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Announcing a brand new contest to Craftyn Towny, a voting contest with a great reward for the winner! This contest was suggested by our one and only @Sticky117 and after thinking about it I decided to go ahead with it. Starting tonight after the daily restart (5/15/12) we will start to log who voted and how many times you have voted. Due to you now being able to vote in more than one place, the reward for voting will be lowered tonight at the restart also. Once the restart happens I will list the places to vote on here.

What is the reward for voting the most in a month? A free month of VIP! That's right, a free month of VIP! What if the winner is already a VIP or higher? They get their length extended for another two weeks, which is nice!

List of sites to vote at:

• Minestatus: craftyn.com/vote
• MCTop100:...

This might come as a surprise to some or it might come as a surprise to all, but there has been a change in the layout of the staff and the structure of the staff. With this new layout it will provide greater flexibility and greater strength of the staff of the server. The new structue goes like this:

1. Owners
2. Envoy(s)
3. Moderators
4. Tyro(s)

What is an Envoy? And what happened to Admins and Capos!?! Well, let's take it step by step and not all at once. I will answer the last one first and then the first one. The positions Admin and Capo are no more, they have been removed. Why? The Capo position was poorly defined and was not really defined and explained what the point of it was to be, except to be the captain of the staff and even that was severely limited. The Admin position was not only poorly defined too but also it was simply over powered and there weren't any type of checks and balances in place to ensure that certain things would happen and others...

Some of you my not be aware of this, but it seems as if I'm posting for Week 5 topic and Week 4's winners a bit late. Well, this is in fact not entirely true even though there is a smudge of truth there. See here for more information about why it go "delayed" another week. The writing contests will now be two weeks long instead of one! This will help to give other people changes to enter and win, and will also give you more time to write your stories. So, now onto this week's topic...and believe it or not it's actually not about Minecraft thanks to @FuryFerret68 for submitting this topic.

• Topic: A plague happens to a town, the name of your picking, and the lone survivor, name of your picking, has to find/fight his/her way out of the town and survive (or not survive)
• Minimum Length: 9...

For those who still watch the Yogscast, they recently did an adventure map that looks truly amazing and fun!!! So I thought to myself "Self, you should try this and live stream it!" and then I replied to self "Self, that's a good idea. Let's do it!" And with that, we're going to be doing it.

The goal of this adventure map is to "Survive the fall and finish the game", can't be too hard can it? We shall see!

Rules of the Adventure Map:

• Difficulty: Hard
• Don't break the blocks
• Render distance: Far
• Brightness: Bright
• Clouds: OFF
• Save before each levels

Here's the link for those who want to play it for their own pleasure and enjoyment: http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-dropper-adventure-map/

Wish me luck and if you're going to be watching, don't forget to RSVP!

You've seen the picture, you've seen the shuttle, and you've heard the talk but are you ready for it? How ready are you for a challenge while collecting minerals? You ready for a place where there will be no commands what so ever? No chest protection? No grief protection? No flying? No mob disguises? Where PVP is highly encouraged? Where creepers blow *insert what you want here* up? Where TNT is actual TNT?! Where one wrong step and you could be plunged to your death? Where caught mobs can help you out? Then go try out Skylands today!

All help tickets regarding things in skylands will be immediately closed due to no rules* in that world, it is a world where griefing is allowed, it is a world where there is no chest protection, it is a world that will be reset every two to four weeks!

I would suggest NOT building anything in there that you care about because of several reasons:

• People can grief it
• TNT is enabled
• Creepers blow things up...