Sonic and I are reviving his old Vizzed server blog because this week we learned that the more people there are on the server, the more productive it is. So we wanted to share all the projects and adventures that we've begun and give y'all a place to share your server stories, experiences, and builds.


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Sunday was my 1st day back on the server in years so I kicked it off with 4 days of non stop building and projects. Day one featured a complete overhaul of the train line that goes from the bridge south of IB's island all the way to Eden, which is a place you really need to visit. The train used to be underground but now it's entirely above ground and 100% open in both directions. I do plan on adding wooden legs under the tracks in the future to make it look more realistic.

Sonic and I also spent a lot of time working on the new Vizzed Ville island. Because there were no plots or roads yet for most of the island, we had to figure out where the center was and where each road needed to be by using math.

On Day 2, I extended the Eden tracks from where the original tracks ended all the way down to the base of the VV bridge. Originally the station was 50-80 blocks from the base of the bridge but having the station right at the bridge was a lot easier. The new section of tracks was built underground but with no ceiling as well as a glass bridge to cross over.

On Day 3 I destroyed the station that I just built on Day 2 because of a plan that I had. I decided to create my own city so just on the other side of the tracks, I laid down the foundation for where streets and houses would go and I estimated that there would be close to 300 plots. I did this because I love building towers and wanted to build another one, but I couldn't really find a great place to build it, so starting a whole city was the next best option.

The reason I destroyed the station was so that I could rebuild it with an extra pair of tracks that go straight into the city. I built it so that the two incoming tracks would feed into one track and then stop at the station. Then I built a central switch so that the track can branch off into two outgoing tracks. I also renamed the station to McArthur Terminal.

Day 4 was probably the biggest of them all. For starters I finished the layout of the city streets and had them filled in with concrete and I had the entire train tunnel going to the city dug out. But the big project for day 4 was the maze. I was cutting down trees so that a street could go through and I had the idea to create a maze out of oak leaves. I worked on it for about an hour and by the end of the day, Sonic, Pokemon X, and I spent around 4 hours total completely finishing the massive maze that takes up more than 20,000 blocks not including height.

https://flic.kr/p/2mgMPgu

Since zander started the thread I'll give my perspective on how things have been the past few days on the server but like zander said things are picking up so if you have Minecraft why not join in?

Seeing zander back on the server I felt it was only right to get on and welcome him back I try to be on when an old member returns make sure they feel welcomed back and such, throughout that first day playing looking at different things that needed done an idea hit my head Pokemon x offered to help out the server so I approached him with something that needed done... the shop! I'm glad I did he's been extremely helpful the past few days he even made the greatest discovery of any mc admin this decade but I'll get to that later. I've recently had several people that I wouldn't mind seeing as admins on the server but the issue is the team is already pretty big and I don't wanna go past 7 members on it so I could only really hire 1 person right now but that's something for me to figure out.

Working on the maze is some of the most fun I've had working on a project in quite a while I really got to bring out evil mini game maker me and show off some of the evil things I could think up which was a blast I kept getting lost while working on it which makes me think it should be a challenge for any player who dares to enter it!

Something else I've been up to is looking for a house me and Fyredove built right before the server went down a few years ago it was really nice and we'd both like to see it again I had almost given up hope until yesterday I found out something that renewed my hope! I found a house 1 million blocks out that wasn't on the map and was made since the servers revival which means the house really could still be out there and just not show on the map which means it could be like anywhere but there's still hope.

Now to cover the greatest news of all I was telling Pokemon x about how commands block don't work for mvtp anymore or tp to another world basically and how much I hated portals and he stood there messing with command blocks for about 5 minutes and somehow someway he figured out how to make command blocks work to teleport to other worlds I popped off so hard knowing I wasn't stuck using portals anymore probably the most exciting thing that's happened on the server in at least a year for me. Afterwards we spent about an hour getting rid of portals and making command blocks work which I didn't mind the time investment at all I'm still just so happy command blocks work for that again.

One thing that SonicOlmstead: neglected to mention about the command block teleports they are still a work in progress since they need a bit more workaround to function correctly.
So when they do come back up and working please do not stay exactly where you spawned at or else it messes up some things...

