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Ever since my friends invited me onto this server, I started playing on it daily, I started to learn the names of the members and staff, Learned the way that JR wants to run. I joined the server at the age of 13/14. Played on it to this very day. When I got to talking to staff often, I started wanting to help JR grown and be a better community. I would stay on all night while all the EU staff were sleeping, and take screen shots of people cursing, cheating, or griefing. (being a tattle tale) I tried everything I could to become apart of the staff. It was my dream goal to one day be wearing a red name tag in the Minecraft server under "Admin". I maybe tried too hard to become staff as I would try and beat the staff to the problem and try to fix it myself. Posted on forums to try and get activity up. I tried all I could, attended every meeting. The day came on my 16th birthday I could apply for helper. I was so happy, It took a few days for them to look over it but finally I was accepted as a Helper. I was the happiest guy alive. Then I continued to strive to work up the ranks and do my best and help the Owner, Admins, and Mods in anyway I could. When I was promoted to Grief Police at the time, was another amazing day for me, I ran around my house (literally) to get my excitement out of the way. Grief Police was later merged into Moderator, Which is where I stand. I have thought about this for many days. This might be the hardest thing I have ever had to do. There comes a point in our lives where we all must say goodbye to something, someone, or some place that we love. It's never easy. But today I must make one of those hard goodbyes, Today is the day I feel I must step down from management. There are a few reasons for this. First, my current life situation doesn't give me a whole lot of time to be active enough to help and support the server/community. Second, I joined this community for the Minecraft aspect, and as I feel the majority of the community is now past the Minecraft aspect. I feel there is not much for me to do here. Third, I don't really offer any help anymore. Everything JR as a whole needs help with from staff is either beyond my abilities or in games that I do not own or play. I will never forget this amazing time I have had here, nor will I ever leave the community. This will always be my home, staying up late talking to members and staff. Getting to know such amazing people. Everyone here has had a place in my heart since I got to know them. All the staff were so helpful and caring. I have never had bad times being here. I have always had people to rely on and count on to pick me up when I'm feeling down. I will always recommended this place to anyone as it is nothing but inspiration. So many amazing unique people. I wish I coulda done more for the server but I did what I was capable of doing. This my last post as staff at JR. I will always remember and love this place. I hope one day I will be able to bring my daughter to come play here. ❤️ People that I want to thank specifically: Serena, Djexecute, Noni, JuggaGirl, Chris, harsol, kickyabutt24, Barbermiss, Mrcoconut2012, AnioNovus, p4ck3ts3nd3r, Risen Havoc, UploadGFX, Daisuke, Lightning Potatoe People that really made an impact on me: Sophie and Frosty. I am sorry if I forget anyone, there were a lot of people so many years ago that were so fun to talk to and play with. Most importantly thank you Jamie for making this a thing and keeping it going even in rough times. I wish I coulda done more to support financially. But thank you for making this all possible I will not forget you.

Hey guys! Please post screenshots of the 5 dinos that you want to keep here! 🤩

My advice for the JR supplydrop would be: Dino's: 5 Dinos currently owned by players to take with you (including current dino lvl) 5 Cryopods 1 saddle per chosen dinos Utility: 200 cooked meat 500 narcotics 250 stimulant 50 taming sedative 20 element Gear: 1-2 Metal Hatchet 1-2 Metal Pick 1-2 Metal sickle 1 Metal pike 1 shotgun 50 shotgun rounds 1 Crossbow 50 arrows 1 set of flak gear 1 backpack (if still used) 1 Canteen Buildings: 16 foundations 1 dino gate 1 dino gateway 16 Ceilings 56 Walls 1 vault 1 upgrade station + attachments (if still used) This should let ppl have a decent start without giving to much of a head start to newer players. Please review the list and let me know what you guys think. Maybe some stuff needs to be removed or added.

