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All good things must come to an end.

After about 6 and ½ years of running this blog and community I’d like to officially announce that we are wrapping up The Daily Block (as we know it).

During this time, 9,720 posts were made, 10,400 tumblr followers were gained and over 3000 players logged into our Minecraft server.

I’d like to take the time to acknowledge all the amazing, awesome, outstanding and just plain fantastic people who made this community what it was for so many years - I have had so many good times with you all and met so many amazing people during this time.

The memories, experiences and good times that we shared will always remain with me regardless of if we never get in touch again - and I hope they do for you too.

While the blog hasn’t seen active posts for a long time, the server was still seeing reasonably good use up to about 6 months ago by a core group of players. However we’ve decided that since we’ve all really stopped playing Minecraft now, there is no point to leaving the server online when we aren’t even going to be using it. To be fair, we’ve played Minecraft for 6 years straight now - so it’s probably time we moved on to something new!

What next? We don’t know. But I’ll be retaining this domain name for the foreseeable future. You can also still visit the old blog here.

If you’d like to stay in touch or see what happens in any future adventures, you will always be able to find me at southpaw.co.nz or join our Discord server.

Thank you all for this amazing opportunity and experience. We wish you the best and hope that we may cross paths again in the future.

Best wishes from the team,

Alex (South_Paw)
Hannah (Celticlove1995)
Conor (Condaminium)
Scott (Typical_Cyanide)
Rey (DWN015)
Resi (resir014)
Tommy (Kaj Taotsu)

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Hey y’all, wassup.

Welcome back to the blog, glad to see you’re still here!

Where the heck have you been…?

This year’s been a pretty mental one for me, without going into too much detail - I’ve been doing a software project that required 20-30 hours of work a week. To add to the stress of just getting shit done, we had 2 of our 7 man team drop out of the course, leaving 5 people to do the work of 7 in the same amount of time.

Yeah. It was a great learning experience but I’d never do it again.

I also got a job working at a software company so balancing my work commitments there with uni took priority over my social life/playing video games.

TDB community is dead!

Well, it really hasn’t been.

The gang has still been on Discord every day and we’ve still communicated regularly on it. If you think the community is dead it’s probably because you haven’t made the effort to join the Discord server yet. So yeah, you should stop being dull and join our Discord server.

If you’re ever needing me, you can always DM me on Discord and I’ll usually respond (if I don’t, ping me again - sometimes I read and forget to reply…)

The Minecraft server have also had people popping on from time to time.

I applied to your whitelist and never heard back!

Yeah, sorry about that. While the TDB Minecraft server has remained online I haven’t been paying any attention to the whitelist applications (simply didn’t have enough brain capacity to remember to look at them)

If you’re applied in the last few months, check your inbox soonish and you may find an email saying you’ve been accepted. ;)

So what now…?

Well, now that I have more time again I’m hoping I’ll be able to…

  1. Post somewhat more often on here
  2. Put some work into the Minecraft server
  3. Work some more on our community in general (aka, more than just Minecraft).

That’s all from me, for now.

~ Alex // South Paw

Welcome back~

Hey all,

I’ve been busy doing life things in life and haven’t really been tumbling or Minecrafting lately.

A bunch of us are working together to sort out the 1.9 server (today) and get back into the swing of updating the blog regularly.

We’re updating the server to 1.9 right now - so while you wait join us on our discord server and talk :D

I’ll write a proper post after we’ve finished updating to 1.9 and I have a white list application form to send out.

Welcome back!

~ The Daily Block Team