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Jan
07
by MineZ Team at 6:42 PM
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Happy New Years, Survivors!
Off the heels of the MineZ Wonderland event and the end of the crazy year that 2020 was, let's take a few moments to reflect on where we started this year and where we are now. After that we can jump into what's coming with this update!
2020 In Review
2020 proved to be one of the most influential years for MineZ as a whole. After the slump we found ourselves in getting MineZ updated to a 1.12.2 code base and finally releasing the long-awaited MineZ: Origins update, we promised everyone we could continue releasing routine updates to MineZ.
Below is a list of every major update thread we released throughout 2020:
- MineZ's 1.12.2 PTR Release
- MineZ: Our Story
- MineZ: Origins - Official Trailer
- MineZ: Origins - Changelog & Release Thread
- MineZ Map & Zerbia Challenge
- MineZ: Books, Dungeons and Towns, Oh My!
- MineZ: Loot Rebalance PTR
- MineZ: Loot Overhaul Update
- MineZ: Future Sight
- MineZ: The Adventurer's Update
- MineZ: First Steps
- MineZ: Spookfest 2020
- MineZ: Scratching The Surface
- MineZ: Wonderland 2020
- MineZ: Military Loot Overhaul PTR
Development Changes
The latter half of 2020 saw DocCodeSharp leave the team. In his leave, several new developers stepped up to the plate and began to work on MineZ. After the Adventurer's Update we had to make some changes and learn the backend of MineZ.
Moving forward was not going to be an easy task, but with a team of five developers it started to become easier, and the team learned how to work together.
halowars91, ShadowLAX, InstantLightning, JACOBSMILE, and Marine_PvP. All of them stepped up to the challenge and
continued developing new features, fixing bugs, and bringing a fresh view into the core of MineZ.
Learning to Innovate
MineZ is both a blessing and a curse for the same reason. Simply put, MineZ is an old game. When you look at a lot of older Minecraft gamemodes, not a lot can say that they've been around for 8 years and still see active development to this day.
We worked tirelessly on the MineZ Origins release and wanted to continue building on that foundation. However, as a team we stepped back and determined that a lack of innovation would cause MineZ to stagnate. With this in mind we pivoted in a different direction. Our goal was simple in concept yet difficult in execution: to bring MineZ into the present day.
Back when MineZ was released in 2012 it fit a niche that had not yet been filled in Minecraft. Back when Minecraft was simpler the thought of stitching servers together and effectively playing with hundreds of players at a time was unheard of.
Now in this day and age we had to face the facts that MineZ was not that same game anymore - yet that's not necessarily a bad thing. It left a lot of room for us to grow and bring some much needed features into the spotlight. We always look at the addition of bags in MineZ as a prime example of this innovation: the ability to expand your inventory sounded simple on paper, yet it opened up a whole new avenue of possibilities for MineZ -
And it's only going to get better from here.
Changes for 2021
Internally we have been working to solidify our development and streamline MineZ's workflow. One of our biggest change was to direct the focus of everyone on the team towards a theme for each month. While we will continue regular patches throughout each month, we want to ask ourselves what we want to see out of a larger content update for each month.
Our plan is simple: We'll meet regularly and discuss current and future plans for MineZ's development and game design. You may have already noticed this thread is being written under a new forum account specifically for the MineZ Team. This is for a good reason.
MineZ is a now more than ever a team effort. Everyone has a place on this team whether they're a builder, admin, or developer. Our plan is to leave no stone unturned when producing content for the game. If it's not fun or possibly damages the vision of MineZ going forward, there are plans in place to discuss and deliberate - both internally and externally - on these ideas and goals.
There's been a lot of reminiscing and foundational talks so far in this thread, and you're probably ready to see what we've got in store for this update! This New Year marks a fresh start on new and revised content in MineZ, and this update is the first of many more to come.
Legendary Reworks
Every month, our plan is to rework a few legendary items and gradually update every single one to be not only more effective, but also more fun to use. Our goal is to gradually move away from "random chance" items in favor of a style more catered to using their effects when the time is right through triggered and passive abilities. With this in mind we also want to introduce more utility legendary items; this update includes an example of a utility legendary rework alongside a combat-oriented legendary.
