Hey what's the current address for Waterworld? I've been enjoying that one more for a looong time

PMed it, will get you the SFTP info when I finish it.... work again had me a bit more tied up than expected. need to check you VPN access too. 

busy busy... hmm thought you should have access to that, as you are a super user. will look at the roles tomorrow night, probably end up promoting you.... the updates to plugins have broken so many of my rules and settings its crazy. Thats what I get for keeping something that started in alpha with hey0s  (hmod) mod running 

I'll hop on after I get off work today too and see if I can't promote FF. Pretty sure I'm still admin unless settings got borked in an upgrade.

promoted him last night when i saw him on. seems to be working, the groups are a bit off though, boosted him an extra level vs intended. 

I've been spending a lot of time looking around at the stuff that happened while I was gone ... and looking at some stuff that was around before I even left that I didn't discover at the time! (Or just forgot.)

Did the alien invasion blow up one of Wick's rail lines, or was it just coincidentally unfinished?

Kojiiriin City is just spectacular. A little mob-ridden, but at a distance it's amazing as hell. The skyway makes for a fantastic tour. (I hope you don't mind me saying it's a little awkward for anything other than sightseeing, but it excels at it.)

goddog was kind enough to show me some of his old stuff, including his redstone experiments over by his unfinished psycho-mega-castle.

I really liked your Hilltop Inn, tone. The nearby castle (cobble and glass with a little wood) was really nice except that it ... seems to have fallen into a state of disrepair. Meaning that it looks like it's spent the last five years as an Enderman crackhouse.

I updated and refined some of the signage at the old spawn-point railroad junction. I took a tour of Sea and Sky Railroad, and ... oh wow, I have to apologize if I was responsible for the design of those stops. Depending on the way the last person traveled, you might end up zooming past the stops! If that was me, it's inexcusable. I fixed it so that it always sends you to the stop. No fancy redstone—the new setup is just slightly different track layout at the stop and you still have to use the levers to choose direction of travel—but at least you get to visit the stops! We could collaborate on some fancy if you want, but I just did the easy fix.

I haven't spent any time on the original server since pretty much when you were still playing just about. I got bored with it and started playing on the waterworld server, which we kept fully vanilla. I've built some really cool stuff there too, but much less of it since the whole thing is vanilla.

the invasion did break a few lines.... I have tried to fix them in vain periodically, but never enough time, or patients to do so 

Yeah, after further inspection an underwater ship totally smeared Wick's line going to the spawn ... fortunately that was relatively redundant since my Pumpkin Freeway can get you from A to B.  It looks like someone had done about 75% of a replacement tunnel.  I could have finished it off completely, but I decided to get it to about 90% and then just link them up with a walking path and add some "thematic" signs.  I would be tempted to add some more alien invasion decoration to the detour tunnel if I thought it would get literally any visitors

But that was the only rail line from Wick's hub that seemed to be damaged.  There is another one that dead-ends, but I'm pretty sure he just never finished it.  It's way too deep to have been hit by the aliens.  Pumpkin Freeway, Sea & Sky Road, Kojiiriin Expressway, and Wick's REALLY old line going to Stefl's area all still looked OK to me.  Are you sure there were other rail lines that the alien invasion damaged? 

P.S.  Speaking of damage and Stefl's old area, I saw some damage that looked sort of like a creeper explosion, only some fences were on fire.  Is it possible for Creepers to start fires, or what else could have done it?  Lightning, maybe?  It definitely can start fires per the wiki, but it doesn't cause craters.  Wiki sez "If an explosion has the ability, it randomly starts fires in ⅓ of all destroyed air blocks" but I don't see anything about what explosions have "the ability".  Could be creeper and then lightning I guess...

Any of you guys have a Switch? I picked up Minecraft on that last year, have done some decent rudimentary things there. Not that terribly far into it yet - very little along the lines of diamond has been discovered so far - but I have a promising base fort set up, at least.