Hello Minecrafters,

Everyone of us had that hard choice to pick a username at the beginning when buying Minecraft. That username which you have picked will be stuck with you forever and cannot be changed at all. But what if you gave yourself a name that is just silly or inappropriate? What if you’re tired of the current name you have just because you had to add random letters or numbers because the name you wanted was picked? Well, this means you need to get a new copy of the game and register again to get the username you like.
But maybe not for long anymore?

Jens Bergensten, one developer of Minecraft, hinted that username changes might be a feature in the future. Tobias Mollstam would already look into creating a new system for usernames. Everyone who bought Minecraft would receive a free name change. There might also be a “Username history” where you are able to see the previous names of a player.

How can we Ban, OP and Whitelist people with the new system?

The new Minecraft username system would work like Steam ID’s do. Every account which is premium(bought version) will have an unique ID. Players will not get banned, receive OP or be whitelisted by their name, but by their unique ID. If an account is banned on your server the player can change his name to whatever he wants but the ban will not get lifted/removed since his ID does not change.

You can get a list of all accounts you own via an E-Mail. All accounts you own can be merged with one single E-Mail address and you will receive that list with all the needed information about every account. You mostly use it when you forgot your password.

There are no more informations about this feature and there is no set date of the arrival, but if there are any new informations we will inform you as soon as possible.

Did you already check your houses mailbox today? You might have (well… if the postman wasn’t to lazy!) found the latest Minecraft Quarterly! Wait… you didn’t find it? Oh well… you should definitively check it out at  http://www.mcquarterly.com/then. A bunch of guys created an awesome Minecraft related magazine. We love that they put the Spout topic in their first edition.

In case you like it, please do us a favor and order the printed version. If they reach an amount of money, they will ship out printed versions of the magazine. You can pre-order it for as low as $ 7 including international shipping!

Minecraft Quarterly is the unofficial magazine of Minecraft with the goal of unifying the online Minecraft community while contributing to it via donations. In our quarterly issues, we provide to you real, relevant information from the entire Minecraft spectrum – the players and server administrators – with articles pertaining to gameplay styles, predominant…

The surrounding countryside watched in anticipation last week as yet another building project started up on the ever-famous Ideal-Hosting Mountain. With Magic’s Building Company and their large, probably oversized red wool cubes lead the way for this peculiar and generally mysterious project. Read more

Hello Minecrafters!

Like most of you already know: Minecraft 1.3 is on the way to be officially released!

We have no idea when this update will be released but with this update one of our worlds will have a change too.
The Open_World will be reset. This means every building, item and what ever you have there will be lost forever and will not be given back. Get your stuff in to the Mainworld before the Minecraft 1.3 Update or you might loose them forever. However, before we update to 1.3, we will wait until all major addons are updated by the mod creators. When using spout, you can simply go back versions. That means you can test the new version in singleplayer and then simply change the version back and play on our server.

Here are some of the most important updates, changes and added features in Minecraft 1.3 (Snapshot 12w22a): Read more