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Domain expires

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:56:29 +0000

Hello ghosts!

The domain kiwike.se is set to expire in about a month. I have migrated everything to the new domain "kiwike.yottabyte.nu" for the foreseeable future. The remaining donors fund money has been paying the domain bills for the last few years, but it's dried out at this point.

Papa bless!

The Kiwike Archives

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:54:12 +0000

Friends,

I have been scouring through old hard drives looking for old Kiwike data. This great quest lasted for days, but now the dust is settling.

There are both good and bad news. The good news is that we have backups of a lot of old worlds. I currently count 8 separate Kiwike worlds, ranging from 2010 to 2015.

The bad news? Well, our most popular worlds don't have very good backups. The latest Kiwike 2.0 backup I am able to locate is dated July 2011. For the record, Kiwike 2.0 spanned May 2011 - January 2012. That means a lot of 2.0 history is gone. However, the big cities can all essentially be located in the May backup. The Grand, not so much.

Even worse, the only copy I have of Kiwike: Revamped is apparently badly corrupted. I'm only able to recover ~half of the world. If your memories are intact, you're in luck.

I will make separate posts for each world backup in this thread, with a brief description and a download link.

Feel free to share anything fun or interesting you might find in the backups in this thread.

Edit: FORGOT TO MENTION

If you're an old member who just stumbled into this thread, please join the Kiwike Discord and discuss things in there with us!

https://discord.gg/QfwHQVT

Wiki is back online

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:19:31 +0000

Hi guys. I was migrating servers earlier and noticed that the wiki has been down for a long time (i.e, years). That's fixed.

Editing has been completely disabled to preserve all the bullshit

If anyone is feeling nostalgic and shit, go ahead and have a look around.

http://kiwike.se/kiwiki/index.php/Main_Page

bestest regards

New plugins

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:46:36 +0000

Hi.

We have touched up and brought back Territories and a basic economy system. This allows for a basic kind of protection for everyone. The tutorial for territories and economy is found on the main website. Same commands still apply.

We did change some numbers. Creating a town is pretty cheap now, at 64 gold. Claiming a chunk (16x16 area) is a bit more expensive though, at 32 blocks per chunk. This allows for pretty much everyone to have some kind of basic protection in smaller section, rather than huge cities. Cool.

Also the world is a bit bigger now, at 1024x1024

Online

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:54:01 +0000

We discussed this months ago. I still don't have very powerful hardware, but I do have a good uplink. I don't expect the server to be very active, so I reckon this might work anyway.

We have a fresh 1.8 server running on mc.kiwike.se

This is a small, cosy, friendly server. The world is thus currently limited to 512x512 blocks. Pvp is enabled though.

Note that I'm really not very invested in how Minecraft servers function nowadays. The server is currently very simple. We probably need some kind of protection, both for chests and buildings. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how we could improve the server from a technical standpoint, please tell us!

Enjoy.

1 month necro lol

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:02:37 +0000

Three year anniversary!

Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:53:36 +0000

Hey everyone! Today is November 10th again. It's been three years since the first Kiwike server was launched. Unfortunately, unlike a year ago, I can't say that the Minecraft server has been running 24/7 since then, but it's over 95% uptime I believe.

Let's go on a nostalgia trip:

Quote:November 2010:
Kiwike launches the first Alpha server, it is really terrible and people are duplicating items everywhere, building houses out of diamond blocks etc. The server is completely vanilla.

December 2010:
After having a bit of a player spike around the start of the server, the server quiets down. We receive our first donation: The player Erooock is kind enough to donate $10 to the server. Server resets quite a lot because of griefers and dupers.

~December 15, 2010:
Kiwike 1.0 launches as Minecraft moves into beta. The server is running WorldEdit and Towny for some basic protection. There's also auctions, iConomy and shops. Item duplication still works for the first week of the server, something that a lot of players abuse unfortunately. Also, Magic carpet.

January 9, 2011:
Lag is getting really bad as the player count increases and our 1 GB RAM server can't handle it very well. After a bit of trouble we move to a new server, and during the downtime chat with players we decide that a new map is due. Bukkit is up and coming and we decide to be one of the first public servers running Bukkit. Meet Kiwike 1.5.

April 2011:
After months of work, the new Kiwike server is ready to launch. Some would say that it's still the most successfull server, and a lot of awesome things happened. The Grand war and the wedding are probably the most significant events.

