I was trying to play Minecraft Beta in Minecraft Windows 10 Edition on my PC with my friend in Minecraft Xbox One Edition. Both were participating on Xbox Insider, but my Minecraft was in 1.16.0.55 version and his Minecraft was in 1.16.0.53. So when we tried to connect to the same world, it was not possible. I thought his minecraft needed to be updated, but he told me that there was no updates to do in his console anymore. I did not understand because it is to both versions (Xbox One and Windows 10) be on the same version, right? Is Xbox One late? How can our Minecrafts be on the same version?

I would like to have a discussion with anyone who sees this. As the post states, I am curious as to what made you want to buy/play minecraft. I'd love to hear the broad range of answers from everyone whether it dates back to 2012 or recently in 2020.
Personally I really wanted to play minecraft due to the clay soldiers mod, Back in 2014, I immediately fell in love with little soldiers fighting one another much like how I, as a kid, played with toy soldiers.
Now that I've told my story what is yours? I look forward to reading each one.

Origin Realms is good but it does carry some quite glaring problems that prevents itself from truly becoming great. The fact that this is already in Beta, instead of Alpha is not a good indicator for the future of this server.
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• No way to properly mute the chat, whilst still being able to access to the game's features. Players who prefer a more quieter server experience will often find themselves annoyed with being obligated to look at the chat to keep up with what's happening if they keep it always on, just to keep the server features on.
  • Additionally, players should have the option to disable players much like how Hypixel does it for their own hub servers as extreme amount of players will cause annoying visual noise/clutter.

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• Lack of a proper division for underaged players and adult players, with chat and mini-servers. Despite being a server for everyone, it often feels more like a server that's mainly catered towards more to high-school aged and school-age children. As such, some Adults will find themselves bothered by the excessive rules and the "culture" of the underages playing the server which will often hinder their own experience.
  • Give both adults and children their own separate servers that is confirmed by a age option. Enforce different rules on both that would reflect the intended audience. By giving each demographic their own server. They'll be able to express their own opinions that is true to themselves without being put down and burdened by others.
  • Minecraft is a game for everyone, and as such there should be a proper effort in giving their own audience their own needs.
  • If you can't provide a proper server experience for the adults in the same server, then make a separate 18+ server or give away the OR plugins for people to make their own OR servers, similar to how online games provide framework for people to host their own servers.

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• Ruby-only items are rather ridiculous to buy, considering the fact that they appear to be easily crafted with extremely common items. Furniture and farming elements often comes to the mind. As the result of this, the early game actually ends up feeling more heavily gated compared to later areas of the game.
  • If the items appear to be "expensive" to build, build it with a dedicated block crafted with slightly more expensive items.
  • Minecraft is about crafting things in a survival setting, not a game where you buy things as the core part of the gameplay. If this server aims to be a better version of vanilla MC, then it should reflect the earlier. The fact that the entire Beta is just of the latter, doesn't say any good things about it but ends up giving you a eerie hint of the future where everything is locked behind Ruby grinding and Pay 2 Progress content.

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• Way too much of decorative items that ultimately serve no purpose but only to fill up inventory and chests. They can't be compressed into storage blocks or be used as items or be part of a recipe.
  • If Minecraft wants to be simple, they would've done it through limiting the amount of items and made them mostly useful. OR does completely the opposite of that, resulting in a game that feels more cluttered than it actually is.

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• Spawn feels way too big with too much of vanity/dead space. The facilities with a use are too far apart from each other, and ends up being more of a chore to travel between. There's too much focus on immersion for something that should be done relatively quickly, compared to other servers where they tend to put their functionality more upfront than cosmetic.
  • Reduce the size of the Spawn and reorganise the facilities into a densely packed town centre that allows players to easily walk around without having to spend a minute to travel. The fact that you have to travel around the spawn through balloons is just absurd, since it only serves as a bandage over a bigger problem that will be worsened over the time.
  • The vanity facilities should be kept further out, since they're not the core part of the game. The fact that you have a pet shop AND cosmetic "shop" at the front instead of the ATM and Farming is just simply absurd given that those areas have a larger focus in the overall game than the earlier. This ends up encouraging players to view the entire server more as a "dollhouse" server than a proper survival server, if this is supposed to be the first impression.

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• Poor ore generation. Ores often feel far too few and appear in smaller than the usual quantities, which often throws off players who are used to the vanilla experience. If this server is supposed to be providing a experience better than vanilla, then the ore generation should be exactly the same as the vanilla.

Hey everyone, how did you get into programming? I'm curious about your stories
For me it was in 2007/2008 and I just got a new PSP (Playstation Portable). After playing some online games I noticed people were cheating in them by flying around and having unlimited health. I was curious on how they were able to do this and I also wanted to try, it seemed super fun after all. I had no idea what I was doing so it took me months to successfully install a custom firmware on my PSP. With that I could install cheating plugins that modified the memory values of the game. I quickly realized I had more fun installing the custom firmware and trying out various 3rd party plugins than I did actually using the cheats in game.
From there I dived into making my own cheats, mostly for fun. This was in the "MIPS" assembly language. I did that for a few months until also learning C++ because my friend from school suggested it. For a few years it was just a hobby I would do every now and again. It wasn't a huge focus of mine so I didn't have a solid understanding of the fundamentals for a couple of years.
In 2012 a friend I met on a PSP hacking website mentioned that he makes a full time living off of his Minecraft server. I just started playing that game and so I checked it out and saw he had hundreds of players online all the time. He wrote a lot of the games himself and I was super interested in doing that, especially if you could make a living out of it.
In 2013 I tried to launch my first server with a few friends. Due to some strategic pitches and planning we were lucky enough to get partnered with the hosting company "McProHosting" and the once popular youtuber "KermitPlaysMC" to make the server "ThePondMC". That would last 8 months or so before internal development problems caused security flaws and me shutting down the project. It never really grew passed 150 players due to the youtuber declining in popularity right as we started on the server.
In April 2014 I would make my own server network without any partnerships, other developers, etc. This server would have over 250,000 unique logins during it's lifetime, would average 450+ players at it's peak, and I would eventually sell it in early 2016. It made me a decent income, less than the standard developer salary, but the time, location, and creative freedoms more than made up for the difference imo.
After this I would heavily focus on full-stack and website development which I have been doing until today. I even spent a year and a half making my own web app startup with a friend that would connect local businesses to development and advertising agencies. This project was 100% complete in early 2020. We had a great marketing strategy and a small group of in-market beta testers and we had fantastic feedback from them. Unfortunately this is right when coronavirus started to become a problem so small businesses wouldn't be as interested in advertising and development solutions. That project is currently on hold, likely indefinitely in favor of Worn Off Keys, but you never know what the future holds.
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What's your story? How did you get into software development? Even if you're just now getting into it, or you have been doing it for multiple years, let us know!
I share more about my story in the (now canceled) Open Source Success podcast episode #1, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSMrGg8kJW4

SUPER fricking cool server, you need to join a nation to make factories and work together. Raiding and griefing is allowed but you can kill people and imprison them to prevent them from doing it again. There are loads of nations and some are communist others are capitalist etc, its like a big server with big wars and battles waiting at every corner!
I built a really cool town on the beta and now my friends and I are gonna make a nation called New vegas , we're gonna build a trade center and a fort and imprison any raiders and work with people to create a emergent fun unique experience. It is almost like EvE online but Minecraft!
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SERVER IP - play.civuniverse.com - Version 1.12.2 (1.14.x compatible)
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/CivUniverse
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Hello fellow players,
Here are the stats for the top 100 most played games of /ps4 in October 2020. 15248 active players were tracked this month.
Want to join the party? Or do you think your favorite game doesn't have enough hours listed here?
Just add 'ps-timetracker9' to your friendlist. That's it. It will take a few minutes to accept the invite, the rest will work automatically and you will receive a message through PSN once a day. Feel free to tell your friends if you haven't!
Hint for mobile users: You can scroll right and see more info :)