This update includes reworks to the Phantom Blade and Gamble.
(View the MineZ Changelog for specifics regarding these reworks)
You can expect these kind of reworks for different legendary items every month! While some may retain their original theme or style you can also look forward to more unique changes that offer new gameplay experiences to all players.
Military Loot Overhaul
We've run a Military Loot PTR that tested some proposed changes to MineZ's military loot. The community voiced their concerns on where gearing up felt underwhelming or unfun, we've taken a careful note of this and have worked to tune military loot to feel more rewarding.
Generally speaking, gearing up should be a little faster than before and you should be able to find late-game gear in more locations. We understand that this is an ongoing battle as it will continue to be something the team refines and adjusts, so feel free to share your feedback!
What's Old is New Again
The banner image of this thread depicts an overgrown forest - possibly a jungle? And there's some sort of Shelter in the Trees...
Yes, that's right! We've brought back a location that has been missing since the Origins release - Treetop Shelter! Fully reimaged and built by EnderMCx, this location is a beautiful stop on your way to Agni Ignis; we're certain this will be an attractive stop during your trek through the jungle.
"Where's Waddles?" Wrap-up
Our favorite penguin Waddles has left us once again, but on his way out he left gifts for those who found all of his hiding spots!
The Wonderland 2020 thread promised to give rewards for this event just after December 25th, though we ran into a couple snags that delayed that slightly. Thankfully these have been resolved, and the winners will be receiving their prizes soon!
wmn will be reaching out to the winners with details on how to claim your special prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Ongoing Projects
Bank Progress
As a follow-up to bags in MineZ we've been working on a banking system in the background to help store all of your favorite goodies in MineZ. We still can't share an exact timeline for release, but rest assured, it's getting close.
We suggest keeping an eye on the Shotbow Discord and right here on the forums for when more information is released. It may come sooner than you expect...
Instance Upgrades
Another goal is to branch dungeon instances off of the main game servers. This carries many benefits, but the main one is for better overall performance. Minecraft has a hard time running multiple worlds with lots of entities and redstone at a given time. In our current framework, dungeon worlds all load on the original requesting MineZ server, and as a result performance takes a hit. Spreading this load out gives us immediate performance benefits in addition to lots of future flexibility.
We've been running a PTR for this upgrade project and are beginning to feel more and more confident on the new system each day. Stay tuned for more information!
Cleaning House
There's been a lot on our backlog of projects for a while now. With that in mind we are going to be spending the remainder of January working to gradually churn out quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and requested features that have been collecting dust for too long.
Conclusion
2020 was a crazy year. We don't like to bring down these update threads, but we hope everyone stayed healthy during the global pandemic. It's been tough for some, but we hope that everything slowly turns for the better.
As for MineZ, we are continuing work as always, and we have a lot of exciting things to look forward to! Once again, Happy New Year, and we'll see you in our next update thread.
Thanks for flying Shotbow!
Jan
01
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Letter from the Lead - Mistri
Wow.
That's all I can say when I think about 2020, this rollercoaster of a year. While the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the globe, we have all been stuck in-doors trying to live some semblance of a normal life. This year has been anything but normal, and I speak for all of us on the Shotbow staff team when I say: our thoughts are with everyone who has had hardship and troubles throughout these trying times.
That being said, this year has been a year unlike any other for Shotbow. So many incredibly large changes have taken place, many of which are paving the road to a brighter future for you. Let's take a look at a few areas of growth last year, and how we'll continue on that trend in 2021.
The Network
Here are some very concise bullet points that summarize some very large and significant updates:
This year saw Annihilation move from a 1.9 base to a 1.12 base as part of our server-wide version upgrade. This not only allowed for current version joining, but also prepared Annihilation for faster and cleaner updates.
We just released our 9th Annihilation Update for the year, making 2020 the year with the most Annihilation Updates ever!
A new "Phase 3 Premium Joining Privilege" was added as part of our latest update, Fresh Lithium. Active-premium members are now able to join games for an extra phase. This includes Subscribers!
We recently did a full rework of our Combat System and Knockback is now much improved as a result of these changes.
