We’ve finished moving to the new server. All services should be fully operational.

You can connect to MCSpaceCraft.com skyblock as usual.

Have fun, and see you in-game.

UPDATE: The migration of the skyblock Minecraft server has completed. To connect and play, use this IP: 64.31.15.242

When we will begin moving the server to the new host, there will be a transition period of a few hours when some of you will see MCSpaceCraft.com as the old server, while others will be seeing the new server.

To prevent any item, experience or game progress lost when the migration will begin, we will replace the old server game world – the one you’re playing on now – with a temporary world. This will be just a small room with signs and messages letting you know the migration has started.

As soon as the migration will finish – in less than a few hours – when you will connect to MCSpaceCraft.com you will automatically see your existing game world and you will be able to continue playing where you left off.

No items will be lost. No experience will be lost. Your skyblock island will be the same, and so will be your neighbors.

TO SUM UP:

1. If you connect to MCSpaceCraft.com and see a small room with signs, simply log off and wait a few hours. Or stay in game and chat with your friends.

2. When the migration is complete, if you connect to MCSpaceCraft.com and see your island, the spawn and everything else, keep playing 🙂

UPDATE: The new hardware will be ready for use in less than 4 hours. I will get back with more instructions shortly.

In the next 48 hours our hosting provider will be performing a hardware upgrade – at our request – on the dedicated server that runs Minecraft skyblock MCSpaceCraft.com. The downtime, they tell us, won’t be longer than 20 – 30 minutes but they didn’t provide an exact time when it will happen.

The new hardware will allow us to not only to increase the number of available slots for both donators and non-donators while keeping the same level of performance, but also to add a lot of the additional in-game features we had planned.

There will be no data loss, and as soon as they finish the upgrade we’ll be back online and you can continue playing.

After much bargaining, begging and arm-twisting the vote shop villagers have agreed to return to work.

You can now trade your hard-earned Ghast Tears to them for all the usual goodies: lava buckets, saplings, sand, dirt, diamonds and many more.

Enjoy!

It’s been one hell of a day in the past 24 hours, working around the clock to update the server to the latest release.

Well, I am proud to let everyone know our Minecraft Skyblock MCSpaceCraft.com is now running on 1.4.2 with all functionality!

So upgrade your clients, and come join the fun!

The Pretty Scare update is live, and you will be given the choice to update your client next time you log in.

Before doing so, keep in mind it will be a few days until our Minecraft skyblock server will run the new version!

To put it short, until we update, you have 2 choices:

1. Do not update your MC client
2. Make a backup of your existing MC 1.3.2 and use it to connect to the server.

You have been warned! 🙂

Looks like due to several bugs the release date for the 1.4(.1) update has been pushed by 1 day.

“…we’ve decided to push the release of 1.4(.1) one day to Thursday, October 25.”

Source: http://www.mojang.com/2012/10/minecraft-1-4-1-pre-release/

Happy skyblock! 🙂

On Wednesday (Oct 24) Mojang will release a pretty major update, version 1.4 of Minecraft labeled Pretty Scary Update. When they do it, you will see an option in your game to update it to the latest version.

However, before you update there’s an important point to keep in mind: make a backup of the current 1.3.2 version of the game you have running now on your PC. Without it, you will not be able to log in to our skyblock MCSpaceCraft.com server until we update it.

And as I’ve pointed out elsewhere, it could take up to 2 weeks for everything to be ready for upgrade server side on our end. The Craftbukkit core this server is running, which is developed by an awesome 3rd party team, plus the plugins we use to enrich your experience.

So in short… Backup your 1.3.2 Minecraft version you’re running now somewhere on your computer and use it to connect to our server until we’re ready for 1.4.

Our skyblock Minecraft server is up and running. However, as I’ve written before, withouth Mojang’s authentication servers up players cannot connect to the game. As soon as they fix it, you will be able to connect and resume playing where you left.

As I posted 2 days ago, we’re going to have a Minecraft game update tomorrow, and my guess is the stuff they do for the update needed to take down the authentication servers as we.