how about some city planning and cooperative work this time? I'm sure one uber monster tower could be built to supply everyone and a well thought out rail system would be nice.
On the fourth lava flow block just add a ladder below it, the monsters can go through but the lava flow will stop there, remove two blocks horizontal below and it'll let the water flow through.
as far as resetting the server I'd wait until minecarts, portals and monsters work. It would be cool to have people collaborate on a few large fortresses connected by rails and portals while preserving the natural surroundings.
At the moment, I play on peaceful/easy because it's not terribly fun getting shot to death by skeletons. I'll play it on higher difficulty once, and if, they put in more interesting monsters. I.E. Dwarf fortress levels of insanity, or something.
I'm using my son's account, jdc1999. He prefers offline peaceful mode, heheh. I think monsters bring a nice dynamic tho, that and no more dupe bug makes everything that much more precious.
i was hiding in my shelter for the night, i peeked out and did a 360 look around, and i swear i saw like 30-40 monsters wandering around me. ive never seen so many at the same time and place
Multi player with monsters really changes the game! Xeno and I joined up with Sectaurs to work on a base and a we kept having creeper accidents. It's built inside a hill so creepers always spawn on the untamed top of the hill and ninja attack us in the morning!