Survival Season 8.0 This upcoming Friday (20th November 3pm MST) our Survival season 8.0 will be launching. This upcoming season, we are pushing as much content and fixes as possible to address all issues that were present in our last season of Survival. This changelog will give an overview of all changes big and small which players can expect to see. The biggest change players can expect to see this upcoming season, is a brand new economy revolving around Jobs. For a live countdown till reset time, please refer to the following page Here. Major Content Changes - Brand new economy containing 5 available Jobs (more information below) - New crate item has been added 'Job Amplifier' (more information below) - New 'Top' commands added: /eventtop, /mobtop, /blocktop, /dragontop, /questtop - Coinflip will now take 5% of all winnings (the same way it works on all of our other sub-servers) - Upon opening a key, players will now be informed in chat what reward they received - Redstone clocks are no longer disabled (We have swapped over to a new performance improved redstone algorithm) - Players are now able to merge multiple rename scrolls together - Shop plugin has now been 100% removed (This is no longer required due to our brand new jobs economy!) - New command added to our Chestshop plugin "/chestshop list" so you can find all of your created shops - Players are now able to sit down on stairs (same plugin which we use on Creative!) - Our brand new AntiAFK system has been setup (Should fix a lot of issues to handle afk ways of making money) - Scoreboard plugin has now been 100% remade from scratch using packets rather than our old spaghetti system - Tablist plugin has now been 100% remade from scratch using packets rather than our old spaghetti system - /Stats command has now been 100% remade from scratch, containing new statistics, alongside faster response time - Pedestals have been setup around spawn to preview the top players in certain statistics - Plot Squared has now been linked to our schematic center (players can now use /plot download) - The overworld seed will now change less frequently (every 28 days instead of every 14) - 1.8 combat mechanics have now been enabled inside the PvP arena (1.12 combat is enabled everywhere else) - Whilst players are disguised, the action bar will now display what they are currently disguised as - Enderdragon dragon egg is now protected for 60 seconds (only the players that placed at least 1 end crystal can mine it) - Upon spawning the Enderdragon it will now broadcast a message in chat - Upon killing the Enderdragon, it will now announce and reward the top 5 players that dealt the most damage - Fresh seed for our Nether and End worlds has been setup - Pedestals have been setup in the spawn of the End world, displaying who has killed the most Enderdragons - /Hat command has now been added for Lapis rank and higher - Envoy rewards have been redone from ground up to contain more useful / relevant items Miscellaneous Changes / Fixes - Default plotworld schematic has been changed to contain less flowers - Harvest Hoes have been removed (due to the economy change, it is no longer a farming economy but a jobs economy) - Cleaned up many of our legacy plugins (A lot has changed since the last reset 12 months ago!) - Fixed a bug where EXP bottles containing a lot of EXP would not drop correctly when thrown at the ground - Loot protection time in the PvP arena has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds - Fixed a few bugs where fly would not automatically get enabled in some certain locations where flying was allowed - Auction House plugin has been swapped over to MySQL storage (faster) - Clear Lag plugin has been replaced with our new custom / improved Entity Cleaner plugin - Our Cosmetic System plugin has been updated to the latest version (Performance fixes) - Fixed a bug where staff members whom were hidden would still appear in the /list command - Fixed a bug in our /duels plugin where you could sometimes not accept a request if 2 players sent one at the same time - FastAsyncWorldEdit has now been properly linked to our new schematic center - Fixed a bug where it was possible to get armor stands onto the plot paths (they will now get removed) - Fixed a lag exploit which was present in our LaunchPad plugin - Essentials has been updated to our latest version (this contains the teleport log for admins to use) - Our NPC plugin has been updated to the latest version (This contains performance fixes) - Fixed a bug where armor stands were not counting properly towards the entity limit on plots - Fixed a small backend error being caused by our QuestSystem plugin - Staff Mode plugin has been updated to the latest version (Contains a handful of fixes) - Fixed a bug in our /trade plugin where you could use it on a staff whom was in staffmode - Players will now be warned in chat when joining the server if they are using a version below 1.12 - Fixed a bug where players could sometimes claim more plots than they were allowed - World Guard has been replaced by our new and improved custom Region Guard plugin - 16 Logs in the starter kit has now been changed to 64 wooden planks - Physics has been disabled in all of the 'Spawn' areas of the server (this allows for nicer building tricks) - /Warps GUI has been slightly reformatted to follow the same theme as our other latest resets - Tutorial room has been revamped with up to date information surrounding the new economy - View distance has been increased in the PvP arena - Website leaderboards have now been revamped to contain more useful information Brand New Jobs Economy One of the biggest issues encountered throughout Season 7.0 of Survival was the economy. With Farming and Fishing the main drivers for making money, and nothing to spend money on, this resulted in a rapidly inflating economy. To address this issue for next season, we have invested a lot of time into creating a brand new Jobs plugin, containing 5 available jobs for players to choose from (Farmer, Fisherman, Miner, Woodcutter, Excavator). Players are able to select and rotate between any of the jobs by simply typing '/Jobs' which will then open a GUI ingame. After selecting a Job, players must perform specific actions in order to obtain money and job experience. Upon obtaining enough job experience, players will be prompted with a request asking if they would like to receive a promotion. Accepting a job promotion will cost players some ingame money, but in return will allow them to profit slightly more whilst employed with that job. All jobs can be promoted up to level 99. Whilst we have never had an official ranking system for our Survival server, Jobs are the new ranking. In front of players names in chat and tablist is a number. This number is their 'Total Job Level'. All players will start with [5] in front of their username (as this is the default 'Total Job Level' when all 5 of your jobs are at level 1). The maximum obtainable level is 495 (achieved upon ranking up all jobs to level 99). Proceeding through job promotions will give players a long term goal to work towards, alongside taking some money out of the economy to combat the inflation long-term. With the revised economy, farming is no longer the only way to make money. As a result of this, Harvest Hoes have been removed from our Survival server, and replaced with our brand new 'Job Amplifiers' as a treasure reward. Job Amplifiers work as a personal-booster. Players are able to activate one, and for a certain amount of time they will receive 2x money and job experience whilst employed and working a job.
