Hollandcraft Network

Dear players,

As a new addition to our Staff team, and because we felt there was a desire for more variety in Staff, we hereby introduce the Junior Helper Programme.

The Junior Helper Programme (JHP) is a programme in which we take on players for a test period as Staff members with limited permissions. When this month is over, we decide whether these players are suitable to be full Staff, or that they unfortunately did not meet the requirements. In the first case, they will be promoted to Helper, in the second they will be reset to their original rank. With this programme, we hope to enforce our Staff team and have a more varied group. This is because English speaking players can also participate in the JHP!

How can I participate in the JHP?

It's very easy: you simply create a Staff apply! This can be done on the forums, and should be at least 100 words in length. Include your Skype name and Minecraft name and post your apply. That's all you have to do.
You can go to the staff application thread by clicking here.

How long does the JHP last?

The JHP lasts 30 days. Every first day of the month, new Junior Helpers are selected, and the Junior Helpers of the previous month are either promoted or reset to their original rank.

We hope to have informed you sufficiently about this matter, and we also hope to see many of you as Junior Helpers soon!

Best regards,

Michel and the...

Dear Players,

Maintenance finished

To improve the network of our server, we have decided to reinstall all servers, this is done.
We only have to transfer the current online servers to those other servers, so you might experience some downtime!

Update 1: Still transfering data, takes longer than expected. Probably will be online tomorrow.
Update 2: It's enough for today, all servers are transfered, the only thing that has to be done is to reinstall a decent ban plugin, fix some internal configurations and last check if votifier is still working.
Update 3: Started again, about an hour ago, new ban system is almost done, checking up final things.
Update 4: Ban system has been updated and working, now working on some internal configurations.
Update 5: Everything is back online again.

Best Regards,
Michel

Dear players,

We're pleased to announce we have finally released the next version of Hollandcraft in Minecraft 1.10.

Keep in mind it's a new server, there might be bugs.
If there are any bugs or problems you might occur, please report them to us.

We will release this week more new stuff, including a new store, with updated ranks and new information.
If there are any questions, feel free to ask them.

Special thanks to everyone who helped with making this possible, probably the whole staff team.

Best regards,
Michel

Dear players,

After some time working on the server, we finally have some news to share with all of you.

We have been working very hard last week on updating and finishing the different gamemodes, and we want to announce which gamemodes will immediately update to 1.10. And which gamemodes will be left behind for a while. The following gamemodes will be available immediately when the update has been released: Creative, Survival, Skyblock, Factions, Skywars, KitPvP and Hide and Seek.

We are aware that Survival Games, Escape from the Beast and Prison won't be released instantly. We are making sure that Prison and Survival Games will be available in a foreseeable period of time, with Prison coming first and then Survival Games. Escape from the Beast won't be making a return, since we have -in our opinion- a much more enjoyable gamemode available to us, and will be releasing that one first. Also, there is no functioning Escape from the Beast 1.10 plugin available, so we would have to develop something ourselves.

If we wanted to update these gamemodes as well, we would have to stall the update even more, which we don't want at all.

RESET
The gamemode-servers Creative, Survival and Factions, will get a complete reset, but Skyblock WON'T. This won't matter too much for Factions, since many of our players found that this gamemode was configured poorly, and we hope that this update will solve all of those problems. Creative is one of the oldest servers still available, and...

Dear players of Hollandcraft,

First of all we will say that we are grateful for the people that still play on Hollandcraft after a long time of still not updating the server to 1.10.

We are also grateful for the donations we still receive sometimes. We know that the amount of players is decreasing and some staff members finally want you to show some screenshots of the update. We also understand the hate and irritation of some players and we don't blame them. The update takes ages, but we can finally show you some sneak peeks of our upcoming update.

We hope that players will get excited (again) for the update and hopefully wait a little longer for the actual update. The update currently consist of an update of the spawnbuilding(s) of lobby, creative, skywars, survival, hide and seek, factions and kitpvp. We will show you some sneak peeks of these new buildings below.
We hope that you liked our new creations and you can post any suggestions about these buildings and/or servers in the comments below.

Typed by @LuukDMM, @Caeruleus_ and @vosje2, well appreciated by me.

Kind regards,
The staff team

Dear Players,

After a long period of silence from us, we finally have some news about what could definitely be said earlier.

We have been working on the server update since the end of may, but at that time I was busy with school and decided to focus on that instead of Hollandcraft at the time. Some things were ready for the 1.9 update and after that I was finished with school for the year we continued updating. I went on a holiday shortly after and when I returned, suddenly Mojang decided to release Minecraft 1.10. All our work had to be redone and everything needed a new update even before we launched it.

We started working on it, not like we are doing now. The last few weeks we have made major progress to release half of our gamemodes, there is now a solid backbone to build all our new Minigames on to provide a much more reliable network and coming with that a better player experience.

But we aren't done yet, there is still work to do..
We wanted to release half of our gamemodes before today, but due to some complications, and lack of time, we couldn't make it. We are working on all the gamemodes now, changed some plans and want to release everything within a week or 3/4.

If you have some ideas about the update, please suggest them to us.

If you have any questions about the 1.10 update, and the changes Hollandcraft will be making, don't hesitate to ask them.

Best Regards,
Your staffteam

Dear players,

Recently we got more questions about the fact to sell their rank to other players. This is possible, but we won't recommend you to do this.

If we see players frequently joining using the same IP, is it possible for you to get a ban. This is an unnecessary risk for you to get a ban, because if you just donate using your own account in our own secured store, you do not have that same risk if you just use your own account and follow the rules. It's also possible for you to get scammed, between the payment and the transfer, with changing the account password.

Best Regards,
The Staffteam

Dear players of Hollandcraft,

I would like to create some sort of event. I haven't decided yet what to do but I was thinking about UHC.

My idea was that we create a UHC tournament every month. Fifteen or so teams consisting of 2 or 3 players per team surviving/fighting against each other. The top 3 teams get a reward consisting of a rank or something like that.

But since this is a new thing here on Hollandcraft and I don't know what you guys want to do. I ask for your opinion on certain things:

On what day do you want this even to take place? Vote here.
At what time should the event take place? Vote here.
Do you want to play in a team or solo? Vote here.
And last but not least do you want to play UHC or something else? Vote here.

Votes so far (23-05):

I will consider your answers before making a final decision.

What does UHC mean?: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Ultra_hardcore_survival...

Dear players,

We currently have some trouble with our proxy servers, so we decided to delay the release of the new Factions to give all players a fair chance. The release will probably take place tomorrow afternoon.

If it isn't solved tomorrow afternoon, then the release will again be delayed with one day.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
~ Michel and the rest of our Staff Team