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The Indiesquish Review - #4.2

Hi everyone! Fauxx here with this week’s weekly update. With the server being a bit quiet over the last few weeks, we wanted to take this time to improve the Minesquish experience for all of our players, both new and old. Our current home world, Greenleaf, has seen a lot of use over the last year, but as time has passed, we’ve started to accumulate some abandoned houses. In an effort to keep the world functional, beautiful, and welcoming to our current playerbase, as well as any newcomers, we are starting a campaign to clean up Greenleaf. This will affect all builds that are currently unowned, so if you think you might’ve forgotten to put a sign on your house letting us know who owns it, take a look and double check! In one week, on March 20th, we’ll be regenerating the land these builds sit on, to clear up the land for others to build on. If your home does have a sign on it, don’t worry, nothing will happen to it. Again, this only affects unclaimed, abandoned buildings on the Greenleaf map.


Buildoff

The last Buildoff theme, Winter Wonderland, has been given a bit of a cold shoulder lately. Moving forward, the Buildoff will be taking a slight break, but it will be making its way back eventually.


Featured Builds

We are currently working on a quick and easy submission system for you all to send in pictures of your great builds! These pics will be featured here in the newsletter and possibly even on our social media accounts! We’ll keep you guys updated as this plan moves forward.

Skull Mountain

Deep rumblings have been heard from the depths of Skull Mountain! Past adventurers have bravely fought through the terrors that await below us, but what could these new, strange noises mean for us? We’ve sent our best hunters into the mountain to try to figure it all out.
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The Adventures of Igdiana Jones and Ezra Ravenwood

Many past expeditions and adventures brought fame and fortune to these pair of daring archaeologists, and they’ve recently been spotted in Greenleaf. The world itself remains largely unexplored, as most settlers have elected to stay closer to the safety and security of Willowshome. The daring duo were last seen heading Northeast from Willowshome, towards the lost town of "Port Cutlass". We were unable to get any more information from Ezra before he dashed off to catch his friend. Maybe our own brave adventurers will catch up to them on their journey. Are you up to the challenge?

Oktoberfest 2017

Greetings, everyone! Oktoberfest 2017 has officially begun on Indiesquish! We've got a new map for you guys to explore and have fun on. You can access this world with the command /gh.

There are traders, special event-only items, secret monster bosses, and more! Hope to see you there!

There are also four jumping puzzles around the map! Some may require a jump boost potion, but you can do some of them without! Just look for the pumpkins floating on top of buildings. When you get close, right-click them to trade for a special armor piece!
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Build Off Challenge #78 Volcano

Apologies for being so incredible late with this buildoff judging! I've had some personal difficulties that take up a lot of time.
Wow, what an amazing sight at night to see all 11 volcanoes spewing their lava about!
As always it was hard to choose a favourite because each build has their own unique qualities!

Our favourite this time is:
"Volcano" by Scarlett166
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Awesome shape and design! Love the blocks of fire and lava exploding from out the top. Lightning just adds to the effect!


Now for the rest of the builds in alphabetical order!

"Party Volcano" by Alireena and cute_duck_girl
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The top of lava really appears to be bubbling with the smoke above it, that looks awesome!


"Magic Volcano" by Artemeus and LexiconausRex
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Original idea, the underwater part looks great, the bus looks very cute up top. It also has a nice shape to it, lots of colors and lava.


"Geyser" by ASilentSloth
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We love the science lesson, but miss the lava. :)


"Vulcanito" by CosmicDonut
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Little and cute!


"Katey’s Volcano Home" by Katey_Cat
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Original idea, we do like the entrance a lot, but are missing furniture to give it that homey feeling inside,
nice size to your volcano and bubbling lava.


"Oozy Volcano" by pinkchomby
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We love the use of materials, the volcano has a great shape to it, would have loved to see it lit up more, so it would have the same beauty at night.


"Volcano Soup" by ScreAminGnOIses
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Nice thinking outside of the box! It sure looks like a big cauldron of lava.


"Mt. Hideous" by SirMacintosh
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It’s a very symmetrical volcano, we like that you can go in, wish there was more in there tho.
The shape reminds us of ruins!


"The Volcano Mess" by SuperheroAA
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It really is a big geyser of lava! The erupting effect works really well.


