Server Spotlight: MineZ Classic!

Hi guys!

Mario here with my review of MineZ, simply because I never did it.

In a nutshell, MineZ is a Minecraft version of the popular DayZ mod for ArmA II. You go around collecting weapons, food, potions, water, medical supplies and armor and eventually head towards the north of the map, where the epic loot is!

There are over 500,000 registered players to this server, and have 2 gamemodes; Classic and Last Man Standing.

In Classic, you spawn on the South Border of the map. There are about 2 different biomes you can spawn in: forest and desert. The forest is rather vast and you may have to walk a bit to find a town, depending where exactly you spawn. The desert is decently big, and consists of cacti, campsites, lighthouses and big Colosseum-type things. Around all the different buildings you can find chests. There will be more chests in a town than there will be in, say, a lighthouse, which only holds 1 chest. They can contain food, armor, medical supplies, weapons, arrows and bottles of liquids.

Here are a few key things you may find in Southern Chests:

• Water Bottles - These restore your Hydration Level, which is shown by your experience NUMBER (not the bar). The highest your Hydration can go is 20, and once it runs out you will begin to die of dehydration, so you must remember to drink
• Health Pots - These will heal 3-7 hearts, depending on the strength of the potion (some were whizzed from the Brewing Table, some were carefully prepared by Minecraftia mages).
• Apples, Melons and Rotten Flesh - Food can be found around in chests as well. As usual, you must eat. The server is on hard mode, so if you DO NOT EAT, YOU WILL DIE!!! I also believe Rotten Flesh has less chance to give you Hunger.
• Basic Armor - You can find Leather Armor in Southern Chests, which you can use to protect yourself or to repair damaged armor. There will also be occasional Chain Armor, but in the South it's quite rare.

As you progress to the North, there will become less water sources. People will want to kill you more as you may have some delicious food or some Water. However, the further north you go, the better loot you get. In the North, Iron Armor and Iron Swords will be available, some even enchanted! Bows and Arrows will be available more often, with more crafting supplies for bread and cookies. Wooden Hoes and Iron Shovels will be found, which can be used to break melon blocks, cobwebs, cacti and pumpkins!

Here's a question: are you a Medic? Do you not want to be out fighting, but instead healing other Zed-slayers? Well, there are lots of supplies a true Medic can collect:

• Paper (Bandage) - Paper can be used to heal teammates. You can toss them a bandage if they begin to bleed.
• Shears (Medi-tool) - The Shears allow you to heal and beef up teammates without having to give them supplies!
• Red Dye (Healing Ointment) - The Red Dye will increase the amount of health regenerated when healing.
• Lime Green Dye (Antibiotics) - The Lime Green Dye will remove any infection that you have received via fighting, eating etc.

However, most of the Medical supplies are rare, especially the healing ointment and antibiotics. Just in case you are bored of playing normal MineZ, I've created some classes with specific rules on what you're allowed to collect.

Warrior

• You may pick up swords and armor
• You may NOT pick up bows or arrows
• You may only have ONE Health Potion in your inventory at a time
• You may have up to TWO Snowballs in your inventory
• You may have as many bandages as you wish, but NO other Medical supplies allowed

Archer

• You may pick up bows and arrows
• You may ONLY pick up Wooden Swords
• You may have as many snowballs/ender pearls as you wish
• You may have as many bandages as you wish, but NO other Medical supplies allowed
• You may have up to THREE Health Potions in your inventory at a time

Defender

• You are allowed to collect Iron Shovels, Wooden Hoes, Ender Pearls and Snowballs and use them normally.
• You may NOT collect an Iron Sword, you may only have Wood or Stone
• You are allowed to collect bows and arrows, but NOT enchanted ones
• You may have as many Medical supplies/Health Potions as you wish
• You may collect any armor you wish

Mage

• You may only collect Wood Swords or any type of sword that is enchanted
• You may only collect enchanted Bows
• You may pick up Gunpowder and make Splash Potions
• You may have as many Health Pots, Medical supplies and Golden Apples as you wish

