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Aug
01
by ShayminPlays at 4:00 PM
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Heya Shotbow! My name is ShayminPlays and I'll be your host for the August 2021 edition of Dentril's New Moon! This was an exciting month in terms of network updates, with many of our gamemodes receiving quality of life updates that you can catch up on in this issue.
Furthermore, we are on the cusp of transferring to a brand new server host, meaning you can expect a more stable performance and connection to the server in the coming weeks. We are excited to share updates about this move in the near future, but for now let's take a look at what's been happening in the past month!
Updates
Annihilation Updates
Following the successful release of the Gentle Iridium update (which you can read about here), we are thrilled to announce that all Annihilation EU player stats have been merged with the US ones! This means that the leaderboards and stats from the long-retired EU server have been combined with the current server, so if you played on the EU server way back in the day your grinding and efforts are no longer lost!
Thanks to Galap, Mosh, Hilly, and the rest of the Anni Team, we are proud to finally fulfill the promise that we made many years ago. You can read about the merge here, and find out your current standing by typing the command /stats show in-game! Thank you to all of our loyal EU and international players alike, and we wish you the best of luck in your climb to the very top of the leaderboards!
MineZ Updates
We started off MineZ with a "bang" this month, with update 4.2.0 ushering in the annual Dawn of the Second Sun! This event saw the reintroduction of fireworks to celebrate the triumph of the Elemental Gods, which also served as the currency in a new NPC-trading system we trialled at the start of the month. This update also introduced the start of a huge food overhaul which changed some values and included a brand new feature: cooking! In the following week, we also released patches 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 to make some bugfixes, buffs, nerfs, and QoL changes.
With the more recent update 4.3.0 we've added salads, a new type of food item found exclusively in the cave town of Ephirion. These provide unique benefits depending on the ingredients you use to craft them, and can prove useful for all playstyles, so I urge you to try them all! The infamous Ghost Ship has also moved and taken a new form. Built by some of our newest Mini Builders, Syphia and 111kittycat111, the Ghost Ship will be the first of many new rebuilds to come. If you'd like to take part in the MineZ build effort, you can apply to become a MineZ Builder by filling in this form.
All of the aforementioned updates can be found in the MineZ 2021 Changelog. The MineZ Team is hard at work paving the way for what's to come, and we hope that you are just as excited as we are for the future of MineZ!
SMASH Updates
SMASH saw a small update at the start of the month which featured changes primarily in celebration of Independence Day. In this update we added a community-submitted map called Steampunk, as well as some festive updates to pre-existing maps for the 4th of July and the summer season. More will be on the way soon, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled!
GG Updates
With the help of another Jr. Developer working on GG, ArsMagia, we have been able to deliver a new system for TeamPvP where you can join one of two teams and battle until one is fully eliminated! GG has also introduced an NPC which shows the top kill count holder since the last reboot, as well as a bunch of other features to make our PvP practice gamemode more than just that! You can read about these changes here, and participate in future events by utilizing our new TeamPvP Public Request feature. Now warm up those clicking fingers and get practicing!
Slaughter Updates
Pyachi2002 and his army of new Mini Builders have been hard at work modernizing our favourite cooperative XP-grinding gamemode, with two complete map rebuilds and a whole host of features to look forward to in the upcoming Slaughter 1.3 update. A few new items are coming to Slaughter in this update, the most notable being the new passive items, which have effects that remain active so long as you have the item in your inventory!
A number of public playtests for this update have been hosted over the course of the month, and there's more to come! In order to be notified of future playtests of this update, you can type the command !notifyme slaughter in the Slaughter channel of our Official Shotbow Discord. Stay tuned for more Slaughter notifications, as the next update is just on the horizon!
Summer Event
A little event for you!
We will be holding an XP hunt in the Annihilation and SMASH lobbies until August 14.
We have hidden some keywords in each lobby. Sort through the hidden characters to make up the XP code.
You can create one XP code for each lobby.
Look for them while you're waiting for your game!
Statistics
Network in General
Staff updates:
We're really excited about the future and have high hopes for what's to come! Things can only get better from here as we transfer to our new host, and each and every one of us is trying our hardest to deliver the best player experience for all of our most beloved gamemodes. After all, it is our love for this network and its gamemodes that unifies all of us, and brings us together in spite of the pandemic and all that's going on in the world. That's why I want to personally thank all of you for staying strong in these trying times, because as cheesy as it sounds, you're helping to save the world by playing Shotbow! This has been the August 2021 edition of Dentril's New Moon, my name is ShayminPlays, and from the bottom of our hearts:
Thanks for flying Shotbow!
Heya Shotbow! My name is ShayminPlays and I'll be your host for the August 2021 edition of Dentril's New Moon! This was an exciting month in terms of network updates, with many of our gamemodes receiving quality of life updates that you can catch up on in this issue.
