Announcement MineZ 2024 Changelog

Hello Survivors!

• Below is a comprehensive list of all of the changes in MineZ for the year 2024. The purpose of this thread is to keep players up-to-date on the changes and rebalancing coming to MineZ. If you are looking for previous changelogs, you can find them linked below.
• MineZ 2020 Changelog
• MineZ 2021 Changelog
• MineZ 2022 Changelog
• MineZ 2023 Changelog

10/06/2024 ( 5.4.24)
Spookfest Phase II is now available. There should be other mini-phases after this one.

• Gameplay Changes:
  • Witches, Gourdlings and Spiders all spawn a bit more frequently in the Cursed Valley.
  • A new dungeon has been added for Spookfest
  • A Bigger Headhunt has been added for Phase II. It will be available through the end of Spookfest.
  • Added a returning giant spawn.
• Balance Changes:
  • Spiders have a 10% chance to drop Mire Silk.
  • Witches have a small chance to drop Witches Brews and Witch Time.
  • Towns within the Cursed Valley, regardless of chest types, will spawn a small amount of spooky loot.
  • A few returning Spookfest items have been added to the uncommon and rare item pool.
  • Rewards from the new dungeon, primarily any Legendaries, are likely to be vaulted after Halloween. They will remain in game as "comsetic items", unless added as a full legendary to the base game.
• Map Changes:
  • The Second Wave of Spookfest builds have been added to the game.
  • A new Spooky biome has been added.
  • All crypts with valid schematics (16) from the Build Contest have been added, zoned, and looted.
• Supply Drop Changes:
  • The Wednesday 9AM Drop has been moved to 10AM EST.
  • The Fort McHarlington Supply drop has been removed from the pool. You may not enter. The way is Shut.
  • Added a few of the spookfest builds into the weekday drop rotation.

10/06/2024 ( 5.4.23)
Spookfest has arrived! Phase I is now available.

• Gameplay Changes:
  • Witches, Gourdlings and Spiders all spawn at and above the "pigman" line.
  • Witches spawn more frequently in the swamp.
  • Ghost Ship has set sail for the Month.
  • A Small Headhunt has been added for Phase I. It will be available for at least 2 weeks.
  • All Legendaries are disabled in and around Madwood Grove. Best of Luck...
• Balance Changes:
  • Spiders and Witches have special drops, including rare drops.
  • Halloween towns have been given Halloween chests.
  • Gourdlings have been given special drops, similar to previous years.
  • Adventurer's packs have been given additional items to drop from the Halloween Town Rare.
• Map Changes:
  • The First Wave of Spookfest builds have been added to the game.
  • Meridian has recieved some Spooky Decor.
• Supply Drop Changes:
  • Treat Chests have been added into Rotation. For at least the first week, a new schedule is being trialed. Treat Chest Events will only happen on Saturday and Sunday. There are Two times each day.
  • Treat Chest Loot has been entirely overhauled.
    • All Expiring Items, save for a few special cases (like Portal Bow) have been removed.
    • Treat Chests have a Low, Medium and High loot pool this year.
    • Drastically increased the number of items from each chest.
  • Normal Supply Drops (Monday Through Friday) will continue to drop standard supply drop loot.
    • In addition to the supply_low and supply_high drops, these regular supply drops each will drop a small amount of loot from the treat chest pool, selected randomly. Treat Chests are still the best option for getting this Spooky Loot so make sure to attend!

8/31/2024 ( 5.4.23)

Summer celebrations ended in Valar!

Ghostship has set sail

Balance Changes:

• Supply Low
  • Some Legendaries have been exchanged for different ones
  • A few fall items have been added
• Supply High
  • Some Legendaries have been exchanged for different ones
  • Summer items have left
  • Fall items have entered
• Scorchers
  • 50% chance for a Fire Resistance Potion
  • 49% chance for a Fire Grenade
  • 1% chance for 2 ???

8/2/2024 ( 5.4.23)

Ghostship has set sail
The head hunt has ended

7/13/2024 ( 5.4.22)

• Balance Changes:
  • Summer 2024
    • Added back Summer potions
    • 1 Baguette 2% →1%
    • 2 Bagguette 1% → .5%
    • 4 watermelon 7% → 7.5%
    • Drink 2 pot 5% → 6%
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Exalted Gatestones not bringing you to meridian

7/2/2024 ( 5.4.21)

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Scorchers not spawning at scorcher cave
  • Fixed problem with new summer potions bugging players inventory

7/2/2024 ( 5.4.21)
Summerfest has arrived at Valar!