#	Name	Platform	Hours Played	Players	Sessions	Average / Session
1	Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®	PS4	78824	3626	50992	1:33
2	FIFA 21	PS4	69940	1388	36218	1:56
3	Genshin Impact	PS4	69023	3692	37353	1:51
4	Fortnite	PS4	66866	3061	51040	1:19
5	Rocket League®	PS4	61492	4796	58939	1:03
6	Ghost of Tsushima	PS4	44811	2514	23056	1:57
7	Apex Legends	PS4	38526	1846	29048	1:20
8	Grand Theft Auto V	PS4	31929	2853	22013	1:28
9	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege	PS4	31661	1750	23631	1:21
10	Red Dead Redemption 2	PS4	23147	1663	14468	1:36
11	Need for Speed™ Payback	PS4	21905	3016	15449	1:26
12	Destiny 2	PS4	18699	719	7821	2:24
13	Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout	PS4	18283	4130	23155	0:48
14	Minecraft	PS4	17083	1939	12088	1:25
15	FIFA 20	PS4	15234	1570	11667	1:19
16	Overwatch: Origins Edition	PS4	15052	925	11330	1:20
17	Dead by Daylight	PS4	13917	741	9361	1:30
18	Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War - Beta	PS4	13539	2483	13404	1:01
19	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition	PS4	12770	972	6747	1:54
20	Rogue Company	PS4	11942	1770	10784	1:07
21	Vampyr	PS4	11813	2065	7458	1:36
22	The Last of Us™ Part II	PS4	9752	981	5937	1:39
23	Assassin's Creed® Odyssey	PS4	9590	594	4647	2:04
24	Monster Hunter World: Iceborne	PS4	9264	370	4205	2:13
25	Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It's About Time	PS4	9058	476	5630	1:37
26	ARK: Survival Evolved	PS4	8222	280	3450	2:23
27	DAYS GONE	PS4	8015	674	4427	1:49
28	Mafia: Definitive Edition	PS4	7981	659	4247	1:53
29	Tom Clancy's The Division® 2	PS4	7893	506	3989	1:59
30	Marvel's Spider-Man	PS4	7829	1086	5542	1:25
31	God of War	PS4	6998	741	3887	1:49
32	NBA 2K21	PS4	6335	172	3839	1:40
33	DEATH STRANDING™	PS4	6053	471	3036	2:00
34	Bloodborne™	PS4	5812	659	3953	1:29
35	Marvel's Avengers	PS4	5717	451	3546	1:37
36	NBA 2K20	PS4	5567	493	4367	1:17
37	Mad Max	PS4	5558	239	2754	2:02
38	Watch Dogs®: Legion	PS4	5377	497	2360	2:17
39	Horizon Zero Dawn™	PS4	5327	610	2984	1:48
40	FINAL FANTASY XIV	PS4	4853	136	1815	2:41
41	Persona 5 Royal	PS4	4773	228	2571	1:52
42	Fallout 76	PS4	4565	309	2314	1:59
43	Borderlands® 3	PS4	4504	388	2480	1:49
44	Call of Duty®: Black Ops III	PS4	4434	550	3258	1:22
45	The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited	PS4	4295	180	2555	1:41
46	The Last of Us™ Remastered	PS4	3938	585	2658	1:29
47	PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	PS4	3753	579	2864	1:19
48	Mortal Kombat 11	PS4	3692	547	3668	1:01
49	eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE	PS4	3690	126	2634	1:25
50	Warframe	PS4	3616	214	2200	1:39
51	DayZ	PS4	3614	123	1495	2:26
52	Call of Duty®: WWII	PS4	3513	612	3199	1:06
53	Fallout 4	PS4	3507	280	1746	2:01
54	Gran Turismo™SPORT	PS4	3501	446	2923	1:12
55	Share Play	PS4	3458	1631	6631	0:32
56	Assassin's Creed® Origins	PS4	3435	272	2072	1:40
57	DARK SOULS™ III	PS4	3426	364	2378	1:27
58	Brawlhalla	PS4	3377	513	4188	0:49
59	Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4	PS4	3337	404	2572	1:18
60	For Honor	PS4	3279	319	2884	1:09
61	Uncharted™: The Nathan Drake Collection	PS4	3275	446	2261	1:27
62	STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II	PS4	3258	559	2719	1:12
63	No Man's Sky	PS4	3215	337	1710	1:53
64	Nioh 2	PS4	3159	149	1315	2:25
65	Battlefield™ V	PS4	3017	400	2419	1:15
66	F1® 2020	PS4	2989	187	2024	1:29
67	SMITE	PS4	2905	165	1796	1:38
68	DOOM Eternal	PS4	2895	341	1972	1:29
69	Warface	PS4	2881	174	1984	1:28
70	Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2	PS4	2855	412	2261	1:16
71	Far Cry® 5	PS4	2843	367	1801	1:35
72	WATCH_DOGS® 2	PS4	2842	358	1817	1:34
73	STAR WARS™: Squadrons	PS4	2721	419	2040	1:21
74	Uncharted™ 4: A Thief’s End	PS4	2612	361	1739	1:31
75	Mafia III	PS4	2611	260	1504	1:45
76	The Crew® 2	PS4	2561	384	2311	1:07
77	NieR:Automata	PS4	2559	193	1227	2:06
78	Need for Speed™ Heat	PS4	2466	427	2008	1:14
79	Farming Simulator 19	PS4	2449	209	1250	1:58
80	Persona 5	PS4	2446	144	1249	1:58
81	Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice	PS4	2303	322	1751	1:19
82	Rise of the Tomb Raider	PS4	2226	349	1422	1:34
83	BATMAN™: ARKHAM KNIGHT	PS4	2222	252	1201	1:52
84	Skyrim	PS4	2204	246	1199	1:51
85	EA SPORTS™ UFC® 3	PS4	2192	402	2362	0:56
86	FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE	PS4	2182	219	1162	1:53
87	Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection	PS4	2129	134	1126	1:54
88	STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™	PS4	2105	247	1286	1:39
89	eFootball PES 2020	PS4	2097	214	1717	1:14
90	Bless Unleashed	PS4	2087	382	1264	1:40
91	FINAL FANTASY XV	PS4	2075	162	1045	2:00
92	Path of Exile	PS4	2048	81	901	2:17
93	DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin	PS4	2048	157	1107	1:51
94	Madden NFL 21	PS4	1922	102	1319	1:28
95	Mafia II: Definitive Edition	PS4	1895	203	1111	1:43
96	METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE DEFINITIVE EXPERIENCE	PS4	1736	194	1179	1:29
97	HUNT: SHOWDOWN	PS4	1728	93	784	2:13
98	Detroit: Become Human™	PS4	1717	319	1061	1:38
99	Battlefield™ 1	PS4	1717	379	1842	0:56
100	Titanfall™ 2	PS4	1681	369	1898	0:54

In order to draw out the suspense, we're gonna start with a handful of ~other prizes~!

