changelogs
All PirateCraft changelogs are exported automatically from our Discord server and readable below!
This allows people without discord to keep up to date with changes!
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Changelogs from 2012-2019 were posted on the Forums, you can Read survival changelogs, website changelogs, Creative, Hub & Games changelogs.
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Development Server Recovered
We have a separate server we use for development, unfortunately recently the host of that server fully disabled/nuked it, which put me in a tough place, bad timing as we were trying to get back on top of things!
But, with a lot of patience and messing around, I managed to recover the entire servers contents myself, re-host it all and get it all back up and live again for us to continue to work, I was almost certain it was all gone and it was a long shot that paid off, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Just in-case anyone was wondering where I vanished to, problem solved.
Still haven't had a reply from that host. 
fml
Lets get back on track!
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Fixed Data Remediation for Claim names.
Restored all claim names and merged recently added names, so they should all be back.
I presume this file got wiped from back in April disk full issue due to the creation date of the new data file and nobody reported it until now!
Required full server stop to replace, no reload in-game for this plugin for if that happens again.
TIP: you can use /nameclaim <name> when standing in your claim for it to show up in /claimslist
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative 
@darthdayo04 reported an issue with connection issues and random kicks with the latest Minecraft client, so Ive been trying to look into that.
Updated ViaVersion the protocol hack plugin that lets newer clients connect to the older server software, this is the main plugin that does all the packet conversion from new clients to old server, so most all issues will come from this with rubber banding, connection issues, entities crashing your client etc.
Live on creative, but survival needs to reboot for it to take effect.
Changed setting fix-1_21-placement-rotation: true
Fixes 1.21+ clients on 1.20.5 servers placing water/lava buckets at the wrong location when moving fast, NOTE: This may cause issues with anti-cheat plugins.
Updated PlaceHolderAPI unrelated to new client issues, but they changed thier cloud URL, so I cant update placeholder addons until I upgrade this.
Updated Tebex store plugin on survival, again next reboot.
There are a plethora of other packet related plugins, but ViaVersion should do the conversion to them and they then interact with the server, i tried updating all of these but they in turn break other things, catch 22 being stuck on 1.18.2, right now its driving me insane being on such an old version.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed Backdated Bounties/bounties plugin to hopefully let you actually use it, for next Survival reboot.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added a plugin to prevent some abuse from hacked clients to both survival & creative for next reboot.
Development Servers
Added new backup system that works very well with snapshots & retention policies, took a bit of figuring out, but its absolutely solid, I will be changing the Production servers backup system to use this at some point now Ive run it on the dev servers.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added a bypass permission for @Moderator for above update.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed Properly backdated the /bounties plugin its now loading.
Figured out all the causes for breaking, we just need to be on a newer MC basically is the TLDR, this version is the older version without the custom GUI changes sadly.
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival & Creative
Added permissions for @Admin to be able to block commands live, in-case an exploit is found live and they dont have to wait for me then, temp disable something until a fix can be pushed.
List, add, remove & clear perms set, sent in admin chat.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend Server - all the backups!
Added new backup/restore tool to replace the old one for all critical server files be it Survival/Creative or any other files on the main system.
1000x faster than the previous system, Iām talking a snapshot takes seconds instead of hours.
Actually works
Does not consume ram all the time (We reclaimed a whopping 2.1gb ram from the server)
Encrypted & Compression on backups
Far superior backup retention, last 7 days, a copy of each week of the year, per month and yearly backups
The ability for me to pull files from any of these snapshots
Two snapshots a day! doubled baby!
CLI tools!
This took me a few days to complete it ended up being more complicated than anticipated, but I now also have notifications if anything goes wrong too.
Reclaimed 400+GB from backup box & 15+GB from the main machine when removing the old backup system.
Info, this isnāt the only backup system, we have multiple backup machines, just in case 
Your building/worlds are safe.
