No-Nonsense Release Notes

27-jul-2017

• Paperclip, which is a branch of Spigot, is now being used as the server engine instead of Spigot. It handles hoppers in a much more intelligent way and is more aggressive about unloading chunks that aren't in use. The server has been running much smoother since this change was made.
• Several new dungeons and bosses: The Foul Cellar, The Mythic Chicken, Tainted Swamp, Glenham's Retreat, Temple of the Flames, the Abandoned Keep, and the Barrow of the Forgotten.
• The Foul Cellar and Infected city feature a limited-time chest which contains extra loot but imposes a time limit on getting that loot.
• The Foul Cellar features a unique mechanic that preserves your inventory upon entering and returns it upon leaving. Books of keeping are not consumed while in this dungeon.
• Opening the limited chest can be sponsored by buying a special loot crate at spawn.
• The Salt Mines dungeon is now considerably easier.
• The Spider mom will now teleport to her spawn location if she starts to suffocate in a wall.
• There's now a hell hound in Firetop Mountain.
• Salt bears drop much more experience than before. Hopefully enough to sustain armor via the mending enchantment.
• Boss keys are now awarded to the MVP, which is the player who dealt the most damage.
• Ender Dragon is now tougher and has its own treasure chest.
• Three new spirit stones have been added! The spirit stone of damage reduction is used on armor and reduces damage by 2% per stone. The spirit stone of attack speed increases the number of attacks by 0.1s second per stone. The spirit stone of attack damage increases the base damage dealt by a weapon by 0.2 per stone.
• At fixed increments for Hero Points and Base Points, a new item called a stone token becomes available. These tokens can be exchanged at spawn for spirit stones.
• New special books have been added to spawn. One will dig out the entirety of a chunk. One slabs the entirety of a chunk. And one will simply remove a single pane of stained glass--works anywhere but intended to make glassless gates.
• Zombies in Infected City no longer pick up items.
• Player inventory is now examined for /worth calculations.
• Dungeon chests now contain rune stones. Rune stones work in the same manner as tarot cards, but they are redeemed with Viking Vifil instead of Medium Maegen, which results in an Amethyst payout.
• Topaz and amethyst can be traded to get the official server currency: Trade Tokens.
• Most spawn trades have been updated to use Trade Tokens.
• Topaz and Amethyst catalysts exist, which are items that increase the number of Topaz or Amethyst received from trading with Maegen of Vifil. Consumed on use.
• A precious gem transmuter has been added that will cause Vifil to give topaz instead of amethyst and Maegen to give amethyst instead of topaz. Consumed on use.
• The daily free chests for Tarot cards and Rune Stones can only be opened if you have at least 15 minutes of gameplay under your belt since the last time you opened the chest.
• A new type of villager trade mechanic for admin villagers has been added that allows trades based upon certain qualifiers, such as hero points and base points.
• The time a player has been away is announced if that time is greater than a week.
• Only one elder guardian will spawn at a time in a given pool of water.
• Spawn has new bee friends!
• A Hero point bonus system has been added. As you collect hero points, a bonus accumulates, growing exponentially up to 500 bonus points. You can claim that bonus at any time at spawn with /claim, but you're better rewarded if you let it grow for as long as you are able to stand it. If you die, the bonus disappears and you start over at zero.
• Hero points have been removed from the normal chests scattered about dungeons. These chests now simply contain "run keys" and possibly a bit of treasure.
• Hero points are gained only from Treasure, Completion, and Boss chests.
• Redeeming a Hero Point bonus in the Foul Cellar Treasure room gives an extra 50%.
• Run keys have a unique number assigned to them that represent the run of the dungeon, which is the typically one-week period from when you opened the first chest in the dungeon. After the week, when the chests reset, the number assigned to the run keys will increment, making the keys from the previous week's run worthless. This mechanic exists to prevent opening the completion chest by waiting a week and getting easier keys.
• If there are more than 128 animals in view distance, the excess no longer just get sick as a warning. They die.
• Mobs which push a lot of other mobs around are despawned.
• Loot crates have been added as a way of dispensing loot. Click the crate in the air and all the goodies contained within will fall out.
• Rejoice for /reward letter and number horders! You can smelt them and get creosote. You can trade creosote in for a Creosote Loot Crate.
• Keys can be smelted to obtain Key Slag. Key slag can be traded at spawn for a Key Slag Loot Crate.
• Epic treasures have been added, which can occasionally be found in treasure chests or loot crates. They have no purpose other than adding to /worth.
• Disrespect points are being tracked... Disrespect points are earned when you're not AFK but choose not to /f.
• Gates will not let you pass if monsters are pursuing you.
• Trying to use a gate if a monster can see you will cause that monster to begin to track you.
• Special drops, such as mob hearts, eggs, spirit stones, and keys now show the player's name and other players cannot pick them up.
• Many new challenges!
• A new dungeon/mob/boss engine was created that allows new dungeons to be pumped out faster than ever before.

