Shotbow

Hello Shotbow! I am honored to be able to share the Ranks, Cosmetics, and XP Overhaul update with you today. This update is long overdue, and comes with a ton of features that you will love. Let's dive into it!


Ranks are getting a huge update, with tons of new perks and some old perks being brought back.

Changes to all ranks:

• All ranks will regain their per-person XP multiplier. Over the past few years, premium XP multipliers were shared between everyone on your current server. Now, you only get the XP value of your rank's multiplier!
  • Silver - 2.0x XP
  • Gold - 2.5x XP
  • Platinum - 3.0x XP

Changes to Silver:

• Price reduction from $25 to $12.49, a 50% price decrease.
• Duration change from a 3-month temporary rank to a permanent rank.
• Access to the brand-new Silver Cosmetics Package. (more info below)
• Access to 1,000 XP per month through Shotbow Rewards. (more info below)
• Updated friends limit for Silver to 50 friends.
• Access to 1 free shout token upon purchase.

Click here to purchase the brand-new Silver rank now!

Changes to Gold:

• Price reduction from $50 to $24.99, a 50% price decrease.
• Duration change from a 7-month temporary rank to a permanent rank.
• Access to the brand-new Gold Cosmetics Package. (more info below)
• Access to 5,000 XP per month through Shotbow Rewards. (more info below)
• Updated friends limit for Gold to 75 friends.
• Access to 2 free shout tokens upon purchase.

Click here to purchase the brand-new Gold rank now!

Changes to Platinum:

• Price reduction from $100 to $49.99, a 50% price decrease.
• Access to the brand-new Platinum Cosmetics Package. (more info below)
• Access to 10,000 XP per month through Shotbow Rewards. (more info below)
• Updated friends limit for Platinum to 100 friends.
• Access to 3 free shout tokens upon purchase.

Click here to purchase the brand-new Platinum rank now!

For Silver, Gold, and Platinum, since the prices have decreased by 50%, some of you may have already spent the equivalent amount of the new rank (i.e. you spent $50 for Gold, but you now qualify for Platinum). We're happy to announce that we have automatically upgraded your rank to your new equivalent rank. Everyone that has ever purchased Silver and Gold in the past have now been automatically upgraded to Gold and Platinum respectively. Enjoy!

Changes to Emerald:

• Access to the brand-new Emerald Cosmetics Package. (more info below)

Changes to Obsidian:

• Access to the brand-new Obsidian Cosmetics Package. (more info below)

We are super excited to announce that Subscriber is getting a complete makeover. Please welcome Shotbow+, a brand-new subscription rank that trumps the old Subscriber in every way.

The indicator of a Shotbow+ member will be a multicolored + icon after their rank icon.

[P+] Mistri: chat

Shotbow+ subscribers will be able to change the color of their indicator to any color they want from the following options: dark red, red, gold, yellow, dark green, green, aqua, dark aqua, dark blue, blue, light purple, dark purple, gray.

In addition to the beautiful indicator, there are also a ton of perks that come with the subscription:

• Price reduction from $10 to $6.99 per month, a 30% price decrease.
• +0.1x XP per month subscribed, up to 4x XP.
  • For example, if you are already Platinum with a 3x XP multiplier, subscribing for 1 month will get you to 3.1x XP, and subscribing for 10 months will max you out at 4x XP.
  • This multiplier will reset upon cancellation of your subscription.
• 3 XP boosters per month - these XP boosters last for 1 hour and will boost everyone's XP gain on your current server.
  • For example, if you are in an Annihilation game with your friends, turn on an XP booster, and everyone will get a free +3x XP boost. If your friend is Platinum, they'll get a total of 6x XP.
• Access to 5,000 XP per month through Shotbow Rewards. (more info below)
• Access to a curated set of cosmetics.
  • Active Shotbow+ subscribers will receive access to a ton available cosmetics, with the exception of rank-specific or special cosmetics, like the Jello pet for Emerald.
• Access to 3 free shout tokens per month.
• Contribution towards any premium ranks, including the new overhauled Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

Click here to purchase Shotbow+ now!



When we first launched Shotbow, we created only 3 ranks: Silver, Gold, and Platinum. However, we noticed that once people got to Platinum, they started purchasing ranks and other for other people as gifts. We really appreciated the support for Shotbow and the kindness they extended towards other people, and we wanted to reward them for it. We created 2 additional ranks, Emerald and Obsidian. Unlike the other 3 ranks, these ranks could be unlocked by purchasing ranks for others, which encouraged creating a friendly gifting environment, which we loved. To this day, we consider Emerald and Obsidian as tokens of appreciation from the Shotbow staff to the players.