"Mini Valcano" by Tanksarkana
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This mini volcano looks very cute, we like the use of different materials, the black lava rock looks really good!


Great job all around guys <3
Thanks so much for participating, cya next buildoff!

The Monthly Squish - Return of the Newsletter

Greetings everyone, and welcome to the fourth installment of the The Squish. It's been quite awhile since the last newsletter, and I'm sorry for that. Several events have come up over the last weeks that have needed attention. To better work in time for the newsletter and to make sure I can make it the best it can be, The Weekly Squish will become The Monthly Squish, being posted at the beginning of each month, starting here in October. With all that said, let's get down to it!


Buildoff

The Volcano buildoff will be ending this Sunday, October 8th. The new theme will be announcend and while I won't say exactly what it is, I hope you're ready to carve a path to victory! Any more information on the buildoff can be found on the Buildoff Topic.


If you'd like to talk to Fauxx about having your build featured, send him a PM here or on Discord. We're featuring one build a month, and would love to show off yours!

Oktoberfest

It's that time of the year again. When ghouls and goblins come out to play and monsters roam (even more) freely. Our annual Oktoberfest celebration will be starting October 15th, in just under two weeks! Special items, monsters, stories, and more await in a new adventure that takes place in its own little world. More info will be revealed shortly before the event and it will last from October 15th to November 1st. Be sure to get the collectibles!

The Weekly Squish - Issue #2

Welcome back, everyone, to the second issue of the Weekly Squish! This week brings some a new featured build, a small teaser, and another game giveaway!

Buildoff

Buildoff is off to a great start this month, with several tree houses already being built! You'll have until July 9th to finish up your tree house. Any more information on the buildoff can be found on the Buildoff Topic.

Terraria & Starbound

Our Terraria and Starbound servers have survived their first week, and Fauxx has only had to put out several small fires, none of which consumed the entirety of his sanity, so we're off to a great start! Starbound has been very stable over the last week, but Terraria is being worked on almost daily, so please bear with us as we troubleshoot any problems that may arise. Any more information can be found in their specific sub-forums.

Featured Build

In each issue of the Weekly Squish, we're going to be taking a look at one build on the Minesquish server. These builds may not always be complete, but the creativity behind them is what we really want to shine a light on. Over the course of the week, if you see a build you'd like to be featured, or would like to submit your own, let us know! You can contact Fauxx here on the forums or on our Discord chat. He checks both more than he probably should in a day. This week's featured build is brought to us by Chiprock2. His yacht, "The Serenity"!

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Chiprock2 posted a forum topic here, featuring several screenshots that I'll post here, along with some of his thoughts.

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Normally I'm not a huge fan of builds that have no texture to them, however one genre it does work quite well for is ultra modern, and so with that I decided I would challenge myself to build within that theme, one that I have developed a huge interest in over the past few years, but never actually got around to building anything major for.


Again, if you'd like to talk to Fauxx about having your build featured, send him a PM here or on Discord. We're featuring one build a week, and would love to show off yours!


Dark Rumblings


As we all settle in to Greenleaf to start our new life, rumors have started to buzz around the great Willowshome. Talk of a skull, large and intimidating, carved into a mountainside, spreads among the denizens of Greenleaf. No one is sure who built it, or what treasures and monsters may lie in wait in the depths of the cave.
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Giveaway

Lastly, we will be holding a giveaway for a copy of the Plants VS. Zombies GOTY! This giveaway will end on Sunday, June 25th, at midnight CST. There's nothing special to do to enter this giveaway, just leave a post below and you'll be entered into the drawing! You must have a steam account to redeem this prize.

The Weekly Squish - Issue #1

Hello Everyone! It's been a busy week here at Indiesquish and I hope all of you are having a great summer so far! As you may, (or may not!) know, the server has recently updated to version 1.12, the World of Color update! This is a very exciting time for all of us here, because with the coming of summer and the start of a new world, there's lots of time and space for fun!

Buildoff

The Buildoff competition's recent theme, "The Wild Wild West!", came to a close yesterday, with AtomicWaffles_ winning this round. You can find more information, along with pictures, in the topic for this theme. We have started the new Buildoff theme in celebration of the great Willowshome. The new theme is "Tree Houses"! This theme will end on approximately July 9th.

