Shotbow

We have decided to reopen the recruitment of the SMASH team because we need more ideas and support to develop our game-making and event things more than before.

Our activity is to deal with players who are breaking the rules.
We are looking for open-minded people who are careful and fair-minded enough to see all players without getting personal.
We also plan events for our players to enjoy, come up with new items and much more!

If you love SMASH and want to contribute to the team but you are not sure how, don't be afraid to apply, you will be accompanied by friendly team members!

If you are interested, please apply here.
We will start to go through the applications after around a week.
We look forward to receiving many applications.

Thanks for reading to the end!
SMASH Team.

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Happy April, Shotbow! This month's edition of Dentril's New Moon is full of exciting updates. Let's jump right into it!

Network Updates
Monetization & Voting Updates
If you've been with Shotbow for a while, you'll know that Shotbow disabled individual XP voting rewards, and stopped selling XP, due to a change in the Minecraft EULA that restricted us. The Shotbow team has recently re-reviewed the latest revision of the Minecraft EULA, and realized that we can make some adjustments to monetization strategies relating to Shotbow XP.

To begin, we are re-instating per-user voting rewards! Each time you vote for Shotbow, you will receive 50 XP immediately! You can vote on each of the 6 voting sites per day, which will give you up to 300 XP per day, which is over 9,000 XP per month.

These rewards are added in addition to the voting milestones, which will release a 2,500 XP code for every 2,500 votes!

Go vote now to get these awesome rewards on vote.shotbow.net!

We'll be releasing more monetization changes coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled for the future!

Team Updates
The Shotbow team is creating a new rank called the Helper rank! While the details are still being finalized, Helpers will be responsible for duties that don't fall into the categories of banning hackers, building, or developing; think game design, player support, and much more! There will be two variations, Mini Helper and Helper. We will be onboarding our first Helpers very soon, so keep an eye out for the future!

Localization Updates
We apologize for the delays in getting back to Localization applicants. We are experiencing internal issues and will respond to all Localization team applications as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience!

Gamemode Updates
MineZ Updates
We have announced the winners of the MineZ Minor Location Build contest! Congratulations to the winners:

• 1st Place - SUNSHlNE (20,000 Shotbow XP + Silver Rank)
• 2nd Place - Zebra_aapje (10,000 Shotbow XP + Shotbow Lunar Cloak)
• 3rd Place - Forsaken (10,000 Shotbow XP)

You can check out the builds, along with the full post, here.

Additionally, the MineZ Team as release an update to the Alt Abuse Policy. You can read the full policy here.

Warband Updates
Warband had a total of three new patches this month, some of which were game changing, like the class rework and blessing rework! Warband has also started making patch notes videos that you can find here:



Curious what’s in these patches? Well join the Warband Community Board Discord here.

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

• 1st - _BrightDarkness_ - 75,000 XP
• 2nd - Yesus42 - 50,000 XP
• 3rd - Daggez - 25,000 XP

Network in General
Staff updates:

• Selictove joined the Jr. Developer team
• Smartzz and GunOverdose joined the Warband Mini Admin team

Other statistics:

• 2,088 in-game reports were handled in the last month
• There were 942 players banned in the last month
• 86 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
• There were 67 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 291 on March 6
• 45,949,053 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 17 Anni Clan Wars hosted in the last month - check out our YouTube channel for some recordings!

That's all for this month. I'm your host, Mistri — thanks for flying Shotbow!

The results are in! We'd like to thank all the players (and Tannatron) who submitted a build for this contest. We're thrilled with the results and appreciate all the time and effort you all spent to submit these builds. Though not everyone is a winner, we were happy to see the passion of the community on display. Without any further ado, let's get to the results!


After so many great submissions, we'd like to shout out two of the submissions who were stand outs, but just shy of the victory this go around! We wish we could spotlight all of our submissions, but here are just a couple who we wanted to share anyways!

Honorable Mention #1: Tannatron's Battered Phare!



We loved Tannatron's use of the map terrain and the style of his build. What a great submission from our old friend!

Honorable Mention #2: OrcaHedral's Lakeside Park!



Orca's use of redstone to make these cute mushroom jumps was very inspired, and we loved the intricate tree as well!


In first place: For an inspired build utilizing terrain, unique structures, and a fun theme, is ElLoboAlfa! We think this submission is stellar, and winning by Staff Vote, this submission was more than deserving!



Coming in at second place: Taking second by victory in a split vote, Zebra_aapje's Deserted Library! The detail included in this small build is astounding, and we love the structure and how cohesive the idea is here.



Coming in third: Rounding out our victors is senoc44's Mining Town Port! This build made excellent use of terrain, and we think fits the thematic of MineZ wonderfully!



As a reminder, our winners, in order, receive:

• 1st Place: 20,000 Shotbow XP + Silver Rank
• 2nd Place: 10,000 Shotbow XP + A Shotbow Lunar Cape
• 3rd Place: 10,000 Shotbow XP
• All winners will additionally receive a special in-game prize

Remember, winners, and ALL submissions, are not guaranteed to be added to the MineZ Map. Winners will be contacted via Discord to hand out their prizes sometime this week. We appreciate all that our community submitted, and can't wait to do this again some day! Thanks again for all the submissions!