Thanks to JTGangsterLP6 and DJ_Pedro, we've hosted a total of 36 Clan Wars since the end of March 2020, most of which were live streamed! Look out for the Premieres of the outstanding matches soon. If you don't want to miss out on any of the action, you should consider subscribing to the official Shotbow YouTube.
Some things that we're planning for 2021 include:
MineZ
This past year, MineZ has seen a substantial amount of changes, updates, and brand new content. It introduced the long-awaited Origins update, which rebuilt countless locations on the map, introduced new and revised lore, and so much more!
However, it was also a year of learning for us on the MineZ Team. While we strive to put out content on a regular basis, we also had to sit down on multiple occasions and reevaluate our priorities in the game. We understood flaws in MineZ's lack of innovation, as well as old archaic design choices that have persisted since MineZ's initial inception in 2012. Furthermore, we also had to learn to work as a restructured development team, now with five active developers. It would be a lie to say we were able to do it gracefully and without much notice to the community as a whole.
We are continuing to learn how to work as a team moving into 2021, we think 2021 can shape up to be even better than 2020 for MineZ. While we may not have as massive as an update like Origins in our scope, MineZ benefits from not needing constant large-scale updates to persist. We believe it can see growth again in the face of innovation and new ideas.
We have a lot of room to innovate once we get the ball rolling once more. The holiday events were memorable and engaging, but we want to pivot back into new things for the core game now.
Thank you, everyone, for your continued support through this tough year. Look out for MineZ's New Year thread, where we'll go into a bit more detail on what we've learned through 2020, and where we plan to go for 2021.
SMASH
This year for SMASH has seen amazing growth, notably in recent weeks the playercount has been hitting 40-50 on the weekends consistently, and 20-30 during normal weekdays. This year we also tried a few new things with the community, the biggest of them being the SMASH Tournament. While scheduling was very difficult as many players come from different parts of the globe, we received a lot of great feedback from participants and spectators on how we could improve for future tournaments! 2020 has been slow in terms of content for SMASH, thankfully lazertester picked up the game for a bit, and gave us a much needed tuneup to 1.12 base, with some new items and features while he was at it. The team mode, quick menu, and 3 new items all got introduced in the Left Field Update. With the not-so-recent re-addition of Red_Epicness to the team in September, we have been planning and making updates to the gamemode behind the scenes, and are hoping 2021 can bring lots of new things to the game.
Here's what everyone can expect in the coming year: an updated Arena system, that will allow us to easily add more maps. With this, we will add in the winners of the map contest. The new Arena System will also mean a few map tweaks, so item spawns and may layout may slightly differ. We've got a slew of new cosmetics planned, including, but not limited to; more KO sounds + particles, KO messages in chat, and "Battle Music" which will use the same Radio system we currently use in the festive lobby. We are also planning for a new gamemode within the lobby that will basically be a free-for-all game that never ends.
The SMASH Team is really grateful to everyone who's been showing their love and support for the gamemode, and love hearing your feedback on new things we try out. We hope that all these back end fixes and changes will allow us to do some really fun things in the future. Here's to 2021!
Miner Problems
Being our first official game release in years, Miner Problems is incredibly fun and entertaining, and super unique in the realm of Minecraft Murder Mystery gamemodes. We hope to continue to collaborate with content creators to get the word out about Shotbow and Miner Problems as a whole. If you haven't already tried it out, grab some friends and hop on!
When in Rogue
Throughout 2020, we hosted a few Alpha Preview Weekends for When in Rogue. Although work was stalled for a little while, 2021 will bring new mobs, better dungeons, new dungeon types, boss battles, and much more. We hope to release When in Rogue once the game is ready and incredibly polished. For now, it remains in an Alpha stage. You'll be seeing more Alpha Preview Weekends in the near future, so be sure to keep on the lookout for those on the forums.
Warband
Warband had its first public Alpha in December of 2020, and the team cannot thank players enough for getting involved in this new endeavor and providing many valuable suggestions, bug reports, and reviews. Coming into 2021, we will be kicking into high-gear with Talents, a skill-tree system and Feats, an achievement system along with custom-generated points of interest placed throughout the domain. Warband's official release is expected within the first quarter of 2021, and we can't wait to see how you all will contribute to making the game reach its full potential.
