The Official MCME Times
Easter, Spring… Bah Humbug!
Here comes the onslaught of the new players!
Hello everyone, new, old and everyone in between to the 08/04/18 Edition of the Times! An amazing last two weeks it has been for sure. Keralis and Docm visiting, Spring Events starting, Mordor planning beginning. Just so much has happened! We are finally finishing up on our big projects in Gondor and with the jobs hopefully finish Dol Amroth, Belfalas and Tolfalas in the coming weeks. From there we will have a sub-project of Osgiliath vegetation revamp led by ooitsbirdo and Dav3ck. Also, if you read more into this edition you can see we will be implementing our new Rank system soon and have lots of promotions, demotions (The Great Artist Purge 2.0 ) and a lot more. We are also starting videos for our server and as you can read later on we are currently making the intro! Hope this all goes well, welcome new players and have a wonderful two weeks and of course I hope you enjoy this edition!
~ Project Progress ~
As you may have noticed this week, we've removed a few projects from our progress report. Fear not, there is planning going on behind the scenes for Mordor as we streamline our project focus. Normanlands will be incorporated in this planning. @didi45 has finished two more ships this week, one in the gondorian style and one for the beloved city of pelargir, great work didi! We may be ending the ship build as we begin to finish with Dol Amroth but we encourage you to continue with your boat quest on freebuild. Additionally, Treebuild and Tolfalas may have been halted but won't be forgotten while we focus our resources elsewhere.
Andrast - Lead: @jacenpeter | In Progress
Report by Lizzy_
Jacen has returned! After getting caught up with real life he's back and has been doing some incredibly detailed and complicated voxel to make the mountains and terrain look just right.
Belfalas - Lead: @Darki In Progress
Report by Lizzy_
Darki is currently taking a short break at the moment so the fantastic Eriol is stepping up to take control as co-leader. With the introduction of the new 3 field technique there are plenty of farms to be done.
Dol Amroth - Lead: @Thijs1801 In Progress
Report by Lord_Rafox
Wow, mighty progress yet again! Last edition, the sewers were merely wool lines in the sky. Now they’re almighty tunnels underground! With a bit of touching up, they’ll be good to go! Progress with the palace is fast too, with the interior developing rapidly. Lindo has added some spectacular gardens and we can't forget Patrick’s fields! Dol Amroth is super duper close! But what about New Town? Well, The sewers are being planned carefully, and work should start on them soon. Also, keep your eye out for the catacombs in Middle Town, which have just about been completed. Shout out to @Lindolas, @Robz and @JustJoren for these beauties! All in all, Dol Amroth is coming together marvelously. The finishing line is in sight! It may be far away, but it’s getting ever closer!
Moria - Lead: @Despot666 In progress
Report by awaywind
Moria is bustling with work being done all the time! Jesia has taken over the Central Dwelling project and is finishing up all the planning in there as we speak (or read?). @Napoleon0605 is still slaving away in the halls but making very steady progress so we offer a huge thank you to him. Also, our wonderful Foremen @QuantaCube and @barteldvn have made a lot of progress in the farm halls through the jobs they run there. Make sure to check out all this cool stuff and more in Moria!
~ Texture Development ~
Report by FinrodGondor RP merge
Well yeah, real life hit me and this project rather hard, sorry for that! I have now added all the changes that need to be made to the new Gondor pack in order for it to be able to be merged with the old one. Additionally there are a few neat additions, such as:
- Flat wheels (without short axles for narrow carts)
- Fix for the glitched shutters
- Banner textures work on shields now
- Comeback of the fancy candle 3D model
- New textures from the andrast team: new logs, red slate, fern and podzol
- A much better Dol Amroth-Banner 2x2 painting
I still need to fine-tune the custom inventory, and then do a few block swaps in Dol Amroth (which I will test on the dev server first!) Reckon with the update during next week (will try to do it when not many are building as the replacing may take a few minutes).
To get the latest info about this process, check out this thread: Gondor RP Update Thread [v2.4]
~ Plug-in Development ~
Report by EriolArmor Stand Editor Upgrade
@didi45 who is putting a lot of work in his armor stands asked to have a way to lock armor stands to prevent unintentional changes. This can be done by new /armor l command. Locking and unlocking is applied as usual by right clicking at an armor stand. Item block armor stands now can be edited too. They are locked by default, so just unlock them and start editing.
Second new command is /armor default which resets the rotation and movement step size to 10° and 10% of a block.
Third new command is /armor paste which replaces /armor place command. Using this command you can paste previously copied armor stands in a WE like manner. The armor stand will be paste relative to your position.
The updated Armor Stand Editor Manual can be found >>here<<.
Job Announcements on Discord
Job messages are now automatically sent to Discord when a Foreman or Designer starts a job. So watch the job-general channel and you will get notified about all jobs.
Perks Plugin
@q220 activated MCME perks again! Have fun with horses, wizard lights, fireworks, elytras and some more stuff. Check it out!
Discord Integration for Tours
@kiyz is working on integration of the tours plugin with discords similar to the job announcements.
Minigames Plugin
@didi45 and I are working on the minigames plugin to add boost items for race games.
Role Playing Game - The Shire
@TotiGonzales and @paulkad noticed our discussion about RPG we had last year. We talked a lot and felt we have pretty much the same idea about rpg. So we feel it’s time to pick this up. They are now working hard on a detailed plan based on my proposal for a RPG in The Shire. We’ll publish our plan as soon as possible.
Feature of the Week - Do you already know?
The Sign Editor!
You can right click a sign with a stick in hand to edit it. You will get a chat message with all lines of the sign. Click at the line you want to edit. A command will appear in your chat line which you can edit, just don’t change the /sign <number> at the beginning. You can even use color and formatting codes. As typing ‘§’ is hard in minecraft chat color codes are entered using ‘#’ instead.
The Sign Editor is part of Architect plugin, and is described in that manual.
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Apparently the Normans are back from the 10th and 11th centuries. Never knew they were in Middle Earth though...
