Like the other threads currently circulating now regarding various popular steam games, here's another i think the opticraft community might like.

Don't Starve Together is much like it sounds. It's a survival type game where you try to survive against the shadow creatures of the night and the various monsters in the world, as well try to keep your hunger, sanity and health at a decent level. Many challenges will befall your group the longer you survive. Seasons change and winter is an absolute bitch. It's quite fun and for me, it's heavily reminiscent of Minecraft survival, albeit 2d and way more challenges. It's still in Early Access so it will have a few kinks/glitches but overall it's a pretty stable game.

The game is not currently on sale, however, those who currently own the original Don't Starve game can purchase the DST: Frontier Pack at a discounted 75% off price (so it would be about $5). I might be willing to occasionally work something out with a few people .

Feel free to leave your steam name in the thread if you're interested in playing the game with me or any others!

Age: 18
Location: Chicago, Illinois, America
Timezone: CST (UTC/GMT -6)
Join Date: SMP: in mid-february 2011. Forum: December 15, 2011
Were you recommended by anyone?: Zeradeth_
Why you should become a moderator: Today marks 6 months since I have resigned from my moderator position. I had decided then to resign for reason of fairness. I was going to be inactive a bit that summer and I needed some time to figure out things. I thought it would be unfair to be an inactive mod when so many others are rejected each mod app season, just hoping they could fill in my shoes. So I gave up my role. By several weeks, I had taken care of most of the things that were on my mind. It was a much shorter period of time than I had anticipated but perhaps it was because my mind over exaggerated what I needed to take care of. Nevertheless, I got my priorities and plans sorted out since then. I shall not delve into the details of these priorities, however.

Recently, after again adjusting my college schedule and deciding what to do in each section of free time I have per day, I have chosen to allow myself time for video games. I have recently found renewed interest in Minecraft and less interest in other games. Thus I have once again returned to my favorite community, Opticraft. With this mod app, though I have been back for a bit now, I also officially announce my return to Opticraft.

I consider myself a qualified and useful asset to the team, given my past experience as a moderator and other past staff occupations on other servers (including Opticraft Classic OP). However, I also respect that I do not know everything and like many students are compared to their teachers, I still have much to learn. Nevertheless, I do believe I can handle a position as important as Moderator. In my time, I had managed to 'learn the ropes' and assist my fellow players with tools I never had access to. I always handled my job maturely and while I do joke from time to time, I always know my limits and how to separate my professional feelings from my personal feelings. I am naturally a "talker" and therefore I enjoy talking with players to make sure they are both happy and welcome to our server. It must be noted that I am a man of "3 chances". No matter the offense, I always tried to approach a player as calmly as possible and gave them a chance to redeem themselves before giving them the ultimate punishment. However, I also know that some crimes are too far gone to "redeem" and I am definitely willing to give the ultimate punishment then. Thus, I believe I know when to be dedicated, responsible and mature when it comes to handling my job.

To address my previous lack of activity, I must say that every gamer eventually shifts in both their responsibilities and their interests. I had both lost interest in Minecraft as well as had to take care of things at home. I thought it would be best for myself to take a little break from it all. Every year, I realize that I give myself one month without Minecraft to simply take a break. I always tell myself I'm becoming a better person every day when I focus on my priorities. But everyone needs to relax sometimes as well and I have managed to find time every day to play on Minecraft.

Since my return, I am quite happy to be reunited with my community and my old friends. This community was the very first community I ever knew. It is this community with which I discovered the joys of Minecraft Multiplayer. And as always, it would be an honor and a privilege to work with Opticraft's dedicated staff team once again to assist the players of the community that defined my Minecraft experiences. No matter the outcome of my app, I will nevertheless be both a player and a helper to all those who have yet to be a part of the Opticraft experience.

And as is my sign-off on each of my applications, I hope to go above and beyond in the line of Moderator duties.

Extra Details:My play times vary but as always, I probably end up popping up at random times throughout the day. My schedule is pretty much flexible as of now (give or take a few things to take care of now and then) but it won't change too drastically next semester. I usually fill in the late night time slot, when most people sleep, but do not worry, I don't deprive myself of sleep.

Age: 18
Location: Chicago, Illinois, America
Timezone: CST (UTC/GMT -6)
Join Date: SMP: in mid-february 2011. Forum: December 15, 2011
Were you recommended by anyone?: Zeradeth_,Crippnfeet, Felix_De_Kat
Why you should become a moderator: I was a moderator a few months back, until I had decided to resign this summer. I needed some time to figure my life out and just have a break from the gaming world for a while. I had turned 18 this summer and celebrated with friends and family. I also applied for classes at my local community college. I hung out for the last time with friends going away to college in other states and some I will probably not see for a while. But yeah, this summer I organized my priorities. And only recently, (a week or so ago), I have returned once again to the gaming world. I have returned to my old MMO before minecraft (Maplestory) but I also feel like a part of me still belongs in Opticraft. Now that I have more time and a somewhat, more organized schedule, I'd like to help out the community as a staff member again. And so, I apply once again to be a part of the Opticraft SMP staff team.

I consider myself pretty qualified for the staff position on the SMP staff team, though that it is up to the admins to decide. Being a Classic Operator on Opticraft Classic, Manager (after Operator, under Admin) on another unrelated server, and my 4 month run as an Opticraft SMP Moderator have shaped my experience in dealing with guests. I've never really been much of a player though. As a person, I am naturally charismatic, funny, friendly and talkative. I love talking to people and I especially love helping people out with their problems. Therefore, leadership roles such as being a mod on a server have always been pretty attractive to me. And even though I like to crack a joke every now and then, I know when to be dedicated, responsible and mature when it comes to my job.