Mine Theft Auto
Mine Theft Auto was temporarily closed for maintenance, and the team is working hard to bring it back. While we have no promises for a release date yet, we're hoping it'll be back in 2021. We've also onboarded a few new Jr. Developers to help out with the game, so new developments are picking up pace.
Closing Words
As you can see, it has been quite the year. Many of the changes we made have paved the path to faster, more efficient, and more effective updates in 2021. We hope you are enjoying Shotbow, and as always, we are open to feedback and suggestions if you have any.
Happy NEWYEAR21 - thanks for flying Shotbow!
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/FXrKQ6A.png)
Updates
Network Updates
We introduced 3 new tunnels, which should slightly improve routing to our US servers. Use these new IPs to connect to the following regions:
Annihilation introduced a new update, Fresh Lithium, which includes some awesome new changes, including Phase 3 joining for premiums, tons of class changes, new knockback adjustments, bug fixes, and much more!
MineZ Updates
MineZ underwent a large millitary loot overhaul, along with a PTR. You can read all about it here.
Miner Problems Updates
Miner Problems, our brand-new Mineraft Murder Mystery gamemode was released. You can watch the trailer here. In addition, check out JOKO playing the game here.
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season has just ended, and the results are in!
Staff updates:
Thanks for tuning in this month. As always, I'm your host, Mistri - catch you next month, and thanks for flying Shotbow!
Letter from the Lead - Mistri
Wow.
That's all I can say when I think about 2020, this rollercoaster of a year. While the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the globe, we have all been stuck in-doors trying to live some semblance of a normal life. This year has been anything but normal, and I speak for all of us on the Shotbow staff team when I say: our thoughts are with everyone who has had hardship and troubles throughout these trying times.
That being said, this year has been a year unlike any other for Shotbow. So many incredibly large changes have taken place, many of which are paving the road to a brighter future for you. Let's take a look at a few areas of growth last year, and how we'll continue on that trend in 2021.
The Network
Here are some very concise bullet points that summarize some very large and significant updates:
- Shotbow upgraded to a base 1.12.2 version
- lazertester rejoined the team as Lead Developer
- We hit a player peak of 805, the largest playercount we've seen in years
- We recruited 12 new Jr. Developers
- We started new Marketing efforts, and recruited a new Marketing team to oversee it
- We transitioned the entire Shotbow infrastructure to Kubernetes
- Rank upgrades are now automated
- The friends and parties system is back!
- Continued work on a new website
- An overhaul of Shotbow XP, which will allow us to return to our old ways of selling XP, voting for XP, and per-person multipliers
- Continued efforts from the Marketing team to collaborate with Content Creators for promotion of Shotbow
- Release of new games, and continued updates of existing ones
- Increased transparency and player-staff interactions
This year saw Annihilation move from a 1.9 base to a 1.12 base as part of our server-wide version upgrade. This not only allowed for current version joining, but also prepared Annihilation for faster and cleaner updates.
We just released our 9th Annihilation Update for the year, making 2020 the year with the most Annihilation Updates ever!
A new "Phase 3 Premium Joining Privilege" was added as part of our latest update, Fresh Lithium. Active-premium members are now able to join games for an extra phase. This includes Subscribers!
We recently did a full rework of our Combat System and Knockback is now much improved as a result of these changes.
Thanks to JTGangsterLP6 and DJ_Pedro, we've hosted a total of 36 Clan Wars since the end of March 2020, most of which were live streamed! Look out for the Premieres of the outstanding matches soon. If you don't want to miss out on any of the action, you should consider subscribing to the official Shotbow YouTube.
Some things that we're planning for 2021 include:
- A new Class Progression System whereby classes are unlocked through achievements instead of XP.
- New leaderboards with monthly achievements displayed in the Annihilation Lobby.
- A new base code re-write, which will allow for ease of implementation of more creative & fun future content.
- A new Annihilation events environment that allows for customizable games. This will facilitate Event Tokens and potentially an Annihilation League.
- An interactive tutorial that will give new players a jump-start into the world of Annihilation and its unique game mechanics.
- More content and class updates potentially utilizing some of the new 1.12 features.
MineZ
This past year, MineZ has seen a substantial amount of changes, updates, and brand new content. It introduced the long-awaited Origins update, which rebuilt countless locations on the map, introduced new and revised lore, and so much more!
