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[fac2]FTP removed, Silk Spawners fixed. Advertising partnership offer. Youtube status offer.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:03:43 +0000

I was on Factions2 today. It was the most popular server at the time. I've been very inactive but every day I am becoming more motivated to fix and work on squad.

Ftp removed
A huge number of players AND friends were telling me that Factions random teleport killed the server. There are a few methods of protecting your stuff and progress on a factions server. 1) stuff in the echest or playervaylts. 2) stuff it in an unclaimed land so legit players can't see it. 3) claim land, build a tough...

[fac2]FTP removed, Silk Spawners fixed. Advertising partnership offer. Youtube status offer.

Combat.2, Anti-Macro and you.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:02:05 +0000

A lot of players have been complaining about bad hit-reg. I mean A LOT. Like half the kitpvp server.
Lets start by saying that we put in like 20 hours into a new combat system that removes the inefficiencies of minecraft combat. In this new system, as long as you are clicking on another player at least 3 times a second, you are having maximum damage over time. What does this mean? it means that the server is keeping track of all of your attacks, and as long as you are constantly fighting...

Combat.2, Anti-Macro and you.

OverCraft: RELEASED

invalid@example.com (CaptainSparrow11) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:58:45 +0000

OverCraft has been released. Currently it's only playable through /server overcraft, although it will be added to the server selector soon.

Please report any issues such as the resource pack not downloading or heros failing to work.

What are you waiting for? Get playing!

Updates coming soon

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:57:46 +0000

Hello. Basically three years ago Noah and I separated. Also I worked on crewniverse.com for three months and it was a squad clone even with our skywars maps. I was promised 30% of the income, then when i finished the job, the server organizer Dylan said that, oh no, i was promised 30% of his 30% and that ended up being like 7%. So I was told I would get paid $5k, Then a month later dylan offered me $5k in minecraft gift codes, then I was offered nothing at all. I did get 1200 during the...

Updates coming soon

Dev log april 22

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:25:56 +0000

*Added a custom plugin to factionsNew that stops players from spam sending the same message. This will likely stop advertising as well because advertisers send the same messages over and over using an auto typer.
*Added auto ban in the hub. I noticed a some players with kill aura would rack up insane ncp numbers. I guess people in go afk in hub with kill aura, or maybe when they get auto banned from other servers they get kicked to hub with kill aura skill on and with multiple players near...

Dev log april 22

Need SG Maps

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:16:44 +0000

So we have a new SG system, it uses many separate servers to fight lag and allow better map management. Our current SG has 20 maps back to back in a single world. If I want to Add new maps I would need to edit 6 gigs of map data. Anyway I have been looking for SG maps, some are really amazing, but for some reason, some map creators don't post download links. Anyway I need maps, so just link me to public SG map threads that have download links. Thanks.

dev log may 10

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:15:42 +0000

Been more busy with actual work and haven't really been doing dev logs.
Added invsee and echest other back to factions, I know you guys missed it

So prison is up now, everyone can play it in open beta.
had to reset the inventories,
essentials data,
ranks,
had to redo the entire rank up system.
even have a swaggy scoreboard.
anyway prison is up now, thats the biggest thing.
I still need to add the 11 more donor ranks, and their kits.
half the donor mines are done and they all look amazing....

dev log may 10

Squadcraft Server AD

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:14:38 +0000

A bunch of money will be invested into advertising. I need a 320x320 advert. I'm going to try my best to design a best looking advert, however anyone can submit their own version of a 320x320 advert in this thread. If I use your advert I will send you some money for your trouble. We will be looking for it to be animated & provided in a 320x320 GIF format. Best of luck.

So right now I got two options.

and...

Squadcraft Server AD

Factions OBBY breaker is out!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:13:04 +0000

A lot of you have asked for a faction server where obsidian can be destroyed with TNT. It's out right now! /server factionsob. This server is packed with brand new features that help gameplay and pvp that other servers don't have yet! I hope the new features will really improve your gameplay. Come check out the new features today! Anyway, Donation ranks are coming soon. The donation ranks will be different and hopefully will help the server to not flood its economy and to not make everything...

Factions OBBY breaker is out!

Factions news 27-28

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:09:46 +0000

Fixed the depth strider bug. Now players can't run super fast on land. New player can swim through water as intended.
Creepers Now explode and blow up obsidian. Players can still protect their goods with bedrock and player vaults.
God armor effects now last 30 seconds... so god armor users won't cry about the server lagging when their effects toggle.

I got more devs so development is picking up again.
So I got a few ideas.

Splash potions that reduce enemy healing by 50%...