Ghostship has set sail

• Balance Changes:
  • Sirus:
    • +4 food_uncommon
    • +2 civ_uncommon
    • +2 mil_uncommon
    • +1 mil_rare
  • Arbreton:
    • +3 food_uncommon
    • +3 civ_uncommon
    • +2 mil_uncommon
    • +1 mil_epic
  • Aspermont:
    • +3 mil_rare
    • Increased item counts in some mil_rare chests
  • Shakepoint Ruins:
    • Some build changes
    • +4 civ_uncommon
    • +2 civ_rare
    • +5 tool_uncommon
    • +5 tool_rare
    • +1 pots_uncommon
    • +3 pots_rare
  • Carnival
    • +2 food_common
    • +1 civ_uncommon
  • ??? Rebuild
    • 7 summer_2024
    • 2 mil_rare
    • 2 tool_uncommon
    • 3 food_uncommon
  • ???'s Button Room:
    • 2 room_high
    • 1 food_rare
    • 1 pot_rare
  • ??? Rebuild
    • 13 summer_2024
    • 1 mil_epic
    • 23 mil_rares
    • 2 pot_uncommon
    • 9 tool_uncommon
    • 7 food_uncommon
  • ???'s Button Room:
    • 3 room_high
    • 1 mil_epic
    • 1 food_rare
    • 1 pot_rare
  • ??? (NEW)
    • ??? Spawner
    • 1 tool_rare
    • 3 tool_uncommon
  • Pots_Uncommon
    • Potion of Healing I: 34% → 20%
    • Potion of Healing II: 50% → 60%
    • Splash Potion of Healing I: 6% →10%
  • Pots_Manzana
    • Potion of Healing II: 35% → 34%
    • Golden Apple: 4% → 5%
  • Supply Low
    • Some Legendaries have been exchanged for different ones
    • Spire armor is now a special summer variant
  • Supply High
    • Some Legendaries have been exchanged for different ones
    • Spring items have left
    • Summer items have entered
• Gameplay Changes:
  • Special Zombie Variants now have a chance to drop a special firework!

5/14/2024 ( 5.4.20)
Added a temporary shard at Knoxmoor digsite entrance

• Balance Changes:
  • Frostbain:
    • +2 Furnaces
  • Al Hasa Quarry:
    • +1 mil_mythic
    • +3 mil_epic
  • Concord:
    • -1 mil_epic
    • +1 mil_mythic
  • St. Roseluck Island:
    • -1 civ_common
    • +7 food_common
    • +2 civ_uncommon
    • +2 mil_uncommon
  • Room_High:
    • Potato -> Baked Potato
    • Removed Coal
    • Removed Snowballs
    • Added 4 Cookies 5%
    • Added Bag 2%
    • Grapple 5% -> 7%
    • Gunpowder 5% -> 7%
  • Food_Uncommon:
    • Added Baked Potato 2%
    • Added 2 Wheat 2%
    • Added 2 Cocoa Beans 2%
    • Red Mushroom: 6% -> 4%
    • Brown Mushroom: 6% -> 4%
    • Wheat: 15% -> 12%
    • Cocoa Beans: 8% -> 6%
    • Potato: 7% -> 6%
    • Apple: 10% -> 12%
  • Food_Rare:
    • Added Baked Potato 5%
    • 2 Wheat: 20% -> 18%
    • Pumpkin: 11% -> 8%
• Dungeon Changes:
  • Blood Stained Abyss:
    • Minor build change (nerfed final jump in the block room)
  • Bloodstained Abyss High:
  • • Removed Melons
    • Removed Wheat
    • Splash II 5% -> 7%
    • Grenade 4% -> 3%
    • Smite 3 KB 1: 3% -> 2%
    • Added Bread 3%
    • Added Pumpkin Pie 4%
    • Added 16 dura grapple 2%

5/02/2024 ( 5.4.19)

• Gameplay Changes:
  • Lucky Block and Chaos Block Functionality has been restored. It will remain until all blocks are expired or 5/18.
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug where chickens and sheep spawns didn't work correctly.

4/30/2024 ( 5.4.18)
April Fools Has Left Valar and the world has been "repaired".
A MineZ Rules Update is coming.
LangScott has been promoted to MineZ Co-Lead.

