At last, it is time to give Skyblock a well deserved update! With this update comes a bit of old and a bit of new! The main focus for this upcoming Skyblock season is to dive forwards a few versions, meaning that the backend will now officially be running 1.12! With this update comes a plethora of new features which have been added to Minecraft. For those MCCentral players who have been around for many years, you are also about to go on a trip down memory lane! This reset will be home to one of our legacy spawns which was last seen over 5 years ago! This changelog will detail all changes big and small which players can expect to see this upcoming Skyblock season. This upcoming season of Skyblock will be launching this upcoming weekend at exactly: Friday 12th November 3pm MST. Spoiler: Upcoming Changes Upcoming Changes - Backend has been updated to 1.12 (bringing forwards all of the new Minecraft features) - Shop has been updated, adding a handful of important 1.12 resources - Beetroots are now a new available farm (compatible with the Harvest Hoe) - Players are now able to queue boosters (so that they instantly begin after one has finished) - Players are now able to change the sorting of the '/is top' GUI between 5 available toggles - New Island Permission 'Fly' - New Island Statistic 'Lava Fish Caught' - New Island statistic 'Generator Blocks Mined' - Brand new spawner economy (meta has changed) - Brand new farming economy (meta has changed) - Fixed a bug where lava fishing catches would not count towards quests - Fixed a bug where placing telepads was possible to consume slabs (and a few other blocks) - Legacy spawn is making a return for a second chance at life after 5 years! - Ability to see when a booster was last activated - /Help has been designed from scratch providing useful information on vital Skyblock features - Islands are now able to allow Visitors and Trusted players to deposit emeralds into their emerald vaults - Silverfish will now drop emerald blocks instead of emeralds (at a much reduced rate of course) - Double phantom souls (from the Slayer skill) will now also give you double experience towards your generator - Islands are now able to place more hoppers (upgrade has been buffed drastically) - Ores purchased from the shop will now also increment your Mining skill - Emerald Wands have been added to /shop (hit these wands on chests to zap emerald blocks directly to your vault) Updated Backend (1.12) Minecraft Central's Skyblock server has been running on a 1.8 backend for over 5 years now. We feel that the time has come to start diving into the later versions of Minecraft to deliver players a more modern experience. Whilst this new season will not be taking the huge leap into the latest Minecraft version, it will be officially updating to a 1.12 backend (as this is currently the most stable and suitable option for our Skyblock server without any compromises). This change really speaks for itself. Between 1.8 and 1.12, Minecraft has added a boat load of new content, all of which should fit perfectly over on our Skyblock server. As of current, we plan on keeping 1.8 combat as the 1.9+ combat is still too controversial for us to be comfortable with. Updated Economy The Skyblock economy has remained unchanged for 3 consecutive seasons. We understand that gameplay can get extremely repetitive constantly grinding the same mobs and crops season after season. With the 1.12 update, now seemed the perfect time to change some metas! With the implementation of new spawners alongside new crops (Beetroot) players will find themselves a brand new economy to play around with. The crop and spawner meta has now been completely changed. Island Top Sorting Players of our Skyblock community are very familiar with the '/is top' command. This command will open a GUI displaying the top 50 islands on the server sorted by their Island Level. Of course, Island Level is not everything when it comes to Skyblock. This new feature allows players to toggle between 5 different top lists, allowing players to compete for multiple different aspects. These lists include: Island Level, Island Value, Generator level, Spawners Placed and Hoppers Placed. Quality Of Life Changes This upcoming Skyblock season will bring forward many additional smaller changes (such as the ability to queue boosters so that it will instantly activate once the previous one has finished). Players can also expect to see a new highly requested Island Permission 'Fly'. With this permission, players are able to define exactly who can fly on their island. This new permission opens up a wide range of applications, such as the ability to create parkour courses (which players can not cheat on)! New island statistics are also on there way to the /island info GUI. Players are now able to view how many lava-fishing catches have been made on an island, and also view how many generator blocks have been mined! Blast From The Past (Legacy Spawn) Revisiting old spawns is something that we rarely do on Minecraft Central. A portion of our legacy community has regularly asked for previous spawns to one day make a return. This upcoming season, we are proud to bring back our Season 3 spawn back for a second life! This spawn holds a very important role in Minecraft Central's Skyblock history. Around Season 3 was when our Skyblock server really took off. 5 Years ago when this spawn was active was when a third realm was added to our Skyblock server albeit only 200 players could fit per realm! We are looking forward to seeing this beautiful spawn come back to life for a second time! - Skyblock 13.0 Trailer - A huge thank you to our staff member 89p for putting together this epic trailer for the upcoming reset. Minecraft Central Presents: Skyblock Season 13
