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Hello Shotbow and MineZ community members! With MineZ Spookfest ending soon, we are hard at work planning MineZ’s next holiday event which will take place in December.

Each year we have decorated a growing amount of locations for these holiday events and we expect this year to be no different. This year, we’d like you to join in on the fun of decorating locations for Christmas.

For that reason, we're hosting the first ever MineZ Holiday Build Contest! Anyone can enter a build into this, and we're hoping to give many of you the chance to have a build added into the Christmas rotation! The contest will run until December 3rd, and we're excited to see all that you have to submit!

• This MineZ Build Contest will last for 21 days, ending on December 3rd, 2022.
• Builds can be of any size, though we recommend sticking to towns. Builds should be taken from the overworld only. Dungeon locations will not be accepted.
• Builds do not have to be strictly reskins of current locations. You can build new locations for this contest.
• Submissions are welcome to suggest chest/water/crafting table/etc locations, but will ultimately be left up to MineZ staff. Generally the placements of these resources don't change for holiday locations.
• For this contest you will be allowed to download the chunks you need to build with.
• Multiple winners are expected. We will add winning builds to the Christmas map, so long as they meet a certain standard.

• Please submit your build here as a comment. Make sure to list who worked on it and what location it is.
• Each submission requires an Imgur album of build screenshots, taken in vanilla without shaders!
• Each submission requires a schematic file of the build.
• Each person/group is limited to 3 submission

The rules of the contest are as follows:

• Anyone can send in a submission
• Each person/group is limited to 3 submissions (Please note, group submissions will only receive one prize amongst the group. In the event of multiple winning submissions from the same group, you will receive double/triple prizes.)
• Builds must be created in 1.12.2
• Submissions, if selected, are subject to edits as necessary by the MineZ team
• Submissions sent in, if selected, will be property of Shotbow
• Submissions sent in after December 3rd will not be considered for the contest

Winners will be announced by December 4th! Special prizes will be given to the top 3 builds:

• 1st Place: 50,000 Shotbow XP + Gold Rank + Shotbow Lunar Cape
• 2nd Place: 25,000 Shotbow XP + Silver Rank + Shotbow Lunar Cape
• 3rd Place: 25,000 Shotbow XP + 3 Shout Tokens

All winners will additionally receive a special in-game prize and holiday cosmetic for use on MineZ. There may be more than 3 builds added however, and in that case, those who did not place in the top 3 will also receive a special in-game prize and cosmetic.


It is our hope that as many of you as possible get in on the fun of building Holiday locations, however big or small! While it is unlikely, we must say that winners and ALL submissions are not guaranteed to be added to the Christmas MineZ Map. To avoid this scenario you can follow some of these tips:

• Review past holiday locations. There are several locations that we expect to use again from previous years. This means if you select Al Hasa, your build will be heavily contested. It would be wise to select another location.
• Find inspiration on the web for fun decoration tips for the holidays.
• Use custom Minecraft heads, though don’t go too crazy!
• You can always ask for feedback on your builds. Don’t shy away from getting an opinion on your build.

Happy building and Happy Holidays!

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Hey there Shotbow! I hope all of you enjoyed The Shotbow Spookfest! Over the last month quite some things happened. We released the annual Shotbow Spookfest bringing you many special and exciting features such as XP-Codes, giveaways and a network-wide XP-Multiplier. Fasten your seatbelts because I'm here to take you through all of it.

Halloween Skin Contest Results
Last month a Skin Contest was held and the results are finally in!

• 1st place - 180db_ (Gold Rank)
• 2nd place - PandoraCall (50k Shotbow XP)
• 3rd place - WUSOWUSOWUSOWUSO (3 Shout-Tokens)

(Winners please check your forum PMs to claim your prize)
Note: All participants were put up to vote, I did not pick the winners myself.

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

• Development Team
• Annihilation Administrative Team
• Warband and Wasted: Control Staff Team

Gamemode Updates
MineZ Updates
This month, MineZ has seen quite a few updates, the release of the MineZ Spookfest (5.1.0), patch 5.1.1, patch 5.1.2 patch 5.1.3, patch 5.1.4 and lastly patch 5.1.5.

The MineZ Spookfest came with a lot of exciting features, read all about it here.



Annihilation Updates
Annihilation brought some spooky updates during the October month. The lobby was converted into a spooky one, and a total of 4 Halloween themed maps were added to the map rotation, Spookstal, Spooks, Scaryon and Spookdrasil.