• Balance Changes:
  • Supply High:
    • Removed Expiring Retired Legendaries
    • Removed Exalted Gatestones
    • Removed April Fools Items
    • Added New Cosmetic Items
    • Adjusted Drop Rates of Certain Legendaries

• Gameplay Changes:
  • Cow:
    • Upped Spawning Percentage at Farms by 10%
  • Chicken:
    • Added Chickens to "Plains" Biomes.
  • Mooshrooms:
    • Added Mooshroom cows to swampland biomes.
    • Drops:
      • Red Mushrooms, Brown Mushrooms, Leather (1,2,3)
      • Very Rarely Mushroom Soup.
  • Rabbits:
    • Added Rabbits to Ice Mountains.
  • Sheep:
    • Added Sheep to Plains Biomes

4/3/2024 ( 5.4.15)

• Balance Changes:
  • Sporemind have a 12% chance to drop Chaos Blocks
  • Scorcher: Monster Block: 10% -> 20%
  • Revenant: Monster Block: 5% -> 15%
  • Pigman: Monster Block: 0% -> 15%
  • Chaos Trawler havea 15% chance to drop Chaos Blocks
  • Shiver: Monster Block: 10% -> 20%
  • Mil Mythic
    • Lucky Armor Block 2% -> 6%
  • Chaos Blocks:
    • Option 4 is no longer dangerous. Has been reworked.
    • Option 6 has a new loot table.
    • Option 7 has been modified.
    • You now have equal chances of a dangerous or "good" outcome.
  • Chaos Block Drop Chances have been buffed across the board for:
    • Basic Giant
    • Elite Giant
    • Shiver Gian
    • Iron Golem

3/22/2024 ( 5.4.14 )
Valarune Celebrations have reached MineZ!

• Balance Changes:
  • Pot Common:
    • Green Beer have been replaced with Drink 2's
  • Pot Uncommon:
    • Green Beer have been replaced with Drink 2's
  • Pot Rare:
    • Green Beer have been replaced with Drink 2's
    • Shamrock Shakes have been replaced with Speed Potions
  • Room High:
    • Shamrock Shakes have been replaced with Speed Potions
  • Supply Low:
    • Removed St.Patrick's Day Set
    • Added Valarune Set
  • Supply High:
    • All St.Patrick's Day items removed
    • Valarune Items have been added.
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Orlop Deck's Ghost
  • Evergreen Manor's door is fixed

3/13/2024 ( 5.4.13)
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations have reached MineZ!

• Balance Changes:
  • Frostbain:
    • +1 Crafting Table
  • Pot Common:
    • Drink 2's have been replaced with Green Beer
  • Pot Uncommon:
    • Drink 2's have been replaced with Green Beer
  • Pot Rare:
    • Drink 2's have been replaced with Green Beer.
    • Speed Potions have been replaced with Shamrock Shakes
  • Room High:
    • Speed Pots have been replaced with Shamrock Shakes
  • Supply Low:
    • Chunk of Iron Removed
    • Added St.Patrick's Day Set
  • Supply High:
    • All Valentine's Day items removed.
    • St Patrick's Day Items have been added.
    • Expiring Retired Legendaries will now rotate at a 4% chance each one with 3 per rotation.
• Bugfixes:
  • Bow Power and Drawback damage have been corrected.

3/2/2024 ( 5.4.13 )

• Balance Changes:
  • Metigal Temple:
    • -2 mil_epic
    • +3 mil_mythic
  • Eillom:
    • +5 mil_epic
    • +2 mil_mythic
  • Al Hasa Quarry:
    • +2 mil_rare
    • +2 mil_epic
    • Added Iron Ore, Furnaces + Anvil
  • Somnia:
    • -1 tool_rare
    • +3 mil_epic
  • Drowned Tower:
    • Added Rain
  • Concord:
    • Added Furnaces + Anvil
• Gameplay Changes:
  • Updated Supply Drop Schedule:
    • Monday 12 PM EST & 9PM EST
    • Wednesday 9AM EST & 6PM EST
    • Friday 2PM EST & 9PM EST
    • Saturday 12PM EST & 8PM EST
    • Sunday 12AM EST & 9AM EST
  • Supply drops from Monday to Friday's 2PM Chest are classified as weekday chests. These have 3 supply low chests and 2 supply high chests, compared to Weekend Drops with 8 chests.
  • Permanent Spawn Kit Items will once again be made purchasable with XP in the very near future. An update will be made when that change is live.
  • Christmas Presents have finally been disabled until next Holiday season.

2/23/2024 ( 5.4.12 )

• Bugfixes:
  • Made it harder to farm 5k in Byesford code Room then made it harder than what it was...
  • Fixed a Gatestone Exploit.
  • Fixed Snowhelm shard spawning incorrectly.

