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Holy Crap! It has been awhile.

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:42:10 +0100

Okay so it has been awhile and I doubt any one actually reads this anymore but here is a heads up.

Currently I'm working on bringing the server back online with a slew of updates.

1) Heroes will be changing. Massive rebuild of the system will be taking place and details will be released when they become available.

2) World has been remade. The township of New Windfall has been set as our primary hub town. Shad0wkille put a lot of time and effort into crafting that town and we are going to call it home until people decide to split off and do their own thing.

3) Legit, we will be staying fully legit with the exception of Tutorial Island, Gates, and Graveyards (GYs will be touched on later). Tutorial Island will be created and uploaded once Heroes goes live to give a full understanding of what is happening. Due to the massive undertaking to properly craft everything for Tutorial Island it would take months of proper crafting to make it a fully legit location.

4) Death Control, No longer will you die and loose your stuff or go searching for your Dead Mans Chest as was in previous stylings of the server. Upon release we will have it so when you die you loose nothing. You will return to the closest Graveyard to your location. There will be a cost, but it will be minor.

5) Graveyards, these will be placed in even intervals around the lands of our build world to allow people some where to respawn at. This will replace all respawning at BEDS and will not put you back in your home. Never made much sense to me that you woke up in your bed like you just had a bad dream.

6) Economy. iConomy which was the plugin we used before, died. As such I've got us a new one and will move everyones economic holdings over to the new system. Money will be staying as a GOLD based system, and not switching to a rupee based system. Reason for this is that trading with Villagers then becomes too easy and you can get a lot of good stuff from the villagers. Balancing requires that we stick to the GOLD system. Gold Nuggets, Gold Ingots, and Gold Blocks, banks will be around that allow you to trade in your gold, but they will also sell Emeralds at 10 Coins each since finding them can be extremely difficult. Creatures will also continue to randomly "drop" money that will auto-deposit into your account (Bounty hunter style).

7) NPCs are unavailable at this time.

8) Quests, are not available at this time, but may become available when NPCs do.

9) Chestshops for player run shops are still viable and able to be used by all players.

10) Due to a lot of changes and updates certain problems may arise... such as Permissions not working as intended (There is currently an issue with WorldEdit not allowing people to use buckets in Creative mode, but since no one will really be in creative mode we don't have much to worry about).

11) Quick Travel, there is no quick travel set up at this time but as our world(s) expand will add a form or two of quick travel. For multi-world we will have Ancient Gates, which allows Nethergate like construction to allow us to travel to other worlds. These locations will be crafted by the server ops allowing travel to other worlds (PvP, Arena, Quest Worlds, New Build Worlds, Ect.)

12) No way to recall back to your marked location due to the fact that there is no heroes, so be prepared to WALK every where until I get it done.

13) Borders. The world size will be limited.... FAR more limited than previous worlds... we do not need a 3000 raidus world for 10 people.... a 1000 radius world is more manageable but we may start with something smaller... around 800 radius.

14) World Type Change, the new world type is a Huge Biome World Type. That means you hit a snow biome and it will be huge... same with the Ocean biome that New Windfall is currently sitting in.

I'm probably missing some information but I'll try to update asap... I'll be updating this to our steamgroup and web page. www.obsidianorder.tk is still our webpage.

Patch Notes 2/16 - v1.0.0 Part 2

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:56:19 +0100

Mage –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· PvP Combat

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood Axe

· Wood Pickaxe

· Wood Shovel

· Wood Hoe (Staff)

· Stone Pickaxe

· Stone Shovel

· Stone Hoe (Staff)

· Iron Hoe (Staff)

· Gold Pickaxe

· Gold Shovel

· Gold Hoe (Staff)

· Diamond Hoe (Staff)

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· None – You are a Master of the Arcane. Armor would restrict your movements and prevent proper spell casting.

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· IceBolt, Level 5 Skill, Requires 10 Mana to Cast. Summons a powerful bolt of Ice that strikes a target for 5 Damage and slowing their movements.

· Fireball, Level 15 Skill, Requires 10 Mana to Cast. Summons a ball of fire that ignites your target on fire doing 7 Damage plus a Fire DOT.