In my time as moderator on Opti SMP, I had developed a love for the position. The fact that I could undo the grief that plagues the community daily and help them with difficult problems that I never had the necessary tools to deal with, gave me immense satisfaction. Though I am also an Opticraft Classic Operator, I had always revered the SMP staff team. Not only were they role models in the community, but they also handled much more complex issues and problems than I had ever dealt with as a classic operator.

As I've said in my first mod app and elsewhere, one important fact you should know about me is that I don't build that often. Almost never really. I much rather enjoy talking to people or helping them out. Therefore, I can safely declare that 90% of my time when I'm online will be spent dedicated to doing my duty as a mod and even some extra work on the side (i.e. fixing random grief). Every opportunity I have been given to be a leader anywhere, whether a server moderator on a minecraft server or a guild leader in another game, I have vowed to myself to be quick and responsive to my fellow members. I will drop whatever I'm doing to help my fellow members.

To address my lack of activity in recent times, I haven't been on because I've been busy dealing with life this summer. I can promise however, that I'll be on a lot more if I get accepted. The thing is, I have mostly lost interest in the minecraft game but I still have interest in Opticraft. I'll be honest when I say that besides for being a mod, I had no other significant interest in playing Minecraft. But, do not worry, I am still a part of this community and I will always pop in to say hello. The point, however, is that being a mod is really everything to me in Opticraft. Without it, I feel out of place. If I were to be accepted once again, I hope to go above and beyond in my duties as SMP Moderator.

Extra details: I am currently, as I write this application, on vacation in Florida. I will be here for another 4 days. At night, I usually have the time to do whatever I want, though I must also make sure to have enough time for sleep. Even when I am on my laptop, the hotel wifi isn't always the most reliable.

Also, school is starting up soon (August 26th). While I do have a schedule of my day to know when is best to log on, it is worth noting that I won't always be on every day, depending on what is to come from my homework/studying. Just thought I'd give a heads up.

Finally, I will be managing active gameplay between Maplestory and Minecraft and schoolwork all at the same time.

My playing times are usually spread out throughout the day but I can probably play late night shifts most.

The title says it all. Post the craziest, funniest, most creative IGN's you've seen on Opticraft.

I'll start:

Creativity: hammysandwhich (ya that's right...i used a moderator...i love his name...deal with it)

Hello fellow opticrafters.

So i know that we already have 4 voting sites and those are the most reliable and most viewed sites. But I thought I would suggest just one more.

I am suggesting we advertise on planet minecraft. The difference between planet minecraft and most voting sites is that other voting sites require certain fees to be a featured server on their list. The great thing about planet minecraft is that it runs on votes, favorites and diamonds (rather than just votes and payments). Now diamonds are a relatively new concept to the 'voting site game'.

You have all heard the phrase "Diamonds are forever". On planet minecraft, thats especially true. Diamonds are like 1-time votes that appear on the server's page forever (until someone takes it back off).

Favorites should be pretty self explanatory xD.

The combination of favoriting the page once, diamonding it once and voting daily (before it resets at the end of the month) help put the server up higher on the list. Now with all the vast competition out there on the site, we might not be number 1...But that does not mean we won't be visited by many curious guests.


Long explanation short. Planet Minecraft is a very popular site that is viewed by many MineCrafters. It is free to upload the server. And although it does not feature special payments (at least that im aware of) to give us a boost in our competition, I am confident in us as a community, to be able to gather tons of votes, diamonds and favorites getting us up on top.

Today I reach an important acheivement. Exactly one year ago today, on December 6th 2011, I stumbled upon Opticraft's Classic Server and my adventures on this incredible server began...

Opticraft Classic was my first classic server, my first Minecraft server overall (SMP and Classic) and the first of our two servers (Opticraft SMP and Opticraft Classic) that I had joined. The moment I joined Classic that day, I officially joined the Opticraft community.

I don't think i can ever forget all of the memories, the adventures, the laughs, the friends, the builds and Opticraft in general. There are far too many of each of those things to count .

This server has heavily impacted my life and I never would have imagined I'd get so far into the community as being an Operator (even if only on classic). Opticraft has taught me so many valuable lessons both in life and in fun. It's just been an incredible overall adventure...

I probably would have never imagined I'd be a member of the community for so long but I have....and I have been dedicated ever since that day. I hope to maintain my dedication in future years to the best of my time and ability. I hope to one day be able to say "I've been part of this incredible community for 5 years". What else can there be to say but: thank you Opticraft.

P.S: Roughly 5 days from now will be also be my forum anniversary as I joined the forums Dec 11, 2011.

Thank you all for reading!

So this is a pretty old suggestion that resurfaces every few months by various players. But i felt the need to be the one who brings back the suggestion this time. It's been many, many months since the Tgar plugin (i think thats what it was called) went down and basically stopped our IRC to In-Game connection. I think its about time we consider bringing SMP IRC back. Would be nice for me to spy on the SMP community, and give classic players, who don't own the game but who use IRC, a glimpse into the world of SMP.

As a classic regular, I still advocate for an SMP IRC. For both the SMP community and the Classic community to be on.

Reading through many of the previous SMP IRC threads, it seems that the IRC was at low priority at that time. It probably still is, but I'm actually curious how long it will remain there and if we have any updates on it whatsoever.

So please respond with your opinions and any possible updates on its progress.

If you could clash any existing movie titles with anything Opticraft-related (the server, Operators, friends, etc.), what would it be called?

Example: Revenge of the Griefers (Revenge of the Nerds)

If you would like, you may also add a short plot or slogan, however this is optional.

Example: "They've been banned. They've been ridiculed. But now, they've come back!".

Yes the above examples are lame....but lets see what you guys can make.