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Happy Holidays, Survivors!

The time has finally come. We’ve brought out the decorations, pulled the cookies out of the oven and decked the halls with boughs of holly.

The team has worked very hard to bring you this update and we’re happy to finally welcome you to Wonderland 2022.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland
It wouldn’t be a Winter Wonderland without decorated towns filling the world. This year we’re launching Wonderland with 24 Christmas themed locations, with plans to add even more holiday rebuilds in the coming weeks!

Of course each of these locations is full of special, holiday themed goodies so why not stop by each Holiday town to sample the many things they offer?

You’ll also find that the Ghost ship has departed for the month, though I hear an exceptionally large Gingerbread replica has dropped its gumdrop anchor somewhere.

Tales of Glory
We're happy to announce the return of the Christmas dungeon questline, featuring:

• Clarce Coal Mines ((at Clarce))
• Rotted Roots, at Snow tree
• Santa's Sweatshop, accessible via the southpole, which you can travel to in Pravus

The Traveling Snowman


As with previous years, our good friend the Traveling snowman has returned to Valar. He brings with him a bounty of exciting, exclusive and useful items for anyone that he bumps into. This year, chest tiers will be the same on both weekend and weekdays to ensure everyone has a chance for top chests regardless of time.

Treat Chest Schedule and Loot
Expect exact times to be announced in time for the start of next week!

Notifications:
At the scheduled start time, a server will be picked to host the traveling snowman, which will be followed by an announcement across MineZ and pinging the shotbow discord with its location and the countdown to the first chest spawn! Keep your eyes peeled for more than yuletide carolers in the area, and head that way! Similar to last year weekend chests will have higher tiers of loot available compared to their weekday counterpart.

In order to be pinged for supply drop spawns, make sure to assign yourself the 'supplydrops' role from #notifications in the official Shotbow discord! (https://discord.gg/shotbow)



Chests spawn in after the announcement on a delay, and similar to the past year of supply drops, will not spawn all at the same time. Chests spawn in phases, little by little each of the chests will spawn in, staggered one after the other, and you'll either have to get out quick with the first drop of loot, or stay longer to keep up the fight to claim as much as you can!

As always, alting is not allowed, and all other MineZ and Shotbow Rules apply as normal.


The Twelve Days of Christmas Headhunt


This year we are happy to bring another headhunt for those observant explorers among you. Hidden among the Holiday rebuilds of the main world(none in instances), you may come across these dark red, numbered presents.

We’ve made a few changes to the headhunt system but most notably for players, /checkheads now opens a GUI displaying all active headhunts throughout the world. This should make it easier for you to keep track and visualize your progress.

This headhunt we are also trying out a new reward system, pitched by community members. In addition to the normal loot and a special cosmetic bundle for all players that complete it, players who do not have access to the exclusive PVE server will earn 5 days of PVE/Private server access. This time becomes immediately active after completing the headhunt, so be aware of that when completing it.

Advent Calendar


Similar to 2020's daily calendar, we have designed a series of rewards for all 24 days accessible via /advent! Items can be unlocked on the respective days up to EST midnight. Slots before release (10th) will remain claimable on any day.

Closing Thoughts
With all these opportunities for merry-making, we hope to see you stop by and take a stroll through MineZ, during the most wonderful time of the year. We hope to end this year on a high note and intend to supply additional content through follow-up releases during the season. There’s plenty to be excited for in 2023, and we can’t wait to show you more.

From our families to yours, we hope you have a safe and happy Holiday season.
As always, Thanks for flying Shotbow! (Vote for Shotbow!)

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Welcome to the official Shotbow Winterfest of 2022. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on this update to make sure we’re pushing out enough content for you to enjoy the winter, and especially the December month. Once again fasten your seatbelts, because I'm here to take you through all of it!

Network in General

• We will be having a network-wide 2x XP Multiplier through the December month, and a 3x XP Multiplier from December 24th onwards.
• Use code WINTERFEST2022 for 15,000 Shotbow XP.

Lobby Head-Hunt
Huge thanks to our build team for building a brand new lobby specially for the Shotbow Winterfest. Not only will you be able to enjoy the beauty of it, you will also be able to go look around for a total of 11 winter-themed heads spread throughout of it. When you've found all of them, you will be rewarded with a limited edition Christmas Particle Trail which can only be obtained this year. You can claim a head by standing on them!



Additionally, you can use /snow to either toggle it on or off in the lobby!

Events
We will be hosting numerous events through the month of December, so make sure to stay alert on the events section in our Discord server.

Winter Bundle
We’ve released a Winter Bundle which is now available for $69.99 in the store! The Winter Bundle includes:

• Platinum Rank
• Winterfest Particle Trail
• Winterfest Balloon

Note: All cosmetics in the Winterfest Bundle are limited edition and will not return to the Shotbow Store.


In celebration of the Shotbow Winterfest of 2022 we have decided to host a Selfie 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!​

Prizes

• 1st place - Gold Rank for you or a friend.
• 2nd place - Silver Rank & 20k Shotbow XP for you or a friend.
• 3rd place - 3 Shout Tokens & Gradient Armor Set for you or a friend.

Rules

• Selfies must be taken in-game on the Shotbow server.
• Only Winter themed selfies will be taken into consideration.
• You may edit your selfie as you like.
• Shaders, edits (texts such as Happy New Year!) and resource packs are allowed.
• Do not use any inappropriate texts or images.

