congrats to the following players:
1 emilmoo
2 meow_miu
3 CajaSrbin

4 hamza_ghannam

5 mrwar1

6 Sunfall

7 xCrimes

8 tommyisawesome
9 Tykan123
10 uosdhOAUD

other players getting rewards:

Speedy

eliseomendoza13

yaseen

jelo

nathanxdc

sucidobunny565

lenyung09

coolmanblue

Frogger184/mardi

rewards:

Builder rank (top 3 players)

Exclusive Access to the staff FTB server (premium players only from top 10, top 2 preferably)

illusion9 skull/head (number 1 player only)

a special in-game visit from illusion9 (top 2 players will get this)

10,000 icecraft money(players 5-10)

possible chance at reg (players 3-10 and other winners)

some rewards will be handed out now, others later.

thank you for everyone who entered!

Hey guys!

Today i bring you a new build event! yaaayyy, the theme is mini games. you are not restricted in any way apart from the theme.

So it can be made with redstone, can be a CTF type of thing. anything as long as it relates to mini games.

Hopefully we will be having regular events, say once a month. so feel free to throw theme suggestions out there

Also, don’t spam your cube with water and/or lava or you will be removed and your box will be reset.

Hey guys! tlg here, obviously

so the build event for the spawn is over! congratulations to the winners and the runner ups, we are currently planning placing your builds around the spawn right now!

ok, now on topic. i have 3 FREE passes to own borderlands on steam, and i want to give at least one of them away to you guys

but lately we have been destroying our brain cells trying to think of a suitable event theme! omg the pressure

so i have come to you guys, the icecraft community and i NEED YOUR help guys, give us some theme ideas and tell us what you think of our ideas with the forum poll.

Forum Poll:

http://icecraft-mc.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&p=31521#p31521

Have Fun!
-TLG

Sorry for the delay on updates we all have been very busy lately, but the build event is finally over! congrats to everyone who won, pictures will be up later

Winners:

1. GrofDrakul 2. Pixie 3. Infinity4702 4. xXSEEKERXx 5. Celmeo 6. heatfan23

these players all received the [Builder] rank…

Finalists:

1. CheekyJoe 2. hax0r 3. Fizzy152 3. T_Killa14 4. S3BAGA 5. kazza77 6. TheLonelyG0d

after a random selection of these names Fizzy152 and Kazza77 won access to the staffs whitelisted FTB server, congrats! have fun guys

Semi Finalists:

emilmoo zcyterthelegend darkarchmage slashnominer Francisco123

semi finalist names are in no particular order.
Reward money has been given out, along with ranks! so check your balance in game (/money) and you will have gained between 2500-500 depending on your place in the event. good job everyone, was a really tough event.

most, if not all of the above names builds will be moved to the spawn over time. pictures and/or a video of the winner builds will be added on the forums within the next week.

in the meantime, how about you share your opinion on this build event. what did you think of the theme? what would be a good theme next time? did you have enough time or too much time?

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas everyone! yes. yes i know im a bit late but hey better late then never.

During Christmas Alex aka illusion9 (our owner) said we would be getting some new content such as ranks and stuff and i know we are falling a bit behind in new content and haven’t had a build event in aaggeessss. So why not kick start the new year with an awesome build event everyone has been waiting for!

We where a bit hard pressed for themes and then bukkit broke our plugin and school got in the way and a heap of mumbo jumbo has caused the delays, BUT it’s here NOW!! =)

All you need to do is type /event join and get your creative hats on

Theme: Something for the spawn, this can be a house, a mansion, a garden, a spaceship, boat ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING as long as it’s awesome
Time to build: 1-2 weeks, it’s not long so chop chop!
Rules: stick to the theme, don’t spam your box with lava and water etc or your box will be rolled back and you will be disqualified!
Prizes: Builder rank, OFCOURSE! Money, and possibly items =))
Extra prize: A one time opportunity for 1 OR 2 PREMIUM players ONLY to join the staffs personal white listed FTB server, if you don’t know what this is then google it! . I stress this is a ONE TIME chance for ONLY 1 or 2 players that have to be premium.
Other Notes: there will be a chance for more then one player to win builder rank this time, so make sure to put lots of effort in.
See you in game guys

On behalf of the Icecraft Staff faculty,
-TLG, Out

Merry Christmas everybody!

We’re back and running – on a new server, without any lag. We managed to keep everything, too – which is awesome.

If for some reason play.alexsoft-bg.com doesn’t work for you, play2.alexsoft-bg.com will

The server we settled with is a Core i7 920 with 12 gigabytes of RAM, with two RAIDed 7200rpm drives. As a result of the ram upgrade, i’ll be gradually increasing the view distance across a few days.

We will need extra donations to keep the new box up, though – and new donator ranks are in the works. Expect them soon!

As usual, donations are highly valued and go solely towards the server – as this upgrade is to prove. We would like to thank everybody who has donated or is planning to do so – you guys keep us up and running!

Thank you all for your support and patience through this lengthy upgrade!

Edit 26.12

It seems we’re still being targeted by DDOS attacks. Well, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Sadly, nothing I can do about the attacks, so all we can do is wait until the server comes back up.

Hi guys,

As you probably noticed, the server has been mostly down for the last couple of days. We’ve been targeted by intense DDOS attacks for no obvious reason, and this has caused us issues with the hosting company, resulting in our IP being blocked numerous amounts of times.

We’ll most likely be down until Monday, since IceCraft is moving to a new server, with a proper hardware RAID controller – despite a small decrease from the current hardware it should be a lot better, and help cure the annoying lag we had recently.

The map will not be reset, your money will not be reset, everything will be the same.

Thank you for your patience and excuse us for the late explanation!

Hey guys,

Unlike previous updates, we now decided to update icecraft as soon as bukkit updated. Icecraft is currently running on the first development build, and thing are really bad, as you can probably see.

Everything’s unbelievably laggy and the server tends to run out of memory after around an hour – the 1.3 server always keeps 2-3 CPU cores occupied at 100%, unlike 1.2.5 – I hope it’s a bug.

To work around this until bukkit fixes the issues I’ve set the restarts to be every hour. Please bear with us as the 1.3 update gets more stable and usable – everything should be fine within a week at most.

Edit: Updated our bukkit fork with the latest changes, everything seems more stable now. There’s still more to be done to make it even less laggier, but there should be a noticeable difference now.

Hey guys,

We just launched a new build event – the goal this time is to build a building for the server-wide shop.

We’re getting a shiny new chest and sign shop plugin, similar in design to Showcase. You’ll be able to create your own shops and determine your own prices. And when you need to buy something, you either head for the unlimited server-wide shop or search for a user owned shop for better prices. We hope this will get our economy back and running properly – making protecting your buildings and getting materials a lot easier and fun.

The shop building will be near the main world spawn, but there are no style restrictions whatsoever. We hope we’ve learned from the first build event, and with this one the boxes should never run out – we have 360 boxes for you to build in!

Again, the event will last around a week, and there will be 3-4 days where you’ll be able to vote for the builds.

Interested? Type /event info ingame.

As for the old event, we have a clear winner – SpartaQS. Congratulations! His spawn will be used for this reset of the nether.

The nether will be remade at some time this week.

p.s. This is not an april fools joke!

The build event is now over! We had an exciting time this week, and I believe it went out pretty good for our first one. Sure, there were some problems at the beginning but we’d like to thank you all who participated for helping us test and improve everything.
There will be a new event very soon, and we’ve made sure there will be no issues like we had on this one – 360 cubes should be enough for everybody. Right?

So, without further adieu, here are the links:

Results and prizes

Vote for the new spawn