Shotbow

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!

Hey Shotbow!
Welcome to Dentril's New Moon of April 2025! I'm BasicAly, and I'm here to talk about all of the things going on here at Shotbow in the past 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
Version Update
We have updated our multi-version compatibility and you will now be able to connect to Shotbow using 1.21.5!

Gamemode Updates
Annihilation Updates
The Annihilation Team has released their newest update Chunky Arsenic! This update brought many new changes regarding clans, classes, priority queue for joining games, a new boss, and some new game mechanics, just to name a few! If any bugs are found regarding this new update they can be shared in our discord server. Here is the main thread that lists all of the changes and new content for this update!

MineZ Updates
The MineZ Team is at hard work to bring you their next update, coming out this month! We were excited to share our first teaser in anticipation and plan to share more soon! You can visit our discord server to check out the latest sneak peek of what is being worked on!

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

• Cometcat13 - 1000
• ENDERHUNTER360 - 1000
• Unflackable - 1000

Network in General
Staff updates:

• MisaXC joined the MineZ Team as a Mini-Admin
• JCMars24 joined the MineZ Team as a Mini-Admin
• Lndse joined the MineZ Team as a Mini-Admin
• SanderZ_ has joined the Build Team as a Mini Builder

Other statistics:

• There were 510 players banned in the last month
• There were 47 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 152 on March 31st
• 39,884,993 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
That brings us to the end of April's Dentril's New Moon! See you next month for more news about exciting updates being brought to our gamemodes!
Best Wishes,
BasicAly

Annihilation Update - Chunky Arsenic (4.1.0)

Hi Everyone!

We are thrilled to announce our latest update Chunky Arsenic!

We would appreciate constructive, well-founded criticism (positive and negative!) once you have experienced this update in-game. Nothing is ever set in stone and we look forward to seeing your opinions.

Changelog:

Clans update:
Clans are a big part of our community and we felt that the in-game experience of viewing, joining and creating/managing clans was not up to par, so Clans has been completely refactored. You should begin to notice the changes immediately whether you're a clan Leader or just an admirer.

This change has many benefits for you, but also for Annihilation, as it's much more efficient. Here's a non-exhaustive list of changes:

• The clan view has been given a makeover. Clans with lots of members will now be able to view all of their members.
• If a clan has a reward (e.g. for competing in a tournament), this will now be visible from the clan view.
• The clan tag reward now supports full RGB colours. If you are a clan Leader with a custom tag colour, as a one-off gesture, we are offering you to change the clan's tag colour. Please reach out to either Galap or DJ_Pedro on the forums with your clan tag and the colour you would like.
• Each clan member is coloured according to their rank within the clan.
• You can now see which clan someone is in using their username with /clan who <username>, even if they're offline!

Lobby updates:
You will have already noticed some of these changes to the Annihilation Lobby, we're still working on this to make it a more useful place to be, but here's the changes so far:



Game changes:

Priority Queue
We have introduced a queue limit for each team to help reduce the waiting time for players to join the game. The queue now allows up to four players to be queued for a given team. You can still wait around if you want to play with friends already in the game, but we would encourage you to chose another team or click 'Random' to get in quickly.


Launch Pads: Jump Pads!
Launch pads are a long-standing and well-loved mechanic of Annihilation. Today, we are pleased to introduce a new type of launch pads: Jump pads! These pads allow vertical ascension and can be used together with the classic launch pads.

It's been previously a rumour in Annihilation that gold and diamond launch pads launched you further, well, that was true and continues to be so! Here are the different launch pads you can use:

Horizontal launch pads:

• Iron block: x2 power
• Redstone lamp: x3 power
• Diamond block: x4 power

Vertical launch pads:

• Emerald block: 1.2x power
• Gold block: 1.4x power

New Boss: Tarus
A new boss has entered the permanent pool of challenges that await you from Phase 4: Tarus. This boss lives in an ethereal world where everything feels a bit like a dream. We won't spoil its mechanics here, so you'll have to get in game and face the mysterious foe for yourself!


Ender Furnace: Overclocked
We have increase the rate in which the Ender Furnace smelts at its base level. Each phase (1 -> 5) will increase the smelting speed even more, with Phase 5 being 80% faster!

We hope this change will help players to gear more quickly, especially during later phases.


Time limited Ender Pearl chambers
A suggestion was put into #game-suggestions on our Discord to balance Ender Pearl chambers ("stasis chambers") which was quite a divisive topic. We have decided to introduce a time limit, so now Ender Pearls will self-destruct after 1 minute 30 seconds (90s) after launch. There is no notification when they expire because we feel this tactic is already quite strong, and therefore the risk should be equal.


Dynamic Weather
Another game suggestion was to add dynamic weather and we really liked this one and think you will too. Rain and snow may seem like a cosmetic change, but it has wider impacts such as flame being less potent, riptide being usable on land and invisible players will have an easier time sneaking around.

Weather in Annihilation doesn't follow normal Minecraft rules, so don't be surprised to find your cover gone as fast as it arrived!


Netherite Sword in Phase 5
Just like blaze powder appearing in the Brewing Shop at the start of Phase 4, you will now have the ability to purchase a Netherite sword at the start of Phase 5 from the Weapon Shop for 10 Diamonds. This sword is slightly more powerful than a diamond sword, and has the added benefit of being fireproof!


Ore'nt you excited?
We have changed Iron and Gold ores so they now drop the raw variant instead of the ore block. Along with this change, we can now support the deepslate versions of all ores, which you may see in future maps! This is an aesthetic change, which doesn't impact the amount of ores you get when mining.


Class Changes

Iceman ➡ Neptune
Iceman has been given a new name and been completely refactored under the hood.

• Riptide
  • As the name suggests, this uses the Riptide enchantment, allowing you to zoom out of the water and deal damage to any foes who get in your way.
  • This attack can be used when it's raining, but be careful of fall damage!
• Curse of the Sea
  • Enemies you hit with this attack will have their lungs turned into gills and find the air impossible to breathe. If they don't submerge themselves (or be graced by rain), they will take three hearts of drowning damage.
  • Be careful with your aim, Tidebringer will always return to you, but it may not be as fast as you would like!

Builder


Miner


Archer


Berserker

Bug Fixes

• TNT and Skulls (player heads, skeleton skulls etc.) can now be broken with or without any tool.
• Fixed soulbound items being able to go into decorated pots.
• Fixed a bug that caused the void anti-block-glitching mechanic from working.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to right-click on enemy team doors to remove them client-side and interact with objects behind it.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Alchemist to obtain more than one personal brewing stand.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Robinhood to place the Steed spawn item on the spawned steed.
• Made Robinhood's steed recall automatically if it takes suffocation damage so it spawns safely rather than taking unnecessary damage.
• Fixed Engineer's Bunker Buster breaking team doors.
• Fixed beds being placed near the map boarder so they extend into the void.
• Fixed Boss Buff potions being able to turn dirt into mud, and consuming the potion.
• A host of administrative/backend/lobby fixes and updates.

Closing Words:
While we have fixed a few bugs in this update, some you may have experienced and others you probably didn't know were there, but we are aware that we still have bugs to fix and we appreciate all the help you can give us with getting those fixed. If you find a bug in Annihilation and want to have a chance of owning a special Bug Finder cosmetic, you can report it on our official Discord by using this command: !support bug <IGN>.

Credits:
Many of the changes we have made in this update have come from you the community, and from our wonderful staff team who continue to strive to make Anni the best it can be. All credit goes to them for their tireless efforts that more often than not go unnoticed, thank you team for being so awesome.