A four-oven automagic smelter created with the new hopper block.

This week we welcome three new houses to Totton. Magnesiumbox has started building on an island just off the northeast coast. Among the buildings that have already gone up is a house built by him and Shady_Celt. Also, Divinepotato has finished the exterior of his house. Potato’s build can be found on the southeast end of the continent and features some barns and a few farms. Lastly, I, Ranger910 have finally settled down and built a house in the middle of town.

Also new this week is TottonCraft’s first PvP battle! Bjh410 has been constructing a PvP arena in town and it is looking good! When completed the arena will be able to host 2,3 or 4 player battles as well as booths for betting on contestants. Bjh and I decided to take it for a spin this past week and only one of us walked out alive. If you are in the area make sure to check it out. NOTE-PvP is against TottonCraft rules except in the confines of the arena floor and only with both parties’ consent.

Bjh410 and I circling the arena

That’s all for this week! Next week we will be showing off your 1.5 redstone creations as well as visiting some of TottonCraft’s little known but impressive builds.

Whats new?

Map 2′s Spawn

You can now discover previous TottonCraft maps in your browser. Just head on over to http://map.tottoncraft.com/maps and pick Map 1 or Map 2 in the top left hand corner.

Feeling more adventurous? Download the old map files from our Downloads Page.

Also new this week is the Blaze Grinder! As far as I know Zim did all the work on the new blaze grinder. If you see him online don’t forget to say thanks! It looks great and is a much needed addition to TottonCraft. You can find the blaze grinder by taking the east road in the nether hub. You will see the entrance on the right hand side of the road. Speaking of the nether hub, our old nether hub underwent considerable remodeling this week. StarfishBlack did an excellent job making it look nice and clean. Don’t forget to check out the panorama shot of the new nether hub at the end of this post!

New blaze grinder! Thanks Zim!

And to follow up on a story from last week, there has been some nice progress on the new train station. Below you will see a picture of the new road and bridge which heads south from the station. Thanks to Illosophy for the great architectural design of the new bridge. It really does look very nice!

Illosophy poses for shot on the bridge. Bjh410 photobombs :O

Tune in next week for some more awesome builds and updates from the TottonCraft Community!

Panorama of the new Nether Hub!

First off, MichiganMama has begun working on an outstanding castle. You may be thinking that you have seen every castle there is to see. However, this one is unique in several ways and you would be doing yourself a favor in checking it out in your free time. The castle-under-construciton is located at approximately (-70, -250).

MichiganMama pauses for a screenshot with her castle.

If you haven’t been on in  awhile you may not have seen our new cart station. Illosophy has been designing a cart station that is state of the art. As of now it looks like a big discombobulated mess but when it is finished it will be amazing!. This is a project that the whole community will benefit from so feel free to offer input or donations if you would like to. Also there are lockers in the basement for personal storage and there up for grabs right now! Stop by and claim one for yourself before they are all gone!

The very definition of redstone cluster****. But I promise, it’s genius.

And last but not least. CREEPER! Here’s a photo of me playing in the fountain with a creeper! Make sure to check in next week for more interesting builds, TottonCraft news and maybe, if we are lucky, an interview with the one and only pink-clad zombie and unofficial mascot of Totton!

He’s really much happier than he looks.

Have fun everyone and happy holidays to you all!

After weathering Hurricane Sandy, it is with great relief that I can deliver the following message to you all:

WE’RE BACK!!!

We had right around 73 hours of downtime. Lost power at about 5:00PM Monday, and it has been restored at approximately 6:00PM Thursday. Thankfully, we suffered no damage to our property, and the generator we had got us by. In comparison to how bad Long Island and New Jersey had it, we are very fortunate.

Thank you all for your patience during the downtime, and let the games resume!

While we are waiting for bukkit to update the server will be running vanilla. This means no plugins or other fancy stuff. Once bukkit is available for 1.4 we will promptly switch to it.

This map, like stated on here and the subreddit, will have a border limit. Exact details will be announced soon. As long as you stay on the big island you will be fine.

What about the old map? The old map will be cleaned up and hosted on the internet somewhere. We will announce it on the subreddit and on here when it becomes available to download. Price will be $9.99. (lol)

The Hardcore server has also been turned off and will be available to download if people want it.

More details coming tomorrow!

The difficulty will be set to hardcore which means…

• Enemies will do more damage
• Health will not regenerate. Only way to regain health is by using a healing potion or eating a golden apple
• The recipe for golden apples is changed (have to use ingots instead of blocks)
• The recipe for glistening melons is changed (have to use gold blocks instead of nuggets)
• If you die you will be banned from the server for 24 hours!
• Same basic rules as the normal server!

It will be live on the events server (play.tottoncraft.com:25570) at 11am EDT.

EDIT — Live now!

Enjoy!