However, it was also a year of learning for us on the MineZ Team. While we strive to put out content on a regular basis, we also had to sit down on multiple occasions and reevaluate our priorities in the game. We understood flaws in MineZ's lack of innovation, as well as old archaic design choices that have persisted since MineZ's initial inception in 2012. Furthermore, we also had to learn to work as a restructured development team, now with five active developers. It would be a lie to say we were able to do it gracefully and without much notice to the community as a whole.
We are continuing to learn how to work as a team moving into 2021, we think 2021 can shape up to be even better than 2020 for MineZ. While we may not have as massive as an update like Origins in our scope, MineZ benefits from not needing constant large-scale updates to persist. We believe it can see growth again in the face of innovation and new ideas.
We have a lot of room to innovate once we get the ball rolling once more. The holiday events were memorable and engaging, but we want to pivot back into new things for the core game now.
Thank you, everyone, for your continued support through this tough year. Look out for MineZ's New Year thread, where we'll go into a bit more detail on what we've learned through 2020, and where we plan to go for 2021.
SMASH
This year for SMASH has seen amazing growth, notably in recent weeks the playercount has been hitting 40-50 on the weekends consistently, and 20-30 during normal weekdays. This year we also tried a few new things with the community, the biggest of them being the SMASH Tournament. While scheduling was very difficult as many players come from different parts of the globe, we received a lot of great feedback from participants and spectators on how we could improve for future tournaments! 2020 has been slow in terms of content for SMASH, thankfully lazertester picked up the game for a bit, and gave us a much needed tuneup to 1.12 base, with some new items and features while he was at it. The team mode, quick menu, and 3 new items all got introduced in the Left Field Update. With the not-so-recent re-addition of Red_Epicness to the team in September, we have been planning and making updates to the gamemode behind the scenes, and are hoping 2021 can bring lots of new things to the game.
Here's what everyone can expect in the coming year: an updated Arena system, that will allow us to easily add more maps. With this, we will add in the winners of the map contest. The new Arena System will also mean a few map tweaks, so item spawns and may layout may slightly differ. We've got a slew of new cosmetics planned, including, but not limited to; more KO sounds + particles, KO messages in chat, and "Battle Music" which will use the same Radio system we currently use in the festive lobby. We are also planning for a new gamemode within the lobby that will basically be a free-for-all game that never ends.
The SMASH Team is really grateful to everyone who's been showing their love and support for the gamemode, and love hearing your feedback on new things we try out. We hope that all these back end fixes and changes will allow us to do some really fun things in the future. Here's to 2021!
Miner Problems
Being our first official game release in years, Miner Problems is incredibly fun and entertaining, and super unique in the realm of Minecraft Murder Mystery gamemodes. We hope to continue to collaborate with content creators to get the word out about Shotbow and Miner Problems as a whole. If you haven't already tried it out, grab some friends and hop on!
When in Rogue
Throughout 2020, we hosted a few Alpha Preview Weekends for When in Rogue. Although work was stalled for a little while, 2021 will bring new mobs, better dungeons, new dungeon types, boss battles, and much more. We hope to release When in Rogue once the game is ready and incredibly polished. For now, it remains in an Alpha stage. You'll be seeing more Alpha Preview Weekends in the near future, so be sure to keep on the lookout for those on the forums.
Warband
Warband had its first public Alpha in December of 2020, and the team cannot thank players enough for getting involved in this new endeavor and providing many valuable suggestions, bug reports, and reviews. Coming into 2021, we will be kicking into high-gear with Talents, a skill-tree system and Feats, an achievement system along with custom-generated points of interest placed throughout the domain. Warband's official release is expected within the first quarter of 2021, and we can't wait to see how you all will contribute to making the game reach its full potential.
Mine Theft Auto
Mine Theft Auto was temporarily closed for maintenance, and the team is working hard to bring it back. While we have no promises for a release date yet, we're hoping it'll be back in 2021. We've also onboarded a few new Jr. Developers to help out with the game, so new developments are picking up pace.
Closing Words
As you can see, it has been quite the year. Many of the changes we made have paved the path to faster, more efficient, and more effective updates in 2021. We hope you are enjoying Shotbow, and as always, we are open to feedback and suggestions if you have any.
