Shotbow

Happy 2020, Shotbow! I'm Mistri, your host for the first edition of Dentril's New Moon for 2020.

Updates
Annihilation Updates
Annihilation got a winter update, which includes a ton of class changes, and the addition of temporary class purchases. It's an exciting update and you can read all about it here!

MineZ Updates
This month, we held up the annual tradition of hosting Traveling Snowman. It was a great success! You can view photos from the event here and read about the event here.

In addition, the development team posted a MineZ Status Update talking about the future of MineZ while it's being upgraded to 1.12.2. You can read the announcement here.

Slaughter Updates
A few map changes were added to Slaughter:

• Slaughter map "Burrows" has been nerfed. Removal of the popular camping spot with the railroads has been removed in order to make the map harder to play and less of an XP farming map.
• Slaughter map "Forgotten" got 2 updates: patched bug where you could parkour into Marsh without unlocking the door, and a hole was filled.
• Slaughter map "Amazon" missing barrier blocks bug patched
• Slaughter new map "Districts" has been added!

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season has just ended, and the results are in!

• 1st - jiren74 - 75,000 XP
• 2nd - Cometcat13 - 50,000 XP
• 3rd - Veghetto - 25,000 XP

Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for December 2019
Combat:

• 1st - willow90 KDR: 73:0 (73.0)
• 2nd - Rewrited KDR: 49:0 (49.0)
• 3rd - hetase KDR: 141:5 (28.2)

Arrests:

• 1st - hetase Arrests: 60.0
• 2nd - ChaosChan Arrests: 19.0
• 3rd - willow90 Arrests: 15.0

Experience Gained:

• 1st - Sizzlue Experience gained: 149104.0
• 2nd - MESLEG Experience gained: 58600.0
• 3rd - Viral333 Experience gained: 54543.0

Minigames Won:

• 1st - Viral333 Minigames won: 124.0
• 2nd - phannydantom Minigames won: 62.0
• 3rd - Hotsaucelover20 Minigames won: 54.0

Network in General
Staff updates:

• Jasmincx and LaukNLoad joined the Film Crew

Statistics:

• A total of 55,391,297 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 708 players banned in the last month
• This month, we reached a peak playercount of 439 on December 31

Thanks for tuning in to the first Dentril's New Moon of 2020. This is going be a great year! I'm your host, Mistri — thanks for flying Shotbow!

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Hello everyone!

We've got an early Christmas present for you all - an update to Annihilation!


XP Store

Whilst the development of the new Milestones system is underway (think daily challenges, new stats and more!) we have enabled temporary class purchases to allow new and newer players to access more classes in Annihilation faster. We hope this will make it easier for players to jump into and enjoy Annihilation for longer. The new purchases times and costs are:

• Daily - 500 SBXP
• 1 Week - 1,000 SBXP
• 1 Month - 2,000 SBXP
• Lifetime - 15,000 SBXP

Builder

Tweaked

Bunker Busters will glow when within delay block radius

Locating an enemy bunker buster could be frustrating - we've now made it a bit easier to find!


Berserker

Tweaked

Freshly spawned players will no longer grant you hearts

We made the same update to Robinhood earlier this year - you'll have to earn your extra hearts more honourably now!


Immobiliser

Tweaked

Added visual indicator for players who are immune from being immobolised.

When a player has been immobilised they are immune to being immobilised again for 10 seconds. In the Autumn update we added a chat message. However we've added this visual indicator to ensure all players are aware that this player is immune.


Miner

Tweaked

Gold Rush active ability will now grant the player a 100% chance of double ores and a 33% of triple ores!

The old active ability had very little feedback meaning that players often wondered if it was even working (it was - respawning ores were a few seconds faster!). However we've made this change to make it clearer and more rewarding to the individual player. This will also allow you to gear up even faster with a higher ore attain rate.



Ninja

Added

New shurikens - left click will now fire shurikens that deal considerably less knockback. Each shuriken (3 per throw) has a 100% chance to inflict either:

• Slowness 1 for 3 seconds
• Poison 1 for 2 seconds

The chance to inflict either effect is 50%. Followup shurikens that hit will also apply the effect.

Example:

• Player A is hit by the 1st Shuriken and gets Slowness 1 for 3 seconds.
• If the 2nd Shuriken hits it will add another 3 seconds of slowness ontop for a total of 6 second of slowness.
• If the 3rd Shuriken hits it will add another 3 seconds of slowness for a total of 9 seconds.

