Mike

Hey all,
I just wanted to run through a recent rule change and some reminders for you all.
As some of you may be aware we have updated the rules with regards to players being AFK on survival. 
The rule (number 1) now states the following
"Do not AFK for extended periods of time, or near anything that could negatively impact other player's experience"
This means you will be kicked if you afk for long periods of time, especially at automatic farms. 
Extended periods of time is generally 30-45 mins or longer. All staff can check your last known movements and will try to communicate with you before kicking you.
One thing we have noticed recently is the amount of players making long strip mines in the normal world. Please refrain from doing this as we do not want the whole world chopping up. The mining world is a great place for resources, and is reset monthly, so please use it for your resource gathering. 
Can I please ask players to stop begging or demanding other players and staff for items, death points or certain locations. It is not a staff members job to find your stuff after death or finding places you have lost. I will help players where I can but I will only do so when shown respect from the player, not when I am told I have to. Every item on Minecraft is replaceable.  Remember your manners!
Finally, please refrain from "fake" auctions. continuously putting an auction up when you intend on cancelling it is a little unfair, especially on newer or players with little money. 
Thank you for your continued support on the Pickaxis server and your understanding on these matters, I welcome any suggestions and feedback on this
Have a great day
Clare

On Christmas day @NickG365 gave us all a treat, no not an impersonation of The Flash singing Do You Want to Build a Snowman (though I think we would all like to witness that!) He updated the Pickaxis server to 1.11.2! 
There are many new exciting items, mobs and exploring to be had so I thought I would write up a bit of a guide for you all, in case you missed some of the updates (I have learnt a few things researching this!) 
 
Shulker boxes
1.11 answered two things... What Shulkers are actually for and when will I be able to carry more items? The Shulkers, added in 1.9, now drop Shulker shells. Place 2 of these with a chest in a crafting table and it produces a shulker box, a chest that can be broken and replaced without losing it's inventory. When in an inventory they display their contents when hovered over with. These boxes can also be coloured using dyes.
The Woodland Mansion!
This places looks epic! A mansion filled with rooms and new mobs (which I will get to) These are a rare spawn, found by luck or trading for a map from the new villager, the cartographer. I'm not going to list all the rooms and loot you can get from these buildings, if you're interested take a look here. Obviously when found and explored on the survival world the mansion will never regenerate, so bare this in mind if you destroy one. Obviously any found in the mining world will be reset monthly.
New Mobs
There a various new mobs that have been introduced in this update:
Illagers - there are two types of illagers, which can both be found in the woodland mansion. The Evoker attacks by summonding Vex - some small flying creatures that will damage the player. When killed, the Evoker will drop a totem of undying, this, when held by a player, will save them from death once, when used it will disappear. The Evoker will not respawn once killed. The Vindicator will attack a player with an axe, and if renamed to Johnny will kill animals - making a great mob farm!
Cartographer
As mentioned above, there is a new white coat villager. These offer two types of maps as trades. One to help find the woodland mansion and another to help find ocean monuments.
llamas
We have a new animal! The Llamas are very cute! They have an inventory and will carry your items for you. You can create a chain of them, a caravan, by attaching one to a lead, up to 10 more will follow. You can also decorate them with different coloured carpet.
Observer Block
This is a new redstone block that will emit a signal once a block next to it has been updated.
 
Curses
The curse of binding prevents the removal of the cursed item until death. Armour will stick to you! 
The curse of vanishing will cause the item to disappear upon death. It will be lost forever!
Elevators
The update has removed the ability to move players and mobs around via pistons, however they have re-introduced the use of glass elevators! 
 
 
We haven't just updated the 1.11, but are currently running on 1.11.2 which also added some smaller, but new features to the game:
When using the Elytra, you can give yourself a boost with rockets.
Place an iron ingot into a crafting grid and it will produce 9 iron nuggests, as with gold, 9 of these will make an ingot.
If you smelt a golden or and iron sword in a furnace, it will produce ingots.
There is also a new enchantment called sweeping edge, this can be added to swords to increase sweeping damage.
And finally, the infinity enchantment can no longer be used with Mending. If you already have a bow with both enchantments on then keep it safe as it will not be able to be made again!
 
I hope I covered everything here and hope to see you guys on the server soon for some exploring
 
Clare

Considering that you can get $50 from winning a monster hunt which is really easy with the lack of people who compete for monster hunts through out the day. 1 to 1 ratio is more then fair to compensate the players who benefit the server by voting.

I would like to be able to purchase additional Towny plots.
Additional homes would be nice too.
And though this probably won't pass... Permanent fly for 10,000 tokens! I would totally save up my tokens for that. XD

I heard there's a black market in Survival. 
 
With prices no other can rival
 
And no one will know
 
That it's hidden below
 
A house in the spawn
 
You'll search all day long
 
so...
 
If you know where it is, don't tell!
 
If you know what it buys, do sell!
 
Please grab me some boots
 
And some other cool loots
 
And soon we'll be living so well

Hello fellow Pickaxis survivalists,
Tonight I read a post regarding the server market place and I thought it would be good to create a thread where shop owners can briefly advertise their establishments and let players know how to find them. 
So my shop..
Location: /t spawn excelsior
How to find: From the spawn follow the walkway off the ship, into the main town.
Sells: Almost everything in a variety of different themed rooms
Buys: Blocks, mob drops, Sparkly things
I look forward to seeing what other shops are available on the server
To make a shop simply shift and left click on a chest with the item you want to buy/sell in hand. Then enter in chat how much you want to buy/sell it for. To change a selling shop into a buying shop look at the chest and type /qs buy.
Please keep this thread for shop listings only, any other posts will be hidden. 
Thanks
Clare