Terraria & Starbound

More exciting news, both our Terraria and Starbound servers have been brought back online, thanks to some quick troubleshooting from a horde of pixies that we definitely have under control and definitely are not afraid of. You can chat and share your screenshots of the server in each game's subforum.

Featured Build

In each issue of the Weekly Squish, we're going to be taking a look at one build on the Minesquish server. These builds may not always be complete, but the creativity behind them is what we really want to shine a light on. Over the course of the week, if you see a build you'd like to be featured, or would like to submit your own, let us know! You can contact Fauxx here on the forums or on our Discord chat. He checks both more than he probably should in a day. For the first week, while everyone is finishing settling in for the journey ahead, we'll be taking a look at Willowshome, the big tree you spawn in on Greenleaf.

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Willowshome was built by several of the admin team over the course of a couple days. We decided to name the world Greenleaf, and with it, came the... green leaves.

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For me personally, I feel like building in a jungle brings lots of things to the table. The nights seem so much more dark, while the days seem much more relaxed, with lots of leaf cover and shade. This can be seen in Willowshome, where you start out at the top, out in the sun and looking out over the canopy, sunlight spilling over the trees. Yet if you travel down to the bottom, you're in another place completely. Undergrowth and shorter trees grow in under the jungle trees, almost covering the grass completely, and helping the canopy to blot out the sun.

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The interior of Willowshome serves a purpose as well, providing shelter and some of the amenities you may need to survive out in the world. These include, but are not limited to, a fully powered enchanting table, storage, alchemy stands, and more.

Again, if you'd like to talk to Fauxx about having your build featured, send him a PM here or on Discord. We're featuring one build a week, and would love to show off yours!
Giveaway

Lastly, we will be holding a giveaway for a copy of the Don't Starve Together Frontier Pack! This includes the base game, Don't Starve, along with the multiplayer version, Don't Starve Together. To enter the giveaway, simply post below about an adventure you've had in a video game. It doesn't have to be something that happened on Minesquish or any of or servers. We'd just like to read your stories! To redeem this prize you must have a Steam account! You have until Saturday, the 17th, at midnight CST.




Thank you for reading. This has been the first issue of the Weekly Squish. I'll be looking for ways to improve it and for more things to include as time goes on. If you've got any feedback or questions, leave them in the comments below and I or another admin will answer as soon as we can.

Squishbound updated to 1.3 - Spacefarer Update!

Our Starbound server is now running the newest update, version 1.3, the Spacefarer Update.
The rules are very similar to Minesquish.
  1. No griefing. Don't touch it if it belongs to someone else.
  2. No harassing other players.
  3. No swearing.
  4. Don't create large holes or similarly death-inducing death traps.

The IP is mc.indiesquish.com.

TerraSquish updated to 1.3.5.3!

The server does not have a whitelist and is open to all.
We're recommending folks only use 'softcore' characters.

The rules are very similar to Minesquish.
  1. No griefing. Don't touch it if it belongs to someone else.
  2. No harassing other players.
  3. No swearing.
  4. Don't create large holes or similarly death-inducing death traps.

The IP is mc.indiesquish.com.
(it IS an 'Expert World', but has NOT progressed to 'hard mode' yet)

EDIT by 1wolffan: We're also trying to encourage people to stay at similar tech-levels to players already on the server. That being said, we are disallowing hard mode until the admins decide everyone is capable of handling the harder stuff.

Minesquish updated to 1.12!

As of today Minesquish has been updated to version 1.12! Parrots have been spotted in the jungles around Willowshome. Keep an eye out!

If you haven't been whitelisted yet, you can check out the application page here!

Minesquish updated to 1.11.2!

Greetings all!

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We've been hard at work over the last few days brainstorming and building to bring you a new home world, Greenleaf! Set in a tall tree in the middle of a dense jungle, there are many adventures to be had and homes to build! You can join the server by setting your version to 1.11.2 and connecting to the server IP: mc.indiesquish.com

The world currently has a border of 1000x1000 blocks, but will expand as more players start to move in.

With the release of 1.12 coming very soon, we will be updating to this new version as soon as we get a stable build!

If you are not yet on our whitelist, check out the Application page!

Have fun!

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