02-may-2017

• /ratemybase now has big-ass wall and floor detection.
• Pharaoh's Tomb dungeon has been added.

14-apr-2017

• The Wither's blue skulls went missing at one point. They have been restored.

13-apr-2017

• Frosty has learned a new trick!

07-apr-2017

• The challenge tribute at spawn and the /top command now only show players who have submitted a challenge within the past two weeks.
• Sisters and Brothers are now more difficult.

04-apr-2017

• The impact of blaze fireballs will now cause some damage and knock the player back regardless of fire resistance. This is impact damage only. The player will not be set on fire.

03-apr-2017

• Most dungeon chests now require keys that are obtained from killing mobs.
• Players can no longer pick up keys bound to a different player.
• When a mob drops a bound key the name of the player is now displayed floating above it for ease of identification when teaming dungeons.
• New zone added somewhere in the flat overworld.

02-apr-2017

• April fool's event. All caps for all players, old message for /city, zero-damage one-shot mobs in the pit.

31-mar-2017

• Dark Steel recipe added.
• Better Discord integration for ranking up in challenges, bosses, and other exciting events.
• Giants, Zombie Knights, Orcs, Meatballs, Naked Yetis!
• Automatic Inventory fix for potions not restocking from Ginaw.
• The /emergency command has been added that lets a player safely teleport out of an administrative claim in the event of a real-life emergency.
• Multiple chests support for challenges.
• Addition of more rank colors.
• Blood effects!
• A Gate ticket is purchasable in the VIP Base lounge that lets gates be used without requiring levels.
• Loot chests now support multiple keys.
• New dungeons! Supernatural Caverns, The Underground village, The Salt Mine, The Spaceship, and The Pit.
• Many new custom mobs added.
• Uber Wither may be summoned in the wither arena by using diamond blocks instead of soul sand.
• Bonus chance for rare drops for hunting in a natural setting
• Dungeon names are now shown in death messages.
• The Dead Zone has been renamed the Gap Zone and the Dead Zone has been moved farther out.
• Several new extra-hard zones added.
• Zones have been rebalanced to skew towards slightly harder difficulty.
• For /ratemybase, cobblestone is only counted up to 5x the amount of other blocks.
• Homestone Prime introduced that lets you build a special structure and teleport from it to another player.
• No longer to /bed, /spawn, /city while in the heat of battle.
• Can no longer sleep in admin claimed beds.
• Enderpearls have been slightly nerfed to prevent glitching through blocks.
• Spawn occasionally has music!
• Tarot cards have been added to dungeon chest. Used only for challenges right now, but a fancy reward system for having the right cards at the right time is in the works.
• Medium Maegen has been added to spawn for all your tarot card needs.
• Hardened diamond armor has been added, which is identical to normal diamond armor except it has improved toughness. It is crafted using diamond blocks instead of diamond.
• Lava now kills instantly on contact except for thin lava slices.
• Villagers killed in lava with a hopper beneath it will drop an emerald.
• The Mending stone has returned.
• Mithril gear has been retired. Merlanium is the replacement with improved toughness.
• A cursed area may now be found under spawn.
• Topaz has been introduced.
• Therapy now has its own building.
• Many many new challenges, including the Salt Challenges, which provide a series of ancient keys. The ancient keys unlock an ancient chest in the Salt Mines that contains two powerful objects.

19-jan-2017

• Rotten flesh may now be smelted into leather.
• If there are more than 128 animals in the player's view distance, some of them will be sick. This is a pre-warning to a 128 animal in view distace limit that will be coming soon.
• Bags of holding now show a summary of their contents in the hover-over tooltip.
• Spawn now has a gate that leads to "therapy." Therapy is an unpleasent means of recovering items that were lost when the player didn't have a book of keeping in their possession upon death.
• New dungeon: The Infected City
• New building at spawn with two sections, VIP Hero Lounge and VIP Base Lounge. The sections require 2,500 points of the corresponding player attribute in order to access them.

09-jan-2017

• Pay respect to your fallen comrades with the /f command.
• Home Stone will no longer teleport you into an administrative claim.