· Blink, Level 25 Skill, Requires 10 Mana to Cast. Allows the Mage to Teleport to a nearby block escaping trouble or leaping across a gorge. Maximum Distance is 10 Blocks with a 10 second Cooldown.

· Wisdom, Level 40, Granting Wisdom from the Goddess of Magic the Mana of the Players and nearby Party Members is restored at a faster rate for 10 minutes. 5 Block Radius Cast Area.

· Bolt, Level 49, Requires 20 Mana to Cast. Striking your enemies down with elemental fury you call upon a Lightning Bolt that will reach anywhere doing 11 points of Damage but with a 2 Second Cooldown.

Weapon Damage:

· As Staves are your primary weapon you have become quite skilled with their use and can inflict decent damage with them. Wood Hoe 4, Stone Hoe 5, Iron Hoe 6, Gold Hoe 5, Diamond Hoe 7.

Health:

· Spending all your time at the Academy of Magi under the tutelage of Mad Magi Khazid’hea you did not have time to train physically and are weak physically holding a mere 20 HP and a low gain of 1 HP per level to a maximum of 70HP.

Acolyte –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· PvP Combat

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood Axe

· Wood Pickaxe

· Wood Spade

· Wood Hoe (Staff)

· Stone Axe

· Stone Pickaxe

· Stone Spade

· Stone Hoe (Staff)

· Iron Hoe (Staff)

· Gold Pickaxe

· Gold Spade

· Gold Hoe (Staff)

· Diamond Hoe (Staff)

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· Bandage, Level 5 Skill, Requires 1 Paper per Cast. Allows the Player to Heal themselves or another Player.

· Pray, Level 15 Skill, Requires 10 Mana to Cast with a 10 Second Cooldown. Call for Divine Healing the Acolyte heals a Target for 10HP.

· Harmtouch, Level 25 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Cast. Reaching out with Divine Fury the Acolyte damages its Target for 10 Damage but the Target must be within 5 Blocks. HarmTouch has a 2 Second Cooldown.

· Wisdom, Level 40, The Acolyte calls to the Goddess for Divine Wisdom to be bestowed upon the Party causing enhanced regeneration of Mana for 10 minutes. Has a 5 Block Radius Cast Area.

· GroupHeal, level 49, Calling for Divine Healing the Acolyte heals the group in a 5 Block Radius for 5HP. Has a 10 second Cooldown.

Weapon Damage:

· After receiving minor training in Battle Staves by the Traveling Monks you acquire the ability to cause advanced damage to your targets with Staves. Wood 4, Stone 5, Iron 6, Gold 5, Diamond 7.

Health:

· Through meditation and martial combat training you have become hardened to the harshness that is the world outside of the Monastery. Acolytes start with 30HP and gain 1 HP per Level to a maximum of 80 HP at level 50.

Blacksmith –

Experience Sources:

· Mining

· Crafting

· Questing

· PvP Combat

Tools Available:

· Wood, All

· Stone, All

· Diamond Pickaxe

· Diamond Shovel

· Bow

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather

· Chainmail

· Iron

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· Excavate, Level 5 Skill, Requires 25 Mana to Activate. Allows near instant breaking of Dirt, Sand, Gravel, and Clay for a short period. 4 Minute Cooldown.

· Might, Level 15 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. Shouting out to your allies and around you places them into a temporary battle rage increasing damage for a short period of time. (1.2*DMG) Lasts 10 Minutes. Weaker than the Warrior Might.

· Mining, Level 25 Passive Skill, Gives a chance to receive double drops when Mining.

· SuperHeat, Level 40 Skill, Requires 50 Mana to Activate. For a short period the Players pickaxe becomes SuperHeated instantly smelting anything it mines. 90 Second Cooldown.

· Repair, Level 49 Skill, Fixes damaged items for a small amount of resources. Cheaper to repair the item than it is to make another one.

Weapon Damage:

· Forging works of Art in Wood, Stone and Steel the Blacksmith has become attuned with the Art of Swordplay. Wood 5, Stone 6, Iron 7.