Furthermore, we are on the cusp of transferring to a brand new server host, meaning you can expect a more stable performance and connection to the server in the coming weeks. We are excited to share updates about this move in the near future, but for now let's take a look at what's been happening in the past month!
Updates
Annihilation Updates
Following the successful release of the Gentle Iridium update (which you can read about here), we are thrilled to announce that all Annihilation EU player stats have been merged with the US ones! This means that the leaderboards and stats from the long-retired EU server have been combined with the current server, so if you played on the EU server way back in the day your grinding and efforts are no longer lost!
Thanks to Galap, Mosh, Hilly, and the rest of the Anni Team, we are proud to finally fulfill the promise that we made many years ago. You can read about the merge here, and find out your current standing by typing the command /stats show in-game! Thank you to all of our loyal EU and international players alike, and we wish you the best of luck in your climb to the very top of the leaderboards!
MineZ Updates
We started off MineZ with a "bang" this month, with update 4.2.0 ushering in the annual Dawn of the Second Sun! This event saw the reintroduction of fireworks to celebrate the triumph of the Elemental Gods, which also served as the currency in a new NPC-trading system we trialled at the start of the month. This update also introduced the start of a huge food overhaul which changed some values and included a brand new feature: cooking! In the following week, we also released patches 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 to make some bugfixes, buffs, nerfs, and QoL changes.
With the more recent update 4.3.0 we've added salads, a new type of food item found exclusively in the cave town of Ephirion. These provide unique benefits depending on the ingredients you use to craft them, and can prove useful for all playstyles, so I urge you to try them all! The infamous Ghost Ship has also moved and taken a new form. Built by some of our newest Mini Builders, Syphia and 111kittycat111, the Ghost Ship will be the first of many new rebuilds to come. If you'd like to take part in the MineZ build effort, you can apply to become a MineZ Builder by filling in this form.
All of the aforementioned updates can be found in the MineZ 2021 Changelog. The MineZ Team is hard at work paving the way for what's to come, and we hope that you are just as excited as we are for the future of MineZ!
SMASH Updates
SMASH saw a small update at the start of the month which featured changes primarily in celebration of Independence Day. In this update we added a community-submitted map called Steampunk, as well as some festive updates to pre-existing maps for the 4th of July and the summer season. More will be on the way soon, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled!
GG Updates
With the help of another Jr. Developer working on GG, ArsMagia, we have been able to deliver a new system for TeamPvP where you can join one of two teams and battle until one is fully eliminated! GG has also introduced an NPC which shows the top kill count holder since the last reboot, as well as a bunch of other features to make our PvP practice gamemode more than just that! You can read about these changes here, and participate in future events by utilizing our new TeamPvP Public Request feature. Now warm up those clicking fingers and get practicing!
Slaughter Updates
Pyachi2002 and his army of new Mini Builders have been hard at work modernizing our favourite cooperative XP-grinding gamemode, with two complete map rebuilds and a whole host of features to look forward to in the upcoming Slaughter 1.3 update. A few new items are coming to Slaughter in this update, the most notable being the new passive items, which have effects that remain active so long as you have the item in your inventory!
A number of public playtests for this update have been hosted over the course of the month, and there's more to come! In order to be notified of future playtests of this update, you can type the command !notifyme slaughter in the Slaughter channel of our Official Shotbow Discord. Stay tuned for more Slaughter notifications, as the next update is just on the horizon!
Summer Event
A little event for you!
We will be holding an XP hunt in the Annihilation and SMASH lobbies until August 14.
We have hidden some keywords in each lobby. Sort through the hidden characters to make up the XP code.
You can create one XP code for each lobby.
Look for them while you're waiting for your game!
Statistics
Network in General
Staff updates:
- ru555e11 joined the team as a Jr. Developer
- ShadowLAX was promoted to Full Admin and MineZ Lead
- Pyachi2002 was promoted to Full Admin and Slaughter Lead
- trevorix, 111kittycat111, Syphia, Mohawk2, and ProfessorPhill joined the Mini Builder team
- Xhat has rejoined the team as a MineZ Mini Admin
- A total of 67,158,656 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 1,594 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 262 on July 24th
- 1,584 in-game reports were handled in the last month
- 129 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
We're really excited about the future and have high hopes for what's to come! Things can only get better from here as we transfer to our new host, and each and every one of us is trying our hardest to deliver the best player experience for all of our most beloved gamemodes. After all, it is our love for this network and its gamemodes that unifies all of us, and brings us together in spite of the pandemic and all that's going on in the world. That's why I want to personally thank all of you for staying strong in these trying times, because as cheesy as it sounds, you're helping to save the world by playing Shotbow! This has been the August 2021 edition of Dentril's New Moon, my name is ShayminPlays, and from the bottom of our hearts:
Thanks for flying Shotbow!
Jul
23
Español | 日本語版
Annihilation EU Player Stats Transfer
Hello and welcome!
It's happening! This is the big moment all of our loyal EU players have been waiting for:
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/l7wt2rs.png)
Today, we are thrilled that we may announce that all Annihilation EU player stats have finally been merged with the US ones!
