News

I am incredibly excited to announce the new DiamondFire VIP Pass!

It gives you access to exclusive premium content and perks in some of DF's top games. Our launch plots include Site-03, Sputt Time, +1 Clicker, God Abuse, Orig 4, Be Crushed By a Speeding Wall, Trash Gang, Subterranean, and Pickaxe. We have even more plots on the way!

A bit about how it works: DiamondFire pays plot creators to add new content for the VIP pass. As I'm sure you've guessed, these payments come from sales of the pass!

As an additional way to support your favorite plots, VIP pass holders also get Plot Boosts. They're kind of like plot ads, but they can be used on any non-whitelisted plot, even if you're not the owner!

Our mission with the VIP Pass is to enable plot monetization in a way that does right by players and creators. All perks must be EULA-compliant, and by commissioning content, the pass will be purely additive, so non-VIPs will still have a high-quality...

Game Jam information​

Event has ended, thanks for participating!​

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Hey there! This is all the information you need, such as the guidelines and how to register your team. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below or engage in a conversation with me.

Theme: Linked

Guidelines​

• No external compiler tools are allowed
  • This means that you are not allowed to use a tool that allows you to input code or text to convert it to a DiamondFire template. Simply: you can only use your game client. Example: a library allowing you to convert your Java code (or code from another programming language) to a template is not allowed
• Templates are allowed, but there is a limit! It is up to a certain threshold:
  • ...

Admin team addition​

Hey everyone,

We are super excited to announce that @Mr. Dumpling is joining our team as an admin as a development project manager who will very closely be working with the developers and will help oversee and manage the developer team and the development priorities. Excitingly enough, he has been fulfilling those responsibilities for a few months now, but now with being on the team, he will be able to fulfill this role in the best possible way!

With all that being said, be sure to give him a warm welcome and a congratulations for this awesome achievement. We are all extremely excited for the future of DiamondFire, and as a more structured administration with jobs in more areas, this gives us a strong footing to keep guiding the server in the right direction with more strength than before!

Signing out for now, but give him a...

Team addition​

We are very excited to have @hibao aboard our admin team! Through awesome building, project management, and leading a build team and build project, hibao was confidently chosen to be on the admin team as a build team leader! A lot of the work has already been shown—the new Node 7 "Blossom" spawn was a massive build project led and managed by hibao and resulted in an astonishing build with a massive lore and background, and not to mention an alternate reality game that was embedded within it. Moreover, hibao will be leading more building projects like that in the future with the new organized build team!

Make sure to give them a big welcome!

New organized build team​

With a newly organized build team, we now have the most active builders sanctioned by the admin team (hibao)—ever, which is neat and goes to show...

Hey everyone! Node 6 and Node 7 has officially been launched!

• Node 6 ("Canyon") features the winner of our spawn contest, an excellent build by the Aspire build team! A big thanks and congratulations to CortaPlague, SylvTheSpoon, okspaghettisalad, Lil_Hoodie, Clone3A7
• Node 7 ("Meadow") features a classic spawn by DragonSlasher02. Long-time DiamondFire veterans will remember this one!

For a limited time, if you claim a plot on node6 or node7 from its respective spawn, you are guaranteed to get a plot on that node.

Thank you to everyone here who has supported the growth of this amazing community. Enjoy the new space!

Hello everyone! It's DiamondFire's 7 Year Anniversary! The server has grown a lot in the past year. To those of you who are new this year, welcome! To those of you who have been here since nearly the beginning, a very special thanks to y'all. We wouldn't be here today without you!

Special shoutouts to the staff team for taking on the challenge of increased player counts and providing an excellent experience for players. Thanks to the efforts of our support staff, moderators, event planners, suggestion moderators, developers, and administrators, DiamondFire is thriving more than ever before.

In celebration of the anniversary, there's a 25% off sale in the store right now. Additionally, I'll be doing some giveaways during this Saturday's livestream! It'll start at about 11:30am PST and run for about an hour and a half. https://twitch.tv/jeremaster104

It's been an amazing 7 years running DiamondFire, and I'm looking forward to many more to come!

- Jeremaster...

BLACK FRIDAY IS HERE​

From now until 11:59PM Friday (PST):

All ranks are 75% OFF. This makes Overlord $25 or less!

All plots and boosters are 50% OFF. This makes basic plots just $1 apiece!

There is also a Special Offer, limited to one per player: A massive plot PLUS a 2x booster for just $5.

Enjoy our biggest sale of the year, and thanks for supporting DiamondFire!

Store Link: https://store.mcdiamondfire.com

Hey everyone,

This upcoming Wednesday, I will be hosting a music session over at DiamondFire's Discord community server.