Factions news 27-28

dev log April 29 - factions obby breaker has donations now!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:08:21 +0000

Every once in a while I get a task I get stuck on, but when I finally get it done it's really rewarding. This was the case with the factionsob donations. It's just a long and tedious task I had to force myself to do.

Anyway, it is done now, so yay!
*factionsob donations done
*Fixed a diamond duping exploit on mcmmo, it wasn't an actual dupe, it was a feature of mcmmo that sometimes gives you double drops based on your mining level.
*turns out that the antispam plugin was only working on...

dev log April 29 - factions obby breaker has donations now!

Prevent being ddosed, protect your ip address from skype ip grabbers

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:01:52 +0000

http://community.skype.com/t5/Secur...ect-your-IP-from-skype-resolvers/td-p/3874291

Prevent being ddosed, protect your ip address from skype ip grabbers

I'm uploading again!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:57:30 +0000

I uploaded 3 videos recently, Please check them out on my youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/xSergeTheUrge/videos

I'm uploading again!

dev logs

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:47:38 +0000

Hello.
I know some people are upset and they claim that the server stays the same and nothing gets done and nothing gets fixed. That's my fault because I don't communicate much with player base, I don't let people know about bug fixes and updates. So I'm going to start a dev log where I will post improvements, new features, and bug fixes on a day to day basis.

kitpvp1 kitpvp2 factions mcmmo down again

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:13:21 +0000

So.... a day later, the donated power supply from another one of our squadcraft servers died.

Now we got 6 servers, 4 power supplies, and 1 of the servers at my home. Lol.

Website sends emails now

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:12:44 +0000

Fixed the forums to send emails now. People can recover passwords and make accounts.

How to lower your ping

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:32:33 +0000

You can try to connect to 69.197.61.57 instead of play.squadcraft.net
Can potentially lower your ping.
<3

prison ranks unglitched!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:30:08 +0000

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

Mods handbook forums version

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:43:43 +0000

Forums is a lot different. I forgot to talk about the forums in the mods handbook. Thankfully forums have been around for many decades and a lot of tools exist to make moderators jobs easier.

Let's talk about the system in place. The forums have an infraction system. Generally people break rules, but just because someone has broken a rule that doesn't mean they should be exiled. The infraction system allows staff members to assign warnings and infractions to forums members. The more...

Mods handbook forums version

dev log may 7th

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:42:01 +0000

Putting all my time into prison right now.
There are 26 mines, with 47 mineshafts.
I had to create the 47 mineshafts using mineresetlite.
There was a lot of lag, and it was unclear where it was coming from. Turns out it was the mineresetlite plugin, as it was a very very old version.
I had to make world guard regions for each mineshaft and flag it so people can mine stuff.
There are no donor mines yet, or more accurately there are, but they look horrible, so we will be getting new mines....

dev log may 7th

rip the factions spawn

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:33:46 +0000

Apprently a never before seen bug randomly poped up from mob manager, and spammed 20 times a second for a few hours untill the console log became so big that the server ran out of disk space, and chaos happened with tons of data loss and even the spawn getting griefed. The server wouldn't even boot. Took me 5 hours tp fix it, and I ended up going into mcedit to delete stuff from spawn to make the server start....

rip the factions spawn

Vote for the AD to represent squad!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:26:42 +0000

A)

B)

http://strawpoll.me/2962120

Vote for the AD to represent squad!

How to make your minecraft run better

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:24:08 +0000

Enter
-Xmx4000M -Xms200M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing -XXarallelGCThreads=8 -XX:+AggressiveOpts

This will make your minecraft use ram more efficiently. Therefore using less of it. Before this my minecraft would run out of ram and start freezing at 1 gb, now it runs at...

How to make your minecraft run better

kitpvp fixed

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:18:04 +0000

So kitpvp has potion effects again.
Everyone always bombards me with kitpvp suggestions. Please reply to this thread with em.

new kitpvp maps

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:35:33 +0000

carrier

cargo

hijack

dev log may 18

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:34:25 +0000

Prison: Fixed the rankup bomb exploit.
Everything: Had a custom plugin made. This plugin allows us to display donors in the specific subserver. Before, you can only display donors for the entire network. Now we can thank the proper donors that actually play the server you're on; Instead of having names from different servers of people that never logged onto your favorite server.
Prison: added heads to show love for the last 39 donors of the prison server.
Hub: Added 96 signs and heads to...

dev log may 18

dev log may 12

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:55:27 +0000

Skyblock: So turns out skyblock was lagging 34517 arrows... I added a command that will run whenever the server isn't in perfect performance, this command will delete all the arrows. I think I might have caused this, i probably afked at my island for 20 hours as hundreds of skeletons shot arrows at me. Even though the arrows became invisible, their entities stayed on my island so every time I log in it would lag the server out. Anyway now arrow entities are removed whenever the server lags....

