BREAKING: 1.6 coming soon, awaiting approval...

BREAKING: MajicDave posted on his Twitter last night that update 1.6 could be just around the corner!

Essentially, Dave's now just waiting for the App store to approve it, and for Noodlecake to port it to Android for the Androiders out there. According to beta testers, Noodlecake has finished porting to Android and now they're beta testing the Android version, which Erick says takes about "2-4 weeks".

1.6 is coming soon! Get ready, folks!

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky Herald

Autumn Spawn Competition!

Get out those paints - Supergal has started the Autumn Spawn competition! Decorate your server fall-themed and send it in on the forums by the 6th of November, and your server could win an award (which is still hidden for now). The more you decorate, the better! The panel of judges will rate and judge your spawns, and choose a winner!

-Cheeseburger, the Blocky Herald

The world anxiously awaits 1.6

The world continues to hold their breath as 1.6 may be coming out any day now...

According to beta testers on the forums, beta testing is in full swing. A Touch arcade article from two weeks ago said that 1.6 should be in just a few weeks, which should be any day now.

Rumours continue to float around the forums.

Pancakes! Llamas! Planes! All these fun rumours...1.6 is coming, and it might be coming very soon!

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky herald

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Sam.Boyer reaches 3000 subscribers!

Sam.Boyer, most likely The Blockheads most famous YouTuber, has reached a huge 3000 subscribers on his channel!

There are some interesting things mentioned on the video:

-3000 subs have been reached, if you haven't guessed by this articles title.
-There have been a lack of BH's videos because of 1.6 Beta Testing!
-He needs a new introduction.
-SBW 2.0 will have a different name, work closer to Aceland, will be whitelisted...and have pancakes!
-Blockheads Adventures may be done for Christmas (it won't.)
-Expect some twitch livestreams soon!
-The Noob Guide was so corny that it was made from corn in the came.
-You!
-'And so but erm, yeah' is said too often.

And, so, but, erm, yeah good luck with future videos, Sam! 4000 subs shouldn't be too far off!

Land of Omicron's new Pletopia world to launch soon, co-owner Bucket introduces PPP program

LAND OF OMICRON - Players are excited as they await the opening of the newest world in the Omicron network, Pletopia.

The world will open in 1.6, and will replace Plebeius as the primary public world of the network. It will mark a new chapter in Omicron history when it opens. It came as a surprise when Bucket became a co-owner of the server.

Bucket has been giving out hints. The server will be economy-themed, and Greek/Roman-themed as well. He has revealed that there will be clans, and lots of art, including an Omicron anthem! The world continues to wait for the opening...Bucket has revealed some details, but has kept others secret. He has given one clue each day.

Meanwhile, Bucket has also introduced the PPP program. PPP stands for Popularity Partnership Program, which is a unique program that will potentially increase the popularity of servers.

The servers that get accepted will have their own forum on the Omicron website, and it will essentially be partners with Omicron, as the server will have an embassy on the Pletopia world, as well as share players and resources. The owner will still have total control over the server. The server may also recieve starter chests if requested.

To apply, PM Bucket with the server. The server must have 50 posts on the thread as well as be at least a month old. The owner needs 100 reputable posts, as well as be a member for 2+ months on the forums.

Pie Games was the first server in the PPP program, and the application for Cheeseworld has been approved and the forums are being created...

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky Herald

Cheeseworld crime wave ends, Cheeserails project continues

CHEESEWORLD - The crime wave has been going about a month. Thousands of dollars worth of items stolen. But it's all over now. The culprit has been found, and the items have been recovered.

Players are happy to get their beloved items back. Notably, Heartbeat got back nine shops she won in the lottery last week, the shops containing a total of 60 million dollars.

Cheeseburger is offering financial compensation to those affected. Players can now play normally again, and there is no longer a need to keep items all secured.



Meanwhile, the Cheeserails project is now in full swing. The first rails have now been laid, and about 200 blocks have been laid so far. The first priority is to connect the spawn continent, then to expand and reach the eastern islands, including Darkfur's spectacular Glory Island and Nicktbl's island, among others.

The railway will become a significant connector across the server, making transportation much easier. It is currently a long trip by boat and walking to get from spawn to Glory Island, days in length, but when the railway is completed the journey will be a fast handcar commute and will take just minutes to complete.

The railway is eventually expected to go around the 4x world.

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky Herald

What's in 1.6-Forums Game!

On the forums there's a game to guess what's in 1.6! Pick three things (be specific-you can elaborate on your guess of things dave has confirmed but you can't say just them) and hope for the best! Beta testers can't take part. This game has been set up by Skeeve.

If you haven't joined the forums, then sign up at theblockheads.net/forum and go to general discussion. The thread is in there. 

My bets are this:

1. JLAVS dance mat.

2. Llamas.

3. Cake.

In addition, you can now host parties with llamas dancing on dance mats eating cake. 

Good luck!

FORUMS: Multiple Account Detection In Place!

Fair warning to anyone who's been creating multiple accounts to make themselves more popular/more rep/for fun! Milla has just added in a spam account detection which will detect when you log in to two or more different accounts. Some forumers have relations on the forums which means they may occasionally share a device. 

From the forums:

We have a plugin in place now that detects when more than one person logs in from the same device. It's picked up a few of you that share devices, and I'm aware of those. 

Others look suspiciously like they're posting as more than one person. I have emailed one of you, and will email two more shortly. 