This should be in a blog article but I said I'd pop it in the forum chat in case people want to discuss the situation. Recently a lot has happened causing my absence at JR. So what's happened: Car broke down on a sunday About a month and a bit my car broke down. I lost all power and my car was basically able to speed up to around at max 60km/hr. Took it to the garage, one problem was the fact a bolt went on the exhaust manifold meaning there was no pressure to the turbo. After they resolve that issue I got a call from the garage saying your turbo is also gone. So I had to wait another few days for the turbo to be replaced. I was working from home in the week and a half while my car was getting repaired. My car got rammed After I picked up the car (literally was driving for an hour) a driver, who was on the phone rammed in to me at a speed of 60 - 70km/hr. There was a car in front of me turning right. I had come to a halt, looked in my mirror and a guy who was on the phone. Rammed the rear of my car cause nearly 1700 euro damage. I was took away to A and E due to shock and whiplash. The guy who crashed in to me was arrested due to a supposed outstanding warrant for his arrest. (Weird he didn't run after he hit me). With this whole ordeal the gent didn't produce a licence or insurance documentation which mean the cops here are now after him in relation to this now too. Which also means it's a more drawn out process getting my money back from getting my car repaired. Luckily work is helping me sort the bill out. (If they didn't help I'd be in worse shape). I've been staying in limerick after this whole ordeal. I couldn't spend a month or so on my own at home (I was getting lonely as it was the week my car broke down) For the first week after the incident I was sleeping for the week as I couldn't muster the energy to do anything. How's me after this? I'm still suffering after effects of the whiplash. I'm having trouble sleeping, my neck, shoulders and back are in pain after it. It's been very hard to deal with the pain and I know for certain I never want to suffer this again. It's been causing me to be really tired and I can't stop falling asleep in the middle of trying to remotely work. What's happening now? I'm still waiting for my car from the garage which should be done this Wednesday. It's going to be weird as I haven't drove properly for over a month and a bit now. I'm trying to get my life back on track and my solicitor is currently dealing with all the paperwork. I'll be coming back to JR and starting to help develop our services further and we will be holding staff meetings again pretty soon when I get back to normality. For the people who play and use JR I hope you now understand what I have been going through. All the redtape I've had to go through has been tough and that is why, while I have been putting comments in every now and again I've been pretty absent from all JR related activities. I can't wait to come back and continue to work on my life project. If you have any questions please let me know here and I'll reply when I see them. Thanks to everyone who has wished me well and who have spoken to me on discord. I appreciate everyone's support

If you have played for a while you'll know me. If you're new... Hi I am Leslee better known as BarberMiss. or Barb. I live in Kentucky in the US. I am a Barber who is Female and single ergo Barber Miss. I'm not the oldest player by far but I am up there. This December I will turn 57....pushing 60 ...wow feels weird to say it. I enjoy Minecraft because it's relaxing to me. I love to build, decorate, farm, and hunt for treasure. I used to be an Admin but I have forgotten almost all that I learned after being gone for so long. I will try to help if I am able, so just ask. Hope to see you in play!

I am xJake7 and I have joined JR around a fortnight ago, but I was a member of JR a few months ago but wasn't very active so I left. I want to be a lot more active in the JRNetwork and in the Discord. I look forward to talking to all of you. Bye for now 😄

Guys, Its been a week, we don't want to fully rush things and as I stated to @Snowball privately I wouldn't have time till the start of the week to make any more movement. You guys have to understand I work a full 40 hour a week job have many more responsibilities than just JR. JR of course has admins to help at any times they can but we all have a life. I'd understand if this was dragged out 2, 3 weeks without any staff input on the topic but we have been posting when we have chance. Restarting an entire ark cluster isn't a two second job. I have many checks internally to complete before I do this as I want to ensure this does not happen again. Please stay patient our new ARK servers will be operational at some point during the start of next week i imagine. Just remember i pay big money for our servers out of my back pocket and we work on JR when possible. Unfortunately sometimes life gets in the way and I hope you can understand this. JR isn't a quick and easy thing to run, to run correctly I do more behind the scenes than people actually are aware. We run Linux servers for a reason but that also complicates some things. Things aren't like your computer such as clicking one button to install things. There is a lot of automation to keep things running while I am away and this has to be all setup before things are put in place. As for this week it took me a few days to sort a serious issue on our servers that caused major issues with how our servers were running. In relation to this ARK install I want to make things easier for our admins to manage the server so I will be looking at a new way of integrating ARK in to our panel. This will take a few days in it self of testing to ensure everything works as intended. Please again remain patient we will be working very hard on this when I get back so JR ARK will exceed your expectations and be a way better experience than in the past few weeks

3 mod start S+ Taming sedative Tek Helper

We don't need ACM, it's a convenience thing; that is more of an inconvenience these days as it doesn't work 95% of the time. Also can you narrow your list of essentials down to 3 mods, we are trying to start off small to ensure maximum compabitility between the mods used.

