I have upgraded several parts of our chat infrastructure today. There is one remaining bug outstanding, which is that when a user chats in the game, the world is not properly displayed to discord users. Right now there is still the placeholder %world% in the chat. I have posted a question with the devs to resolve this and we have to see how and how fast this gets resolved.

[Update] This issue is now resolved [/Update]

This was more of a maintenance update, no special new features are available now.

Last week Mojang released 2 pre-release versions of 1.16. I would think that we can expect the final version within the next 1-2 weeks and then us upgrading within another week or so… hold on tight, a massive nether update is coming!!!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 335, City spawn area misaligned on 2D Map (bug;)

Mobs will now drop heads on a certain probability when killed. Those are actually player heads with custom textures that look like the respective animal. They can be traded and deposited.

I have just made the following changes to the infinite supply of items in my shop:

• I have removed all the special stone bricks (mossy etc) since those are craftable now
• I have removed podzol since that’s much more common now.
• I have removed the saplings since people should go out and get them from the darklands.
• I have added fox, donkey, llama, panda and ocelot eggs to the shop (FYI I did not add the polar bear since they can become aggressive without direct attacks)
• I have added the enchanted golden apple

Please note that the following will happen once we upgrade to 1.16 (date yet unknown):

• The nether will be reset (i.e. completely wiped and re-generated). This won’t affect anything except for items you have stored there.
• The aether will be deleted (i.e. completely wiped and NOT re-generated). This won’t affect anything except for items you have stored there.

Until we find a new world generator (or Mojang makes one) that works fine as a replacement for the aether, we will have to do without one.

Update: FYI, Mojang is releasing daily new pre-releases now:

There is supposed to be a final release before the 26th. We will have to see if the spigot release will take a long time, but I would think this will be quick since they were able to work with the snapshots already.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 334, Warn Donators before their status expires. (feature request;)
  • Issue No. 333, umc_broadcast needs to be updated to be compatible with umc_text_format (code upgrade;)
  • Issue No. 332, Cleanup the item text out types in shop_common (code upgrade;)
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 331, Erroneous enchantments displayed in the [broadcast] when items are purchased from the shop and obtained via the lottery (bug;)

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• zedsterthemyuu (from architectdonator to DesignerDonator)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

Thanks to a note from Kidcodiwise, I found a bug in the system that kept donators longer at their donator status than intended. I originally made it so that a user’s donator level is being checked and downgraded (if applicable) when the user logs in. This would however keep users forever a donator in case they just never come back after being upgraded.

I now included that check in the lot reset process that runs every night, so your lot will reset properly if your donator status has expired. Tonight a couple of lots will reset accordingly.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 331, Erroneous enchantments displayed in the [broadcast] when items are purchased from the shop and obtained via the lottery

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• sepnai (from architect to Designer)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 330, deal with old enchantment formats

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 330, deal with old enchantment formats
  • Issue No. 329, search function needs 2 options
  • Issue No. 328, Cleanup of nbt/meta/data (code upgrade;)

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 303, Disguises are broken. (bug;, help wanted;)
  • Issue No. 49, Donor status should be separate from rank (code upgrade;)
  • Issue No. 48, Show correct lot colors on the 2D map for donator users (bug;)
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 292, Revamp item icons (bug;, code upgrade;)
  • Issue No. 151, Allow other software to add to /who list (feature request;)

I have worked in the past weeks on 2 things:

• The update of this github repository: https://github.com/PrismarineJS/minecraft-data. It collects minecraft data into program-usable files. I have worked with the developer to add 1.15.2 data so that we know what blocks are exactly available in this version of the game.
• I have improved the code that uses the resulting data and downloads the icons for all items/blocks from the Minecraft wiki and other resources. This means, that except for 3 bee-related items, we have the proper icons updated in the shop manager on the website now.

As a side note, I have also written code (https://github.com/PrismarineJS/minecraft-wiki-extractor/pull/27) that extracts all possible enchantments and their conflicts (e.g. you cannot have 2 protection enchantments on one item) from the minecraft wiki. I still need to integrate that code into this website, but that will eventually help us to hand out better randomly enchanted items through the lottery.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 327, Improve the story manager
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 303, Disguises are broken. (bug;)
  • Issue No. 292, Revamp item icons (bug;, code upgrade;)

I am trying to assemble a list of things that need to be fixed here. Please help contributing if you see that something is broken:

• Player heads need to be fixed on the website
• Voting for users needs to be fixed
• Aether world needs to be replaced
• Properly phase out IRC chat
• check on mob disguises for donators – the plugin went premium… need a new one.
• check that stories work yes!

For those who had a chance to look at the latest snapshot, there are significant update to the nether (as previously announced). So once 1.16 is released, we will reset the nether.

Just as a heads-up for everyone!

Minecraft released version 1.15.2 a couple of days ago, and today Spigot also released their server version, so I just updated our server as well. So please connect with the latest client.

Let me know if there are any issues.

As the title says…