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Fuzzlr will reveil all changes when maintenance is finished. Untill then no details are released.

 

well damn, looks like I'm getting yoinked out of my absence and rejoining meep once again

 

kdocherty7 could have stopped this.



EDIT: do another town hall plz I love those

 

Some people aren't good at building, so they copy a nice build. Just like some people can't handle perms without abusing and get demoted

 

The fact that entries were missed because this was rushed is a little saddening. I was definitely expecting there to be different people on this list of top 5, but these builds are incredible. It's a very busy time of year. And there has been lots going on within the team.

Not a whole lot of different creativity between what was built in terms of items, but I gotta love the creative differences between everyone. good luck to the lucky top 5. Love the snow angel! @speedylemonade

 

Do you mean...

 

We will have updates almost every day for the next week. Stay tuned.

 

is this a joke
please tell me it is

 

Great idea Cooley <3

 

but...but....but.... what about the villagers who work there??? will they get a new job somewhere else??? will they get some good pay before you close the doors???? poor michael

 

I am hoping buycraft still has all the info, I'm fairly certain that's where all the info was stored.

I am excited for a new start, good luck to all the staff cleaning this up. If you need help, I'm around.

 

Its January already?!

 

Shortly after, @Courtneyyy - My own teammate, pushed me to my death.

 

No talking in void? D: Also, what happens if spawn goes down?

 

@Katronica venturing into the darkness of the Pyramid​

Welcome to The MeepTimes, the twice-monthly update to keep the community in the loop with what’s new, behind the scenes, and in the works.​

Server Updates
Grace Period
A 60 second death grace period has been added to help limit spawn camping. However, the grace will be lifted if you open a container or hit another player.

Pyramid Dungeon
Venture through the Ever-shifting maze and climb your way to a battle of triumph with the newly released Pyramid Dungeon!

New Donor Lounge
Please welcome the new and improved donor lounge, built by @andrewrobins , @Teddypines , and @AdrianIsEpic .

/warp Arcade
Check out the brand new /warp Arcade, built by @Teddypines !

Spawn Maze
The trampoline park has been replaced by the 2012 ice maze, with the second level done in barriers!

Extreme Spawn
The ability to /warp extreme within the Extreme world has been removed, however scaffolding has been added to the south side of the spawn so that players can still get inside.

Forum Logo Link
The MeepCraft logo at the top of the page was changed to return you to the forums homepage instead of the homepage.

/quest
Use /quest to see the stage of the quest you’re on - an eye-friendly alternative to /quests journal.

Bugs Squashed
Blacksmith
The Mountain Dungeon Blacksmith had escaped from his post, but has now been dragged back.

Recently Accepted Suggestions
Dynmap
The meepcraft.com dynmap page will have tabs for the Classic and Extreme towny maps.

Censored Words
Additional words will be removed from the chat filter.

Community/Server Events
Bi-weekly Updates
Stay in-the-loop on discord to be on top of the Friday updates that bring new dungeons, fresh mechanics, and bring back old games.


MeepMall
On the 28th of April Meepcrafter’s @_Dragon_Killer_ and twister307 officially opened MeepMall! This gave players the opportunity to trade with each other at one easy-to-find location. Many people have taken advantage of this wonderful opportunity, so much so that the owners have to expand everyday to keep up with shop demand. We look forward to seeing its further expansion.

MeepTimes Contests
In this section, the community will get a chance to participate in a quick contest in each MeepTimes! There will be a 25,000 meeble or 4,000 skull prize (from the MeepTimes writers) the person with the best answer, chosen by the Meeptimes team. To be entered, just reply to the thread with an answer! Winner will be paid with the release of the next MeepTimes.

The question for this issue is: What is the story behind your username, past or present?

The winner to last edition’s Meeptimes contest was @Jwarian , who submitted a beautiful photo of a sunset over the coast! See everyone’s submissions here.

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The Project: Towny Extreme
The main feature of the revamp, Towny Extreme, is a unique take on towny. With custom mobs, dungeons, turrets, Extreme's gameplay is both difficult and unique to Meep. With plenty of content to come, we talked to @CluelessKlutz about the creation of Extreme and its future plans.



Where did the initial idea for Extreme come from? What were some of the major changes made during the development process?
The initial idea of Extreme actually came about halfway into the planning stage of the revamp. I've studied game design for about 2 and a half years now. One of the primary design philosophies of creating a multiplayer game is using your game as the platform that encourages player interaction - not the point of interaction between the game and the player. If you look at a game like World of Warcraft, it would not need any fundamental changes to be turned into a singleplayer game, and I think that's a shame. On the other hand, a game like Overwatch would be empty without its multiplayer. Thus a new world would need to draw its content from forcing players to interact with each other rather than with the server. When I really considered Meep's history with PvP and the possibilities of Towny, I returned to my roots in a way. See, before playing on MeepCraft, I was a hardcore factions player. Therefore, the idea formulated out of the idea of pushing player's to the limits of what they can do in a way which forced player interaction.