Reading @MarcusFaren's and @Snowball's posts they both raise certain points. Mods do add new IDs for stuff, however if they are created properly as clean and stackable mods it wouldn't matter about moving dinos from one server that doesn't have the mod to one that does. They should revert to standard vanilla dinos. For example we could uninstall Classic Flyers right now and all your dinos would still be there, just they would no longer be classic flyer versions of the dinos they would revert to vanilla. As far as I'm aware the Aberration and Scorched Earth mods were installed on the appropriate servers and assumed to be clean and stackable, we also had to rush to install them as the last mods we were using for the engrams got pulled from the workshop randomly and stopping people from connecting to the servers. If we do a supply drop as opposed to allowing transfers we would be able to provide downloads to the old maps so that people would be able to play them locally if they wished. We will also realease the mod list so you could carry on with these worlds on your own local game. On @IAMSNOWMAN's concerns about this just being a map reset, we should be setting up a completely new set of servers from scratch to ensure no files are carried over. @heaven I understand what you're going through, you're new to the game and don't want to lose all that you've worked for. However you could look at this in another light, taking all that you've learned so far to improve how you play the game when you start fresh. I found that when playing ark to begin with it was handy to start over as I found better ways to do things and had an idea of what I needed to survive. As the map randomly resetting isn't going to stop overnight, we need to take drastic action to fix this as it is happening so much. I completely understand that you don't want to lose your work, no one does. As we are compensating players with 5 dinos we can make these utility dinos to help you with resource gathering.

So has a select few of you know of my situation. I planned on making this post later this month. But honestly its all my friends and I kinda talk about cause I just always need so much help and advice. Most of you will be too young to give help really cause hopefully you wont be in my situation until your older and more stable and ready to handle it (being financial). Begging of this year (2018) I managed to grab myself a girlfriend from work. We spent as much time as we could together when we weren't working. We had a good time and loved being together. We are both the same age as I am 1 month older then her. She has had more relationships and stuff before me and I knew all this before I asked her out. So I was ok with it. the main thing is, She has a 3 year old daughter. At first it was a challenge getting her kid to like me and be comfortable with me. after week and week of being with the kid and her she finally realized im not scary and we got along. Being able to play "do" makeup together and our hair and what not. Around the time of late April early May she came to me with big and important news. I didn't exactly know what to expect. she sat me down. And as she was very worried of my reaction she then told me that she has been pregnant since early March. At first I didn't know what to say, feel, or respond. I just wanted everyone to be happy. But as I have had more time to think of it I am excited to have a little Carter (my name) or Ravek JR growing up to take my shoes. To this day I am mostly just worried as I want the best for my child. She is due early January and I will not find out the gender until the 22nd of this month. which is why I wanted to wait so long to make this. But me and the mother are not having the best of relations right now which is making things even harder for me. As I don't want my child to grow up with split parents or just 1 parent for that matter. I currently don't have a job either, so money is weighing heavily on my back right now, as well as time. I'm trying my best to keep the mother happy so we can stay together, but again things are going downhill faster then I can catch up with, and its not looking good honestly. To top it all off my IRL friends aren't really supporting me like they said they would and I thought they would. I have had 2 groups of friends growing up. 1 that went to my school and I talked to most of the time played games with. The other I knew since I was young, played sports with ect. The 2nd group are all in school as I am not, and we just have drifted I feel too far apart to really be special to each other anymore honestly. My first friend group that I went to school with are just busy and are getting other friends and we don't even talk weekly anymore. I feel alone at this point and the biggest reason I am making this post is that JR is my last line of support that I don't want to lose and I want to share my life with you guys as I have been here for 6+ years. The staff the members have honestly made this place make me feel at home and I don't want to lose that feeling, I would love to one day have my kid grow up and play here and take my shoes as I grow old. I would love any advice anyone has to offer. But most importantly I would love support as I really just feel alone in this world. I hope no one will judge me either or think of me differently cause of this. Thank you for listening. I just want to give a quick thank you to p4ck, Jamie, Frosty, and chris for being supportive and helping me aswell really does mean more then you think and helps.

