ChoochitSMP - Classy as Fuck Since September 2010.

Gather 'round chi-ren. Ol' man Nikon is gonna spin you a yarn about the little Minecraft server that could. It's not a very large online community, but it makes up for that with dick and fart jokes... What?..

Choochit started right before the October 2010 Halloween update. I showed my friends Ty and Paradox Minecraft and shortly afterwards we decided to start a server. It was tiny at first - Ty had found an older P4 box of his and we ran a 4 slot creative build for a while.

When the Halloween update hit and health/mob health worked, we generated a new map and started our first survival SMP map. After a month he added more ram and we grew to 12 slots. After gaining a few more of our core members we had a nice map built on with lots of [1] neat things to look at.

At the end of March, Ty and Paradox donated enough money to build a new server tower with enough power to host 20 players. While we had the parts on order waiting to ship I made a push to get more players down to start a fresh world. April came and we started on our [2] latest map, with map seed 'fly'. Very unique terrain.

With the Adventure Update almost here, we have decided to start a new map, new terrain from the beginning and all. If you're wondering about the name, Ty has been watching [3] 1puglife's youtube vids for a while, then I started watching pug's canadian redneck antics and then we cheeched.

Choochit is looking for dedicated players, 16+ years old with a decent high-speed connection. Who connect & contribute regularly, Enjoy topical conversation, Have a sense of humor and don't take things too seriously. Our voice chat is uncensored and foul language will be flung. This might not be the place for you if tasteless adult humor bothers you. We also enjoy playing TF2 and other Steam games as a group.

You should be familiar with basic MC gameplay/server etiquette. Specialized skills, teamwork, minecart systems, interests in tasteful design and game mechanics is who we're after. With paid for accounts out there at almost the 3 million mark, there are plenty of people out there looking to join private MC servers.

If you don't make regular appearances due to lack of interest, hardware/connectivity issues, school or other affairs, please take the time to let someone know your situation so we can determine whether to remove you from the whitelist or to keep you on until you fix your temporary problem.

Rules & Conduct:

    Mumble: Mandatory! If you're going to play in our server, you Must [4] download Mumble and be present in our Mumble voicechat room. Please run the audio wizard, set up push to talk before you join and use an nickname that's easy to call out. Voice chatting with us is the first step to becoming whitelisted with us and we prefer talking over text. It grows trust & friendship between members. We understand you might not be able to talk from time to time, but please at least listen to us and reply via in-game chat. If no voice chatting becomes a frequent thing just because you dont want to, then its a problem, and you should look elsewhere to play. When my young son is present in mumble [user: Smarty] please watch your language, otherwise chat is uncensored. Chat spamming - either in game or in the mumble (text or voice spam) is not tolerated.

    Zero-Tolerance for Bullshit: If your intentions are to be a scourge - grief, steal, use hacked clients, whine constantly about things, hoard resources, be a constant nuisance, not be a team player when its needed - any behavior of this kind will result in a ban. Go QQ some place else. PVP is enabled, but not meant to be used for unannounced attacks. One might get in the way of someone's pick, or get a nudge and accidentally fall. It happens. We generally don't fight unless its in an arena for fun. We also murder thieves. In the face.

    Building Etiquette: Know your neighbor! Please give breathing room adjacent to other builds. We cant stress this enough. Even small towns should have spacing between buildings. Your not poor and land is free in this game. If you discover a location you would like to build on, claim it with a sign. If you finish a build, for frigs sake, mark your properties with a sign! If you notice someone else's build near by and its got a huge window/balcony on one side overlooking nice terrain, don't be an ass and disrupt their view. Be aware of tunnels in a town setting. Ask your neighbors. If you're building in a settlement and you notice an overall theme, stay within the theme as best you can. Nothing pisses us off more than to see some town builds out there with a medieval theme with an obnoxious modern sky-scraper plonked down in the middle of it. No annoyance machines, no tacky builds, no ugly cobblestone abominations, no Rule34 structures. Please keep your engineering systems - Auto Harvesters, Redstone Alchemy, etc, scaled to a multiplayer server environment! Huge or complex flowing water/lava & constantly running redstone logic circuits cause tremendous server lag. Discovered redstone systems that are found with running logic will be disabled if they cause lag.

    Restricted Items: This is survival. Fire still spreads from Flint and steel, Buckets of lava/water and TNT come in handy. If you're going to use hazardous items, you're responsible for whatever happens. We can stop forest fires, floods and any other accidents, but expect to get your balls busted. We wont tolerate willful destruction. If you plan on using TNT, please use it very sparingly. Because it effects the way other mobs spawn, please only two dogs per person.

    Server stability: As this whole game universe is still in beta and unfinished, shit will happen. Expect & Accept it. We will try our best to keep it running smoothly, back-ups regularly, updating software. We're doing the background administration in our free time, so if the odd server crash causes the occasional rollback or the world file becomes corrupt and we have to revert to an old back-up, dont complain to us. It's all part of the MC Beta experience. If in the event of long-term server outage, I will try my best to share out the latest back-up we have made on file if you'd like to have a copy of your creations. Schematic files of a build can be generated for players by request.

Addendum: With the start of the Adventure Update with all it's new content, we will level the playing field. It will be a brand new map. Everyone will start with nothing and all players, including admins and mods will no longer spawn items or fulfill item spawning requests. However, this does not mean this is basically a vanilla server.

Admins will still have access to kick/ban, etc and WorldEdit. While we're still in 'legit surival' it will only be used to fix accidents. Some of us have decided to 'party up' and start settlements. We like this idea. You can choose to go alone or form groups.

After a few months, when the excitement for 'legit survival' dies down, we'll be a bit more lax and we'll start allowing WorldEdit requests, and Bulk item spawning for large, creative oriented builds. The plugin list below will change from time to time as we try new ones and ditch old ones. Lots of Info regarding how to use them.

Current Plug-ins:

    [5] [Craftbook]: Sign controlled Gates, Bridges, Elevators, 1Block Integrated Redstone Circuits and Advanced Minecart systems! Access: All Users
    [6] [mcMMO]: Adds skill leveling while performing the usual tasks in MC. Currently you can level up and gain rewards/abilities on 10 different skills. Access: All Users
    [Firelord]: Dont pass up gold ore in the mines! Crafting gold armor grants the wearer fire/lava resistance. Using gold tools yields pre-smelted drops! The trade off is gold's weak durability. Access: All Users
    [Flat Earth]: When near it, bedrock will flatten to the bottom most layer - giving you a nice flat surface to build on. Access: All Users
    [properTime]: To remedy people bitching about day/night too short, we have externded it from 20 to 40 minutes.
    [WorldEdit]: Full featured live terrain editor. Access: Admins Only
    [WorldGuard]: Works with WorldEdit to protect and perform rollbacksAccess: Admins Only, area protections on request
    [QuickPort]: Magic compasses. Access: Admins only.
    [Appleseed]: Grows trees that have to be maintained to occasionally drop and apple. Access: ContestVIP

Bottomline: If you've made it this far, you acknowledge that you have read the rules above and any undesired actions by any persons using your username will result in whitelist removal for review or a ban. Don't go shittin' out your mouth.