Hollandcraft Network

Dear players,

After some time working on the server, we finally have some news to share with all of you.

We have been working very hard last week on updating and finishing the different gamemodes, and we want to announce which gamemodes will immediately update to 1.10. And which gamemodes will be left behind for a while. The following gamemodes will be available immediately when the update has been released: Creative, Survival, Skyblock, Factions, Skywars, KitPvP and Hide and Seek.

We are aware that Survival Games, Escape from the Beast and Prison won't be released instantly. We are making sure that Prison and Survival Games will be available in a foreseeable period of time, with Prison coming first and then Survival Games. Escape from the Beast won't be making a return, since we have -in our opinion- a much more enjoyable gamemode available to us, and will be releasing that one first. Also, there is no functioning Escape from the Beast 1.10 plugin available, so we would have to develop something ourselves.

If we wanted to update these gamemodes as well, we would have to stall the update even more, which we don't want at all.

RESET
The gamemode-servers Creative, Survival and Factions, will get a complete reset, but Skyblock WON'T. This won't matter too much for Factions, since many of our players found that this gamemode was configured poorly, and we hope that this update will solve all of those problems. Creative is one of the oldest servers still available, and...

Dear players of Hollandcraft,

First of all we will say that we are grateful for the people that still play on Hollandcraft after a long time of still not updating the server to 1.10.

We are also grateful for the donations we still receive sometimes. We know that the amount of players is decreasing and some staff members finally want you to show some screenshots of the update. We also understand the hate and irritation of some players and we don't blame them. The update takes ages, but we can finally show you some sneak peeks of our upcoming update.

We hope that players will get excited (again) for the update and hopefully wait a little longer for the actual update. The update currently consist of an update of the spawnbuilding(s) of lobby, creative, skywars, survival, hide and seek, factions and kitpvp. We will show you some sneak peeks of these new buildings below.
We hope that you liked our new creations and you can post any suggestions about these buildings and/or servers in the comments below.

Typed by @LuukDMM, @Caeruleus_ and @vosje2, well appreciated by me.

Kind regards,
The staff team

Dear Players,

After a long period of silence from us, we finally have some news about what could definitely be said earlier.

We have been working on the server update since the end of may, but at that time I was busy with school and decided to focus on that instead of Hollandcraft at the time. Some things were ready for the 1.9 update and after that I was finished with school for the year we continued updating. I went on a holiday shortly after and when I returned, suddenly Mojang decided to release Minecraft 1.10. All our work had to be redone and everything needed a new update even before we launched it.

We started working on it, not like we are doing now. The last few weeks we have made major progress to release half of our gamemodes, there is now a solid backbone to build all our new Minigames on to provide a much more reliable network and coming with that a better player experience.

But we aren't done yet, there is still work to do..
We wanted to release half of our gamemodes before today, but due to some complications, and lack of time, we couldn't make it. We are working on all the gamemodes now, changed some plans and want to release everything within a week or 3/4.

If you have some ideas about the update, please suggest them to us.

If you have any questions about the 1.10 update, and the changes Hollandcraft will be making, don't hesitate to ask them.

Best Regards,
Your staffteam

Dear players,

Recently we got more questions about the fact to sell their rank to other players. This is possible, but we won't recommend you to do this.

If we see players frequently joining using the same IP, is it possible for you to get a ban. This is an unnecessary risk for you to get a ban, because if you just donate using your own account in our own secured store, you do not have that same risk if you just use your own account and follow the rules. It's also possible for you to get scammed, between the payment and the transfer, with changing the account password.

Best Regards,
The Staffteam

Dear players of Hollandcraft,

I would like to create some sort of event. I haven't decided yet what to do but I was thinking about UHC.

My idea was that we create a UHC tournament every month. Fifteen or so teams consisting of 2 or 3 players per team surviving/fighting against each other. The top 3 teams get a reward consisting of a rank or something like that.

But since this is a new thing here on Hollandcraft and I don't know what you guys want to do. I ask for your opinion on certain things:

On what day do you want this even to take place? Vote here.
At what time should the event take place? Vote here.
Do you want to play in a team or solo? Vote here.
And last but not least do you want to play UHC or something else? Vote here.

Votes so far (23-05):

I will consider your answers before making a final decision.

What does UHC mean?: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Ultra_hardcore_survival...

Dear players,

We currently have some trouble with our proxy servers, so we decided to delay the release of the new Factions to give all players a fair chance. The release will probably take place tomorrow afternoon.

If it isn't solved tomorrow afternoon, then the release will again be delayed with one day.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
~ Michel and the rest of our Staff Team

Dear players,

Months have you guys been talking about this, and now it is reality. The faction server has been reset.
Everything has been redone, and everything is gone. (The ranks stay!).
Everyone must start over.

The new factions has huge changes, you can blow up blocks with TNT, obsidian can be destroyed with five blasts of TNT or creepers.

We have chosen to give the warzone a new look. The warzone is now 1000 x 1000 blocks big, and the spawn is in the middle. In the warzone, are chests, loot chests, spread, where every few minutes, loot will be added, and everyone can take the loot.

There are also now spawners in the shop. Those spawners can be used to obtain things easier. Some spawners cannot be bought in the shop, but only available in crates, which brings me to the next point. The crates.

To reach the crates in game, you can do /warp crates. Then you arrive at a small canopy, with five crates.
The vote crate: you acquire a vote key when voting for the server by doing: /vote.
The common crate: you get in loot chests, which are scattered throughout the warzone.
The weird crate: you get in loot chests, which are scattered throughout the warzone.
The mythical crate: which can also be obtained in loot chests, which are scattered throughout the warzone.
The shop crate: which you can buy in the store.
The vote, common, rare and mythical keys are also available in the official Hollandcraft...

Do you guys want snow in our lobbies?

Dear players

The time has come that we renewed the skyblock server with a fresh one.
We had to at a certain point because if someone reached a big island they get bored, but also the plugin was not that great with the island limitations.

What's stayed and what changed?
Almost all of the the permissions that the old skyblock had stayed because those permissions were at his place.
What did go away is litteraly everything you had except your rank. So all the items you had were gone, islands, money, etc...
The things that changed is that we now use a new plugin where we get rid of the island limit so we can never run out of islands like we had with the old one.
And with almost every reset comes a new spawn (Picture will be found in a spoiler below).
Also some of the kits are removed, including food and eggs.

Are there suggestions added to the new skyblock?
It was hard to find some plugins for some of the suggestions but I did.
Suggestions from the Dutch website:
- Nether: Thanks to the new plugin we could add a nether, not the normal nether but a custom nether which has 2 islands. (Suggested by: Everyone)
- Pvp Arena: This is also added because I could think brighter about it than before we considered resetting the skyblock. (Suggested by: Everyone) (Picture will also be found in a spoiler below)
Suggestions from the English website:
- Trade plugin: This is also added and this plugin also supports economy plugins so you can trade with money. (Suggested...