How has Extreme evolved since its release? What prompted those changes?
Extreme changed significantly many times during its development. In one of the early iterations, it was called hardcore, and was a towny world in which a death would prevent you from rejoining the server until you bought your way back in using Meebles from the existing economy. While it was a neat idea, it really just meant the richest towny players would have infinite lives while new players couldn't join unless they established themselves twice. Another major iteration had a custom Nether with collapsing tunnels and roaming blazes. This was changed after finding out about the Minecraft 1.16 nether update. Another iteration after the name change to Extreme had freaking tanks to use in towny war, but were removed as they didn't really feel like Minecraft. While Extreme does have some custom items, it was very important to retain the feeling of vanilla Minecraft with added difficulty.

What is your favorite feature of Towny Extreme and why?
Easily the dungeons; part of my real life studies are in game design purely for personal interest, so I've been studying that for around 3 years now. Part of any good game is a boss fight, which led to the idea of creating dungeons as a gauntlet of sorts.

What did you find most difficult or surprising about Extreme?
Honestly, the ore gen was the biggest surprise. I hadn't even considered it until release and no one could find any resources.

In Towny Extreme you have not been playing as a normal player, how has this been? What have been some of the highlights you’ve seen ?
It's been quite a chance, that's for sure. Frankly I'm glad I didn't even try. It currently takes more of my time to just keep things moving forward in development of Extreme than I could reasonably balance with trying to get ahead in the game were I playing myself. Ideally, I'd like to be able to return to Towns again and keep building up Legend as my own personal project. It's also been a lot of fun to take a step back from pushing myself to be #1 town or something and enjoying what players can come up with to conquer the challenges of extreme.

With loads of content yet to come, what has you most excited about the future of Towny Extreme?
Extreme isn't just a world to facilitate PvP - but a world with a rich history. Throughout my years growing up, I always loved worldbuilding and storytelling. I fell in love with enormous universes with rich tapestries of lore and a feeling of being connected like Star Wars and Middle Earth. Extreme's tapestry of a story and lore has already started and while the initial story of slaying the dragon is meant to be interpreted as satirical, the lore behind it is not. This sort of early days of Extreme is really just the setup for the larger story while we find our footing in the dungeon design.

Storytime with the Crew ft. Projekt: M
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Created by: @Blazetop , @Sqreix , @Rattle189 , @Jesterical , and @Yoshirowo .

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Humans of MeepCraft ft. @legendcaleb

Caleb turns in a porcupine as he fights off hoards of desert raiders.​

When did you first join Meep?
I joined in August of 2012 - very early. I’d just always come back if my friends were playing. For a while they weren’t, but they are now, so I’m back as well.

You’re probably most well-known as a pvper. What made you get into pvp?
It took me a while to get to the point where I enjoyed it.There was a very vibrant scene for me on some other servers, but I mostly stuck around because of the competition and the prizes. The pvp community, they're all so toxic, man. I was definitely a part of that scene, and I can't turn a blind eye to my toxic past. It's not a fun environment. You spend three minutes clicking on someone, it becomes personal.

Do you remember any specific fights?
I remember fighting one guy named Dante - he plays overwatch professionally now - and he was very well-known even then. It was such a close fight, but I won by a narrow margin.

Did you coordinate your and SuperVladimir’s names?
Oh, that’s completely coincidental. We met before name changes were a thing. Only noticed a few years after knowing each other. However, we did change our names later for a while to girl names so that people would think we're bad at pvp and fight us. We got a few people to fall victim to us.

You were a helper at one point. What was that like?
Being a helper made me feel useful. I caught a lot of pvp hackers. I loved making snarky comments to cheaters right before I banned them. It was a lot of work though, a lot of documentation for all the bans.

What’s a memorable moment from Extreme?
Other than Clue killing me by spawning in an unbeatable boss, I loved our first raid on Legion.It was before Legion had completed its walls. My town went to kill them and we succeeded fairly easily. Then everyone in my group had to go except me and jupi. The two of us walked off into the distance for a bit and when we came back Legion already had walls - that's how fast they built them - so we were just camping outside. We weren’t paying attention, and they all decided to jump on us. I'm close to dying, and I'm running away, and I look behind me and they're still chasing me but they're far off so I have time to eat some and drink a potion and then me and jupi 12 v 2 them.

