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Don't worry, we're not going to take 6-7 months to get this up once we start working on it.

Most people on Minecraft have their own little special skins they've made or found online that they like, but the thing about minecraft skins is that they're usually not all that detailed. I mean you can only put, what, 8x8 dots on the face? Lame. So, I guess why I'm here is: I want to help bring your Minecraft skin to life! I've already done a few (as you may have seen of BnJ and Husker's), but I've done some more to give you a better example of what I'm trying to say. I did Bill1993, Flawless_Method (aka. Waddles), and portalBlock, shown below. If you would like me to draw your skin, just comment I guess. I need your full Minecraft name, case sensitive, and a little description of what your skin is. If you'd like me to put a little artistic freedom into my drawings, then I'm more than likely going to be a little weird with my creativity. (: -Wrena

So I've been in a major art block lately, so I doodled this really quick. Hopefully they're be more of these to come!

Hey, guys! I was wondering, since it's getting close to that time of year, if we could do a holiday build competition? I think doing it would be a ton of fun like the super hero/villain build. Like, it'd be a holiday theme, such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. Would that be possible?

Finally! After days and days, hours and hours spent on this spawn I finally finished it! I really hope that you'll like it Full album can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/K3GNM

Town: /town new [Town Name] Costs $5,000 Needs money to be kept up, see below /town deposit [amount] Adds money to the town bank Only mayors can take money out, See below /town withdrawl [amount] Removes money from the town bank. /town add [name] Gives players an interface to join your town. Looks like: /accept /deny Only Assistant and Mayors can invite players to town. /town toggle open Allows players to: /town join [town name] If you dislike this choice, just type it again and it will turn off. Mayor command /town kick [name] Kicks players from your town Assistant and Mayor command /town rank [Add/Remove] [Name] [Assistant/Vip] Gives player the given rank, Must be a resident Mayor command /town claim Claims a 16x16x256 area (one chunk) for players to claim Costs money to claim so have some in the town bank. /town claim outpost Claims a 16x16x256 area that doesn't have to be connected to your town. /town set outpost Makes a townblock into an outpost block /town set homeblock Changes the plot in which is labeled [Home] Withholds the town spawn Mayor Command /town set spawn Changes the block players spawn on in your town. Must be in the towns homeblock Mayor command /town spawn Teleports you to your towns spawn /town spawn [town name] Teleports you to another towns spawn Ex: /town spawn Excelsior /town toggle public Allows non-residents to teleport to your town with the above command. Mayor command /town set board [message] Changes the message residents of your town see when they log in. Mayor command Plots: /plot claim Claims one chunk, 16x16x256 Mayor and Assistant command /res toggle plotborder Shows where the chunks are with black particles when you cross over a chunk border. This will be what /town claim will actually take. /plot set perm [Resident/Ally/Outsider/Friend] [Build/Destroy/Item/Switch] [On/Off] Gives players of that "Rank" the given ability. /res friend add [Name] Makes said player your Friend. Friends will be able to build/destroy on plots after above command is used to specify they can do so. /plot claim Claims a plot thats "for sale" in a town /plot set [Shop/Embassy/Wilds/Spleef/Inn/Arena] Changes plot type /plot [fs/nfs] [Price] Makes a plot For Sale (fs) or Not For Sale (nfs) at given price /plot set name [Name] Changes the name you see when you enter the plot Nation: /nation new [Name] Creates a Nation Costs $10,000 You can Invite other Town into your Nation /nation add [Town] Invites a Town to your nation /nation kick [Town] Kicks said town from your Nation. /nation deposit [amount] Adds money to your nation's bank /nation withdrawl [amount] Removes money from the nation's bank

Hey guys, Just finished the new youtube video today. here ya go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVtKkQw8T64&list=UUnft_mTGmc_xGlzDM01HV6g This post has been promoted to an article

Thank you everyone who helped make this. You guys are awesome Thanks go to Sway, Scar, Miku, Blackops, and Pinball! you guys are awesome ;-;

Miku the Forum Whore claims the first post on this new KitPvP section. When this game mode comes out all shall bow to the epic Miku. You wanna 1v1? Too bad I shall come and intterupt your 1v1 with mah sexy leather goddess armor.

