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Minetest YouTubers
Richard Jeffries – produces some nice relaxing guided tours around his detailed and impressive builds . A great showcase for creative talent. Minetest Videos (Nathan Salapat) – does reviews of Minetest mods mainly, but also some of his own development vlogs. Been doing this for years. Also see his website for a huge collection of…
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A Huge Thank You To All Of Our Donors!
These people have pledged a monthly sponsorship to our community which helps us keep paying for hosting fees, premium plugins, advertising and other needs to keep things running and keep the good times going for us all. Without you, this would not be nearly as much fun and we want you to know you are…
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Does It Need To Be Won?
I mean, I get it, most games are competitive by nature and there are some set goals to complete and whoever gets the most of whatever, money, gold, items, mobs killed, the big boss mob defeated, etc. or whoever does it fastest is declared the winner and the game is over. But, does it really…
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Moon Phases In Minecraft
I’ve always found it interesting and curious how Minecraft incorporates the cycles of the moon into the mechanics of the game. The Minecraft moon has eight phases Full moon, Waning gibbous, Third quarter, Waning crescent, New moon, Waxing crescent, First quarter and finally Waxing gibbous before heading into full moon again on the next night…
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Sandbox Games Are An Artform – Here’s Why
I think the most beautiful thing about playing games like Minetest and Minecraft is that they give you so many tools to create pretty much anything you can imagine and that’s true whether your creative expression is through colors and textures to bring forth stunning visual pieces, or maybe you’re good with redstone circuitry or…
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Feature Highlight – Usable Bookshelves
Did you know that if you interact with a bookshelf, any bookshelf, even ones you’ve made and placed yourself, throughout our Minecraft Server you can place or receive books from them? Not enchanted books but written books. Try right clicking (or however interact works on your client) any bookshelf some time and it will either…
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Never Too Old For Sandbox Games!
So, someone on one of the Minecraft groups I’m on asked how to start out playing Minecraft and it got me to thinking, ya know, a lot of us have been playing Minecraft, Minetest and games like those for years and forget sometimes that there are still people out there who have never played the…
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Are We LGBTQ+ Friendly? Yes!
A recent guest visiting our server asked if we are LGBT+ friendly and we all (all of us who were online at the time) chimed in that we are indeed. A good many of the players and staff on the server do come from various places on the spectrums of sexuality as well as gender…
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Minecraft Death Bingo
One of the many things we do for fun and amusement on our server is Minecraft Death Bingo. Someone will share a card like the one pictured above in the discord chat and it’s up to those who wish to participate to die in the various ways shown to be the first to get Bingo!…
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Are There 18+ Minecraft / Minetest Servers?
Oh, you bet there are. In fact a recent search for “adult Minecraft servers” revealed a forum post from 2013 from someone asking why all Minecraft servers advertising as mature or adult were 18+. So, servers like these have been around for a good while now. In fact, the average Minecraft player is a 24…
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Pagan Friendly Minecraft / Minetest Server?
Well, we like to think we’re a practically everybody friendly community here. Of course there are limits to how friendly we are. We don’t like people who are obviously looking to be difficult or hateful or toxic. But those people come in all forms so it’s not based on any particular religion, spirituality or anything…
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Mature Minecraft Youtubers
There are a lot of great YouTubers out there with good content to help you get better at the things you want to do in Minecraft or to entertain you. Hermitcraft is one notable YouTube channel and server which comes up a lot as so many people enjoy watching the hermits and seeing what they…
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Minecraft Terms In Irish
Yes, we still talk about Minecraft here and still run our own Minecraft Server. Originally, we intended to run the world on the server perpetually without resets but we learned over time that people got bored with that setup and decided instead to do a reset every seven months to coincide with the seven-year cycle…
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Inspiration – Where It Comes From
Lore and inspiration comes from too many sources to name them all but I try to cram as many as I can into this blog post. Maybe you like some of these too!
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Saving Worlds The Kysh Way
Andarius listened intently to the transmission coming across the Retglainn Occulti sector from Kysh on New Caledonia Phase 2 as they updated him on details of the structure and refugee transfer. The signal constantly drifted in and out and bursts of static made entire sentences undecipherable in places but the gist of the message was…
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Full Moon Ritual at Baile na Dagda
As a young and unattached man he hoped to meet others of his own age that he might befriend since his family only recently moved here from New Caledonia.