August 2011:
KiwiShips is released, something that truly made Kiwike unique (and laggy). This plugin was actually planned for a huge update to get player numbers up, but we decided to release it on 2.0 to test it out. The huge update turned into a future project instead..

January 2012:
After being in planning stages behind the scenes for a few months, Kiwike: Revamped is announced and the beta testing starts.

March 31, 2012:
Kiwike: Revamped is finally released and everyone is happy. New world, new plugins, new people.

October 2012:
Revamped activity is starting to fall due to problems with hardcore roleplayers and casual roleplayers. The fact that the wars and the third age are pretty much on ice as the staff works on figuring out how to best deal with them also contributes to the falling player counts.

We decide to stop Revamped and start over on a clean slate, going towards the PvP aspect instead of hardcore roleplay. New Kiwike happens (yes, the name was a parody on the New iPad).

2013:
Dunno really. New Kiwike is shut down due to amazing inactivity and a new world is started. Shades of Crazy trilogy is written. Map resets a couple of times.

And then of course, the future of Kiwike. What do guys? Both forums and server have been really inactive recently.

You reckon we should start a new world once again? I want to try the amplified terrain generation. I would also like to have storage protection, because hiding your stuff is way too much effort.

Anyway, happy birthday Kiwike.

EDIT: Also, I hope to upload all the old saves I could find whenever I get my fiber connection next year.

Update to 1.6.4

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:36:28 +0000

Hey everyone

The server is finally running 1.6.4. I think the world is prepared to be future safe when 1.7 is released.

You might have noticed a lack of players in the past six weeks or so. People seem to get bored really easily. So here's an open question: should we add a chest locking plugin to the server? With the extreme lack of players, I personally feel like you should be able to protect your items since there is no one around to protect them otherwise. Let me know what you think.

Cheers

Kiwike StarMade server

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:13:47 +0000

Hi everyone. Really sorry about the inactivity lately. Went back to school, real life busy, stuff, no Minecraft time, etc. The Minecraft server remains online although it's quite inactive at the moment. I don't plan on shutting it down, I'm just personally taking a break from Minecraft.

Now to more fun news.

There's this game called StarMade. You might have heard about it. Lots of Kiwike people have been playing it recently. I was approached about starting a Kiwike server for it. And so then that happened.

Kiwike now has a server for the StarMade alpha. The IP is sm.kiwike.se:4242

The server is mostly on default settings for now. I'm new to the game, k.

Get trading with Markets!

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:27:04 +0000

Hi everyone!

It's been a great first weeks on the new world. Lots of awesome towns, big and small, have appeared all over the world. We've had some pretty fun fights too. As was promised, a trading plugin is coming. It's not ChestShop.

I give you: SWAGMarket. Short for Simple Widespread Anonymous Gold Market. This market system has been made from scratch to provide what we believe is the best system for the server.

All of the info you might need related to this new plugin can be found in the Guide to Trading. It's a really short read, promise!

The initial markets that town leaders can open are Stone Market and Wood Market. More markets will be added with regular intervals.

Let us know what type of items you want to see a market for next!

yottabyte and the council

New World is coming

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:34:12 +0000

We will start a new world on the server tomorrow, Saturday, probably around 17:00 CEST. That's 11 am EST for you Americans.

The new world is also 5000x5000. The seed has been handpicked and we believe it will work well with what we're trying to do with the server!

Would be fun to see some people online tomorrow

Poll: Reset the map?

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:40:04 +0000

Update: The poll has ended and the results are clear! Map reset coming soon!

A few people have approached us about resetting the map.

The current one has been up since March. It's mostly untouched, but here are some reasons why people want the map reset:

The map has been griefed a lot near the center (old spawn)
There's a very limited amount of horses and horse armor since most of the map was generated in 1.5
I'm not happy with what my town looks like, and want to start over
As the server is now being developed more actively, it would be more fair to reset the map for the new players.

The poll will be open for 48 hours.

In order to get the map reset, a supermajority of votes for "yes" is required.

New website

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:34:39 +0000

With the comings of the "Kiwike Reboot", I decided a new website would be appropriate. It's not done yet, still plenty of writing to be done. (Where is Narazkaly when you need him)

Let me know what you think of it so far though!

Rolling Updates (changelog)

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:37:03 +0000

This thread contains any changes/updates that are made to the server, small or large.

Today's updates:

Local chat is now yellow
Removed restriction on town size based on players in the town (this might come back in a different form soon, smart people will claim their area while it's cheap!)

