Saercraft

saer: carpenter, mason, wright, artificer

Server address: mc.saercraft.com
Maps hosted at: http://mc.saercraft.com
IRC channel: #saercraft on irc.coldfront.net

A 60 slot server started in December '10 with many worlds currently available to explore and build in. Of the original pre-merge worlds, Persephone, Whitefall, and Bellerophon were pre-generated to ~4500x4500 blocks using bucyruss' original BiomeTerrainMod (Bellerophon using Reikos' Sky Gardens settings); Haven is a small nether environment, and Miranda was added shortly after the 1.8 release to take advantage of the new terrain generator. The use of client-side fly mods such as zombe is enabled for registered users. We use LogBlock to identify, ban, and roll back griefers, and in addition users can protect their own projects with WorldGuard.

In January '12 we started a second server, Independence Minecraft, with a different philosophy. This server was set up with a building world (Hera), in which you have to claim a Residence in order to build, and multiple resource worlds. The builds in Hera are essentially immune to griefing, but griefing and pvp are permitted in the resource worlds. The server has a basic economy and most materials can be purchased. Client-side fly mods such as zombe are permitted in Hera, but are disabled in the resource worlds for a more visceral survival experience.
As of June '12 both servers have been merged, hopefully maintaining as much of the distinct character of each as possible.

Initially new players will have build rights in Hera only and will have to request them in other worlds by replying to this post - please be patient and give me or one of the admins/mods a few hours to get permissions set up.
Requests for build rights should meet the following criteria:

• the request should include your ingame name
  
• state whether or not you have ever been banned from another server, if you have give me some details on that ban
  
• read /motd and /rules ingame, and paraphrase how you interpret my stance on modifying the terrain and trees
  
• applications should be in English, with no trace of aolese (otherwise known as internet slang) or SMS conventions
  

Once approved users will be able to build only in the Whitefall world and will have to 'audition' for build rights to the other worlds by building pretty things that fit with the general theme. If you have any builds you feel particularly proud of please feel free to post screenshots or videos here, I like to feature some of the better builds in this post.

Notes:
I fell in love with Bucyruss' trees from his original BiomeTerrainMod so I am still generating some of the worlds with an alpha server and his mod, using the WorldBorder plugin to prevent new chunks from being generated outside the initial ~4500x4500 size I use for my maps.
We are curently running five worlds:

• Persephone and Whitefall are running similar biometerrainmod settings, but Persephone is a mostly ice world and Whitefall is warmer. Persephone is where most of the existing construction is, and Sykotik, our Creative Director, has built a lot of cool stuff there. The attraction of note in Whitefall is the rail tour, you can usually find minecarts in the chest on the rail platform.
  
• Bellerophon is running the surreal Sky Gardens biometerrainmod settings posted by Reikos. While flying is disabled for guests in the other worlds, in Bellerophon you can fly if you have zombe or some other fly mod installed.
  
• Haven is a small nether region.
  
• Miranda was added shortly after the release of 1.8 to take advantage of the new terrain generator.
  

The server is colocated at Netelligent in Montreal, Quebec, on a dedicated server with dual Xeon L5420 processors, 16GB RAM, and two 1TB hard drives in a RAID1 array.

Additional Notes

Two servers accessible through the same ip address - Helicraft is a greylist 20 slot server and IndieCraft is a non-whitelist 60 slot server with pvp. Use the stargates to teleport between servers.