Hello @Dogcraft !

⛵ The Connected Seas Coalition is hosting Port Openings and an Award Ceremony for the ports built for the Connected Seas Competition!

📆 Join us this Saturday on the 9th where we will be opening 14 Ports!

First, we will hold Openings on:
• Sheltie (Port Bow Tie, Rusty Port, and Archi-Paw-Lago Port)
• Retriever (Pirate Isle, Rocky Bay Port, Black Market Port, Ameboo Port, Broken Tower Guild Port, Tattington Port, Port of Skellonia, Calafort Mór Harbor, Snowdon Port, Cresent Isle Port, and HQ Port)

🎉 After that is the Awards Ceremony, which will be hosted by XPModder, featuring judges _Cambo, FrauPokorny ItsDaCreeper, Montenator, and viBEEng.

Join us in the main discord in the General VC. We hope to see you there!

⏰ Times:
Sheltie Openings: Meet at the Spawn Port at Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM (east of spawn next to Grand Central Station)
Retriever Openings: Meet at the Spawn Port at Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM (/phome Montenator.CSC-Spawn-Port-R)
Award Ceremony: Meet at the Retriever Spawn Port at Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM (/phome Montenator.CSC-Spawn-Port-R)

@everyone
⚠️ Cyberdogs ⚠️ it's official: we’ve successfully bypassed the AT&T gateway so it's now ATT fiber directly into our main router! Network performance and reliability are now at a solid 9001% improvement. Expect smoother connections, faster pings, and a much better experience overall. Let us know if it's better for you!

Hey @Dogcraft

Its time to make the City of Tattington look all shiny and magical ready for the New Year! That's why we are pleased to announce the Official Tattington Building Competition!!


Signups: 🗒️
You can sign up for the competition here:
https://dogcraft.net/forms/tattington-build-comp

Rules: ✅
You can find the rules for the competition here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8lqtFK55Jfw2cyLcURyBk6oIWqM8djAuxsO5e3DSk4/edit?tab=t.0

🏆 🏆Prizes🏆 🏆

🥇 A special Custom Banner design, a shulker box of Custom Tom's Tatties, and a Tattington themed goodie box! (1 Netherite ingot guaranteed!)

🥈 A special Custom Banner design, a shulker box of Official Tom's Tatties, and a Tattington themed goodie box! (32 Diamonds guaranteed!)

🥉 A special Custom Banner design, a shulkerbox of Official Tom's Tatties, and a Tattington themed goodie box! (32 Gold blocks guaranteed!)

🏘️ Where will you be building?🏘️
Builders will be spread across two wonderful locations in the city: the waterfront area home to the stunning Tattington Central Station and the New Years District home to the Palace of Tattington and several amazing community builds!

🗓️ Important Dates🗓️

• 9th November: Sign ups open.
• 18th - 20th November: Plot assignments handed out.
• 20th November: Building begins
• 20th December: Building ends

🥅 Score!! We've got a massive feature from the latest sports game on the server, as well as a silly commercial announcement! 🐟

Don't miss out on the fun! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/0lOViYgx5X4

❤️ @Dogcraft

@Dogcraft

Our special spooky spectacular is sss - no I can't think of another s sound.

🦇 🎃 🦇 IT'S OPEN!!! 🦇 🎃 🦇

Our dastardly daring DCT terrors have been busy busting ghosts and preparing to give you the fright of your life magical halloween experience you always wanted.


⚠️ Warning: Small danger of death ⚠️
kfr hasn't died yet - so its probably fine

/phome kfr4014.Halloween2024


This Ring-A-Ding-Ping Brought to you by: Frankenstein's Body Building Gym - limbs not included in your subscription!!

@Dogcraft

Booooo!

Oh sorry, did I scare you? My apologies ;)

But have you heard the latest rumours? Our exciting event is just around the corner!
Get ready because the SPOooOoKY season is upon us!

We've set up an event area for you, which will open in just a few days!

• Ring some doorbells and go trick or treating!
• Get lost in one of our mazes (Oh I'm sorry, Dora the Explorer can't pick up the phone right now..)
• And more, but why would I spoil that?

In the meantime...
This week we noticed that a lot of players are dressed up in their Halloween costume.
We love the creativity, so we decided to make a collection!
Go to the form below and share a screenshot of your costume. Much appreciated!

https://dogcraft.net/forms/halloween-costume-showdown


That’s all for now, but this isn't the last you'll hear from me!
Muhahahahaha...

• Tiger and kfr wish you a frightfully fun time!

@Dogcraft

Summer Build Battle - Results!

It has taken a bit longer than we care to admit, but the summer build competition has been judged and the results are in!

As a reminder, first place will receive 10 mini-blocks of their choosing plus a custom map art for the summer event. Second place will receive 5 mini-block of their choosing and third will receive 2 mini-block of their choosing.

Enough stalling already DCT, who won!?

• In 3nd... we have Uncle_Rob
• In 2rd.... we have 1karekid1 and _FRAS3R_
• A big congratulations to our winner.... Elasmotherium1

Congratulations to all of our top placers! Please contact TigerNL or kfr4014 to arrange the picking of your mini-blocks!


We would also like to remind you to collect your head hunt prices at /phome TigerNL.DCT-HQ if you haven't yet!

@Dogcraft There will be a few restarts through out the day today. some will be all servers but most will be isolated to one or 2 servers at a time. edit for @tigernl ❤️

Greetings Cyberdogs!
@Dogcraft

We come to you with a request!

