Attention all nerds! This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!

On Saturday 1st June the Rev 30 Nerd Fair will be rolling into town! Rev 29s final save will be on Friday 31st May and there will be 1 day of chaos before closing for new rev prep maintenance. Please note that we will be launching on 1.20.4 with a view to possibly upgrading to 1.20.5 mid-rev (depending on any technical limitations). The theme will be worlds/state fairs! Check out The PvE Blog for more specific information about this upcoming revision!

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Join the Easter build contest! Participate by going to /warp WeeklyBuild

Begins: Saturday March 23rd

Ends: Monday April 1st

There will be a public vote on the 2nd where the winner will be decided.

Rules:

- Teams are allowed

- Multiple entries are allowed

- Claim plots by using /nerdplot claim while standing in a plot.

Greetings nerds!

Lucky the leprechaun is a bit unlucky and has lost his lucky hats around the map!

Search the live map for 25 Lucky Hats, head to to each location and look for a hidden sign within 25 blocks. Click the sign to earn a Gold Coin and a decorative St Patrick's Day skull.

But watch out! There are other mischievous leprechauns that aren't too happy about Lucky rewarding you with gold coins. These little guys are quick and dangerous!

Keep custom drops, Lucky will be back at the spawn traders hall area next week.

Join the St. Patrick's Day build contest!

Participate by going to /warp WeeklyBuild

Begins: Friday March 1st

Ends: Monday March 18th

There will be a public vote on the 18th where the winner will be decided.

Rules:

- Teams are allowed

- Multiple entries are allowed

- Claim plots by using /nerdplot claim while standing in a plot.

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Good Luck! ​🍀

Participate in our Valentine's day build contest!

Details here - https://nerdnu.io/forums/topic/7240-creative-valentine%E2%80%99s-day-build-contest/

Update: Service has been restored.

There is a service outage at our hosting provider. Please see the #mcgeneral channel in discord for the latest information.

Many moons ago, the NerdNu server icons were created! To celebrate our recent re-acquisition of our NerdNu domain, we decided it was time to freshen up our icons with a server icon contest!

Read on for instructions on how to enter:

• You must have a NerdNu Forums account to submit your entry.

• You must submit a generic NerdNu icon as well as an icon for each server:

  • Pve (P/PvE)
  • Creative (C)
  • Lobby (L)

• Please also give us examples for Chaos, Minigames, and Fundraiser (to possibly be used in the future - we love a matching set!)

• The icons must be 64x64 pixels and in PNG format

• If you have high resolution versions, that would be handy for use in other places (like the MC Servers list…)

• You are not required to include the NerdNu glasses logo to be consistent with our branding, but it would be nice as these logos will be seen outside of the log-on screens.

Icons do not need to be identical but sets that match will receive higher marks.

• Icons MUST conform to community rules

Plans are to accept submissions for the next month or so , at which point they will be evaluated by head admins and icons that meet the requirements will be put to a public vote!

If you have any questions, please reach out to one of the Head Admins - pez252, Fazaden, or defiex

Post your submissions on the NerdNu Forums here!

We have some good and unexpected news. Nerd.nu is back!

After the domain was purchased we reached out to support at the registrar in Sweden where it was registered (nu means "now" in Swedish and is a popular TLD there) asking if we could be put in contact with the current owner of the domain. We let them know we had the domain for 13 years and had not intended to lose it and were hoping to discuss if we could get it back. Support was helpful and passed along my message.

We never expected a response. Most domains like this are snatched up by a faceless company to serve ads to people who end up there via a google search and don't become available for many years except at a very high cost. Instead it had been grabbed by an individual unassociated with our community who was interested in domains with a long history to launch new sites or services but was specifically looking for domains like ours that had been willingly lost.

About 9 hours ago the brief owner changed the nameservers for the domain so we could begin the recovery process, and they initiated the transfer process. About 30 minutes ago this process completed. This result is more than we had ever hoped for and we are extremely grateful to this person for their help. If you by chance are out there reading this, thank you again. We are truly grateful.

Thank you to everyone for all the understanding and patience during this time, and thank you for the great suggestions of domains to move forward with. The servers are accessible again at nerd.nu. Some services may still redirect to our temporary domain but will be fixed shortly.

-Headadmins

We have some good and unexpected news. Nerd.nu is back!

After the domain was purchased we reached out to support at the registrar in Sweden where it was registered (nu means "now" in Swedish and is a popular TLD there) asking if we could be put in contact with the current owner of the domain. We let them know we had the domain for 13 years and had not intended to lose it and were hoping to discuss if we could get it back. Support was helpful and passed along my message.

We never expected a response. Most domains like this are snatched up by a faceless company to serve ads to people who end up there via a google search and don't become available for many years except at a very high cost. Instead it had been grabbed by an individual unassociated with our community who was interested in domains with a long history to launch new sites or services but was specifically looking for domains like ours that had been willingly lost.