Staff
Removed a bunch of inactive staff, website updated (Some inactive staff are kept for emergencies, we all talk regularly)
Want to be a @Helper? Now is the time to submit! https://piratemc.com/information/staff-application/
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added auto ban for some bot accounts doing sus things
Fixed Death message for entity deaths in the arenas only being shown in the arenas.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend Server - New Operating system
Major upgrades today, our Operating system ended LTS, which meant it wouldn't get any more security updates, our Database also was end of life too, so it too wouldn't get any updates, so I took the morning to upgrade both and complete success! (nearly)
Disk backup Backed up the entire disks on the main server then
Upgraded our servers operating system TWO major versions, had to do it in steps, upgrade it once then upgraded it again, both went well, were now covered until 2030 for updates and security.
Upgraded Our MySQL database multiple major versions, this in itself was a massive maintenance task Ive been worried about, luckily it was all handed by the OS upgrades, its much faster now.
Fixed our wrapper, this is the thing that boots the minecraft servers/keeps them up, this seemed to be the only thing that broke in the updates, now I talked to the dev and he's fully stopping development of the wrapper we've used for 10+ years due to the changes to the linux environment that would require a lot of work to fix it up, i was able to patch it, but I will need to replace it soon.
I already have licenses for a new wrapper so I know what I will move to, I just need to find some more maintenance time to do the migration its going to be a bit of a job too.
Overall I'm happy with the outcome, jumping 2 major OS versions and getting the database done! Brilliant, I'm happy. I wanted to replace the wrapper anyway, this will just force me to do it.
Thank you for the patience for the downtime today for me to do this.
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Removed $299,998.75 from the eco pool (I reset my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 - Removed $299,998.75
Saturday, January 3, 2026 - Removed $244,802.37
[Saturday 26 July 2025- Removed $299,998.58](https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1398687942943309984)
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:38 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:20 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:53 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2022 12:37 PM
Monday, November 29, 2021 9:31 PM
Last time: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1457141969481498687
@Changelog Alerts 
Backend server - controller upgrade part 1/2 complete
Weāve officially migrated our server setup away from the wrapper Ive used for 10+ years over to a new, modern management platform (Partially). Creative is done, its up and running on the new system, I'm going to let this run for a few days before I do the same with survival to iron out any issues, that's part 2.
Added new modern management platform
Why was this important?
- Primarily because the old one partially broke and will no longer be supported, the developer has moved on and is using the same product we are now.
- Much more modern infrastructure behind the scenes
- Better toolkit for management for modifying things live
Hopefully everything goes smooth with keeping creative up & I can do survival soon and that will complete a full overhaul of the entire back-end that runs everything, were close!
@Changelog Alerts
Backend controller / Creative
Updated Creative servers java flags & increased RAM
Added daily restart for creative again (For maintenance) but its been up for 3 days fine on the new controller 20tps, I might not need to reboot it daily.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend server - controller upgrade part 2/2 complete - Survival moved!
Survival has now successfully been moved to the new controller at lightning speed this morning!
Now its time to do the cleanup and snag list for things that will break with this! 
Migrated Survival to new controller - up and running!
Updated ViaVersion to latest snapshot (packets for newer clients on the older server software)
Updated PacketEvents a packet plugin API for other plugins, but this again handles packets for newer clients.
Updated LibsDisguises the plugin that handles packet disguises for custom mobs, again for newer clients.
I'm still trying to find the cause of the packet issue (You get kicked with network error on some newer clients) for newer clients, its just very hard to update plugins on such old server software without something breaking, I got lucky this morning that I was able to update PacketEvents and LibsDisguises without breaking anything (that I know of...)
That completes an enormous overhaul of the entire backend and sets us up for the coming years for upgrading the server
@Changelog Alerts
Creative
Fixed permissions loading
Fixed Schematics folder
@Changelog Alerts
Backend server - controller
Fixed the timezone for the scheduler running in UTC instead of GMT+1 BST.
