Sounds like a connection issue. keep refreshing and trying or try resetting your wifi/restarting your PC. 

Hiya,

The only explosions that will work are creepers and that’s if you’re in a hard world. They will only explode for players on the protection too. No TNT, crystals, respawn anchors etc will work. 

Chunk loaders are also disabled as are vanilla nether portals. The only way to the nether is through /warp worlds. You can make farms on the nether roof but you’ll need a teleport up there and a /sethome to get back. 

And no, vindicators will only drop emeralds if killed by a player. 

I love that you're using the forum in this way! Unfortunately most of our players don't actually use the forums so you might not get much interest here. I've also got a few reminders/rule limits that you may not be aware of. 

We have a 100 hopper limit per loaded area (20 chunks), 10 mob limit (per mob) and a 'no building outside of a protection, for instances including building railways, paths, canals, roads' etc. rule.

You may also want to know that you can have one owner and 6 members per protection so large scale community projects don't often work very well on Autcraft. 

Tree farms don't work on Autcraft either because TNT is disabled in build worlds, and there's no such thing as an automatic emerald farm because vindicators have to be killed by a player to drop emeralds. 

Otherwise we have several of those farms already on Autcraft, if you'd like a teleport to them, please just ask next time you're on.

I can't wait to see your logo that you make though :)

Its between 1-2 weeks at the moment :) Hopefully see you on the server soon!