The server appears to have decided to re-enact "The Birds":
Edit: Appears to be fixed now. On a related note, anyone need any feathers?
---------- Post added 08-03-11 at 00:27 ---------- Previous post was 08-02-11 at 19:32 ----------
I've spent the last few hours constructing what I have deemed the "Hielor Centre for Agricultural Automation", just east (toward sunrise) of the bridge:
Inside there is a mostly automated mushroom farm (pull a lever, wait 30 seconds, put the lever back, grab all the mushrooms that come out, then go do something else for a few hours while the mushrooms spread before doing it again) and a mostly automated sugar cane farm (push a button, grab all the sugar cane that comes out). There's an "observation room" for the sugar cane farm, but not for the mushrooms, since mushrooms do best in total darkness.
Feel free to use these resources, but please try not to be destructive about it--no mining or shoveling is necessary, just push the button or flip the lever, and please close the door when you leave to keep the mobs out. If you make use of this centre to save time and find it useful, I'd appreciate any donations left in the marked donation chest
An easy thing to do is just drop off any excess mushrooms or sugar cane, if the device pops out more than you need. Or, if you have any excess redstone, I'd happily take it off your hands--a lot of the stuff went into this project and I'm running low
Enjoy!