[b]Currently averaging 50 players online[/b]
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[u][i][b]INTRODUCTION[/b][/i][/u]
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What is Block-Empires?
Block empires attempts to bring you an innovating Minecraft experience. It is a mild RPG server: players are each part of a race, but are not constrained by this! Each race has its own NPC-filled city and several villages, but there are many shared locations and other interesting sites to be discovered. Players are encouraged to live in and be a part of these cities, but they are free to live in the wild as they please! We have a large 1.8 Environment that still holds countless virgin areas!
What makes Block Empires truly unique is how it combines many fun game play elements. An advanced and healthy economy stands besides thrilling gameplay possibilities. Some plugins have been designed especially for this server! (Such as real and repeatable dungeons and PVP capturable territory.
Please, take a moment to discover the magic of Block Empires. You will not be disappointed with what you find.
[u][i][b]GAME MECHANICS[/b][/i][/u]
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Game Play
One can follow many paths on their quest for glory in the realm of Block Empires. Players are free to focus on whichever they find most interesting.
For the brave heroes amongst us, there are an abundance of warfare options available to our players! Players can fight for their race and conquer other races‘ villages; indulge in some exciting dungeoneering (and get rich with finding loot); enter tournaments and fight for prizes; or just indulge in some simple street bashing.
Money is a powerful thing and certainly so in the land of Block Empires. The more gentle players can focus more on become rich by trading and crafting. Be it selling items at the market or from their homes, be it buying, selling, and leasing houses in the cities, there are many ways of becoming rich off your hard work and economical opportunities to be found. And even if these kinds of players have less experience in the arts of fighting, they can always buy protection! Be rich enough, and you can organize tournaments or run for office!
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The currency in Block Empires is called Silver. This is used for a number of things. For instance, transport between the cities: blimps and boats are at the players‘ disposal, to save the time of traveling.
As they say, with enough money you can buy anything, and this certainly the case in Block Empires as well. NPC Shops have unlimited supplies of anything you might need - but players can form their own shops to undercut these (sometimes steep) prices or sell rare items that the NPC‘s are not able to sell!
For the daring and the rich there is a lottery every 6 hours, where players have a way to win some quick cash!
[b]Classes[/b]
Block Empires brings the Heroes RPG Plugin to the next level. Each race has access to 4 interesting and diverse classes, with a total of 16 unique classes. There are more than 70 different spells and skills! These are unlocked gradually as players level from level 1 to level 100. Each class has a choice between almost 10 spells!
Players are encouraged to form parties, to take on the world together, having lots of different abilities to overcome any challenge! Roles like healer, tank and damage can be appointed to make sure a party is unstoppable!
Besides class spells, there are racial abilities and racial skills that truly make the experience of every race a unique enterprise!
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The most unique experience Block Empires has to offer you, are its dungeons. Currently there are a total of 10 dungeons, but many more are being designed as you read this post!
Our dungeons offer players a healthy balance between fighting mobs and exploring. Mobs could be set to spawn behind every corner, but they tend to surprise you!
Dungeons are packed with chests that await your looting (some not so visible and positioned for the more experienced dungeon connoisseur); and at the end of a dungeon there is a Silvery reward, worthy of the dungeon‘s difficulty.
The current dungeons are strongly varying in size and difficulty: Firstly, there are introductory one-player strolls and harder one-player adventures. Secondly, there are dungeons that people are advised to enter in groups of 3 players. Finally, there are hard and epic raid dungeons, where players will need to work together in order to dream of finishing! Some dungeons require active and nifty team work between members of the party, as some doors may only open dependent on others‘ actions. Read all about the dungeons at our wiki! (Direct link: [url]http://www.blockempires.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dungeons[/url])
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Another interesting feature is the ability the server has to run elections. Players of each race can elect a leader for that race.
Running for this position is not a cheap thing however - and thus only put aside for those that have gained riches through combat or trade! Players need to pay a fee to enter the race, and will need to make good use of their wealth in order to win those votes!
The elections take place in the last seven days of each month, and players remain in office for an entire month.
Players that have been chosen as the races leader will get a large room available to them in their city‘s castle. They will also get a special „King“ Caption in front of their names. They may also be recruited by the Gods (Admins) for other matters, and thus start an even more successful career in the realm of Block Empires.
