Summary: General - Trello! Survival - Changes to the guest experience Survival - Dynmap changes Survival - Teleportation features Survival - Map expansion Survival (VIP) - Banners for /hat Survival (VIP) - Hide announcements FTB - It's alive! Vanilla - Now accurate General - Trello! Our old method of tracking tasks was a google spreadsheet, and it was awful. Tasks were static, manipulating data was a pain, and there just wasn't enough flexibility to be useful. We decided to switch to Trello, a task tracking and organization service that gives us much more power to make tasks and collaborate! Want to see what we're working on? Come check it out! Survival - Changes to the guest experience Ever since we removed the quiz, the guest experience has been inconsistent. We had an awesome tutorial, but we spammed "take the tutorial" messages while guests were taking the tutorial, guests spawned in looking at signs ("/warp pve") that they could not use, and there was no easy way to manually finish the tutorial for players in case of server problems. Here's how we fixed that: Announcements automatically hide for players taking the tutorial. They are restored after the player finishes a section. There is a new spawn for guests (/warp Starter atm) that lists basic features of the server, as well as our worlds. The code for promoting players on tutorial completion has been rewritten with additional features for admin use. The tutorial announces when players have finished and have been promoted. Added a "/from" command for new players, which lets us know where they found our server. The default gamemode in spawn is now adventure, but every rank yellow+ can bypass that gamemode (So only guests are given adventure mode in only the spawn world). These changes will hopefully make our server more accessible to new players. Survival - Teleportation features TPA was added to the server (as you might have noticed), and it has been quite popular! It is currently being rewritten, but in the mean time it has been patched to be consistently case-insensitive. This should fix most issues users have been dealing with. Also, we now have a random warp! Use /warp Portals and walk down one of the four paths to end up in PvP, PvE, Mining, or Ender. It's an awesome way to find fresh terrain! Survival - Map expansion We started using vanilla borders a few weeks ago so there would be a visible wall on the edge of the map. Previously, our map was a large circle, but only square borders are supported by vanilla, so we decided to keep the difference between the two. This means that there are large sections of PvP and PvE that are completely unexplored! This is mainly a feature for new players in conjunction with /warp Portals, but existing players can use these areas too. Survival (VIP) - Banners for /hat As announced in this VIP thread, /hat now supports banners! It took a bit of extension coding for CommandHelper, but the feature is finally here! Given the current state of the wiki (broken), we've created a thread to explain this feature and all other VIP perks, which you can view here. Survival (VIP) - Hide announcements This feature was mentioned in-game to a few players, but lacked an official post (aside from being included in the VIP perk thread). VIP2+ can hide the server announcements for their current session! It's a minor feature, but is a nice thing to have when you have seen the same messages hundreds of times! They can be shown again, if you choose, by /anno show. Usage: /anno <hide|show> [message group] FTB - It's alive! Thanks to imaxorz, ftb.shadecrest.com points to our FTB server again! As such, we have reset the server to a brand new modpack that requires no extra setup to use! Open your launchers, select "Infinity" (version 1.3.4), and connect to the server ip! This change is reflected in the FTB server information. Vanilla - Now accurate 99% vanilla extract! Groups, regions, chest locks, and chat channels are gone, and the server has been reverted to its roots. It will remain as close to vanilla Minecraft as possible, only adding minor patches to bugs (if any patches at all). Connecting to the server is as easy as typing /vanilla.