Fixed scheduler running all commands, aka the crate key drop command
@Changelog Alerts
Backend server - controller
Fixed all automated scripts working on new controller
Staff world will copy from survival to creative automatically again
/shoplog is updating again
Blood tide events now back on
Bans website is updating again https://bans.piratemc.com/
That ended up taking more time than moving the entire server lol
@Changelog Alerts
ļø Website maintenance
Changed/fixed location of backups and method to prevent the disk filling up and crashing the website daily
Cleaned up some crud from the OS filesystem
Updated website & plugins
Removed some old plugins
Backend
Added secondary backup to backup the new controller location, cant have too many backups!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Updated the Anti Xray configs to be less aggressive, but reduced the log to pick cheaters up sooner.
Development servers
Fixed servers auto booting when the host reboots the box & made the proxy auto update itself on reboot. @CallieMav @Drbipper
Proxy server
Updated proxy server so its ready for 26.3 clients (waiting on viaversion to drop)
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Updated ViaVersion so now latest client can join the 1.18.2 servers! Rebooted both servers so its live and ready for weekend playing.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Update to all the custom mobs at /warp bloodsands
Fixes escaping and them getting started!
Massive thanks to @CallieMav
Fixed OS based scripts running such as Blood Tide are now back on!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed /sellclaimblocks /buyclaimblocks logging, was hard coded to old path.
Fixed Backup scripts for /restore for @Admin to new paths for worlds.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend
Some more vital backend work Ive been meaning to do for a very, very long time, you wont see any benefit other than the main server will have more resources while they happen. These are for our daily world snapshots for //restore for admins.
Rewrote the scripts that handle snapshot backups, been on my todo for a while.
Wont inflate the disk temp storage running the risk of a full disk
Uses better stack for copying
Faster
Uses less CPU resources
One script for all server(s) instead of multiple
Better security
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
A blood moon rises
Added Blood Moon for Autumn 2026!
Every 8 days an eclipse covers the Pirating world, The full moon moves into the shadow of the Earth cast by the sun, and is momentarily darkened...
Illuminating with an ashen to dark red glow, the blood moon rises, bringing with it, untold horrors.
All mobs will drop special loot during a blood moon
All Mobs will be stronger with more health and damage during a blood moon
All mobs can apply special effects during a blood moon
You can not sleep during a blood moon, and dying during a blood moon will drain all your experience!
/guide bloodmoon & /events
https://discord.gg/piratecraft-139382225375330305?event=1552617395846123540
Updated premium suite of essentials plugin and dependency (Updated 3 versions)
This introduces a fix for a 10+ year old bug, that allows the use of homes you no longer have permission for, so ranks that had higher homes, the homes were made and then that permission expired, could still access, theres now a fix, but its not a good fix, as it wont let you use any homes at all until you delete some to meet your home limits, so for now Ive disabled this, but this fix will come in to patch this bug once it lets you just use the latest homes you made not require a deletion. Take this as a per-warning to clean up your old homes you no longer need.
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Fixed tab for @Admin for /inv new version required an additional perm
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Added new Bloodmoon 2026 Treasure chest at /warp cove
New 5 star item! Thanks @Drbipper
Added Crafting recipe, use your bloodmoon fragments in a line in a table and create a key!
/events & /guide bloodmoon
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Added server list MOTD for Blood moon
Added /motd when you log in for Blood moon
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Updated /events for all Bloodmoon, Blood Sands & Voidmaw battles.
Updated /guide bloodmoon to have the correct days
Updated Blood Moon message to include note about /guide bloodmoon for new players
Updated Premium essentials plugin dependency plugin, this should fix the issue with the portal at /spawn that makes you randomly teleport around the world, takes effect next reboot.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Teleport requests for people with warmups changed and I missed it in the changelogs!
/tpaccept with warmup, the player will be teleported to the location that the accept was accepted, not where the player currently has moved to since the warmup has taken place, its now tied to the location not the player.
Fixed /wild random teleport at spawn portal, deleted it and re-made it and it worked for whatever reason.
Added /kit 14years we will be 14 years old tomorrow on the 27th! Crazy! Thanks to @Drbipper for the kit!
Removed kit xmas2025, NY2026
@Changelog Alerts 
Happy 14th Birthday to PirateCraft!
Added OldSalt Rank to everyone for 24 hours!
