Shotbow

Hi there! My name is Mistri and I'm your host for this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon.

Unfortunately, this month we don't have a letter from the co-lead or a development corner due to Navarr being on temporary leave because of personal issues. However, many of the developers have been giving public info to put in the New Moon, so hopefully this makes up for it! Without further ado, I present this month's updates!

Updates
Network Updates
We have retired Civ-War from Shotbow. Read about it here.

MineZ Updates
Earlier this month, Doc posted a small update about the future of MineZ, which many people were excited to hear. If you missed out on the news, read all about it here!

In addition, just last week, Doc posted another update about the brand new PTR. He posted its release date and a timeline of what to expect for the next few months on MineZ! It's exciting news and we hope you'll love it. Read all about it here!

Finally, we just announced that the MineZ Spookfest for 2018 is back! Get ready for some spooky loot in the form of treat chests! Read all about it here.

Mine Theft Auto Updates
Mine Theft Auto is looking for developers! If you know Java and would like to become a Junior Developer, find out more here!

SMASH Updates
Work on SMASH has continued, and we also launched a map contest, which just ended. You can view the map contest here. The results will be posted soon!

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Summer season has just finished, and the results are in:

• 1st - Acstes - 10,000 XP
• 2nd - Sonicboom_ - 7,500 XP
• 3rd - Jiren_ - 5,000 XP

Congratulations to all who won prizes. The SMASH Fall season starts today, so be sure to work your way up the ELO ladder to victory!
Network in General
Staff updates:

• JonnyDvE joined the Annihilation Mini Admin Team
• Veghetto joined the MineZ Mini Admin Team
• DJ_Pedro joined the Ban Appeal Counselor Team

Other statistics:

• A total of 42,153,217 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 3,869 players banned in the last month

With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. Thanks for flying Shotbow!

PTR Update

As we get closer to the PTR release, we have decided on a date: October 26th.

This date has been selected toward the end of October so everyone on the admin team and community can have fun with Halloween as we do every year.

As many people want to know what is coming in the PTR, here is a list of few major changes included!

1. New combat system to mimic more of what 1.7 was.
   • You now take more knockback and can easily be combo’d into the air.
2. A complete re-work of the loot system.
3. Harder zombies as you head up north.
4. New mobs added.
5. Localize Dungeon instances added.
   • Shrine of the Dusk and Eclipsed Ruins already instance-ready.
   • More to come as we work on making them instance ready.
6. Render distance has been doubled. (Test to see how the impact of the changes can help with render distance)
7. So much more.

A full changelog will be released with PTR update.

MineZ Roadmap

We have big plans for MineZ this coming year after the PTR is released live, so at this time would like to release my roadmap.



We hope to see you there online once the PTR is released. A new age of MineZ has come.

- Doc