If you think your legitimate use of one device between two or more of you will be detected, please save me the trouble of hitting you up when it happens by emailing support at theblockheads.net telling me which forum users use one of your devices, so I don't come after you needlessly. It's clearly perfectly fine to share devices with others. I just need to know, because the forum will detect it now.

If you have more than one account without permission, please come to me by emailing support at theblockheads.net before I find you, because if I find you before you own up there will be a punitive action taken against you. If you come to me first there will be none.

This moratorium will be in effect indefinitely, but for it to cover your multiple accounts you have to come to me and own up before I bust you.

Hello World!

Hey guys, it's Sam.Boyer here!
I've just joined the Blockheads Herald team and I'm looking forward to making some posts on here. I'll make them every now and then, but I'm not really sure what'll  be in them. Some news, some opinions and maybe...  just maybe... there might be some exclusive videos. *gasp* Who said that???
But there will be bacon. Lots of bacon.

See?
Anyway, just stopped by to say hello!

-Sam.Boyer

Happy Thanksgiving!

For some people it's still a month away, but Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it today, on behalf of the team. :)

-Cheeseburger

Cheeseworld Crime Continues!

During the last 4 days, a huge crime wave appeared in the spawn area and Cheeseworld. There were several suspects, not to be named. So the players found that many things were missing, destroyed or raided. 
So much things happened that Cheese was getting a bit frustrated. One of the suspects was later found to be just donating. Another suspect was later proven that he didn't do the crime.
The places that was greifed is Flobox's house and his pixel art, X56Bro's and Heartbeat's house. Ollimart was also greifed.
Everything was almost solved in the last 5 pages in the Cheese World thread on the Blockheads Forums. The last thing to get investigated is the person who raided X56Bros and HeartBeats house. X56Bro a.k.a BlockAce, signing out.

By visiting author BlockAce

The New Blockheads community chat

Forum member Bucket has set up a forum chat for the members of the Blockheads forum community to chat on. Everyone is welcome!

Here is the link: http://www.chatzy.com/12984704800531. The password is cavetroll.

So far, the chat has proved very successful, with almost always somebody on. Funny moments and fun games have happened, and overall seems to be very positively recieved.

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky Herald

Victory for Save Izzy Foundation!

Breaking News! Maddie has been grilled! Victory for Save Izzy Foundation!

Finally, after several weeks and some months, Grilling Princess MaddieKgrace has finally been grilled. A great step for Save Izzy Foundation and its members of the organization.

This is how it all started: The role-played Dodo War (or World War III, or the Great Grilling War, as it is more popular to the masses) has been very active for several months. It has first started with Skye234 dominating every server he went onto with his army of scorpions and dodos, which later triggered a theory that the dodo bird are pure evil, and the dodos caused the Blockheads to lose their memory. Later, Skye has quietly disappeared (most probably due to school) then CandyNestea took the throne, grilling everybody for her dodos' sake and kind. Thus, the creation of the organization Save Izzy Foundation together with the Royal Penguin Army and The Feline Federation was created to retaliate the clashes from the dodos.

The evidence has been reported to the public 2 days ago on October 6, 2014, at 8:57 PM. It happened on the Famous and Harry Potter Themed Cloud Server Majic Wands. This post is partly caused of the fact that Maddie had never admitted herself that she was actually grilled by Izzy. And because she only posted Izzy being grilled.

"She tells you she grilled me. What she didn't tell you was that I grilled her. I thought I would get my revenge by leaking just a little photo..." says Izzy, the leader of the Save Izzy Foundation.

Shortly after this, joyful cheers from the masses arrived. The morale was boosted fundamentally for the Foundation. The hope strengthen on Blockhead-kind. I, myself, even posted Nestea being grilled, but she unfortunately, was quick to dodge it, thus still in a "raw" state.

This shows that, despite all the grilling and the shortcomings of the Foundation, we are able to stand up, and fight against the dodos. 
-Darkfur-

The original thread:
http://theblockheads.net/forum/showt...-being-grilled

This article is by a guest author, DarkFur.

Golden Streak Awards come to an end, Skeeve's Gigantic Empire wins final award

The 1st Annual Golden Streak Awards have now come to an end, meanwhile Skeeve's Gigantic Empire takes home the final award of Best Server Overall.

Skeeve stated he was "beyond shocked" when he heard that he had won the final award.

A final farewell video was posted for the end of the 2014 Golden Streak Awards. The next awards will happen in September 2015.

Congratulations to all servers that won!

-Cheeseburger, The Blocky Herald

Announcing PROJECT NARNIA.

PROJECT NARNIA is this websites attempt at making a fun server and also we, the authors, will let you know our personal favourite servers! There are two stages to this project which are outlines below:

1. A series of posts directing you to our favourite servers, which we hope will improve your multiplayer experience. All the authors have been long-time community members so they know which servers have proved to be the best.
2. Our own server which is not competing with the servers we recommend. We will also be advertising the servers here. The server has many amazing features, which you can read about in The Blockheads Herald Thread.

This project is our aim to improve multiplayer for everybody and will be finished in late October provided that TouchArcades 1.6 ETA is correct. The server will most likely launch with 1.6 so it won't be too far away I hope! More details on this coming later!

Majic Wands wins Golden Streak award for Busiest Whitelisted Server

Congratulations to Majic Wands (Owned by StainedGlass, AKA Cassia) for winning another Golden Streak Award - busiest whitelisted server!

This is the second GSA for Majic Wands

Tomorrow will bring the announcement of best spawn...and after that, the nominees for Best Server overall will be announced, then a voting period.

-Cheeseburger, the Blocky Herald