Based on the FAQ, I'm going to guess that you might be thinking about this already, but you need gift cards! I would throw $100 at this right now to allow my broke college student brother and I to play for the next year without having to convince him to pay.

Secondly, can you export your world data if you chose to leave?

$100? Send an email to [email protected] and we'll work something out :P

Re data export: absolutely. It's not automated at the moment but shoot us an email anytime you want a data snapshot.

That's awesome. Not sure if you were serious, emailed you anyway.

I don't mind logging in with Facebook. It saves me from having to sign up for Yet Another Thing, but:

> "Publish games and app activity Minefold may publish scores, achievements, and other activity to Facebook."

That's unacceptable. I have not begun to use your service yet, I have no trust for you, and you haven't told me in any way whatsoever what sort of activity you intend to post.

No deal.

Many sites have begun telling users exactly what user actions will be posted to Facebook. Others use a very simple "we will never post anything without asking you first" prompt to head off these concerns. Both ways work.

But as it is, I have trouble seeing how a hosting service has any business posting to my FB feed.

Minefold doesn't actually do anything with that permission, so feel free to disallow it. At the moment you can choose to receive an email when a friend starts playing in one of your worlds and we thought Facebook may be better for that so new friends can jump in too. I get how certain spammy "social" games have conditioned us to feel nervous about app permissions and we don't want to ever let Minefold get like that.

> "I get how certain spammy "social" games have conditioned us to feel nervous about app permissions and we don't want to ever let Minefold get like that."

It would help a lot if you said as much on the site itself :) Also, the permission-to-post can't be turned off at the permission prompt - I'm unsure if this is a Facebook thing or if that permission is flagged as required. Might be worth looking into.

Ahoy! Minefold looks awesome and we are very excited to see such a promising model for multiserver Minecraft. Do you have plans to work with any server plugins? We are working on bright idea how to increase profit and playability of multiserver Minecraft instances.

In short words: how about to make portals from one instance to another? Looks like we have really deep understanding how to make this stuff works, at least from gamedesign side. Are you ready for cooperation?

What's with the Google link on the maps? I clicked it on [1] and it took me to somewhere in the sea near Africa!

[1] https://minefold.com/chrislloyd/minebnb

They're using Minecraft Overviewer[1] to generate the maps. Overviewer uses the Google Maps api to serve the map tiles. It translates the minecraft block coordinates into lat/long coords. It's probably this translation that leads you to 'this location on Google Maps.'

[1] https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer

looks like your site is down?

Seems ok to me! http://www.downforeveryone.com/minefold.com

We're keeping a close eye on it ;)