Polls & Game Update

The results from last week's poll are in!  Here are our favorite ways to travel:

WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL?

Walking/Sprinting	1 (8%)
Horseback	5 (41%)
Saddled Pig	2 (16%)
Railroad	4 (33%)

This week's poll is now up:

WHICH MOB KILLS YOU THE MOST?

Last week's Where Am I? is going to be re-flown as there hasn't been a winner.  We're upping the ante with a better prize to see if we can encourage you to look harder.

It's time for Where Am I? Wednesday! Here is your mystery server screenshot:

Prize: 

• 20 Glowstone Lamps
• Gold Horse Armor
• A Confused Sheep
• A stack of these babies: 

How to Play and Enter: 

1. Search the server for the place in the screenshot!
2. Once you think you've found it, hit F3 on your keyboard to bring up the coordinates. 
3. Jot down the coordinates for X, Y, and Z on a piece of scrap paper (make sure you correctly identify if they're negative coordinates!).
4. Write a letter to Otter by typing the following command:
• /letter Coordinates (XX, YY, ZZ) <YourUsername>
• (Please replace XX with the X coords, YY with the Y coords and ZZ with the Z coords)
• Please sign the letter with your full username.
5. With your written letter in your hand, send it to Otter with the following command:
• /post Otterun

The winner will be announced along with the weekend spotlight.

Read HERE for more information! 

The Weekly Gaze

The Weekly Gaze

No entries were submitted for this week's Weekly Gaze!  Noooooo!

In that case, let's up the motivation a bit, shall we? The spotlight is still on Fishing Ponds. The prize is still an enchanted Fishing Rod! To complete the theme, though, I am throwing in an Aqua Affinity, Underwater breathing leather armor set! 

Hmm. Maybe I should compete too . . . 

Wednesday Where Am I? Winner!

No one has won this week's Where Am I challenge!  We are upping the ante! In addition to the fireworks, minecarts, and tracks, the winner will also receive a saddle and a name tag!

Preparing for the 1.8 Update!

Just a couple of notes about the release of 1.8.  Mojang is currently saying it will be available September 2nd.  Please be aware that GazerCraft may not be able to update on that exact day.  We do need to make sure that our plugins (like MyHorse, DiscoveryWarps, Lockette, etc.) are able to successfully update to 1.8 as well.  GazerCraft may have to wait a couple extra days, but we'll make it worth your while!  When we do update to 1.8 we'll have a party!  The festivities will include: 

• A firework celebration
• A 1.8 prize pack for everyone who logs in
• Banner making competition
• Expanded world border! 
• (We'll go from a 3000 block diameter from spawn to 8000!)
• Festival Announcement
• Outpost Announcement

Wednesday Where Am I? 8/20/14

It's time for Where Am I? Wednesday! Here is your mystery server screenshot:

Prize: 

• 2 Minecarts
• 32 Rails
• A stack of these babies: 

How to Play and Enter: 

1. Search the server for the place in the screenshot!
2. Once you think you've found it, hit F3 on your keyboard to bring up the coordinates. 
3. Jot down the coordinates for X, Y, and Z on a piece of scrap paper (make sure you correctly identify if they're negative coordinates!).
4. Write a letter to Otter by typing the following command:
• /letter Coordinates (XX, YY, ZZ) <YourUsername>
• (Please replace XX with the X coords, YY with the Y coords and ZZ with the Z coords)
• Please sign the letter with your full username.
5. With your written letter in your hand, send it to Otter with the following command:
• /post Otterun

The winner will be announced along with the weekend spotlight.

Read HERE for more information! 

Firework Show!

Please join us for our Mod Appreciation Firework Show to honor Min, Punisher, and Tana! Meet us at the Twilight Arena (x:2531, y:107, z:806) today at noon Pacific Time OR when the below timer runs out:

The Weekly Gaze

The Weekly Gaze

Greetings Gazers! This week we are featuring Basements!

First up we have Punisher and his basement storage area.

"Not every house has to take up a lot of room on the surface, some of the best homes utilize the ground beneath them. This home's basement has all the storage and tools any player would need, making this home truly a home base for mine craft operations."

That's it for this week's weekly gaze! The winner is: ThePunisher1028! Congrats! Your prize will be available in Z's office at spawn shortly! 

Next week's contest is featuring Fishing Ponds. The Prize will be an enchanted Fishing Rod! 

Remember that anyone can enter into the Weekly Gaze! 

*Note that the pond has to be man-made or altered in some way (bridge, deepened, etc.)

Firework Show

The server has been poppin' lately and it's thanks to our lovely moderators!  To celebrate our wonderful staff and boost in activity, we're going to have a firework show in their honor! Come celebrate Min, Punisher, and Tana!

