Bringing you the latest changes, in-case you missed it in our Discord!
- Towny
- Fixed Witches being able to go through portals to bypass clear lag removal.
- Towny
- The crafting recipe for shulker_box and hopper has been reverted back to the vanilla recipe.
- Voting
- Added 4 more voting links (vote7 → vote10)
- Added redirects with mcs.gg domain
- Example: vote1.mcs.gg sends you to our first server listing, just like vote1.minesuperior.com
- Recreated /vote menu with 10 voting links in mind. Design is now similar to cshop
- Adjusted Pinata Party requirement on Towny from 150 -> 200
- Towny
- Drop Party Tags rotated to next group Trance - Boogie - Hip Hop
- Towny
- The following items now despawn after 300 ticks (equivalent to 15 seconds at TPS of 20):
- beetroot, carrot, (poisonous) potato, wheat, bamboo, cactus, kelp, sugar (cane)
- leather, egg, feather, rabbit_foot, rabbit_hide, melon, pumpkin, vine
- beef, porkchop, mutton, chicken, rabbit, cod, salmon; and cooked variants
- blaze_rod, magma_cream, bone, gunpowder, glass_bottle, potion, spider_eye, string
- Stacked mobs no longer drop items when the cause of death is:
- Falling into the void
- Fall damage
- Entity cramming
- Suffocation in block
- Block hitting head
- The crafting recipe for shulker_box has changed:
- chest was replaced with ender_chest
- The following items are no longer auto-craftable using a crafter block:
- hopper, shulker_box, barrel
- Towny
- Outlaws are now teleported away from the town they are outlawed in if they try to enter
- Towny
- Changed crafting recipe for Hoppers:
- Replaced the chest in the center slot with a target block
- Replaced the iron ingot in the bottom middle slot with a lava bucket
This change wasn't made lightly. After several rounds of internal discussion, we've updated the recipe to address a growing performance issue on Towny. Hopper speeds have been slowing down over time due to the sheer number of hoppers being crafted and placed without consideration. To help reduce unnecessary hopper use and protect server performance, we've made the recipe require more steps.
There are currently hundreds of thousands of actively ticking hoppers across the server. Each one constantly checks for items to move and for inventory updates, even when idle. These checks stack up quickly and push the server to its limits. As the load increases, the system can't keep up with all the hopper activity, and their transfer speeds naturally slow down as a result. The more hoppers are placed, the worse this problem becomes for everyone.
We've already implemented numerous server software patches to make hoppers as efficient as possible, and we're running on top-tier hardware. Despite all of that, the sheer volume of hoppers has reached a point where slowdown is unavoidable. After weighing all available options, we believe this recipe change is the best course of action that we can take to try and fix hopper throughput speed.
- Towny
- Added Pale Oak logs to woodcutter job
- Global
- Improved Bedrock support for the Head Database (/hdb) plugin:
- Now a small selection of skulls (~1450 total) have the correct appearance (instead of being a steve head) in the /hdb menu.
- Due to Bedrock limitations, we are unable to resolve issues with all skulls. Only around ~1450 of them.
- Towny
- Rolled out changes to significantly reduce intermittent networking issues:
These issues manifested as severe latency spikes, crash-esque disconnects, or as severe lag.
This fix took several full days of work from multiple team members behind the scenes.
Diagnosing wasn't straightforward as we had to build custom tools to track down the culprit.