However, we now have people that are going above and beyond, contributing far more than Obsidian's $500 requirement, and we would like to express our sincerest gratitude towards them with our newest rank: the Ruby rank. Ruby functions identically to Emerald and Obsidian, but it unlocks when you've spent $1,000 on Shotbow. After reaching Platinum (which now costs only $49.99), all ranks that you gift to others will count towards your total spent towards Emerald, Obsidian, and Ruby.

Just like Emerald and Obsidian, you will be automatically be upgraded to Ruby once you've spent the required amount. Instructions on how to purchase gifts for other players, and information on spending calculations, can be found here.

Ruby boasts a beautiful new dual-colored rank icon, along with our first bold rank icon:

[R] Mistri: chat

Additionally, Ruby members have access to the all-new Ruby Cosmetics Package. (more info below)


As a recap from above, we have made the following changes to XP:

• Per-person XP multipliers are returning.
• Subscriber now includes +0.1x XP per month.
• The introduction of XP boosters.

Purchasable XP
We are excited to announce that XP is once again purchasable in the Shotbow Store.

• 25,000 XP - $4.99
• 100,000 XP - $12.49
• 250,000 XP - $24.99
• 550,000 XP - $49.99

Click here to purchase XP now!

Lobby NPCs
We have added 2 new friendly NPCs to the lobby, Shotbow Rewards and Shotbow XP.

Shotbow Rewards

• Daily XP - redeem 100 XP for free, daily. All you have to do is log in!
• Monthly XP (premium only) - redeem your rank's monthly XP
• Monthly Shout Tokens (Shotbow+ only) - redeem your Shotbow+ monthly shout tokens
• Monthly XP Boosters (Shotbow+ only) - redeem your Shotbow+ monthly XP boosters

Shotbow XP

• View your XP
• Manage your XP
• Use XP Boosters
• Redeem XP codes

In-Game XP Shop
A forums account is no longer required to make XP purchases - it can all be done in-game! For cosmetics, you can purchase a cosmetic by right-clicking it in the cosmetics GUI.

Each game's purchasables can be purchased in their game lobby.


Our cosmetics system has been entirely rewritten, to clean up thousands of lines of old and broken code. This allows for our developers to more easily create beautiful cosmetics and rapidly deploy them.

This update comes with a few user-facing changes as well:

• Pets - pets have returned! All previously removed pets are back, polished, and all bugs are fixed.
• Balloons - balloons are better than ever, with a selection of country balloon flags, pride flags (for month of June - happy pride month!), and more!
• Particles - we now have the ability to create brand-new types of particle designs.

Premium Cosmetic Packages
Premium cosmetic packages are available for all premium ranks. While these don't have many cosmetics to start, we will continue adding cosmetics to them over the next few weeks and months, across all gamemodes - this update is just the start.

Silver Cosmetics Package

• Silver Lining particle trail

Gold Cosmetics Package

• Golden Delight particle trail

Platinum Cosmetics Package

• Platinum Flame particle trail

Emerald Cosmetics Package

• Emerald Skyline particle trail
• Jello pet
• Emerald Balloon

Obsidian Cosmetics Package

• Obsidian Arrow particle trail
• Ben pet
• Obsidian Balloon

Ruby Cosmetics Package

• Ruby Wednesday particle trail
• Glaumm pet
• Ruby Balloon

Here are a couple of miscellaneous updates as well.

New Commands

• /purchases - displays how much money you've spent on Shotbow, and how much you need to get to the next rank. No more DMing Mistri!
  • Note - this number may take a few minutes to update after purchasing on Tebex.
  • Note - this number may be inaccurate for OG players. Please contact us with proof of purchases if you believe your number is incorrect.
• /shouts - view how many shout tokens you have.

Overhauled Commands

• /sbrank - overhaul of this command allows you to select the rank that is displayed in chat and in tab, including the + indicator color for Shotbow+.
• /pets - an overhauled, polished GUI to view pets, including pet categories!
• /balloons - an overhauled, polished GUI to view balloons, including balloon categories!
• /trails - an overhauled, polished GUI to view particle trails!
• /swag - view all of your Shotbow swag!
• /myxp - an overhauled XP GUI to manage XP.