The show will take place at the Twilight Arena (x:2531, y:107, z:806).  It will begin at 12:30pm 12:00pm Wednesday, August 20th, Pacific Standard Time.  Here's a nifty Time Zone Converter for you to use.  We will make plenty of announcements around that time and we will wait until it's night time in game.

Server Cleanup

We're in the process of doing a server clean up. This does NOT mean you may alter player builds/chests -- doing so is still against the rules.  It just means that we're demoting inactive towns, disabling* inactive Discovery Warp plates, and removing offices to make room for new, active players.

*If you have previously discovered a Discovery Warp, but it has now been disabled due to inactivity, you can still use it.  Disabling just means it won't appear when using '/dw list' and new players won't be able to discover it. 

Wednesday Where Am I? Winner!

Our latest Wednesday winner is Punisher from Sanctuary! Congratulations! The location was just outside of Mourningwood, a forgotten settlement.

New Poll!

Last week we asked about a new plugin, which sadly had some bugs.  While that gets resolved, consider our newest poll: What is the best way to travel?

Wednesday Where Am I? 8/13/14

It's time for Where Am I? Wednesday! Here is your mystery server screenshot:

(Note: Zombies may have been killed after photo.)

Prize: 

• A surprise "Squidward"
• 10 pieces of glass
• A lilypad
• A stack of these babies: 

How to Play and Enter: 

1. Search the server for the place in the screenshot!
2. Once you think you've found it, hit F3 on your keyboard to bring up the coordinates. 
3. Jot down the coordinates for X, Y, and Z on a piece of scrap paper (make sure you correctly identify if they're negative coordinates!).
4. Write a letter to Otter by typing the following command:
• /letter Coordinates (XX, YY, ZZ) <YourUsername>
• (Please replace XX with the X coords, YY with the Y coords and ZZ with the Z coords)
• Please sign the letter with your full username.
5. With your written letter in your hand, send it to Otter with the following command:
• /post Otterun

The winner will be announced along with the weekend spotlight.  Winners will be sent a confirmation letter and MUST pick up their prize in Otterun's office at spawn.

Read HERE for more information! 

Welcome Punisher and Minja!

We posted an application for junior mods back in July.  We were very happy with the applicants we received and were thrilled to see how many people were interested in helping the server.  Unfortunately, our server doesn't justify that many mods, so we narrowed our choices down to two.

Otter and Z are happy to announce that Minja (Minja3101) and Punisher (ThePunisher1028) will be joining the staff ranks as junior moderators!  Their job will include whitelisting, monitoring chat, and answering questions as far as their expertise allows. :)

They have the title of "Regent" which is a person of honor who rules in place of the crowned ruler.  Here is what they'll look like in chat!

The Weekly Gaze

The Weekly Gaze

Greetings Gazers! This week we are featuring Town Building Themes!

Sanctuary has a solid, go with the land building theme! Their cottages are well designed and charming. Let's see, shall we?

This one was built by ThePunisher1028 and KrysKrys8. This home is an example of what Sanctuary expects of its residents and their natural/modernized cottage theme.

Built by KrysKrys8, her home is quite stunning. Another great example of Sanctuary's building style as it is spacious while also keeping the natural integrity of the mountain. 

Shizsnok built his home beneath the cliff above, showing perfectly our motto to keep the land around our homes looking as natural as it was before building.

Built by ThePunisher1028, This building is our housing area's community center and bank to be. Though it is still under construction on the interior, the exterior represents our town's theme exceptionally. 

Also built by ThePunisher1028 this path bridges the distance between Sanctuary and Arendelle. The path reflects Sanctuary's building code in its detail and natural feel. 

Our Winner: KrysKrys8! Congratulations!! From now on, Weekly Gaze prizes will be available in Z's Office. She is in Office number 1 in the South Wing! You will have one week to pick up your prize before it is given away, so be sure to pick it up before the next Weekly Gaze! 

And that concludes this weeks Weekly Gaze! As a clarification on the rules; Anyone can enter into the Weekly Gaze contest! No need to let your town leader take all the glory! It is a contest after all. As per request, next week we will be spotlighting Basements! So if you have a basement, jazz it up and make it your pride and joy to enter into next weeks contest! When Entering please clarify the builder of the item you are entering! Also, don't be afraid to suggest new spotlights. The Prize for next week will be one Wolf Egg! 

