Guide to registering for MCAU Cards (Pictures Included!)

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It has occured to just about every staff member at this point that some of you are having a hard time registering for cards. To help possibly lower the amount of people who don’t know what to do, I have created a guide to help you register for cards. It even has pictures! Woo!

Anyway, let’s get started. For the tutorial I will be using my alt account _MasterExploder. To start off with, you need to log onto the server ingame. When you log on, you should see this welcoming message. If you haven’t, you probably took a wrong turn and ended up at the wrong place.

So now you’re in game. Open up chat and type /cards register. Exactly the way it is written in the image bellow.

Once you have done that, hit enter. Two chat entries from [CARDS] will appear, one of them will include a yellow link. These bits of text will appear only to you, so don’t worry about anyone seeing it.

What you need to do is click on the yellow link that you are given in chat. Upon doing that, you will be greeted with this message. Essentially it is warning you that you should be careful about links that people give you, and will give you the option to back out if you really want to. We have made sure this link is safe to use, so you can click Alright. My language is set to Australian English so it may appear different to yours. If you have not changed your language settings, it will appear as Yes.

When you accept the offer to go to the link, your web browser will open if it isn’t already and you will be taken to this webpage. If you have your browser open already, it will simply open up a new tab or window.

When this page appears, you need to type your Minecraft username EXACTLY as it appears in game. Do not use your nick name and do not include your brand if you have one. Just enter your full Minecraft username exactly the way it is. It is case sensitive, meaning you will need to include capital letters. For example, writing “_masterexploder” will not work as I have left out the capital letters. The correct way to enter my name would be “_MasterExploder” in order for it to work. When you have entered your username, click Confirm.

Now here is where you get to choose your password. Your password is VERY important because without it, you will not be able to access your card deck.
You can make the password anything you want so long as it is not too easy to guess. Passwords I don’t recommend are your username, small words like “dog” or easily guessable words like “minecraft” and so on. Above all, do NOT set make your password the same as your Minecraft or Email password. Like seriously. Don’t do that.
You need to enter the password twice, once in each box. They need to be EXACTLY the same otherwise you will not be able to progress to the next stage, so make sure you get it right! When you have done so, click Confirm.

When you have done that, you will be taken to this page here. This is where you can select your starting cards! Pick any one you want for now except “Help” because that isn’t a pack.

Once you have chosen a pack, you will be taken to the log on screen with this message. As the message says, make sure your are using the right password and that you enter your username correctly.

Great, now you can log in! Enter your minecraft username EXACTLY the way you did before, and also your password. They need to be exactly the same as the ones you entered earlier or you won’t be allowed to log in.

If you have entered your details correctly, you will be taken to a page that shows you your cards. This means you are finished and you have registered for MCAU cards! Next time you log in all you need to do is enter your username and password and you will be taken back to this page, you do not need to register again.

Now go and have fun with your cards. Keep an eye out for the Charizard card, those things are the best 🙂

PROJECT X: CARDS!

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CARDS

Project X has finally arrived, and we are pleased to introduce a Minecraft first, Cards! While playing Minecraft now, you will earn cards which can be redeemed for interesting and wonderful effects and (eventually) be traded between other users.

Ingame, type “/cards register” to kickstart the process which will give you a temporary login for http://cards.mcau.org which you use to register with your Minecraft username, and the temporary password provided. Afterwards please enter any password you want (preferably something unique) and you can start collecting and redeeming your cards!

The brainchild of this project is our very own Ullarah who has been throwing his brain at the problem, along with many of our staff for many weeks and months now. Thank you Ullarah for your contributions to MCAU!

Get in there and start earning cards peeps. There is a few cards already, and we will be making more as time goes on.

 

Maintenance (Complete!)

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Update: Server maintenance is complete, thanks for waiting!

We’re upgrading a few of our backend systems, and to do so we need to take down all of our Minecraft servers temporarily. The maintenance shouldn’t take much longer than 15 minutes and then we’ll be back up again.

MCAU Maintenance

Servers will go down at:

  • WA – 4:00pm
  • NT – 5:30pm
  • QLD – 6:00pm
  • SA – 6:30pm
  • NSW/Vic/Tas/ACT – 7:00pm

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Introducing: Survival Challenge

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Previously codenamed “Vanilla”

Is MCAU “Survival” too easy for you?
Do you miss the challenge of surviving, Singleplayer-style?
Looking for TRUE Survival?

-=: Well look no further, because MCAU’s Survival Challenge server is here! :=-
We have brought the spirit of Vanilla Minecraft gameplay to MCAU. We’ve taken away just about anything that Singleplayer doesn’t have, and in doing so we have opened the way for our players to rediscover the true challenge of Minecraft.