Health:

· Countless hours of hammering steel against steel has hardened your body allowing you to take more of a beating. (35HP + 1HP / Level = 85HP @ 50)

Alchemist –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· Crafting Items

· PvP Combat

· Farming

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood, All – Except Sword

· Stone, All – Except Sword

· Iron Pickaxe

· Iron Spade

· Iron Hoe (Staff)

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather

· Chainmail

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Passive Skill, Allows the Alchemist to use Potions as well as the ability to throw Splash Potions. Allows the use of all Level I potions and splash potions. Cooldowns for Non-Healing Potions and Splash Potions has been changed to 10 Seconds and 15 Seconds for all Healing Potions and Splash Potions.

· Bandage, Level 5 Skill, Requires 1 Paper per Cast. Allows the Player to Heal themselves or another Player.

· Antitode, Level 15 Skill, Requires 1 Sugar per Cast. Allows the Player to cure Poisons in themselves or another Player. Requires 15 Mana to Cast and has a Cooldown of 10 Seconds.

· Alchemy, Level 15 Passive Skill, Allows the crafting of Potions.

· Jump, Level 25 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. Allows the Player to jump several blocks into the air.

· Gills, Level 25 Skill, Requires 25 Mana and 1 Raw Fish. Temporary Self Buff of Water Breathing.

· Herbalism, Level 40 Passive Skill, Allows the Player to have a chance of Double Drops while doing any Farming activity.

· Might, Level 49 Skill, Requires 50 Mana to Activate. Temporary team wide buff that will raise Melee damage by 2x for 7 seconds. Area of Effect Radius of 3 and has a Cooldown 4 minutes.

· Wisdom, Level 49 Skill, Requires 50 Mana to Activate. Temporary team wide buff that will raise Mana Regeneration by 2x for 15 seconds. Area of Effect Radius of 3 and has a 4 minute cooldown.

Weapon Damage:

· Although not a combat master you have learned the use of Staves through your countless hours scouring through forest looking for that last precious reagent for your potion. Wood Hoe 3, Stone Hoe 4, Iron Hoe 5.

Health:

· During your Alchemy training you made the mistake of combining Giant Toe with Fermented Spider Eye causing a explosion in your face and you received the rare result of increased health instead of Elephantitus of the Nostrils. HP30 +1 HP / Level = 80 HP @ 50.

Patch Notes 2/16 v1.0.0 - Part 1

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:55:44 +0100

MineCraft Server –2/16/2012 – Patch Notes v1.0.0

Plugin Changes:

Removed Plugins:

· MCMMO – This plugin was removed from use due to excessive use of system resources and continuously being plagued with bugs that were sometimes game breaking. Your levels will not be carried over to the new RPG system as there is no equivalent exchange of levels to levels.

New Plugins:

· Citizens – Adds a set of featured NPCs to the game that will allow repairing for a fee, guarding of towns (soon), Wizards with magical abilities (Stop or Start Storms and Time Altering Abilities!), and Questing. Quests are not yet added but as we progress we will have MMO stylized Daily Quests, Repeatable Quests, and Storyline Quests. Guards are currently buggy and will not be available until they’re fixed.

· ScrollingMenuSign – This allows several plugins to take advantage of Signs and Maps allowing them to be turned into in-game menus that can allow you to make decisions in game without the use of a chat command.

· Vault – Economy Assisting Plugin.

· Spout – A server side plugin that will interact with the SpoutCraft Client allowing new interesting things to be added to your UI (User Interface) as well as new blocks, capes, and other in-game items. This requires you to use the SpoutCraft Client available for download on the Members Section of the Website. (www.obsidianorder.tk)

· Heroes – This plugin is the RPG replacement plugin for the McMMO RPG plugin we were using before. Full details on this plugin and its services that have been made available will be listed below.

Upcoming Plugin:

· Graveyards – Graveyards is a plugin that respawns you at a Marked Graveyard in the world. It will use the closest Graveyard to where you died allowing you to die far far away from where your home is and still be able to get back to where you were.