Note - please note that some features listed in this thread are only available on a subset of games while we update the whole network to this new infrastructure. Hopefully the whole network will support everything in this thread in the next few weeks. This includes the Shotbow+ rank icon, XP boosters, some cosmetics, and per-person XP multipliers. For now, please remember that XP boosters stack, so you can continue collecting them until your favorite game starts supporting XP boosters. Thanks for your understanding!


Please show some gratitude to Pyachi2002, one of our developers who has been working tirelessly on these updates over the last few months!

And to the community - thanks for flying Shotbow!

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Annihilation Update - Ambitious Europium (3.1.0)

Hi Everyone!

We are thrilled to announce our latest update Ambitious Europium!

As always, most of these changes are based on community feedback.

We would appreciate constructive, well-founded criticism (positive and negative!) once you have experienced this update in-game. Nothing is ever set in stone and we look forward to seeing your opinions.

Many thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and reported problems, and everyone who helped test and iron out any bugs in the Sandbox.

Changelog:
Class Changes:

Tank

• New active ability: Shield Charge
  • Allows the tank to thrust forward, dealing damage and confusing any enemies that are unfortunate enough to be in the way.
• New passive ability: Devastating Edge
  • Holding the defensive shield for four seconds, the next melee hit will DOUBLE damage (5 second window to hit).
• Tank's Phalanx protection now protects teammates from the fire caused by flaming arrows.

Wizard

• Complete Spell overhaul. Zap!
• Spells now hit instantly. No more slow flying spells.
• Increased area of effect on all spells.
• Increased Missile spell damage.
• New spell names:
  • Flame → Inferno
  • Darkness → Void Bolt
  • Missile → Arcane Bolt
  • Freeze → Glacial Nova
  • Whirlwind → Whirlwind (it's a good name)

Berserker

• Health Buff! Berserker no longer starts with reduced health
• New active ability: Unbreakable Will
  • For 20 seconds, the Berserker cannot be knocked back, slowed, immobilized, swapped, whirlwinded or be affected by any kind of moving force.
  • Granted Speed 2 for the duration of the ability.

Bloodmage

• New active ability: Bloodcursed Terraform
  • Transform the land around you into a nightmarish hellscape that will deal massive damage over time for any enemies who dare enter.

RobinHood

• Complete overhaul!
• New active ability: Steed
  • Spawns a horse for you to lead the charge into battle.
  • The steed can be summoned or dismissed quickly.
  • Only the Robinhood who summoned the steed can ride it.
  • Only enemies can damage the steed.
• New active ability: Aerial Agility
  • Upon activation, the Robinhood is granted the slow falling effect.
  • High risk, high reward if used correctly during a long fall!
  • Slow falling can be removed by activating the ability again.

Archer

• New item: Arrow of Infinity
  • No more book to click, no more crafting arrows, no more wasted inventory room!
  • Limitless arrows!

Ninja

• New passive ability: Silent Steps
  • Every step you take could be your last. But the Ninja now has one over the competition: Your steps will no longer make a sound!
  • Stepping on any block no longer sends that sound to players nearby; team or foe.
  • You will still hear your own steps; just a Minecraft thing.
• New active ability: Masterful Ascension
  • Upon activation, Ninja will be given permanent jump boost 2.
  • With Silent Steps and increase jump height, Ninja will be a stealth master.
  • Jump boost can be removed by activating the ability again.
• Smoke Bombs now give Speed 2 to all teammates who are inside the smoke!

Transporter

• New command: /portal <name>
  • After placing a portal, you can give it a destination name to better help your teammates know where it goes.
  • You can click the chat reminder, or use the command /portal at any time to give your portal a name.
  • Transporter no longer spawns with a sign; that's old technology.
  • Abuse of this feature will not be tolerated.

Vampire

• New active ability: Insidious Dispatch
  • Swift as darkness, the Vampire can teleport directly behind any enemy that is not making eye contact.
  • Instant teleport with a 30 block range.
  • Enemies that are looking at you are immune from this ability.

Spider

• New passive ability: Landing Grace
  • Spiders shouldn't fear heights and it no longer will with Landing Grace. If the Spider takes fatal fall damage, they will be saved but for one heart.
  • Granted absorption and regeneration.

Healer

• Healer has been given a new tool in its medkit: the ability to remove all negative effects!
  • When using the single heal ability, Healer will remove all negative effects from themselves and the teammate they're healing.