Survival Challenge is intended to be a cooperative game. Players who work together will find it easier to overcome the challenges and difficulties of this world. Building a sense of community will make Survival Challenge a much more fun place to be. There is limited PvP available (see below), but it is not the main focus of Challenge.

We’ve started referring to our standard Survival server as “Survival Lite”, since it is far from challenging. Those of you who enjoyed playing on our Tempmap, but hated the griefing that happened there – you will love this new server.

FEATURING:

  • Hard Difficulty! Spiders and Skeletons pack more punch. Creepers will blow holes in your lawn – or your chest room. Zombies will break down your doors if they can reach them. You can even starve to death. Are you ready?
  • No Easy Commands: No teleport requests, no /back, no /sethome. You won’t even be able to /spawn. You can teleport only to your bed – but you must sacrifice an Ender Pearl and pay XP levels to do so, and don’t rely on it to get you out of trouble!
  • Equal Footing: No Honeybadger, no kits, no godmode, no ranks, no unfairness. Nobody gets any extras that could give them an advantage, including Donors. All users face the same challenges – even our Staff.
  • Donor Nicknames: We are currently working on synchronizing our Donor database to the new server. Once this is done, Donors will get a light-grey name and will be able to use a nickname. However, Donors will never receive perks that give any advantage over other players on Survival Challenge.
  • Grief Protection: As usual, we provide you with security against griefing. We’re trialling a new system called CoreProtect, which functions in a similar way to LogBlock. Our Modreq system is also available, but please use it only for reporting griefing. Although you cannot claim regions here, staff can roll back any damage, and you can protect your chests the usual way. Griefers will be immediately removed from the whitelist.
  • Staff Mode: To make life easier for everyone, we have introduced Staff Mode. It provides our staff members with a completely separated game-mode that won’t interfere with their own Survival game, leaving them free to jump in and help you at any time. It also prevents staff from cheating, by denying the use of most Staff commands while in Survival mode. Rest assured that our staff are playing legit right alongside you.
  • PvP and The Nether: PvP is disabled in the Overworld. But the Nether is a dangerous place. Like the Wild West of Minecraft, this is outlaw territory. In exchange for being the only way to rapidly travel between Overworld locations, the Nether has the added danger of other players being able to kill you and take your items. But beware – killers may earn themselves a reputation and become the target of other players. Often cooperation proves to be wiser than killing.
  • Nether Quick Travel: My suggestion – and this is only a suggestion – would be for players to cooperate and build a network of protected paths and tunnels to connect portals in the Nether for easy travelling. This would benefit everybody in the end. Killing anyone on this travel network would become greatly discouraged, but outside of the travel network, all kills become fair play. But ultimately, it’s up to the players to decide what happens in the Nether.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sweet! How do I join?

The instructions below will not work until we find all the bugs and open approvals to everyone. Fifteen lucky people (randomly chosen) have got early access to test Survival Challenge.

The 15 testers are: hydraxon162, insmod, sar2012, confirmed_kill, zanner9z9, dave77734, obi_wan4253, smcgarrett14150, skash10, azasen, finten14, beachbabe181, thespiderbyte, jrl_2012 and stealthmn. These testers can use /vanilla to join, until we open the approvals system.

Joining is as simple as typing the /challenge command:

  • If you’re not yet whitelisted, a join request will be sent for staff to review. Players who have a ban history on MCAU (particularly for griefing offences) are less likely to be approved.
  • You’ll receive a /mail in Survival when you get approved.
  • If you’ve been approved, /challenge will take you to the world so you can play (and you can use /survival, /lobby, /event etc to leave).
  • If you’ve been banned from Survival Challenge, you’ll be informed of your ban reason and you’ll be unable to join.

Will Survival Challenge have PvP?

Not in the Overworld. But in the Nether, it’s free-for-all! Enter the Nether at your own risk. Bring a friend.

Will Survival Challenge be a Hardcore server?

Don’t confuse Hard Difficulty with Hardcore Mode – they are two different things. Dying in Survival Challenge won’t ban you like a Hardcore Mode server. However, dying DOES carry the very real risk of never seeing your precious items again. With no /back to return you to your death point, you’ll just have to walk and hope you get there in time.

What happens if I get banned?

Players who are banned from Survival Challenge will be returned to the Lobby and may continue to play on MCAU Survival Lite, however the ban will be recorded against them for staff to view. If you get banned, it is very unlikely you will get approved again.

Can you handle Minecraft… as it was meant to be?