net.
Currently, if you try connecting, it will say "unknown host." This is because GoDaddy is still in the process of pointing the domain to my server. I will notify you once it's ready to connect.
On another note, KitPvP is new and better than ever! Normally, I don't like using KitPvP plugins, but this one was great! It's called KingKits, and it includes everything I've always wanted for my server:
1) Getting paid everytime you kill someone
2) Better payment system (being able to type /pvpkit (kit_name) and still have it taking the money)
3) QuickSoup (doesn't take hunger while you have a kit, but if you right-click a soup when you are missing some health bars, it will heal you, and you can also refill your bowls with /refill)
4) When you select a kit, it puts on the armor for you
5) YOU CAN'T COMBINE KITS! (finally)
We also have a new kit: Ghast! Kit Ghast is available for $250 ingame money per use. Yes, I know, it's pretty expensive, but it's worth it:
I know, it looks kinda weak when you see the enchantments, but come and try them out yourself, you'll see that it's worth $250/use!
I guess that's it for this blog post. School will be starting soon and I won't be able to focus on the blog as much, but I'll keep trying!
~ Matt
Thursday, July 31, 2014
MCFun Central - Creative Plots is Back! + Problems with GoDaddy
Hi guys,
Once again, it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central (you can't be more surprised).
It's been a while since a post was made on this blog, so I thought I'd update all 0 of you reading this blog about what's going on.
First off, if you've been on the server recently, you've noticed that I had a lot of problems with Creative Plots recently. One of them was just a stupid not paying attention jar thing on my part, but the other was a little more serious:
I guess I could say what it is, now that it's resolved. If you didn't know, from the start of Creative Plots on MCFun Central, you weren't allowed to use certain things (like lava, water, maybe tnt (I forgot), spawn eggs, etc.). However, if you put those things in a dispenser or a dropper, it would dispense the item out.
Because of this, we had major lag (in the 0 fps sense) in the Creative Plots world and ghasts flying everywhere. It took a while to get rid of the ghasts. However, this made me realize the serious problem that was developing in Creative Plots. Last evening, I went through some config files until I found the blacklist part of Essentials. You are now not permitted to use spawn eggs of any kind, dispensers, or droppers. I'm sorry if you were planning to make some amazing redstone creation or something with the containers, but it's just to keep out the rule abuse.
Onto the second, more frustrating problem.
As you know, back in the beginning of June, I purchased the domain mcfuncentral.com from GoDaddy. Here's a little word of advice: if you want to purchase a domain from GoDaddy, don't purchase it when you're on vacation.
Just yesterday, I finally got my account unlocked. They deleted my domain, but they refunded it and told me it was up for repurchase. When I got back into my account and tried to repurchase it, it told me it wasn't available. I tried asking a Live Chat support if sometroll else bought my domain or if it was just a glitch on their part. Because of "technical difficulties", they couldn't get my account details.
sigh
Once again, it's Matt, the owner of MCFun Central (you can't be more surprised).
It's been a while since a post was made on this blog, so I thought I'd update all 0 of you reading this blog about what's going on.
First off, if you've been on the server recently, you've noticed that I had a lot of problems with Creative Plots recently. One of them was just a stupid not paying attention jar thing on my part, but the other was a little more serious:
I guess I could say what it is, now that it's resolved. If you didn't know, from the start of Creative Plots on MCFun Central, you weren't allowed to use certain things (like lava, water, maybe tnt (I forgot), spawn eggs, etc.). However, if you put those things in a dispenser or a dropper, it would dispense the item out.
Because of this, we had major lag (in the 0 fps sense) in the Creative Plots world and ghasts flying everywhere. It took a while to get rid of the ghasts. However, this made me realize the serious problem that was developing in Creative Plots. Last evening, I went through some config files until I found the blacklist part of Essentials. You are now not permitted to use spawn eggs of any kind, dispensers, or droppers. I'm sorry if you were planning to make some amazing redstone creation or something with the containers, but it's just to keep out the rule abuse.
Onto the second, more frustrating problem.
As you know, back in the beginning of June, I purchased the domain mcfuncentral.com from GoDaddy. Here's a little word of advice: if you want to purchase a domain from GoDaddy, don't purchase it when you're on vacation.
Just yesterday, I finally got my account unlocked. They deleted my domain, but they refunded it and told me it was up for repurchase. When I got back into my account and tried to repurchase it, it told me it wasn't available. I tried asking a Live Chat support if sometroll else bought my domain or if it was just a glitch on their part. Because of "technical difficulties", they couldn't get my account details.
sigh
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