Figy has found a way to cut costs so we can have Dynmap again. We would like community input on Dynmap if people want it.

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Sponsored by /u/rookofdeath and /u/nicolaikay

"LAND HO!" I heard one of the watchmen shout, from two boats over, his voice filled with joy. We had nearly run out of supplies and had begun to eat the rat stowaways from the now-barren holds of our ship, the Xebec Isiratuu. My fellow Yellows rejoiced at the thought of finally settling back down onto solid ground, and I did what I could to keep them calm and patient.

Upon landing aside the other six ships left of the united community fleet, I had my closest assistants aide me in reminding the people of both Sun Guardian and Illeminati background that the real quest had only just begun. As we disembarked from the worn hull of the Isiratuu, I took some time to talk to both Ghostise, Pope of the Church of the Button, and Gryph, Grandmaster of the Knight Order, about what we should all do regarding forming new towns. The three of us eventually got into a petty argument, where the two prominent Knights accused me of bringing nonchalant practices to the Sun Guardians back in the days of the first Sotonne.

Upon returning to my gaggle of followers, I singled out both Zanthr and Czyrix, the first and most well-known true Yellows from Sotonne. Their opinion was greatly valued over the remainder of the converts. Both of them, along with the newly-famed Father Delightt, who kept us all sane during the nearly year-long journey to this new land, wanted to set up a pure Yellow town, far and away from the squabbles of Merchantile lifestyles. It was a very tough decision to make, with the Merchants on one side advocating for trade, and the Solars on the other, advocating for isolation. This rift gradually pulled us into two roughly equal groups; the Guardians and Illeminati went southwest to find a spot under the protection the mountains, where they could live in peace. The rest of us, those wishing for Mercantilism, traveled northeast to the farthest shores we could reach on foot. I made sure to stay in contact with Zanthr via messengers, just to ensure that his band would have the same success we would find.

With the Isiratuu left to rot on the eastern shores and news of two new towns springing up, I took action to re-establish Sotonne. My agent Windmillman would keep me posted about the inner workings of the more imminent threat; two towns to the south and southwest, on opposing shores of a peninsula. Approdo and The_Void became the main towns of the Purple Destructionists, although Approdo shed the purple theme. Cheif Creepachu and Lord Anman the Second ran Approdo and The_Void, respectively. Meanwhile, the Knights had set up a new Redguard, based in a fortress, in the far west of the continent.

There were many times during those first few weeks of keeping everyone together that my mind would drift back to what had become of the original Sotonne, only to remember that it had been destroyed by the Civil War of Nuclear Arms, and then obliterated almost entirely with the Pinkerium's coming. Juppen had been hit hard as well, and the Isiratuu had barely made it out of there alive, let alone with the last major harvest of Sotonne crop. I would always pull my attention away from my thoughts to focus on the situations at hand-the splinter group of ten I was left with scraped together all it could to survive that first week of making temporary houses.

In the second week, we made a town mine, and built up the seawalls along the coastlines. Jdog insisted on building a fortress upon an island in the harbor, and I accepted his proposition, remembering what it was like, failing to use Stratham Fort to its full effectiveness. By the third week, farms had been started with what little crop we had scrapped from the Isiratuu's decaying hulls, and we all ate well for the first time in a year.

It has been a month and a half since the refounding of Sotonne on this northern peninsula. More towns have sprung up, and the group of loyal followers has been through several trials, leading some to abandon the calling and flee town. Despite this loss, the community at large still works together for the greater good of Sotonne, and we seek to open the first viable trade route of this new land within the month.

There are a lot of redditors who are interested in the server but cannot join because they don't have minecraft. This has been discussed for a long while and we decided to poll the userbase.

The benefits of going cracked:

• More people can play especially redditors here.

• Bit closer to how reddit accounts are made and easier for Assassins/Illemonati/Inquisition factions to actually be able to do anything.

The bad parts:

• Cracked servers are more attractive to hackers.

• UUID's would have to be reset (Which is why a map reset also makes sense)

Here's the poll.

Reddit has the handy Gold bar that gets filled up every day, is there something we can use here? Maybe a bar for the next 6 months, filling up as donations come in, with a second bar for surplus stretch goals.

Thoughts?

The mod team has questions we want you to answer and we're assuming you have questions of your own. Let's talk.

http://imgur.com/XfVWnqb (spawn will be moved to the middle)

So, I think we're gonna restrict teleporting a lot this time around, pretty much just /t spawn (your own town only), /t outpost, /home, and /tpa + /tpahere.

In admin chat on discord, we randomly generated probably 100+ seeds on mineatlas before we found one with a large island like this. We were kinda hoping the island would make people think harder about where they placed their towns, in relation to the landscape and to the other towns. Travel between towns must rely on movecraft, horses, boats, elytra, or your own feet.

