Title says it all, really. I'm posting this because we were talking about it in the in-game chat just now. Some examples of what's wrong with it:

• "document" is banned because it contains "cum"

• "chestful" is banned because it contains STFU.

• There's plenty more such examples. I'm sure you can see the pattern and I don't need to list more of those.

• ...word turns into .. word

I would like to note that we're a whitelist-only server and being whitelisted takes an actual application. We're not going to have trolls spamming our server chat if we remove the chat plugin.

Also, chat filters based on banned words aren't effective. If someone wants to type "nigger" in chat, they'll just type "nig ger". If you want to add those half-words to the current filter, you're now preventing people from saying "Germany".

Finally, we're all capable of typing. We don't need our hand held by a "helpful" plugin that automatically capitalizes words for us, especially because there's no way to bypass it and the rules are overly simplistic. Capitalizing after a period is simply not always correct; acronyms exist.

I've spoken my piece. Let's discuss this to try and find a solution that's better than the current state of affairs.

Hello Freebuilders,

As some of you may have noticed, the server has been quieter than usual, which concerned us a little as a staff team, and a part of Freebuilders. We turned to you for feedback and got a tremendous amount of suggestions, and ideas. It was clear it’s time for some changes. So for the past few weeks the staff team has working restlessly ^{that’s a lie} to improve the server and help you enjoy the best vanilla Minecraft experience we can present.

First and foremost, since Freebuilders has been and will always be community oriented, we will be posting a monthly newsletter to share news, updates, and announcements. Hopefully this step will improve the communication between the community and the staff team, by keeping you in the loop and increasing transparency.

So here we are!

• Our most important and biggest change this month: Mhov_de_Vallende aka. Mhoving /u/Buurmanvanhiernaast was promoted and he’s now an admin, while /u/Sizzler took his place as the third moderator.

• As a step to increase the server’s visibility I’m happy to announce that we’re now on Instagram @Freebuildersmc, Facebook, and Twitter. Be sure to follow, like, and share.

• According to the suggestion post, many of you think maybe a map reset could spice things up a little. The staff team discussed the matter excessively and decided that time is not yet suitable for a reset, we think the update aquatic will be the best moment since it includes big changes to biomes. This means a map reset might happen somewhere in Q2 2018, for now rest assured you will have months left at least.

• On another note, following tradition Spawn is now in winter mode, and was decorated for the holidays, mhoving and me installed a christmas tree, and some garland. We also installed statues of Santa, an elf, a drummer boy, a ballerina and a nutcracker. AubreyG1 also designed those beautiful presents you see around Santa and the rest of the statues, thanks AubreyG1. Be sure to stop by and take a look.

• For new year we’ll have a firework show at spawn, we didn’t decide yet on an exact time and date, but we’ll announce it soon, so stay posted.

Happy Holidays
Staff Team

Ive had a great time on this server, and will miss you guys. but it seems lately i haven't had anytime for minecraft, and it doesnt look like it will change anytime soon. all of olympia is up for grabs, same with my nether shop. im sorry for leaving unfinished project everywhere. i will try and visit if i get a chance. Thanks for a great server experience!

-japdragon04

We're starting a revolution. A diamond revolution, to make expensive prices for easy to gain items non-existent!

We're the Communists of the Diamond Revolution! We are helping the market to be fair! We're making everything affordable!

That shall be achieved, by our combined store, to fight those overpriced item prices! We're peaceful, but we're willing to give it all. That's why stores are closed! Check the Nether to witness that we're active and fighting! We will support cheap stores, by not fighting against them! (Except for the this shop closedown) We do hope the folk will help us with this fight!

Greetings, the leader of the CDR and its fair store

Here are some amazing pictures of the start of our revolution, to see the effectiveness within reddit itself! http://imgur.com/a/TAQNa

If you will support us, let us know. We're for public farms, and fair prices! Spread the word! The Diamond Revolution has begun!

*Prices are yet to change in our store to become fair, after price comparisons and opinions.

Hey everyone, Laccrco here.

I have recently had a series of events in my life that will result in me no longer playing Minecraft.

I was already planning on leaving around September-ish to go serve a 2 year proselyting mission for my church, but that has been postponed. This past week, I was at Lake Powell on a vacation and I jumped off of a cliff into the water and promptly broke my back in two places and cracked some ribs as well. I can no longer sit upright for more than about 5 minutes at a time, and I have a brace that I need to wear for about 3 months while I recover. At the end of those 3 months, I will be leaving on that 2 year church mission.