HEY GUYS! Ender here. I have something that I feel needs to be said. So, while you are on the server, every now and then you see where players vote. If you don't already I would like you to as well. Voting comes with a lot of perks like things in /shop. In creative you can get things like world edit. On skyblock you can buy island warps and survival you can get things like /stack or /fly. These are all really cool things that are purchased with the tokens you earn from voting and you can get them too! At the beginning of every month the owners, Nick and Husker, post the top voters. If you are one of those people you can get coins to get things from /buy (pretty sure that's the command) with these you can purchase ranks that allow you to do special things like /back or own vaults that allow extra space. Along with that you get more tokens! Not only does voting benefit you, but it benefits the owners by moving us higher on the minecraft server lists. The higher we are, the more friends we have to join us who may purchase ranks of their own or vote. With this Nick and Husker can use the money they make to pay for not only the server but future additions such as , for say, Skygrid or Prison. To make PickAxis a better place, I want you guys to vote every day. Don't worry, I'll join too. All these things I mentioned, yall can have. Just vote daily for the amazing rewards. Bring your friends on to the server, remind them to vote. Tell people about PickAxis. Follow us on Twitter, create a forums account, participate in contests, help other players, and lastly be very active. Keep up to date with everything. Making PickAxis the best server it can be isn't just Nick, Husker, and the staff team's job. It's yours too, we need your help to do this, as a team. To make things even more fun I'm going to host a little game. If you bring friends on the server, tell them to tell me that (insert gamer tag here) invited you to PickAxis and I will give you a reward. Along with that, who ever votes the most in the months, January , February , March, April, and May, will receive a special present from myself on which ever sub-server you choose. How to get your present? I will mail you in the lobby, do /mail read to check. Thank yall! Happy voting! If you have any questions feel free to message me on Twitter, in game, pm on forums, or just simply post it here. If every one plays this game, I will continue to host it, even after May.

I will attempt to research a distributed artificial neural network utilizing Apache Hadoop for DDoS analysis. If this concept works I will then proceed to run around outside screaming in joy, if not then I will probably go study math.

Welcome and congrats to everyone that have been made staff. Very much deserved for all of you!! If you need any help then don't hesitate to ask!! If you applied for staff and didn't get it, don't worry, it doesn't necessarily mean you're not going to. If you are looking to want to become staff you can apply here If you are not staff...be gentle and patient with the new guys Clare

#1 - you get tokens, and what do tokens make.... cool things! You can get 50 tokens each day which can be spent on survival skyblock, skywars for cool perks. Just do /shop and see what you can save up for.... So you have purchased all of the perks over all servers? #2 - the top 3 voters each month get a cash reward to spend on the server to buy ranks. What? So you have obsidian rank across all of the servers? You have everything you could possibly need and the tokens are just building up? #3 Keep voting to support this awesome server. A lot of blood sweat and tears go into making this server as great as it is and we all want to make it bigger and better. Voting pushes us up the ranks and the higher we get the more players we can get. Pickaxes is nothing without all you amazing players. We love each and everyone of you and we hope you love us back! Click here and show us your love.

Since I had so many requests for more drawings (see above...), here is another beautiful piece of my artwork:

I take requests.... In lieu of a request, here is a lamp:

We've started featuring YouTubers on our YouTube Channel. (Subscribe here: https://pickaxis.tv) We will be actively growing the channel in the coming month and we would like to help you grow with us. If you would like a video added to our YouTuber playlist, link it in this post and we will review it before posting it. If we see enough good PickAxis content, we will add your channel to our growing list of YouTubers who we will be promoting, along with the server. How does this benefit you? You want to grow your audience, we do too. Let's grow together!We aren't looking for experts, but with practice, we can all become experts. Making videos only helps you get better. Make some PickAxis videos and get featured! How does this benefit us? These videos give us something to talk about and share (instead of sharing Husker's boring videos over and over again!)You never know when a PickAxis YouTuber could become the next {insert your choice of good YouTuber name here}. Let's grow together!

Well hello all you puppies and kittens! For those who don't know me, my name is UnicornHorn! Long time MC player, as well as console gamer, board game player, and cellphone app beater. I'm a mommy of one 2yr old super mutant, wife of my manslave for almost 3 years, and the pet/butler to two dogs and one cat. I'm an at home mom who frequently visits Best Buy in disguise as an employee. Um....OH! I'm an old lady so yeah, I demand manners and polite behavior from all minions in my immediate vicinity. I work in the medical field and apologize in advanced if I go all crazy medical talk on you. Whelp if you need more info, please make an appointment with my secretary or find me. I'm almost as good as waldo when it comes to hiding so good luck! Always and forever -Uni-

I have a new desktop background on my computer. You can use it too, if you'd like. Here it is! - Click here for the original image to download.

