Black Raven Dragoons

[Zancarius]

Old time 'goon members have been given moderator privileges on the Black Raven Dragoons Minecraft server. These people have the capability to restore missing items, generously provide new players with useful implements, and (soon) monitor for abusive behavior. Moderators are currently:

Aychgee (that's Highgrade for those who might not otherwise have guessed)
Maxrile (Sunderheart)

Server administrators who can be contacted in the event of something particularly bad are:

Grimblast (Turus)
Zancarius (me)

Administrators can fix large scale terrain issues and can be called upon to monitor the server for weird activities or to ban malicious players.

If you encounter issues with the game world, these players should be able to help you either by restoring missing items or assisting you with their generosity via the /give command. There are some difference of gaming philosophies (of course), and some moderators may feel that you should play the game "as is" while others may be more willing to help you get established.

Moderator Command Reference

Moderators have access to most server side commands. The full reference can be found here but be aware that you won't have access listed to everything displayed on the Wiki. Specifically, you have access to:

/item (/i)
/give
/who (/list /playerlist /online /players)
/motd
/rules
/teleport (/tp)
/bring
/time
/msg (/message /whisper /pm)
/whereami (/getpos /pos /where)
/compass
/ping

/give Command

The give command has changed slightly. You can now specify amounts greater than 64 (you will be given multiple stacks) and the items will be immediately placed into your inventory provided you have room. If you would like to restore the old behavior, you can use the drop flag instead. For example:

/give Maxrile 12 256

Would give Sunder 4 stacks of sand.

/give Maxrile sand 256

Would also do the same thing. However:

/give -d Maxrile sand 256

Would give Sunder 4 stacks of sand but would drop the items immediately in front of him.

There is also an /item command that operates like /give with the exception that it will only give the player who issued the command an item or items. Use this in place of /give except in circumstances where you wish to provide someone else with useful goodies. To save on typing, use /i instead.

Teleportation Changes

Teleporting has changed very slightly. The traditional /tp command still works as expected but there is an additional /bring command that will "bring" another player along with you. Usage is as follows:

/tp <player> <target_player>

Will teleport the player <player> to <target_player>'s location. Conversely, if <target_player> had moderator privileges, he or she could bring <player> along with them (teleporting <player> to their location, that is) by issuing:

/bring <player>

This can be useful if someone gets stuck or lost.

Be mindful that teleportation can be abused. Always be sure to ask a player if it's OK to teleport to their location or teleport them to you. If someone is building a secret base (for example), teleporting to their location would reveal its location. Further, if a player is spelunking deep inside a cave system, teleporting to their location might wind up with you falling into a pool of lava.

Time Commands

You can now retrieve the time of the Minecraft world by issuing the /time command. This is not the real-world time; instead, morning in Minecraft is identified as around 8:00AM, evening is reported as around 9:00PM, and so forth. Thus, /time only exists to provide you with an approximate guess as to where the sun is located in the Minecraft sky and can effectively replace the in-game clock.

You also have the ability to change the game time, but if you've used this command before, its behavior has changed. Specifically, it is now /time <time> instead of /time set <time>. There are also "fuzzy time" options you can use if you don't want to think about a specific time or time offset. For example:

/time morning

Will set the in-game time to 8:00AM with the sun just beyond dawn.

Other options from the wiki include "sunrise," "dusk," "dawk," "morning," "evening," "noon," "afternoon," "midnight," "night," and "sunset." You can also use specific times such as "8:00am," "6:00pm," "6am," or an integer between 0 and 24000 where 0 is the start of the Minecraft day.

Whisper Support

Minecraft has support for whispering other players, but it's buggy. You can't see what you typed! Fortunately, sk89q's CommandBook mod provides us with the /msg command. Use this to whisper someone by typing /msg <user> message.

Positioning

You can now find your location by typing /pos or, if you're interested in your direction only, you can type /compass.

WorldEdit Command Reference

Moderators now have access to a subset of WorldEdit commands. These commands can be dangerous, and you should only use them in circumstances where someone (or something--hi, creepers!) has damaged a chunk of terrain. Specifically, you can use some of these commands to fix areas where other players may have used a bucket to extract water from locations that are more than 1 block deep and surface currents have broken the appearance of a lake.

You also have some basic navigational commands that you can use to inspect the world.

Navigation

WorldEdit provides methods to quickly navigate the world. This is useful especially if you need to inspect damage or monitor other players' activities. These are adapted from sk89q's wiki.

/unstuck Will attempt to "unstick" you by moving you up to a free location.
/ascend Moves up.
/descend Moves down.
/ceil <clearance> Moves you to the ceiling with the optional clearance of <clearance> block(s) and places a glass block immediately beneath your feet. You must remove the block manually.
/thru Navigate through a wall.
/jumpto Jump to the targeted location.
/up <distance> Moves you upward <distance> blocks and places a glass block beneath your feet. You must remove the block manually.

I may revoke access to everything but jumpto, particularly if I find the world littered with random glass blocks everywhere. Use these commands only to inspect the world for damage, to investigate building sites, or make repairs to damaged structures.

Fill and Drain

I have restored access to the WorldEdit //fill command for the time being. Usage is:

//fill <block_type> <radius> <depth>

And for best results, you should probably be standing on a block at the expected level to fill (though this might be circumvented with depth). Use this at your own risk as there is a strong potential that you might bury yourself, die, and be unable to recover your items.

When filling areas containing unusual topography like overhangs with water, use the //fillr command in place of //fill. Failure to do so will prevent the water from adhering to all surfaces and will look ridiculous. It might also generate currents that will trap you and drown you.

The undo command (next section) doesn't work well with liquids. If you fill a location with water, the only way to remove the water is to use //drain. The syntax is:

//drain <radius>

You should not use radii greater than 40 or 50 blocks. Doing so may cause unexpected issues or may crash the server.

These commands have some danger associated with them, and use them only to quickly fill small locations with fluids or with dirt or to repair lakes that someone may have damaged either maliciously or because they simply had no clue what they were doing.

Command History

You can undo or redo your changes using:

//undo
//redo

These will only work in circumstances where you have attempted to fill a hole with dirt or sand and will not work correctly with water.

Chat

Moderators (and up) have the ability to color their messages. I'll leave this to you to figure out. Read this link.

Don't abuse the chat coloring, though, because some colors are very difficult to read.

I borrowed color suggestions from Sunder, and administrators will appear in red, moderators in green, regular users in dark yellow, and guests in light gray.

[Zancarius]

I'm retiring this thread. It's no longer pertinent or needed for the most part.

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