Heroes Detailed Information –

General –

Enchanting:

· Enchanting has been changed and now requires the Enchanting Skill (No classes have this skill yet) but in addition to this some enchanted items are glitchy due to Bukkit not providing what the developers need. (Java: Bukkit has not added proper Damage Hooks for Enchanted Items preventing modification through plugins which causes the plugin and game to freak out). The following items cannot be used least they have undesired results (such as dying instantly, never dying, getting killed in one hit, killing things in one hit, doing no damage, taking double damage, taking no damage and possible map corruption):

· Armor: Protection (Any Level)

· Armor: Explosion Protection (Any Level)

· Armor: Arrow Protection (Any Level)

· Weapon: Sharpness (Any Level)

· Weapon: Smite (Any Level)

· Weapon: Arthropods (Any Level)

· Tools: Silk Touch (Any Level)

· Bow: Arrow Damage (Any Level)

· If you have any of these Enchanted Items turn them into myself and you will be awarded a monetary donation to your account as well as a fully repaired item of the same quality. Money will be granted based on the level of the enchantment not the state of repair the tool is in.

New Classes:

· Ranger – A master of the woods and ranged combat.

· Knight – A Melee Master that charges into combat.

· Thief – A sneaky rogue that slips behind the enemy to finish them off.

· Mage – Master of the Arcane, Draws on the Mystical Energies of Zodaic to punish their enemies

· Acolyte – An Acolyte of the Goddess, Draws on Holy energies to harm enemies and heal friends.

· Blacksmith – A Harvester of resources and repairer of tools.

· Alchemist – Master of Alchemy and Transmutation of one’s own body.

Classes: General –

Skills:

· Recall, Level 1 Skill, Requires 25 Mana and 5 Redstone to Activate. Allows the Player to return to a marked location from the Mark Spell. 5 Minute Cooldown.

· Mark: Level 5 Skill, Requires 50 Mana and 15 Redstone to Activate. Allows the Player to mark a location to return to via the Recall Spell. 25 Minute Cooldown.

Ranger –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· PvP Combat

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood, All

· Stone, All

· Iron, All

· Bow

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather

· Chainmail

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· Bandage, Level 5 Skill, Requires 1 Paper Item to activate. This skill will heal a target or if no applicable target is selected it will heal the Player for 5 HP worth of damage as well as stop any Bleed effect currently applied to the target.

· Sneak, Level 5 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. Allows the Player to sneak around at full speed without going into the crouched form.

· One, Level 15 Skill, Requires 10 Mana. Increases the Players speed to 1.5x speed for normal walking and 3.0x speed for dashing. One has a Cooldown timer of 15 seconds.

· IceArrow, Level 25 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Toggle on and 10 Mana-per-Arrow shot. IceArrow applies a slow debuff to the Arrows shot by the Ranger causing the target to move at reduced speeds.

· FireArrow, Level 40 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Toggle on and 10 Mana-per-Arrow shot. FireArrow causes all arrows shot to light a Target on fire for a short duration causing a Fire DOT (Damage Over Time). This will also light up the target as they are on fire.

· PoisonArrow, Level 49 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Toggle on and 10 Mana-per-Arrow shot. The PoisonArrow causes a target to be struck with a poison based DOT (Damage Over Time) skill. The DOT will tick 2 Damage every 2 Seconds for 10 Seconds (10DMG).

· Wolf, Level 49 Skill, Allows the Ranger to Tame Wolves and keep them as Pets.

Weapon Damage:

· Rangers are masters of the Bow but receive some training in Swordplay. Rangers do 3 Damage with Wooden Swords, 4 Damage with Stone Swords, and 5 Damage with Iron Swords. (MC Standard is 4, 5, and 6 respectively).

· Rangers become more masterful with the Bow as they gain in level. At the first level they only do 3 Damage with Arrows but at level 50 they are able to do 10.5 Damage per Shot. (X=Current Level, X*0.15 = Bonus Damage).

Health:

· Rangers start with 25HP (MC Standard = 20), and gain 1 Health per Level to a maximum of 75 Health at level 50.

Knight –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· PvP Combat

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood, All

· Stone, All

· Iron Sword

· Iron Pickaxe

· Iron Axe

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather, All

· Chainmail, All

· Iron, All

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· Charge, Level 5 Skill, Requires 25 Mana to Activate. Makes a leaping charge at a target closing the distance instantly. May cause falling damage if you aren’t careful, but a master of the skill can use the brief airtime to strike a quick critical hit.