Here you go Husker, I posted it to pickaxis. holy crud the resolution is high.

PWU (PickAxis Weekly Update) - 11/20/14 What's New? Tokens! You can now earn 50 tokens a day from voting and in the near future even more from winning minigames and/or contests. Do /tokens to see your balance and /shop to spend your tokens on each server. Need help? Ask below or find a staff member.Double jump & Glider in the lobby: <3 This glider plugin was made especially for PickAxis. Let portalBlock know how much you love it...and try not to just hang out in the lobby and jump all night (like I tend to do). Voting: We are now listed on 5 different MC server lists. Voting for our server makes us more visible to those looking for a new MC home. Please help us rise in the lists to attract the MC-homeless. We can and will show them a loving home. Remember to vote every 24 hours!Forum trophies: By now you will have seen little icons under your name on forum posts. These are trophies that represent events you participate in, contests you win, or any other little reason we see to reward trophies. How many can you collect? What's Coming? Heroes vs. Villains Build Contest!: helios8385 is in charge of getting our next build contest up and running. Building should start this weekend sometime. Good luck to everyone!Surprise server: There is a server that, if we start getting enough players on, we will launch in the next few weeks. Who's excited? This girl is! This post has been promoted to an article

I found NickG365's hideout room in the lobby and told everyone where it was. I don't know why I did it. It's one of those things you just do when you find a treasure. I announced my find to everyone on Teamspeak. Little did I know that Nick was also in the Teamspeak channel. Oops! "What do I do?" I thought to myself. I left the Teamspeak channel and went to the lobby to apologize over private messages to him. Upon seeing me approach his hideout, Nick got mad and slammed his wooden door in my face. Surely he knew I was just there to apologize, but he wanted none of it. At this point, a lot of people had already congregated around his hidden room and some had even entered and started poking at his stuff. Nick became irate when some unknown n00b knocked his mixer to the ground and all the knobs slid out of place. His face turned red and he started physically shoving people out. I hid behind the door, because I was afraid he'd turn green, rip his shirt off, and then rip me to shreds at this point. Sadly, Nick had no resource pack on or I may have been able to hide more effectively while crouching, but because he was using the default pack he saw me right through the wooden door window. He sprinted over to the door, slammed it closed and he started fuming like a steam engine on a train. Bubbles started coming out of his mouth and one also came out of his nose. I had to work hard not to laugh but my overwhelming desire to giggle was overshadowed by the sweat dripping off my cheek. I stood up straight against the wall where the door once partially hid me from this raging bull. I had no idea what to do at this moment and in fear, my trembling fingers took control over my keyboard. "/kick N" was what they typed and my pinky lightly hit "Enter". That was all that Nick needed to fuel his anger even more. Within seconds I found myself refreshing my server page on Minecraft hoping it wasn't true. I had been banned by NickG365.

MLP Battle Arena....duh!

Hey guys, As many of you know I, in the past, have made enderman farms in the end after the monthly reset. I just wondered how everyone feels about this, how much they were used and if it is work carrying on doing. So I have a couple of questions: Did you like that we had a community farm? Did you use the farm? Would you like me to build another enderman farm when the end resets? Would you like to build a community farm? (enderman, blaze, wither, gold) I'm interested to hear your feedback Thanks Clare

Hey guys, I have recently written a blog post to talk about what I have been up to on Pickaxis recently and I would like to share it with you guys. I intend on writing a lot more often about the server and make it into a kind of personal newsletter. I am open to any suggestions of things to write about and and any feeback. http://clarebedo.co.uk/viewpost.php?id=27 Thanks guys Clare

Viewer discretion is advised Can anyone guess who it is?

Hi everyone, I'm typically Untypical, or you can just call me Typi, or on the server I'm Untypical. I am both excited and super nervous, one of my friends said this is a really friendly site and server and I've never played Multiplayer Minecraft so I'm looking forward to it. I'm 23, I've only been playing minecraft for about a year now and I'm not super creative but I love trying to make redstone contraptions.

