It's quick to learn the basics, long to master. That shouldn't be a gripe, though. I've been able to sink probably about four-hundred+ hours of gameplay into this game after all's said and done and I'm still finding ways to do neat, new things.

I advise logging in to a singleplayer game and shooting for a few achievements to get yourself acclimated to the way the game works, then joining a server after you get used to it.

like tone said it can be a bit over whelming in shear size and amount, but the basics are pretty easy. for a general over view in a humors tone see http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

on server news front world edit has been updated to current build still buggy but better.

edit .... also it can be quite a time sink, thankfully its only one payment unless you get so into it you build/host your own server in a never ending series of upgrades 

also for a vote multiple nether's with one per world or just one nether..

and does any one use cenotaph outside of me, i like the plugin but we may cut it if im the only one that does

Is that when you die, you leave behind the RIP sign and chest?

It's pretty helpful.

yep thats  what it does

The cenotaph is really useful. It can be a real pain in the behind to collect all your stuff sometimes, especially when all your items fall into a hole...And the quickloot feature is pretty neat.

updated to 1.2.4 so update your MC

Ugh no flying yet

QQ

Tanzanite/Zombe has been away from the Internet for a few days and didn't know there was a MC update. As of 7:18AM this morning (nearly two hours ago), he is working on the update. I expect it'll be out later today.

sorry about the unexpected down time there.... thought my psu had died... but the UPS and crashed & hung, took a bit to figure out how to get the battery out so i could reboot it...

Hopefully the mod can be updated soon. I've been kind of busy recently anyway, but it'd be nice to continue onwards and upwards with the tower.