Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
you can swap the existing textures in the battlecraft texture folders for anything you like.. (a lava texture etc). if you do it that way then BC will also generate shadows correctly on your 'custom' texture.. without removing them as it usually does.