For those that missed the Facebook post, the showcase video for the 1.8 map is finally here! 20 awesome builders are featured in this one, with 1 more video to come hopefully some time this year. For those who applied to be in this video and sadly didn’t make it in, don’t worry there’s always the next one! If you think your build will look awesome in the next video, be sure to /mail send Austy in game who will be happy to consider it. Enjoy!
I made a thing for all of you. If you want to find out more, put a gold pressure plate on top of a furnace. You will then receive further instructions. Good luck! — TerrorBite
After some head scratching and discussions, we’ve re-opened donations! I’ve been trying to not take your money without a good reason as to why I’m taking it, and apart from the 30-odd-hours I spent writing all the new backend stuff for Donations, we’ve also got a brand new cluster of servers.
Yes, I’ve been spending your money on Minecraft. I know you expect me to blow it all on Blackjack and Hookers, but it turns out, computers are EXPENSIVE.
Admittedly, we now do own a massively large amount of computing power. About 200 CPU cores, and 700GB of RAM, spread out over 25 HP Blades. This is all good, but this has now exposed my next issue – we don’t have enough fast storage!
So my next purchase is going to be 18 500G-ish SSDs, and 3 servers to put them in, to act as our new Swift storage cluster. Oh, did I mention we’re also now running on OpenStack?
Yeah, we’re nerding it all up here. Anyway. Enjoy! And feel free to hit that Donations link up there and throw a few dollars our way 😎
Edit: Some folks are having trouble connecting with mcau.org. If you are one of these folks try lobby.mcau.org instead.
It’s finally here – the 1.8 Map is launching TONIGHT!! What time tonight? 6:30pm AEST (server time).
What time is that for you? Glad you asked!
We’ve also updated the web map so you can get a sneak preview. http://maps.mcau.org/
See you tonight at 6:30PM!!!
Hi guys!
The new map is here! It’s finally a real thing! We’ve been working hard to do the backend work required to get things going on the 1.8 map. It’s pretty exciting, and we’re going to be able to let people on this Friday evening! It’ll be happening at 6:30 AEST. Wooo! (That’s Brisbane time, by the way. NSW/Vic will be 7:30PM, SA is 7:00PM. I have no idea what kind of wacky time it will be in WA.).
Also, all you cool kids that have been donating to us all through the temp map period get an extra bonus: You can jump on the server and take a look around on Thursday night. I’ll be opening up the server to DONATORS ONLY at about 6:30PM AEST, and letting you play until 10:30PM AEST, Thursday night.
Thanks for playing on MCAU.
<3 hug.
