Hello everyone. There is a good chance that we're on the brink of another Arcator Revival, having got RestitutorOrbis and cindercrow7 on the case. They have already got the server updated to Minecraft 1.8.7.

This website, arcator.co.uk, runs on Drupal version 6. It has approached the end of its life, - I wouldn't expect it to be around for more than a year - meaning that continuing to run it will be a security risk. Updating a Drupal site to a new version can be painful even with a simple site, and we have a lot of custom code running here that doesn't necessarily make use of Drupal's module system properly. I wouldn't expect any of it to work properly on Drupal 7 or 8 without some heavy rewriting, which I'm not sure would be worth the time or effort (and I'm not sure I could really provide either).

So that means my plan is to save all the pages on this site and its other sections (Stream, Quotes, Wiki) and host them as a static archive (think Wayback Machine - archive.arcator.co.uk) for future reference, and put together a new Drupal site.

I'm interested in not only providing a site for information about Arcator and Minecraft, but making a place for Arcator's long time members and community to talk about other games and interests. That could mean - along with a new Stream and server status updates section - having a better forum or maybe a Reddit-style subcommunity system going. A lot is possible. What do you want out of this site?

Arcator was founded on fun and pissing around. I don't think anyone who was there on the first day thought that the server would still be up and have any kind of playerbase in 2014, and it's down to everyone who's stayed and played that we've kept out so long and are currently down a shaky path of revival.

Everyone seems to be taking this revival business extremely seriously and the endless arguments over staffing and how we're not doing enough advertising are wearing me out. Can we just try and do the best we can? We don't have to be the most popular Minecraft server ever and in fact becoming such a server would go against our ideals of a close-knit community. By all means we should be attracting new players, but let's try and keep them too. A server that is focused only on growing its playerbase isn't going to be fun, it's going to be a server focused on endless work.

We came out of the joe.to servers because while they were great fun they could also be very big places where the average player felt anonymous and struggled to get recognised by the staff. Big servers do very well, but we don't have do be one of them to succeed in being a fun place.

I don't even know what I'm really trying to say, I think the current shitstorm over two players being banned etc. is a symptom of the general attitude that what we have here at Arcator already doesn't matter, and we're losing hold of the things that make the server what it is.

TL;DR let's get loads of new players but also stop tearing our hair out over it and appreciate the ones we do get

PS: also I heard people wanted dank memes. top kek mates i just injected 9 marijuanas #mokesweed #gamergate

The staff list is now up to date and Staff Applications are open for the time being for those who feel able to take on a staff position. You do seriously need to be up for the job though; we'll be demoting people who don't do their duties.

http://arcator.co.uk/apply/

I'm open to suggestions for swapping players around on that list.

I've heard from a few people who want to run servers as Arcator ones. Drop a comment with what you can offer if you want to host one (e.g. what's your server setup, internet etc. like and what kind of server you specifically want to run) and PM me the IP/dynamic DNS.

Server back up as the CPU's been replaced. It's a better CPU too! A Pentium in fact, wow - such TECHNOLOGY.

UPDATE 3: ONLINE again! Woop!

UPDATE 2: OFFLINE. Sorry m8s, we can't run until we fix this issue.

UPDATE: The server is back up although the problem remains unsolved. We've sent off for a new, slightly better CPU as it's basically the only possible thing left that could be wrong. Anyway, let's hope that the Gods of the CPU Cache let us play Minecraft until then. IF THE SERVER CRASHES WITH A SERVER CLOSED MESSAGE THEN PLEASE MAKE A CLEAR POST ON STREAM. Thanks.

Sorry, the bug is back and the server's gonna have to go down again. I will hopefully be able to replace the motherboard tomorrow, which hopefully will fix our problems.

• Dweson - Admin+
• minecrafter2133 - Admin
• 0007dante - Admin
• _ONLYUSEmeBOW - Admin+
• cindercrow7 - Owner apprentice
• Sir_Ross - Admin
• OllyHT - Admin
• kkyyllee11 - Admin
• kysanchez - Admin
• Pigboy501 - Admin+
• kwithnok - Mod
• Banana937 - Owner

A few people who I know personally have become Admins. Don't worry, they'll know what they're doing.

ALSO: Website signups are currently disabled. I'm looking for a fix for spam issues.

The SixteenNet server was suffering serious configuration issues and these prevented Arcator from running. The server is now BACK UP.

UPDATE 2: Nah, we were right the first time, it is a hardware problem. We swapped the RAM to no effect, so there isn't a short term fix.