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Welcome back, photographers!

Hey all! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, after much anticipation, the winners of the Shotbow Screenshot Contest have finally been decided!

A Foreword

Although we are only able to pick a select number of winners, it cannot be understated that many of us on the team were blown away by the majority of the submissions. Many of the screenshots you sent us were masterfully crafted and gave beautiful perspectives of all corners of the network. To each and every one of you that participated: thank you so much for sharing your amazing screenshots with us! We wish that we could give you all prizes, but of course... this is a competition!

Gamemode Winners

As promised, the best screenshot for each of Shotbow's games will be getting an award of 5,000 XP. Winners should send us a DM on @ShotbowNetwork Twitter in order to redeem their prize.

Annihilation
Winner: _Sekkey



Miner Problems
Winner: jonnycrafter



MineZ
Winner: cx_ender



Slaughter
Winner: VoidSCP



SMASH
Winner: jonnycrafter



Warband
Winner: jonnycrafter



When in Rogue
Winner: jonnycrafter




Overall Winners

After an incredibly tough and lengthy process, I am proud to announce that the following players are the top three winners of the Shotbow Screenshot Contest:

3rd place - an official Shotbow Lunar cloak
Winner: jonnycrafter



2nd place - Silver rank for you or a friend
Winner: _Sekkey



1st place - Gold rank for you or a friend
Winner: cx_ender



Congratulations to all!

Winners should send us a DM on @ShotbowNetwork Twitter in order to redeem their prize.

Closing Words

Once again, we want to offer you a massive thanks for making this competition such a great one! We're looking to host more competitions like this one in the future, so if photography isn't your cup of tea, maybe our next competition will offer something more to your liking. We hope that you all enjoyed taking pictures and making memories, and until next time!

Thanks for flying Shotbow!

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Annihilation Fresh Bugium Update

Hello!

We are pleased to announce that the latest Annihilation update 'Fresh Bugium' is now live! This update contains almost entirely bug fixes so it is not following the usual content update naming schema. This post is for any nerdy players who want to know all of the bugs we fixed in this update.

Builder

• Builder's Resource Drop now gives wool in the team's colour
• Builder can now left click wool to toggle between default white or team coloured wool
• Thanks to JonnyDvE for this suggestion; it somehow slipped into this update, is that a bug in itself?
• Builder's Resource Drop can now only be opened by right clicking

Boss Swords:
The Sword of Flames and the Sword of Venom have been golden swords, however, they were always supposed to have diamond sword damage values. In this update, we changed the swords to be diamond to match the expected damage. This is a bug fix!

Bug Fixes:

1. Players being invulnerable from external damage when inflicted with environmental damage (fire, cactus, poison etc)
2. Four item duplication bugs
3. A crash bug
4. A bug which allowed a player to accumulate many deaths in one go
5. A bug that caused matches to have random lag spikes
6. Teleporters being placed on team doors
7. Boots of grace from taking durability damage when the player uses a launch pad
8. Players getting stuck after entering the boss portal
9. Spy's flee from removing the existing invisibility effect of the player after the ability is finished
10. Berserker healing players when switching class
11. Players not dying in the void when in the boss world
12. Players dying instantly when entering the void in the main world
13. Combat logger NPC's activating Mercenary's mark immunity
14. Players not being fully healed & sated upon returning if their combat logger NPC was killed
15. Player's health & food level being fully restored upon return
16. Engineer's dynamite not being able to destroy Juke Boxes (slight damage increase for dynamite); thanks to cylnc for reporting it here
17. Bard's Buff Box not returning if the player has an ordinary Juke Box in their inventory
18. Basic weapon damage values not displaying correctly on item lore
19. Returning players or those who just joined a team from being able to see vanished Spies
20. Class ability cooldowns being reset when changing class
21. Respawning players teleporting items that they pick up to their death location
22. Players not receiving lobby items if they die while on a team before the game has started
23. Bard's Buff Box songs not restarting
24. Bard being able to select the same effect as the one currently playing in their Buff Box
25. Players being able to place team doors on top of enemy players
26. Priority queue removing logged out players too soon
27. Preferences (/prefs) slot selection not functioning correctly; this fix is a temporary patch until prefs gets some proper TLC
28. Clans not being able to kick/invite members
29. Clans not being able to promote members to officer
30. Certain blocks being destroyed on right click; hay bales can be broken with any tool (including punching) and beds can be broken with shears
31. Alchemist and Builder's resource drops going missing when right clicking on a block with an inventory
32. Compass skipping teams
33. Players being able to enter beds at night; sleep is not an option when it comes to Annihilation!

Miscellaneous:

• Nine administration related fixes (top secret stuff)
• Bugs that didn't result in a visible effect but left our logs messy with ugly errors
• Removed 'Hey!' message when attempting to place items in the protected region; it was just spammy
• Some grammatical mistakes were fixed
• Cherokee had too many witches
• Andorra had double Boss portals and unbreakable blocks
• Renamed some maps for simplicity's sake
• Some XP shop descriptions were incorrect

Closing words:
While we have fixed many bugs in this update, some you may have experienced and others you probably didn't know were there, we know 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, you can report it on our official Discord by using the command: !support bug <your in-game name>.

Credits:
Thanks to the Annihilation team for working hard on finding, fixing and testing these bugs. Huge thanks to Shotbow's lead developer, Lazertester, for his work on our infrastructure. And finally, many thanks to you; the community, for reporting these bugs and keeping Annihilation fun!

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Hello Shotbow! My name is Mistri, and I'll be your host for this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon, Shotbow's monthly newsletter. Let's jump right into it!

Updates
Network Updates
Partnerships
This month, we announced a partnership with Lunar Client - Shotbow's first partnership in over 3 years. The parternship includes:

• Adding Lunar Client to our Approved Mods list
• Selling a custom Shotbow-branded Lunar Client Cloak

You can view the official announcement here.

Competitions
This month, we launched the Official Shotbow Screenshot Contest.

TL;DR: post awesome screenshots on Twitter, tag #ShotbowScreenshotContest and @ShotbowNetwork. The best screenshot for each game will get 5000 Shotbow XP, and the top 3 overall will get $75 in ranks + a Lunar Client Shotbow Cloak.

MineZ Updates
The MineZ team has been working hard to release Patch 3.7.19. This patch update includes a new mob, gameplay changes, bugfixes, and tons more! You can view the full changelog here.

Slaughter Updates
Following last month's update to Slaughter, Pichu has added 2 patch updates in February, including various map adjustments, bugfixes, performance fixes, and more. You can view the full changelog here.

Annihilation Updates
We have posted multiple Community Clan Wars on our YouTube channel. You can check out the matches at the following links: #37, #38, #39.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The spring season ends soon, so be sure to climb up the leaderboards for ranked matches! Current standings are:

• 1st - DestrosGaming with 1096 ELO
• 2nd - tagain12 with 1082 ELO
• 3rd - TheProPlays with 1064 ELO

Network in General
Staff updates:

• McJeffr joined the development team as a Jr. Web Developer
• Samstag1 was promoted to Localization Lead
• HypeTrains joined the team as a Mini Builder

Other statistics:

• A total of 78,067,824 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 2,409 players banned in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 389 on February 2
• 83 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
• 4,422 in-game reports were handled in the last month

Closing Words
Thanks for tuning in this month! As always, I'm your host, Mistri — catch you next month, and thanks for flying Shotbow!