We just had a week of big updates!
@everyone
Removed Lives:
Why were the lives removed? People with a lot of lives didn't care about lives, and the people with barely any lives didn't like them because they were getting death-banned just for playing the server. So now that they're gone, new players have a way better time, and it doesn't really affect top players.
Added /ping:
Knowing someone's ping in crystal pvp is pretty important, so we fixed up the /ping command and added your ping to tab. Now if you type /ping DrDonutt, or any other username, then you should see their current ping.
Added /findplayer:
Whenever your friend is online, it's cool to know where they are on the server, so we added /findplayer. If you type /findplayer DrDonutt, or any other username, it will tell you what server they're on. It will tell you things like "DrDonutt is the Overworld" or "DrDonutt is in Spawn 5".
Added the ability to select servers
Now, when you type /spawn or /afk, you can see all of the different servers. We also added the playercount on the /spawn, /afk, and the /rtp menu. We added this because we want the players to have more control, and to see more about what's happening on the server.
Added an Updates Book
A lot of players don't have discord, but still want to see the updates, so we added a book that can be opened with /updates. The book shows the same thing that the discord does. This will help keep the community more informed and connected.
**Disabled /shop in combat: ** (for 1 week as a test)
We ran a poll asking if you think we should disable /shop and /auction while in combat, so that fights can be more intense. This also stops those certain players who just buy infinite totems and never die. The poll is almost 50/50 right now, so we decided that we may as well test it for 1 week. So for 1 week, /shop will be disabled in combat to keep the pvp more vanilla and intense, Depending on what you guys think, we might keep it.
Changed Elytra Mechanics: (for 1 week as a test)
Since using elytras is becoming a new meta, we are doing multiple things during this test week. First, we're going to enable elytras in combat. This should be a little more balancing since /shop is disabled in combat. Second, we made it so that fireworks extend combat to 20 seconds just like pearls do. Third, to stop people from flying away forever, we made it so that if you hit the person flying with an axe then it disables their elytra for 10 seconds like a shield and the player will drop to the ground.
I'm pretty excited for this update. Thank you for reading this, and thank you for playing the server.
If you have any suggestions, feel free send them in #1029109330240339988 . We're always looking for new things to add π