A creeper uprising in Ateph causes the world to be quarantined. In collusion with withers and other nefarious parties the vast creeper plot has caused such great damage in the world of Ateph that blocks falling have overwhelmed the Ateph world council. They have pleaded for assistance from the multi-verse, and we have heard their call. The world of Ateph has been put under a state Archon law and a quarantine has been enacted. Players will not be able to visit the word until this rebellion has been quelled.

We are sorry for any inconvenience the temporary closure of access to the world may have caused you, however rest assured as soon as the creeper conspiracy has put down travel will resume to the vacation world of Ateph.

~ cyberdrifter

Update: The server upgrade is finished!

On Tuesday, Jan 31st, all the Pearl servers will experience downtime during an operating system upgrade. The system upgrade will allow us to continue updating software with bug and performance fixes. Measures are being taken to ensure all server data will be preserved, including remote backups, so everything will be where you left it when the servers are brought back up.

I cannot provide a precise estimate of how long the servers will be down. Making final backups and working through the main upgrade steps will take less than an hour, but verifying everything works afterwards depends on how much software needs manual adjustments.

With the last update for mincraft llamas were added, being the kind of player that wants to see the new stuff I just had to get brave the new world boarder to look for a llama to bring home back to my spawn stables.

On my way back to spawn I got a little sleepy, needing somewhere to keep my wonderful beast safe I built a pen to keep her in, i then promptly took a nap and forgot to keep myself safe. When I woke I was being carried away by morlocks looking very much like evokers. I won my freedom but was lost, and more importantly so was my llama.

If you find my llama pen you will win a prize of 2 llama spawn eggs (the only 2 on Pearl) and a shulker box. All you need to do to win when you find the llama is to make a new PE with the llama's name. You can keep the llama, I did not...

Update: The server has been successfully updated to 1.11.2. Please report any new bugs and feel free to rejoice over any resolved old bugs.

The plan for updating is to dive in either tomorrow, Dec 23, or Monday, 26th. Bugs are almost guaranteed, but we'll threaten to send them to Ateph if they don't shape up.

For details of what changed in 1.11.x, check out the Minecraft Wiki entries.
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.11.1
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.11
1.11.2 minor update was crash fix, no game feature changes.

Compatibility to 1.10.x and 1.9.x connections may be temporarily broken right after the update, but will be restored if possible.

The Lobby server (waiting area when main server is unavailable) will be held back while...

yup December 17th (is almost here) again. Tomorrow is first flight day.

Wait, last year you posted on on the day of First flight day, what gives?
I was being generous and giving you a day notice, woot for me.

What is first flight day on Pearl?
It is a day that we give players an hour to fly.

Do I get to fly all day?
Nope, flying time is between 7PM and 8PM EST. Be on the ground at 8PM or that first step might hurt. Hey, at least flight is not limited to the 12 seconds 0f the first Wright Brother's flight.

I just login during that hour and I can fly?
Yes,...