Kingdom of Oblivion - Bastion's First Official Kingdom

Paragon, Capital of the Kingdom of Oblivion;
Mayor - EldryLars

Since the dawn of time, Herocraft has known no peace in the waters of war and treason.

Darkness creeps around every corner, corruption at every gate, and suffering at every doorstep. Enemies hold grudges as new rivalries and alliances are forged; evil finds a new chance to be the cause of another region's downfall. Realms of power have collapsed, as with their respected leaders, leaving the people of Herocraft fearful of whom the next target will be.

Hope seems forsaken...

The wheel of power is forever turning in the lands of Bastion; but alas, true power has emerged victorious among the abandoned ruins of our fallen brethren. A light has finally been sent down from the heavens to shine on Bastion, and that light's name is Oblivion.

Under the watchful eye of their leader, Leftovers5, the Legion of Oblivion is now an official Kingdom on the server; the first Kingdom to make it this far in a very long time.

The left and right hands of the Kingdom, Jonsoon and Eldrylars, share power with the king as they now look over their Capital (Paragon) and 4 additional towns; Verstad, Braavos, Rapture, and Reign.

Now recognized as the most powerful Kingdom on the server, it seems the winds of alliances and rivalries may be shifting as those who are not too pleased about this change in power take aim at it's downfall.


For any information about recruitment or touring of the new Kingdom, please visit their Kingdom Thread.

A big shout out goes out to Leftovers5, Jonsoon, Eldrylars, Aryios, Nicolaos, Northeaster345, and all of the other Legion of Oblivion members who have helped push for the success of the Kingdom to make it this far!


Here are some breathtaking snapshots of the other 3 official towns in the Kingdom, courtesy of Jonsoon:

Braavos; Mayor - Jonsoon

Verstad; Mayor - Leftovers5

Rapture; Mayor - Jmandudeguy

Attention All Heroes!

Experience Boosts are currently pumped up at 100%, granting double experience, thanks to iGavinnn!

Get in on this lovely treat while it's hot!

For those who may be interested in purchasing experience boosts from our store, be sure to check out the Heroes Tab on our Store. Boosts percentages vary and all boosts last for 15 hours.

Laggy Frames and Leaking Dungeons

As of February 23rd (Saturday), all item frames on all maps for the server will be wiped.

As discovered by Kainzo, and announced Monday night, Item Frames have been the culprit behind much of the lag on the server; specifically Item Frames with Maps in them.

The discovery was made after Kainzo temporarily shut down the server to use VisualVM. During the testing, he found 6 Item Frames with Maps, placed by Aerokii, that were close together. When Kainzo had the Item Frames broken, the TPS for the server shot up from 7 to 20 almost instantly. 

Upon making this discovery, Kainzo posted; 

"Until we can 1) Fix this or 2) Restrict properly, All item frames will be blocked from placement - except for admins."

Full details for this announcement can be found here.


Now then... It's time for a very important announcement (one that I'm sure nearly everyone has been waiting for)! Take a close look at the two photos below...

Server Repair - Coming Soon!

There have been some issues going on with the server freezing randomly with no obvious reasons as to why it's doing this. 

Kainzo is aware of the situation and is doing all that he can to fix this issue as quickly as possible. 

After much research and a few attempts at fixing this, we believe the problem may be with the Motherboard and that we unfortunately got some bad hardware to run the server on. 

These are the current plans Kainzo has to fix the problem: 

1. Transition to a Dedicated Server via a respectable host ($200-$400 a month)
2. Order new parts (Motherboard, RAM and SSD's) to repair the problem
3. Get Collocated Box back 
4. Repair machine, replace RAM and Motherboard, add in SSD's
5. Test the machine for several weeks as the official test server (in hopes of no more crashes)
6. Send machine to new collocation host with DDOS protection
7. Remove dedicated server and resume hosting from collocated box.

There is a possibility that this may not fix the problem but it's the most likely cause for the issues the server has been having. Please be patient with these bugs as this fix will not happen overnight nor will this be a cheap and easy fix.

 

For more information about this issue, please feel free to visit the Server Repair thread, posted by Kainzo.

Herocraft is a non-profit server that relies on supporters and contributors to stay alive. If you would like to help support Herocraft, please visit our Store or our Contributor's Page. 

Roll Out The Red Carpet...

And welcome back our most beloved Admin, Brutalacerate!

He announced late last night, on Herocraft's Facebook Page, that he's back on the server and will resume his shenanigans for all to enjoy. Let's hope this means the Dome of Death will be back for our Heroes to enjoy as Brutal is most famous for his epic DoD Events.

For those who don't know, a Dome of Death is an event, hosted by an Admin, Kainzo, or Apherdite, that usually lasts for 2 to 3 hours and gets it's name from the area being a region-ed dome, usually made of Bedrock or Glass.

In the center of that dome, the host of the event spawns monsters on all of the players, sometimes in the hundreds. It is then up to the players to party up and defend the server against these wicked and savage mobs until the last wave.

Food, tools, reagents, and even armor is occasionally dropped to help keep these Heroes fighting til the end.

Once the event is over, rewards are distributed out to all of the players who participated in the event and additional items are handed out randomly. Then, after a few more minutes, PVP is turned on and the remaining players can battle it out in hopes of getting even more rewards from fallen players.

Speaking of Events...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope your day is full of hearts, gifts, diamonds, and gold (and hopefully creeper free)!

This Valentine's Day, why not gift your loved ones something special? We have everything from Bonus Experience to Titles to even cute little kitties and pets that you can easily gift to another player at our store. We also now have our new Backpack feature in our store that you can buy for yourself or for another!

Looking to really stand out?

You can even buy Tiers for other players or donate money to them getting their next Tier! Just check out the donations page on the forums and it'll explain how to properly donate to the server.

For those of you interested in the recent updates and progress for our live patches, feel free to check out our Developer's Notes in our Patches Forums and don't forget to vote at our 7th voting link.

Also, all of our maps (both current and past) are now live! You can find those here.



Stay tuned for some more updates on what's going on around the server!