As you can probably imagine, this has turned my life upside-down in a matter of days. One of those outcomes is that I will no longer be playing on the Freebuilders server. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and I have enjoyed interacting with nearly every single one of you.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to continue my work on ATLANTIS, but just in case, here is some info:

I have started building the glass sphere. The modeler I used was called Plotz. The diameter of the sphere I used was 159. It will not be hard to figure out where I left off, considering it is a sphere built layer-by-layer. I have emptied the ocean in an 80x80 area and dug out all of the blocks down to level 39. This was a lot of work. There is plenty of glass and sand lying around ATLANTIS, but it is nearly not enough. It needs about 16-18 more double chests of glass blocks to be finished.

It would take another drastic change in my life to come back to playing on this server within the next 2 and a half years, bit I will be keeping all of my materials just in case, because of how much I enjoyed playing here. I might just start to play again in about that time (most definitely on a new map by then), and I hope I can still see a lot of similar faces around.

All of you take care!

tl;dr: Lacc's back is ouch

Hello Freebuilders!

I'm going to clarify a couple of ways in which we work at Freebuilders and what some of the basic rules are as it seems to have become quite a drama this week.

Firstly we have a simple set of rules that everyone reads when they join and there are just common manners.

Secondly we do have a clear line for banning a player and look to stick to our decisions as umming and ahhing wastes everyones time.

What I have seen is people on all sides of the argument breaking these rules by being uncivil, unfriendly and downright nasty.

We have had a long discussion through our mod chat with a majority agreement on what resolution needed to be taken.

Firstly Camolicious will not be unbanned. Attacking people with gendered language as well as families in chat is a straight ban.

Secondly whilst RocketBoss and Moose were connected I see no evidence of anything ban worthy from either of them so they will be allowed back on the server as of this post.

Everyone at Freebuilders wants to be able to focus on what is important to them and wasting time on negative conversations has no benefit.

Build strong, build together and have fun my friends :) x

FOR GETTING THE SERVER BACK FOR US LOSERS IN LESS THAN A DAY!!!

Most of you already know me but for those of you that dont my name is Killingxx im 23 years old and from Denmark.

I was recently chosen to be a In-game Mod so if you have any problems in game regarding anything from Theft / Grief or just a Question about something else then dont hesitate to contact me

Freebuilders Minecraft - A lovely SMP experience.

Server IP: mc.freebuilders.org << Log on now!

Map: mc.freebuilders.org:8123

Website: www.freebuilders.org

Teamspeak: entity.typefrag.com

Plug.DJ: https://plug.dj/freebuilders

About:

Freebuilders is a gaming community in which mature players enjoy pure vanilla Minecraft. This means that we're a Survival Multiplayer (SMP) server with the slightest of tweaks to improve gameplay. The game play is survival with a few smart commands here and there (like /lottery). Our goal is to make a beautiful end to end server experience--from the server's subreddit and the new user feel, to things like the uptime and server performance. Community is also a crucial component of Freebuilders, and we strive to keep the community clean of immature players. To that end, we use a whitelist to screen players. Strictly speaking, we're a 16+ server (unless younger players can show maturity). If an issue does occur, we can use a plugin called Coreprotect to roll back the damage. Finally, we run weekly challenges to keep the community engaged and to award bonus permissions. We're constantly improving our server experience, inside and out.

Everything has been meticulously set up. Now it's just up to you to join us!

Rules:

1. No griefing or raiding.

2. Be friendly in the chat--no advertising, swearing, etc.

3. Don't build one block towers or ruin landscapes.

4. No hacks/mods (texture packs allowed).

5. Respect the staff and the players.

6. Build at least 20 blocks away from others.

7. Use the website to stay updated.

Whitelist Application:

Apply for the whitelist by answering these questions in a post reply.

Remember, this application is our only way to see your maturity, so please put some thought into the answers.

Minecraft username:

Age:

Timezone:

Something about yourself:

What type of player you are:

Why you want to join Freebuilders:

I was wondering what everyone thought about making a newsletter for the server at end of every week.

This would include things from new builds to shops to new players joining. I would be happy to edit it and write some of it but would need help writing some of it and collecting pictures.

If you want to help out or just want this to be a thing upvote this or add a comment. Thanks!

They grow up so fast......

Can we get an update on what is happening?