2/12/2024 ( 5.4.11 )

• Balance Changes:
  • Somnia:
    • -4 mil rare
    • +5 mil_epic
    • +3 tool_rare
  • Drowned Tower:
    • increased item counts in the top chests.
  • Eillom:
    • - 3 mil_uncommon
    • +1 mil_rare
    • +3 mil_epic
    • -1 pot_common
    • Eillom Ale chests now have a chance to spawn drink IIs and splash II
  • Trampled Ground:
    • -2 mil_epics
    • +2 mil mythics
  • Mcharlington:
    • +4 Mil_epic
    • +2 mil_mythic
    • added a few spawners
  • Sunken Tower:
    • +1 mil_rare
    • +4 mil_epic

2/12/2024 ( 5.4.10 )

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug causing the dedicated Revenant Spawner to not function.
  • Fixed Clarce's Secret Tunnel.
  • Fixed Agni's Hand's leaking lava.
  • Fixed Frostbain Catacombs Exit
• Balance Changes:
  • Supply Drop Low:
    • Zombie Bows have been removed
    • Added Vampyr 3%
    • Added Binding Helmet 2%
    • Added Earth Shaker 2%
    • Added 3/4 Dura P1 Inf Bow 2%
    • Stomper 5% -> 2% and no longer expires
    • Rocksteady 4% -> 2% and no longer expires
    • Healbow 3% -> 1% and no longer expires
    • Overkill no longer expires
  • Riftus:
    • +1 Food_uncommon
    • Small Balance Changes to existing 12 chests
    • Updated Build for Riftus to make accessing all 3 food rares possible without grappling.
    • Added a Brewing Stand to Riftus

2/11/2024 ( 5.4.9 )

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed two broken chests at Angler's Frost.
  • Frozen Giant's no longer drop the Elite Giant's Inf Bow.
  • Fixed a bug where Smite Damage applied incorrectly to Frozen Giants.
  • Patched a bug with Presents.
  • Added a better way up the Statue of Agni and fixed a build issue with part of the statue.

2/10/2024 ( 5.4.8 )

MineZ Wonderland has been reverted. Coldsnap has arrived.