Enchanter

• A small quality of life change: Enchanter's Intensifier will now show particles around teammates so that you can see it's working.
  • We decided to make the particles only visible to you and the Enchanter so it's not confusing.
  • Enemies can't see the particles so that they can't be used to find you if you were up against a wall, door, etc.

Bard

• When Bard's Juke Box is broken by an enemy, its cooldown to replace it is now 30 seconds, instead of always being the same. This means that the Bard cannot quickly replace a broken Bard Box.

Other changes:

Sponge

• Sponge has been added to the Weapon Shop for 5 gold each.
• Mine flooded? Mid flooded? Base flooded? Use sponge!
• Vanilla sponge mechanics.
• Cannot be used within 50 blocks of an enemy Nexus.

Boots of Grace

• The Boots of Grace now take durability based on the damage that would've been inflicted. This means that small amount of fall damage will take one durability. Greater fall damage will inflict up to 5% of the boot's maximum durability.
• This change means that not all fall damage is treated the same, so you're less likely to break your boots from lots of small falls.

Boss Items

• Items now have a description, stating what each item does.
• The chat messages you receive from each armour piece on damage has been removed. Hooray, no more spam!
• The Helmet of Extinguishment now takes 1 durability point for every fire tick that would've damaged you. This keeps the boss item balanced as they now all take durability damage. Don't forget that you can repair these items by earning experience due to the mending enchantment.

Annihilation Lobby

• The Annihilation Lobby (AL) has been updated to 1.16 base.
• New build for the new update. Thanks to the amazing Friendly123 for building our new lobby!
• The new lobby build comes with a companion pre-match/voting lobby!
• Just had a rough match? P2'd? Take a breather and sit down in the Anni lobby. Literally sit down. Right click any bench you see around the new map and relax.

Coastal

• We did playtests of "HDCoastal" earlier this year. As you may already be aware, HDCoastal is going to replace Coastal. The current version of Coastal will be renamed to ClassicCoastal. In summary:
  • Coastal -> ClassicCoastal
  • HDCoastal -> Coastal
• We're still looking for feedback about this change and will work with you and our builders to make sure it still gives the same nostalgic feel of Coastal but with a modern touch.

New cosmetics

• Emerald and Obsidian ranks now have access to exclusive audio and visual kill effects!
• You don't need to do anything, you will already have access to them using /cosmetics.

Notable changes and Quality of Life

• Map votes no longer persist if you leave. This means that the current vote tally represents those who are in the match and going to play the map.
  • A short cooldown has also been added after making a map vote. This is to discourage spamming the votes, potentially causing the winning map to be unclear.
• Crossbows can now be loaded with fireworks.
• We removed the fireworks that spawn when a winner is selected. They caused lag for some and an annoyance for others.
• Each team now spawns on their own platform in the Final Boss Fight. This should make it easier for you to survive and have a longer fight. It also mean those who take a second or two more to load won't die immediately to the Prot 16, Sharp 5 diamond enemy next to them.
• /stats now shows your session stats.
• If your delaying block placement fails, it will now highlight the closest delaying block. This will help you better figure out where you can place them.
• Delaying blocks now ZAP enemies. It's a visual change only, but it looks cool.
• The gold shops now display how many items you'll receive based on the quantity of the item. For example, purchasing cooked beef comes in stack of 10 and the icon will show 10 in the shop.
• Added `/class` to remind you of the class you have selected; in case you forget. It doesn't allow you to change class, sos.
• Swapper can no longer swap while crawling. This is to prevent abuse and unfair traps.
• If a recently respawned player moves far enough away from their Nexus, they will now give up their respawn protection, thus granting XP, stats and rank points when killed. Scout mine rushers be warned!

Bug Fixes:

