It is done.

Last night I managed to finish both the new site and the forum.

Hope you like it because I'm not doing another one, and yes I do realise that there are still two about me bits to do but one I don't see often and the other is a lazy shit.

Hope you enjoy it and see you soon.

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Delay's, delay's.

Due to inactivity the 2nd TF2 server has been dropped.

Also due to lack of funds the 2nd MineCraft Server will be pushed back a week. Please bear with us, it's hard to fund servers out of our own pocket.

We may need to set up a donation system.

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MineCraft Update #5

Although not alot has changed, the server has become fairly populated now (well, as populated as an 8 man server can get), and its starting to get hard to keep track of what belongs to who.
There are some more plans, mainly hopefully soon there will be a Nether server, and we will get a mod to connect the Nether server to the main server via a gateway so hopefully it functions the same as it does offline.
Aswell as this, I may increase the player slots on the main server, depending on the amount of people that play and how oftenly, so if we get more hopefully we should never fill up.

Which is good, because I just discovered how to make an automatic music machine with redstone and I wouldn't want to miss a chance to annoy anyone with it.

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Website Update #2

Some good news.
Yesterday due to me not being able to start my second assignment I got a stupid amount of site work done.

This is what I did yesterday:
Server status and statistics pages for all servers.
Guide pages.
Fixed the banner image not showing.
Fixed sponser links.
Cleaned up the HTML.
Started bio pages.

Not much left to do. Thank god

Need to try and set up some form of membership to....

It's also nice to see Pearce posting something on here to. About bloody time.

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MineCraft Update #4

Today, the newest version of hMod was put onto the server (134) and so far it seems to be working perfectly. Although, please bear in mind this is not an "official" version of hMod, so there may be other problems some time down the line.
Although, as a result, we have been able to set up the server to a state similar to what it was before the last major update. What has changed you asked?
Well, moderating powers that had more purpose as "cheats" than as actual tools have been removed or limited, so we will not be seeing anymore adminium structures popping up anymore, aswell as this, teleporting and warping has been disabled (as it made the game too easy and was the cause of several unfortunate - but hillarious - deaths).
Another good side to this new version of hMod, is that it appears to have reduced the chunk errors everyone has been seeing.

Also, one of the mods that we decided keep (craftbook) appears to not be functioning correctly, although I doubt anyone will notice the difference there. Sadly though, due to this version of hMod being unofficial, it is unlikely that alot of mods will work, so those will have to wait for a while.

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Website Update #1

Little update about the new website.
Currently got it hosted but still being made, got about half the pages done.
Currently working on a monthly newsletter which you can subscribe to which will contain all the latest news, steam deals and competitions if I can get some sponsors.
Also if I can find the right code for it I'm gonna put a membership up, free and premium.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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MineCraft Update #3

Notch is currently working on moving the servers to the Amazon cloud so during this time you may be unable to connect.

But from what we have seen it seems it's almost done as login now takes far less attempts to get in. (Average 2 attempts compared to 10).

If your still having problems signing in then until Notch finishes the transfer there isn't much we can do.

Also for those who do get on, we do realise that a lot of you are seeing more frequent chunk errors.
We do not know what is the cause yet, although there are two possibilities, it is either the temp fix Notch has done or the server movement is causing the problem, either way we will know more in the coming days.

On another note, those who hate typing my use or new MineCraft specific Mumble server to talk over.
Enjoy.

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MineCraft Update #2

For those who use our MC server you may notice sudden lag or the inability to log in to our server.

This is nothing to do with our server, the cause is MC.net is being flaky, we do not know as of yet why this is happening but if you do manage to log into our server we suggest that you stay logged in even if your not currently playing.

In other news, yesterday we once again reset the map and today I decided to put a vote out towards the use of hMod or Bukkit on our server, so far there has been 2 votes against putting it back on. Now if we decide to not put it back on and Multiplay allow us not to use it then it's going.

If we cannot then we will disable all / commands.

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1 week delay.

New website design change has caused the due date to be pushed back to around mid March, it was worth it mind. Preview coming next week.

Also for those who play MineCraft our server is back up, although it has no mod's.

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Little update #1

Our MineCraft server is down to just one mod now after I decided to spawn 20 ghast's on our server for shit's and giggles, which tbh, is far cop as we did have to many.

I've also removed the ability to Teleport and Warp, also I will soon be removing the ability to spawn items and mobs.

The less cheating the better.

Some server news:
L4D server still going strong.
Both TF2 server's are empty, come on people get in there.
HL2DM server gone.

Gonna do some work on the new site tonight, see what I can get done during testing of the new graphics card.

Also if you play our servers, spread the word about us.

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MineCraft Update #1

Today I looked into one of our mod's called CraftBook.

All I knew was it could give us brides, gates etc. What I didn't know was that we could make our own recipes for crafting materials as well as making a more advanced minecart system. So I set about making new recipes for some materials and this is what I got.

Grass:3,3,3,6,6:2,2
Obsidian:12,13,4:49
Glowstone:50,50,12,20:89
Soul Sand:3,12,12,289,289:88
Netherrack:3,318,50,5:87
Ice:332,332,332,326:79
Flint:13,13:318
Coal:17,6,70:263,263,263
Red Stone:38,4:331
Diamond:263,70:264
Glow Stone Dust:37,331,50:348
Bedrock:49,49,90,289:7
Stick:6,6:280
Compass:76,265:345
Clock:266,50:347
Jukebox:54,331:84
Gold Music Disc:37,70:2256
Green Music Disc:338:70:2257
Stone Slab:1,12:44,44
Double Stone Slab:1,12:43
Leaves:6,6,6:18
Red Cloth:36,38,332:21
Orange Cloth:36,37,38,332:22
Yellow Cloth:36,37,332:23
Green Cloth:36,83,332:25
Black Cloth:36,263,332:34
Grey Cloth:36,318,332:35
Wooden Pressure Plate:5:72,72,72,72,72
Stone Pressure Plate:1,72:70,70,70,70,70
String:338:287,287,287,287
Chainmail Helmet:298,265:302
Chainmail Chestplate:299,265:303
Chainmail Leggings:300,265:304
Chainmail Boots:301,265:305
Wand of Power:280,265,266,90:283
Gold Helmet:298,266:314
Gold Chestplate:299,266:315
Gold Leggings:300,266:316
Gold Boots:301,266:317
Portal:88,88,89,87,75,327:90
Clay:12,332,332:82

Now the format goes
1. Recipe name
2. Ingredients
3. Resulting items
So feel free to look at the ID number's to see what creates what.

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For the times they are a changin'

Now by the end of February The Average Joe's will have a new home, gone will be the limited blogger site, valiantly killed by the fully fledged HTML site.

It will be easier to use and nicer to look at, as well as having a guide on how to play each of our games/servers so you fit in a lot easier.

I can give you a preview of the MineCraft, thanks to some nice guy called "Herobrine" we have a nice illustrated guide to help you. I've posted 3 of the 12 pages up.

Bear in mind that we will only do guides for games that become a permanent addition to our collection.

Stay tuned as next week I may have a preview of the new site to wet your appetites.

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Happy New Year.

Just for you, as a new years gesture we've decided to give you access to not only one TF2 server, but two. Not only that, but the new server is able to fit 32 people in it.

So what you waiting for, get in there and kill people.

Did we mention the killing is enhanced by the state of the art RTD system?

Also a quick farewell to HL2DM server, since it's been here it's been empty so it goes to the dog's.

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