[u][i][b]THE BLOCK EMPIRES WORLD[/b][/i][/u]
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The history of our world is actually a long and bloody tale of empires and heroes. At first when this land was fresh, untainted by the grip of guile and politics, there was none of the four races. That peaceful purity was sweet but short lived, as the elves eventually came to this land; first in patrols and scouts, then in a wave of migration. They took to this unfettered land immediately and began to linger. There was witnessed a prolonged time of unchallenged rule over the land and it was due to this tranquility that they finally planted their Mother tree and its four Daughters. Years after the Mother and Daughters were planted, to the far-east came a different sort of folk. It came trickling in, reports of mountains that had no trees or plant growth of any kind. A barren desolate place, the elves immediately labeled it as an evil blight on the land and forbade any elf near the unholy place. To their further surprise soon creatures were spotted living amid the rocky outcroppings. Thus the dwarves history on this land began, putrid demon spawn from a blighted land, or at least that is how the elves tell it.
Dwarves, unlike the elves, have moved very little over the millennia. While the elves were like pollen in the wind trying to find a place to take root, the dwarves were like the slow volcanoes, starting down deep and slowly pushing up. It was this move higher up in the earth that lead to the dwarves finally breaking through the surface while constructing their new home and due to the intense heat and high metal content of the stones they continually seeded into the earth for adornment of their halls, the trees and plants on the mountain ceased to grow. When the dwarves discovered the elves, tall creatures that much farther away from the heart who dwelled in the very trees whose roots broke up and destroyed good stone, they knew right away these were creatures that the Stonefather had forsaken. The war that waged between the elves and the dwarves left the land changed. This went on for a very long time and who knows how long it would have kept going had it not been for the arrival of humans into the area, sailing in on large ships from the south.
Human’s, while not from the blighted land and signs of a certain affinity to plant life, also weren’t as tall as the elves and showed promise with stone workings and metallurgy. Human airships were allowed near Karraul and elven and human ships completed the trade routes that connected the land. Humans grew up quickly due to the collective profits from both sides and established the city of Lutetia. Using the humans as a medium, the elves and dwarves slowly stored their conflict. But while the elves migrated from the west, the dwarves dug up from the east, and the humans sailed in from the south, the orcs chose to burst from hell itself in the north. The gate from the nether allowed the orcs to rush through and build their city quickly. Building the only way they know how from a race born in the harsh realities of the nether, their city was dark and unholy. The human race isolated itself inside Lutetia fearing attack from the orcs. Meanwhile the human action of self preservation affronted the dwarves and elves, how weak of a race to respond so cowardly in the face of a threat.
With the marked decline in trade between the races, tensions quickly escalated and now we reach present day. The elves and dwarves find old blood hatreds rekindled, the humans and orcs prepare for each others eventual onslaught. The world will be melted and forged down and it will be up to the heroes who arise to shape it.
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[b]Gylenhoff of the Elves[/b]
The elves inhabit large trees that contain their houses, while the shops and forges are all in buildings on the ground. The elves have a link to nature and living in the open air that affords them certain advantages.
[img]http://www.blockempires.com/wiki/images/thumb/0/0d/Gylenhoff.jpg/800px-Gylenhoff.jpg[/img]
[b]Karraul of the Dwarves[/b]
The dwarves dwell deep in the earth in large dwarf-made caverns. The public areas are large and expansive but private dwellings are utilitarian. Dwarves pride themselves on their use of the pick as well as working for the community and not themselves.
[img]http://www.blockempires.com/wiki/images/thumb/3/3d/Karraul.jpg/800px-Karraul.jpg[/img]
[b]Lutetia of the Humans[/b]
Lutetia is a large wall-enclosed city. The market district has everything for everyone and the houses range from the affordable to the lavish. Built nestled in a small lagoon from the ocean, Lutetia also has a large castle overseeing the city and the surrounding lands alike.
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[b]Oberon of the Orcs[/b]
The orcs originally hail from the dangers of the nether, which is apparent by the large amounts of lava and netherrack that accents their city. Oberon is build firm and strong to reflect the very nature of the orcs. The main entrance boasts a large dragon-like skull to ward off the wary and unwanted.