I don't really want to do a blog and doing the PickAxis Weekly Updates became so much work that we were spending more time on them than actually working on the servers...so I thought I'd post some random thoughts in this format, in a discussion with you guys on the forums. As you guys probably know, I can ramble, so I'll try to keep these as short as possible. If you have questions, post them below. I'll do my best to answer them. I also hope Nick doesn't kill me for sharing all my secrets *-=-* State of PickAxis *-=-* Right now I can't say enough about the player quality we have on PickAxis. Very rarely do we get trolls and when we do they quickly realize this isn't a place for them. I truly look forward to seeing each of you every night when I get on. We may not have hundreds of players yet, but the quality of our community is already awesome! One of my dreams is to have a higher player count. Why? So we can launch more servers and we need more players to make that possible. We have a lot of cool servers in the pipeline, but we don't want to just have 1-3 players on each one. We want to grow the community and that means having groups of people playing together, building memories, at the same time, on the same server. We've had some players bring some innovative approaches to get more players on and for what you guys have already done, I'm very grateful. For example, vertigolf hosts drop parties on Skyblock on an almost-monthly basis and that has brought in quite a few people. KingPoutine spends countless hours on Twitch trying to get (begging) big streamers to come play with us and bring their fans. These are very innovative ways to get more players in a time in Minecraft when growing your player count isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do. Many thanks to these guys for everything they've done and are yet to do! We are also reading great server and website suggestions on the forums each day. Keep these up! These are shaping PickAxis into something wonderful! TL;DR - Overall, PickAxis is on a great path of growth and I love you guys! *-=-* Summer & Seasons *-=-* Summer...yeah Summer! I know a lot of you will be out of school. If anyone wants to start a new series for YouTube, host some kind of event, or anything else that would be fun...just let us know. Summer is a time for trying out new things. *-=-* New Servers *-=-* We have a new server coming in about 2.5 weeks (if all goes to plan! - no promises*). We've been busy behind the scenes building and planning. If you've been around the forums lately, you'll easily be able to guess which server this is. This next server and the one following it both use the same custom plugin at their root. So, assuming we can start getting more players, we'll be able to release them both within the next couple months (no promises*). Who's excited? This girl. *-=-* Goals *-=-* I know, I know...it's dangerous to set goals publicly...because people can see you fail and ridicule you....so what! I'd rather be a person with goals than a person without. I also want to share my goals with you guys so you can understand my motivations in what we're doing. I don't want to fail, so I will do everything I can to keep failure out of the picture. Want to help me achieve these goals? Go ahead! Be my hero! <3 Alright, here goes: 1) I want to enter the summer (mid-June) with an average of at least 20 players on at most times of the day. 2) I want to end the summer (end of August) with an average of at least 100 players on at most times of the day. Crazy! I know! But let's do it! It's possible! 3) I want to have at least 3 positive surprises for the PickAxis community before the end of the summer (end of August). That's all I have to share at the moment. Please feel free to ask questions below. I want to keep this network a community network and that means being open and growing together. Thanks for being such an important part of my life, both digitally and IRL. - Husker * or else Nick will kill me for putting a date in here. NOTE: I spoke in 1st person for most of this, but I know Nick agrees with all the good points in this message....especially the ones where good grammar was used.

Hey all! Can't wait to meet all you guys! Some I know from a loooooong time ago, others I can't wait to meet! I look forward to all the abuse! ^.^ Cya round! Lubs always -Uni

To current and hopeful new players, I've known several of the Admin, Owner and Players that play here at Pickaxis ( I knew them from another site ) and they truly are good, down to earth, friendly players. I've only played on Pickaxis for less than a week and I have to say these guys and gals are great people. I've seen some of the Skyblock Islands for the other players and I have seen some AMAZING builds. Some creations I had no idea were even possible on Skyblock but sure enough they've done it. This skyblock is a little different than other skyblock sites I've played on. It's a challenge for sure and if you choose to play and maybe donate I think you will come to appreciate the challenge that is offered here. It's taken me a few days to get up and running but I'm well on my way to greatness. (hahahha) So great job and a High Five to Huskergirl and the Admin staff for putting together a wonderful experience. Enjoy and good luck out there building and mining and creating.

I was wondering if you guys could add tag to the lobby! A player would do ./tag to start the game announcing to all the players present, to type ./tag to join and that (player name) is it! It could even be seasonal! You could have snowball fights for Christmas or whatever! Just a thought to keep people busy:) Thanks, turtle90

Super bowl?

