Thursday, July 16, 2015

Welcome Moderator Spookie!!!

Hello all!

It is my pleasure to congratulate Spookie for his promotion to the rank of server Moderator after his very successful and productive term as server Deputy and Commissioner!

Spookster, or Spookie as we affectionately call him, is all but a household name on the server. Having embraced all the special tools and technologies availabe to a Commissioner, such as World Control and NBTEdit, has allowed him to truly flourish as a creative mind and enhancer of the player experience. Many an adventurous player has gushed over the swash-buckling adventures of his dungeon quests, which improves and far surpasses anything I could have ever accomplished in my own prototype quest. He is an avid renovator and continues his quest with improving and repurposing neglected or abandoned sites on the server. And most of all, he's been a good friend to many, a stalwart defender of the server, an excellent application writer, and a loyal, patient and dedicated staff member; that he associates himself with a dog is only fitting as dogs are likewise intelligent, loving and loyal companions. Whatever indiscretions he may have committed in the past in his long journey and evolution to this point have all been forgotten and forgiven as he has proved his worthiness of our respect and admiration time and time again.

I hereby proudly propose that Spookie be offered the opportunity to be a Moderator on our server, and join the elite cadre of staff members entrusted with unfettered access to the very heart and soul of the server. Thank you.

Spookie was voted in through a parliamentary-style staff election featuring a whopping 94% voter turnout, with 15 votes in favor and one abstain due to unavailability!

I want to thank all staff who participated in giving Spookie such an enthusiastic vote of confidence, as well as all players who have showered him with much deserved praise and camaraderie!


Thursday, July 2, 2015

Livin' La Vida Loca

Hello all!

Well TerraFormaCraft ended up being a roaring success... for about a week and a half. After which interested thinned out once it became apparent that a) clay was very hard to get, b) metallurgy is HARD (>v<), c) the extra food is more tedious than fun, d) THOSE DAMN SPIDERS!!, and e) the entire world looks the same.  I think that really wasn't what I was expecting, so let's not do that again... XD

Anyway, perhaps it's time to return to our roots?  After all, we now have lots of new players who've never known about last year's flavors, and it's not right for them to miss out on some old fun.  So this month, we're reviving a bit of the Stayin' Alive flavor from April 2014... ^^

http://ciabatta-breadalot.blogspot.com/2014/05/stayin-alive.html

We'll see the return of fan-favorite Minecraft Comes Alive, as well as my personal favorite of Mo' Creatures (yay, elephants!); a new and improved Mo' Villages also makes a return, serving as a great compliment to MCA.  CustomNPCs couldn't make it this time since it really isn't enjoyable for non-opped players -- sorry ol' friend, maybe next time. ^^

But NEW to this month's flavor are the additions of the fun Morph mod so you can transform into your favorite mob or animal (YAY! ELEPHANTS!!), Mr. Cray's Furniture Mod (to make MCA more "Sims"-like), and a new exciting addition to Little Brother... the Chocolate Quest mod (for dungeon-exploring, volcano-sieging, swash-buckling adventure)!!! I don't even think I can post a picture of chocolate in such an action-packed light, but... I'll try... XD


Well not quite the same, but that's still a pretty fun movie to watch. >v<

So anyway, I'm pleased to officially announce a whole collection of fun mods for the July Flavor of Little Brother!

Here are the details of this month's flavor:
  • This is using Minecraft 1.7.10, and Forge 10.13.2.1291.
  • We will have a collection of various mods in this release, specifically: Minecraft Comes Alive, Mo' Creatures, Mo' Villages, Morph Mod, Cray's Furniture mod and Chocolate Quest.
  • The map is vanilla-generated.
  • Flammole and InvisibleDragon continue to be the permanent moderators.  
  • HannahShy will assume the role of Monthly Moderator for this month.
  • Difficulty is set to "Hard Mode" to see some of the finer Mo' Creatures critters.  :)
  • A Dynmap is employed with this flavor, although it is using an Alpha build so block fidelity may not be perfect.

For Installation:
  1. Create a new Little Brother profile in your launcher and have it set to Minecraft 1.7.10 -- run the game at least once to download the necessary Version files.
  2. Download Forge 10.13.2.1291 for Minecraft v1.7.10 and run the installer.
  3. Back in the Little Brother profile, set the Game Directory to a new folder of your choice and the Use Version to the new Forge for 1.7.10, and run the game.  This will allow game files (including the /mods folder) for this Little Brother profile to be created in a separate folder, thus eliminating the risk of overwriting your standard Big Sister files in the main Minecraft directory.
  4. Download Minecraft Comes Alive [MCA] 5.0.6 and RadixCore 2.0.2 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://www.radix-shock.com/mca--download.html
  5. Download Mo Creatures v6.3.1 and Custom MobSpawner 3.3.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://mocreatures.org/downloads
  6. Download Mo Villages v1.3.1 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/2525968-forge-172-164-sspsmp-mo-villages-villages-in-more-biomes/
  7. Download Morph Beta v0.9.1 and iChunUtil v4.2.2 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://ichun.us/mods/morph/#
    http://ichun.us/mods/ichunutil/
  8. Download Mr. Crayfish's Furniture Mod v3.4.7 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1282349-mrcrayfishs-furniture-mod-v3-4-7-the-kitchen
  9. Download Chocolate Quest 1.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10:
    http://chocolatequest.wikia.com/wiki/Chocolate_Quest_Mod_Installation
  10. Copy the above mod to your /mods folder inside the custom folder you specified in the Little Brother profile's Game Directory. 
  11. Load the game using the Little Brother profile, add littlebrother.mcserver.ws into your Multiplayer list, and enjoy!

And that's it!

It might be a little complicated installing so many mods, but rest assured that adventure and digital socialization and morphing into bunnies awaits!!!  So go nuts!  XD