Hi everyone! As you may know, for the past few days I've been hard at work with my spiritual training in the farthest back corners of Silverlyn, learning the ancient druidic ways from the few remaining masters.
Imagine my surprise when, upon my return, Boots told me he was leaving this land, and I was to be made King! He had a hard enough time convincing me to become a Duke, but I trusted in his …

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My dear subjects,

It is with a heavy heart that I hereby abdicate the throne of the Five Duchies. My reign has been long and prosperous, but of late I have had less time to dedicate to the day-to-day running of the Kingdom than I would like. Although we have between us built something strong and beautiful, my time is ending and soon I shall pass into the shadows beyond the End.

My faithful and …

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Have fun.

Important changes have been made to how shops work. I have restored the ability to disable buying/selling of certain items and it will no longer revert these prices to $0.01. I strongly suggest reviewing the command syntax:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/econ-commandshops-v4-0-2-the-premier-local-shop-plugin-1-2-4-r0-1.39386/
Also any items you had with no stock limit were probably …

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I'm back from work to judge the contest, and BOY is it hard. I know judges always say it's hard to judge contests, but I had a really hard time choosing winners.

There were entries in the following categories:

URBAN CHALET
Three entries: Stoneacre Hall (Rueyeet), Pyreliter House (Gummygoo), and Irongate Manor (Minecrack4me)

These three constructions were really impressive. Notes on each …

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Hi guys,

Boots here. I still exist and am still around. I just have barely any time for the server these days, what with teaching commitments, and chapters of my dissertation due progressively from now until June.

I doubt I'll be on much over the next little while, because those commitments won't exactly go away. However, a quick check of the forums here tells me the following:

1) things have …

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HI all,

The theme building challenge is now officially closed, and I will be judging it over the next few days. Make sure you post pictures and coords of all your entries in the theme building challenge forum.

Work's started up again so I'm pretty busy at the moment, but I'll get to it ASAP.

See you on the server in the next few days!

-B

It has come to my attention that our medieval theme is slipping. The train station in KH is very nice, but it's more Industrial Revolution than Medieval (being built in an English Victorian style, 1868). Most of Pyre's ships are from the age of high sail, being the late 17th and early 18th centuries - again, two or three centuries out of theme.

It's mostly OK - we need a train station to get …

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You'll probably notice that the Kingdom's shipping lines no longer function via the mages' guild teleportation magic, and in fact now operate as good old fashioned ships instead.

From now on, to take advantage of ship travel, all you need to do is stand on the deck of the appropriate ship and await its departure. Currently all such travel is free, though shortly it will begint o cost.

Shipping …

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Someone has maliciously done some significant damage to Kingshaven, and fixing it will take some time.

For now, much of the city is off limits, and you should be barred entry to affected regions by worldguard. You won't be able to reliably access the market square, the cathedral, the barracks, and space in between those three landmarks.

I would advise against building much in KH until the …

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