Exploranza

[Emra]

Here's my attempt at a server thread. Need more company and people to live in the towns I keep building. :)


Address/Port

exploranza.servegame.com 30005

It's in the public server list.


Mods

The most important ones are Farming Plus, Hunger, Landrush, Mesecons, Moreores, More Trees, Pipeworks, Technic, Travelnet. There are some others for decor and stuff but those are the major ones.

No mobs. No PVP.


General Information

Admin moved us to a new server recently so we have much less lag.

It's land rush but you'll start with land claim blocks so you can go and claim some land straight away. You get some other starting gear too.

There is a travelnet at spawn that goes to the old travelnet hub and the new hub (which I just built this week and haven't got everyone moved into yet). I updated the signage to make it obvious where the public mine (now with 13 travelnets and getting deeper) and the public farm are (at least as long as people replant it). There are multiple towns and buildings to see. Travelnets to mostly unclaimed areas for gathering resources.

The rules are posted at spawn and are pretty common sense things like not begging, griefing or using foul language.

[plandis]

The server was not connecting for the past two days or so. Now I can get in, but am stuck in darkness at 0,0,0 with none of my inventory. Controls seem to respond but can't get me anywhere. Also health and food bars are now missing. Can't access the crafting menu pop-up. It appears that the entire world with individuals settings and inventory has been erased/lost.

[plandis]

So it turned out that my player file got corrupted somehow. I got a message to dynamodan and he restored it with a backup copy. He has been maintaining regular backups for just such problems. So everything is back to normal.

[Daedric]

Sounds interesting. Is it still running ?

[Emra]

The newly founded town of Newton welcomes new residents. Far away from the other towns, there is plenty of unclaimed land for building projects. The town is connected by travelnet to the new travelnet hub for ease of travel. The center of town contains a shared farm, tree orchard and a flower garden. Across the road lies the Newton Inn with plenty of beds for sleeping the night away. The town public mine is also connected to the travelnet and being expanded daily.

Founded this week due to overcrowding in Desert Sun and the nearby Oasis village. Ye Olde Towne boasts the other public farm and has room for residents as well.

Most peoples areas are connected to the new travelnet hub so you can see what they've built, including a museum and restaurant! The travelnet box at spawn takes you there so you don't have to walk around all day.

[cy]

No digging in unclaimed land? The only reason I can think of to do that is to make the game less fun. You have to claim land or you can't so much as chop wood, and you can't unclaim it when you're done. Run out of land claims while mining for the resources to make more? You can't mine ever again! It's like the best example I can think of to show why land claim mods are terrible.

Other than that, seems pretty okay. No mobs, glow lights cost diamonds. Lots of travelnet. Lots of foods, trees. Folks seem nice enough.

[plandis]

Is the Exploranza server working at all anymore. Every time I have tried to log on over the past 1 to 2 months, it won't show a connection (doesn't list number of players logged on). Was there a change that was made to the server settings that I have to edit in my app?

[Emra]

I haven't been there in even longer than that. It's not showing in the server list for me. You could send a PM to dynamodan from the forum here and see if he knows what's going on.

[plandis]

I sent a PM to dynamodan yesterday. He said that he shut down the server a few months back due to very light activity and time constraints. He said that you (Emra) and I among the very few faithful citizens. He offered to allow me to take over hosting. I sent a PM back to him asking some questions about hosting as I have no idea if it is something I have the skill-set or resources to do. If you think you could do it, just PM him about it. Otherwise, I will look into it to at least try to reclaim what I have built already. If no one can revitalize it, then I will probably look for a new Minetest server. Any suggestions?

[Emra]

Yeah Exploranza had gotten pretty quiet, and sometimes servers shut down. It was pretty much my first server and I have fond memories. :) I don't know anything about server hosting so I can't host it either.

I played a lot on MM-Survival since then but that shut down recently. The host of that server made his own server where I do most of my playing now, stormchaser3000's economy server. One of the owners made Legends of Survival where I play sometimes. I also play sometimes at UGX realms.

For something different I play and create puzzle boxes at 'inside the box' server. That's a unique server made by sofar and nore. It would probably be hard to play on mobile as there is a lot of jumping. I mostly split my playing between there and stormchaser3000's server.

[plandis]

Exploranza is the first and only server I have ever played on (the first one I tried didn't quite work on my phone). I might give it a go with hosting if I can find out how to start and don't have to spend more than time doing it. If I do get it up and running, I'll let you know. Hopefully the files that dynamodan is willing to give me will have everything we have built so far. Are all the servers you mentioned Minetest? I never heard of puzzle boxes. I have heard of Survival and have played that on free Minecraft apps but haven't tried any Minetest Survival servers.

[Emra]

Yes they are all minetest servers. The survival ones have monsters in them. stormchaser3000's economy server doesn't have monsters and it has technic. It's a newer technic version than exploranza had.

'Inside the box' is the first server of its kind. Players can create boxes and when they're ready then the other players can play them. Players have to find a chest with a 'nexus' in it and place it on the pedestal to open the exit doors. But it's usually well hidden and players have to figure out how to get to it. It's kinda hard to explain but sofar made some videos. http://minetest.foo-projects.org/videos.html