Adds Instant Teleport
Adds /back /condense /near /top /hat & /ender
Adds Color to all signs/books
Adds Use of all ship types from navigator
Adds You will be pink!
Remember to pick up your /kit 14years 
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Survival
Changed teleport settings again, Iām trying to figure out what the previous teleport was setup like, theres no changelogs that really explain what changed and nobody is being clear with me, so here are the actual settings I can toggle, so far we had them both set to true, people complained, then we tried it both set to false, people complained, so im trying this for next reboot, TPA goes to player and tpahere goes to location it was set. hopefully this is the winning combo.
As for the interaction for chests etc cancelling the teleport with no message, that has to be a bug, because there is absolute no setting for me to change for that, i've made a bug report already.
CurrentLoc:
# Applies for tpa, tpahere and tpaall only
# If set to true then player will be teleported to current player position after accepting teleport request
# If set to false then player will be teleported to player at which teleport request was issued
tpa: true
# Applies for tpahere only
tpahere: false
Added /down for @Admin opposite of /top
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Updated premium suite of essentials plugin.
The developer has added a config option just for PirateCraft to allow using chests etc while in the warmup period! How brilliant is that, not even 12 hours after asking him, It may require another reboot to take effect, so tomorrow but he added it just for us!
Updated CoreProtect logging plugin
@Changelog Alerts
Backend
Fixed an issue with diskspace getting full again, purged an almighty large 180gb database down to 90gb, took a few days of pottering around, but all back up with a lot more space now!
Going to swap out fixed icon from changed too, very different things!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Added New premium crates plugin for next reboot.
The old (current) one is deprecated, no longer maintained or updated.
100x easier to make crates, faster, cleaner & staff can make crates themselves on the development servers
Many many new features (we wont use yet)
Same drop rates as current plugin
Future proof
* No crates are ready, but I will slowly replace things, like vote etc, this is initial setup.*
ļø Deprecated all previous crates. Use your keys up.
The current crate plugin will be removed in the future, along with the old crates from history, so use your old keys up now!
I will be running both plugins side by side while I go through the process of replacing current perm crates.
I will send out an alert into announcements nearer to the time of complete removal. All old crates will be removed so you need to use your keys.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Removed birthday message from /motd
Changed natural mob spawning is now disabled at /warp cove /spawn /shops /warp north,south,east,west
Spawners still work like /warp spawner
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Added latest Build of the month entries at /warp botm you can go view them now!
Added a copy of all maps to a chest where you last logged off @Ironicset @lazydog11 @Olveron and @TobySF
Added new BOTM blog post! https://piratemc.com/2026/10/07/build-of-the-month-competition-summer-2026/
@Changelog Alerts 
Creative
Fixed a lag issue
Proxy
Updated the tab list for blood sands to include /quests and when golden wake is active to include it too, so people can look up what it is.
I'm contemplating adding 4 and 5 star items into an NPC or something as I showed off a bunch and nobody had seen them before
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed /warp spawner
@Changelog Alerts
Development Server Recovered
We have a separate server we use for development, unfortunately recently the host of that server fully disabled/nuked it, which put me in a tough place, bad timing as we were trying to get back on top of things!
But, with a lot of patience and messing around, I managed to recover the entire servers contents myself, re-host it all and get it all back up and live again for us to continue to work, I was almost certain it was all gone and it was a long shot that paid off, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Just in-case anyone was wondering where I vanished to, problem solved.
Still haven't had a reply from that host. fml
Lets get back on track!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Data Remediation for Claim names.
Restored all claim names and merged recently added names, so they should all be back.
I presume this file got wiped from back in April disk full issue due to the creation date of the new data file and nobody reported it until now!
Required full server stop to replace, no reload in-game for this plugin for if that happens again.
TIP: you can use /nameclaim <name> when standing in your claim for it to show up in /claimslist
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
@darthdayo04 reported an issue with connection issues and random kicks with the latest Minecraft client, so Ive been trying to look into that.
Updated ViaVersion the protocol hack plugin that lets newer clients connect to the older server software, this is the main plugin that does all the packet conversion from new clients to old server, so most all issues will come from this with rubber banding, connection issues, entities crashing your client etc.
