Folks,
Mother Nature is a mean woman. And last night just goes as a reminder.

The National Weather Service announced Thursday morning the Granbury tornado is estimated at an EF-4 strength - the second strongest designation for a tornado. EF-4's have winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour.

The storm that produced this harbinger of The Lady also produced hail the size of grapefruits.

Let's think about that a minute.

Ice chunks, falling from the sky, weighing in at roughly 2-2.5 lbs EACH.

In roughly an hour, the server-wide eval stop will be lifted.

Staff are on hand to do evaluations at their discretion. HOWEVER! Spamming and general assaulting of the staff will result in a 24hour temp ban. If you can't accept, "Wait your turn." Or, "Not at the moment." or any constructive criticism, then I highly advise holding your breath and waiting.

And Yes. I will be available. And No, we won't be taking any BS.

Every once in a while, I have to come back and remind players that the staff are players too. And that's usually because I've been pulled aside by a frantic staffer saying, "I DUNNO WHAT TO DO!"

It's been noticed that the player base has grown pushy. And well... I'm pushing back.

Starting now, Thursday, May 9, 2013, 00:00am CST, I'm placing a freeze on all evaluations for 7 days. Seven FULL days.

This is a formal announcement to say that the Terraria server has been dropped (although I doubt anyone cares since nobody plays there). The Feed the Beast server has also been dropped (again, nobody plays there, though that's mostly because it's a pain to update it every thursday).

Hopefully this will free up some resources that the other servers can use, though.

The subforums and entries on the play page have also been removed.

As some of you may know, The Archives also runs a Terraria server - however there's a complete lack of people who want to play there.

So, answer me this: Does anyone actually play Terraria?

If not, I'm considering shutting down the server. Please use this forum post to comment: http://archivesmc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=91

..but lucky for you, we've already updated (30 mins after release).

Have fun on the servers!

So, I woke up this morning to an email from our main host, who owns the server all of our public gameservers run off of. It turns out that last night, someone we've (most likely) banned from the server decided to launch a DDoS attack on us. Unfortunately for them.. It was very weak. As a result, it ended up not affecting anything at all.

Our host has kindly launched an investigation into this for us, I'm sure I'll hear from them again when they find out some more information on the attack. However, I've decided to post the details of the attack below, for transparency's sake. Click through to the post to see the full list. I've put a graph at the bottom as well.

Had we been hosting servers from someone's home, this would probably have crippled the servers. Let this serve as a note to anyone here that may try to host their own servers at home - don't, host with a professional hosting company instead.

It seems any time I'm asked to write an article, it's typically because no one on the staff really knows how to address atrocities. As such, I'm going to /try/ to address today's Boston Marathon Massacre to the best of my ability.

What happened today can only be described as pure, unadulterated malice. Someone with so much contempt for the US way of life that they had to go out of their way to inflict harm on what amounts to little more than people running 26.2 miles.

Hello, Archivians!

So, I've been looking around the MC forums and such. It's been a goal of mine to run an SMP server with mods, so I've decided to realize that goal today and set up just that - a modded SMP server.

However, I understand that installing mods can be a pain in the ass, so I've decided to streamline the process for everyone. You can install the mods in three easy steps...

What would it be?

Tell us here: http://www.archivesmc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=75