Update to 1.6.2

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:39:46 +0000

Hi everyone!

The server has now been updated to 1.6.2!

Some other changes have taken place:

The IP has been changed to mc.kiwike.se
A proper permission plugin is in place
Changed economy backend from Essentials to iConomy
got rid of Essentials
The command to deposit gold to your bank account is now /deposit. The ingots in your hand will be deposited.
Plot selection fixed
CreeperHeal installed
Local and global chat works like in the older Kiwike servers.
/l - send message to local (128 block radius)
/g - send message to global (default chat)
/ch l - change to the local channel for chat
/ch g - change to global channel for chat (default)
The server is now running on the Hard difficulty. Because it's more fun!
The world has been extended 500 blocks in each direction, the size now being 5000x5000. Horses and such new things can therefore be found at the edge of the map.

There might be some issues with the move from Essentials Economy to iConomy. Let me know if you have lost your money or something and it will be sorted.

Have fun and such!

attacks and cloud to butt

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:22:31 +0000

The server that Kiwike was running off was attacked last weekend. Massive DDoS attacked directed at a DayZ server whose website I'm hosting. So Kiwike went down. I've already written about the disaster that was on a different website, so I'll just leave it at that.

Then I was changing some domain settings to protect it from further downtime and such. I registered kiwike.se on cloudflare. The problem is, I found this hilarious chrome extension on reddit called Cloud To Butt. So of course I've been using this on my browser. Problem is, it replaced cloudflare with buttflare. I did not notice this as I copied the domain settings. So the kiwike.se nameserver was configured as blabla.buttflare.com. Then I had to leave because vacation. Then I didn't notice the error until I came back today. Lol. Sorry if anyone cried a tear while Kiwike was down. I'll work on getting the Minecraft server back up asap.

kindest regards

Moving from Towny to Territories

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:47:58 +0000

Hi everyone. We will be removing Towny from the Minecraft server tomorrow. Don't worry though, Territories will replace it. I have made some modifications to Territories so the move should be pretty smooth.

What won't change

Town chunks stay the same
Town money stays the same
Town leader stays the same

What will change

Assistants will be reset since Territories uses a different permissions system
Outposts will not transfer (not sure if anyone has an outpost though)
Plots will not transfer because Territories uses a different system for plots
Chests/furnaces/etc are not protected anymore! Make a blocked off room or something if you want them to be safe!

"But why not just stick with Towny"

People requested that we use Territories
The plots make a lot more sense in Territories and can be customized a lot more
Overall it's simpler to use and maintain
It's easy for us to modify and add functions to it if we should have the need to do so.
Good to move now while there aren't many towns around

I expect that we will be making the move tomorrow. So if you have a plot or something and you don't want stuff stolen you have some time to move/hide it now!

Cheers

Join the council

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:16:53 +0000

Hello lovely people. Some of you may have noticed, Kiwike is sort of getting back on track again. This server started out very small and inactive but a few people eventually started playing on it. So far me and DjFuzz have been in control of where this server is going but I think it would be nice to have some more people on board.

My vision of this server

Small friendly place
Basic, vanilla minecraft; the community makes the server interesting
No long term secret planning behind doors and big opening. Everything is public and openly discussed amongst the community.
We gradually add new features and change things as required
Not really a lot of actual moderation of the server, community takes care of itself
Disabled end because enderballs are OP
No teleportation commands whatsoever. /home and /town spawn are OP.

Essentially, the server is very open and people can make what they want of it. Want to raid and fight? Go right ahead. Want to roleplay? Sure. Build awesome big towns for anyone to join? Works too.

But yeah, need more people helping out with shaping it and stuffs. At some point we will probably need to advertise it places and help with that kind of stuff would be appreciated. Make a reply or something if you want to help out.

Regarding 1.6

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:03:48 +0000

1.6 is said to be released next week, including new shit..
should we create a new map once this is released or keep our current map?

the main reason we're asking is that the new horse Armour and other new items would not be accessible otherwise

To those who want an 'old' styled Kiwike server

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:11:20 +0000

PEOPLE ALL BE LIKE "ADAM PLS, MAKE A GOOD KIWIKE SERVER"
..but no one's actually telling Adam what they want in this server. so tell us pls (Im trying to make him make another super awsome server with all the fun stuff and other stuff (which is fun too i guess)

LOVE YOU GUYS,
DANIEL <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

EDIT: another thing, which kiwike server did you enjoy the most and what features of this server made you enjoy it the most <3<3<3