Other Prizes

Advent of Playing With Your Toys

Title	Username	Thread
Advent of Mechanical Turk	sbguest	2020 Day 2 game
Plays With Industrial Computers	CrazyA99	[2020 Day 1 and 2] [Ladder Logic] Used an Allen Bradley PLC (1756-L61)
Plays With Commodore 64	ZoDalek	[2020 day 1] Pt. 1 & 2 on actual Commodore 64 (flickering images!)
Plays With Game Boys	NieDzejkob	[2020 Day 2] [Game Boy assembly] Turns out you write many bugs in assembly
Plays With Game Boys	gamingmonsteruk	2020 Day 1 (Part 1) C on the GameBoy because why not
Plays With Roblox	Asleum	[2020 Day 11 (Part 2)][Lua/Roblox] Waiting Room Simulator 3D
Plays With Minecraft Blocks	andre-js	2020 Day 17 (Part 1) 3d Game Of Life in Minecraft
Plays With Windows XP	mzprx42	[2020 Day 18] Part 1 using Calc.exe
Plays With Sega Genesis	Tails8521	[2020 Day 1-19] Solving (almost) all puzzles on a Sega MegaDrive (Genesis)
Plays With Pen Plotters	ruuddotorg	[2020 Day 20 (Part 1)] Using a pen plotter to show monsters in a sea of pixels
Plays With All The Toys At The Same Time	Vijfhoek	[2020 Day 9] [C64 Assembly] Back at it again, with a cassette this time!

Visualizations

Title	Username	Thread
Oldie But Goodie	Hyta	[2018 Day 15 (Part 1)] visualized
Advent of Unreal Engine	ManicD7	Unreal Engine 4 - video Day 2 (view the whole series on YouTube)
I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty	ZeroSkub	[2020 Day 2 (Parts 1&2)] [Ruby] The first step in overcoming an addiction to prettifying terminal output is admitting you have a problem.
Clearest Visualization	naclmolecule	Bag pretty printer in python! Link to source in comments!
Pretty Round Cubes	lewster32	[2020 Day 17] [JavaScript] Conway Cubes 3D cellular automata visualisation
ELI5 Migration Biologist	seligman99	[2020 Day 20 (Part 2)] Finding the monsters
Clementines Are Now A Programming Language	aboutroots	Explaining to my Dad what I've been up to lately. Merry xmas all! 🦀 🎄

Craziness

Title	Username	Thread
Brought Work While On Vacation	lukaswendt	Day 1 part 1 in intcode
Lucky Number 4	betaveros	Somehow managing to get #4 silver and #4 gold on global leaderboard for Days 06, 07, and 24 (also for this very helpful thread re: leaderboarding)
Never Too Late To Learn	solpyro	Only took them 12 days to realize!
Heinous (ab)Use of Vim	Smylers	Their post in 2020 Day 15 solutions megathread
I Was Told There Would Be No Math	e_blake	[2020 day13 part2][m4] Solution using only 32-bit math primitives
Turing It Up A Notch	Shikor806	[2020 Day 1 (Part 1)] Very late, but here's a Turing machine that solves day 1

Community Participation

Title	Username	Thread
Advent of Reading Comprehension	tslater2006	adventofrealizingicantread.com
Advent of Outrageous Reading Comprehension	makerhuman	Misread the leaderboard message this morning
Advent of Facebook Turk	feaur	[2020 Day 18 (Part 1)] Outsourcing the solution. They never care about the order of operations anyway
Professor Raku	raiph	A very helpful response in 2020 Day 02 Solutions megathread
Dishes Up Tasty Advice	uytv	A very tasty response in [2020 Day 17] How to avoid getting burnt out by these puzzles?
Lawful Good	merzy	[2020 Day 8] Are we the bad guys?
Resident Electrician	ZoltarTheGreat69	Day 10 Advice From An Electrician
Bug Hunter	TommiHPunkt	Day 19 made me find a bug in Matlab
Crabby Mathematician	UmustBjoking	[2020 Day 23 (Part 2)] That's a BIG raft
Crab Propagandaist	andre-js	[2020 Day 24 (Part 2)] I let it run for 10M iterations and this pattern emerged
Unofficial AoC Surveyor	jeroenheijmans	Unofficial AoC 2020 Survey Results!
Unofficial AoC Scatterplotter	maus80	Interactive scatterplot of the 1st 100 responses (shows the puzzle's difficulty)

Advent of Code 2020 Community Fun: Gettin' Crafty With It

Rules and all submissions are here: -❄️- Advent of Code 2020: Craft Submissions Megathread -❄️-
Thank you to the magnificent folks who participated this year! As promised, y'all got your silver for participation. And now, without further ado, your winners!

Community Favorites

There were originally going to be 10 winners but quite a few folks got tied, plus it's Christmas, so there you go! In no particular order:

1. A Language Per Day -- Advent of Code 2020 - willkill07
2. Advent of C64 Assembly - Vijfhoek
3. Advent of Code 2020 for Haskell Beginners - the_t_block
4. Advent of Code ASCII Art - Arknave
5. Advent of Poetry 2020 - DFreiberg
6. Conway Cubes - kap89
7. Crash Test Snowman - TheElTea
8. Day 18 Part 1 with Calc.exe - mzprx42
9. Embroidery for AoC 2020 - schnappischnap
10. Genesis does Advent of Code 2020 - Tails8521
11. North Pole: Border Control - DoubtfulSound91
12. Online solver with some visualizations - Fyvaproldje

Enjoy your Reddit Silver¹ and have a happy New Year!

Best in Class

Once again, we still have a couple of ties, so your 3-5 winners are now 8. More golden rings for everyone!

1. Advent of C64 Assembly - Vijfhoek
2. Advent of Code ASCII Art - Arknave
3. Advent of Poetry 2020 - DFreiberg
4. Conway Cubes - kap89
5. Embroidery for AoC 2020 - schnappischnap
6. Genesis does Advent of Code 2020 - Tails8521
7. North Pole: Border Control - DoubtfulSound91
8. Online solver with some visualizations - Fyvaproldje

Enjoy your Reddit Gold¹ and have a happy New Year!

Best in Show

Just like a Highlander, though, there can only ever be one, and there is indeed one clear master artisan this year, and they are...

Congratulations, sea_monst3r!

Wait, I was looking at the wrong graph, sorry. I meant to congratulate...

kap89 for their Conway Cubes!

Enjoy your Reddit Platinum¹ and have a happy New Year!
¹ Since there's so many awards to give out, I will award all metals after this post goes live. I'll update when I've completed all awardings.
edit: All done! Let me know if I've somehow missed someone.
Thank you all for playing Advent of Code this year and on behalf of topaz2078, Aneurysm9, the beta-testers, and the rest of AoC Ops, we wish you a very Merry Christmas (or a very merry Friday!) and a Happy New Year!

IP:play.nrg-mc.com, Port for Bedrock:19132
NRG IS FOR BEDROCK AND JAVA PLAYERS!!! You can play with your friends no matter what version of the game they own!
Hii welcome to ... well the post about my server xD
First of all hello i´m Ame the Co-Owner of NRG-Mc a 1.16 minecraft server for Java AND Bedrock players
What can you do on our server?
we currently have a handful of servers but we´re planning on adding a few more in the near future. Right now we have...

• Retronix - a 1.16 survival server with an awesome community. we have a few nice add ons like quests, an economy, crates, server events like mob partys and boss fights and many more fun things!
• Creative - creative server that currently runs 1.16
• Skyblock- an all custom skyblock minecraft server with multiple difficulties, monthly rewards and much more! on 1.16
• Beta - A server where we're testing what the future of our server might look like. This beta server (which is going to be released soon) will be a Towney server with lots of custom features!
• Daily Events/Minigames on our Minigame server!! Anyone can join it to play fun games like murder mystery, hide and seek and much more whenever they want!

What will we be adding in the Future?

