Summary Survival - Open/close observatory cover with day/night cycles Survival - Beautify PvE and PvP Spawns Creative - Permissions fixes / udpates Website - Fixed the Wiki! Website - Update banner on voting sites to reflect when the community was founded General - Trello, Priorities, and Weekly updates Survival - Open/close observatory cover with day/night cycles One of personal goals of ezeiger92 since we implemented the new Survival spawn island was to make the observatory which you spawn at open and close with the day and night cycles of the Minecraft day. Well in the last week, we finally got around to it and you can see it opening and closing. It's a nice little bit of polish for our survival spawn and something that Erik thought was fun to do in the middle of fixing UUID related problems. Survival - Beautify PvE and PvP Spawns Mega_Spud added some awesome looking artwork to the PvP and PvE spawns, making heavy use of armor stands. ndvenckus1 made the wall around PvE spawn look a bit prettier. Creative - Permissions fixes / udpates Navarog finished fixing the permissions for Creative so Creative works now properly for new players. ezeiger92 has been working with him as well to fix the Creative starting quiz / tutorial as well, but I don't believe that is complete. This update is subject to change as I haven't gotten an official update on a few things from Nava on Trello ;-). Anyhow good changes for Creative, thinks are getting better over there for the community to grow again. Website - Fixed the Wiki! Ever since we moved our hosts to deal with the DDOS attacks, our wiki has been down. Well, finally after much effort, dns reconfiguration, apache configuration, etc... we have the wiki back online. Keep your eyes out for further updates. We plan to add more content, guides, and in general make it better for new players. Website - Update banner on voting sites to reflect when the community was founded To improve our advertising of the server and show how established ShadeCrest is as a community, ndvenckus1 updated the banner on our voting sites to clearly show when the community was founded. This should distinguish us from other fly by night Minecraft servers and hopefully attract more mature players looking for a long time home to play Minecraft and other sandbox games. Website - Trello, Priorities, and Weekly updates We're now using Trello (https://trello.com/shadecrest) more and more as staff which means more coordination, more regular updates again, and easier to communicate clearly to you guys what gets done every week in these weekly updates. So expect regular updates to roll in again and as always if you have ideas on what could make the server better, let us know. Heck, if the community thinks it's a good idea, we could even get ideas up on the trello board and I *think* members could even vote on items they think need to be prioritized (this might need some configuration).
Awesome! I can't wait to watch the observatory open and close...good work Erik! follow the buzzards...Don't be afraid, let's go