Hollandcraft Network

Dearest players,

It’s been one hell of a year so far, especially for me.

This year started out with things going awry in the Staff Team. HCX had been out for a few months, things started to stagnate and the tensions grew ever stronger within the Staff, until I decided to leave over, lets say, creative differences. Over the following months, I had the fantastic opportunity to start a server of my own, which actually ran pretty well. This was also due to the fact that lots of Hollandcraft veterans stuck with me after I fell out with the others. Through tentative negotiations, though, it appeared that not all was as it had seemed when I left, and we soon struck an accord that would allow me to return to Hollandcraft, in a fashion that was accepted by both sides, as well as taking with me some assets from my own server which I had built up over a few months’ time.
As of late June, I had effectively become one of HC’s three Owners (even though not officially until much later). As a whole, the entire year so far has been very intensive for me when it comes to server development. January and February were relatively quiet, just ironing out some bugs from HCX. Starting in March, though, I began constructing a new server from the ground up, tweaking and tuning everything individually. This was an ever ongoing process, and just when everything was about finished, the HC Accords came through and I had to begin implementing my contributions along with HC’s established continuity into...

Dear players of HollandCraft and DMM,

A short while ago LuukDMM and martijnpu left our staff team along with a few others to pursue their dreams. LuukDMM set up his own server called… DMM… Now we’ve decided to merge the two servers together! Now what does this mean for you?

Firstly, we’ll stop supporting cracked Minecraft players, this means premium players no longer need to remember an authme password. We polled this a while ago and most of you said to go premium.

Secondly, we’re going to update to 1.14 and stop supporting versions 1.8 through 1.11.

The current survival map will be replaced by the one currently residing in the DMM server.
We do understand this means you’ll most likely lose your builds, but we’ll copy your builds and paste it into the new map when you request this in a special thread we’ll make available.

Because of these big changes, we’re giving a discount of 30 % on the rank store!

Thirdly, we’re renaming the donator ranks and adding a new one.

Dear players of HollandCraft,

Since the release of HCX we've had issues with the skyblock plugin. That's why we've decided to purchase a premium plugin! This plugin has more (exciting) features like island upgrading, time and weather change per island, player banning (for your island) and more!
We also added TreeAssist, PlayerVaults, Challenges, a sellshop on spawn and some stuff with farming.
Donator island is a thing again as well and Blazes, Wither skeletons and Guardians are also able to spawn on your island (in the correct place of course)!

If you haven't seen it, here's the announcement for the upgrade.

I'd also like to thank @PierreTheBoss , @steeltjerepel and @Firepownage for all the testing they've done and fighting through some really nasty bugs.

Please help us out by reporting bugs and leaving suggestions on discord or on the forums.

Yours faithfully,
The HollandCraft staff team

p.s. As a kind-of compensation for deleting your old islands, everyone gets a starting kit and 10x the amount of money when first starting.

Dear players of HollandCraft,

Since the release of HCX we started working on a KitPvP gamemode. We wanted it to be a fun, light minigame like the one we had back in 2015/2016. This is why we decided to bring back and revamp the old map we used at the time and put in a few easter eggs. We enabled the day/night cycle as well, because we thought the map looked really cool at night!
We chose to make 6 kits, of which 2 are for ranked players. Older players will remember some of the kits as well! Also, we made it in the known and loved 1.8 combat system. This means that there is no hit-cooldown like in 1.9+ PvP! You can just join, choose a kit by clicking on 1 of the signs and have a nice PvP experience whenever you feel like it!

Please help us out by reporting bugs and leaving suggestions on discord or on the forums.

Yours faithfully,
The HollandCraft staff team

PS. If you search well enough you will find a feature of an Easteregg from our older gamemode, VintagePvP.

Here is a sneak-peek of the map:

Dear players,

On behalf of the whole staffteam we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

To celebrate these days we are having a sale up to 60% in our store at http://store.hollandcraft.com/
40% on ranks, 60% on everything else. It will be available until 27 december.

Best Regards,
Your Staffteam

Dear players,

It is my great honour to announce that today at 10 AM GMT+1, we have made the next step in Hollandcraft’s evolution:

HCX

What is HCX?

HCX is a major overhaul of the entire Hollandcraft network, both in game and behind the scenes.
HCX will roll out in multiple phases. Today sees the launch of Phase One. Phase One includes a new lobby, and four revamped game modes, survival, skyblock, creative and skywars. HCX also takes the server to 1.13 We have support for 1.8.x-1.13.x, however we recommend 1.13.2 for the best results.

What’s new in Phase One?

The lobby has had a major refit, delving more into the medieval, rural theme that Hollandcraft was once known for. Instead of server portals, we now use NPC’s to select a server. Also, the new lobby is chock full of Easter Eggs so be sure to have a look around!

For skywars, we turned the nostalgia up to 11! We took an old, beloved lobby, tweaked it so it still looks fresh and added some brand new maps and kits. Good for hours of play time.

Survival has reset as well and here too we went for a more rural look. The end and nether spawns have been removed and the new spawn is now an integral part of the landscape. We also included some neat little easter eggs in the survival spawn! Here are some hints for the 3 best ones:

• There is a Minecraft legend lurking in the depths... What light source surrounds him?
• Oh no! It’s flooded! We tried to cut off...

Dear players,

As many of you well know, our long-time Admin Bobobaal has recently resigned.
He has asked me and Michel to publish this farewell to you.

Dear players,

After long thought, I've decided to resign as a staff member on Hollandcraft.

It wasn't an easy decision to make since I spent my teenage years as a player on this server, and most of it as a member of the Staff Team.
The reason that I'm resigning is because I lost my interests in Minecraft, I do still think it's a fun game but I don't play it as often as I used to and I truly believe if you want to be a good admin on a server of any type of game you still need to have an interest in that game. Also because these days I spent more time watching series or playing other games.

I would like to thank you (the players and the Staff Team) for the time I spent with you. Most importantly, I want to thank Michel of taking me with him on this wonderful journey of maintaining a Minecraft server.

Sincerely,

Bobobaal

Bobobaal will continue to be affiliated with our server as a regular player and is still in our Discord community. All I can say for now is #dicksoutfordieter.

Cheers,

LuukDMM

Dear players,

This is the moment you've all been waiting for! The release of Eggwars!

Why did we pick Eggwars?
We've been noticing that the minecraft community is more interested in minigames rather than the old fashioned server like creative and survival. That's why we decided to add Eggwars. Eggwars is a minigame that still is popular in the minecraft community.

The maps!
We have different maps that will have certain themes, most of them are built by staff members. You can choose between solo mode and teams!

What is Eggwars?
Eggwars is a pvp based minigame where each team/player will have to collect resources from generators. Buy blocks or weapons to defend your egg or destroy the other teams/players their egg in order to reign supreme!

What do we have for our donators who support the server?
Every donator rank will have access to trails and effect you can show of in game when you are playing against other players!

We also added a preview photo down below.

Best regards,
martijnpu & the Staff team.

Dear players of Hollandcraft,

We created VintagePvP some months ago because our previous KitPvP was such a bummer. VintagePvP was fun to a lot of old players who liked the nostalgic feelings, but the kits weren't very nice to play with. Also, as a staffteam we liked the KitPvP map way more than the VintagePvP one.
To solve the fact that KitPvP was an entirely dead gamemode, we changed it to 1.8 pvp with 1.8 support and made the kits suited for 1.8 pvp. We hope this will bring KitPvP and Hollandcraft in it's entirety somewhat back up in player counts.

If you experience any bugs or have any suggestions, please tell us so we can take it in consideration.

Yours faithfully,
The Hollandcraft staffteam