Happy NEWYEAR21 - thanks for flying Shotbow!
Updates
Network Updates
We introduced 3 new tunnels, which should slightly improve routing to our US servers. Use these new IPs to connect to the following regions:
- Europe: eu.shotbow.net
- Japan: jp.shotbow.net
- Australia: au.shotbow.net
Annihilation introduced a new update, Fresh Lithium, which includes some awesome new changes, including Phase 3 joining for premiums, tons of class changes, new knockback adjustments, bug fixes, and much more!
MineZ Updates
MineZ underwent a large millitary loot overhaul, along with a PTR. You can read all about it here.
Miner Problems Updates
Miner Problems, our brand-new Mineraft Murder Mystery gamemode was released. You can watch the trailer here. In addition, check out JOKO playing the game here.
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season has just ended, and the results are in!
- 1st - BigGiantKing - 75,000 XP
- 2nd - Cometcat13 - 50,000 XP
- 3rd (tie) - Acstes - 25,000 XP
- 3rd (tie) - flexing74 - 25,000 XP
Staff updates:
- Ktrompfl joined the development team as a Jr. Developer for MTA
- M4bi joined the Ban Appeal Counselor team
- pigplayer joined the Annihilation Mini Admin team
- Agypagy, Xhat, and _SealClubber joined the MineZ Mini Admin team
- A total of 85,377,133 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 2,071 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 343 on December 30
- 111 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
Thanks for tuning in this month. As always, I'm your host, Mistri - catch you next month, and thanks for flying Shotbow!
Dec
20
日本語版 Español
Annihilation Update - Fresh Lithium (2.10.0)
Hi Everyone!
We are excited to announce our latest Anni Update, just in time for the holidays, Fresh Lithium! This is the 9th Anni update for 2020 making this the year with the most Anni updates ever!
Most of these changes are based on community feedback. A lot of thought and reasoning has gone into them so please give them a chance before passing judgement. As always, nothing is set in stone and things can be tweaked where necessary.
Many thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and reported problems.
NEW - Phase 3 Premium Joining Privilege
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/ZhuA9Ab.png)
Bard
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/q56EPEy.png)
Immobilizer
![[IMG]](https://shotbow.net/forum/images/arrow.png)
Sniper
![[IMG]](https://shotbow.net/forum/images/record_cat.png)
Swapper
![[IMG]](https://shotbow.net/forum/images/gold_axe.png)
Thor
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/nUimuGU.png)
Vampire
Credits:
As always, many thanks to:
Our amazing devs, Mosh, Galap and MissHilevi, for their hard work and dedication in bringing us these updates.
My wonderful Co-Lead and technical guru, JTGangsterLP6, who manages bug documentation and update-testing.
The Anni admin team for all their hard work, testing and bug hunting.
And all of you who offered suggestions, reported problems and gave support along the way.
Many of the changes we have made in this update have come from you the community, and our wonderful Admin team who continue to strive to make Anni the best it can be.
We have plans for many more exciting updates and new features, so stay tuned!
Annihilation Update - Fresh Lithium (2.10.0)
Hi Everyone!
We are excited to announce our latest Anni Update, just in time for the holidays, Fresh Lithium! This is the 9th Anni update for 2020 making this the year with the most Anni updates ever!
Most of these changes are based on community feedback. A lot of thought and reasoning has gone into them so please give them a chance before passing judgement. As always, nothing is set in stone and things can be tweaked where necessary.
Many thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and reported problems.
NEW - Phase 3 Premium Joining Privilege
- Active-premium members are now able to join games for an extra phase. Active meaning anyone who has Platinum or higher, or who has "active" Silver or Gold (3 months from the date of purchase for Silver, and 6 months for Gold). This includes subscribers!
This is a new premium perk to reward players who have helped support the server, and it will also help with team-balancing until the end of phase 3.
Bard- The song currently playing is now displayed in the bard box menu as "Active". Saves you trying to play the same song which is on cool-down again.
- Songs for friends and foes can now be distinguished between by the color of their description, green for your team and red for enemies.
Immobilizer - Added a new left click function:
- Area Of Effect (AOE) slowness 3 for 5 seconds, over a 5 block radius.
