Server map

We set up Overviewer Mapcrafter Overviewer our own tool to generate a daily overview map of our main world. It works with current Minecraft versions, but it's still kind of experimental.

Discord

We use IRC Slack Discord for communication internally, since it has both text and voice chat. Because sometimes it's just nice to talk to people.

If you're a server member or would like to be, you can ask the more active members for an invite link.

Twitter

Long before the platform was renamed, we integrated Twitter into our server/IRC bot for automated tweets like death messages, lists of currently online players, or snippets from IRC shenanigans. It was emotional.

The account has been inactive for a long time now, and we probably won't respond to DMs or mentions, but the old tweets are still there if you want to look at them.

Costs

Since we're running on an actual server that requires actual monies to run, we decided to try a “donate if you will, or don't but it would be pretty dandy if you would” model.

Custom Tools

We have a GitHub organization where we keep most of our stuff, like the Discord bot, the systemd service we use to manage our worlds, and even this website. We also have three single-serving sites for the current server time, weather conditions, and time since the last death on the server (Javascript required). There's also the Wurstmineberg API, which makes a lot of cool stuff possible, like our statistics page.

Wiki

When we made backups of everything on the old server, we sort of didn't check to make sure that the wiki backup was up to date. So now we have a wiki backup from 2014 as well as some downloads from the Wayback Machine. Since then, we wrote our own wiki software for increased actually-able-to-login-ness, but it's still missing some important features so it might take a while for things to be back to normal.