Submit Your Selfie
You can submit your selfie by simply uploading your screenshot to imgur and submitting it to this thread.

Deadline
The Selfie Competition ends on the 1st of January 2023, winners will be contacted through Discord and announced on both the Forums and in the Discord announcements channel!


Goodluck to everyone!


Hello Shotbow! Winterfest is starting so I hope you're all excited about that. Over the last month some exciting things happened, such as the 1.16 Annihilation playtests and the MineZ Christmas Build Competition! I'm your host Axyy and I will be taking you through what happened during November.

Network Updates
New Muting System
I'm happy to announce that we're no longer banning for Mild-Chat offenses. We now have a new muting system which allows us to punish chat offenders accordingly. Please note, we will still be banning people for extreme chat offenses.

If you're permanently banned for chat offenses you may appeal it here.

Black Friday & Thanksgiving
Last week we activated a 30% sale on purchases made at the Shotbow Store. Additionally, we had a 3x XP-Multiplier to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Event Section
Do you enjoy participating in events? Then you're definitely in the right place! We now have an official Events Section on our Discord server. From now on all upcoming events will be announced in the #event-news channel, so make sure to keep an eye out for that. Would you like to be notified? Use the #notifications channel to select your roles.

We're also giving you the opportunity to come up with event suggestions, and we will read through ALL of them! Before posting your ideas, make sure to mark them with the respective gamemode tag. Once a suggestion is being looked into it will be given the considering tag. After that, the suggestion will either be accepted or denied.

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
Annihilation Updates
The Annihilation Team hosted a few 1.16 base playtests during November. On the 25th of November the official Annihilation 1.16 base update was released. Read the full changelog here.

On November 12th the Annihilation Miners Events were hosted, where all classes except for Miner and Enchanter were disabled until Phase 5, there were massive XP-Bottle drops and nexus health was increased to 125! Read all about this event here.

Additionally, the Annihilation team hosted 7 clan wars this month. More coming soon!

MineZ Updates
This month, the MineZ team released Patch 5.1.6 on 11/14/2022.
Read the full changelog here.

The MineZ Team came with a Christmas Build Contest, read all about it here.

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

• 1st - _BrightDarkness_ [1128]
• 2nd - _YouGotSmoked_ [1102]
• 3rd - sunbreathing [1098]

Network in General
Staff updates:

• Sevy13 was promoted to Annihilation Co-Lead
• Axyy joined the Annihilation Mini Admin team

Other statistics:

• 1846 in-game reports were handled in the last month
• There were 466 players banned in the last month
• 55 ban appeals were handled in the last month
• There were 42 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 187 on November 20th
• 30,575,472 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
Fun Fact, December 1st was my birthday so I definitely started the holiday season very well. I wish everyone of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance. Lastly, I would like to end this edition of Dentril's New Moon with a beautiful quote!

"December: a month of lights, snow and feasts; time to make amends and tie loose ends; finish off what you started and hope your wishes come true"

I'm Axyy and this was Dentril's New Moon for December, and again Happy Holidays!

Hello again and Happy Holidays! We'd like to thank all the players, past staff and minis who submitted a build(s) for this Christmas themed contest. The team has been thrilled to see the submissions come in and we appreciate the time and effort you all spent working on your builds.

Though not everyone can place, we are happy to say that no one is walking away empty handed and that one way or another, each and every build will be incorporated into the Christmas map this year.

Without further ado, let's move on to the results!





Coming in third place, we have LawsOfAviation with their rebuild of Aurora. Small details like the snow globe snowman, embedded snowflakes and the incorporation of Christmas classics from Frosty the Snowman solidified this builder’s place.





In first place, we have the group of builders, Tannatron and _Frostie, with their wordplay submission of Missile Toad. The frog may not be as festive as it's counterpart “Mistletoe”, but we’re sure this build will make a big impact.


While they may not have made the cut for top 3, there are several people we’d like to give an honorable mention to!

Orcahedral and their swampwork:
Snowmelon Town and Fairylight were both really unique reworks of existing locations and we’re happy to see someone so devoted to the swamp. You’ll be sure to see these festive locations ingame!


Rory and their Igloos:

While on the smaller side of rebuilds, there is a good bit of care put into this and while the inclusion of waddles makes us a little concerned it’s still a fun build.


stla_moco and “HappyMoore”:

There’s a lot to be happy about with this build, and we’re sure players will enjoy visiting this location throughout the event!


Tannatron and Giant’s Feast:

Giant’s Feast is a truly delectable rebuild of a classic location. Players can be sure to feast on the giant’s holiday dinner here…if they’re bold enough to do so.



We’re very excited to add in so many builds with this contest. All Placed builders and Honorable mentions will be added in the second week of the Christmas update. If we need to make any adjustments to your build we’ll be sure to contact you ahead of time and work those details out. If one of your builds did not make it, do not fret! There is a chance part of it could still be seen by players this year.

Winners can begin receiving their ingame prizes once MineZ’s 2022 Christmas Update has rolled.



As a reminder, the prizes for this contest were:

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.


Thank you so much to everyone who helped and who submitted builds. We hope you will join us when Wonderland 2022 is released!

Happy Holidays!