About 9 hours ago the brief owner changed the nameservers for the domain so we could begin the recovery process, and they initiated the transfer process. About 30 minutes ago this process completed. This result is more than we had ever hoped for and we are extremely grateful to this person for their help. If you by chance are out there reading this, thank you again. We are truly grateful.

Thank you to everyone for all the understanding and patience during this time, and thank you for the great suggestions of domains to move forward with. The servers are accessible again at nerd.nu. Some services may still redirect to our temporary domain but will be fixed shortly.

-Headadmins

Hello everyone!

As you are aware, our domain Nerd.Nu stopped working in October. The original founder of our community has maintained control of our domain at all times throughout Nerd history. There were a number of attempts in the past to hand off control of the domain to Deaygo (the "owner" of all other services and contracts for the past ~12 years) but our founder always declined to transfer ownership.

When the domain was not renewed we reached out to our founder with a text (sms) message to find out what happened and again try to get the domain transferred to our control. He responded letting us know that the registrar for our domain was bought and the accounts associated with our founder were deactivated. The new company that bought that registrar recognized him as the owner of the domain and needed him to go through the account recovery process. He let us know he would try recovering accounts "tomorrow".

Unfortunately that is where our information from him ends. From that point he did not respond to phone calls, texts, emails, steam messages, reddit messages, or emails. A couple members of the community who were friends also attempted to reach out and did not receive a reply. To this day we do not know what happened. Please do not attempt to reach out with any hostile messages. We sincerely hope nothing bad has happened, but based on recent game activity on steam we believe that they are alive and well enough to game.

The domain went up for sale around 11pm eastern on December 11th. We had a script running to attempt to buy the domain the moment it became available, a member of the community who reached out to us placed a backorder for the domain, and a couple people intending to use the domain for their own vision also were attempting to purchase it. The domain was purchased by an unknown third party in Sweden the moment it was available.

Where do we go from here?

Our community started out as just "the reddit minecraft server" with an IP to connect to. We got the domain redditpublic.com for a website for the community, and used nerd.nu and gluco.se as domains to connect to the minecraft server. We then coalesced around nerd.nu for both the website and server though we still keep redditpublic.com for some historical use.

We need a new domain, so why not discuss rebranding? Today we have nerdnu.io setup as a temporary domain but are open to alternatives. We want a name that represents the community today and keep the same vision of the server being a public-access, community driven place to game. We're open to something forward thinking and new that represents the future of the community, or something that honors our long history.

Do you have any ideas for domain names? Reach out to an admin with a DM on Discord or in game. Publicly posting your great idea for a name may result in domain squatters. Please include your vision for our community's future and how your name suggestion ties in to that.

Swing by the Spawn Christmas True for your own special treat! <3

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Nerd.nu domain is back! https://www.reddit.com/r/mcpublic/comments/18iypei/nerdnu_is_back/

Nerd sites and services are available at a new domain. We are still working to resolve the issue with the old domain, but in the meantime these will work and are a more on-brand than the other temporarily working domains.

Web Site: https://nerdnu.io/

Minecraft C/PvE/Lobby:

• c.nerdnu.io
• p.nerdnu.io
• lobby.nerdnu.io

Forums: https://nerdnu.io/forums/

Mumble

• Addresss: nerdnu.io
• Port: 6162
• Accept the cert

Currently we are having domain issue(expired), it is being fixed currently so in meantime you can connect via these ips: p.redditpublic.com for PvE, c.redditpublic.com for Creative and lobby.redditpublic.com for Lobby. for mumble replace address with "66.85.152.60 and server port 6162"

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Queso & I are going back to our roots and Hosting Halloween Town for the second time in the same revision!

This is one of our favorite community builds and we hope everyone will help out.

Halloween Town will is located just west of the North Portal.

West of the original Halloween Town, the deep dark has taken over a ravine. Take the Mangrove walkway west, and you can find a warped boardwalk that will guide you into the ravine.

The Halloween party will be held on - Friday Oct 27 & Saturday Oct 28 at the usual Event time slots

Festivities will include:

Trick-or-Treat

As is tradition, we are asking help from the community to build houses or decorations for the trick-or-treating event. We have laid out 21 plots this year. Plots are 5x5x5 areas dug into the ravine.

If you would like to build in a trick-or-treat please contact queso or I in game and let us know which plot you would like to build on.

Please make sure to include a dropper to be filled with treats (or tricks). Name a shulker box and place about 9 stacks of items inside. No shulker box, we will provide one for you. Use /cmodify cujobear on your dropper to allow me to add your treats to your dispensers on Thursday night.

Be aware of your neighbors and do not let your room extend past the sculk (you may remove the sculk to change the walls, but check in with queso before removing any of the stone variety of blocks.) You may also add a front to your plot, but please keep it in line with the ravine wall. Any questions about building please reach out to queso or I.

Costume Contest

Be sure to dress up if you want a chance to win some prizes and even better. . . bragging rights!!!

Mini Games

We will have a variety of games available to play all night.

Have an idea for a game? Contact queso or I in game or on discord. We can point you to an area to add your game (as long as it is appropriate and follows all server rules) Any questions, you know where to find us!

~cujo & queso