just a quick update on things.
now that i have some sort of hardware and i was hosting with the mac for a few days, i noticed i've been eating alot of the CPU on the thing and thought wtf why does this run like complete ass.
i ran winebottler (basically wine in a .app package for macs) and the blockland dedicated works way the forget better than the OSX version. i am currently in the midst of getting wine installed system wide on the server so i can actually host the server without making a weird applescript to run it from winebottler.
other than that, the loser and i have work alot (and he's finishing up his senior year, of high school. congrats bro welcome to the adult life.), so we're trying to cram in as much time as possible to working on the campus some time this week.
tl;dr: blockland's mac port is stuffe, the windows version runs better in wine on mac.
sorry about the delayed response with some PMs, work y'all.