Otherwise, all the other command blocks should be working fine as long as you and another player aren't too close together.

Today Sonic told me that my internet is bad. But other than that, the last two days have been pretty epic. For starters, in a matter of just 5 minutes, 8 people were on the server earlier today, which included people who weren't even members and it was the busiest that I've seen the server in a long time.

I also got to work on a couple more big projects for my city. Originally I had this idea for a multi line subway system that connected Vizzed Ville South, Eden, my city, and my maze. On Thursday night I scrapped that idea and began drawing up the blueprints for something more creative that I think also looks much better. Then on Friday I spent about five hours working on it with help from cdymrtn.

I basically took one street from my city and around 9 blocks on each side ans began work on a highway that cuts straight through the city to the maze. The highway itself is pretty wide because there's two lanes going in each direction and there's three blocks in the middle that carry the minecart tracks.

There are two details that I'm really excited about this build. The first is that it operates like a real highway in the sense that it skips over many streets so that it's a more direct path with many streets ending before they reach the highway. The second is that I added lampposts to both the tracks and the highway itself to give it a more realistic feel.

Still trying to add a few more finishing touches to the highway to make it as best as it can be. Also added quartz blocks to each regular street so they would look like sidewalks.

We also messed around with some mob farms and died a lot.

The past few days have been interesting I've not been on as many hours as I have been but I still got some stuff done yesterday I spent pretty much my entire time online going to the nether to finish upgrading my diamond gear to netherite which I was able to get all but my sword upgraded and hopefully sometime in the next week I'll finish that quest of mine.

While I wasn't on as much that doesn't mean my watchful eye was away from the server I many times had to stop what I was doing to help a user get unstuck from a situation whether it be zander's bad internet or scar getting trapped in creative which is my oversight.

Today I got on a lot later than usual but everyone seemed super excited to see me it was a really warm welcome I feel like I was gone way longer than a day and half but I appreciated it non the less always just makes you happy to be playing. Which wasn't even the best part cause as zander stated we had 7 players on at once and 8 players on within 5 minutes which I'm almost certain is the most that have been on at once since the maze competition over a year ago!

Another interesting thing I feel like mentioning is one of the new users started saying all hail sonic while crouching I'm really unsure what I did to receive such high praise but I'll take it. xD

My stuff is really not as interesting as others but nonetheless, I have made a command that allows you to gain 200mViz every 5 minutes with the approval of SonicOlmStead.

So congrats free mViz just have to play to actually gain it since it requires being on the server to get it.

Regardless I have started working on a command list for trying to quickly add stuff to the shop hopefully it will be done soon. If I have the time to it might be done this week.

Man things have been happening to fast lately I'm really struggling to remember everything I wanna bring up.

Let's see with pokemon x's help I've gotten Dn1 and Dn2 working so you can all once again play the server's most famous game!

Me and Furret spent Mrfe's birthday on the server by replaying Dn1&2 cause it felt only right and I needed someone to help me test that it was working properly and after we got done with that he took me a level I'm not sure if I'm fully allowed to talk about but man I suck at parkour all of a sudden I must of played it for 5 hours and still not beaten it which is now burning me up I gotta beat it.

Today I gave Greenerous nether access via nether portals and I put my plan into action and made Greenerous the current survival world again and that orange name just fits it so much better than the yellow. However my real goal today was to break 100 hours on this month and I did it I have spent 100 hours in a single month on the server again after 5 years where back in 2016 I was on 100 hours almost every month but all this time later I've finally done it again and it makes me wanna push to have the most ontime of anyone but the real winners here is everyone who's been on the server lately without everyone I would of never had the motivation to be on so much I hope we continue this positive trend and as the head admin I thank everyone who's been on.

I just had one of the greatest gaming moments of my life. Me and The boys spent like an hour getting ready to go to the End after Sonic fixed it and then it took us like 20 minutes getting there and once we get through the portal, lag made me walk off the edge of the platform and into the void. All my stuff gone. Apparently that doesn't stop me because I went on to punch the dragon to death from nearly full health with no inventory or armor.

That also happened to be the first time that I fully and legitimately beat the game and I couldn't stop laughing the whole time.