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The Tri-Ton History
The Tri-ton are a race that share the same goal with their distant ant ancestors: to spread and conquer. Tri-ton come in 3 shapes, the smaller workers about 4 to 5 feet large, who do all the building and decision making, the alates, 9 foot large winged Tri-Ton who will become future kings and queens,…
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Mambird
THIS ARTICLE WAS DONATED BY CAPTAIN CLUCK! The dominant intelligent species of the planet Ethelmuhrmen. Biologically they share similar traits of both Hy-Brasilian chickens and Earth beavers, and are a class II civilization having achieved interplanetary travel years ago. They practice a religion based upon the belief in The Cosmic Chicken and her consort, The…
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Valosani – From Warring Tribes To The Stars
On their home world their ancestors were a warlike culture organized into tribes, orders and nations who were constantly in a struggle for power and dominance.
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Gorg
Overview The Gorg is a primary race within the Rétglain Ocuulti sector. Creatures able to evolve and adapt by consuming the nearby organisms, absorbing their DNA and splicing it into their own. Abilities Acid Gorgs can spit acid, able to melt softer metals with ease, and needing large amounts for stronger metals. Adaption Gorgs can…
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The Founding Of The City Of N’Aur
N’Aur was founded by an alliance between a stranded Valosan, Andarius, and his surviving crew members who encountered a Gorg, Kysh and his pack as well as some odd Terran (human) natives and other assorted beings who populate this world. Andarius found himself stranded on New Caledonia after one of the many battles between the…
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Clucktopia
Following the success of Captain Meshuwan and Chief Engineer Ahoonga’s accidental expedition to planet Earth, the Mambird Council Of More Important Individuals Than You (the ruling body of Mambird home planet, Ethelmuhrmen) sent out further expeditions. Notably, Fleet Captain Horatio von Cluckenstein was sent to New Caledonia, where he founded a settlement and declared himself…
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Kysh
Overview Kysh is a main character of New Caledonia’s lore, as one of the founders of the first city of it, N’Aur. Kysh is a large Gorg that is the friend and ally of Andarius. Abilities Extreme Heat Immunity Kysh is known to live in extreme heat enviroments, such as volcanos, and shown resistance to…
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The Story Of Andarius The Valosan
In the language of my people, the Valosani, of the planet N’Goras, my name means “Ancient Fire” and I inherited it from my grandfather, a wise tribal elder.
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Andarius
The role of Andarius is one of a lone Valosan survivor left stranded on the planet New Caledonia after a fierce battle in this sector which left most of his fellow warriors dead and what was left of his fleet scattered and fleeing for safety and repairs in an undisclosed sector. His brother is Atahnis,…
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Baile na Dagda
There is a place on Hy-Brasil founded by a group from the original Terran settlements who called themselves the Temple Of The Ancient Fire. Their descendants were very keen on keeping to the “old ways” in honor of their ancestors. They hold sacred a book called Bretha Comaithchesa which translates as Laws of the Neighborhood…
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Mamaí My Tendrils Are Growing!
Young Bi’chlan was so excited to see the first results of his coming of age and a sign that he would soon be eligible to begin training in the path of enlightenment. It had been one hundred and twenty orbits that N’Goras had made around it’s star since Bi’chlan had come into being. About an…
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Gorg See – By ultimaweapon956
Walk through green lands, trees sway, Non-Gorg make noise, hunting food for pack, nothing around, Humans hunt, too many humans, must hunt lots of food, see food, no signs of other, I strike, bring back home, see human, try sneak away, human see, Gorg run, pack see, scare human, Gorg grateful for pack, Gorg go…
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A Box Of Broken Promises
“What’s that in the box grandpa?” young Ciaran asked his grandfather Gregor years ago. The old man’s eyes seemed distant for a few long moments as he collected his thoughts and considered an answer to his grandson’s inquiry. “I suppose, you could call it a box of broken promises, lad.” He finally answers. “Broken promises? They…
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Stop, Hey What’s That Sound?
There it was again! Like the fluttering of a thousand small sets of wings intermingled with childlike laughter and jovial music. Andarius had experienced something similar when visiting his friend Gregor MacInnes in Nova Falias on New Caledonia Phase One prior to the great cataclysm. Then, as now, no one else seemed to notice it.…
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Our Backstory
Our story takes place in the Rétglainn Occulti (Hidden Stars) sector in some far away galaxy where science and technology cross paths with the supernatural and the mystical. In this place modern, futuristic and medieval all find their way to this mysterious place. Hy-Brasil, so named because the human settlers who first came to this cluster…