- This means you no longer need a teammate to use Immobilizer, happy hunting!
Sniper - Added a recoil to the sniper bow. It now slightly moves your view up after shooting, just like a real sniper rifle.
- This only affects bows in sniper mode.
Swapper- Players who have just been swapped are now immune to being swapped again for a period of 3 seconds. This is to give players who are being chain swapped a fighting chance. It's a very short cooldown and strategy comes into play. Mobility classes may get away but everyone else is still vulnerable if the Swappers scoot a little closer together.
This change keeps the class on par with Immobilizer which also has a cooldown for the victim.
Thor - Reworked the resistance effect for Thor:
- Decreased the cool-down of Thor's Hammer from 45 to 40 seconds.
- Removed Thor's permanent resistance effect.
- Added resistance for 20 seconds upon using Thor's Hammer. This leaves a 20 second cooldown until the ability can be used again, meaning Thor can effectively have resistance for 50% of the time.
Vampire - BloodSense ability:
- Unchanged:
- Reveals all enemies within a 10 block radius horizontally and a 5 block radius vertically.
- New:
- The ability now works on sneaking enemies.
- Ability duration is now 5 seconds instead of 15.
- No blindness for the first 3 seconds, 2 seconds of blindness for the remainder.
- New Knockback Changes
Anni's move to a 1.12 base had the unintended effect of significantly reducing Knockback. We recently did a full combat rework and Knockback is now much improved as a result of these changes.
- Enchanted Golden Apples
The duration of the resistance effect given by enchanted golden apples has been reduced from 5 minutes to 3 minutes. This is still a generous amount of time but should prevent players being able to rush multiple teams using the one gapple.
- Protection 4 Enchant balancing for Diamond Armour
Previously damage reduction per level of of protection scaled evenly up to Prot3, but the jump from Prot3 to Prot4 was disproportionately large. It's impossible to balance anything, such as bows, around such a large discrepancy.
We've now brought the gap between Prot3 and Prot4 diamond armor in line with the rest of the protection levels.
- Enderpearls
Enderpearls now have a usage cooldown of 10 seconds, once you have thrown a pearl you cannot throw another until the cooldown is over. This is equivalent to the cooldown of Acrobat's double jump.
- Boss Buff Items
Bow of Aether - Increased its durability to full, because nobody wants a worn out bow.
- Private Brew Stands
Removed the "distance from nexus" restriction for private stands. Brew stands can now be placed anywhere outside of the protected regions.
- Gravel
We've made a quality of life change to gravel. You can now mine gravel and get XP and the associated drops inside the protected regions of your base.
- Nexus break particles
We've reduced the amount of nexus break particles as these can cause client side lag for some players.
- Added 2 new Anni chat commands
/compass = Gives you a compass, if you ever feel lost on a map.
/shrug = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Anni Lobby Compass
Your Anni Lobby inventory now comes with an extra game selector (Compass), in case you accidentally drop the one in your hotbar. This feature already exists in the hub lobby.
- Randomized the day/night starting time for all maps
By default, games start at the time of day/night that the map was saved at during setup. Randomizing the starting time will give more versatility to night classes allowing them to be used more often during particular phases of a game.
- Fixed a bug where if you wore full iron or full diamond armor, Enchanter converted XP levels into HP too early.
- Fixed a bug that caused the potion-effect duration from Splash Potions not to be shortened based on your distance from the splash.
- Fixed a bug where Absorption Hearts didn't take armor points into account properly.
- Fixed a bug that allowed RiftWalker to rift to team mates in the map lobby.
- Fixed a bug which caused TPs not to work properly at the Y levels 1 and 2.
- Various Admin bug fixes and nerdy dev stuff
Credits: As always, many thanks to:
Our amazing devs, Mosh, Galap and MissHilevi, for their hard work and dedication in bringing us these updates.
My wonderful Co-Lead and technical guru, JTGangsterLP6, who manages bug documentation and update-testing.
The Anni admin team for all their hard work, testing and bug hunting.
And all of you who offered suggestions, reported problems and gave support along the way.
Many of the changes we have made in this update have come from you the community, and our wonderful Admin team who continue to strive to make Anni the best it can be.
We have plans for many more exciting updates and new features, so stay tuned!
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