05-jan-2017

• Bags of holding will no longer get stuck on the player's head.
• There is now a mechanism in place to rate the quality of a flat-world above-ground base. Relevant commands are /bases, /base, /ratemybase, and /awardmybase.
• Hero points have been introduced. Every loot chest opened by the player adds to this total. Relevant commands are /hero and /heros.
• Using magic dust on grass will consume the magic dust and drop enough XP to get to 30 levels (from 0).

05-jan-2017

• Summoning the wither while wearing a silly hat but without 100 levels now results in a helpful message.
• Defeating the wither while wearing a silly hat causes it to fall off the player's head. There is no level requirement for this service.

04-jan-2017

• Two new dungeons: The Spider Nest and The Pirate Ship.
• Spitting spiders now occassionally spawn in the flat and vanilla worlds.
• Hardened diamond armor may now be crafted by using diamond blocks. The toughness of each piece of armor is 4 instead of the regular 2.

22-dec-2016

• Updated to Spigot 1.11.2
• Experience orbs no longer automatically clump together.
• Player rank-up and boss-defeat messages are now shown in Discord.
• The /chests command now ignores boss chests.
• A Sweeping Edge Spirit Stone has been added. Max level is 5.

20-dec-2016

• Boss XP drops have been decreased to more reasonable levels.

19-dec-2016

• Bags of Holding can no longer be placed on the nether highway in a claim that the player does not normally have access to.

16-dec-2016

• Added the /bosschests command which shows which bosses are available to the player.
• Added the /time command which shows the time in the various worlds which have a day/night cycle.
• Failed to mention it, but Sparky was added a couple of weeks back in the Iota and Dead zones.
• Sparky would spawn more frequently on a full moon, but now spawns more frequently on the day before and day after as well.
• A crafting table full of mob hearts will no longer form a nether wart block.

13-dec-2016

• Normal mobs now spawn in the Vanilla Sky zone starting at a distance of 1250 blocks.
• The market has crashed and souls are no more. Everything that uses them has been converted to mob hearts. The second banker at spawn offers a horrible exchange rate, but what can you expect for a valueless currency?

10-dec-2016

• Updated to Spigot 1.11.
• Creative Gates have been removed. Use the new glass gates instead (/help gates). They offer long distance and inter-dimension travel.
• The home stone now has the requirement that no monsters be present within a 10x10x10 radius.
• Book of vertical leaping is now sold at spawn. If you use it and have Elytra, the Elytra will automatically deploy.
• A vanilla terrain world has been added and is accessible from spawn.
• Building a nether portal in the vanilla terrain world takes you to a sky world.
• A new kind of glass gate, called a Universe Gate, has been added. This allows for xp-less travel to and from the flat and vanilla universe. Only one such gate can exist per-player.
• A restocking woodland mansion has been added.
• All bosses now have boss bars.

13-nov-2016

• Players can no longer open endechests when sick.

27-oct-2016

• if you have more than 150 levels, tossing a red apple into water will transform it into a notch apple and consume all but five of your levels.
• Hostile mobs now occasionally drop mob hearts. Currently, these can be used at at spawn to purify any spirit stone into a generic unenchanted stone. More mob hearts can be used to enchant a purified stone into something that is to your liking. The mob hearts are aggressively resistant against any form of automated or assisted farming. The intent is to keep them this way and to address work-arounds in a timely fashion to prevent them from being devalued.
• A pick that mines 3x3x1 and an axe that chops up to nine logs at a time have been added as spawn trades.
• Wonder pork has been been added. It feeds itself to you when your hunger goes down one drumstick. Available at spawn. Very expensive and intended primarily for boss battles.
• More adventure structures: The Haunted forest with Mojo's DoJo and The Crypt of the Lich King.
• Projectile protection on armor protects against projectile durability damage.
• Normal protection on armor protects against melee durability damage.

03-Oct-2016

• The /chests command now exists. It displays the name of dungeons and how many days you have to wait until you can open a restockable chest contained within the dungeon. The calculation is based on the last chest opened, so if you left some chests behind the /chests command ignores them.

25-Sept-2016

• Due to the introduction of the Mithril Bo Staff, the claim inspection tool is no longer a stick. It is now an arrow.

24-Sept-2016

• Even more adventure structures, The Forest of the Ice Witch, Frosty's End City, Wither Arena, Dungeon of the Stomper, and and The Sisters have been added.
• The Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta withers have been removed.
• The villagers who buy Eggs and Spirit Stones have been removed.
• The cyan spawn building finally has a purpose! It now houses locked chests that require dungeon keys to open.