I was recently replying to the forum "Count to 1.000.000 and back" when I saw a comment that looked like this: So I got curious and I decided to pull out my calculator and answer the question: How long will it take to get 1 million at the current rate of posting? Well, the forum was created on July 28, 2014, 182 days from today, January 25, 2015. We are at the number 344. 344 posts / 182 days = ~1.89 posts/day. We post ~1.89 numbers a day. Using this rate to calculate how long it would take to get to 1,000,000- 1,000,000 / 1.89 posts/day = 529,100.529 days 529,100 days / 365 days (1 year) = 1,449.589 years (not counting leap years) AND SO, IT'S GONNA TAKE AROUND 1,449 YEARS TO COUNT TO 1,000,000 AT OUR CURRENT RATE. YEAH. Expect to finish on Friday, March 13, 3463. (Friday the 13th ) How long will it take to reach 1,000,000 in one year? 60 seconds * 60 minutes = 3,600 seconds (1 hour) 3,600 seconds (1 hour) * 24 hours = 86,400 seconds (1 day) 86,400 seconds (1 day) * 365 days = 31,536,000 seconds (1 year) 31,536,000 seconds (1 year) / 1,000,000 (the number we need to get to) = 31.536 seconds So, it'll take a message posted every 31 and a half seconds to reach one million in one year. UPDATE [1/26/15]! So, today, a lot of numbers then the current rate were posted on the forum. I think I need to give updated info. The forum was created on July 28, 2014, and today is January 26, 2015, which is 183* days. We are at number 370. 370 posts / 183 days = ~2.02 posts/day SO: 1,000,000 posts / 2.02 post/day = 495,049.504 days Now, we need to subtract the days we have already used (which I didn't do last time) 495,049 days - 183 days = 494,866 days 494,866 days / 365 days (1 year) = 1355.797 years (not counting leap years) So one variable can throw off an entire calculation! Expect to finish around Tuesday, December 19, 3369

I, Jak, have killed the Ender Dragon! With the Help of RoboticCreeper10 and Gsdcs29615 (Thanks for helping!) I Shot the last Arrow to the Ender Dragon.... The Dragon was killed at 12:50 PM 12/22/14 The Last Crstal... Finish Him! Fatality! We Did it!

BTW....NickG365 hates this

are you an enchanting table?, cuz you just gave me Sharpness IV.

So... Introductions... alright, well... Here we go: Hello. I'm ChewyPudding, but most minecraft people just call me Chewy. In the real world I go by Sam, so you could also call me that if you wish. I'm from Green Bay, Wisconsin, (Go Pack Go!) I'm 15 years old (Though I will be 16 come Friday, August 1st) and I'm kinda just a little bit of a huge nerd. I have a bit of a knack for language, so I'm can using english very much well and I'm learning 3 others. (German and Mandarin through school, Japanese independantly.) I'm also what most people would call a "band geek" but I'm cool, because I play the Bass. So you know, I can be heard for maybe a measure in a whole two songs. My geekyness doesn't end there though, I obviously play video-games (though not as much Minecraft as I did in years past) and I also sink way too much of money (Which I earn by working at a super fancy and super classy resturant, Little Caesars) into Magic: The Gathering, so if any of you play I'd be happy to spend a little time geeking out about it or to even just have a nice discussion. As you can probably guess, I'm not too sporty, but I do play a little bit of recreational soccer, and tournament sabre fencing.

Hello, I'm Pinball7wiz, I often dabble in sweg and enjoy mining out 100x100 town areas, then leaving them for gg. I often use the terms gg and toplel. Sway is my bae, back off scar. Favorite server is factions. Look forward to seeing you all in-game.

Here is a preview of my newest map. It is a very large mountainous area of radius 250. I won't talk too much about it and just show some pictures. Larger pictures can be found at http://imgur.com/a/WEr7m Map overview, spawn is in the centre and shows the location of some key features. Spawn area with the small church Forest with giant tree. Temple ruins with the marsh on the right and the forest in the back Pillar Village with the marsh and river and spawn in the background. Mountainside and spawn. Small cave underneath the mountainside Waterside Riverside gate. Mountain gate with the forest behind it. Sorry for the large post but this is a small update on the new map.

You people are insane.