• basically anything you´d like us to add - we´re always open for new ideas and both I and the other owner try to stay in touch with our players, so if you´d like to see a certain server in the future just let us know and we´ll try to make your dreams come true

Server Rules

1. Respect other users.
2. All language and content must be friendly. (No NSFW content)
3. Keep your profile clean. Make sure you use your In game name. Do not use inappropriate names, game displays or profile pictures.
4. No discussion of politics, religion, race, mental illness, or other serious issues.
5. No spamming, EXCESSIVE CAPS, or aLtErNaTiNg CaPs
6. No griefing or building inappropriate stuff
7. Do not argue with staff.
8. Do not ask about the punishments of other users.
9. You are allowed to show your work in our discord channels #media and #builds. However, shameless advertisements are not allowed.

NOTE: These rules apply on all of our platforms.
Why should you choose our server over other survival servers?
Ofc its up to you what server you play on but when i asked our players they came up with the following reasons

• On our server you can actually sleep to avoid phantoms - MrPranklez, the other Owner, put his heart and soul in configurating our plugins. He created a system that lets players speed up the night by sleeping. If there are 4 players online and 1 sleeps the night will go by 25% faster
• Even if you dont donate you can still enjoy cosmetic features like /hat, /pets, particles and Disguises
• We don´t tolerate bullying or being rude - doesn´t matter if a players i best friends with the owners and staff, they´ll be treated just like every other player. If they break rules they get punished. We keep a close eye on Players that break our rules and even if they don´t actually break a rule but they bother another player we´ll always try to resolve things and ensure they leave you alone if you want
• The backend isn´t something just admins+ know about - Our developers update our players whenever they change something (even if its just the colour of a rank) players get the chance to talk to the devs and ask questions or suggest things
• We´re a young, growing community - that means playing never gets boring, we´re constantly looking for new stuff to add (not just for our donators) we try to reward our community for playing on our server

Here are the links and stuff for you to join the community!!
Server Ip: play.nrg-mc.com
Discord: www.nrg-mc.com/discord
Forums: http://www.nrg-mc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nrg.minecraft/?hl=de
Thank you for reading this, have a wonderful day <3

IP:play.nrg-mc.com, Port for Bedrock:19132
NRG IS FOR BEDROCK AND JAVA PLAYERS!!! You can play with your friends no matter what version of the game they own!
Hii welcome to ... well the post about my server xD
First of all hello i´m Ame the Co-Owner of NRG-Mc a 1.16 minecraft server for Java AND Bedrock players
What can you do on our server?
we currently have a handful of servers but we´re planning on adding a few more in the near future. Right now we have...

• Retronix - a 1.16 survival server with an awesome community. we have a few nice add ons like quests, an economy, crates, server events like mob partys and boss fights and many more fun things!
• Creative - creative server that currently runs 1.16
• Skyblock- an all custom skyblock minecraft server with multiple difficulties, monthly rewards and much more! on 1.16
• Beta - A server where we're testing what the future of our server might look like. This beta server (which is going to be released soon) will be a Towney server with lots of custom features!
• Daily Events/Minigames on our Minigame server!! Anyone can join it to play fun games like murder mystery, hide and seek and much more whenever they want!

What will we be adding in the Future?

• basically anything you´d like us to add - we´re always open for new ideas and both I and the other owner try to stay in touch with our players, so if you´d like to see a certain server in the future just let us know and we´ll try to make your dreams come true

Server Rules

1. Respect other users.
2. All language and content must be friendly. (No NSFW content)
3. Keep your profile clean. Make sure you use your In game name. Do not use inappropriate names, game displays or profile pictures.
4. No discussion of politics, religion, race, mental illness, or other serious issues.
5. No spamming, EXCESSIVE CAPS, or aLtErNaTiNg CaPs
6. No griefing or building inappropriate stuff
7. Do not argue with staff.
8. Do not ask about the punishments of other users.
9. You are allowed to show your work in our discord channels #media and #builds. However, shameless advertisements are not allowed.

NOTE: These rules apply on all of our platforms.
Why should you choose our server over other survival servers?
Ofc its up to you what server you play on but when i asked our players they came up with the following reasons

• On our server you can actually sleep to avoid phantoms - MrPranklez, the other Owner, put his heart and soul in configurating our plugins. He created a system that lets players speed up the night by sleeping. If there are 4 players online and 1 sleeps the night will go by 25% faster
• Even if you dont donate you can still enjoy cosmetic features like /hat, /pets, particles and Disguises
• We don´t tolerate bullying or being rude - doesn´t matter if a players i best friends with the owners and staff, they´ll be treated just like every other player. If they break rules they get punished. We keep a close eye on Players that break our rules and even if they don´t actually break a rule but they bother another player we´ll always try to resolve things and ensure they leave you alone if you want
• The backend isn´t something just admins+ know about - Our developers update our players whenever they change something (even if its just the colour of a rank) players get the chance to talk to the devs and ask questions or suggest things
• We´re a young, growing community - that means playing never gets boring, we´re constantly looking for new stuff to add (not just for our donators) we try to reward our community for playing on our server

Here are the links and stuff for you to join the community!!
Server Ip: play.nrg-mc.com
Discord: www.nrg-mc.com/discord
Forums: http://www.nrg-mc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nrg.minecraft/?hl=de
Thank you for reading this, have a wonderful day <3

Every time I try to install Minecraft Windows 10 edition via Microsoft Store, I get an error code 0x80070005.
I used to play Minecraft Windows 10 on the same pc couple of months ago, and everything was fine. One day I wanted to try Minecraft beta, and when I opted out, I tried reinstalling the game, but I couldn't. I hoped that something would change, but it just won't install :(.
I feel like I've tried every possible tutorial online, but nothing helped, except for creating another user on Windows, but I really want to find another way.

