We've greeted the new year in quite a big way this week; Survival update 4.2.1 went live today. Here are just a few of the changes you should take note of:

- Disabled countries
- Added more player information logging.
- Jukeboxes, brewing tables, dispensers, and redstone repeaters, are now protected in private realms due to popular demand.
- Spawn City is now the default spawn for all new players.
- Flint and steel is now only usable in realms owned by the user.
- Updated /online to show more specific information regarding when a player was last online.
- Made it so administrators can force-add themselves to realms they do not own.
- Added the /event command

Now these are some of the technical additions, but you should know that we've a bigger announcement to share: Lm108, a long time member of the staff, has been promoted to Head Administrator. Although Intelli is still owner and overseer of all things code, Lm will be the new face of MineRealm. Let's all welcome him and wish him good luck!

Also, the staff members of MineRealm have noticed a sever lack of updates for News Blog, and we plan to remedy this. Expect more from us in the coming weeks.

Lastly, here are the MineRealm 2012 Lottery results:

First place:
User: philwues
Prize: 730,000 credits

Second place:
User: sysico123
Prize: 136,875 credits

Third place:
User: Suikadesu
Prize: 45,625



Weekly Discussion Question:
"What are your New Years Resolutions?"

My new years resolution is to study Japanese Everyday for 2-3 Hours. x.x; It's gonna be painful.

Good luck in your promotion LM, I'm sure you will keep it awesome. Sounds like some good stuff will be coming our way.

P.S. Sadly disappointed I lost lottery

Edit: Almost forgot, I refuse to make any New Years resolutions do to the fact I never keep them hah.

Congrats to LM! and to Intelli too I imagine it's good to share some of the load and be able to focus on what you clearly love to do...code cool stuff for the server!

Thanks to all of the staff for the great job you do to keep it fun!

New Year's Resolutions..I don't make grand resolutions anymore. It's all just about being the happiest I can be, doing things I enjoy, and spending time with family and friends. I'm kinda crunchy so I'll just say Peace and Love to all

Congratulations to LM!

Not sure I like the all new players spawning at spawn city thing...

RIP countries though I'm sure they'll be back...

Gratz LM.

Congratulations on the promotion Lm108!

Speaking on behalf of everyone who does own a country, will they recieve a refund for the removal of countries?

Fortunately for us.

Congratulations LM. Awesome that someone from my own province is head admin. I'm sure you'll do great at it, too.

My resolution: Spend less time on playing Minecraft, and focus more on some books I've been meaning to read, and drawing.