You'll also want the various towns of your nation to be close enough together that they can aid each other, and that their presence can deter the development of enemy towns nearby. You might want a region of influence, basically.

TL;DR - ideally the server shouldn't force anything, in terms of where nation capitols get built. HOWEVER... you guys aren't used to the teleport restrictions, so you might rush in ahead without considering the consequences of settling in a certain area.

You could suffer a very real loss in trade revenue. I mean, just sayin.

A thread all about the sun guardians of the buttonverse. It will likely focus on the yellow group of the server, represented by the towns of Sotonne and CastleLemongrab.

You will receive a message with some coordinates. I cannot tell you what it leads to but I can promise it would probably be worth your time.

UPDATE

Just over 1 hour Nicolaikay has found the lost treasure of Captain Dickbutt! Don't worry we will be doing this again.

The Via Appia is the new highway that connects cities with a safe and clean path. The cities that are currently connected are The Knights (Red), The pruples (forgot the name of your town sorry), Lemongrab Castle, Emerald City, and the main Spawn. The Orange town is also scheduled to be built, but I do need coordinates to start the bridge. There are also multiple road signs that are in place to help guide people to their location. Simply follow the path that has an archway with the city's designated wool color. Note some of these do need to be updated. Spawn is marked with chiseled marble, and the arena/courtroom is marked with bedrock. Along with this, the is a rail system still in progress that runs directly above the Via Appia, in the case you would rather move along the rails. If you wish for your city to be connected to this road system, then either leave a comment with your city and coordinates, or pm me over reddit with the information.

Thank you for riding,

CalvinizedSteel, Knight of the Button and Lead builder of the Via Appia

“So where are your fellow SunGuards? You can trust me, I also wear my yellow banner with pride.” I was looking at a hooded man with a yellow pyramid around his neck. I looked around where I was. All around me I saw the blue of the sea. Then I started to remember, it was horrible.

A few days earlier.

The sun church is my favorite place in Sotonne, it’s the place where I find peace and where I can feel the true warmth of the sun. Today I am here to pray, I pray for my brothers and their family and those who may survive the war. I pray for the war to end soon. And as I say those prayers over and over again in my head, with my holy sun symbol clutched in my hands, a boy comes running in. “They are here Father Delightt ,the pink, they are here!!!” there are tears running over his face, I take his hand “Thanks brother, Praise the sun let its holy light save us.” As I run outside I unsheathe my sword, which light shines as bright as the morning sun, and I pull up my shield from my back. When I set foot outside the big church doors a single tear drips down me right cheek. All around me I see my brothers holy symbol in one hand and sword in the other, dead. I start counting 1…2…3…10…50 I stop. I run to the first pink I see and put my sword in its body “FOR THE SUN AND MY BROTHERS!” A group of my brothers surround me and stood ground with me. We fought hard… we fought well until one by one we fell to the pinks. I fought off 4 of them and there was a moment of silence. I picked up one of my fellow guardians. He was covered in his own blood, were once where bright yellow draping’s with a hint of gold and white there was only red. His head on my lap he spoke his final words: “Joost, when this is over. Let the whole world know how great the warmth of the sun is.” He coughed up some blood. “Praise the sun!” And his soul left his body. I swear I saw his spirit fly to the sun. I closed his eyes stood up and I felt a pain shooting through my right side, it was quick and clean.

And that’s when I blacked out the last thing I saw was a pink spark in the air. The hooded man was still hanging over me “hey are you with me Father Delightt?” I was shocked to hear my name. who is this hooded figure and how does he know my name. Rapidly I stood up, a little to fast. “not to fast my brother not to fast. I healed you, I think the sun really likes you, a normal person would have died with those wounds but the sun gave us extra strength to save you we felt like.” Two other hooded man slid out of the shadows and nod. “We are /r/TheIllemonati we are the last of our society. We found you amongst the corpses in Sotonne you were the only one we could save. We felt you where powerful. When I touched you, you where as hot as the sun it self. We are setting sail to a new stronghold where we can lay low for a while and grow strong again.” “Very well.” I say “Praise the sun that you found me and that I am alive, brothers, I will take my post as priest of the holy sun and guardian of the “church of the sun”, we must remember the once who fell for us and we must remember who we are and what we stand for.” I raise my holy symbol and my shield, with a drawing of a great yellow sun on it. The three hooded figures raise their symbol and I shout as hard as my lungs allow me “PRAISE THE SUN!”

I will always remember my brothers and sisters. I saw a lot of them die in front of my eyes. Every moment of the day I see there faces flash by. I am a broken man and I must rebuild myself before I can rebuild the SunGuard. Some of my brothers did survive but they lost their fate because of what happened. Some of them joined the gray some of them are traveling the world with a blank banner I hope they are doing good. I will never forgive myself that they lost the ways of the sun and I hope they will find the light of the sun once again and come back to me. I pray to the sun that she will help me. Praise the sun and her holy warmth.