Medic

• You may collect as many Health Pots, Medical supplies and Golden Apples as you wish
• You may NOT collect Stone or Iron Swords, only Wooden
• You may ONLY collect Leather Armor, never Chain nor Iron
• You must use a Sugar/Ender Pearl/Snowball as soon as you see a zombie
• You may only eat Apples, Cookies, Melons and Golden Apples (you can drink any potion or water)

Hunter/Huntress

• You may collect any supplies, like normal, but there's a twist...
• As soon as you see a zombie, you must go towards it
• As soon as a Giant begins to attack you, you cannot flee at ANY POINT; you must fight

Well, just so you know, this server is still AWESOME! I only just started playing on it again and it is EPIC!

-Mariobros980

Obsidian Miner

Going To Try Draw All 4 Obsidian Miners!

NOTE: My computer still has some sort of headache, so it isn't performing very well. I will try to give it a rest over the next couple of days and use my laptop to post instead. If it feels any better tomorrow, I will likely be able to get all the characters done.

Hi guys!

Mario here with an update on some drawing I'm gonna try to do!

Now, if you didn't already know, I am a terrible drawer. Compared to my drawing, Justin Bieber is awesome. BUT, because I wanted to have my Minecraft character in a picture format, I wanted to try and draw all 4 Obsidian Miners. Here they are, in case you didn't know!

Mariobros980 (Me)



Crazydude676



2003kaloful



Hullcity24MC (his skin was custom made by me)



Don't ask why we all have emo hair, we just like the skins! I've had my skin for ages now, and I'm not planning to change it for a long time! Anyways, here's how I'll draw them:

• I will draw them in real life on a sheet of paper
• Thankfully, my printer has a scanner with it. I will scan the drawing into the computer.
• I will go over all the lines in solid black using Paint.NET, and then add colour
• I will save the pictures, and add all 4 of them to a blog background!

At the moment, here's what I have done:

- Mariobros980 : Finished drawing, need to scan it

- Crazydude676 : Finished drawing, need to scan it

- 2003kaloful : Not started yet (will start later 31st October or on 1st November)

- Hullcity24 : Not started yet (will start later 31st October or on 1st November)

I would provide screenies of my drawings, but I don't want to spoil it. If you want the program I use to draw characters, it's called a Pencil. It's quite fascinating really, made out of lead and something else! I scan my drawings into a computer.

-Mariobros980
Obsidian Miner

My Computer...

Hi guys!

Mario here just to let you know how much of a jerk my computer is being to me at the moment!

When I first got it, I got 3 computer crashes (and Blue Screens of Death). Now, when I come on, it takes about 5 full minutes to come on, and then it went REALLY slow (not in games, on everything). 

Today I got on successfully enough to post this, but just so you know; until I know what the problem is, my computer may be running slower and there may/may not be less maps provided in my series

I am working on the problem right now!

-Mariobros980
Obsidian Miner

Have a Chance to Be In My Skin Project!

Hi guys!

Mario here with a quick update on a new map I'm making alongside the Zombies/RFW maps!

So, I had the idea to build a ginormous Superflat map filled with player skins from everywhere: YouTube, the creators, myself, Crazy, friends and just awesome Minecrafters. So, I'm going to make a map and put as many skins in as possible. There'll be:

• Every row will have 20 players in it
• After 20 players, we place the Row Number at both ends of the row, then move onto the second row

To have a chance of being in this map, you can do lots of things:

• Donate to: MCInfected, MineZ or Battle for Conwy Castle
• Be online on one of the Top 25 servers on Minestatus
• Go on Project Ares, ItsJerryAndHarry's public server, BfCC, MCInfected, MineZ, MineZ LMS, SuperFunTime Survival Server.
• Make a project in Minecraft to do with another game

I will release 1.0.0 of the map once I build 30 rows of players (that's 600 players, I believe)!

-Mariobros980

Obsidian Miner

Server Spotlight: MineZ LMS!

Hi guys!

Mario here with the 2nd of a double Server Spotlight!

So, you may have heard of MineZ before. In case you haven't, MineZ is a Minecraft remake of the popular DayZ mod for ArmA II. In MineZ, you walk around a gargantuan map searching for the best supplies possible in order to fight the Zombie Giants in the Giantlands.