We would like to know what you think about the Dogcraft Mall, Shops, and the economy! We have put together two surveys, one for those who own a mall plot/shop and one for those who don’t. We hope you will participate and help us better understand how the community as a whole thinks so we can make future seasons better! 💰


🛍️ If you own a mall plot/shop, please use this link:
https://forms.gle/hjRaAB8nj7ga3JXv9

🚫 If you do NOT own a mall plot/shop, please us this link:
https://forms.gle/UVoxgxB8yknN66SU9


This ring-a-ding-ping brought to you by the Dogcraft Mall Cops, you'll find our Segways parked, while we take a nap!💤

⚡ Whoah!! Our hosts met with some amazing people to check out their cool new builds! It's a CDNN double feature! 🎯

Don't miss out on a single frame! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/0Cz0MLMJrow

❤️ @Dogcraft

Hey Cyberdogs! We will be doing a watch party for Minecraft Live in Livestreaming VC at the following time! Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM Feel free to pop in to talk and react or just chill!

https://discord.gg/rendog?event=1289294971496824915

🛠️ Phase 1 Datacenter Maintenance [ COMPLETE ✅ ] All Systems Nominal

Phase 2 Datacenter Maintenance
We will start phase 2, however we do not think it will take as long as phase 1 did. Perhaps only 2-3hrs.

🕒 Maintenance Start: September 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
@everyone

🛠️ Phase 1 Datacenter Maintenance – Hold Onto Your Redstone!

Greetings Cyberdogs! 🐾

Just a heads-up that today at 3PM CST, we'll be embarking on the thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime adventure known as Phase 1 Datacenter Maintenance! 😎 What does that mean? Well, we’ll be doing all the glorious techy stuff: upgrading firmware on the routers and switches, boosting our backhaul trunks, and the pièce de résistance—rewiring cables and vacuuming like our lives depend on it. Truly, IT glamour at its finest! 💻✨

During this heroic quest, ALL of Dogcraft will be down for a few hours. Yes, we know—it’s tragic 😢, but also kind of exciting, right? (No? Just us? 😅).

I’ll do my best to keep the temp server 🖥️ running, but be warned—it too may take an unplanned nap 💤 while we’re downing the whole network for some of the more “exciting” parts of this maintenance.

Hang tight, stretch those Minecraft building fingers 🏗️, and maybe explore the mysterious realm of sunlight 🌞 while we work our magic. We’ll update you once Phase 1 is complete and Dogcraft is back online and better than ever! 🚀

Thanks for your patience and support. See you on the other side! 🙌

– Your humble server admins @ironboundred @bbrain , bravely battling cables and switches 🧰👨‍💻

🕒 Maintenance Start: September 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
@everyone

@everyone All services should be back online if you find any issues please let a staff member know. The worlds where not harmed and for the most part should not effect anything in game.

Hey @Dogcraft!

As most of you will know, @william278 stepped back as a community leader and staff member last week. Will's contributions to this community over the past 8 years have been so impactful that we felt we couldn't let him go without a proper thank you! So with that in mind, we brought together over 40 Cyberdogs, both past and present, to make a video going through all our favourite memories with Will over the years!

A huge thank you to everyone that contributed and helped make this video possible!

Thanks so much for everything Will, we hope you all enjoy the video!

https://youtu.be/Dtjj6EgotZk

UPDATE
Starting to get things online please do not flood trying to join you will not get on and will slow down our ability to watch for errors. Still pulling servers up and verifying data on them.

No ETA still but should be soon 🤞

website status will be a little later due to time zones and people needing sleep.
@everyone

@Dogcraft
For fun, while we wait for the main servers to come back online. We've setup a little fun server for you.

Server: fun.docraft.net fun.dogcraft.net version 1.21.1

There is no core protect, There are no claims, there are no plugins, just vanilla Minecraft and fun. Have at it.

If you lose stuff, you lose it. Play at your own risk.

UPDATE
Our main database/webserver lost power and on reboot it serverly corupted the mysql database. We have a backup and also finished backing up the current state.

We are in the middle of verifying data now. so far we know accounts are good but we are still checking the rest.

No worlds are effected your builds are fine, only a few tables seem to listed as corrupted.

Still no ETA working as fast as we can and making sure minimal loss. @everyone

ps: i am out of redbull 😭

@Dogcraft
Experiencing technical difficulties, Iron is working the problem, will update when fixed!

Brought to you from the at least the internet works now dept.

Hi @everyone,

I'm just writing to let everyone know that as of today I am standing down as Discord Head Mod & Wiki Admin here on Dogcraft. My life has gotten busier, I've started a new job, and it has pained me to admit it, but I sadly have too little time for my role here. I love this community - and having grown up on here, I consider it my home. Though I'm stepping down as a member of the staff team, I'll continue to be around here and there, so don't be afraid to say "hello!"

In my place, I am pleased to announce @montenator will be replacing me as Discord Head Mod, working alongside my good friend @googly2002. Monty is a dedicated member of our community, a wonderful ambassador for our staff team, and has an excellent Scottish accent - I've loved working & playing with him over a number of years. Both myself and Ren couldn't be more confident in his success, and I hope everyone joins me in welcoming him to his new role.

Dogcraft has a long future ahead of it, and I'm proud to have been able to both walk with and help shape part of it. This community's longevity and standing is rare. There are no other Hermit communities that operate free Minecraft servers. But Dogcraft persists, because of the unique culture we have cultivated thanks to Ren's strange and warm personality that drew many of us here. There's many people I'd love to give a shoutout to - from people I've played with, to the awesome dedicated staff team, to Ren - but I'll keep things nice and brief and wrap that up with a few "thank yous!" and a million more "cool beans!"

William278