Wednesday Where Am I? 8/6/14

It's time for Where Am I? Wednesday! Here is your mystery server screenshot:

(Note: Sheep may move)

Prize: 

• 10 cocoa beans
• A stack of these babies: 

How to Play and Enter: 

1. Search the server for the place in the screenshot!
2. Once you think you've found it, hit F3 on your keyboard to bring up the coordinates. 
3. Jot down the coordinates for X, Y, and Z on a piece of scrap paper (make sure you correctly identify if they're negative coordinates!).
4. Write a letter to Otter by typing the following command:
• /letter Coordinates (XX, YY, ZZ) <YourUsername>
• (Please replace XX with the X coords, YY with the Y coords and ZZ with the Z coords)
• Please sign the letter with your full username.
5. With your written letter in your hand, send it to Otter with the following command:
• /post Otterun

The winner will be announced along with the weekend spotlight.

Read HERE for more information! 

Polls and New Shop Option

Here are the results for last week's poll!

HOW MANY BANNERS SHOULD A TOWN/PLAYER BE ALLOWED TO "COPYRIGHT" WHEN 1.8 COMES OUT?

0	2 (14%)
1	4 (28%)
2	6 (42%)
3	2 (14%)
4	0 (0%)
5	0 (0%)
6 or more	0 (0%)

This week, we are thinking of adding a new plugin.  This plugin creates the option to create chest shops that trade items for items.  The plugin we are thinking of getting is called "FancyShop."

Here's a link with commands and info: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/fancyshop/

Please watch this three minute instructional video for further clarification.  It's light weight and easy to use! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSsyDBMJwJo

So this week's poll is this:

 SHOULD WE ADD FANCYSHOP?

Please watch the instructional video and do some reading before voting, please!

The Weekly Gaze

Wednesday Where Am I? Winner!

Our latest Wednesday winner is none other than SirMeatwad of the Lost Hills! Congratulations, Meat! The location was just outside of Arendelle at an abandoned work site.



If you want to see the original puzzle, click here. If you want to get in on the next Wednesday game, you can read the competition rules here.

The Weekly Gaze

Greetings Gazers! This week we are spotlighting water features!

First up we have the south gate of Sanctuary, though the castle isn't yet finished, this water feature makes it seem quite welcoming!

Otter's horsey-watery-falley-snowey-flowery-thingey. Her horses like to play in this small natural stream.

Sliding up to the plate is skdavitt's lion, sitting on a podium surrounded by a small moat, very creative!

Arendelle's wishing well. (That rhymes!) Also, try to say that 10 times fast, go ahead, it's fun! Try dropping a gold ingot in and see if your wish comes true!

Here we have Hyper's pond-jumping bridge. I am intrigued how he decorated it with the sugar cane! Very nice. 

Last but not least is the Lost Hills tiered wheat farm!

Thanks to everyone for their submissions, this Weekly Gaze is the most successful! 

As I said before prizes are now being offered to the winner of the spotlight. I struggled between two submissions but eventually decided on skdavitt as the winner of this week's spotlight. Congrats skdavitt! Your prize will be awarded to you as soon as possible.

On another note, next week's spotlight will focus on town building themes. Is your town cohesive in its building style? (Tribes and personal builds can also be submitted if the theme is cohesive throughout several buildings) Do the players in a town work together? The Prize for the winner of this spotlight will be some records for the winner to enjoy some new music! 

On yet another note, here is the format for submitting spotlight entries to z2liion:

1. You must have the name of the player who built the object being submitted for the spotlight.
2. You must have the coordinates.
3. Town name the object is being submitted from. 
4. (Optional) Any stories about the object, or anything you want said about it on the spotlight, this must be in quotation.
5. (Optional) Recommendations for next weeks spotlights, been wanting me to do a spotlight? Tell me what you want here, as well as what prizes you would like to see!
6. Submit these to z2liion through personal messages in Skype, OR in game by using the letter system.

HOW TO USE THE LETTER SYSTEM:

EXAMPLE:

• /letter Hey Z here is my submission for the spotlight. Gooberbiscuit built it, it is at (to add more words if you are cut off, hold the letter in your hand and continue:)
• /letter 1000, 64, 1000. It is a dispenser for carrots, when you hit the button to dispense, it grows, harvests, and refills itself using a bonemeal dispenser, a piston, hopper, and another dispenser!

To send the letter to me, while holding the same letter type:

• /post z2liion

Always make sure that the coordinates you are sending me are correct, and not being accidentally cut off. If I see 1000, 64, 100 I will go to those coords, not knowing that the Z coordinate is supposed to have a third 0. Z WILL NO LONGER SEARCH FOR SPOTLIGHTS WITH INVISIBLE COORDINATES. *makes angry face* 

Thank you all and I look forward to the next spotlight!