I've been getting a lot done on the server the past few days to the point I got to talk about it before I forget. On the 20th I figured out how to give players access to /sethome giving them 3 homes to play with in worlds that I thought made sense and later in the day when there was 7 players on I opened GreenerousEnd and fqur arrived first and claimed the world's Dragon Egg to herself which is a huge accomplishment of course after all I was the only player before this end to own a dragon egg from survival and that was 5 years ago.

Yesterday I didn't accomplish much work wise but playing wise I went on one amazing adventure so while I was on just doing whatever fqur logged on so I went to hang out with her at her house and eventually she mentioned how she wanted the music disc Pigstep from the nether and I said I wouldn't mind going to get it so we embarked on our quest to get the disc and I was not prepared for the kind of epic journey we were about to embark on. We ended up spending around 4-5 hours in the nether on a journey and it really didn't even need to take that long but we could not find any bastions for the longest time. So many things happened on our journey I'm not sure I remember all of it but let's see the first bastion we ended up in we were fighting piglin brutes who I don't think I ever thought when me and my cousin explored the nether because I was unaware just how terrifying they truly are I saw the first one hit me and do like a heart and a half and I was like well that's not so bad and then all of a sudden 3 of them are on me hitting me and I glance down and see I'm at 4 hearts so I had to run from them to try and regain some health. In the process of regaining help fqur died which I felt responsible for but after helping her recover her stuff we carried on stealthily taking down every enemy in the bastion only for there to be no Pigstep. Afterwards we found another Bastion nearby but once again there was no Pigstep so we had to continue traversing the nether which at one point we had to bridge over lava and so we are carefully doing it no big deal we only did it 15000 times yesterday when an enderman who fqur wasn't even close to looking at cause she's crouching building a safe way across hits her and Idk how she didn't get knocked in the lava or get so startled that she fell in but she survived. Following that I said I would finish the bridge so I was building whatever and I hotkey to my pickaxe and it turns on the narrator!?! I was so startled I almost jumped into lava but barely stayed on the small bridge. After a few more bastions and us somehow going in a circle we decided to return to the overworld and travel a bit in hopes to reach a new area of the nether so we did just that after all I wasn't going to fail to help my twin get her music disc! Upon returning to the nether our bastion luck didn't really get any better so we repeatedly built across the ocean of lava eventually I almost got us killed again in a bastion but we both managed to escape the piglin brutes and recover. I wanna say after that one we had to keep traveling for quite a while before we saw another one but the last one we found sure was intimidating fqur's render wasn't long enough to see it but it was a bastion floating in lava no blocks surrounding it you could see how massive it was just sitting there in lava and since fqur couldn't see it I had to build towards it. So while I built towards it fqur was getting bombarded by skeletons and ghasts and they kept almost killing her and she was out of arrows she had to try to hide in a crater the ghast had created dodging blasts and arrows eventually we were able to enter our final bastion and low and behold we actually found Pigstep! Afterwards we made a daring escape from the bastion and used /home to safely rest and enjoy the bopping song Pigstep.

Right now I'm working on building a brand new train station to Eden and McArthur City/Maze. Right now there's just one small station at the base of IB's island bridge with one track under ground level that can go to either Eden or the city.

But if you were to visit now, you'd see that I started constructing the floor plan for an actual train station building. The plan is that there's going to be three different platforms throughout the station. There will be the current one that has the track to Eden/City. But there will be another underground platform and a platform on the 2nd floor.

This will allow for two more sets of tracks that could potentially be expanded to four in case I ever wanted to build more train lines to different parts of VV.

I forgot this was a thread oh well, I've been working the past day on pushing myself to get the new spawn done I've written descriptions for almost all the different areas and places you can teleport so I'm about to have to start implementing command blocks for teleports to all the different worlds which mostly will just be copying the old ones but there are new locations as well so that might make it take longer than I'm expecting. I've also had a new idea on how to handle teleporting to Greenerous since it will be the featured survival world from now on I was thinking of having the tp from it lead to a room where you could choose which part of the world you wish to go to either being the old 1.8 spawn or the new 1.18 spawn! I don't know when exactly I'll have this all done I wanted it done before the server updated to 1.18 but then I lost access to a PC for a while so I missed that deadline.