Live on creative, but survival needs to reboot for it to take effect.
Changed setting fix-1_21-placement-rotation: true
Fixes 1.21+ clients on 1.20.5 servers placing water/lava buckets at the wrong location when moving fast, NOTE: This may cause issues with anti-cheat plugins.
Updated PlaceHolderAPI unrelated to new client issues, but they changed thier cloud URL, so I cant update placeholder addons until I upgrade this.
Updated Tebex store plugin on survival, again next reboot.
There are a plethora of other packet related plugins, but ViaVersion should do the conversion to them and they then interact with the server, i tried updating all of these but they in turn break other things, catch 22 being stuck on 1.18.2, right now its driving me insane being on such an old version.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Backdated Bounties/bounties plugin to hopefully let you actually use it, for next Survival reboot.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added a plugin to prevent some abuse from hacked clients to both survival & creative for next reboot.
Development Servers
Added new backup system that works very well with snapshots & retention policies, took a bit of figuring out, but its absolutely solid, I will be changing the Production servers backup system to use this at some point now Ive run it on the dev servers.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added a bypass permission for @Moderator for above update.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Properly backdated the /bounties plugin its now loading.
Figured out all the causes for breaking, we just need to be on a newer MC basically is the TLDR, this version is the older version without the custom GUI changes sadly.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added permissions for @Admin to be able to block commands live, in-case an exploit is found live and they dont have to wait for me then, temp disable something until a fix can be pushed.
List, add, remove & clear perms set, sent in admin chat.
@Changelog Alerts Backend Server - all the backups!
Added new backup/restore tool to replace the old one for all critical server files be it Survival/Creative or any other files on the main system.
1000x faster than the previous system, Iām talking a snapshot takes seconds instead of hours.
Actually works
Does not consume ram all the time (We reclaimed a whopping 2.1gb ram from the server)
Encrypted & Compression on backups
Far superior backup retention, last 7 days, a copy of each week of the year, per month and yearly backups
The ability for me to pull files from any of these snapshots
Two snapshots a day! doubled baby!
CLI tools!
This took me a few days to complete it ended up being more complicated than anticipated, but I now also have notifications if anything goes wrong too.
Reclaimed 400+GB from backup box & 15+GB from the main machine when removing the old backup system.
Info, this isnāt the only backup system, we have multiple backup machines, just in case Your building/worlds are safe.
Staff
Removed a bunch of inactive staff, website updated (Some inactive staff are kept for emergencies, we all talk regularly)
Want to be a @Helper? Now is the time to submit! https://piratemc.com/information/staff-application/
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added auto ban for some bot accounts doing sus things
Fixed Death message for entity deaths in the arenas only being shown in the arenas.
@Changelog Alerts Backend Server - New Operating system
Major upgrades today, our Operating system ended LTS, which meant it wouldn't get any more security updates, our Database also was end of life too, so it too wouldn't get any updates, so I took the morning to upgrade both and complete success! (nearly)
Disk backup Backed up the entire disks on the main server then
Upgraded our servers operating system TWO major versions, had to do it in steps, upgrade it once then upgraded it again, both went well, were now covered until 2030 for updates and security.
Upgraded Our MySQL database multiple major versions, this in itself was a massive maintenance task Ive been worried about, luckily it was all handed by the OS upgrades, its much faster now.
Fixed our wrapper, this is the thing that boots the minecraft servers/keeps them up, this seemed to be the only thing that broke in the updates, now I talked to the dev and he's fully stopping development of the wrapper we've used for 10+ years due to the changes to the linux environment that would require a lot of work to fix it up, i was able to patch it, but I will need to replace it soon.
I already have licenses for a new wrapper so I know what I will move to, I just need to find some more maintenance time to do the migration its going to be a bit of a job too.
Overall I'm happy with the outcome, jumping 2 major OS versions and getting the database done! Brilliant, I'm happy. I wanted to replace the wrapper anyway, this will just force me to do it.
Thank you for the patience for the downtime today for me to do this.
