EHEMS Goes to Insomnia 53!

Well, insomnia 53, the UK's biggest gaming convention has now closed it's doors on an absolutely epic weekend.

The gaming festival enabled fans of youtubers, to get a chance to meet many well known and much loved youtubers. The line up, of who was there, can be seen in the images below. Not only were there meet and greet sessions but in between, the lovely youtubers, being epic and all, would mill around chatting, signing and letting peeps take lots of pics. Their patience and warmth was legendary!

We were lucky enough to go along and have uploaded some pictures. A massive thank you to everyone we met (especially LD ShadowLady, The Diamond Minecart, Yammy, Smallishbeans, and Simon & the Sidemen), for being quite the loveliest bunch of youtubers we have ever had the pleasure of meeting :-)

PS Anaiah26 had the courage to ask LDShadowLady and The Diamond Minecart, if they would visit our server and they have said that if we get our details to them, they will! So now for us to do our bit (apologies for not having the foresight to preempt, or even think of Anaiah26's idea and go prepared).

Anaiah26, despite the look on her face, had a fantastic time! She her usual chatty self with them but I think the 

awe of the situation got to her a bit, when she got to have pictures taken with them!

EHEMS Moves Home and Lag Becomes A Thing Of The Past!

Essex Home Ed minecraft server has now relocated to a VPS (Virtual Private Server), to help improve the connection and stability for members.

Humoungous thanks go out to Mortax3 and his extremely generous Dad, for their generosity and help with moving the server over. Their help was invaluable and we will now be using their server, to host ours.

Due to the wonders of modern technology, you guys will not have to make any changes to your logging in details, so you can log on and mine away whenever you get the time.

Should the redirecting service fail at any point, and the server be unreachable, you can log directly into the server using the server address: 208.131.156.190:25565.

Please do let us know if you have any problems. You can email us at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk.

Happy Minecrafting Guys and Girls :-)

10% Off Insomnia Gaming Festival: 21-23 November 2014

Hi Minecrafters,

As you may know, the hugely popular Insomnia Gaming Festival will be held in Coventry this year, on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November. It will feature many game related exhibitions and activities, as shown here, including a Minecraft Zone.

This year, there will be many well known youtubers, such as The Diamond Minecart, LDShadowlady, Yogscast and many others. A list of the special guests going this year can be found by clicking here.

For those who wish to go, you can get a 10% discount off the ticket price, if you enter the code i53sm10, on the website here.

We will be going on the Sunday and will post some pictures after the event.

Happy Minecrafting :-)

Reduce Loading Time --- November

Hi All,

Mortax again!

Here is a link to access post from just November, rather than all posts, so it should reduce loading time when you want to check the blog.

CLICK HERE

It will not work until the 1st November.
Bear in mind, if there are no posts in November, it will just say 'No Posts'.

You can also access posts for a particular month by clicking the button an the side.........

  

.........and then selecting a month.

Happy Building!

Server Down due to Power Cut!

Sorry all but due to work being done, the electric has been turned of for the day, so the server will be offline too.

Just as well this months meeting was cancelled!

1.8.1 Comes Out Soon!

Hi Everyone,

Mortax Posting!

Just wanted to tell everyone 1.8.1 one is coming out soon, to fix all the bugs 1.8 came with!
It should be out in a few days time.
You can find the list of bugs it fixed Here, or just look below! Some browsers do not support the box below, so if yours doesn't, just click the link.

Happy Minecrafting!

Useful Link To Reduce Loading Time By.........A Lot!

Hi All,

Mortax again!

I am posting this link, as it just shows the posts for October, so will save loading time by a lot!

CLICK HERE

You can also access posts by clicking the button an the side.........

  

.........and then selecting a month.

From now on I will try and post at the end of each month, and post a link for next month.

If not, use the method above.

Happy Building! :D

Minecraft Parody of Wrecking Ball Song...

Just to share a video Anaiah26 showed me earlier, as it made me smile. Hope it makes you smile too.

The video of the Minecraft Parody of Wrecking Ball can be found by clicking here.

PS Apologies if the server seems slower since the "upgrade" to fibre optic. Although the download speeds have improved, uploads speeds have decreased! This is bad for the server and is being looked into. I will update you when the issue has been resolved.

EHEMS Back Online

I am happy to report that the Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server is now back online and good to go!

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Happy Minecrafting All :-)

EHEMS Offline to Upgrade to Fibre Broadband

Apologies all but it seems that, although I planned to upgrade the internet when the server was offline tonight, the powers that be have disconnected the old service, so I will have to upgrade now.

Consequently, the server will be offline whilst I reconfigure the router etc.

The website will be updated when the upgrading procedure is completed.

New Forum for EHEMS!

There is a new forum for the Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server. A place for you to ask and answer all and any minecraft related questions. 

Members can sign up to the forum with an email address of their parent's choosing. Please send an email to us, at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk, telling us your (or your child's) minecraft name when you sign up to the forum, to help us to ensure that only members join.

The forum can be accessed by the forum tab at the top of the page or by clicking here.

September EHEMS Meet-Up Cancelled

Due to a clash with another outing taking place on 26th September, we will be cancelling this months EHEMS get together.

Apologies to anyone that hoped to come along. If enough of you request a desire to meet still (you can email us at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk), we could still go ahead. Try to let us know over the weekend if this applies to you though please.