dev log may 12

dev log may 17

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:52:48 +0000

Some people say they lost their faction power. I guess you can send me a message on the forums and i'll fix it for you. If you don't want to wait you can buy the next powerboost in line and it will fix things for you.
There is a sale for the next few days, code graduation for 25% off
Prison: There is a shop, you can now buy glass among other things.
Buycraft: added some packages http://store.squadcraft.net/category/77126 We can't really afford sponsored advertising. This lets...

dev log may 17

staff structure.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:52:43 +0000

So basically we will have a
- mod team
- helper team
- bug investigations team

Members of all teams will be able to work with tickets on squadcraft.net/support/

This will let the community quickly communicate with the staff and management

Moderators will maintain the rules.
Helpers will help players, answer questions, and create support tickets if players have issues or concerns.
Bug team will look for dupes, exploits, bugs. They will attempt to do investigations and find out...

staff structure.

uptime, kitpvp, and more

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:50:49 +0000

So the faction server was up for 51 hours, finally it's stable! Only took a month lol. So it turns out that allocating more then 30 gigs of ram to any minecraft server causes daily crashes.

The global kicks seemed to have stopped, and it turns out that was our ddos protection hosts fault.

Stopped players from dropping their armor in kitpvp when they combat log.

New kitpvp maps: mirage

new highscore system on kitpvp:...

uptime, kitpvp, and more

new feature on factions,mcmmo, factionsob, factions2

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:48:10 +0000

Basically when placing sponge, all water will be absorbed within the radius of 10, this is a lot higher than normal minecraft.
When placing wet sponge, it will do the same thing, but to lava instead.
i guess i just need to add sponge to the shops.
The update will go live next reboot.... so in like 17 hours.

Some servers down for a little while. kitpvp1 kitpvp2 factions mcmmo

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:41:58 +0000

Hello boys and girls.
So earlier this morning one of our six servers went offline. The suspected cause is hardware malfunction. I don't know how long it will take to restore the server. I might need to have it shipped to my home in hawaii where I will fix it or at least get the files off it.

I've been busy working. I have also came up with a business idea that I am working on. coincidentally, that business idea was hosted on the server that went down. I was up to 130 dollars a day when it...

Some servers down for a little while. kitpvp1 kitpvp2 factions mcmmo

dev log may 13

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:41:07 +0000

Prison: added minebombs. Every time a player ranks up, they get the amazing bombs that literally nuke the mine and give you the materials.
Prison: added minebombs to buycraft.
Prison: added pickaxe rank up rewards every 3 ranks. High efficiency numbers.
Prison: Barrier blocks now prevent players from escaping from the warps.
Prison: Bulksell Signs re-added.
Prison: Enderchests re-added.
Prison: Re-set all the warps to stare at bulksell signs for easy sale of materials.

Rebuild time

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:21:00 +0000

Ey I know a lot of people hate me, but people still have a hard time getting over squad.
I'm thinking we just put together something playable, fun and functional.
It's important to get a lot of volunteers and volunteer managers to run events, maintain interest, and keep the peace.

So were gonna focus on just the og factions, and all the other servers are going to still there, you connect to facs by default and the other servers existence wont be advertised.

dev log may 3

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:09:33 +0000

Added a jail to skywars. Mods don't use it yet. because jail doesn't mute players in skywars.. and mute doesn't mute players... chances are if you mute someone they will get super angry and start spamming super hard.

Added /sw start for everyone to use, for those like 5 uk players online when everyone is sleeping.

built and created a jail in pvp

switch to auto ban on kitpvp to jail players. if players continue to kill aura inside jail, they will have their sentence refreshed, and be...

dev log may 3

HCF/vote/skywars

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:25:33 +0000

Sorry about not posting for a while. My computer died, and I forgot my forums password and I couldn't get in. *facepalm*
But uhhh. Here is hcf

Special thanks to sparrow and caden.
It's coming really soon, probably the next game mode out.
This a picture of the warzone.
It's really massive and looks amazing, I don't think my screenshot does it justice.
So I've been working on a new voting system, it isn't overpowered, but...