Im not new here as you can tell. But I would like to inform everyone I changed my name awhile back while my old name was too weird for people to say. So I changed it to "Tormenting" for awhile but then I got into Rocket League on steam and there was a pro player named "Torment' and then people started thinking I was him so it got annoying so I changed my name again to "Ravek". and I think its about time I fully change everything to this name as ive had it for quite awhile now. SwitchShotJolt is no longer a thing and Ravek is the new man.

AS many of you know I'm a huge halo fan, Now it's been announced that Halo: Master Chief Collection is coming to PC finally! Who's excited? It sounds good. And Halo reach has also been confirmed

Apologies, that time it was my fault. This is now resolved

I will have to fix this tomorrow as I'm not around till then, sorry about this but it will be sorted. Thanks

We wanted to do this, but currently there is no way automated possible. This is due to the way ARK is coded and there is nothing I can do about this currently I will look in to it again to see if anything has changed but no promises currently.

Nothing was lost, everything was transfered to a new server cluster yesterday. Please see the new IP's found on our server list. I haven't had a chance to create a news article yet.

I haven't yet heard from you to get your dino spawned @heaven, do you still need help or has this been solved?

I got a refund

So the time has come, I'm working to get the new servers online today. Please note the following: I will only be picking 3 - 4 mods to begin with. Mods may be added in the future I will keep the old game data if anyone wants a download PM me and I'll send you the map I will only get the new servers online if clustering works I will release the list of mods and more information when ready.

Not trying to offend any one. I do respect people's voluntary input. But responding on a forum doenst realy take a lot of time? After dropping the issue "bomb", there is no point in playing Ark. About the rushing part?. We are waiting nicely, and it would be nice to keep us updated? I totally agree with Snowball. Add the new server and let us start. Cause no one knows how long we need to wait politely. Then the staff can sort the problems and we can do something aswell.

This is going to sound a bit like a rant but the post above is striking a bit of a nerve. Please keep in mind that all i want is for the ARK cluster to thrive. Something i feel this recent issue is not helping at all. Let me start off by saying: Rushing is a non-discussion since its been almost a week... Most of the data required has been supplied by the community so far, not by the JR staff. This is ofcourse not a problem but now that action is required by the staff we hear nothing outside of a couple we are working "hard" on this issue. Something i find highly unlikely considering the responses and input. I always liked playing at JR and the active role the admins normally had in the community. This issue has risen alot of concerns on my end and is making me rethink wether i would like to keep waiting .... word of advice: Maybe next time make sure there is enough time on hand for a followup action when announcing something as impactfull as this.

I would like to express a bit of concern about the JR ARk servers. As someone that has done most of the legwork for this decision, despite not having any issues myself, i feel like there is no sence of urgency on the JR staff side. Since the announcement on tuesday the ARK servers have been empty. Like Heaven mentioned in the post above this one, can we get this issue sorted before we lose all ARK players on this cluster? Adding the new server and letting people start on that one while you sort the other ones would have resolved this days ago.

I agree with Marcus but might i add that S+ should be exampt from the choice (thus starting with 4 mods) since this is such a well known and very highly used mod on alot of servers. This mod has been tried and tested. If we go by my idea,, i would add More Narc & Tranq aswell since this (in combination with marcus's modlist) will give people the best chance at rebuilding quickly. @Jamie @Chris Where do we post proof of the 5 dinos?

@JamieMost of the players i know have checked the post if i look at whos read it. Only Jeremy is missing but i havent sen him online in a few days. If i see any online i will tell them.

Hallo Forum When i first joined the ark server ragnarok and the island had daily wild dino wipes.. Snce a few months the servers are not getting a wild dino wipe every day. So it basicly means u have to go around with a transmitter search for all the dinos and kill them all if u want high lvls to spawn. Duo to having to work 6 days a week and not having that much time left for games, is it possible to start doing wild dino wipes again when the server restarts at night ? Rick ( jeremy winterspoon )

I'll wait to see what other people think about this, Reason this was removed was due to reports on certain dinos not getting a chance to spawn and then when they did they would be wiped.

While I wish we had more players to join us, I love the 30 days up time xD

First week of January. 4th I think.

Ragnarok issue has now been resolved and the map has now been reloaded thanks for your patience and I'm sorry for the downtime caused!

