Hello!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the MCAtlas End of Year Contest! We heard your feedback, and the winners of the categories listed are as follows:

Most well known Nation: German_Empire
Most generous Nation: Atlantic
Most likely to fall under Communist Rule: Soviet_Union
Most likely to take over MCAtlas: Roman_Empire
Nation with the best builds: California
Nation that is most accurate to the original: Japan
Nation that is the most unique: Antarctica
Nation with the best leader: Pacifica
Most active on the Server: moust4che2
Most active on the Discord: StupidDrew9
Most likely to mine out the Planet: Troncatcomfy
Most likely to become a real-life politician: SGT_P_Bacon
Most likely to overthrow the government: Mint_101
Most likely to achieve world peace: Kittyt
Most likely to become famous: Loxures
Most likely to narrate a documentary based on MCAtlas: JoeBoney
Most likely to discover the meaning of life: MrGriiinch
Life of the party: Tkalash
Biggest meme: goyya
Best builder: Arthursao21
Most talkative: ObamaBoney

Congratulations to all of the winners! We hope that you all enjoyed this year's Year in Review Contest. We hope you have a fantastic 2020!

Hey!

Our Minecraft servers are back online!
We would like to apologize once again for the couple days of down time. I hope you all can enjoy your holiday break and maybe play some Minecraft while you're at it! We have a few festive things planned for the upcoming week so stay tuned!

For the holidays, we have a 50% off sale on everything in our store
https://donate.ruinscraft.com/



A note on the MCAtlas Sponsor rank:
We have many features in the works for the Sponsor rank. We would also like to hear your ideas for perks in #ideas. By purchasing any VIP Tier on Ruinscraft now, you will automatically get the Sponsor rank. In the future, the Sponsor rank will be a separate purchase.

Hi everyone. We have been hit pretty hard with traffic the past few days, causing the server to remain offline (obviously).

We've been in contact with our hosting provider and they have segregated our server from the rest of their network to prevent further damage. All of the server files and worlds are safe despite the rumors.

We will unfortunately be forced to remain offline until today or tomorrow when the network segregation has lifted. I really apologize for the down time and can guarantee you we will do our best to prevent this in the future. For the record, our current host does indeed have DDoS mitigation. We don't have exact numbers right now but we do know it was in the many hundreds of Gbps and was able to saturate their network.

P.S: Make sure to join our Discord to talk to other users and stay updated on the current state of the server! This announcement was posted there yesterday, and copied to here.

MCAtlas will be offline for roughly 8-12 hours on Thursday, Dec. 12.

We will be performing necessary updates and data conversion to allow us to add new features and update our plugins (such as Towny). Backups will be made to ensure data is safe if update operations fail. We apologize for the downtime but it will be ultimately very beneficial for the future of MCAtlas.

Thank you

EDIT: Maintenance is complete

Hi all,

There's been several changes and updates on MCAtlas over the past couple of weeks that I'd like to share:

Locks:

• Old locks and locks in the wilderness can now be broken! Locks can no longer be placed in the wilderness, and must be in a Town
• Town owners can handle locked chests more easily by breaking any lock within their Town
• [town name] can be added to a lock to allow any Town access to the container. For example: [Berlin]
• Exploits with locks have been fixed, such as using hoppers to pull items or placing locks in restricted areas

Commands:

• /near has been added to show players near you
• /seen now shows how long a player has been online
• You can type /suicide more often now!

Map:

The map at https://mcatlas.net/map has been updated!

Town colors have been updated to show better information, and the info boxes are more condensed with more information as well.

Other:

• Several rules have been updated. We recommend to look through them at https://mcatlas.net/rules
• /dab has finally ended! Top 15 dabbers have been given a Discord role, a "Dabber" powder, and an armor stand disguise! Top 5 have been given $10 in store credit, along with those perks. JetTG, our top dabber who dabbed a total of 8355 times (equal to 348 days of nonstop dabbing), has been given his own "JetDabber" powder.
  
• Mob rates have been increased by about 50%
• Town claims have been increased by 20-50% if you have 5 or more players
• A Powder hunt has been ongoing -- it ends tonight, so hurry and find yourself some Powders! Type /clues on MCAtlas for more info

This information has all been posted already on our Discord, and you will be updated on information sooner if you join it! You can talk to over 2000 of our members as well.

Happy Halloween!

Everything in our webstore is 25% off until Nov. 1st! Make a purchase and get access to two exclusive powders!
/pow GhostEmoji
/pow CobwebEmoji

As a bonus, every player that logs in from now until Nov 1st will have access to a special powder!
/pow PumpkinEmoji



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We've been working hard to ensure Ruinscraft stays relevant in the ever changing Minecraft server ecosystem. It's tough to develop a play experience which keeps new players coming in and old players coming back. We've developed a taste for what's good, and we're going to use that to make Ruinscraft better.

