Shotbow

The season of renewal and celebration is here! This Spring, we’re rolling out something special to help you celebrate in style — both in-game and on the scoreboard.

Introducing our limited-time Spring Celebration Bundles, available now through May 15th!

Bountiful Golden Spring – $23.99 USD
Get a full upgrade, and a taste of Shotbow+.

• Gold Rank (Permanent)
• 1 Month of Shotbow+ – try out our new color blending feature
• Easter Balloon Set (Exclusive Balloons)
• Unpainted Easter Eggs (Exclusive Trail)
• Suspicious Easter Eggs (Exclusive Trail)
• Rainbow (Trail Effect)
• Flower Power (Annihilation Kill Effect)
• 25k Shotbow XP

This bundle is perfect for premium buyers who want to go Gold with an extra oomph to their aesthetics.


Radiant Spring – $11.99 USD
Just here for the vibes? We’ve got you.

• 3 Months of Shotbow+ – try out our new color blending feature
• Balloon: Special Pink
• Balloon: Special Green
• 25k Shotbow XP

This is a great bundle for players who already have premium ranks — grab some seasonal colors and enjoy the Shotbow+ benefits.



What’s Shotbow+?
Shotbow+ is our monthly subscription that gives you extra in-game perks such as XP Boosters and Shout Tokens in addition to the usual premium rank benefits — and now with the new color blending feature, your “+” will blend smoothly into your rank color, allowing for a myriad of color combinations!

Whether you're hopping back in for the holidays or looking to level up your presence on the server, these bundles are the perfect way to join the celebration.

As always — thank you for flying Shotbow. Let the Spring vibes begin!

— The Shotbow Team

Hey Shotbow!
Welcome to Dentril's New Moon of May 2025! I'm BasicAly, and I'm here to take you through what's been going on here at Shotbow in the last month!

Team Applications
Ever wanted to join the Shotbow Staff Team? The following teams are accepting applications:

• Development Team
• Annihilation Administrative Team
• MineZ Administrative Team
• Build Team

Network Updates
Toybox Update
One of the oldest cosmetics of Shotbow is our Toybox, found in the main lobby. This contains various fun toys such as colored armor, tools, a bow, parkour blocks, and snowballs (to throw at your foes!). However, as we made changes to our cosmetics framework with the introduction known as "Shotbow Swag", the Toybox was never updated to embrace this new cosmetics framework. That has changed last month, with the full adoption of the Toybox into the "Shotbow Swag" menu, and the introduction of the Toybox to the Annihilation and MineZ lobbies! You can access the Toybox via the Shotbow Swag menu (either by using the black shulker box in your hotbar, or by typing /swag).

There are also several minor changes to the items in the Toybox:
-Parkour blocks have been tweaked to feel more responsive.
-All other items in the Toybox are available with any premium rank (including Shotbow+).
-Snowballs have been reintroduced, these were inactive in the old Toybox.
-Gradient colored armor and the bow with infinite arrows are now fully available to all players that are subscribed to Shotbow+.
-Any equipped armor and tools, as well as the parkour blocks and snowballs, will be automatically granted to you when you (re)join any lobby server. You can disable them again via the Shotbow Swag menu.

Note: the parkour blocks are not available from the Toybox in the Annihilation lobby, as it has its own parkour blocks that are automatically added to your hotbar.

Gamemode Updates
MineZ Updates
The MineZ Team released their brand new update called "Rising Threat", which brought a new and improved Desert Canyon Sanctuary dungeon with many new challenges and rewards for the community. There was a contest held with three completion-based categories and we have our winners!

