by Netu » Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:22 pm Haven Gaming is a long time roleplaying-oriented Minecraft-focused gaming community. We have played many, many games together, but thoroughly enjoy the sandbox and the aspects of roleplay we can bring to it. Haven & Hearth, recently discovered by us, is no exception to this.
Our Minecraft server has ran for over 8 months (below I have posted our "advertisement" we use on the Minecraft forums). We are a dedicated group of friends and always welcome new players. We focus heavily on using TeamSpeak3 while playing our games to stay coordinated and focused. I welcome any of you to use our TS3, even if it is for other games. I love the idea of having new games introduced to us. Imagine how great it was when we found H&H!
Our meager village is...meager. We only have just begun and are all just getting the hang of everything. We adore the RPG elements of this game so far--we're having a blast.
So, come, join us! Introduce yourself on TS3 or post an application here. I am not going to spell out what I want to hear from you for your application. Just introduce yourself. Really, if you cannot even be on TS3 just to listen, then you're better off finding another village. TS3 is our core, really.
If you have Minecraft experience, that is a huge plus, as well, of course. Our website details, etc., are all below:
Haven Gaming's Free-to-Play Roleplay Minecraft Server
Non-permanent website: http://havengaming.4umer.com/ Please use in place while our old website server is fixed!
TL;DR
- The spawn area is now a warzone. This scenario will continue until one side finally claims total victory. The faction that wins will actually be able to control the spawn point and all its resources. Dying will have a whole new meaning.
- Vagrants can now join and play with no worries of being whitelisted or changed. Every time the warzone is won or lost that part of the map resets. So it's up to the vagrants that don't want to be apprenticed or apply to protect their works by fighting and playing the warzone scenario.
- If you want to play outside the scenario, building things and playing with our people, then: Log on to TeamSpeak3. That is our only requirement. If you get on our TS3, you can play on Haven Minecraft. We have plenty of protocols in place to nip griefing in the bud to allow this.
- No applications. No money. Just play.
NTL;R
Haven Gaming's Minecraft server is a roleplaying-oriented, story-driven server. This is not a 'freebuild' server where you go build huge monoliths, shoes or creepers to have people oogle over them. Instead, builds are done in order to procreate story, expand on plot and drive the world. In Haven you do not have access to /home or /kit.
There is no way to easily get back to your body if you die. It is not vanilla, but to a normal user, it probably feels almost like it.
The world is no longer Haven--it is Cascade, and you are an immortal watching over it. You have a choice: to be reborn as a mortal, to once again fight as flesh and blood, or to abandon reality and succumb to the eternal collective consciousness.
The Darkness has taken Haven, and now the bare handful of people that have lived through the transference are amongst small tribes, warring with one another for survival.
Application to become a mortal?
Read the below sections to know everything, but joining Haven is actually very simple:
- Know the rules.
- Join the server at mc.havengaming.net
- Join TeamSpeak3 at mc.havengaming.net:9987 -- you do not have to speak, only be able to listen and type!
- Ask very politely to be made an apprentice. If you are lucky, then you can play!
So how does a server that has ran for 8 months not have a griefing incident without an application process or being pay to play?
I have no idea.
Server Information
Server IP: mc.havengaming.net
Server Status:
Website: http://havengaming.4umer.com/
IRC: canis.esper.net #mchaven
TeamSpeak3: mc.havengaming.net:9987
Successful Griefing Incidents: NONE!
[center]What are all of Haven Gaming's rules?[/center]
Haven is strictly against griefing, cheating, or trolling under any circumstances - in all of our games. You can read about them [http://havengaming.4umer.com/t28-minecraft-server-rules#63 and http://havengaming.4umer.com/t27-rules- ... -minecraft ]here[/url]. Please note that these are all of our rules, not just Minecraft-specific, and you are expected to know them, as well!
Our Infamous Minecraft Rules
- Do not place too many torches and delete them after some time as they should "burn out."
- Remove your torches from areas you are finished exploring. Place torches as you go in caves and then remove them as you find your way back out.
- Use indented torches or lamps to keep them permanently.
- Paths should always be two wide; this includes indoors.
- Ceilings should always be three wide or higher.
- Do not leave random 1x1 pillars everywhere, or randomly destroy blocks or mess up the terrain.
- If you are going to mine, do it competently and in groups; keep organized and don't go off and destroy the map just because.
- In game chat is always in character. You may speak very rarely OOCly if you tag it as such. Do not speak too much out of character in-game. Roleplay, instead.
- You are required to be on TS3 while playing! Speak with an admin/mod if you have a reason you cannot just listen in while playing--and it better be a good reason!
- Be smart; don't get banned.
Roleplay/Lore
If you are interested in any of our role play, feel free to look through our lore forum.
We actually role play, and are a role play server, unlike so many others. In-game chat, sadly, is no in-character all the time simply because when newbies join they immediately ask OOC questions. It got to the point where in-game chat was purely used just to help out newcomers. Our role play is, strangely, done mostly through our actions and the forum; the stories we tell we relive in the server, and when we do role play in game it is typically because it is the very thing we are doing that our character would be doing (e.g. building a wall, or building).
We are a role playing server. We role play. We have story and lore, canon and myths.
If you want to be a part of our ever evolving story, join us.