Hi all,
I've been a part of countless Betas/Early Access/playtests etc. by now, and unfortunately that also means I've seen plenty of games rise and fall in the process, sometimes through no fault of their own. Case in point: I was a part of the beautiful Evolve community from Day 1, and I trust the devs miss their old relationship with THQ as much as I do, seeing as what happened to that poor game once 2K's genius sales team got their paws on the monetization model. RIP to a title (and genre!!) which was lightyears ahead of its time.
Over the years, I've come to realize one simple fact about games that seems almost stupid to point out in conversation, but that a surprising number of devs (or perhaps publishers, who stifle the devs' creativity/Research and Development efforts for budget concerns) also seem to forget: games are mechanics, first and foremost.
You are not making a movie, you are not writing a novel with an interesting story, you are not trying to impress anybody with graphical fidelity or soundtrack or celebrity cameos or whatever else. I am not saying all of these aspects are somehow bad things to have; in fact, some of the greatest games in history (Shadow of the Colossus, Ocarina of Time, and yes, even Doom) showcased the best of these areas as well. However, what I am saying is that if your game only emphasizes all of these cosmetic features, but the core gameplay loop itself is shit, your game is absolutely guaranteed to fail, regardless of how nice the graphics are, how witty the dialogue is, how much effort was spent crafting the soundtrack, or whatever else.
Look at every single popular title we see thriving today: Minecraft sacrificed graphical fidelity for some of the most replayable and layered exploration/survival mechanics ever, adding an Infiniminer spin to Dwarf Fortress's already proven success. League of Legends stole DotA's entire gameplay loop and in a stroke of financial genius, made it both free-to-play and standalone. Battlefield allowed you to truly experience sprawling flavors of total warfare across land, sea, and sky, regardless of how beautiful the Frostbite engine can also be. Call of Duty boiled down close infantry combat into arcadey, bite-sized pieces you could pick up and put down numerous times throughout the course of one day. Apex Legends took the rough framework of DayZ/H1Z1/PUBG battle royale and added DotA-style heroes plus hyper-mobile combat for its unique take on the format. Fortnite ripped from the same source material, but introduced an unprecedented building/cover system lifted straight from its forgotten zombie-survival campaign mode.
Even supposed "sleeper hits" with unexpectedly healthy playerbases showcase the same exact truth; Rainbow Six: Siege brought tactical-ops gunplay into the 21st century, adding a layer of depth and polish which Counter-Strike could only dream of. Dying Light took the "proof of concept" open-world zombie mash of Dead Island, and added a great mix of parkour and day/night cycles to really "bake in" a daily routine of exploration, scavenging and combat. Rocket League added a loony mix of arcade racing and physics to an otherwise obvious replica of soccer. And so on, and so on.
In other words, the more you "lean into" game mechanics specifically, the more likely your game will continue to live on; I believe mechanics are literally a bottomless well of success for any developers both intelligent and fortunate enough to explore them. And that is where Back4Blood comes into question.
It is no secret whatsoever that this game is essentially a spiritual successor to the Left4Dead series. More than just a vague or superficial inspiration, we are basically seeing some identical parallels in the Alpha footage: four hasty humans with guns and consumables can be downed and revived, traveling down a linear level into a safe house while sharing items and banter along the way. There are basic horde zombies alongside Special infected, "setpiece structures" for some of the level design, and so on.
My request for the devs is this: please, please lean into improving every mechanic this game has, which Left4Dead does NOT have, because I fear there is more than a slight chance of jaded newcomers (mistakenly) saying something like “Oh, this is just Left4Dead inside a new engine? Yeahh I’m not paying $60 for a reskin”, and now you’ve lost them forever (via bad first impression alone).
The following is only a rough list, but so far I remember a couple standout features which already set Back4Blood completely apart:

• A deck of cards, to help "Mutate" each playthrough, but in a far more intricate way.
• Perks which actually make each character mechanically unique, unlike the strictly cosmetic variety of Left4Dead.
• Actual sights and scopes for all of the guns, which can make a huge gameplay difference if implemented wisely (more on that below).
• "Environmental" modifiers, which are a beautiful way to add variety and danger to the otherwise completely static (read: numbingly predictable) level design of L4D. Again, this one can be dug into SO much more heavily than just mere fog or rain on each map, although simple weather effects were still a genius addition by Turtle Rock.
• I believe we heard some kind of blurb in the reveal stream about actual settlement cities being fortified by humanity in the campaign? As opposed to Left4Dead's just running through one giant rat maze of railroaded checkpoints, with clever window-dressing to hide the fact that you're all basically running a "point A to point B" sprint forever, and no other game type at all?

Now, I do not want to get my hopes up here, but if this last point means there is any chance for a new "wave survival" mode, where you are forced to hunker down and gradually build up defenses against an increasingly punishing tide of zombies (think Gears of War's excellent "Horde" and "Beast" modes), that would be simply incredible.
But now let me expand on what I meant earlier by "lean into the mechanics", using the bullet points mentioned above.

The Card System

For example, when it comes to the roguelike deck mechanic, please stray as far as humanly possible away from any boring-ass "Trivial +% buff to Stat X" incrementalism as your game balance allows. Obviously, having significant stat increases like a critical damage multiplier or heavy health/"armor" boost is one thing, but if we are ever stuck in the Korean MMO-grind territory of "+1.5% extra HP" or whatever, I believe this approach will not make a sufficiently noticeable difference from Left4Dead's formula to set this new game truly apart.
Limit-test the shit out of this card system, and only scale back the mechanics once you find something obviously broken; it is better to try and FAIL at making the card system incredibly flavorful and impactful, than to never try at all. Believe in your creativity when concocting brand-new mechanical interactions here, and not just dopey number-crunching which has minimal impact on each session's memorable variety.
Let horde zombies die instantly to any headshot, but then explode for minor AoE damage too, so your heroes have to gamble on a long-range damage strategy. Let the Special infected die, but then respawn as two of themselves with half HP and damage each, unless you make sure to first prevent this duplicate-resurrection by killing them with a specific weapon type like melee, fire or whatever else. If it is raining, let the vomiting Specials leave a large pool on the ground that deals Area damage/debuff constantly (or perhaps indefinitely), since the ground is now wet. Let the pouncing Infected deal massive extra damage to humans that are much further away, forcing you be particularly careful for them, but also perhaps forcing you to rush forward through the level as a means of countering this buff by decreasing pounce distances as much as possible. This game is in Alpha, so throw as many of these crazy combinations into the card rotation as possible, and only remove them once the playerbase decides it is truly too much to handle (perhaps some of the more "extreme" cards could be restricted to a higher Campaign difficulty, or "hardcore" multiplayer lobbies, so that noobs aren't scared away from the game early on?)
Even for the human card loadouts, adhere to this exact same "move fast and break things" power level for their design, ignoring vanilla stat boosts as much as you can: let the first 10 rounds of every assault rifle magazine be loaded with explosive ammo. Allow instant, "snap-targeting" POV camera to the iron sights of a gun, but then remove the hipfire crosshair entirely, for a purely "marksman" playstyle. Allow a single healthpack to be used twice (but maybe let these particular HP bars drain slowly over time, if this card becomes too overpowered in humans' favor). Allow much faster reload speeds and large magazine sizes for the "gunner" class, but then remove their ability to sprint (or make them walk slower; I'm not sure if B4B has a sprint button).
I believe this deckbuilding facet of the game is a great addition to the genre overall, and a massive key to B4B's future success.
Edit 1: Oh, I should also mention at this point; I fully understand (and lament) the eternal tension between developers trying to expand on new ideas, versus their publishers refusing to finance anything more than a two-minute brainstorming session for each area of the game. Thus I can fully appreciate the adverse effect this shareholder pressure would have, on such efforts as keeping the card system surprising and engaging via direct development hours invested.
However, I also trust we can all recite horror stories by now of penny-pinching managers essentially dooming even AAA projects by strangling their necessary innovation stage in the cradle (I’m not talking just in gaming here, or even in the entertainment industry overall). Warner Brothers management obviously has to waddle up to shareholder HQ at some point in B4B's life cycle, but let me just emphasize one thing: in this day and age, you are not only being given a simple choice between "less money and more money". You are potentially being exposed to the rib-cracking dilemma of "some revenue versus NO revenue".
I'm not only talking the failure to turn a decent profit here: I'm talking a real potential for premium creators to not even make back their initial investment to begin with, if things go terribly sales-wise. WB Games has already been slapped to its senses once in the recent past, so let's all just hope that crucial lesson stays fresh in their busy minds.
This is not a time when our grandmas would budget $60 per year on new games at Christmas, so "Hey, let's all just hope that guaranteed expenditure goes to WB this year". Ours is an unprecedented era where free-to-play games with 60GB installs and premium graphics are more than enough to distract untold millions of players year-round, so your mandatory sales task is having to convince all these FPS consumers that your purchased game is definitely worth more of their time and money than that free game.
Today we do not preorder titles from physical stores, with no real hope of refunding them once we realize how broken their business model (or even basic gameplay loop) is. We download entire titles and DLC from pro-refund services like Steam, who have both the infrastructure and intelligence to sidestep some major legal hurdles guaranteed down future roads. The global landscape is now ever-changing.
Today there are not a bunch of happy people with leftover thousands in their bank account to burn on whatever entertainment catches their fancy. We are living dead in the middle of COVID Winter, so people's financial and psychological tolerance for sales-team bullshit like this Non-Cosmetic Season Pass junk will not go over well, and they will be unusually quick to respond. I can almost guarantee you this.
There is nowhere for salesmen to hide anymore, and I say this as a former sales guy myself (emphasis on the "former", ethically speaking; goodbye to those sweet paychecks 😅). The internet contains enough online ratings, pre-release "journalism", and just overall unflinching player scrutiny at this point to behead any oh-so-clever publisher who thinks they can "pull a fast one" on consumers nowadays. There is nowhere left to hide.
Anyway, um ... moving on.