> Information

Times:
1:30 PM PST,
3:30 PM UTC,
4:30 PM EST.

You can convert the times using your own timezone by clicking here, or clicking on the Events tab over the Discord server. The community will be able to suggest songs or add them to the queue. Keep in mind that any NSFW or obscene material will result in removal from the activity and potentially future activities like this, so it must be kept as clean as possible.

See you guys there!

Update: The server is back online.

FAQ
Here are the "Frequently Asked Questions"

Hey everyone!

We are thrilled to announce three new developers who are now aboard the development team: @KabanFriends, @Vattendroppen, and @Reason. They will be working with each other to create new DiamondFire systems and features to be released in future patches. Make sure to give them a round of applause and to congratulate them!

Hey everyone!

We are proud to announce the return of @MrMine05 to the DiamondFire Admin team! He will be working with @Numero on events. He's got some awesome plans, and we hope everyone gives him a warm welcome back!

For more information on DiamondFire events, stay tuned here on the forums and at our Discord server under the event announcements.

Hi all! As many of you know, we began testing world plots on Node Beta yesterday. Through this, we gained a lot of helpful user feedback, as well as important information on the server resource usage patterns of the world plots system.

Background​

World plots have been planned for a long time as a way to make the server capacity more scalable as our playerbase grows. The system would offer better plot isolation and stability, as described in our previous dev blog. Development of world plots officially started in early June, and the dev team (especially @Owen) has spent a great deal of time working on it. We wanted to get a test on Node Beta as soon as possible so we could get feedback and analyze usage under more realistic player counts and usage patterns.

What we found​

While the user feedback was helpful (many of you expressed concerns about build and code separation), another concern for us was the resource usage of the...

Hi all! I had the opportunity to present DiamondFire at Snap!con 2021, a virtual conference for computer science educators and researchers hosted by the University of California at Berkeley. Here's the video that was included in the presentation:

Hi all! Today we're going to talk about a big update coming to DiamondFire that we're currently working on. We'll be looking at what's planned and what you should be aware of regarding this update.

Background​

Currently, your plot is stored on a single world on a node. If a server gets full because too many people are playing or building on, say, Node 1 plots, there is really nothing we can do because all the plots are stuck on the node they were created on. As DiamondFire continues to grow, we want to eliminate this restriction and allow your plot to be loaded onto any server. This will allow us to scale plots and overall make it much easier to expand without needing to create new "nodes".

For example, if...

Hey everyone!

The most recent Game Jam hosted by the events team started on March 12th and ended on March 19th. The special theme throughout the event was "Deleted". And with the theme being quite vast, this allowed game creators to cook up some really cool and unique ideas that were voted upon by the community.

Without further ado, here is an insiders look at the last game jam!

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Interviews
I interviewed some of the top winners of the Game Jam to give everyone a look into the behind the scenes of some of the games that were submitted in the game jam.

"Crumble"
ID: 31483

Crumble took 1st place, and was released by @Jimmy_The_Knight.



Q) What was your Game Jam plot submission ("Crumble") about?

A) Crumble is a turn-based PvP game where the players'...

Hey everyone! We are excited to announce that the website has been updated to a new software patch, which introduces lots of new features to the community who use the forums! The new features are now being utilized to help make the website an even more awesome place for everyone here.

Some of the new patch features that affects the community:

• Profile banners​
  • Attach a fancy image to your forum account. This is currently unlocked for everyone who has a forum account, and no restrictions were decided to put into place. Please be sure to follow the rules before setting a banner.​
• New forum thread types
  • Some of our forum areas have been updated to use the new forum types!
  • A new forum area was created - Support, and you can mark other comments as an answer to help others out!
  • Our feedback forum was updated to...

We want to give @Numero a big welcome to the admin team! He has shown extreme dedication to the staff team for several years, and is a well known member of this community. He will be taking @Refriz's position as an Events Manager, and Refriz will be moving to a position of Community Manager! Community Manager will be a position that serves as a better connection between the staff team and the community. He will take your complaints and work to make the server a better place. The Community Manager will work with the admin areas to help improve each area. We are super excited to introduce this new role.

Original announcement from @ryanroo2

Hey everyone!

Unfortunately, there was an outage today that caused some users to have experienced some degree of loss due to corrupted chunks. The development team tried their best to recover any data, so we are giving compensation for those who lost anything.

Compensation

Users who were affected by the outage and lost anything will be given:

• 1x massive plot
• 3x Booster that lasts for 3 hours

We sincerely apologize for this news, but we hope this will help brighten your day. If you were affected, please post down below or inform a developer and it will be investigated.

Thanks all!