These duration's may be slightly less depending on how long the effect has been active for.

Right click will still fire the old shurikens that deal much more knockback!


Tweaked

Smoke bomb can now be instantly activated by left clicking on it.
Ninjas will keep their speed buff for an extra 2 seconds when outside the smoke cloud.

Ninja has been outclassed by other classes for a while now so we felt it was time to update it to be able to stand toe to toe with them. We hope these changes will make Ninja more impactful and fun to play!


Spy

Tweaked

Spy's can now use their Flee ability within the radius of their own nexus.

Now you can double the number of defenders!



Tinkerer

Tweaked

When breaking any enemy pad they will fragment.
Quality of Life changes to disenchanting books.


Similar to Diamond pads currently, now all pads will fragment when broken by an enemy player.
Books are no longer soulbound and multiple enchantments can be removed more easily. We hope this makes this mechanic less frustrating to use.


Other changes

• The shops have been redone to be more visually pleasing
• Descriptions have now been added to all class items to explain their functionality to players ingame
• Fixed an issue with invisible, indestructible teleports
• Fixed a duplication glitch with Bard
• Fixed a duplication glitch with Hunter
• Fixed invisible players not being revealed by Ninja shurikens or Thor's lightning
• Fixed particles not showing when using Assassin's leap ability in certain conditions
• Fixed potion effects being applied incorrectly when using milk

• Fixed vampire knocking teammates when transforming back to a human
• Increased the defensive kill radius from 12 to 18 blocks
• Allowed cobblestone to be placed

• Added additional commands for staff to use to set players teams (Sandbox)

Credits

Mosh_Von_Void has once again provided us with a fantastic update so it is no surprise he was recently promoted to Full Developer!! Congratulations Mosh


Thanks also to Doc for porting over his MineZ PvP changes to Annihilation - we hope the combat will feel even better!

Many of the tweaks we've made in this update have come from you, the community, and the Annihilation Admin team who continue to help guide me on making Anni the best it can be! All credit to them and all complaints to me



We have more updates coming in the new year, including updates to older classes (looking at you, Hunter!).

Before I forget - have an EARLYGIFT on us

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone on the Annihilation Team.

Enjoy

Hello survivors! First of all, I would like to wish everyone happy holidays, with only 10 days left until Christmas! I am pleased to announce that Christmas will be making its return to MineZ once again.


For those who don't know, the Traveling Snowman is a Christmas themed event hosted on live servers. A snowman with a chest will spawn at a random location on the MineZ map, carrying special Christmas themed loot. In order to obtain the loot, one will have to face other players, dangerous mobs or even complete some parkour.
Starting tomorrow, the Traveling Snowman will spawn every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 12 PM CST (EU prime time) and 6 PM CST (US prime time). Additionally, it will also spawn on December 30th at the same times.

However, similarly to this year's Spookfest, things will be a little different. That means instead of a public server, the Traveling Snowman will spawn on a Private server with premium-only turned off. The premium-only filter will be turned off 30 minutes before the Snowman spawns. Players must be on the server before the Snowman spawns.

At the designated spawn time, the server will be whitelisted, the Snowman will be spawned, and the location will be announced.

Furthemore, rules regarding abusing alternate accounts remain the same as well, meaning if a single player is caught having any alternate accounts on the Private server, all accounts in question will be permanently banned.

"What about Christmas builds, a Christmas dungeon, the South Pole?", you may ask. Unfortunately, as you might know from Doc's MineZ Status Update, the game has been updated to 1.12.2 on the dev server, meaning we are unable to roll any changes until everything is completed. It is quite disappointing we can't provide you anything else, but we hope to bring you a ton of new content once the update is finished!

Sunday, December 15th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Friday, December 20th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Saturday, December 21st:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Sunday, December 22nd:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Friday, December 27th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Saturday, December 28th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Sunday, December 29th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
Monday, December 30th:
• 12:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!
• 6:00 CST - The Traveling Snowman will spawn somewhere in the world!

While it isn't as much as we were hoping to bring you, we didn't want to leave you all without any content, especially a traditional one such as MineZ Christmas. Thank you for sticking with us!

- Pedro and the MineZ Team

Edit: Hey guys. Starting with Pileus (US chest on the 27th), I have been taking some rather cinematic screenshots of the Traveling Snowman and its locations. You can view the album here!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the event, we'll see you next year!