- Towny
- Miner job income balances:
- Boosted all base incomes for breaking available blocks by 40%:
- Decreased income scaling by approximately 10%
- This is entirely offset by the buffs to base incomes
- This prevents the buffs from being EXTREMELY overpowered at the higher levels
- Towny
- Builder job income balances:
- Increased income scaling by approximately 10%
- Increased all base incomes for all blocks by 33%
- The following block categories have been added to builder:
- Moss & Moss carpets (Regular and Pale)
- Several missing sandstone types
- All logs
- Pale oak and its variants
- Mud and its variants
- Tuff and its variants
- Farmer job income balances:
- The following items received a 25% increase in their base incomes:
- Pumpkin, melon, nether wart, cactus, wheat, carrots, beetroot, cocoa, bamboo
- Sugar cane base income increased by approx 20%
- Decreased income scaling by approximately 5%
- This is almost entirely offset by the buffs to various base incomes
- Dungeons
- Fixed issue with
/drepair not able to repair items [Applies on reboot]
- Fixed Blacksmith not giving Tungsten helmet when crafting
- Royalty Membership
- Added Warden and Creaking disguise
- Towny
- Added Warden and Creaking disguise to
/cshop
- Skyblock, Survival, Towny, Events
- Updated
/marry seen to specify "UTC" in the date-time
- Towny
- Increased slot cap to 225
- Towny
- Fixed issue that prevented sheep from dropping wool when killed:
- The 1.21.4 update is still providing us with interesting bug reports :)
- Rules
- Removed the "(D)DOS THREATS / ATTEMPTS" rule.
- Added the "CYBER ATTACK THREATS / ATTEMPTS" rule.
- Increased the punishment scaling for racial slurs.
- Decreased the punishment scaling for specific unfair advantages.
- Reclassified the R-word from "offensive slurs" to "hate speech".
- Discord
- Added a new ticket option 'Player Report' Please use this if you wish to report a player for breaking the rules.
- Added a new ticket option 'Punishment Inquiry' Please use this if you wish to inquire about a punishment you received.
- Renamed all ban appeal related things in the support system to punishment appeal.
- Towny
- Fixed enchanted golden apple crafting recipe
- Implemented a possible fix for last night's crash
- Improved the performance of brewing stands
- Improved the performance of hoppers even more (vs 1.21.4 update)
- Fixed a bug introduced in 1.21.4 where hoppers could deposit items into containers that were removed on the same tick
- Towny
- Mobarena Boss Reward Changes:
- Increased Small Medium Runes
- 2 small pet rune to 4 small pet runes for 1 boss token
- 1 medium pet rune to 3 medium pet runes for 2 boss tokens
- Added Large Runes
- 2 large pet runes for 3 boss tokens
- Global
- Added access to most chat emojis to the Royalty Membership
- This does not include
:kekw: as that is a Patron perk
- Towny
- "pw" and "/pw" is no longer filtered out of renamed items
- Towny
- Mob Arena menu changes:
- Removed option to purchase 1x Reusable Safari Net for 2 Boss Tokens.
- Lowered cost of Mob Arena Crate Key from 9 to 7 Vote Keys.
- Lowered cost of 2x Left Twit Claw Machine Keys from 17 to 14 Boss Tokens.
- Added 2x Right Twit Claw Machine Keys for 14 Boss Tokens.
- Fixed the "Join our Discord" link redirecting to a 404 page.
- Added a brand new currency selector in the top left.
- The webstore has been refreshed with a brand new look and feel.
- Towny
- Added
/anvil to apprentice.
- Global
- Removed animated text gradients to improve device compatibility and address issues experienced by some players:
- Text chat sometimes rendering as black text or large black boxes.
- Maps in item frames not rendering properly.
- Sign text not rendering flat on signs.
- Other random rendering issues or quirks.
- Towny, Survival
- Added 13 new chat emojis to Right Twit.
- Swapped in 12 brand new chat emojis to Drop Party.
- Fixed Towny's active schematic for Drop Party.
- Skyblock
- Updated spawn to be spring themed.
- Towny
- Fixed typos in
/battlepass menus.
- Survival, Towny
- Implemented optimizations for dispensers, droppers, observers, and sugar cane.
- Gameplay differences are not expected. Contact support if anything breaks.
- Implemented other optimizations for natural per-player mob spawning.
- Towny
- Over the past two weeks, we have seen a sharp increase in 75th percentile MSPT (from 45 to 70) and a drop in TPS (from 20 to 14).