HCF/vote/skywars

factions perfect performance ~

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:23:47 +0000

The overworld, end, and nether are 100% there. So world generation will never happen again. So we should never have lag on the factions server again ;o

You can now advertise your utub vids in this section:
http://squadcraft.net/forums/youtube-community-creations.152/
Make sure to read this first:
http://squadcraft.net/threads/post-your-youtube-vids-here-read-first.16676/

Have fun ^^

factions perfect performance ~

factions, factions2, factionsob, mcmmo2

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:24:24 +0000

creeper eggs now blow up instantly so you don't need to flint and steel it, also, the creeper wont slip out of the chest because it will blow up instantly

If someone is in a disguise and they attack, they lose their disguise

Factions Revamp

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:21:47 +0000

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uO65dkiBTZnVWpPxlSc0Xx_Z_3uvQd5yOiMCrZmnVZk/edit?usp=sharing

Factions Revamp

Factions Vote system revamp.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:17:39 +0000

Now voting gives passive perks for a day.
First vote grants 50% less hunger decay
Second vote gives a spare heart
third vote gives 10% more money from the bulksell sign

updates aug 9-10

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:13:13 +0000

So came up with nuke idea for factions.
Thought it was a really great idea but some people are starting to say it's op.

updates aug 9-10

New staff infrastructure.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:05:50 +0000

I made a mistake not trusting staff and thinking I can do everything by myself. It's not healthy and it's just not possible. I'm not the terminator, I can't stay awake 16 hours a day everyday doing the job of 10 people. I think a daisy chain chain of command is appropriate. To settle my trust issues and make sure there is no abuse or abusive behavior of the staff, we can always have another person watch over the next.

so like

So like there will be like squads of mods. Three or four mods...

New staff infrastructure.

offline for hosting switch

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:29:54 +0000

hey, i'm moving the servers to a more cost efficient host. This should make it more affordable for me to continue running the server.

I've been asking a lot of players for feedback on new donation packages. If you have an idea how to make a package that people will purchase, please contact me.

I've also created http://squadcraft.net/support/ where helpers and moderators can create tickets on players behalf, they can also manage the priorities. Players should also be able to make...

offline for hosting switch

Important OverCraft questions

invalid@example.com (CaptainSparrow11) — Tue, 16 May 2017 06:35:39 +0000

Hello, I'm out of hibernation and looking for some answers.
___

* Would you rather have 30 unique maps for OverCraft, although there is a quick join sign that you can click to join the game with the most players. This is the system we have now, although I'm beginning to have second thoughts about it. Although there are lots of maps they may become repetitive/stale after a month or two.

* An alternative would be to have only five maps plus the quickjoin sign. Then every month there could be...

Important OverCraft questions

Factions mcmmo into Factions 'Prime' or 'Alpha'?

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 05 May 2017 12:15:24 +0000

So I was thinking that mcmmo should just be a standard on faction server. If properly configured and unwanted parts gutted, it could be just more optional content to use. But if we add mcmmo to all servers, well what happens to mcmmo then? It's redundant.

So I wanted to make an experiment with a factions server. This is about the size. In the past I thought bigger is better. The bigger the world, the fancier the server, the more people can play, the less noobs get raided. Unfortunately if...

Factions mcmmo into Factions 'Prime' or 'Alpha'?

age old argument: to take servers down to save money.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:00:38 +0000

A data center is a building that is designed to house servers. Date are usually located close to global internet lines, this reduces ping for everyone using those servers. Ping is the measurement of time, in thousands of a second, it takes from a signal to get from origin to destination. A datacenter usually has back up power, super massive air conditioning, and extreme electric infrastructure. The data center provides 3 things in exchange for money. Physical space, kinda like renting a...

age old argument: to take servers down to save money.

OverCraft Peek Sneak #1 and 3/4

invalid@example.com (CaptainSparrow11) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:01:28 +0000

Hello! Was going to do a peek sneak #1, but couldn't be bothered. Just showing off some cool third dimensional textures.

Frequent updates and informations

invalid@example.com (CaptainSparrow11) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:41:14 +0000

I'm on new forums account too, if anyone was wondering.
Hello, I've get some informations to hand out.
- Firstly, I'll be posting screenshots of things that we work on in this news section frequently, like our OverCraft server that's under development so stay tuned for that. I'm on holidays for another three days, but I'm already keen to get back on that server grind!
- Secondly, I'd love it if you all could contribute to this thread:...

Frequent updates and informations

server 5 is down. bad power supply. fac1, kitpvp1-2, and mcmmo effected

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:23:21 +0000

So earlier this morning the power supply of the squadcraft server 5 blew up. I'm ordering a new one. The server should be back up in a couple of days.