To us as the Anni Team, it has been very important to keep the promise which was made several years ago:
US Leaderboards:
For the record, this is what the US leaderboards looked like:
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/LvQlkPH.png)
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/mTA4fQl.png)
Merged Leaderboards:
If you are curious whether you are now listed on at least one of the five leaderboards, make sure to check them out here!
In case you don't find your IGN anywhere yet, type /stats show in your in-game chat to see that it should now be much easier to reach one of the top 20s! Which one are you going for?!
Credits:
First and foremost, a special shoutout toooooooo Galap without whom this announcement wouldn't have been possible at this time! Additionally, thank you very much to Mosh and Hilly for assisting him and the whole Anni Team for even more support!
We have always appreciated the patience of our EU players and hope to make you happy by fulfilling this long-standing wish!
Annihilation EU Player Stats Transfer
Hello and welcome!
It's happening! This is the big moment all of our loyal EU players have been waiting for:
Today, we are thrilled that we may announce that all Annihilation EU player stats have finally been merged with the US ones!
To us as the Anni Team, it has been very important to keep the promise which was made several years ago:
US Leaderboards:
For the record, this is what the US leaderboards looked like:
Merged Leaderboards:
If you are curious whether you are now listed on at least one of the five leaderboards, make sure to check them out here!
In case you don't find your IGN anywhere yet, type /stats show in your in-game chat to see that it should now be much easier to reach one of the top 20s! Which one are you going for?!
Credits:First and foremost, a special shoutout toooooooo Galap without whom this announcement wouldn't have been possible at this time! Additionally, thank you very much to Mosh and Hilly for assisting him and the whole Anni Team for even more support!
We have always appreciated the patience of our EU players and hope to make you happy by fulfilling this long-standing wish!
Jul
01
Happy July, Shotbow! Just like last time, my name is MrJack, and I'm gonna walk us through some of the most recent changes across all of Shotbow in this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon! We saw a variety of changes this past month, with continued updates to some of our largest gamemodes and an update to 1.17 compatibility.
Additionally, we've been working with the host on the ping spikes/timeouts as well as evaluating alternative solutions. Behind the scenes we've stabilized some lobby issues, have been testing a new mute system, and iterating on our anticheat solutions. We appreciate all of your patience as we work, and hope to continue to improve your experiences server-wide. Look out for more updates to our games across the network throughout the summer! Let's get into this month's happenings!
Updates
MineZ Updates
One of the most anticipated updates to MineZ in a long time was finally released this month - the MineZ - Survivor's Relief update, which included the long awaited Bank! This update is sure to alter the typical way many players have enjoyed the game, with more plans to come. Within this update is a glimpse into the future of MineZ, with a fresh new look for our spawn hub to help refine the initial impression of the game, a new trading option, and more. You'll have to check out the update thread and the update video here and here to catch all the details.
We followed it up with a patch directed towards loot balance (found here) to help keep the game fresh, with more planned on the horizon. We hope both of these updates help keep the game interesting as we continue to work on the future of MineZ. We appreciate your patience as we iron out some of the bugs after the launch to live, but hope our continued efforts to remedy the problems as soon as we could are signs of just how much this update means to us. Stay tuned for more!
Annihilation Updates
An exciting update largely based on community feedback has launched for Annihilation! As the server gets busy for the summer months (28 clan wars just this month!) we're happy to launch the newest update Gentle Iridium!
The continued feedback and passion from the community helps us make sure each content update is impactful and full of changes that are heavily requested. Continued feedback is always appreciated, and your enthusiasm for the game does not go unnoticed! We hope some of the recent buffs and class changes, and new idle timer help improve your gameplay experience and make future games and clan wars that much more exciting. Alongside these updates was a long list of bug fixes thanks to the continued reports from our dedicated playerbase, and we hope you continue to support us as we continue to work on Annihilation! /fingergun (☞ﾟ⌣ﾟ)☞
SMASH Updates
After the huge update to SMASH just last month (the Arena Update), we've followed up with a quick patch to fix some notable bugs, some new and some old! We hope you continue to enjoy the new content, maybe throw a few Regenerate Maps around so you can take a second look each match!
GG Updates
We even updated GG! Check out the changelog here for a few updates to the gamemode. In case you missed it, one of our Mini Admins, Smartzz, even hosted some fun events on GG to keep things busy! Keep an eye out for more events on both MineZ and GG throughout the summer!
Statistics
Network in General
Other statistics:
- A total of 64,206,342 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 1006 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 322 on June 19
- 1,981 in-game reports were handled in the last month
- 101 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
We hope this month of content has been reassuring to our playerbase that we're looking more to the future. We're excited at the prospect of continuing to improve each of our gamemodes as we keep up work on the backend, and hope our continued efforts with our host will result in better playing experiences for all of you. Thank you all for reading this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon, and thanks for flying Shotbow! MrJack, we're done here.
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