Saturday, October 20, 2012

My First House in MC (Don't Laugh!)


Ok everyone here it is. My first house! Cringe worthy right? Don't worry though It was only on my third day of playing back when I was new. Well that's about it, thought someone might get a good laugh out of it. Dirt houses FTW! 
Friday, October 19, 2012

Why Mojang Needs to Stop Hackers

Sorry for my short little rant here but I'm raging at the moment so bare with me. First off, I would like to say that I love PvP and Factions servers. I  mean who doesn't? But its no fun when you go into a fight and realize your opponent is obviously using Nodus or some other hacked client. I mean for gosh sake! Aimbotting ruins the whole point of combat, being able to do nothing and kill people is so over powered. If pvp is going to be taken seriously these hacks need to be fixed. Most people use nodus now because of how easy it is to hack using it. 

Now onto my next point. Back in the day when I was just a MC noob. I discovered the game and was amazed by it. Just going around with  your friends exploring caves was great, and even better when finding people's bases by accident and stealing their stuff was just so fun. Making your base underground and trying not to be seen when you descended to the surface to gather resources, trying not to get caught when you asault a base, Making friends in clans or factions. the posibilities were endless and it was the most fun game I ever played. The sense of freedom was amazing. Mob's were scary and you always had to watch your back they added a lot of excitement . And by the time I played there wasn't many plugins yet.

All of this has been ruined by cheats. The game was able to put you in a real atmosphere were the world felt real with really interesting graphics, which is an amazing acomplishment. Now knowing people is using X-ray around you makes it worthless. Especially when your mining around and theres no diamonds left because of all the x-rayers. Ok well thats the end of my rant. Point is don't cheat  its not fair and probably against server rules. If your playing offline on the other hand go ahead. 

4 Tips for Advertising your Server

I've made alot of servers in my time, and in that time I've also had to do alot of advertising for them. Some of my servers have definitely been better than others. Never forget that the quality of the server always comes first over advertising. But back to the point; here are the top four tried and true methods I've found for getting people to your stinking server!

1. Post on places like PMC or any other Minecraft forums. Your server thread should also be pretty in depth since you want players to know what kind of server you're running, etc, etc. It also never hurts to have a link to your server thread in your bio and sig if you post a lot.


2. A little less usual and a more unique method is to post youtube videos! Maybe make a let's play on the server. Plugin reviews and such are also good. Most people may never get beyond the first page of the MCF server section. But on Youtube they'll click through a few videos and with some luck they might come to yours. 


3. Another great yet extremely simple is Word of Mouth. One person comes on, likes your server. and brings on friends. This may be old school but it works trust me.


4.You can add your server to minecraft server list sites. I did it and i got many people, But if your server has lots of downtime your score can drop fast . So you need to have your server on almost 24/7 for mcserver list to work..


I hope you learned something from this post and be sure to come back for all your minecraft-y needs!

Minecraft Xbox Update!

Hey everyone this is my first post on my new blog! I've been waiting for the xbox update to 
come out for a while now..and it finally has! the only problem I can find is the enchanting; there's none. but other then that it's AWESOME.  It is really great. They added strongholds, abandoned mineshafts, npc villages but no villagers. Food was another big chunk of it including such as raw/cooked chicken, raw/cooked beef, melons, rotten flesh,spider eyes,apples and golden apples. A few other cool new things for xbox atleast are ravines, rivers between biomes, swamp biomes, creative mode, food bar, superflat worlds,sprinting,sprint jumping,flying, sprinting while flying, a few anti-grief features,and invisibility.They also new enemies such as endermen,silverfish, and cave spiders. Overall Im very happy with this update but again , the lack of xp/enchanting is too bad. Also not having the golem mobs is kinda disappointing  Not sure if they forgot or what..but they were my favorite!! Anyway have a good day reader and hope your having as much fun on xbox MC as I am!