There essentially will be no more bukkit updates, they are embroiled in a massive legal and inner drama filled mess right now, and I doubt they’ll manage to get their collective shit back together. So, bukkit essentially doesn’t exist. As for the nether thing, that’s my fault, I need to swap the files around again, I thought I had gotten them in the right places but dim-1 vs dim1 isn’t exactly descriptive titles if you get my meaning.

Now, as for what we are doing post bukkit, I have a plan that I’ve already put into action, with more coming shortly. For now Spawn has been moved, again, lol. This time for a slightly different but related reason. We have moved spawn before to essentially get new players, and with them the griefers as far away from our builds as possible, so that the damage would be somewhat contained within an area. Of course with rail and nether gates they can spread rather rapidly. Using the incredible powers of command blocks I have orchestrated a field of sorts that should stop virtually all griefing. If a noob goes out past ~450m from new new new spawn they will be unable to break a flower do to a status effect, at ~475m their inventory gets cleared. These effects are constant until they return to the island. This does not effect registered users (unless I mistyped your name, super sorry, contact me and I’ll try to replace your stuff?), and should allow noobs to go and see our great builds, While keeping the crazies at bay. The registration system will continue to function, this time with a little bit of a different tint, but still very close to it’s original function. In addition, I have also disabled mob grieifing and fire spreading.

Transportation in a post warp world is a bit annoying, however since we went to 1.8 I have had in place a secret teleporter network spread between the spawns. Now that the fields are active I can make the warp network a bit more ‘visible’, and expand the networks reach. I have converted one of my structures into a Nexus that has gates to the four spawns, with the return gates hidden near each spawn, but the structure was never made to hold warps, and certainly not as many as we need. I have the coordinates for the old warp points on my computer and will slowly rebuild the network, ultimately adding gates to new locations as well. We have a unique opportunity now to build a new transportation network in the world, and so we will need to build a true Nexus hub that is well organized, and of the appropriate size to let people easily traverse the vastness of the server. So I invite all of you to begin discussions as to the location, organization and architectural flare of this new structure(s) and the gates within. All we mechanically need for a gate is a command block, a block on top of it, then a pressure plate, that’s it. Another point of discussion, each command block sends someone one way, only by making another gate on the other side do we have a two way connection. There is a design opportunity to make novel connections that aren’t simple two ways, however for sanity two way gates will probably be the preferred style.

As I believe I said above, there is a system in effect now that has done as you said, noobs can build near spawn, if they prove themselves they can move on. Except I gave them a v1.8 island in the middle of the ocean about 3/4 of a square kilometer…