[img]http://www.blockempires.com/wiki/images/thumb/8/84/Oberon1.jpg/800px-Oberon1.jpg[/img]
[b]New Haven of the Free[/b]
Built by the humans to be a bustling trade center, it shortly after broke away from Lutetia rule and established itself a free nation open to all races. The docks and market allow all to purchase shops and front their wares. Instead of buying an already built house in the other cities, New Haven allows for the landowner to build up from an empty lot bespeaking to its independence and openness to all styles.
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1. In-game name:
2. Location & Age:
3. How often will you play on the server?:
4. What are your expectations for this server?:
5. What other servers have you played on?:
6. Have you read and agreed with all the rules?:
7. Have you read the history/lore of the world?
8. Did you vote for us?:
9. How did you hear of Block-Empires?
10. Reason why you should be accepted:
11. Name the 4 races on this server:
12. What race do you plan on being and why?:
13. Screenshot of your skin:
14. Additional info:
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- Quadcore i7 Extreme 3.4ghz
- 8GB DDR3 Ram
- Ramdisk
- 1TB 7200RPM with daily snapshot backups to off-location data server
- Full world backups every few hours
- Huge dynmap generated nightly
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(Brief explanation of each plugin and of our custom plugins)
BEMobster - Custom dungeon/mobspawning plugin used in all the Block Empires Dungeons.
BERaces - Custom race plugin that allows you to choose and be apart of a race.
BEConquest - Comingsoon....
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Over 4,000+ man hours have been spent creating the Block-Empires server. The world and its concepts have been formed into one amazing creation that many of us never thought would be so complex. We don't need your money, because we created the server for our own fun and others to enjoy. But the server is a monthly cost to keep running which is why we need your help. Your payments will go towards updating the server, maintaining server mechanics, website, dedicated server costs, and hopefully we will be able to get some sort of teamspeak for the server.
Thank you for all your support! Good luck adventuring on the server!
You can donate to the server here: [url]http://www.blockempires.com/shop/[/url]
You can see all advantages of donating here:
Mainsite: [url]http://www.blockempires.com[/url]
Dynmap: [url]http://www.blockempires.com/dynmap/[/url]
Forums: [url]http://blockempires.com/forum/[/url]
Wiki: [url]http://blockempires.com/wiki/[/url]
[B]We still don't offer chest protection. However, each person does get up to 2 protected 10x10x10 houses that belong to them to do whatever they want with and not worry about griefers or looters.[/B]
Moderate griefing, stealing, and killing is allowed in the wildlands. It's your own fault if you don't store stuff in your house. This isn't your little sisters minecraft server. If you get beat up, mugged, or raped (it's happened) you should either carry weapons or stay out of the wild.
This looks very promising, if it's executed properly.
[QUOTE=themodtester;32717828]This looks very promising, if it's executed properly.[/QUOTE]
We're not officially launched just yet, but we should be sometime in the next two weeks. For now, everyone can join, eventually you'll have to register on the website to get whitelisted. Dungeons can be a tad buggy at the moment but overall most of the stuff works.
We've got 5 admins working together to build what's essentially an MMORPG inside of Minecraft.
[QUOTE=adamjon858;32721442]We're not officially launched just yet, but we should be sometime in the next two weeks. For now, everyone can join, eventually you'll have to register on the website to get whitelisted. Dungeons can be a tad buggy at the moment but overall most of the stuff works.
We've got 5 admins working together to build what's essentially an MMORPG inside of Minecraft.[/QUOTE]
It sounds rather interesting, what are the planned mods for it?
We're still developing it a bit. But we've got a pretty crazy XP system planned that will replace Heroes.
Looks like an interesting idea.
One other thing, what's the name of the music you used in the trailer, can't remember the name and it's bugging me.
[QUOTE=Redball4567;32749729]Looks like an interesting idea.
One other thing, what's the name of the music you used in the trailer, can't remember the name and it's bugging me.[/QUOTE]
I didn't make the trailer so honestly I'm not quite sure.
[b]Updated the main post with some more pictures and info[/b]
1. In-game name: Bishop_target
2. Location & Age: Portugal; Fuck you, I'm not telling you my age. :colbert:
3. How often will you play on the server?: If I like the community and setting, probably over once a week, if not, once. v:v:v
4. What are your expectations for this server?: It seems good, let's just hope it's actual proper RP
5. What other servers have you played on?: Age of Mines, Open Trail
6. Have you read and agreed with all the rules?: Yes
7. Have you read the history/lore of the world? Yes
8. Did you vote for us?: No, no idea what thsi voting was for.
9. How did you hear of Block-Empires? Thsi thread, seriously, that's some bad copy-pasta
10. Reason why you should be accepted: Really? How elitist can you get? If a positive answer to all the other questions are worthless, why have them? The reason you should accept me is because I applied an meet your ground lines.