LMS stands for Last Man Standing, and is a brand-new gamemode for MineZ. In this gamemode, a max of 45 players go into one big map in which they have a "fight or flight" situation, in which they may fight with Wood Swords at the spawn to take other survivors' stuff, or quickly branch out to the towns in the map to seek better items.

As usual in MineZ, you have to drink in order to not die from dehydration. However, there's a twist; the only water source is in the centre of the map. That means players must keep collection water from the centre in order to keep hydrated. And don't think you can find water in chests either: the clever guys at MineZ made it so Water Bottles don't spawn in chests around the map.



This may sound like Hunger Games, but there's a difference; you wanna camp? Go play softcore Hunger Games! If you even TRY to camp your hydration level with decrease, so you will eventually die of dehydration via camping.

Eventually, the PvP will get very harsh, players who team fighting each other for the best loot. However, remember, if you kill someone, they become an undead corpse and you will have to kill the zombie before you can retrieve their loot! Chests still spawn random loot, PLUS the Hunger Games twist is still there; sometimes you'll lack a specific item, sometimes you won't find anything, and sometimes you'll get everything you dream of having in LMS.



As the game progresses, the match will go through 3 phases and a sort of 'Final Phase':

• Phase 1: Everything is normal
• Phase 2: Hydration level decreases faster
• Phase 3: Hydration level decreases really fast
• "Final Phase": Eventually, you lack hydration so much you are camping around spawn for water whilst fighting off other thirsty players.

One of the awesome things about MineZ is that they have LOADS of perks for players to buy. I think I'm correct in saying you can only equip one perk per tier at a time, and here's all the current tiers/perks:

Tier 1

• Kamikaze - Drop TNT on death
• Second Wind - Respawn with 1 heart and Slowness after death
• Grenadier - Spawn with 1 grenade at start of game
• Well Equipped - Spawn with a Chainmail Chestplate at start of game
• Zed Hunter - 50% more melee/bow damage to zombies
• Scavenger - Spawn with 2 wheat and 1 cocoa beans at start of game

Tier 2

• Runner - Spawn with Speed at start of game
• Fletcher - Spawn with Arrows at start of game
• Alchemist - Spawn with a Health Potion at start of game
• Blacksmith - Weapon durability is doubled
• Mr White - Spawn with 2 sugar at start of game
• Arrow to the Knee - 5% chance to inflict Slowness with a Bow

Tier 3

• Demoralizer - 5% chance to give a player Weakness on hit
• Necromancer - Snowballs spawn zombies on hit
• Killstreak - Gain 2 hearts after killing a player
• Adrenaline Junky - Inflict more damage to players/zombies per nearby zombies
• Carpenter - Spawn with a Bow at start of game
• Hulk - Spawn with 2 glowstone at start of game

That's just about it, now for the IP's:

LMS-US1.minez.net

You can replace US1 with anything up to US26!!!

-Mariobros980

Obsidian Miner

Server Spotlight: Project Ares!

Hi guys!

Mario here with a PvPer's dream server!

This server is called Project Ares (in case you don't know about Ancient Greece, Ares was the god of war). The idea of this server is that it will give you a ton of new PvP gamemodes for FREE! Here are ALL the maps on the server:

Airship Battle by dewtroid
Avalon Funland by 911chandler and Nadastorm
Battle of Tenjin by SajinZero
Blocks DTC by pepsidawg00
Cake Wars by Thungon and bigbangbrother02
Fairytales 2: A Tale or Two by D347HxD
Fortress Battles by Torn_Ares, Thungon and bigbangbrother02
Glacial Impact by IM_A_H0B0 and bleangamer
Golden Drought by Reshif
Harb by Plastix and SH4D0W_HAWK
Hot Dam by Nadastorm
Medieval Warfare by Daffy_Duck01
Paradise Isles by xxjkr7xx
Race for Victory by Plastix, MonsieurApple and Anxuiz
Race for Victory 2 by Plastix, MonsieurApple, Anxuiz and IM_A_H0B0
Race for Victory 3 by Plastix, MonsieurApple, Anxuiz and IM_A_H0B0
Sand Wars by Anxuiz
Scrap Mettle by KasiCrafter
Shroom Trip by Omnigarde
Spaceship Battles by Oversoul96
Spaceship Battles II by Oversoul96 and Eclipsen
Tree of Life by Stealth5061

Just a bunch of maps, you're thinking? NO!!!!!! These maps are absolutely huge with a lot of variety and awesomeness. Some people liked making these maps so much, they made sequels to their maps (Race for Victory and Spaceship Battles).