Why are all of your texture packs bad?
Now that’s a very subjective and biased question. But, to be fair, they are meant for pvp, they’re not good for much else.The only things I value in a texture pack are a good-looking sword, good armor, good pots, and particles and sky.
The skies are bad though

What are some of your hobbies?
I did theater when I was in high school, that was really fun for me. I was never a theater kid, but I really loved doing the shows. My high school was small, so a lot of the kids doing theater weren't theater kids, they were just my friends. I was originally going to do baseball because that’s what all of my friends were going to do, but one of my friends dropped it and I didn't want to play baseball alone. I still needed an extracurricular, and I knew my brother had done theater for a while, so I wanted to try it out as well.

What was your most memorable show?
I did a musical when I was a sophomore. I ended up being the lead, even though I wasn’t cast for it. They ended up without a lead and needed one, so I offered myself up. That was really difficult to do, I was never a really good singer. I really liked it in the end, even though it was so different from all my other shows. The musical was based off of a movie called the Big Fish, and I was a guy named Will Bloom - at least I think his name was Will - who listened to his dying eccentric father talk about all the crazy stories from his youth.

Do you have any other hobbies?
I'm teaching myself piano. It's one of the only instruments I like playing. I have a ukulele, but I can’t figure out string instruments. I don’t know where all the strings are. I think I can do more with a piano - all the keys are right in front of you.

You’re in college now?
I just finished my first year of college, I'm going to the university of zoom.

Do you know what you’re going to major in?
I think I'm going to major in actuarial science. It's kind of like accounting. I determine how likely you're going to die soon, and then base your insurance off of that. It's kind of morbid but it makes a lot of money. I might have gone into engineering, but I’m going to a very good business school that doesn’t have an engineering program. I like engineering because math is good - this is cliche but there’s always an answer in math. I would try in history or English, and I’d still get bad grades. Once, I worked so much on an essay, and I got a C on it. The next time, I didn’t put any effort into one, and I got a 92. It makes no sense.

How has life changed for you since you’ve started college?
I guess for me, I wasn't really worried about making friends in college, my biggest worry was motivation. One of the hardest things I had to get used to with college was managing my own schedule. My professors would post assignments online, but they wouldn't talk about it in class, so I would often find out too late about assignments. But, the parties and the dorms have been a good experience for me.

Do you have any pets?
I had a pet pig named Hayward. The first two questions people would always ask how big he was and whether we'd eat him. And, we had to register him as a dog with the Homeowner’s Association because they wouldn’t allow farm animals.

What’s a movie that you’d recommend?
I don’t watch a lot of movies, but I really liked Gladiator, and Pirates of the Caribbean was good. Have you seen Parasite? That a really funny movie.

Welcomes and Farewells
We would like to welcome @BooBear1227 back to the team as Helper!

Congratulations to @Doctor_HarD on Trial Architect!

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Happy Meeping!
The next issue of The MeepTimes will be released May 15th 2020. See you then!​

This issue was created by:
@qazini @LordMellow @Vexmae @BooBear1227 @AdrianIsEpic @bloodyghost ​

 

At long last the Revamp is finally here! With it marks the start of a whole slew of new features and additions which I'm sure you'll find one to enjoy for hours on end.
Spawn
To kick things off, I'd like to introduce our new Spawn! This one is our biggest spawn yet with over a year of work being done on it by our fantastic architect team including @AdrianIsEpic and @andrewrobins as the lead SuperArchitects with @Achrow @steviefiveo56 @Ocifer as additional Architects. Other members have been involved such as @Teddypines @qazini @Synergizer and myself. We've included a number of Easter Eggs as well including the ability to visit past spawns! Four portals are hidden around the map for you to discover and experience MeepCraft over time.


Towny Extreme
The very first thing to open our revamp is the introduction of our new Towny world; Towny Extreme. This daunting challenge is designed to test your abilities and skill. In this world, death comes swiftly and it comes often. You cannot teleport anywhere on the map besides the spawnpoint and your own town. No player warps, no visiting neighboring towns instantly, no separate world for collecting resources.


Dungeons + Quests
One of the major aspects of the Extreme world is the new questing and dungeons system. Quests will guide you to a new dungeon located somewhere in the world of Extreme. In this area, there is no PvP, but the monsters you'll find are quite different, including several bosses. Killing monsters in the dungeons also rewards you heavily and many secrets exist for you to find including minibosses that are infinitely replayable. Above you can see a number of players inside the Jungle Dungeon fighting Viscar the Nature Skeleton.

Adjustments
We have spent a long time considering how we want the community to be built and have evaluated a number of things. First of all, we have reset the existing Wild world and adjusted a number of other features, one of the major ones is our chat rules and filters.

After testing for a time before the release of MeepCraft Reimagined, chat is officially PG-13. This means typical slang and such is fully allowed so long as it is not directed at a person, sexual in nature, or racist in any shape or form. Shout tax has also been removed.

