A little more than 24 hours from now at 7pm hesitantly rescheduled for 4pm EST tomorrow I will be taking the Civcraft server down for a few minutes to paste the endstone towers at random locations in the various Nether Biomes on Civcraft, the goal of this operation is to provide organizations with sufficient man power, organization, and resources, that do not already have sufficient endstone a chance to retrieve the essential resource for their own NetherFactory.

Each tower will look like this (Huge thanks to Rekvia for the design and construction!), under the tower will be approximately 3000 endstone, the endstone itself will be naturally stone reinforced, this is half as much as you need to produce a single NetherFactory.

This should provide the opportunity to groups that need to collect endstone, or also to groups that may wish to attempt to mine a single tower only and sell the resources, regardless of the groups goals the towers are designed to make things interesting, by placing them online during the early evening we can maximize the number of people involved in the mining race, furthermore the towers are designed with archer posts creating pre-built towers from which to fight. The natural reinforcement is used to ensure that the mining of the deposit takes sufficient time that a single team can't sweep multiple towers without conflict.

Some precautions are being taken to improve tick tomorrow for this event, mostly the new MusterCull config should be significantly more aggressive, I also might disable spawner mob AI, as that seems to be taking up as much as 10% of the tick, although that may no longer be worth it after the new MusterCull goes online.

I am sure this will be an interesting event, I wish everyone the best of luck. The date and time is up for change for at least the first few hours this post is up, so check back tomorrow morning, it might turn out that other days are optimal for everyone to be around, but if we want to get the NetherFactories themselves online shortly after Christmas we really don't have a huge amount of time. I would do Christmas eve because everyone is sure to be off, but I don't want to take time away from anyone's family.

Thanks for you time

-- ttk2

Edit: Does everyone have Chirstmas eve off? The idea solution might be Tuesday night provided the Europeans where willing to stay up super late (they could because they will be off the next day) thoughts on this option? other than this I think the current time discussed on top is as good as it may get.