And, you may also be thinking, is this just PvP? Again, NO!!!!!! There's loads of gamemodes for each map. Here's a couple:

• Core: The aim of a Core game is to leak lava from the opposing team's Obsidian core. The more popular maps with this gamemode normally require you to build a bridge across to the opponent's side, but you get a Bow and Arrows...so it's hard! You will normally get a Diamond Pickaxe so you can break the Obsidian.
• Team Deathmatch: In TDM, you will normally spawn with a kit you constantly keep on getting after dying. The aim is to get your team to kill the most people on the opponent's team. The average score for a team is 200-250 kills per round. You normally get around 10 or 15 minutes to play, so kill as many people as you can (not in real life though).
• Capture the Wool: This is a smaller version of Vechs' Capture the Monument maps. The aim is to take wool from the enemies' base and put it on your monuments at spawn. On this version, you can either spawn with a kit OR have chests with items.
• Destroy the Monument: The aim of this is to destory 75% of the enemies' monument, which is hidden around the map somewhere. These maps normally give you items in chests, but can quite often use kits.

In some maps, there will be iron, gold and diamond blocks with which you can mine and create armor with. Now, before I say any more, a message to all the NOOBS out there that mine 10,000 BLOCKS!!1! Mine --->3 BLOCKS<--- and that many only! That's 27 of whatever ingot/gem block you mined. Mining 1000 DIAMONDS/IRON/GOLD IS GOING TO WASTE SUPPLIES FOR YOUR TEAM!!! And if you can't team, delete ALL your PvP servers and go play Singleplayer, where you don't have to team, BECAUSE YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!!!

There can be wheat, melon and pumpkin farms on some maps, which you can get your own food from. There are only 2 or 3 maps which spawn mobs via Monster Spawners, one being to Battle of Lyndanisse. On one map, Ozone, players spawn with Speed II and Jump Boost effects. They also get an Iron Sword with Knockback I, a Bow which fires Ender Pearls (I prefer to call it the Bow of Teleporting Freakiness), 3 Golden Apples and 32 Cooked Fish. The aim of Ozone is TDM, but the real goal is to rack up the most Golden Apples (my record is 43).

IPs:

alpha.oc.tc

beta.oc.tc

gamma.oc.tc

delta.oc.tc

epsilon.oc.tc

zeta.oc.tc

eta.oc.tc

theta.oc.tc

iota.oc.tc

kappa.oc.tc

lambda.oc.tc

-Mariobros980

Obsidian Miner

Working on My MinecraftForum Post!

Hi guys!

Mario here with an update on my PvP Collection!

So, if you didn't already know, I'm starting a PvP/PvE Collection! This is basically where I am trying to create brand new PvP gamemodes for people to play! Here's the 2 that I've got so far

Race for Wool
This isn't new, but Race for Wool is a gamemode where you have to collect three pieces of wool. First team to place them on the monument wins (the monument can be hidden in many different places...)

Zombies
Zombies is a gamemode which up to 5 players can play: 4 Humans, and 1 Zombie Bringer. The human(s) will be a range of 4 different classes (these can vary between maps) They will have to fight 20 waves of zombies in different locations in order to succeed. The Zombie Bringer has to send the waves out and then fight the players themselves. The Zombie Bringer will get Protection X Armor and Zombie Head, a Diamond Sword with Sharpness IV and Fire Aspect I and a Bow with Power II. There will sometimes be different mob bosses...

This is all, but:

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE MINECRAFT FORUM PAGE!!!

-Mariobros980
Obsidian Miner