After a crazy month we're happy to finally be back to bring you some new stuff to the Minecraft server.

As you all probably know, 1.11 is out. But don't go panic selling everything, the main survival world isn't being reset. We plan to just add a new world and keep our 1.10 survival world. You can still connect to Xe if you update your game but how quickly we are able to update the server will depend on how fast our necessary plugins update.

And speaking of new worlds... If you saw the thread about us wanting to add pvp, you know opinions on making the Minecraft server more challenging were very mixed. Everyone made some great points and we decided to just add a new world incorporating a lot of the ideas we got from people. We're calling it Survival Extreme.
To get there /warp worlds and go through the gate.

Fly is off for all, pvp, fire spread, creeper damage, and TNT are on, Mcmmo blast mining is enabled, keep inventory is off. To allow for the world to be used for mining, inventory is shared with the main survival world. This means you will need to be more careful where you home/warp/tpa if you don't want to enter a non safe area. Auto kill warps are still bannable if we see abuse luring people from the main survival world.
Moss stone
are the precious stones protection zones for Extreme, just like sponges in main but they have a radius of 20. Everyone gets 4 Extreme protection zones.

If your area is not protected with a moss cobble stone you risk being raided. Raiding is not bannable in this world so be careful who you add to your zones.

We are not using LWC in Extreme. This means if you want your chests locked they must be in your protection zone.

Since inventory is shared you can use your kits in either survival world but we have renamed kit noob to kit stone.
The name change applies in all worlds. Home and warp amounts are also shared across worlds.

The Survival Extreme world is not guaranteed to be free of resets. If we do have any resets we will make sure to give lots of warning so you can keep your stuff but there will likely be a reset for 1.11. For the 1.11 map we'll probably make the world amplified too.
The ATM is back.
We've lowered the payout a bit and might still adjust it more but you can once again sell your gold ore to /warp atm.

The subhall is back. /warp subhall for more info and to see perks.

Most Buycraft packages will be discounted
for a week starting Tuesday November 22nd. Some will be up to 40% off. We'll announce in Discord when the sale is live.

The Bad Pun Sword
is back for sale in the Admin Shop for 70k along with a bow and pickaxe for 60k each.



A post about the next contest is coming soon. It's going to be a shop contest but it'll be located in a new market area outside the Spawn mall so you can build the outside of your shop too.

Regions will be coming back with some strict requirements on what kinds of buildings you have to have. More info on that hopefully by the end of the month.

Hey guys I'm sure some of you have noticed we were down for a bit. We made a change to the internet service and it was something that was supposed to be quick and simple. Pancake was in the hospital for a couple weeks so when things went down It took a bit to fix while we waited for her to get discharged. We have been so lucky to have help from Corey and Jason to help solve it all and everything should now be back online. Thank you all for your continued patience.

Congrats to CodyMX54
for winning Octobers creative world build contest sponsored by Palmetto
. 

 

and Kysdog
and LegoBoy678
for winning 2nd and third place.

 

The theme was race tracks or boat races and he created a pretty awesome recreation of Super Mario 64's Rainbow road.

 

https://eroshare.com/4yx9ypw3

 

The track is located in creative at /warp rainbowroad
Check it out! 

 

The 1st place prize is the highest rank of Obsidian
and 

 

Since Cody is already Obsidian rank he's helped pick SpeedyNamo
to be upgraded and Cody will receive a steam key for 7 Days to Die 


 

2nd place has won 5,000 Xeebles


 

and 3rd place has won 2,500 Xeebles


 

Thanks everyone for your participation and if you didn't win there will be more opportunities for contests and prizes.

 

The theme for the next build contest will be announced later in the month in the monthly update post and take place in December.

Congrats to Cuki84
for being sleected as this months Featured Shop
in Xmall.

 

For being picked as the featured shop she has recieved 1000 xeebles
, a holo
at the mall, and /warp shop
outside her shop
 
go visit her at shop 14
or /warp shop

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

We are now hosting a Feed the Beast server.

The server is running Revelations 1.12.2


https://www.feed-the-beast.com/ to download. We recommend the legacy launcher.

