Dentril's New Moon - April 2022

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Happy April, Shotbow! This month's edition of Dentril's New Moon is full of exciting updates. Let's jump right into it!

Network Updates
Monetization & Voting Updates
If you've been with Shotbow for a while, you'll know that Shotbow disabled individual XP voting rewards, and stopped selling XP, due to a change in the Minecraft EULA that restricted us. The Shotbow team has recently re-reviewed the latest revision of the Minecraft EULA, and realized that we can make some adjustments to monetization strategies relating to Shotbow XP.

To begin, we are re-instating per-user voting rewards! Each time you vote for Shotbow, you will receive 50 XP immediately! You can vote on each of the 6 voting sites per day, which will give you up to 300 XP per day, which is over 9,000 XP per month.

These rewards are added in addition to the voting milestones, which will release a 2,500 XP code for every 2,500 votes!

Go vote now to get these awesome rewards on vote.shotbow.net!

We'll be releasing more monetization changes coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled for the future!

Team Updates
The Shotbow team is creating a new rank called the Helper rank! While the details are still being finalized, Helpers will be responsible for duties that don't fall into the categories of banning hackers, building, or developing; think game design, player support, and much more! There will be two variations, Mini Helper and Helper. We will be onboarding our first Helpers very soon, so keep an eye out for the future!

Localization Updates
We apologize for the delays in getting back to Localization applicants. We are experiencing internal issues and will respond to all Localization team applications as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience!

Gamemode Updates
MineZ Updates
We have announced the winners of the MineZ Minor Location Build contest! Congratulations to the winners:

• 1st Place - SUNSHlNE (20,000 Shotbow XP + Silver Rank)
• 2nd Place - Zebra_aapje (10,000 Shotbow XP + Shotbow Lunar Cloak)
• 3rd Place - Forsaken (10,000 Shotbow XP)

You can check out the builds, along with the full post, here.

Additionally, the MineZ Team as release an update to the Alt Abuse Policy. You can read the full policy here.

Warband Updates
Warband had a total of three new patches this month, some of which were game changing, like the class rework and blessing rework! Warband has also started making patch notes videos that you can find here:



Curious what’s in these patches? Well join the Warband Community Board Discord here.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The latest season has just ended, and the results are in!

• 1st - _BrightDarkness_ - 75,000 XP
• 2nd - Yesus42 - 50,000 XP
• 3rd - Daggez - 25,000 XP

Network in General
Staff updates:

• Selictove joined the Jr. Developer team
• Smartzz and GunOverdose joined the Warband Mini Admin team

Other statistics:

• 2,088 in-game reports were handled in the last month
• There were 942 players banned in the last month
• 86 ban appeals were resolved in the last month
• There were 67 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 291 on March 6
• 45,949,053 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 17 Anni Clan Wars hosted in the last month - check out our YouTube channel for some recordings!

That's all for this month. I'm your host, Mistri — thanks for flying Shotbow!