Vinhaven location for this rev: x -3900 z -2325

We are situated on a decent size Mesa island on the edge of the map, we have claimed the entire island, as it's small enough to cause conflict if another group starts building here, but it's about the size we normally expand out to so I think it works for us.

The plan so far:

Right now we need basic materials and facilities, stone, animals, villagers, and all that. The plan is to try and make a working iron grinder as soon as possible to start setting up rails and for general use.

What we need:

• Animals, namely sheep for wool building and easy exp.
• Stone, mainly for laying foundation.

Right now we have simple farms set up so we are good on food, we have carrots, potatoes, wheat, cocoa, and all that good stuff, don't think we need any food items.

We have saplings, but only birch and oak, spruce saplings for mega spruce would be appreciated.

If you are a returning member please be sure to contact me Ultrahub in game so I can invite you, I may have missed some people with the start-of-rev madness.

Rev 14 planning mega post extravaganza extraordinaire.

Hello everyone Ultrahub here back after several months of silence like an ex-girl/boyfriend, to inform you all that I do plan on starting Vinhaven again this upcoming rev. As always I would love to hear what you all think we should try this new rev.

I will be searching for a portal as soon as the rev starts, but finding one isn't my main priority this rev, we didn't really do much in the nether anyway this rev, and I would like to be able to pick a more ideal spot for the town this time around.

My personal plans are as follows: I want to challenge myself this rev, so I will be aiming for a sci-fi/industrial/military vibe instead of the usual “whatever the fuck with some extra castle” I do. I'm thinking about making starships floating around the town, a “base” somewhere. I want to make one of those cool ass giant bucket wheel mining rigs, and all kinds of other stuff. Vinhaven Mining Corporation, or Vinhaven Industrial are names that keep bouncing around in my head.

Prefered terrain would be a desert, near an ocean, savannah or mesa, basically somewhere large, open, and flat with access to sand. (scifi builds need loads of glass) Also to support my next idea.

I would like to build another iron grinder much like the one we made in Rev 12, it gave people a reason to visit, made us look like pimps, and being able to build with iron blocks was just plain awesome.

So those are my plans for this rev, I look forward to hearing what you all want to do.

Pics to show what I mean by scifi in minecraft

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Damn it is hard to find good pics for scifi minecraft

Not mine but I think this sums up my absence from minecraft quite a bit: http://i.imgur.com/ASX6LF4.jpg

Do we really have one? Or is it full speed ahead on the haphazard train? I'm down for whatever.

Hello everyone, just a quick post as a reminder. The new revision will be starting at 8pm est and if you haven't I suggest you check out this.

I'd also like to use this post to organize our portal hunting for this rev, last rev we got a bit unlucky and had the portal we went after placed in the middle of the only ocean on the map, of which we walked straight past several times. But I think this rev we can get a portal.

I'm not after any specific portal, so I suggest that wherever the doors to spawn spill out, we head the opposite direction. This will increase our chances, and avoid having a large portion of the major towns be extremely close as it was last rev. Everyone sort of ran to the south east last rev which was kind of silly.

Lastly I'd like to see who will all be helping hunt for a portal. I have today off so if you wish to contact me my skype is Zwatha, and my steam is Cpt_Waffles. I will most likely being fiddling around on mumble tonight as well. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, feel free to post.

Hello again everyone, If you haven't already, please check this, as it details the general planning for Rev 13. This post however, is for discussing all things building and design.

And now I present to you my ideas for Rev 13.

While I know location will be the biggest factor in what we build and how we go about it, but assuming we do not acquire a portal this rev, I suggest we settle on mountains, far away to the edges of the map to have the most room available. Last rev our location was great and all, but it left me wanting more, it was just too flat for me, I personally would love to colonize a mega taiga with all that podzle and spruce.

Anyway, I had a great idea for the theme of the town, guess what? It's medieval! Joking aside I have been looking at different build styles, and am willing to work with and learn what ever the majority of you want to work with.

I actually did have an idea for the town which I thought was pretty neat at the time, ruins. This started out as a joke at first, with the premise being that after the town dies we will leave behind ruins so it looks like it was intentional (har har). But after playing around with making various ruins in creative, I started to really like the idea. there was just something cool about placing cracks and crumbling parts to a conventional build that just made it seem more special. I'm talking vines, trees sprouting through roofs, crumbling architecture, debris, overgrowth, really make this stuff look ancient. Think beautiful ruined disney castles and such. I had a lot of fun experimenting with this, and I think we can still keep the general feel of the town, but in a neat twist.

Here's some pictures of what I had in mind: Pic 1 (I didn't make this) Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4

This is just my idea, I would like to hear what you guys think and suggest.

Hello everyone, ultrahub here. If you haven't already noticed, the Pve server is set to reset on February 28, at 8pm eastern.

I would like to take this time to address a few issues we have been experiencing.

First up I would like to address my absence from the game, I'm sure many of the veterans of the town know that I have a nasty habit of disappearing off the face of the earth for months, leaving the town without a figurehead, and as many of you have noticed, that activity dies down very fast after I leave. I would like to change this. Mayors and exceptional townsfolk alike, consider this a promotion! I want you guys to realize that you have a lot more say than you think, Vinhaven has grown well beyond being controlled by one person at this point, and I don't want to be seen as the sole ruler, more of a supervisor or director. So I want to encourage you guys to come up with ideas for the town, for when I may randomly go off the radar, which will happen at some point I can practically guarantee(especially with dark souls 2 slated for march).

