Sponge Status Update - 16th February 2016

Sponge Status Update - 16th February 2016
@Owexz wrote:

Welcome to another Status Update! We've been loving the enthusiasm of the community lately, with so many cool new Plugins and ideas around, we hope to see even more people using Sponge in the near future. To celebrate all this activity, we're launching another Sponge Plugin Competition, so get coding and you may win some cool prizes!

We also highly encourage everyone to join our community, feel free to make an account on our Forums, or join us on IRC if you have any questions that need answering!

We also appreciate any donations that you’d like to contribute through our Patreon. All your donations and FLARD will help to support our goals of creating an awesome free and open source modding API!

Downloads

SpongeForge Beta | SpongeVanilla Beta | SpongeAPI Beta


If you need help setting up Sponge, check out the Documentation here:
https://docs.spongepowered.org/en/server/getting-started/installation.html

Disclaimer

We recommend using Recommended Builds wherever possible. If you wish to use Latest Builds, please read the following:

Latest Builds are the bleeding edge of Sponge Development and can be experimental and/or unstable. If choosing to migrate existing worlds, WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING A BACKUP FIRST. Additionally, we recommend performing frequent backups of the server in order to minimize any potential damage caused by bugs.

Latest builds are meant to be used to test plugins in a development environment or to try out experimental features and/or bug fixes. If you want to ensure a stable server, please use the declared Recommended builds instead. When we believe a particular build is stable enough for general use, we will promote it as a Recommended Build. We are not responsible for any permanent damage done to your server, software, and/or it’s data.

Plugin Competition


With the milestone of Beta we have decided to do another Sponge Plugin Competition! The rules will be the same as the last competition with slight changes to how the reward is handled. Find more details here. Win FLARD!

Development


Our developers have been too busy working at present to write an update, so instead take a look at this visualisation of their work on the Sponge Project since the beginning!

Documentation


There is no doubt the SpongeDocs are now a well-used repository of poriferan wisdom, particularly by starting plugin developers. We are very glad it is serving it’s purpose, and would like to remind folks that new contributions to these annals are always welcome. We’re at the level where most of the things that need to be done need a keen developers’s eye, and review by the editorial team. Some SpongeAPI parts still need a thorough explanation, and a walk-through of implementation. Care must also be taken to ensure we isolate the API versions in the docs, so we ask PR contributors to be sure to state the version they are targeting.

Check out this cool little overview of the work our amazing SpongeDocs team has put in over the past 14 months! Gluten and FLARD-free!

Sponge Community Server


SpongeVanilla has a new spawn and lobby world (Arcturus), and portals to the new survival world, the SoS8 world, and may soon have more gallery worlds to visit. The Geoworld (ore-veins) plugin is also running on it’s own world. Come join, build, and generally try it out for yourself.

To join the SpongeForge server you need to be using the Sponge 1.8.9 Pack in the Technic Launcher. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s stable and modded to within an inch of it’s life. Why not help @Joe_Schmo2840 find room for more?

Web


If you have web development experience, especially with Python and Django, or design experience, we’d love to talk to you about how you can pitch in and lend a hand with Ore! Just hop on Espernet IRC and join #spongedocs or PM @lukegb on the forums.

Ore is staged at https://ore-staging.spongepowered.org/, so please hop on, test it, and report any bugs to the issue tracker.

State of Sponge IX - Change of Date


In order to ensure that as many Sponge Staff as possible will be available for the livestream, we’ve decided to move SoS IX to the 5th of March at 21:00 UTC.

Thanks to the awesome work of the SCS team, we’ll be able to demonstrate the capabilities of both SpongeVanilla and SpongeForge in Vanilla and Modded configurations. Tune in to check out the cool new features and ask the Sponge Team any questions you might have!

You’ll be able to join us at: http://www.twitch.tv/SpongePowered
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