- Significant amounts of performance loss are coming from Observer blocks and their interactions, which are responsible for 13-17% of Towny's average MSPT.
- To help alleviate these performance concerns and ensure that all players can enjoy a lag-free experience, we have implemented changes to per-chunk block limits.
- Observer
- top loaded chunks: #1 = 96, #5 = 80, #10 = 80, #20 = 80, #30 = 50
- old limit: 128
- new limit: 80
- Barrel
- top loaded chunks: #1 = 6840, #5 = 388, #10 = 374, #20 = 233, #30 = 212
- old limit: infinite
- new limit: 400
- Dispenser
- top loaded chunks: #1 = 64, #5 = 48, #10 = 42, #20 = 33, #30 = 32
- old limit: infinite
- new limit: 48
- Dropper
- top loaded chunks #1 = 56, #5 = 42, #10 = 36, #20 = 30, #30 = 21
- old limit: infinite
- new limit: 48
- Top loaded chunks are the number of placed blocks observed sorted and grouped by chunks.
- For example: Observer #1 = 96 means that in the given scan of the loaded chunks in the world, 96 was the highest amount found in any chunk.
- We will continue to monitor server performance and community feedback closely, making further adjustments as needed to maintain an optimal balance between gameplay and performance.
- Thank you for your continued support as we work to improve performance and maintain a smooth gameplay experience!
- Global
- Pushed out an update to the resource pack to fix all custom armor textures for 1.21.5 clients.
- If custom armor is not working for 1.21.1 - 1.21.5 clients, please open a support ticket!
- Towny
- Envoy Reward Changes:
- Removed one of the fly time rewards
- Increased the chance of the 50mil reward
- Increased 25k mob arena experience to 30k
- New Envoy Rewards
- Cod spawners
- 5x Mob Arena Crate Keys
- Mob Arena Crate Changes:
- Greatly increased money reward amounts
- Re-ordered preview to bring money rewards (highest odds) to front
- Removed fly time rewards
- Towny, Survival
- Fixed 1 missing Dibble (Parasaurolophus) to correctly be in Drop Party
- Pinata Party contains 1 of the 12 Dibbles (Tyrannosaurus Skeleton)
- Survival
- Fixed numerical display issue on material configuration page in Seller Collectors
- Towny
- Prestige changes
- Increased level cap from 200 > 250
- One-off Rewards and prestige boosters menus added to /prestige
- One-off rewards added for every level of prestige (preview items in the one-offs menu accessible via /prestige)
- Prestige crate added (/warp crates to preview)
- Prestige boosters added in Prestige Crate
- All jobs booster: 50% income boost to all jobs for two weeks
- Active jobs booster: 100% income and experience boost to active jobs for two weeks
- Towny, Survival, Skyblock, Lifesteal, Dungeons
- Corrected listed amount of vote links in
/vote
- Survival
- Added Mob Arena Crafting menu in
/mobarena
- Towny
- Fixed
/vote menu to display proper amount of money given: $1k -> $25k
- Towny
- Lowered Right Twit Claw Machine key prices:
- x1: $200,000,000 -> $150,000,000
- x3: $552,000,000 -> $414,000,000
- x5: $900,000,000 -> $675,000,000
- x10: $1,750,000,000 -> $1,312,500,000
- Towny
- Fixed discrepancy for Towny's Emperor rank between the store and in-game
- The number of
/sethome has increased from "30" to match the store's "35"
- Towny
- Increased level caps from prestige
- It is now set to 10 levels every other prestige level (max of 250)
- Survival
- Adjusted purchase prices of all items in
/shop to be aligned with the current economy.