@IAMSNOWMAN is getting it on PC too. Pretty sure someone from my SWTOR guild is getting it on PC too so we could all join forces and play together

JrCraft Very unexpected. Thank you. It usually takes me A lot of time and changes to come up with a build idea. I implemented a couple things I had Built in some of the past survival servers here in JRCraft Along with some of the updates I like. I'm glad JR is around and thanks to all the staff who has been so helpful when I'm in need of assistance, as well as the long time friends I've made here and I hope JrCraft is around for along time to come. I like all the plugins and mods the Minecraft server has and all the benefits. Sincerely, Gerald (Cythion)

Seem to have fixed the issue on Ragnarok, rebooting the other servers now with the fix deployed

I want you to know who I am - Goo Goo Dolls It's on the radio station I am listening to.

Thank you any and all support/advice does help.

I mean like I'm just working on whatever this room is gonna end up being

Hi Everyone! Just a quick and self explanatory guide on how to claim land on our survival server on Minecraft. Note: you will need a Golden Shovel to resize claims. To first create your claim, you place a Minecraft chest. You will see the blocks highlighted with a border around it. To resize this claim, you will need claim blocks. You can see how many claim blocks you have when you equip a golden shovel. Right click an edge with a golden shovel and move away from the claim and right click again on a block to extend the claim. Video on resizing a claim: d937d07ee5684e28d2ddd8bab3cf6e87.mp4 You get a limited amount of Claim blocks. This can be extended by playing more on the server. TIP: If the border disappears you can make it re-appear by re-equipping the golden shovel. The full command list is below: Command Description Aliases Permission /AbandonClaim Deletes the claim you're standing in. claims /ClaimExplosions Toggles if explosions are allowed in the claim. claims /Trust Gives another player permission to edit in your claim. /t claims /UnTrust Revokes any permissions granted to a player in your claim. /ut claims /AccessTrust Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, and beds. /at claims /ContainerTrust Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, beds, crafting gear, containers, and animals. /ct claims /TrustList Lists the permissions for the claim you're standing in. claims /SubdivideClaims Switches your shovel to subdivision mode, so you can subdivide your claims. /sc claims /BasicClaims Puts your shovel back in basic claims mode. /bc claims /PermissionTrust Grants a player permission to share his permission level with others. /pt claims /Untrust All Removes all permissions for all players in your claim. claims /AbandonAllClaims Deletes all of your claims. claims /BuyClaimBlocks Converts server money to claim blocks. /BuyClaim buysellclaimblocks /SellClaimBlocks Converts claim blocks to server money. /SellClaim buysellclaimblocks /GivePet Gives away a tamed animal. givepet /ClaimsList Lists a player's claims and claim block details. claims /IgnorePlayer Ignores a target player's chat messages. /Ignore ignore /UnIgnorePlayer Un-ignores a target player's chat messages. /UnIgnore ignore /IgnoredPlayerList Lists all players currently ignored. /IgnoreList ignore /Siege Besieges a player (disabled by default). siege /Trapped Gets a player out of a land claim he's trapped inside. trapped /UnlockDrops Allows other players to pick up items you dropped when you died. unlockdrops Other useful videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsjXB-BaE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FLCFam5LI&t=181s

I am excited to see what direction the game goes in and am proud of the fact i've pre ordered since announcement

For the mean time I have removed capitalism and the breedable griffin mod to help increase performance.

From what I understand CAMPS don't offer much space to build in. Think of them as a tiny outpost you can make and put anywhere you like. Also have the public workbenches too ^.^

It won't be like rust. From what I understand 24 people at most in a map 4x the size of Fallout 4's which gives us approximately 40km^2 to play about in. Dying doesn't make you lose anything from what I have read and you can respawn easily enough. While there will be PVP aspects to the game you won't be punished for dying

It's not going to be anything like ESO, ESO is an MMORPG where as Fallout 76 is just going to be a multiplayer fallout game. It's radically different from an MMORPG. Also ESO is made by Zenimax Online and not by Bethesda, they don't really have all that much to do with ESO. I'm personally looking forward to Fallout 76 after watching the noclip documentary on Fallout 76 and as much stuff as I can from E3 involving Todd Howard. It's a game that they went to get right at BGS, they have plenty of plans to keep it alive for a long time and they're looking to find a balance so PVP isn't too much of an issue if you do get killed. I am looking forward to being able to explore WV with friends

when you transfers back to the island via an obelisk you will get the question if you want to overwrite your character. If you chose not to do so then your old transferred character will still be there but you will have to download it.