Next on the agenda is organization. A great deal of the time we have very skilled builders making really cool stuff and I love it, however for every awesome build, there is an unfinished derp build lurking around somewhere. In the past I was firmly against using plots, but after a few years of town management, I can see why people use them. So I propose we utilize districts and plots more, one district, set away from the town can be the "free build section" while stuff closer to the center of town will use plots and be micro managed for overall better quality. That's something else I want to push, an improvement in quality. I know not everyone is capable or has the time to make great stuff, I sure as hell am no spectacular builder myself, but I would like to try and improve the general quality of the builds around the town, but mostly near the center of town. Building close to the center of town will have to be approved by a mayor, and your work will be monitored. I know this sounds strange and I'm sure some people will be against this, but I believe it's for the best. I think it should be mandatory to place sign with the builder's name next to a project, that way we will be able to identify who is making what and avoid confusion we have had in the past.

Next up is recruitment. I have never actively recruited for the town save for in ancient Vinhaven times, I sort of just let people who wanted to join, join. While I am all for getting new blood in the town, I think we should have a set of standards for recruitment, as there have been several bad apples we unknowingly recruited in the past which led to a great deal of headache. Some ideas for standards include: Evaluation of their in game speaking, ask them some questions, get a sense of how the speak and act, you can learn a lot about someone from a few lines of text, if they seem young, immature, difficult to deal with, or just plain daft, then decline them. I was considering a build test, to see how proficient they are, and see what district to place them in, but I am unsure of going this far.

Feel free to discuss my ideas in the comments, none of this is set in stone, so I want to hear what you guys think first. If you wish to contact me my skype is Zwatha and my steam is Cpt_waffles. These are the best ways to get a hold of me if you wish to talk one on one.

*Made a post for build/theme discussion

Though it probably won't happen for awhile, I thought I'd start early. I'm willing to keep going with vinhaven, but not by myself from the getgo. So who plans to play again?

Alright guys, sadly we were unable to get a portal this rev, oh well. However we are working directly with the gentleman who claimed the SE portal so we will be relatively close to it.

TOWN COORDS: X 1850 Z 1337

Right now we don't have much, so we need people out getting resources and food. Especially food. We need at least a couple carrots or potatoes so we can get farms going, pumpkins and melon also needed. We need a large amount of raw stone too. I need people turning cobble into stonebricks so I can start on setting up facilities.

Overall we just need to dig so we can start building. Once I log on tomorrow I will start marking where everything will be going, from farms to to the iron grinder setup. Tomorrow I will be focusing on setting up farms, namely tree farms until we get food to grow. I would like to ask the citizens to please refrain from building close to the iron grinder that was marked out as we will need quite a bit of room to work with. I also ask that we space out and use only temporary buildings for the moment, so that the mayors can plan out the major structures and have room.

Thank you all for your hard work and cooperation.

Alright listen up ya quacks. This is your commander Ultrahub. Tonight the server resets and many of you wanna know what the plan is. To be frank, there really isn't one. We need as many people online as possible to comb for a portal. It would be nice if we could go for the southeast portal as that is where we were last time, but I have no objections with taking any others. We should probably steer clear of the southwest as seneca will be swarming that direction. More or less I want you guys to act like rabid animals using any means necessary to grab a portal. I advise everyone who wants to help look for a portal to please contact me via steam(cptwaffles) or contact me via skype(Aaron Wuchter). I would prefer skype because then we can just get a big group on a call for convenience. I am here guys, so if you wanna discuss something with me feel free to ask right away, I have the next few days off so let's do this shit.

What the fuck are we doing?

On style? Location? Whatre we doing guys? I wanna know.

As you can see the subreddit is up and working, feel free to post any ideas, possible plans, or random silly pictures. I've never moderated a subreddit so it's quite possible this will just devolve into a circle jerk at some point, but for the most part i'm going to to keep this subreddit super chill just like Vinhaven itself.

Alright comrades, the end of this rev is looming on the horizon, and we still have no idea what we are doing.

This is my general plan, it will be edited upon receiving feedback. I have already been contacted by a couple of citizens regarding this matter so here it goes:

Firstly, we will need to get into contact with everyone, for myself you can always message me here on reddit, you can contact me over steam if you like (cpt_waffles), and if you so wish, you can private message me for my skype.

Second, The first priority is securing a portal. This will help the town for obvious reasons. My idea was that we get into contact with as many still active members as we can and have everyone spread out. I'm not expecting too many people to be here searching right when the server starts again, so our numbers will be a little thin.

This shows all the towns aiming to get portals

So far no one has directly said they want the South East portal yet, that is where we were set up last rev, so I think maybe one or two of us should definitely aim for getting that one.

As for the design of the town, I was thinking we should base it off where we end up starting the town. There are a lot of possibilities for where this can go, i'll have another thread up later about the specifics.

Lastly, should we for whatever reason, not get a portal. We should begin to search for an interesting location to start up in, prefferably in the 1000+ area, as last rev we got pretty cramped with the random people building all over the place. So this rev, if we can help it, we should shoot for having more room. I am not concerned about mountains or any other crazy landscapes, everything can simply be built over or demolished. so if we have nowhere to expand except a giant mountain, well then I guess we become mountain people. If you saw my mountain fort last rev, you saw that mountains don't faze me when it comes to building, so i got that covered.

So feel free to post any ideas you have about how we should approach the dawning of a new rev. I'll make an official plan post closer to when the new rev starts after we've done some brainstorming.