Say hello to MCAtlas, a Minecraft server of the Earth. We're devoted to make this a unique experience that will be intriguing to new users who may have never played a Ruinscraft server before. We'd like to make it clear that MCAtlas is very much a Ruinscraft server. Although, for gameplay’s sake, it will have some separation.


Gameplay
MCAtlas is centered around a realistic 1:1000 scale map of the Earth. As a player in survival mode, you can join a town and work with others to grow your domain, or you can go alone and form your own village. Form nations, create and crumble alliances, or go to war. Gold is the primary currency of the server, so mining and trading it is essential. Please make yourself familiar with the rules which can be found on the MCAtlas website (link below).

The website
MCAtlas will have a separate website for gameplay purposes. It will contain features such as: viewing current economy statistics of the server, viewing a live map of the server, viewing Towny statistics, voting for the server (to get gold!), a listing of the rules, and more.

Visit the website: https://mcatlas.net

Connecting
When MCAtlas is released, you will be able to connect to it in a couple different ways. First, you will be able to join the MCAtlas server with the portal on the Ruinscraft Hub or with the command /mcatlas. Second, because we want to make it easy for new players to understand how to join, we have created a new address which you can use to skip the Hub and directly join the MCAtlas server: play.mcatlas.net (this makes it easy for you to invite people too)! MCAtlas is a 1.13 server, but you will be able to connect with the usual Ruinscraft supported Minecraft versions, 1.12-1.14.

Ranks
Our goal for MCAtlas is to be fresh and inviting to new players. To embrace this, the server will not have the same donator ranks as our other servers. Any previous purchaser of a Ruinscraft VIP Tier will automatically receive the MCAtlas donator rank (there will be only one) free for lifetime*. We REALLY appreciate our donors. We couldn’t run any of this without you all.

*In order to receive the MCAtlas donator rank for free, you must have purchased any Ruinscraft VIP Tier before the time of this announcement (if you’re reading this, it’s too late).

In order to figure out what benefits the donator rank should have in order to be desirable and fair, it will start with no benefits other than a prefix and possibly other chat cosmetics. The rank will not be for purchase until some time after the server launches.

Launch date
MCAtlas is ready to go, are you? We are launching the server one week from today, on July 1st!

Other Ruinscraft updates
The update to 1.13 for our Plots server last month was a success. It took the hard work of many, many developers in the Minecraft community to pull it off. Notably FastAsyncWorldEdit and PlotSquared (and our modified version of it) were huge undertakings. A few minor issues are still being resolved, but just about everything is now operating as it should on our Plots server. You can view the remaining 1.13 related issues here.

Our new hub has been received well. We are aware of a FPS stuttering issue on 1.14; hopefully we can resolve this soon. It is recommended to use 1.12.2 or 1.13.2 on our servers.

See you on the server!

A new hub has been teleported into Ruinscraft from the future! We hope you like it!

Hey everyone,

It's Easter weekend! For the occasion, everything in our store at donate.ruinscraft.com is 20% off until Monday, April 22nd. We hope the Easter Bunny gives you candy too.

Happy Easter!

Update: After noticing that it was April 1st, and after some further consideration, we decided to cancel our server move. We'll keep pushing on toward 1.13, I guess...

Map download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJLgq2qYok5xPlbd0-c8rPoXNeQCM17s/view?usp=sharing

Hello,

Over the months, we have been working steadily to bring 1.13 to Ruinscraft. Recently, however, we have located multiple vulnerabilities within 1.13 which limit our server’s functionality, such as lag, chunk corruption, and dolphins. Alike, we still have many users upset over the 1.9 Combat Update, and 1.13 does us no good in this regard.

After plenty of thought as to how to fix this solution, we’ve made a perfect deal. Our server will be going back to the version the server first ran on: version Beta 1.7.3, released July 2011!

We decided to have a completely fresh start for this server, and we have created a new address you need to use to connect (after you switch to Beta 1.7.3). The new address is ruinscraft.net Make sure not to confuse this with our old server which is ruinscraft.com

Here's a screenshot of our server currently:

FAQ:
Will I lose my builds? No, we won't be removing our old 1.12 server, but we recommend you come to our brand new Beta 1.7.3 server from 2011 for a brand new start!
How do I join? We have a step by step tutorial for you right here!

First off, you’ll want to click the “Launch options” button from your Minecraft launcher.


Next, you’ll enable the “Historical versions” option within that panel.


After that, begin creating a new launch option with the “Add new” button.


Scroll until you find old_beta b1.7.3, and select it. Name it whatever you want, and click “Save”.


Now, you’re good to go! Click the green arrow next to the “Play” button, and select the profile you created.




If you ever want to go back to 1.12 or 1.13 (I don’t see why you would), you can simply click the green arrow next to the “Play” button again and select a different profile.

See you on the server!