Once downloaded, connect to xegaming.com as usual and go through the FTB portal.

We are now hosting a Feed the Beast server.



 
The server is running Infinity 1.7.10. 


https://www.feed-the-beast.com/
 to download. We recommend the legacy launcher.


You will also need the Enchanting Plus and Morph mods here: 
https://drive.google...SHF0SnA4NUFaYlE


The ip is 

72.238.183.188

 
The server is whitelisted. You have a few options to get on the whitelist.


You can donate for Obsidian which comes with more perks on the Minecraft server. More info on Obsidian here: https://xegaming.com/forums/index.php?/t...dian-rank/


If FTB access is the only Obsidian perk you want we also offer a subscription. It's $7 a month for 3 months for a total of $21. You can also just donate $21 with the manual upgrades option.


We recommend just upping to Obsidian if you are already Emerald rank or higher because it ends up being a smaller donation ($20 for Emerald, $15 for Diamond)


FinalFormSora will get you whitelisted no later than 24 hours after your donation.

Did some reading to verify what I've learned about map gen and player stats. I am going to try a simple map wipe while leaving the player data intact.

 

What does this mean?

 

If it works proper we should start with a brand new map (same seed for now) but it will be at Day 0 and all of your builds and chests will be gone.

 

However, if it works right, you will keep your exp, levels, recipes, and possibly the inventory you have on hand.

 

I will be messing with this until the 1st to get it right at which time we should be ready for a more long-term map.

 

 

After finding out what caused the 'skyland' bug, I'm confident I can keep that from happening again.

 

 

Wish me luck!

After some discussion with staff we feel that it's time to do a full map reset. Why?  Well, let me tell ya...

 

1. During an early morning crash I tried to restore the server and thanks to the tool that I use to manage 7days, it defaulted to the Navezgane map...

 

What does this mean? Long story short, it blended the Navezgane map with the Randomgen map and that is why you see the "skylands" world gen as you are walking around.

 

I have tried many options to fix it but due to my own inexperience with hosting this game, and some early alpha bugs, it has caused some major conflicts.

 

2. We were running with 'backups' turned on but I had not set up the directory structure properly. Meaning, backups were running, but pulling data from a non-used and non-applicable world.

 

 I have backups running proper now and have done testing to ensure they are not only working proper, but can actually recover data from any losses.

 

3. Lastly, the issues with the blended world gen have caused problems with the standard POI's that generate in the world. Example, the Western Settlement for trading is buried in a crater that, without admin access, is almost entirely inaccessible.

 

This also causes problems with traveling and exploring due to the visual range being skewed, as well as environment effects being blended (Drowning in desert, overheating in winter biomes etc..)

 

 

I apologize that we are having these issues, and I take full responsibility. I have been hosting minecraft for over 6 years, and taking on a new game has its own challenges.

 

I can assure you, however, that not only am I a quick study, but I have quite a few ideas for the future of 7Days Xe version.

 

Having said that, thank you for your patience, please comment any ideas or concerns, and Happy Survivin'!

 

 

 

Map Reset will be November 1st, 2016. This will be a full stats, inventory, XP, and world reset.

After this reset I will work to ensure that some stats/items can be carried over during update-required resets (Example, Alpha 16, Alpha 17, Beta 1 etc..)

So I spent a few hours making this Nether Wart farm.

http://i.imgur.com/DzDn5Eq.png

 

I did the math like five times, and the total amount of growing space (soul sand) is 4,896 blocks.

 

I've planted and harvested twice (with water each time), and the best yield I've gotten from the farm (with 99% full growth) was only 6,869 nether wart.

 

But... fully grown Nether Wart is supposed to yield 2-4... I should be seeing yield numbers past 12,240 (4,896 x 2.5). At least 9,792 (4,896 x 2).

I've checked around the whole entire thing twice for more drops and never find any more.

 

Am I lacking knowledge of some game mechanic with water and nether wart? Or is there a maximum drop amount per chunk or something?

 

Thanks,

RitzyCosmos