• 1st Solo: BenTMCB
• 1st Full Completion: Azkiria, Flameboss20, BenTMCB, peaches61, NateC203, and w95559w
• Fastest Completion: Plusouplus, up44, senoc44, and Flameboss20

This MineZ update also included other small changes that can be found on the changelog here.
The MineZ team is searching for new developers, you can find the link to apply for the Development Team in the "Team Applications" section above.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The current SMASH Leaders for Season 2 of 2025 are:

• 1. Daggez - 1170
• 2. MR_Crumon - 1118
• 3. InukichiYukun - 1113

Network in General
Staff updates:

• MrJack and Roquel have been selected as the new MineZ Co-Leads
• 10chrisrulz was promoted to Minez Full-Specialist
• Shankse has returned to the MineZ Team as a Mini-Builder
• Axyy has returned to the SMASH Admin Team and the Marketing Team
• Daggez was promoted to SMASH Full-Admin
• Hilevi became the Anni Events Team Lead

Other statistics:

• There were 539 players banned in the last month
• There were 95 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 203 on April 30th
• 39,596,465 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
That brings us to the end of May's Dentril's New Moon! Stay tuned til' next month for more updates!
Best Wishes,
BasicAly

Hello Survivors!
A Rising Threat is emerging at a once familiar dungeon in the newest MineZ Update, coming to live servers on April 17th!

Redefining "Elite":

The elite dungeons of MineZ are among our premier pieces of challenging content, and while they've remained important pieces of our world, they've begun to show their age. A project of many hours, months, and thousands of command blocks, Desert Canyon Sanctuary has been completely rebuilt, with new challenges and enemies, and rewards to be claimed.



The new elite has many secrets throughout, and a careful eye for additional challenges will be needed for those who wish to claim the best rewards from this re-imagined dungeon.

You'll find DCS at its usual location with its familiar grandiose entrance, but what lies within will be a journey into the unknown. We hope this new set of challenges better reflects our goals for engaging, high-quality content, and both old and new players alike take part in exploring the expanded halls of this elite rework!

DCS Release Challenge:

With the release of DCS comes a few challenges to reward those who complete them! The following accomplishments will yield prizes for those who achieve them first:

• 1st Solo: Starting on release, the first player to beat DCS as an individual will be awarded in-game prizes.
  • You must record the full duration of your run, marked at entering the instance and leaving via its natural exit.
  • No other players may be present during the run.
• 1st Full Completion: Starting on release, the first team of players to beat the entirety of DCS will be awarded in-game prizes.
  • You must record the full duration of your run, marked at entering the instance and leaving via its natural exit.
  • In order to consider the dungeon complete, you must open the Tomb of the Forgotten King.
• Fastest Completion: Starting on release until Sunday, April 27th, the fastest submitted run will be awarded in-game prizes. The rules are as follows:
  • You must record the full duration of your run, marked at entering the instance and leaving via its natural exit.
  • You may not bring more than 4 total players on your run.
  • In order to consider the dungeon complete, you must open the Tomb of the Forgotten King.

Winning submissions will receive special in-game prizes for each participating member! All submissions must be considered "glitchless". Unintended bugs and exploits of the dungeon will not be permitted in official submissions. Submitted videos must contain POV of the entire dungeon. You must submit your full recording via a video link as a reply to this forum post by April 27th and specify which category you're submitting for. Each submission is only permitted for one category.

Out With the Old and In With the... Old:

For many years, players and staff have grappled with the conversation surrounding old content. While we're still debating what this means moving forward, we've decided to relocate the former version of DCS. Under the new name "Fiend's Mirage", the dungeon you've come to know will remain in the game in a newly hidden location and with slightly adjusted loot to reflect it's demoted status from "elite", but otherwise retaining all its previous features.

Though the dungeon is showing it's age, we feel the desire to retain content that players still enjoy outweighs the need to completely remove it at this time in these circumstances. While this does not guarantee the same treatment in the future, we may consider this course of action when appropriate for future pieces of content.

What Comes Next:
Please check our changelog for all the details regarding this update on April 17th. DCS is the golden child of this update, but it is not the only piece of it! We encourage you to get out and experience DCS and the rest of these changes firsthand!

With our sights set on more pieces of permanent content for the future, we hope this update is the next of many more that continue to challenge and entertain the loyal players who have stayed with us all these years. We look forward to seeing your attempts at this update, and to hearing all your feedback!