1. 10 administration related bugs.
2. Clans can be created in regular Annihilation matches again.
3. "Annihilation Mode: Competitive 8v8" has been removed as a Novice III unlock reward.
4. Fixed Swapper not giving absorption hearts if you already had absorption.
5. Fixed Swapper getting teleported back after being swapped and then hit.
6. Fixed absorption being removed if a Gapple is eaten soon after being Swapped or Immobilized.
7. Fixed Berserker being able to reach 22 hearts. The max is 20.
8. Fixed the message shown when reaching "maximum maximum" Berserker hearts: it no longer says maximum twice. Maximum!
9. Fixed a bug that caused Enchanter's Intensifier to apply for enemies as well as teammates. Sus.
10. Fixed a bug that caused manually grown trees to regenerate.
11. Fixed a bug that caused the Weakness potion effect to only reduce damage by 0.5, instead of 0.5 x the amplification.
12. Prevent Ninja's Smoke Bomb from overwriting speed II if the player already has it for longer than the Smoke Bomb would grant.
13. Fixed combat log NPCs from activating Hunter's traps.
14. Fixed a bug that caused Spy's Flee ability to grant it the same arrow invulnerability as Assassin's Leap.
15. Fixed a bug that broke Hunter's Flurry ability and Assassin's Leap if it kills too many players, taking the cooldown below 0 seconds.
16. Fixed Engineer's Evertool being unable to break certain types of stone and brick.
17. Fixed a bug that caused Acrobat's infinite stamina to not work while its double jump was on cooldown.
18. Fixed a bug that caused some kill stats to apply when they shouldn't.
19. Fixed a bug that caused Tinkerer's Pads to trigger the cooldown for Launch Pads.
20. Fixed Bard being able to open the Song Selection GUI and destroy their Bard Box simultaneously by right-clicking the Bard Box with the Recall item.
21. Fixed Team Doors being able to be shadow-placed in the Boss world.
22. Fixed Rift Walker's "Open Rift" ability not working consistently in the Boss world.
23. Fixed the Wither from spawning Wither Roses when it kills a player.
24. Fixed a bug that allowed Bard to place its bard box despite being on cooldown.
25. Fixed Vampire being able to "steal" health from Combat NPCs.
26. Fixed a bug that caused Assassin and Spy to lose their armour if they activate their abilities (Leap & Flee) and then disconnected before their armour returns.
27. Fixed a bug that caused Assassin and Spy's Combat NPC to not drop armour if it spawned while their abilities were active (Leap & Flee).
28. Fixed Lumberjack not receiving double logs from wood blocks and stripped logs.
29. Fixed a bug that caused carrots and potatoes to not drop for Farmer when breaking grass.
30. Fixed Bard's "Bard Box" note particles not displaying.

Closing Words:
While we have fixed a few bugs in this update, some you may have experienced and others you probably didn't know were there, we are aware that we still have bugs to fix and we appreciate all the help you can give us with getting those fixed. If you find a bug in Annihilation and want to have a chance of owning a special Bug Finder cosmetic, you can report it on our official Discord by using this command: !support bug <IGN>.

Credits:
Many of the changes we have made in this update have come from you the community, and from our wonderful staff team who continue to strive to make Anni the best it can be. All credit goes to them for their tireless efforts that more often than not go unnoticed, thank you team for being so awesome.

Hello there Shotbow! Welcome to the May 2023 edition of Dentril's New Moon. I'm your host Axyy, and I'm here to take you through everything that happened last month!

Network Updates
Spring Screenshot Contest Results
Last month we held a Spring Screenshot Contest and the results are finally in!
(Please note, I did not pick these winners myself. I put all selfies up to vote and then gave the staff team the chance to vote for their favorite one)

• 1st place _Specs_Coffee - Gold Rank & 25k Shotbow XP for you or a friend.
• 2nd place kirbyyoyo - Silver Rank & 25k Shotbow XP for you or a friend.
• 3rd placeSakkeTheSloth - Pig Balloon & 10k Shotbow XP for you or a friend.

Winners, please check your forums inbox to claim your prize!

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
• Event Helper Applications

Gamemode Updates
Annihilation Updates
The Groupstage rounds of the Annihilation Clan Tournament of 2023 is done and the first 2 quarter finals have also been played, which are also available on the Shotbow YouTube channel. We welcomed back a very special member of our community, Murgatron who took care of the livestream commentary along with giew and Friendly123.



Additionally, after doing many playtests Arid was officially added to the Annihilation map rotation.

MineZ Updates
This month, the MineZ team released patch 5.2.7 and 5.2.8. Read all about it here.



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

• 1st - Tibi14 [1098]
• 2nd - Shumashuma4 [1091]
• 3rd - SpringGrain7851 [1075]

Network in General
Other statistics:

• 1127 in-game reports were handled in the last month
• There were 259 players banned in the last month
• 47 ban appeals were handled in the last month
• There were 22 support tickets resolved in the last month
• 106,838,798 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
I'm your host Axyy, and this was Dentril's New Moon for May of 2023!