The servers effected are:
mcmmo
factions 1
kitpvp 1
kitpvp 2

Please spread the news.

temporary downtime

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:14:12 +0000

So turns out the power supply of server 2 exploded. The technitians will move server 3's power supply into server 2 and they will ship server 3 to me. Server 3 directs players to different servers. When server 3 will be offline, all of the server will be offline as well. Voting and other things might get effected as well. If the server is offline, know it's the kitpvp getting fixed.

some pvp updates for factions

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:36:51 +0000

So when you hit people in pvp, it will tell your how many god apples they have.
Also the hp indicator now takes all hearts into account. So when people gapp, you will know how much health they have
also, now you have to eat gapples for the effect, instead of it being instant.
also a bunch of other stuff but whatever

Anyone have the old SquadCraft Spawn? (URGENTish)

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:57:43 +0000

Today I spent 5 hours looking through the back ups and my 7 gigs of diskspace searching for the old squad spawn. I didn't find it. I think it was originally built on the server itself, and was deleted with old map data to save space on a 80% full hard drive. I want to use this spawn for faction obby breaker server. Can someone please get me this spawn? I hear people have recreated it.

mod handbook v2

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:04:16 +0000

So in this guide I will try define abuse, proper, and improper conduct.

So moderators are peacekeepers of the community. They are designed to keep order and prevent toxic and destructive players from ruining other player's gameplay experience. So in a way, mods are responsible for improving player's gameplay experience. A lot of people do this job wrong, they have their list of punishable actions and they instantly jump to use power over a player. This job isn't about using power over...

mod handbook v2

new hub

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:17:43 +0000

we got a new hub

factions, factions2, factionsob, mcmmo

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:04:26 +0000

The server will now let you know when there are kits that can be used.

You can customize what you want to be annoyed about. with /kitsnotify

[factions]enderchest other

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:50:00 +0000

Hey,
/echest [name]
was removed.
So from now on use /betterenderchest viewinv [player]

Factions ob new spawn

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:22:02 +0000

Secret passage

underground shop!

Thanks the sparrow!

need help with factions

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:33:58 +0000

please record a 1 minute video of you going out to the wilderness and killing as many mobs as you can.
God armor doesn't count. You can use bandicam free trial and youtube.com to upload your results, then link them in this thread.
Your helpful input will have an effect on squadcraft.

Faction server malfunction

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:45:58 +0000

So the faction server malfunctioned today. I'm not sure what happened, but, for some reason it was saying the filesystem is read only. That's the cause for the auc spam. So anyway, I tried to do a reboot, and when the server came back on, the ssh wasn't enabled. So I'm basically locked out. I've been talking to the datacenter staff, but I think they are under high support load and that's why it's taking 4 effing hours to do one thing. Anyway, so the good news is, if filesystem is read...

Faction server malfunction

downtime

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:25:14 +0000

Date: Wednesday, November 18 2015
Start Time: 11:00PM PST
End Time: 03:00AM PST

New Factions Scoreboard

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:06:01 +0000

The new factions scoreboard shows health, super golden apple regen duration, and armor status.

There is a bug in factions and kitpvp with hit reg, working on fixing it. It looks like after the server was up for a long time it happens.

downtime

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:30:41 +0000

So for the past few days the server would kick everyone off, and no one could join for a while when this happened. Turns out it was the ddos protection from intreppid that was causing this. Apparently it wasn't configured for minecraft and was causing internet inconsistencies. Alright well I have my fingers crossed. Hopefully this wont happen to us again

skywars is back baby

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:32:53 +0000

Added an auto start function. Starts the timer when two players are in que. When 20 second timer expires, game starts. All items can be looted from chests again, plus a ton of mob eggs were added, mob eggs can be deployed for an npc battle companion. A lot more stuff is coming but at the very least, it is actually playable now.

Factions server recent downtime...ssss

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:36:56 +0000

So apparently the faction server cpu was blowing hot air in the wrong direction, at the ssd. The server would hard crash irl every 3 days. Causing downtime until the datacenter staff would reboot the server in person. I payed for some services and had huge fans installed in that server. That doesn't really matter because the faction server was moved to a different machine, the currently used machine. It doesn't have heat problems and it never crashes. Although we started getting some weird...

Factions server recent downtime...ssss

hardcore zombie survival pvp gamemode beta coming really soon

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:21:42 +0000

So the map is almost complete, and now the plugins are getting done. So we should see a new gamemode within a week.
Here is the map http://squadcraft.net/ZombieSurvival/index.html#/-1185/64/-2683/-9/0/0

hardcore zombie survival pvp gamemode beta coming really soon

Factions reset sep 21

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:35:56 +0000

Personally I like keeping the map and the eco indefinitely. However there are times that require a fresh start. Usually about the time when starter homes start spawning in each other. So we needed a new map. There was also a dupe exploit going on. It's been fixed and the server has been reset. I'm personally going to play as well. On my surgetheurgeyt account. Donors that have donated within a months time will get their donor stuff again. Everyone else will keep their rank but will lose all...