Until the next time :-)

EHEMS Meet Up - Friday 26th Spetember

Please find below, details of the September meet up of Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server Members.

We look forward to seeing those of you that can make it there and hope to see others in the future :-)

Fibre Optic Broadband... Here We Come!

Good news guys, the server will soon be moved to a fibre optic broadband connection, meaning faster speeds and a smoother server :-)

The date of transfer, to the improved internet connection, is yet to be confirmed but we'll update you in due course.

New Site Admin, Photos Of Post Office

Hello Everyone,

It's Mortaxe3 posting!

Gaynor has let me be a new admin on the site. :)

Here are photos and the location of the new post office for players that are not OP's.

This is only for plyers that are not OP's, so if you are an OP, please don't get a post box here.

If you want one just put a sign above it with your name on.

It can be found in Zone 2, at the co-ordinates: X = 12, Y = 67, and Z =85.

Happy Minecrafting! :D 

Post Office Location

New Post Office in Zone 2

There is now a new post office for new members of the server. The new Post Office can be found in Zone 2, at coordinates x:12 y:67 z:85. Picture to follow.

Existing members, that are OP1 and above, can continue to use their PO box, in the starter zone.

EHEMS Updated to 1.8

Good news guys, the Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server has now been updated to 1.8!

There are lots of changes afoot with this update, such as the addition of new blocks, items and commands. More detailed information can be seen here: 1.8 changes.

To access the server, you will need to update your profile, when starting minecraft, to use 1.8 or the latest build.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new update, if you'd like to email them to us at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk. Please say if you would like us to shre them on the website too if you do email us.

Happy Minecrafting :-)


Edit:
Our thanks to Mortaxe3, for solving the server shutdown issue, when we updated. Release 1.8 is now stable and active on the server. Enjoy :-)

Server Update to 1.8 postponed until after 10pm

Wouldnt you know it,updating the srver has been rather less straigt forward than I would have liked, so I will be completing the update tonight after server shutdown at 10pm.

Until then, you can continue to enjoy 1.7.9 on EHEMS for, hopefully, one final day.

Apologies for the delay.

Server Offline to update to 1.8!!!

As you may know, the hotly anticipated 1.8 version of minecraft is finally available :-D

The server will thus be offline until around 7.30pm, so we can update it to 1.8 too.

Have you tried 1.8 yet? Feel free to email us your comments and fist impressions of it at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk

EHEMS Logo Competition

Congratulations to the Design a logo competition winner, Lyra_Sparks :-)

Her winning design was selected at the August EHEMS Meet Up and can be seen below. It is also the new icon for the server, when members log in.

  

The red shield represents Essex and the tools represent Minecraft. A clever and eye catching design which won over the voting peers at the Meet Up.

Mortaxe3 was the runner up with his design, which can be seen below. Mortaxe3's design will be used as a logo on the website.

 

At some point in the future, we may well amalgamate both designs into one but for now, both wonderful designs will be used independently.

Many thanks for entering and congratulations to both of you.

Server Offline Until Wednesday 27th August

Apologies to everyone that has tried to connect to the server recently. We are traveling at the moment but it had been brought to our attention, by diligent members, that the server is down. 

 I have tried to access the server remotely, to set it back up but that is also not accessible. My guess is a power cut has turned it off and I need to be there to sort it out.

 Apologies to everyone that is waiting to get onto the server. We will be back with the server and have it back online by Wednesday morning.

August Meeting of EHEMS: Friday 22nd August

Details of the August Home Ed Minecraft Server Meeting are provided below, we look forward to seeing those of you that can make it there :-)

Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server Back Online

Apologies to those of you that have had difficulty connecting recently. An issue arose that still requires some maintenance before it is completely resolved.

In the meantime, a previous save of the server (from yesterday) has been put online and is accessible.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused in the meantime.

Law Board Created on EHE Minecraft Server

Our thanks to Mortaxe3, who has designed and constructed a new law board, showing the rules of the EHE Minecraft Server.

The board can be located above the post office in Zone One (the protected zone). Coordinates (which can be shown by pressing f3 (or fn and f3) on your keyboard) for the Law Board are : x-240, y100, z140.

All members are invited to view the laws, which where created to reassure members, following a poll of members desired laws for the server. More information, regarding the process used to determine the law's, can be found here.

Server Back Online: New Server Details, Same Version...

Well, the server is back online. Our apologies to everyone that couldn't get on.

It seems that the big boys at Microsoft took exception to the Static IP service provided by NoIP and as a consequence many names, including zapto.org are now not useable. Our thanks to Mortaxe3 again, this time for finding this out for us, so we could solve the "can't resolve server name" problem some members were reporting.

The new details, to enter into your multiplayer settings, are:

Essex Home Ed Minecraft Server
ehems.serveminecraft.net (or essexhomeed.serveminecraft.net, if you like to type!)

Although we thought we may have to update the server, to patch 1.7.10, as we thought that it may have been causing problems, there were issues with the update so I will now leave updating the server until it is offline tonight, if at all for 1.7.10.

So, until you hear differently, please ensure your minecraft launcher profile is set to load version 1.7.9, rather than being set at "load latest version". Otherwise, your minecraft launcher will try to load patch 1.7.10, which is unlikely to work.

Apologies again, hopefully, things will be sorted out by tomorrow at the latest.

Email us if you require anymore information at feedback@eheminecraft.co.uk.