· Bleed, Level 5 Skill, Requires 25 Mana to Apply and Requires a Sword as a weapon. Applies a Bleed effect DOT on a target causing 3 Damage every 2 seconds for 6 Seconds (9DMG) with a 10 second cooldown. Requires a Close Target (Within 2 Blocks).

· Shield, Level 15 Passive Skill, Requires a door type block held in hand to receive benefits. The Shield skill allows you to hold a Trapdoor, Wood Door, or Iron Door as a shield item that will reduce incoming damage while the item is in your hand. Each shield reduces by a different amount, Iron Door will reduce incoming damage to 75% (10DMG*0.75=7.5DMG), Wood Door will reduce incoming damage to 85% (10DMG*0.85=8.5DMG) , and the Trapdoor will reduce incoming damage to 95% (10DMG*0.95=9.5DMG).

· Taunt, Level 25 Skill, Requires 10 Mana to Activate with a 10 second Cooldown. Taunt allows you to force all Hostile Creatures nearby to attack you and only you… I suggest you grab your shield and pray your buddies got the DPS on hand otherwise you’re in for one hell of a fight.

· Might, Level 40 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. This is a party wide skill that will affect any party member within a 10 block radius increasing their melee damage by 1.5x for 10 minutes. (10DMG*1.5=15DMG).

· Invuln, Level 49 Skill, Requires 30 Mana to Activate with a 60 Second Cooldown. Allows the Player to temporarily become invulnerable to all incoming damage.

Weapon Damage:

· Knights are masters of Melee and Swordplay as such they receive bonuses to their use of Swords. Wood Sword 5 Damage, Stone Sword 6 Damage, and Iron Sword 7 Damage. (MC Standard is 4,5, and 6 respectively).

Health:

· Knights are the primary tank for all combat and start with 40HP (MC Standard 20HP) but also gain 1HP per Level reaching a total 90HP at level50.

Thief –

Experience Sources:

· Slaying Monsters

· PvP Combat

· Questing

Tools Available:

· Wood, All

· Stone, All

· Iron Sword

· Iron Pickaxe

· Bow

· Shears

· Fishing Rod

Armor Available:

· Leather

Skills:

· Potion, Level 1 Skill, Allows the use of Healing, Regeneration, Swiftness, Fire Resistance, and Strength Potions all with the Cooldown of 60 seconds.

· Sneak, Level 5 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. Allows the Player to sneak around at full speed without going into the crouched form. Also allows Players with Backstab to do extra damage.

· BackStab, Level 15 Passive Skill, Chance to cause extra damage when attacking from behind the Target. (1.5x DMG when behind a Target, 2.0x DMG when behind a target while Sneaking).

· One, Level 25 Skill, Requires 10 Mana. Increases the Players speed to 1.5x speed for normal walking and 3.0x speed for dashing. One has a Cooldown timer of 15 seconds.

· Root, Level 40 Skill, Requires 15 Mana to Apply. Allows the Player to root a Target in place holding them to a single point for a short period. The Target must be within 5 Blocks to apply Root, and this skill has a 15 second Cooldown.

· AssassinsBlade, level 49 Skill, Requires 20 Mana to Activate. Applies a heavy poison DOT to a target doing 4 Damage every 2 Seconds for 10 Seconds. (20DMG). This skill requires a Sword to be used and has a 30 Second Cooldown.

Weapon Damage:

The Thief does standard Sword Damage of 4 Wood Sword Damage, 5 Stone Sword Damage, and 6 Iron Sword Damage. The Thief relies more on Ability Damage than melee combat damage.
The Thief also is capable of using a Bow but is far from a master of it and only does 1 Damage with it but gains 0.1 Damage per level up to a bonus of 5 extra damage at 50 bringing his damage to almost half of the Rangers max damage.

Health:

· A lightweight and athletic class the Thief must be light footed and stay ahead of his enemy, the Thief starts with the standard 20HP but gains 1 HP per level to a maximum of 70HP at level 50.