Factions reset sep 21

new hub and facs lag sep 22

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:08:46 +0000

Normally I always generate the world. I didn't this time. I regret it. During the filming of a factions lp I was getting crazy block lag. Factions overworld is being generated right now. It's currently at 17.5% It would probably take 12 hours to fully generate the 20,000x20,000 block overworld. Nether would be next, but should be much faster. I already had a copy of the end on my computer and we don't need to generate the end. Last time I generated the nether, I tried to make it so the roof...

new hub and facs lag sep 22

aug 18 factions crates 2.0

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 20:25:41 +0000

Added a new crate system to factions
Vote crate keys can be obtained 3 a day from 3 different websites.
A small crate key can be obtained every day just by logging on.
Two medium crate keys are given to every new player. Medium crates give double the bonus loot.
Lucky Crates can be purchased for $5 from buycraft. Lucky crates have the best chance to give you good stuff. Quadruple amount of bonus loot.
I have gotten unbreak from a small crate before.
'ItsBabyLegs' Will upload a Factions vid...

aug 18 factions crates 2.0

aug 25

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:05:23 +0000

prison
street thug mine added
soldier mine added
hitman mine added
capo mine added
underboss mine added
boss mine added

hitman rank added
capo rank added
underboss rank added
boss rank added

You now recive a medium crate key when ranked up to street thug, soldier, hitman, capo, underboss, boss

When prestiges will be added prison will stop being 'open beta' and will be 'prison'. However no reset will be performed.
Factions
Prefix customization plugin bugfixes,...

aug 25

survival games 3.0

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:44:17 +0000

Okay so survival games 3.0 is being created right now. It will probably the best hunger games ever made. With a global server currency rewarding you from actions you take on other servers. Like winning skywars games will grant squadcoins and players will be able use squadcoins on all servers for different things. In survival games 3.0 squadcoins will be used to to use donor kids, can be used as substitution currency in shops, and will temporarily unlock other donor perks. Voting also grants...

survival games 3.0

aug 16

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:25:25 +0000

Factions - Spawners limiters disabled. So spawners will spawn as many mobs as they want, as fast as they want.
However the server will kill and remove any extra monsters or animals that exist.
So if you have a spawner and you go afk, there will be around 20 mobs around you.
Good news for all you cash flow spawner money makers lol.

Updated and enabled buycraft on all servers. Some servers had buycraft disabled due to recent update.

Factions Made mobs drop their heads 10% of the time...

aug 16

aug 14

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:15:14 +0000

Factions,
upped mob spawn rate
added more mob spawning mechanisms
added a mob despawner that will despawn mobs if there are too many mobs in one area
zombies run two times faster now
Giants only spawn in the overworld and at night. They can not spawn in the warzone or spawn.
Giants spawn when other hostile mobs spawn. So the best way to find giants is to stay in a flat place and kill hoards of mobs until a giant will spawn
Giants run quickly now, and attack players doing high...

aug 14

aug 15 mcmmo

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:40:19 +0000

Mcmmo spawner dupe glitch fixed.
Duped spawners are now pig spawners.
Players didn't have access to buy spawners from the store, now they do.

Dev Log - August 6th

invalid@example.com (FirePig) — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:57:42 +0000

Hey guys. Surge recently stopped doing "Dev Vlogs" because he was WAY too busy to handle server things with doing consistent dev vlogs. So I've taken up the job of doing them, and they should be coming out more consistently than they used to. I'll make sure you guys know everything that is happening behind the scenes, new servers, and just improvements in general. Hope you're excited, let's get started....

Dev Log - August 6th

Updates August 6

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:35:12 +0000

Fixed 500k and 10 10 10 pickaxe rewards in prison crates.
Two new mods Poseidon356 and Apollo11MC.
updated server list gfx
paid bashur $$$$ to make factions vids
did some development for the squad's hardware

prison server crashes fixed

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:10:40 +0000

Basically the explosives plugin had a memory leak and that would crash the prison server and put it offline. That's been fixed and hopefully we will not see any downtime.
In other news i recorded a lets play on the prison server today and that will be up soon xd
^.^

Mod's HandBook

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:50:44 +0000

Moderators are very important to the community. They help make the server more playable by preventing rotten apples from ruining the gameplay experience for other players. I'm writing this guide because sometimes some mods forget their purpose and then just dish out punishments at every opportunity if it fulfills their checklist. Moderators are supposed to be kind and fair. Their job isn't to punish players, but to help the community. Moderators have to be kind, patient, and helpful. Not...

Mod's HandBook

Server is back up - Recovered from a ddos attack.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:46:30 +0000

So basically the way intreppid operates, they give you an ip to develop your server, and a protected ip that is basically like a proxy, but it filters out ddos attacks. The protected ip of the bungee server is not available anywhere. It's top secret and only a few people in the world know it. So I think ether yonda or breezyboy is responsible for this attack, as they are in the handful of people in this world that know that ip address.
So anyway, hold onto your butts I'm working with the...