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug where the Frozen Giant did not spawn a respawn timer leading to quantum respawn times.
  • Fixed multiple bugs/exploits with the Rimeguard.
  • Fixed Several dupe exploits/gamebreaking bugs (thanks to several players using the new bug report reward system).
  • Two NPCs stuck in walls at Meridian have been freed!
  • Fixed many locations where players could obtain decorative heads and other items.
• Build Changes:
• • Frost Peaks has been readded and is now no longer a seasonal location.
  • Giant's Rage has been moved somewhere else...
    • Admin Note: Having two giant spawns within 200 blocks of each other felt very repetitive. Adding Frost Peaks gave us an opportunity to move Giant’s Rage elsewhere and add a default giant spawn to an otherwise neglected area of the map.
  • Extensive Redo of most of the snow biome. The map will be updated no sooner than Wednesday following the update.
    • Admin Note: There may be a few small build errors throughout the new biome. With something as Extensive as this, we were not going to find every strange error (layered snow in areas as an example). If you find some map errors, feel free to reach out. One or two builds have been removed, and may return in the near future.
  • Jacsebalon Mansion has been replaced by Traveler's Tavern.
  • A few other locations have been modified. Happy Hunting.
• Balance Changes:
  • Axis Mundi has been instanced and given a new way of looting. Axis now spawns a set amount of enchanted books per unlock. Players can expect to receive a standard amount of high end books each run, with a chance for some variability in the exact amount you receive.
    • Admin Note: This is being done to lessen the amount of mundane farming players often needed to resort to in order to receive the most valuable books. While this change may not be perfect as it can negatively affect larger group sizes, this change felt necessary to both enhance the game and this questline and provide some much needed modernization to this “endgame” area.
  • The Frozen Giant has been added as a non-seasonal boss.
    • Health Changes:
      • PVE/Private: 400 -> 350
      • Public: 350 -> 300
    • Spawn Timer:
      • PVE: 30 Minutes
      • Public: 20 Minutes
    • Drop Changes:
      • Giant Legendaries: (2 Given)
        • Snowbrawler: 5%
        • RimeGuard: 25%
        • Frost Walker: 50%
        • Snow Shovel: 20%
      • Giant Misc Items: (2 Given)
        • Power I Punch I Inf Bow: 15%
        • Diamond Axe (Half-ish Dura): 20%
        • Golden Carrot: 30%
        • Speed II Potion:30%
        • Zombie Head: 5%
  • Snowbrawlers given out during Wonderland, with the tagline “Wonderland 2023”, have been nerfed. These snowbrawlers now take 4 Durability per use instead of 2. Arrow requirements are not changed.
    • Admin Note: This is a change made to try and stabilize the influx of Snowbrawlers into the game. By making this slight adjustment, we hope to prop up the non-seasonal Snowbrawler while only minimally impacting the seasonal Snowbrawler. Uses go from 192 to 96 uses per wonderland snowbrawler. This system may be unpopular but would allow us to give out other legendaries with a similar tagging system. This would be an alternative to expiring items.
  • Christmas Presents will remain active until Feb 24th. After this date, an update will be made to disable them until next Christmas season. Going forward, lottery items like the Christmas present/Waterlogged Chests/etc will spawn only loot according to the update they are tied to. As an example, Christmas Presents from Wonderland 2023 will not drop Present loot from 2024 anymore.
    • Admin Note: This will be a divisive change and we understand this. As we pursue more options with these kinds of lottery items, we felt it was necessary to ensure that future iterations of items could be given the best shot at being balanced as possible, while allowing players to continue to have access to any supply of these items they may have. Further, it felt appropriate to reduce the window of use for seasonal lottery items to a specific window around these holidays. Open those presents. A wrapped present is meant to be unwrapped!
  • Flower Bouquet Items received from any event in the near future are in fact loot bag items. If you right click it, you will lose it and get flowers.
  • Supply Drop Loot tables have been refreshed:
    • Supply Low:
  • - Quiver: 6%
    - Shotbow: 6%
    - Speed II Potion: 6%
    - Robber's Blade: 5%
    - Lone Sword: 5%
    - Manzana Cider: 5%
    - Bread: 5%
    - Stomper (30d Expiring): 5%
    - Gunpowder: 5%
    - RockSteady(30d Expiring): 4%
    - Phantom Blade: 4%
    - Chunk of Iron: 4%
    - Golden Carrot: 4%
    - Iron Helmet: 4%
    - Iron Leggings: 4%
    - Iron Chestplate: 4%
    - Iron Boots: 4%
    - Gate Stone (6/ 8: 3%
    - Power II Inf I Bow: 3%
    - Heal Bow (30d Expiring) : 3%
    - Overkill (30d Expiring) : 3%
    - Zombie Bow(Non Expiring): 2%
    - FFIV Iron Boots: 2%
    - Depth Strider I Iron Leggings: 2%
    - Gate Stone (7/ 8: 2%
    • Supply High:
    - Grapeshot: 7%
    - Fuse Box: 7%
    - Gold Bell: 6%
    - Gate Stone: 6%
    - Exalted Gate Stone: 6%
    - Diamond Earth Shaker: 5%
    - Helm Splitter: 5%
    - Flower Bouquet 1: 4%
    - Flower Bouquet 2: 4%
    - Simoon's Song: 4%
    - ??? : 3%
    - ??? : 3%
    - Heal Bow: 3%
    - Phantom Blade: 3%
    - Valentines ???: 2%
    - Valentines ???: 2%
    - Valentines ???: 2%
    - Valentines ???: 2%
    - Valentines Bag 3: 2%
    - Valentines Bag 2: 1%
    - Valentine's Bag 1 : 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - Spray Painter (7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - ???(7d Expiry): 1%
    - Portal Bow (7d Expiry): 1%

1/3/2024 ( 5.4.7 )

• Wonderland III Headhunt Top 5
  • Honorable Mention: WTDPuddles
  • 1st: AveryBat
  • 2nd: FlameBoss20
  • 3rd: Very_inside
  • 4th: kibyts
  • 5th: Azkiria
  • Contact Halo to coordinate your prize!

• Content Changes:
  • McHarlington has recieved Christmas Cheer.

• Balance Changes:
  • Agni Ignis:
    • +9 xmas_pots, -1 mil_mythic, -4 pot_rares
  • Floating Island:
    • +2 xmas_high

1/1/2024 ( 5.4.6 )

The final phase of Wonderland has arrived.

Starting this year (and extending into last year for one bug) we will now give out a small prize for players who submit a critical/game breaking bug report.

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a 5k exploit with a certain item.
• Content Changes:
  • The Candy Cane Headhunt has ended.
  • Added a new mob who is very excited for the new year. It can only be found at Agni Ignis.
    • This mob has a very rare drop of a returning, seasonal legendary.
  • Added the Snowman Santa Headhunt.
    • This headhunt encompasses the entire map.
    • In addition to the prizes given out, the first 5 players to complete the headhunt will receive an additional, special prize. If you believe you are one of the first to complete the headhunt, please reach out on discord and we will verify it.
• Balance Changes:
  • The spirit of the Holidays strengthens on the far east side of the map.
  • The spirit of the Holidays wanes in the mid regions of the map.