What's next?
This doesn't seem like very much now does it? I agree. That's why we've prepared the next few months worth of content with a new section of MeepCraft Reimagined and additional content for Towny Extreme coming every week. So dive on in, check things out, and explore MeepCraft Reimagined! See you next week in the Mountains!

P.S. VKL is unbanned.

P.P.S We broke 100 players last night

 

Welcome to The MeepTimes, the twice-monthly update to keep the community in the loop with what’s new, behind the scenes, and in the works.​

Server Updates
KitPvP Bounties
A bounties system has been added to KitPvP Beta! Use /bounty <player> <amount> to set a bounty on a player, and view /bounties to see a list of available bounties.

CPS Tester
Using /cps in KitPvP Beta now lets you check your Clicks Per Second to track improvement and see who can click the fastest!

Combat Log
The combat log for KitPvP Beta has been implemented! After receiving damage, you must wait thirty seconds before logging out.

KitPvP Scoreboard
An updated scoreboard has been added to KitPvP Beta to display various statistics and info. If you find this annoying, simply type /board.

Bugs Squashed
Villagers
Issues regarding villager placement and curing have been fixed.

MeepTimes Contests
In this section, the community will get a chance to participate in a quick contest in each MeepTimes! There will be a 25,000 prize (from the MeepTimes writers) for one lucky winner, who will be chosen by random number generator. To be entered, just reply to the thread with an answer! Winner will be paid with the release of the next MeepTimes.

The question for this issue is: What is the best or worst April Fool’s prank that you’ve had happen to you or heard about happening to someone else?

The winner to last week’s Meeptimes question was @Mettekes, who enjoys summer and the camps that come with it!

The Project: Kitpvp

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Who was involved in this project?

• @CluelessKlutz acted as project lead, developer, and implementation

Let’s talk!
We interviewed @CluelessKlutz on this project!

Why did kitpvp need a remodel in the first place?
Following numerous bugs and crashes of worldguard breaking the old map plus server updates, KitPvP has been a longtime favorite of many players and myself as well for simply picking a kit and hopping in without worrying about stats and items.

Why the map change?
The previous map was large and obstructed the players’ view of each other which made actually finding players to fight difficult.

What was the biggest issue you had to overcome?
Probably the greatest challenge was the creation of the actual server which KitPvP runs on. The other stuff involved in the project was at least familiar. New things, while fun, can be challenging to get going.

What’s the most exciting edition to the new kitpvp?
Honestly, I love the bounties system for allowing players to properly place a form of bet on each other for kills rather than forcing teaming.

Are you happy with the result?
Not quite, this is only a beta and I have quite a few more features planned.

Humans of MeepCraft ft. @MrTillage

MrTillage standing atop a tree he had planted over a year ago​

You like to pop in from time to time. What do you enjoy doing while you’re online?
With the new jobs update I spend a lot of time trying to level up skills and make as many meebles as I can. I also enjoy building but I don’t feel overly tied to a town, so I do a lot of building in the wilderness.

What do you like to build?
A lot of what I build is houses, mainly medieval style. I like all the different wood types and how they fit together. I hate to build modern. I also really enjoy touring other people’s properties and watching the community grow each time I log on.

You’ve changed your name recently. Why and what does it mean?
I have indeed. I used to be MrTillage because I am studying Bioagricultural Sciences and Sustainability at Colorado State University. I recently changed it to Drewskiee, which is a nickname my younger cousins call me.

What does your degree entail then? Do you enjoy doing it?
I am an entomologist by hobby (study of insects), and a farming consultant/pathologist by trade. The degree teaches me how to identify pest weeds, diseases from all pathogens, insect vectors, and pests.

I am currently a senior in my undergrad and will be attending the graduate portion next year. It will be a masters degree in Integrated Pest Management and an undergraduate degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability. And then I would love to work for a company called Nutrien as a crop consultant.

What’s your favorite thing about your job?
I get to work outdoors. It’s an industry in which I have the ability to impact and shape and change the future. It’s an area of work that works each day to tackle climate change and keeping the earth safe and clean while productive.

April Fool’s is coming up. Do you enjoy the day?
I love pranks but not all pranks. It just needs a little time and thought! I also love cringey humor (ex. The Office), so the more cringey the better!

What’s your favorite cringey humor show then?
The Office is great for cringe worth humor, but I also enjoy Friends, Family Guy, and Hawaii 5-0.

Anything else you’d like to add?
Yeah, shoutout to @Savage2k17. He has been a real great support and is always a welcoming face to see here on Meep. He may have to watch his back on April 1st though...

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Happy Meeping!​

The next issue of The MeepTimes will be released April 12th, 2019. See you then!​

This issue was created by:
@qazini @CluelessKlutz ​