Server is back up - Recovered from a ddos attack.

dev log may 22

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 24 May 2015 18:19:17 +0000

Prison: updated world guard to 6.0.0 beta 5. This was to use block-break flag. So players can mine inside the mines, but not place blocks. People were doing all kinds of crazy things with block placements in mines. Like growing trees for example.
Prison: so the prison shop plugin and the minebombs plugin broke because of the block-break fix. Hired devs to fix the plugins.
Prison: added stone to bulksell for 1 dollar. Added cobblestone to bulksell for .5 dollars.
Prison: Made it so everyone...

dev log may 22

dev log may 15

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 19 May 2015 22:12:07 +0000

emuturd and xenonzombie are now mods
Prison: Made all prison mines stronger then the previous mine
Prison: Updated and Upgraded Knight rank

new skywars maps added today

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 18 May 2015 07:22:33 +0000

8 new skywars maps added today! I really like these.
BlastOff by TheSparrow11

Empire by TheSparrow11

Entre by TheSparrow11

Enchanted by TheSparrow11

Exploration by TheSparrow11...

new skywars maps added today

dev log april 30

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:59:46 +0000

fixed antispam on most servers, skywars is the only server it doesn't work on as the skywars pluign processes it's own chat and therefore prevents it from working. Hopefully this will get fixed soon. You guys should be noticing a decrease in spam.

added a donor appreciation thingy in skywars.

Found out heads were causing lag on skywars, made 1 line of highscore heads instead of 4, and expanded it to track 29 places instead of 27.

Added jail to
FactionOld
Mcmmo
FactionsOB

gave mods...

dev log april 30

dev log april 23

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:20:29 +0000

Nerfed kit vampire and vampire night.. Took away resistance and lowered regen to regen 2 instead of 3.

Investigated issue with creative worldgen. It's working, and you should get a normal plot instead of having weird land generate in your plot and outside it.

Fixed a mob over-spawning issue with skyblock where up to 20,000 mobs would spawn. Added animal despawning that will slowly start despawning animals when there are too many of them in a small area. Both of these things should increase...

dev log april 23

Dev vlog april 25

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 01 May 2015 12:34:32 +0000

Added a webpage on the website because players reported they had problems clicking on links in game. Now you can vote from the squadcraft.net website.

Fixed a bug in FactionsOb where players were able to ignite each other with fire aspect swords in spawn.

added a portal from factionsob to hub. This lets you reset your location. So if you are getting kicked for flying when you login, simply enter the server from the hub portal, and it will teleport you to spawn where your feet will be...

Dev vlog april 25

dev log april 24

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:35:25 +0000

Added Voting to newfactions. Took a while, had to troubleshoot a lot, finally figured it out and added a vote crate at spawn with links to the vote sites.

Fixed error spam with the our nofire plugin for 1.8.3 newfactions.

Working on adding donations to FactionsObbyBreaker. This is going to take at least 10 hours of work, and It's very tedious. I really don't want to do it, but I really have to do it and when I'm done it will be a very big accomplishment and hopefully factionsObbyBreaker...

dev log april 24

Double post test

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:33:38 +0000

Someone double post up in here.

New Shop Icons!

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:38:26 +0000

Can I get some feedback on these icons? Made them myself.

1.8 Minecraft

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:27:34 +0000

Planned updates:
- a new 1.8 world for mcmmo and factions.
- 20k x 20k the end world for factions and mcmmo.
- warp signs to all worlds with a weeks time to move your stuff before deletion of the old worlds.

Mojang/Minecraft pushed update 1.8. They didn't allow any devs to prepare for 1.8 update. There will be a while before minecraft 1.8 software is available to the public. So 1.8 world will not be here for a while...

Issues and damages

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:19:56 +0000

So as a lot of you know, the admin and mods quit. They started a server. I don't know how, or why, or for what reason, but they somehow won over dev breezyboy's heart. So he made them plugins and other things. Yonda told breezy to steal skywars maps. I don't know why or how it's just to do this on what moral grounds, but breezyboy befriended me with the intention of stealing the skywars maps. BigTea warned me of this so I made sure to be very careful. Never gave breezy any access to...

