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And you can still craft swords and get armor. 
what this basically does is kill the one man survival aspect... any team has a major advantage now and solo players are thrown under the bus. you have a team of 3 VIA Skype and you have the corn for the first night, you basically win. hands down.So we need to shut down the servers for an update to address some big fixes and memory leaks. Also we are changing the chests now to make it so that iron and up needs to be crafted now. This was decided after reading the chest voting forum as that should be the best solution. The corn chests now have more items like diamond, iron and gold, and a lot of the better food. We also threw in some wood and stone tools to mix in the pot to spice the chances up as well. We will try it out this weekend and see if you all like it and if not, I will tweak it again. I also hid 3 more crafting tables in the outside of the corn to make it so you don't need to always fight for the middle.
EU, I scheduled the upgrade and your server should be up within an hour or less.
Update: Guys, like we said, we are trying this out and if it doesn't work, we will revert back! LOL, this change isn't final as I wanted to see if it will work. Right now the new format is only on servers 1-10 and I will keep it like that. The old game variant is on EU 1-8 and US 11-20 if you like the old style. Just an FYI. So if you are "quitting the server" because of this change, don't as this is just a 1 day test to see how the gameplay changes. We know we may make some people unhappy with some minor changes if this becomes finalized but our goal is to make the majority happy.