Character Traits

I'll start to move along a bit more quickly here, but I don't remember exactly what TRS's Community Manager mentioned about what makes each human character different; I believe besides the truly unique melee weapons they are locked to, everything else was just health and "strength" boosts ...?
I would urge that, once again, the devs avoid any boring, "+50 HP to your health bar" or "+10% melee weapon damage" stuff right now, and create character perks which truly stand out from the others. These buffs should help justify us preferring our favorite characters to begin with.
Remove crosshair-spread completely for the dedicated "sharpshooter" character. Give one of them the "berserker" ability to dual-wield melee weapons, for double the strikes. Allow a character to carry far more explosives or consumables, as the "mule" class for the team. Allow the "hunter" class to either spot Special infected from much further away with an extra UI outline, or just somehow "smell them coming" initially and warn the rest of your team, long before any of the others can.
Lean into every single mechanic, as far as "fair" balancing allows of course (if these buffs pull human winrates too high in Versus mode or whatever, perhaps either start drip-feeding Team Zombie some speed/damage buffs in response, or even just revert the original human changes entirely). Ignore boring-ass vanilla stat boosts that do not make an immediately tangible impact on the game. I cannot stress this enough.

Gun Sights

I would very much like to say that as a huge fan of iron sights in shooting games, there is an absolute world of difference that a distinct separation (between hipfire and sighting/scoping) can make in an FPS. For anybody who doesn't believe me, I would point you to the incredibly meaty, immersive, and rewarding gunplay of the Insurgency games. Sights exist for a reason.
You do not want the hipfire accuracy to feel like a fucking magical laser beam, or it will start to feel like reskinned Left4Dead (or even worse: Counter-Strike) all over again. Let the players truly feel the crazy kick of an LMG for once, if they decide to go in like Rambo and ignore the sights on top of the goddamn gun. I don't think there's a prone position in this game, but perhaps reward players who use the crouch button with reduced recoil from both hipfire and iron sights when they shoot?
Now that you've actually chosen to introduce gun sights in this game (a feature I also absolutely loved in Evolve too, by the way), give players a good reason to use them! Aside from the positive step of “weak spots” on the Special infected, and the obvious bonus to aiming with sights in general, you can also perhaps add “hanging traps” to the map which are set off if you shoot the single rope suspending them, introduce “treasure goblin” zombies who run away but can be shot for their loot if you are fast and accurate enough, maybe place the new Snitch zombies on far-away rooftops so players are rewarded for distinctly fast and accurate gunfire, and so on.

Environmental Features

Ohhh boy, where do we start with this one.
Okay: what we already see here is great. Fog, maybe rain or dust storms, increased wind making it harder to hear other humans or zombies, possible lightning strikes lighting the grass on fire? Etc.
But let's get really crazy here: what about acid rain that forces you to run for cover, numerous times in one match? What about massive sinkholes that open up on the ground in larger field areas, forcing you to take a now careful trip over what used to be an easy sprint across fully open ground? What about destroying certain walls, fences or windows of buildings (to give zombies more access you ambush you), or just removing the side of a building entirely, caused by a messy "military air strike"?
Even for the tamer weather effects, try to brainstorm ways in which otherwise simple seasonal changes can have terrifying effects on the zombies experiencing them. I already mentioned vomit lasting much longer in rain, but how about making strong winds cause the vomit (or even pouncing Infected) to travel much farther as well? Howling winds masking the screams of certain special Infected, allowing them to sneak up much closer to you before being revealed? Snowy or "icy" areas causing all the corpses which comprise the Tall Boy's giant arm to be frozen solid, forcing him to swing it more slowly but then also cause massive damage?
The sky's the limit folks (no pun intended). Let us feel like the in-game world lives and breathes just as much as the actual zombies do.

Fortification Mode ...?

I don't want to elaborate on this too much, in case I'm barking up the wrong tree. But I just want to say to Turtle Rock that if anyone can develop a worthy fusion of Left4Dead's gunplay, Gears of War's Horde mode and World War Z's punishing horde AI, it's you guys. Like I said, I was a part of Evolve's community from the very beginning, and while it crushes me to think about the future that game could've had under competent publishers, the innovative talent and relentless polish of that game cannot be denied by anybody. TRS devs are second to none.

In Summary

This post is already gigantic, but I feel like I've made my point in as many different ways as I can. Here I'll now leave the
TL,DR: Dear devs: move fast, and break things. Or as the saying was made famous at GDC, "Fail fast, and find the fun". Lean into everything which makes your game different from Left 4 Dead, because the existing framework is already beloved by gamers, many times over. Make B4B faster, crazier, scarier, just ... better. Do NOT be afraid to punish the players with new modifier cards that might be extreme at first, because you can always just nerf or remove them later; WE ARE YOUR GUINEA PIGS. But on the other hand, find ways to mix already-existing mechanics like explosive weapons or rainy weather into disproportionately large gameplay implications, so that you don't have to burn a bunch of precious development resources on creating an entirely new Special infected from scratch or whatever.
You've already got a great thing going here, so please, just keep the train rolling forward as far as Unreal Engine and your mighty little brain cells allow.
Oh, and one final
Edit 2: I know it might seem like I downplayed the importance of great graphics and sound etc. above, but that was not my intention whatsoever. I simply wanted game mechanics to be PRIORITY #1 in the design pipeline, so that we don't ever have to worry about players becoming numb to what might devolve into "reskinned Left4Dead gameplay loop", once the eye-candy (inevitably) loses its appeal.
However, it is a fair assumption that fighting players’ boredom means making their most common tasks as interesting as possible, and cosmetics actually play a huge role in that specifically. If the most common B4B player activity is shooting zombies, we should definitely make that part of the game as variety-filled as possible via cosmetics as well, alongside the crucial mechanical trappings.
Even for such an old game, Left4Dead's brutal gore system is still simply incredible: shooting a sprinting zombie in the guts makes them glance down as they stumble onto the ground, clawing at their own innards like unraveling spaghetti. Shoot them in the head? If the bullet isn't big enough to just explode their skull completely, they still slump over instantly dead, their brain immediately losing any connection to their body. Used explosives on a horde? They all burst up and outward from the impact simultaneously like bloody fireworks, dozens of limbs and torsos blossoming apart in a demonic ballet.
We absolutely need more of that in B4B: make us feel the impact of our guns on the horde. Small arms fire leaves only small red holes, but larger-caliber or explosive rounds should start mulching them: meat and guts punching out their exit wounds and leaving large bloody splatters on the walls behind them. I know there was muzzle flash from guns in the Alpha footage already, even though other cosmetics like zombie dismemberment and door-breaking are clearly in Alpha state, so just keep up the good work guys. (Perhaps mechanical implications for gore as well? Armless zombies can't grab you, one-legged zombies stand still or fall prone, gutless zombies start vomiting up blood but will still swipe at you if you walk too close? One can dream.)
Not just the gore, mind you: polish every cosmetic involved with the core gameplay loop. Make the Specials' screams and impacts echo in our ears, to justify their status as our “arch-enemies”, as opposed to the faceless Horde. When the Ogre roars in your face, your eyes should falter into tunnel-vision as primal fear takes over your now-hyperventilating character's brain (in the B4B Alpha footage, that poor guy just kinda ... pops up like a Plants vs. Zombies character off to his daily commute, and then plods around like a giant baby ... do you guys remember the intense ground-shaking and boss music of Tanks in L4D?? Make us FEAR the Ogre, not just laugh as we walk past his sad slow ass.)
Gunfire should sound punchy, dangerously loud (does it draw Horde attention?), and satisfying upon impact, not just those crappy muted "click" noises of COD Warzone and Co. (again, I would point readers to the Insurgency series for exemplary explosive and firearms audio; from what I remember, Subnautica was another indie game with incredible audio design.)
However, when it comes to how "accurate" the gun sounds are, or how closely textures match their real-life counterparts? Not as big a priority IMO, since the core gunplay loop is not disassembling your gun or adding random cosmetics to them (err ... I hope). This is not ARMA, and any game with zombies already in it surely isn't compelled to mimic "realistic" items or environments (past a reasonable degree). When struggling to decide how zombies, guns, or explosions "should" sound, err on the side of fun I say. All in all, I’m confident you can afford to spend slightly less dev resources on the whole “realism simulator” side of things, seeing as players’ attention should most likely be elsewhere.
I think I might have sounded like I'm now off to play the Alpha like the rest of you all, but my PC can't actually run the Alpha (and perhaps not the full game when it comes out with optimizations, either). This entire wall of theoretical text was just a combination of my time with unfinished games of all types, and a whole lot of Left4Dead specifically; though purely hypothetical, I'm confident I covered everything that came to mind here.
Have fun without me guys, and above all else: massive congratulations to Turtle Rock specifically, on this new chapter in their timeline. You guys are some of my favorite devs on the planet (who else had the fucking brains to release FREE map DLCs to avoid splitting up the playerbase, all the way back in 2015?? The talent of pioneers always speaks for itself).
Wishing Phil Robb, Chris Ashton, and friends the very best, because you guys definitely deserve it. Take care

