Hey y'all, unfortunately there's been a major weather event where the server is hosted, and all power and connectivity is down for the time being.

We don't currently have an ETA for when all services will be restored but given the severity of things, it could take all night or more before we're back up and running. We'll keep this updated to let y'all get the latest information.

Hey there! Thank you for the kind offer but I actually maintain private forks for any of Famcraft's plugins that are no longer maintained by their original authors.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on your repository though to see your progress on your fork! And with that specific plugin, the author may still be accepting pull requests for maintenance updates, so you may still be able to keep the upstream project itself up to date with the latest Minecraft versions, too!

Hello Vera, your son was banned for mentioning a reference to a mature-rated game on more than one occasion. The first time, the chat was cleared and he was warned with this message:

00:40 <@Kealper> ^pg
00:40 <@AuBot> [180] ^pg:  Please do not mention games, movies, shows, or books that are above a PG or equivalent rating. We would like to keep Famcraft as family-friendly as possible, as people of all ages play here, and what you mention may not be appropriate for their age! Thank you for understanding <3

Ideally, if a banned player is capable of communicating on their own, we do prefer that the player themselves write their own plea to be unbanned, as we feel it helps us ensure they understand the problem and that it won't be an issue in the future.

Hey yall! It's coming up on Famcraft's 7th birthday and there'll be a bunch of mall shop auctions!

You can see a list of them here: https://auctions.famcraft.com/list

Good luck if you're going to be bidding!

Some more info on mall shop auctions:

After the auctions are over, the person with the highest bid wins the shop they were bidding on.

* Multiple players may share the same shop. They may pool their money together and buy the shop together. When bidding in a group, only 1 player should bid, and they must have all the bid money in their own account before making the bid.

* Your money must be in your hand when you bid. Do not bid with money you do not have. If you join with another player to bid, the bidder for your group must have the money to match the bids he/she makes. This includes clan bank - Make sure to withdraw before bidding.

* You cannot bid on, own, or partially own more than one shop in the main server mall.

* Two different shop owners or groups of shop owners CAN combine their shop space if they are adjacent. Just tear down the connecting walls.

Additional general rules regarding shop ownership:

The spawn mall shops can be fully customized except for a few small restrictions:

* Diamonds must be sold for no less than 600 Famcoins, in any chestshop -  server-wide
* Dragon Eggs must be sold for no less than 150k Famcoins, in any chestshop -  server-wide
* Anywhere you are able to destroy blocks, you can customize
* No lava
* No water
* When you place signs on the wall, you must place them on blocks that you own. Do not remove the wall, then put up signs, because this will be putting signs on your NEIGHBOR's wall and will block them from being able to manipulate their own wall.

* Shop owners who neglect their shops risk being evicted. Neglect means buying the shop and doing nothing with it and/or not restocking your shop and/or setting incredibly unreasonable prices so as to appear to never go out of stock.

Hey yall, unfortunately survival is experiencing some pretty bad connection problems today. We're hoping these problems can be sorted out soon, but we don't have any ETAs for a fix at this time.

If we have further information about this problem, such as any possible ETA, we'll post it here.

Sorry about the problems everyone is having staying connected, and thank you for sticking with us.

Update: The problems appear to have been sorted out, things seem stable again.

Some answers to your observations:

1. We've temporarily disabled gates, doors, and bridges while we wait for some plugin fixes to some edge cases with pre-1.13 ones potentially being able to lag out the server
2. Phantoms are per-player here, if you lay in a bed at night for a few seconds (long enough for the screen to stop fading out as you rest), phantoms won't bother you for another three game days. Do this once every couple of Minecraft days and phantoms won't be a problem for you. As long as you're rested up, even phantoms already spawned for other players won't harm you.
3. This feature is a planned feature for 1.14, it isn't in the game yet.
4. Correct, that functionality was removed from the raffle plugin, it underwent quite a lot of changes for 1.13. Some things were added, some things were changed, others were removed. How it is now is as close as can be configured to being how it's always been.
5. There's some little things like that which is a result of the world conversion that had to happen for 1.12-to-1.13, we're ironing those out as we're able
6. That's been like that a long time, the pistons are moving something, it's just hidden from player view. It's just a timer for maintenance tasks around that farm area.

If you find things that aren't quite right, like something that appears to be broken or wrong, such as commands not doing what they should or missing villagers, for example, let staff know or put in an admin request.
You can submit a new admin request at: https://tools.famcraft.com/request-an-admin/
You can get a link to the admin request page in-game at any time by running this command: /admin

Hey yall, we're going to be bringing all game servers (Main, Classic, Wastelands, Games, and Skyblock) down for a planned maintenance tonight at midnight Central time. (05:00 UTC)

This maintenance is expected to last between 30 minutes to an hour.

The website map is all freshly generated again and will begin automatically updating again soon. You can find it at the usual place: https://map.famcraft.com