11. Name the 4 races on this server: Orcs, elves, humans, dwarves
12. What race do you plan on being and why?: An orc, because they seem the more unique and less bround by a racial stereotype.
13. Screenshot of your skin: I can't log in to minecraft.net right now, but it's Arthas with his lich king armor.
14. Additional info:
[editline]23rd October 2011[/editline]
Also, tell us the backstory of that rape. :v:
[editline]23rd October 2011[/editline]
Wait, why have the orcs and the elves have the same specialty weapon? Why not have bows for the elves, or if that's too hard to code, just have hoes. Hell it even fits the nature theme.
[editline]23rd October 2011[/editline]
No blight in the spell list
[editline]23rd October 2011[/editline]
Shit, I'm totally going for an assassin.
Alright, whitelisted.
The rape was basically people not fully reading our donation policy. This was combined by a misunderstanding of our mandatory intro tutorial (for which chat is disabled). Somehow, some people arrived at the conclusion that you had to donate to chat and 3 people who had never even logged into the server started a 2 page flamewar....ah the internet :P
We're in the process of working out the bow issue with elves actually. It should be fixed "soon".
In case you had issues joining the server this weekend, we just completed an upgrade to an SSD.
Server has been officially released and featured in Top 5 Minecraft Creations!!!!
Please upvote if you can:
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ltlq1/we_just_released_our_mmorpg_server_after_4000/[/url]
Could we still apply for whitelisting from this thread, or now that it's officially released would you prefer we use your forums?
I have one ready and I'd like to try the server out before going through the effort of making a new account for a forum.
Post it here. I'll be checking this thread every 15 minutes or so for the next few hours.
1. In-game name: DanielRatherman
2. Location & Age: United States, East Coast, 18.
3. How often will you play on the server?: That all depends on how good it is.
4. What are your expectations for this server?: A reasonably well thought out and organized RP server. As far as myself, I intend on a little bit of exploration, a bit of trade, and a fair deal of building.
5. What other servers have you played on?: Age of Mines, various friend's servers.
6. Have you read and agreed with all the rules?: Yes.
7. Have you read the history/lore of the world? Yes.
8. Did you vote for us?: Yes.
9. How did you hear of Block-Empires?: The thread on Facepunch.
10. Reason why you should be accepted: I've been a member of various Gmod and Forum Rps as well as a long time player of DnD and other fantasy games. I'm a proficient Minecraft builder in regards to the themes addressed in Block-Empires. Sufficient enough?
11. Name the 4 races on this server: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.
12. What race do you plan on being and why?: Dwarven, as I feel I've never given enough attention to a race so parallel in opinion to me on the issues of beard fashion and the use of axes.
13. Screenshot of your skin: [img] http://filesmelt.com/dl/DRathermanBlocks1.jpg[/img]
Pretty much this except with a beard.
14. Additional info: Nope.
Alright, see you in game!
Make sure you follow the spawn tutorial! You won't be able to chat until you complete it.
Currently throwing a Halloween special event in our Haunted House dungeon.
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Update/Shameless bump.
In the past 7 days we've had 1000 unique people who were online for more than an hour over the course of the week.
1. In-game name: Orckrast
2. Location & Age: Portland, Oregon, 17
3. How often will you play on the server?: Very often
4. What are your expectations for this server?: Except it to be pretty epic
5. What other servers have you played on?: Profans Humble Aboad
6. Have you read and agreed with all the rules?: Yes
7. Have you read the history/lore of the world? Yes
8. Did you vote for us?: Yes
9. How did you hear of Block-Empires? Looked at the threads....
10. Reason why you should be accepted: I'm not a griefer and i liek orcs
11. Name the 4 races on this server: ORCS, humans, elves, dwarves
12. What race do you plan on being and why?: Orcs, They are my favorite class in any mmo/ Elder scrolls game.
13. Screenshot of your skin: Eh an orc? cant get a pic of it for some reason
14. Additional info: Whitelist plox
Whitelisted!
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