- Lifesteal
- Totems of undying bought from the shop no longer stack
- Survival
- Potions bought from the shop no longer stack
- Towny
- Witches no longer drop potions when killed:
- Note: witches still drop empty glass bottles
- Towny, Survival, Skyblock, Lifesteal, Events, Hubs
- Updated resource pack to use spawn egg textures from Minecraft Snapshot 25w08a
- Towny
- Refreshed all Mob Arena crafting
- No longer done in crafting tables, instead access through /mobarena
- Towny
- Removed the Cosmetic Crate; Cosmetic Crate keys now work with Left Twit Claw Machine.
- Added second crate location for Mob Arena Crate to spawn crates area.
- Community poll winner: Ocelots; can now sometimes drop glowstone dust when killed.
- Lowered cost of Mob Arena Crate keys from 15 vote keys to 9 vote keys.
- Added positions 6-10 to Mob Arena leaderboard menu.
- Lowered 2x cow spawner cost in Mob Arena boss shop from 5 to 4 mob points.
- Added 2x ocelot spawner to Mob Arena boss shop for 5 mob points.
- Added 1x cod spawner to Mob Arena boss shop for 10 mob points.
- Added 1x witch spawner to Mob Arena boss shop for 15 mob points.
- Increased the coins reward in Mob Arena boss shop from 50 coins to 500 coins.
- Gave all Mob Arena menus a fresh new coat of paint.
- Boss Tokens (Mob Points) are now craftable inside of the mob arena menu.
- All mob arena crafting recipes (except boss tokens, see above) are temporarily disabled.
- Towny
- Applied the job cap increase from prestige to all jobs (not just cook/brewer)
- Towny
- Rolled out bulk discount pricing for all crates/bundles in
/cshop
- 1x key is full price
- 3x keys has a 8% discount
- 5x keys has a 10% discount
- 10x keys has a 12.5% discount
- Survival
- Changed seller collector upgrades in mechanist from 2:1 -> 3:2 (input lower tier : output higher tier)
- Towny
- All new Patron tags can now be <= 12 displayed characters in length
- Towny
- Replaced the animated text effect for Cosmic Tag and Nameplate with a static gradient:
- Some devices (mostly Apple devices) had a major display issue that covered the screen with large black boxes.
- This issue is highly undesirable and greatly negatively impacts player experiences.
- If we are ever able to create a fix (very difficult) the animated effect would return.
- Towny
- Greatly increased experience received from active/manual jobs
- As you level up, you will receive more experience.
- Hubs
- The dungeons NPC now correctly sends you to Dungeons and not the Events server, oops
- Dungeons
- Moved last beacon in Dungeon 2 to a closer location
- Survival
- Fixed typo in adventure quest 31
- Towny
- Upkeep is no longer affected by being in a nation
- If your town is in a nation, your upkeep should have been cut in a half
- Events
- Head hunts now display a count for found heads when clicking on an already found head
- Fixed an issue where rewards were not being given for completing the Cupid and Eris headhunts.
- Those who have already completed the headhunts have now received the respective tags globally.
- Towny
- Nerfs and upkeep adjustment:
- Turned job income limit back on (30m an hour)/c
- Increasing base town income from $250.00 -> $750.00 (starting next Sunday, please see announcement)
- Salmon and cod cook income decreased 17%
- That's it!
- Farmer Income Buffs:
- Potatoes 100% increase
- Sugar cane ~25% increase
- Bamboo, pumpkin, and melon 20% increase
- Wheat, carrots, beetroot, netherwart 33%
- Cook Income Buffs:
- Miner Income Buffs:
- Stone, andesite, deepslate, sculk, granite, diorite, sandstone variations 33% increase
- All ores 10-20%
- Ancient debris 167%
- Various other buffs (no nerfs)
- Various other unlisted buffs, no nerfs are unlisted.
- Towny
- Fixed chat formatting issue in alliance chat
- Aliased
/alc to be alliance chat
- Network
- Updated resource pack on all servers to better support 1.21.2+
- Survival, Towny
- Changed `/realname` to tab-complete nicknames
- Changed `/condense` to condense brick into bricks instead of into decorated pots
- Dungeons
- Added health bars to Mobs