All,

The next server restart (wednesday) will feature significant changes to the server dynamics in order to allow for the creation of potions.

You will not be able to travel to the Nether. Instead, you will be able to acquire the resources you need from overworld spawns and new crafting recipes.

• Blazes will spawn on smooth slab and stone brick. This means in the ancient ruins beneath the ground...and possibly dark cities.

• Magma slimes will spawn on smooth stone, caves.

• You will have to craft both types of mushrooms together to make netherwart. These mushrooms are found in rare mycelum caves scattered through the map.

• Ghast tears... I don't know about those yet. I was thinking about be able to craft it from a water bottle surrounded by four gold blocks.

Overall this would make potions very rare and extend the end-game further, and avoid having to add the nether. I am not sure about the recent nether ore additions or how to implement those. Any ideas?

Since you will be able to obtain blaze powder, you can combine it with ender pearls to create eyes of ender, and then combine this with paper to make scrolls of identity. I will make a page for the plugins to show how to do things like this.

Other fixes:

-Burning mobs will no longer spawn.

-Change "Cold" to "Local"

-Removed exploit caused by plugin

-Generally made anti cheat a little less sensitive