Issues and damages

KitPvP mass unban and money reset

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:14:37 +0000

So the banhammer was banning people for spam clicking items in inventory. This has been fixed and everyone was unbanned. Also because of this everyone lost their kitpvp balance. Sorry guys

crashing fixed for skywars and kitpvp

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:13:53 +0000

So we had a plugin called chatcontrol. It's supposed to stop spammers, advertisers, and chatbots. (I don't think it actually did that). This plugin had a memory leak. A memory leak is a technical term for when a program uses memory, and when it is done with the data, it doesn't properly free up the memory, resulting in infinite accumulation of ram until java process crashes. Anyway, this was the cause for skywars and kitpvp lagging up, and crashing, this event would happen once a day. So...

crashing fixed for skywars and kitpvp

Vote keys/crates on factions

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:38:39 +0000

1/10 +$3000 money
1/15 +pig spawner
1/20 +kit raid
1/25 +golden apple
1/40 +$3000 money, enderchest, golden apple
1/50 +$3000, 3 creeper eggs, kit potions
1/70 +$4000, kit diamond, golden apple
1/100 +$5000, kit emerald
1/500 +creeper spawner, kit emerald
1/1000 +kit vip
1/2000 +kit mvp
1/5000 +kit bedrock
1/7500 +kit superpick
1/10000 +kit god

That's what I have so far.
Might add donor keys for 2 bucks each that have twice the chances to get something.

Factions Full Reset, Kits buff, New features, Better economy, New amazing rank.

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:35:04 +0000

Hey guys. Factions finally got the reset we have been waiting for so long. I took this opportunity to add lots of features to the server to improve gameplay. Bases and raiding can now take place across all 3 planes of existence. The End and Nether can now be easily accessed and traveled. Over-world has radius of 20,000 (40,000x40,000=1.6B blocks area), Nether has radius of 20,000, end has radius of 10,000. I tried to make it 20,000 as well but there is a hardcoded limitation in minecraft to...

Factions Full Reset, Kits buff, New features, Better economy, New amazing rank.

What's Good?

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:56:45 +0000

What's good in the hood?
Youtube prepare thy butts.

Quoting bad content - DON'T DO IT

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:49:07 +0000

Hey guys. I've been deleting a lot of posts in the past two days. Most of them deserve deletion, others not really. I want to tell you guys how to not get you post deleted! A lot of posts had advertising, bad language, flaming in their posts. Sometimes people reply to these posts, and they quote them. If you quote a post that has bad content that deserves to be deleted, you are making a copy of their post in your post. If I delete the original post, your quote will preserve it. So I end up...

Quoting bad content - DON'T DO IT

Factions: poll, CreeperEggs

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:10:36 +0000

Everyone got a lot of items, built un-raidable bases. Now everyone is sitting on their hands not knowing what to do, how to raid, how to get MORE stuff. People are asking me to add obsidian breaker so they can raid in some way. CreeperEggs, with horseEggs, and TPAs are currently the designated way to raid. I am thinking about adding CreeperEggs to the shop so that people can purchase them with their essentials money. What do you think the creeperegg price should be? take the poll.

SG UPDATE!

invalid@example.com (Shadow) — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:02:42 +0000

If you didn't know, SG has totally been redone, with a new maps, new spawn and a new plugin.

The old /SG command works, as well as /squadgames.
The chests now can contain damaged weapons/armour, and the deathmatch teleports all to 1 spot in spawn instantly, however you can run from deathmatch with no damage or border, which is a bummer.

I think the SG update is exciting and great, but like every big update there will be bugs, which I have seen in a game.
The way of joining a game is still...

SG UPDATE!

Whats going on with Factions

invalid@example.com (breezeyboy) — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:33:53 +0000

Hello everyone,

As I'm sure we can all agree, an update about factions is needed as it has been gathering new plugins a bugs. This will be split into different sections so you can find your issue easier.

Item Lose (Ender Chest, Inventorys etc etc)

This has been a major issue on Factions for a little, basically UUIDs are switching back and forward from online mode uuids to offline mod uuids. Every person who owns a minecraft account will have an uuid and it...

Whats going on with Factions

un-moderated server? poll

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:25:44 +0000

Mods, mods, mods. One of the most challenging problems. Moderators have to be respectful, helpful, kindhearted, and nice people. Most people whom seek moderatorship, only do it for selfishly for higher social status in the community, attention, greed, search for power. So if you had to choose from thousands of strangers, how can you tell the kindhearted helping people, from greedy power seeking people? The bad eggs want mod so bad, they will write heavenly mod apps and write anything they...

un-moderated server? poll

KitPvP back up to full

invalid@example.com (surgetheurge) — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:46:27 +0000

Every server has been receiving bug fixes, performance upgrades, cosmetic and quality of life upgrades. When KitPvP has worked on, there were 3 different systems in place breaking each other. That has been sorted out and KitPvP is back up to 100%

note: Be wary of going ghost, players that run minecraft 1.8 can see usernames and health above ghost's names.