[Need Testers] No Java Required - The North Star

The North Star



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What I Would Like From

Everyone




The most important aspect of a tester to me is demeanor. I don’t put any age limit on this job because I believe that many 10 year olds have a maturity far beyond many of my coworkers. If you have act responsibly and have a positive, cooperative attitude then that’s all I can ask for. There is not set in stone commitment and all we ask is that you work on the server when you can, no need to stress. That’s it! Please read your specific sections really quickly and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns about anything. The server should be up quite often in case any of anyone wants to see what’s happening at the moment, be warned, it far from completed.


Testers Specifically



About Us

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The North Star Minecraft server is aimed at giving each player a unique, challenging, and enjoyable experience. When you join the server, you immediately become submersed in an inordinately demanding survival world that will engross you with challenges you’ve never had before. The world will captivate you with its realism and authenticity. Weather, wars, towns, protections, economies, biomes, xp, travel, trade and mobs are just a short list of aspects that have become enhanced to be more realistic, fun, and demanding. The minimal staff presence creates honest Minecraft interaction in an environment that fosters growth but allows for destruction. Nothing is unbreakable, no one is untouchable, yet everything can be protected and guarded. You can build a society or burn a kingdom. That choice is up to you. If you intrigued by our server and ready to confront the trails that lie ahead, please feel free to read on for more details on how we cultivate, nourish, and sustain such an amazing server. Remember, you are the most important and influential piece of this puzzle, how will you leave your mark?

Key Server Features

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Plugins and Server Mods
· Reinforcements: You can reinforce anything you like to varying degrees, but with a cost. If you have the resources, you can reinforce everything you own to deter any griefers on theifs. However there is nothing that is unbreakable, there is always a threat and a possibility of being griefed or raided. We do this by allowing you to use natural reinforcements. You can protect each block with either Stone, Iron, and Diamond. In order to break a block that’s reinforced by stone, you must break the block 45 times before. Iron you must break the block 350 times and diamond 1800 times. This allows for more realistic security where you can do a lot to circumvent and disincentives greifing in raiding, but just like in our real society, nothing is completely secure. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Meaningful Deaths and Imprisonment: To eliminate the sense of apathy in Minecraft, we have added a mod that introduces serious consequence upon death. If another player kills you with an ender pearl in his hotbar, than you become “pearled.” You are bound that pearl and until you are freed you are stuck in the end. If the person who owns the pearl wishes to keep the person who is in the end pearled, they must put enough coal in their chests when they log out, if run out of coal the player who was pearled is freed. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Wars and PVP: Our unique PVP system is aimed at mimicking the real world. Each time you hit a player, it costs you money. If you don’t have the funds then you receive poison for 20 seconds. This aspects mirrors the real life idea that war should be rare and expensive. This will eliminate much of the PVP on the server but still allow for massive and expensive wars between nations or players. We also have added armor weight into the game. Players are no longer in complete control of the server just because of there diamond amour because that armor, just like in real life will slow them down by causing them to loose food much faster. Iron will also slow down the player down but not nearly as much as diamond and gold armor will actually speed you up. Finally, we’ve added a bounty system to the game. Players can set bounties using money and bounty hunters can browse and accept the bounties they want to. Bounty Hunter can also paid to get vague directions (to the 1000 of a block) to the player increasing the risk of bounty hunting. However, this also makes it possible for the bounty market to be effective and enable the hunter to “hunt down his prize” rather than stumble around blindly for hours based on luck. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Real Weather: Real Weather introduces a whole new aspect of the game. It adds forecast, temperatures based on multiple variables from altitude to weather to biome, humidity, stamina, and a whole new storm system. Players must struggle to keep warm in snow biomes in snow storms by either wearing leather armor or by keeping close a fire or torch. In the dessert, or swamps, use gold armor or a water bucket to keep from all your stamina. The mod brings back to reason to have other armor and makes PVP more interesting because of that. It also makes the game generally more difficult. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Injuries: Taking an even deeper step into realism, this server mod cause the players to become injured in a multitude of ways. You can break you hand or leg, you can have a heart attack from being to hot for too long. If you stay down in the mines for a long period of time you may acquire black lung. Even eating raw fish you may develop salmonella. This new layer requires players to adapt to injuries and disease making the game hard even when you’re at the top, diseases don’t care if your rich or poor! To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Realistic Farming: We use a series of features and mods to make farming much more difficult and realistic. Certain biomes cause plants to grow faster or slower. In some places the elevation, humidity or temperature may also vary growth rates. Not only do plants struggle, but often times they uproot, freeze, die, or simply not ripen. In other conditions, plants can spread or increase yield. These farming mechanics increase the realism as well as increase the need for player interaction, trade and travel. Not fully implemented yet. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Minerals and Ores: The ore generation system has been completely revamped, now ores generate primarily in and around caves in rare but large veins. It will be very difficult to find ores at first which may require players to trade basic goods for them at the start. However, once you do find a vein or single mineral deposit, the ores will regenerate even after you’ve mined them. After a set period of time the ore will re-appear in the same spot. A diamond ore for example regenerates every two weeks while more common ores regenerate more often. However, there is decay so you won’t be able to rely on the vein forever. The vein system makes Minecraft similar to real life mining. It also adds a layer of strategy for protecting, finding, and trading ores. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Radio Beacons: The server chat range is limited to about 500 blocks. However, with the help of radios and radio beacons, you can transmit message at longer distances and easily find towns. The more materials you poor into your radio beacon the more powerful it becomes. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Mobs: To make the game even more difficult, mobs now do more damage have more health. They can even be a problem late in the game with good armor. However, if you don’t have the gear or skills to fight mobs, its easier to avoid them because mob spawns have been reduced. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Travel and World Ratio: The nether world is a perfect 1:16 scale of the over world. All nether portals also are congruent with the one you built in the overworld meaning if you build a nether portal at 0,0 in the overworld, your nether portal will arrive at 0,0 in the nether. The 1:16 scale means that for every 1 block you travel in the nether, you move 16 blocks in the real world in proportion. This makes the nether extremely lucrative for travel because it can cut travel time by 1/16th. This encourages trading and infrastructure (to build roads and rails in the nether) along with risk taking by going into the dangerous nether. To further encourage player interaction, we’ve made it possible to make roads. Simply place sponge (now cartable through our custom recipes) on top of cobblestone and you’ve created a road 4 time faster than just regular running. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Market and Trading: We use physical shops which require the players to travel in order to trade. These shops are not protected by anything other than Citadel. More importantly though, players can search the market for shops. It will tell you the general location of the shop in relationship to you, what there selling, and how much money it costs. Players can search by selling or buying items and narrow results based on proximity. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

XP: The XP system is completely different now. The North Star has created a crafting system for XP. Whether or not you’re a farmer, rancher, fighter, miner, or adventurer, there are ways for you to obtain xp. It all is based on crafting making the game much more interesting and introducing a new aspect. Check out our custom recipes and items for attaining XP. To learn more visit our website and navigate to “Help and Tutorials.”

Server Details
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