Once again, Spigot will be exhibiting at Minecon. It was announced last saturday, just 35 days before the event.
This is be the second time they have exhibited at Minecon, as they also exhibited last Minecon (2013).

However exhibiting isn’t cheap, and I ask you (if you can) to donate to them.
Throughout the past months, Spigot has kept Bukkit servers up to date and still running, even if they have done it in ways disliked by many of the community…

If you would like to find more information about Spigot’s exhibition, see their post.

Not very long ago Lapitar was deprecated in favour of Visage.

Visage is not only a successor to Lapitar, it is also a lot better than Lapitar.
This is because of better code, and Visage is backed by better servers.

Visage like most other avatar services, comes with a variety of different modes. Visage is no exception!

Firstly there is face. Face is a very simple 2D face view.
Next there is head. Head is a perspective 3D head view.
There is also bust. Bust is a 3D bust view of the player.
You also have full. Full is a full 3D view of the player.
Lastly you have skin. Skin is… the skin.

Visage is the best skin service I have used, and I strongly recommend you check it out.

Yesterday it was announced that State Of Sponge Four has been rescheduled to Saturday the 6th of June.
It was rescheduled to be a month prior to Minecon.

You can find more information regarding the reschedule on their post.

I will still watch the stream, and play on any test server.

Once again SpongePowered have announced their next State Of Sponge, and like last time I will make a blog post about it.
In case you don’t know what State of Sponge is it is where the Sponge team come together to talk about their progress in a nice ~2 hour live stream.
There is usually a demo server, running the latest build of Sponge, showcasing community and sponge-made plugins.

The stream should be available on twitch.tv/SpongePoweredMC, however it is recommended you follow them on Twitter in case this changes.
Permitting the server isn’t as unstable as last time, I will be on there enjoying whatever the Sponge team has created.

The date has since been rescheduled - read more here.

You can find more information about State Of Sponge Four on their post.

Beyond State of Sponge they have made their Minecon submission public.
Hopefully they will get their place in Minecon as they so rightfully deserve.

State of Sponge Four has finished now, however you can still watch it.

In little over 2 hours, State of Sponge Three will commence.
As usual I will watch and probably play on the server (if there is one).

For more information, see Sponge’s post on this.

For those of you who were unable to watch…

What is NeptunePowered?

NeptunePowered is all about providing the best Minecraft can offer.
We accomplish this by taking the best of Minecraft today, and preparing it for tomorrow.
Currently we are working on Neptune, described below.

What do we do?

Neptune currently develops the following:

• NeptuneVanilla
• NeptuneForge
• NeptuneLib

What is NeptuneVanilla?

NeptuneVanilla is an implementation of CanaryLib for ‘vanilla’ Minecraft.
Doing the same thing as CanaryMod, NeptuneVanilla differs in implementation and how closely it resembles ‘vanilla’ Minecraft.

What is NeptuneForge?

NeptuneForge is an implementation of CanaryLib for Minecraft Forge.

What is NeptuneLib?

NeptuneLib is an extension to CanaryLib, designed to aid the development of plugins.
NeptuneLib will be distributed as a plugin to encourage small sized plugins.

What about Arno?

Arno was renamed and lives on through NeptuneForge.
Little change was made during the transition to Neptune. The major one being it is now powered by NeptuneCommon.

Contact us

You are able to contact us in our public IRC channels: #neptune and #neptunedev (irc.esper.net).
You can also contact us through our public email: contact@neptunepowered.org.

We are looking for developers interesting in shaping the future of Neptune: sign up.