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IP:play.nrg-mc.com, Port for Bedrock:19132
NRG IS FOR BEDROCK AND JAVA PLAYERS!!! You can play with your friends no matter what version of the game they own!
Hii welcome to ... well the post about my server xD
First of all hello i´m Ame the Co-Owner of NRG-Mc a 1.16 minecraft server for Java AND Bedrock players
What can you do on our server?
we currently have a handful of servers but we´re planning on adding a few more in the near future. Right now we have...

• Retronix - a 1.16 survival server with an awesome community. we have a few nice add ons like quests, an economy, crates, server events like mob partys and boss fights and many more fun things!
• Creative - creative server that currently runs 1.16
• Skyblock- an all custom skyblock minecraft server with multiple difficulties, monthly rewards and much more! on 1.16
• Beta - A server where we're testing what the future of our server might look like. This beta server (which is going to be released soon) will be a Towney server with lots of custom features!
• Daily Events/Minigames on our Minigame server!! Anyone can join it to play fun games like murder mystery, hide and seek and much more whenever they want!

What will we be adding in the Future?

• basically anything you´d like us to add - we´re always open for new ideas and both I and the other owner try to stay in touch with our players, so if you´d like to see a certain server in the future just let us know and we´ll try to make your dreams come true

Server Rules

1. Respect other users.
2. All language and content must be friendly. (No NSFW content)
3. Keep your profile clean. Make sure you use your In game name. Do not use inappropriate names, game displays or profile pictures.
4. No discussion of politics, religion, race, mental illness, or other serious issues.
5. No spamming, EXCESSIVE CAPS, or aLtErNaTiNg CaPs
6. No griefing or building inappropriate stuff
7. Do not argue with staff.
8. Do not ask about the punishments of other users.
9. You are allowed to show your work in our discord channels #media and #builds. However, shameless advertisements are not allowed.

NOTE: These rules apply on all of our platforms.
Why should you choose our server over other survival servers?
Ofc its up to you what server you play on but when i asked our players they came up with the following reasons

• On our server you can actually sleep to avoid phantoms - MrPranklez, the other Owner, put his heart and soul in configurating our plugins. He created a system that lets players speed up the night by sleeping. If there are 4 players online and 1 sleeps the night will go by 25% faster
• Even if you dont donate you can still enjoy cosmetic features like /hat, /pets, particles and Disguises
• We don´t tolerate bullying or being rude - doesn´t matter if a players i best friends with the owners and staff, they´ll be treated just like every other player. If they break rules they get punished. We keep a close eye on Players that break our rules and even if they don´t actually break a rule but they bother another player we´ll always try to resolve things and ensure they leave you alone if you want
• The backend isn´t something just admins+ know about - Our developers update our players whenever they change something (even if its just the colour of a rank) players get the chance to talk to the devs and ask questions or suggest things
• We´re a young, growing community - that means playing never gets boring, we´re constantly looking for new stuff to add (not just for our donators) we try to reward our community for playing on our server

Here are the links and stuff for you to join the community!!
Server Ip: play.nrg-mc.com
Discord: www.nrg-mc.com/discord
Forums: http://www.nrg-mc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nrg.minecraft/?hl=de
Thank you for reading this, have a wonderful day <3

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Share these with anyone who signs in to your home Xbox:

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Beginning 2021, Xbox Design Lab will be offering custom Xbox Series X|S controllers. Right now, they are for Xbox One controllers.
Xbox Adaptive Controller for gamers with limited mobility
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External Storage

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Stores any Xbox game	Yes	Yes
Plays Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Original Xbox games	Yes	Yes
Plays games optimized for Xbox Series X	No	Yes
Replicates speed and performance of internal SSD	No	Yes

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Once starlink comes to my state, I can ditch viacrap and start using starlink, because I'm a gamer i hate viasat, when I try to play an online game I lag all the time and sometimes I disconnect, im posting this on 4g because when I use viasat I cant get into reddit sometimes, when im writing it is 7:27 PM EST here so it slowed down, and I cant play games like Call Of Duty or Fortnite, I heard sometime in early 2021 it will come to the southern USA, im in northern GA so I could one day be in a beta program, because when I try to play COD Zombies unless im on solo or splitscreen I always lag, also last time I made a purchase in Minecraft it took a while before I could get it to load so thats why im excited!

I’m very very confused about choosing the right laptop so my kids can play Minecraft and Roblox in VR using the Quest 2.
The Oculus website states recommended spec as: - Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater. - CPU: Intel i5-4590/AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater - 8 Gb RAM
I don’t what to spend more than I need as a gaming laptop is an expensive purchase and it’s only for Roblox and Minecraft.
I purchased a Acer Nitro 5 with specs:

• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1660Ti
• CPU: Ryzen 5 4600H
• 8Gb RAM

But the Oculus software says my PC is not to the updated specification. The Home Screen is jittery. Roblox won’t load, just shows a Roblox Beta is loading message and never loads.
I don’t know why other than maybe the CPU is not greater than the recommended i5 4590. But looking at specs online the Ryzen 5 4600H has similar Ghz and more cores. How else do you even tell if a CPU is better than others??
I’m sending the Nitro back.
But it means I’m really stuck to know what laptop to get. How on earth am I supposed to tell if the laptop CPU is same or better than recommended? The graphics card in the nitro is better than the recommended one oculus say.
I don’t want to buy another laptop and find it’s jittery. I also don’t want to overspend on one that’s higher than need be for Roblox and Minecraft.
Thanks
UPDATE: I’ve sent it back and bought an Acer Predator Helios with same RAM but better CPU and graphics card. That works very well. So couldn’t have been the RAM. Oculus specs must be wrong or the Acer spec not up to the job even though Oculus says it is.

