We now have an up-to-date home plugin thanks to kosakriszi, a Manager/Developer on Minetown! The most notable benefit is that the new plugin supports name changes! There isn't much to say about the commands, they work as you're used to.

There is only one known caveat to the plugin update at this point.
Players that changed their names and up to now have not logged in with the new name, may have lost their homes. However, if a player with lost homes logs in, they can make a petition for help.

Please do report if you find any bugs.

I may not know the exact day that shayne1010 join PearlMC (about 2 years ago I would guess), however today he joins the team of staff.
You may have seen shayne1010 answering questions and helping new players with their first builds.
Please give a great bit congratulations to Shayne.

Woot, another person I can blame (when I crash the server).

After much trials (getting "accidentally" killed in Ateph, namely), Jenna has shown herself to be an active and honorable Scout. So we have promoted her from running the server to doing more work.

Please give her some well-deserved congratulations... and more things to do.

On 2105-07-17 our claims plugin crashed leaving all land as unclaimed for a short time. Some players took advantage of claims glitch to loot and grief their neighbors.
As you know unclaimed land is fair game, however exploiting a glitch is cause for disciplinary action.

Since we have a bit of a grey area in how the two rules are interpreted I have decided to side on leniency.

If you looted or griefed during the claims outage you must make restitution by 2015-07-24 or face being banned.
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Players that griefed or looted a shop have already been banned, there is no plausible deniability that players looting shops did not know they were breaking Pearl rules!
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If you were looted or griefed and restitution has not been made please make a...

Since Pearlmc was founded, we have been using a plugin called BOSEconomy. Unfortunately, it has been several months abandoned by its developers, has no UUID support, and there are no longer files hosted on Bukkit for it (never ported to Spigot).

Finding a way to convert the economy data to an active plugin project has been challenging, several times my testing has ended with negative results. However, I finally was able to get a new plugin, with UUID support, to cleanly convert the balances.

The economy commands have been updated in the Members Ranks page of the wiki, including there is now a working /money top command.

After a staff conference it was deemed that it is unfair for me to be a top voter in the month if June.
Dimbulb, JennaBlueCloud, and Bebetoo all say I am too rich an and need to be divested of such riches.

I am not sure if they are in cahoots with the creeper plot from the last contest where I lost a wall of cake and a mob head collection, however the bosses of PearlMC have demanded that we have another contest.

FAQ:
What are the prizes?

1. My double chest of voting cookies (bring your own milk)
2. RP for top voters:
   1. $5,000 for top voter ~ Winner - JennaBlueCloud
   2. $2500 Second top voter ~ Winner -...