A guide to Serenity v.3.1.8.x.0.0 and the whitelist

Welcome friends and new comers to a new Serenity map! Whats that? You can't get on? Ohh, there is a whitelist! Lets talk about that.

Back when 1.8 came out, a decision was made to start a new map to solve some of the underlying issues we were having on the old map that simply could not be fixed in any other efficient way (such as map size, spawn size/location, ect.) We knew it would take a while for bukkit to come out, but people really wanted to build on a new server with all the new items, so a decision was made to go ahead and start the new map up with people from the server building spawn and surrounding area in a hope that we could have both; more ideas shown and the spawn area built faster.

There was a big problem though. Bukkit got DMCA'd and lost a large amount of their staff. As far as what this means to us? Well the long and the short of it is that we don't have (almost) any protections at all. This means that we HAVE TO be extra careful of who we let on to the server until we have full serenity systems up and running. So the whitelist has stayed active.

If you do wish to come onto the server and help build spawn, please let me or another admin know on the Facebook group or as a reply to this message. If you want onto the server to hang out with your friends/look at progress so far, I'm sorry but we need to keep the whitelist as small as we can to ensure the chances of something going wrong are minimized/ if something does go wrong that we can deal with it efficiently. Don't be too sad though, starting today I'm going to post photos on the Facebook group and the forums so that everyone can see whats being done.