So I used to play before the very hard to say update. And I played beta for a month until full release and than I deleted it for space for Minecraft. So the questions 1 Does it run on intel graphics? Websites say no but I was able to before and if not please for the love of god implement it. 2 The thing don't start. I try to open and nothing. It says cancel than just quits and says play again. I tried many things. Reinstall. Going offline than online again. Testing the integrity. Shutting down computer. Everything. And still nothing. Here are my Specs.
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Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300 CPU @ 1.90 GHz 2.50 GHz
4gb RAM

Hello fellow players,
Here are the stats for the top 100 most played games of /ps4 in August 2020. 12134 active players were tracked this month.
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#	Name	Platform	Hours Played	Players	Sessions	Average / Session
1	Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®	PS4	83709	3393	55784	1:31
2	Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout	PS4	83572	7776	94605	0:54
3	Fortnite	PS4	65730	2726	50445	1:19
4	Ghost of Tsushima	PS4	55177	2701	29532	1:53
5	Grand Theft Auto V	PS4	48124	3016	30891	1:34
6	Apex Legends	PS4	33820	1645	27419	1:15
7	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege	PS4	30408	1896	23992	1:17
8	FIFA 20	PS4	28599	1547	19999	1:26
9	Red Dead Redemption 2	PS4	28231	1553	17693	1:36
10	Destiny 2	PS4	18336	645	7700	2:23
11	The Last of Us™ Part II	PS4	16385	1369	9825	1:41
12	Minecraft	PS4	16142	1716	12165	1:20
13	NBA 2K20	PS4	13610	849	9183	1:29
14	Dead by Daylight	PS4	12988	580	8207	1:35
15	Overwatch: Origins Edition	PS4	12840	814	10674	1:13
16	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition	PS4	11997	826	6173	1:57
17	Marvel's Avengers Beta	PS4	10180	2866	10765	0:57
18	Rocket League®	PS4	9947	1079	11370	0:53
19	ARK: Survival Evolved	PS4	7695	305	3203	2:25
20	Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 Campaign Remastered	PS4	7629	1638	6111	1:15
21	HYPER SCAPE™	PS4	7014	2300	9265	0:46
22	Assassin's Creed® Odyssey	PS4	6500	385	3073	2:07
23	Horizon Zero Dawn™	PS4	6478	674	3771	1:44
24	FINAL FANTASY XIV	PS4	6177	188	2297	2:42
25	Marvel's Spider-Man	PS4	5619	798	3999	1:25
26	DEATH STRANDING™	PS4	5611	390	2708	2:05
27	For Honor	PS4	5531	382	4277	1:18
28	God of War	PS4	5448	605	3432	1:36
29	Bloodborne™	PS4	5378	554	3595	1:30
30	Warframe	PS4	5297	295	3108	1:43
31	Persona 5 Royal	PS4	5124	225	2487	2:04
32	eFootball PES 2020	PS4	4874	311	3617	1:21
33	DARK SOULS™ III	PS4	4428	373	2971	1:30
34	DAYS GONE	PS4	4281	391	2368	1:49
35	The Last of Us™ Remastered	PS4	4276	575	2974	1:27
36	Monster Hunter World: Iceborne	PS4	4250	243	2181	1:57
37	F1® 2020	PS4	4175	182	2364	1:46
38	Rise of the Tomb Raider	PS4	4175	656	2775	1:31
39	STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II	PS4	4110	729	4022	1:02
40	Call of Duty®: WWII	PS4	4071	686	3363	1:13
41	Far Cry® 5	PS4	4006	493	2514	1:36
42	Mortal Kombat 11	PS4	3934	507	3831	1:02
43	Borderlands® 3	PS4	3886	516	2275	1:43
44	Nioh 2	PS4	3716	169	1867	2:00
45	The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited	PS4	3628	305	2185	1:40
46	Fallout 4	PS4	3557	246	1593	2:14
47	FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE	PS4	3443	248	1791	1:56
48	Cuphead	PS4	3384	382	3251	1:03
49	Rogue Company	PS4	3254	432	3131	1:03
50	Tom Clancy's The Division® 2	PS4	3190	276	1828	1:45
51	Far Cry® 3 Classic Edition	PS4	3183	409	2022	1:35
52	Warface	PS4	3165	192	2081	1:32
53	EA SPORTS™ UFC® 3	PS4	3125	447	3064	1:02
54	Share Play	PS4	2870	1345	5073	0:34
55	Brawlhalla	PS4	2835	493	3616	0:48
56	Skyrim	PS4	2820	247	1503	1:53
57	Need for Speed™ Heat	PS4	2819	395	2226	1:16
58	Control	PS4	2798	348	1794	1:34
59	SMITE	PS4	2778	153	1747	1:36
60	Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4	PS4	2444	350	2161	1:08
61	The Crew® 2	PS4	2420	337	2202	1:06
62	Gran Turismo™SPORT	PS4	2333	385	2294	1:02
63	Uncharted™ 4: A Thief’s End	PS4	2330	357	1606	1:28
64	Fallout 76	PS4	2322	150	1322	1:46
65	Uncharted™: The Nathan Drake Collection	PS4	2241	399	1587	1:25
66	STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™	PS4	2239	236	1283	1:45
67	DayZ	PS4	2192	85	1073	2:03
68	EA SPORTS™ UFC® 4	PS4	2169	210	1496	1:28
69	Call of Duty®: Black Ops III	PS4	2133	377	1936	1:07
70	Battlefield™ 1	PS4	2108	335	1875	1:08
71	BATMAN™: ARKHAM KNIGHT	PS4	2102	285	1269	1:40
72	Assassin's Creed® Origins	PS4	2065	204	1253	1:39
73	Metro Exodus	PS4	2035	225	1211	1:41
74	Battlefield™ V	PS4	2004	325	1784	1:08
75	Farming Simulator 19	PS4	1982	182	991	2:00
76	Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2. Обновленная кампания	PS4	1976	302	1461	1:22
77	WATCH_DOGS® 2	PS4	1944	311	1351	1:27
78	METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE DEFINITIVE EXPERIENCE	PS4	1929	138	990	1:57
79	MLB® The Show™ 20	PS4	1914	56	963	2:00
80	Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice	PS4	1864	173	1263	1:29
81	Persona 5	PS4	1846	119	971	1:55
82	HITMAN™ 2	PS4	1809	330	1547	1:11
83	Detroit: Become Human™	PS4	1787	306	1081	1:40
84	DOOM Eternal	PS4	1738	194	1358	1:17
85	Shadow of the Tomb Raider	PS4	1730	143	906	1:55
86	FIFA 19	PS4	1728	212	1501	1:10
87	DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED	PS4	1703	211	1226	1:24
88	DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin	PS4	1655	142	979	1:42
89	Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition	PS4	1615	179	950	1:42
90	Neverwinter	PS4	1603	56	700	2:18
91	Black Desert	PS4	1590	64	524	3:03
92	Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection	PS4	1587	111	811	1:58
93	The Sims™ 4	PS4	1573	241	920	1:43
94	PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	PS4	1569	193	1256	1:15
95	Cities: Skylines	PS4	1537	186	1003	1:32
96	BioShock: The Collection	PS4	1532	213	909	1:42
97	No Man's Sky	PS4	1523	149	834	1:50
98	GreedFall	PS4	1465	163	707	2:05
99	Nioh	PS4	1427	185	885	1:37
100	Dead Cells	PS4	1388	242	1232	1:08