23-Aug-2016

• Two new adventure structures, the Maze of the Minotaur, and Firetop Mountain are available for exploration. They contain numerous loot chest that restock every week. The locations to these structures are available with the /help special command.'

14-Aug-2016

• Records now stack up to 64.

06-Aug-2016

• The teleport buttons at spawn can now teleport a group of people to the same location if the same button is pushed within ten seconds of the previous push.
• Signs now accept color format codes, using the ampersand as a prefix.
• Pigmen no longer drop swords. An alternate solution to this is being worked on.

30-Jul-2016

• When training a certain stat of a horse, there is now some bleed over into the other stats.
• If a horse has a combined training score of 10% or more, it will no longer wander.
• Horses will now come with you with the /spawn, /bed, and /back commands. Note that when you are teleported, you will be dismounted. Also be sure to be the area around youre bed is free from obstruction otherwise your horse may suffocate.
• If, on your claim, you have a furnace with the same name as your horse, and there is a hay bale on top of it, the horse will be teleported to the top of that hay bale when /bed is used.

22-Jul-2016

• Horses can now be trained so that they will impart stronger stats to their children. Training is automatic and occurs by fighting while on a horse (health), traveling (speed), and jumping over things (jump height).
• The Book of Horse Identification at spawn has been replaced with the Book of Horse Identification Vol II. Price is the same. This new volume provides information about the training via a percentage score for each stat.

20-Jul-2016

• The death penalty has been buffed some. Upon death there will now be multiple undesirable, but relatively harmless, potion effects for varying lengths of time and the player's maximum health will decrease to two hearts and slowly climb back up to the normal maximum.

19-Jul-2016

• Beds can now also be used to set spawn points in The End and the Nether.
• Added random teleport buttons for Beta, Gamma, and Delta zones to spawn to assist new players in finding a suitable location to build.

13-Jul-2016

• Daily rewards have been added that provide a nice assortment of gifts, including rare items on occasion.

7-Jul-2016

• The blast protection enchant now protects the durability of armor when subjected to explosions.

5-Jul-2016

• Addressed the wither flying up high and being out of reach issue.

4-Jul-2016

• The "The Beginning." achievement is now only awarded to the player who actually deals the killing blow on the wither.
• The "Adventuring Time" achievement is now awarded automatically to players with more than 12 hours of game time.

2-Jul-2016

• No one liked the last passive pigman change. As such, it's been reverted.
• Pigmen above Y=128 are now always hostile and use normal zombie AI, which is much less of a strain on the server. Pigmen below 128 still use classic pigman aggro behavior.
• It is now possible to dye Bags of Holding. The recipe is one bag of holding and 1 dye of any color. A big thank-you to NekoNoMiko for taking the time to create 16 custom player heads!
• Falling blocks now are eaten and gone forever when falling into the End portal.

30-Jun-2016

• There are now three withers for different skill levels. The Zeta wither is the easiest and will drop one Nether Star, 0-1 spirit stones, and a trophy upon death. The Eta wither is of medium difficulty and will drop one Nether Star, 1-2 spirit stones, and a trophy. The Theta wither is the hardest, drops two Nether Stars, 2-3 stones, and a trophy.
• Passive pigmen, like other passive creatures, no longer drop soul shards, eggs, or spirit stones.

28-Jun-2016

• The wither now does half as much damage.
• The wither now has twice as much health.
• The wither now tracks the player a little more aggressively.
• The wither now drops spirit stone(s) when it dies.

26-Jun-2016

• Shift-clicking with a held Bag of Holding now will always open the bag and never place it.
• Enderchest lid now closes properly after two or people have used the chest simultaneously.
• Item spewage should now be a little less wild when breaking your head grave in confined quarters.
• Pigmen will no longer come to aid a fellow pigman who has been hurt above the nether ceiling.

21-Jun-2016

• Blocks may now be placed or broken in the nether by any player from Y=110 to Y=126, inclusive, regardless of any present claim. If a claim is present, the warnings about not being able to place a block or remove a block will still be shown, however the placing or removing will occur.
• Mr. Converter has come to the shops at spawn. He'll turn your nuggets, ingots, etc, into more compressed forms. Yes, he's a bit lossy, but that's his fee for the convenience he provides.
• The junk buyer at spawn now buys gunpowder and arrows.

18-Jun-2016

• Bags of holding when placed or when contained in a chest, enderchest, or other bag of holding now participate in the /worth calculation.
• BetterEnderChests has been replaced with a custom, and hopefully much more reliable, plugin.