An Annihilation Lootdrop event was hosted on Modernstal. Once again one of our Media Creators lPirlo recorded the event and published on his YouTube channel!



Additionally, the Annihilation team hosted 9 clan wars this month. More coming soon!

SMASH Updates
The SMASH team worked hard on updating the base version to 1.16 and this came with a lot of exciting features such as new maps & items. Additionally, SMASH also participated in The Shotbow Spookfest bringing out a new map, 5 items and a new mob.

Read the full changelog here.

Warband Updates
During Halloween Warband had some exciting updates and events!

• Warband held several playtests during Spookfest.
• Three new game events were tested for Warband.
• A Lobby and a XP code were added.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The autumn season has started, here are the current standings:

• 1st - _BrightDarkness_ [1128]
• 2nd - sunbreathing [1098]
• 3rd - Cometcat13 [1095]

Network in General
Staff updates:

• SnowVi1liers was promoted to Full Admin
• ro_cks has been promoted to Full Builder
• Axyy joined the Film Crew

Other statistics:

• 1,627 in-game reports were handled in the last month
• There were 689 players banned in the last month
• 65 ban appeals were handled in the last month
• There were 51 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 180 on October 23rd
• 46,672,697 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
Over the last couple of weeks we've really been pushing our socials (Twitter, YouTube, TikTok & Instagram) with amazing giveaways and enjoyable video content. Make sure to follow us there so you don't miss out on any of them!

I’m Axyy, and this was Dentril’s New Moon for this month. Winter is coming very soon, are you excited? I definitely am!

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What is happening?
During the month October we're bringing you many spooky updates and events. Make sure to regularly check our Twitter and Discord so you don't miss out on any of them! All Halloween updates are temporary and will later be changed / removed.

Network in General

• We will be having a network-wide 2x XP Multiplier until the end of October.
• Use code HALLOWEEN2022 for 10,000 Shotbow XP.

The return of Ghostcraft
Ghostcraft is back once again! For the rest of the month you will be able to enjoy one of the oldest and spookiest games on Shotbow. Join the server and click on the Ghostcraft NPC right at the spawn of our lobby.

Want to find people to play Ghostcraft with? Join our Discord and check out the Ghostcraft channel!

Annihilation

• The Lobby was converted into a spooky one.
• 4 Halloween themed maps were added into the map rotation, Spookstal, Spooks, Scaryon and Spookdrasil.

MineZ

• MineZ Spookfest was released bringing many exciting features! Read about it here.

SMASH

• New Halloween Lobby.
• Added Haunted Mansion Map.
• New Mob: Witch.
• New Item: Candle.
• New Item: Fang.
• New Item: Trapped Souls.
• New Item: Lightning Rod.
• Readded Peek a Boom.

Many more fun features were added to the game, read the full SMASH changelog here.

Warband

• Added a new Halloween themed lobby
• Halloween events are being hosted regularly, look out for Discord events frequently

Giveaways
Throughout the few coming weeks we will be hosting giveaways on our official Twitter account. Make sure to follow us so you don't miss out on any of them!

Halloween Events

• A SMASH Halloween event will be hosted on the 23rd of October (12:00 EST)
• An Annihilation Halloween event will be hosted on the 30th of October (10:00 EST)

Store Bundle
We've got an amazing Halloween package ready on the Shotbow store for only 50$!

The Halloween-bundle includes:

• Gold Rank
• Smoke, Magma & Flame Particle Effects
• 1 Shout-Token

To celebrate the Spookfest of 2022 we have decided to host a skin contest and anyone can participate! We have yet again some exciting prizes to compete for, so make sure to not miss out on this. This thread will help you to participate, and provides you with all the information you should know before submitting your in-game selfie. The Skin Contest ends on the 1st of November, winners will be contacted through the forums and announced in the Discord announcements channel.

Prizes:

• 1st place - Gold Rank for you or a friend.
• 2nd place - 50k Shotbow XP for you or a friend.
• 3rd place - 3 Shout-Tokens for you or a friend.

Rules:

• Submit as many skin designs as you want.
• Only Halloween themed skins will be taken into consideration.
• Do not submit any inappropriate designs.

Submit your skin:

1. Take a screenshot of your skin design on the Shotbow server.
2. Upload the screenshot to imgur.
3. Post the screenshot under this thread. (Designs with the most likes will be taken into consideration)