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Dear players

Skyblock is a really old server, it's currently running at 1.10 and hasn't received many updates across its lifespan (a fault at my side because I was too busy with school). Only some additions and they also haven't had an update. Now we have reached a point we don't really want to update every plugin, also we think it would be nice to have a fresh restart in Skyblock.

List of changes:

• Chestshop plugin replaced with the plugin we use on Survival.
• Auction House has been replaced with an alternative version (but still same mechanics) as the one we use in Prison.
• Scoreboard has been removed as most of the players found it annoying.
• Silkspawners and the availability of buying spawners has been removed.
• /shop on its entirety has been removed.
• Trade plugin has been replaced.
• Tags have been removed (The ones you could earn and enable with /tags).
• Kits have been improved.
• PvP arena has been removed (Can be brought back if majority of the players wants it).
• The chance values of getting ores from a cobblestone generator have been changed.

This update is scheduled for Saturday 16 September.
Please do know that this can be changed if something important comes up on that day.
We still have something coming up very soon, but @MichelDeStar is busy, so that will probably take some time until it will become available.

As of 16:00 (GMT+1) the old Skyblock is closed. The new Skyblock will be opened...

Dear players,

The survival team felt the need to reinvigorate the survival economy, which had stagnated recently.
Therefore, the sell shop that was closed at the start of the new survival has reopened. You can find the sell shop at the lowest floor of the spawn shop or simply by going to /warp sellshop.

Economy

The sell shop is meant as a means of enforcing the survival economy and as a way of stimulating players to build their own shops. Players can now get money from spawn and use these Survival Credits (SC) to create playershops (creating a chestshop costs 100 SC).
Therefore, the buy prices at spawn are still relatively high and the sell prices relatively low. Feel free to create your own shops and trade away! We will be very happy to take a look at the results.

Dynamic prices and monitoring

Of course, we should take into account that the first sell shop was closed. This was for a reason. Players with huge autofarms started selling all their cacti and sugar canes and cashed in a lot of SC.
The prices for these items are relatively low now, but the sell shop will be monitored very closely, and when we see that excessive amounts of such items are sold, the prices will be reduced drastically. Continuous abuse of the sell shop will result in another closure, so please proceed with discernment.

Suggestions

We have added a few items that we felt were fit for a sell shop, but of course it's your opinion that counts! There are still 11 empty...

Dear players,

Today, Minecraft version 1.12 has been released, which added some novelties like Concrete. Of course, we are trying our very best to implement this new version as soon as possible, but until then we will have to suffice with a solution that makes it possible to join 1.11 servers with a 1.12 client. Naturally, it is very possible that bugs may occur. Hence, in case you encounter a bug, please report this to the Staff Team!

I also put a new beta Skywars online today. In this one too, it is possible that bugs may occur. If this is the case, please report this to the staff members so a solution can be found.

The new Skywars is an updated version of the old 2015 Skywars. Therefore, this Skywars utilises the old PvP system in a so far decently working Skywars minigame.

If you encounter problems somewhere, please report this to a member of staff. We will then make sure these are solved as quickly as possible.

Update: We have decided to support on all our gamemodes version 1.8 till 1.12, except KitPvP that one supports 1.9-1.12.

Best regards,
Michel

Dear Players,

Due to some problems with the Faction server it is currently offline, we will announce later this week what happened exactly.

All of our plugins are gone, so we have to put a backup into it from before the reset, we'll do that later today.

Things that aren't gone: Faction claims, World, Money
Things that are gone: Everything else, like Homes, Warps, etc.
If you're unsure about what's lost or not you can always ask.

It will probably be back online this weekend.

Best regards,
Michel

Dear Players,

Since Factions wasn't a well played gamemode anymore we have decided to try and fix it.
We've got some feedback from our players and decided to follow those things and implemented those in the factions server to become it better a gamemode.

Changes

• The map got a reset
• TNT and Creeper block damage is disabled
• MCMMO has been disabled
• People can open chests everywhere, you can still protect them by putting a block above it or something like that, be creative.

With those changes we hope Factions will become a well played gamemode again, and that people will like it more than the way it was.

It will open tomorrow, so @Lastyoda can monitor things and respond quickly. We now don't have time for it anymore...
Factions is now back online!

Best regards,
@Lastyoda and Michel

Dear players,

Because of the delay of prison, again, I will post some spoilers of the prison server. These spoilers won't show everything of the server, only parts of the map.
This spoilers are the only pictures that will be publiced before the release.

Again, sorry for the delay, we will fix the problem as soon as possible.


If you have any questions about prison, please go to the "Prison!" topic.

Cheers,
lastyoda and the staff team

Dear members,

We're sorry to tell you all, but we are unable to release Prison in the state it is right now.
A fatal error in our core setup of Prison has been found, and we are unable to solve this in a few hours. We were already working on it the whole day, but we just now managed to find out what the issue was. We are not sure yet about how to fix it, but we promise that we will.

Because we are not sure how to fix it, we don't want to make plans for a definitive release right now, since we also don't know how long it will take to fix this issue. We are sorry about the delay (once again), but we will keep you guys updated on our progress and when we will release Prison. For everyone who was hyped just as much as we were, we are deeply sorry for letting you down, but what will come will be worth the wait.

Just like a baker would say: you don't want to sell an unfinished piece of bread, you want to sell a perfectly baked bread so that people would recognize your strength and skill. In other words: we don't want to deliver something that would die in itself because it doesn't work, we want to make sure that our quality is above quantity.

Once again, sorry for the delay and inconvenience,
Hollandcraft Staff team

Dear players,

Prison is almost there! We have been working on it for the last few months.
This Prison will be different from the old Prison, the spawn and mines are completely new!
However, the way you used to play Prison will stay the same.

What is Prison?
Prison is a gamemode in Minecraft where you start at mine A. From mine A you need to rank up to Z by mining and selling blocks.
When you reached Z, you can prestige. Prestige means you can show to people how far you already are in Prison. When you prestige, you will be set back to mine A BUT you will have prestige "1". In total you can prestige 10 times.

You can buy eTokens (enchantment tokens) from shops or get them by voting. With those tokens you can buy cool enchants!
ETokens are worth alot so be careful!
You can also buy a plot in the plotworld where you can build your own buildings from blocks you mined or blocks you bought from the shop.

What will be new in Prison?
- The mines have changed. The blocks are the same but the percentages will be different to you. Because of that, we changed the prices of the rankups.
You will need to mine more until you can rankup.
- The map has changed, @AndrewRed has built an awesome new spawn and fantastic new mines! The spawn is easier now, you can see all of the spawn when you are in the middle. You don't
have to search for anything!
- There is a scoreboard now too! In this scoreboard you can see your money balance, how much money you still need...

Dear players,

At precisely 14:03 VintagePvP was released, you can access it through a portal in one of our lobbies, using the "/server" menu, or directly with the command "/vintagepvp".

To the people who forgot what VintagePvP actually was, you can find here an awesome explanation written by @AndrewRed

If there are any questions about VintagePvP feel free to ask.

Best regards,
Michel & the Staff team.