Howdy.
Meep is back up. Huzzah. Bedrock compatibility has been activated, so you can try to connect but Bedrock is a tad buggy and there are a few server list items we need to take care of. Of course the Java version works and we're running 26.2, though you should be able to connect with older clients.
Towns is permadown. Ye olde world maps will be made public at some point on the forums. They're probably the same as those floating around in chat. Resource is permadown. Here's what we've got: Spawn, Parkour. The Events server still exists, and we'll probably do something with that at some point. Balances and homes have been nuked. Yay.
Donor ranks: not a thing anymore. We may have progressive ranks in the future. If you had a rank in the database when I took a snapshot today, then you'll be getting a permanent Legacy tag. (If you ever had Guardian, you got this too.) Don't use the shop anymore, it's being taken down. Legacy is aesthetic in nature. Feel free to make suggestions on things to add to it.
There is a new world, "Sandbox" and here's how it works: this world will reset every 4 months, or when I get around to resetting it, whichever comes second. Every week, we'll implement something new to it probably. What we implement will be taken from a pool of suggestions that you suggest inSuggestions. So it'll go like this: you make a suggestion, staff looks at the most popular suggestions and we decide if they're a Good Idea™ or not. (Your active play time will also probably factor in to how much we weigh your vote when we're talking "popularity" here, btw) We'll take the most popular suggestion that passes the sniff test, is implementable, and isn't a Dogshit Idea™. At least one will go in on the weekly, the first round of suggestions will be this Sunday the 30th If you want your suggestion to be considered for the sandbox, make sure to label it with the sandbox tag. You can put one or more suggestions in any given post, idc. Staff absolutely have full discretion to toss a suggestion out or modify a suggestion how we see fit. We'll see if the weekly cadence works, because that may need some changin'. You can get to sandbox with /warp sandbox. There is a 50-block safe zone -- you can use /tpr to go somewhere randomly. I'm giving everyone 5 /home slots.
A couple of weeks before the "sandbox reset" we will host a player-wide vote. This vote will be "keep or throw" -- and this will give you the opportunity to (a) turn the current sandbox into a "permanent world" or reset it entirely. Since we'll be doing this seasonally, after the second round of things you'll notice that we could potentially already have a permanent world. There will only be one permanent world at a time so while it won't really matter after the end of this first season, after the second season you'll have to make some hard decisions 🙂 vote wisely. No matter the outcome of that vote, there will be a second player-wide vote: "chaos mode?" and if yes, we'll schedule a day or week or whatever when we lift all the pvp restrictions, all the worldguard stuff, and you can nuke the shit out of the existing world before we wipe it. (If it's set to be permanent, we'll just have a rollback ready.) We can talk about this more in the upcoming months.
Part of the above is a way for me to gauge what y'all want to play. So this is an opportunity to vote for town-like plugins or whatever, and then to have them carry over into a future towny if you want that. Or not. Idc.
Last thing: we'll probably choose a "winner" for each season. We don't know what that looks like yet so looking for your suggestions. The winner will probably get a tag or rank or something for the following season.
Okay. So that's it. If you have questions, ask. Let's be kind, helpful, etc -- I'm way too lazy to go through the whole "mute then tempban then ban" loop these days, so golden rule is "are people/staff generally happier when you post". Thanks!