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Removed $299,998.75 from the eco pool (I reset my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 - Removed $299,998.75
Saturday, January 3, 2026 - Removed $244,802.37
[Saturday 26 July 2025- Removed $299,998.58](https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1398687942943309984)
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:38 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:20 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:53 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2022 12:37 PM
Monday, November 29, 2021 9:31 PM
Last time: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1457141969481498687
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller upgrade part 1/2 complete
Weāve officially migrated our server setup away from the wrapper Ive used for 10+ years over to a new, modern management platform (Partially). Creative is done, its up and running on the new system, I'm going to let this run for a few days before I do the same with survival to iron out any issues, that's part 2.
Added new modern management platform
Why was this important?
- Primarily because the old one partially broke and will no longer be supported, the developer has moved on and is using the same product we are now.
- Much more modern infrastructure behind the scenes
- Better toolkit for management for modifying things live
Hopefully everything goes smooth with keeping creative up & I can do survival soon and that will complete a full overhaul of the entire back-end that runs everything, were close!
@Changelog Alerts
Backend controller / Creative
Updated Creative servers java flags & increased RAM
Added daily restart for creative again (For maintenance) but its been up for 3 days fine on the new controller 20tps, I might not need to reboot it daily.
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller upgrade part 2/2 complete - Survival moved!
Survival has now successfully been moved to the new controller at lightning speed this morning!
Now its time to do the cleanup and snag list for things that will break with this!
Migrated Survival to new controller - up and running!
Updated ViaVersion to latest snapshot (packets for newer clients on the older server software)
Updated PacketEvents a packet plugin API for other plugins, but this again handles packets for newer clients.
Updated LibsDisguises the plugin that handles packet disguises for custom mobs, again for newer clients.
I'm still trying to find the cause of the packet issue (You get kicked with network error on some newer clients) for newer clients, its just very hard to update plugins on such old server software without something breaking, I got lucky this morning that I was able to update PacketEvents and LibsDisguises without breaking anything (that I know of...)
That completes an enormous overhaul of the entire backend and sets us up for the coming years for upgrading the server
@Changelog Alerts Creative
Fixed permissions loading
Fixed Schematics folder
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller
Fixed the timezone for the scheduler running in UTC instead of GMT+1 BST.
Fixed scheduler running all commands, aka the crate key drop command
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller
Fixed all automated scripts working on new controller
Staff world will copy from survival to creative automatically again
/shoplog is updating again
Blood tide events now back on
Bans website is updating again https://bans.piratemc.com/
That ended up taking more time than moving the entire server lol
@Changelog Alertsļø Website maintenance
Changed/fixed location of backups and method to prevent the disk filling up and crashing the website daily
Cleaned up some crud from the OS filesystem
Updated website & plugins
Removed some old plugins
Backend
Added secondary backup to backup the new controller location, cant have too many backups!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Updated the Anti Xray configs to be less aggressive, but reduced the log to pick cheaters up sooner.
Development servers
Fixed servers auto booting when the host reboots the box & made the proxy auto update itself on reboot. @CallieMav @Drbipper
Proxy server
Updated proxy server so its ready for 26.3 clients (waiting on viaversion to drop)
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Updated ViaVersion so now latest client can join the 1.18.2 servers! Rebooted both servers so its live and ready for weekend playing.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Update to all the custom mobs at /warp bloodsands
Fixes escaping and them getting started!
Massive thanks to @CallieMav
Fixed OS based scripts running such as Blood Tide are now back on!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed /sellclaimblocks /buyclaimblocks logging, was hard coded to old path.
Fixed Backup scripts for /restore for @Admin to new paths for worlds.
@Changelog Alerts Backend
Some more vital backend work Ive been meaning to do for a very, very long time, you wont see any benefit other than the main server will have more resources while they happen. These are for our daily world snapshots for //restore for admins.
Rewrote the scripts that handle snapshot backups, been on my todo for a while.
Wont inflate the disk temp storage running the risk of a full disk
Uses better stack for copying
Faster
Uses less CPU resources
One script for all server(s) instead of multiple
Better security
@Changelog Alerts Survival
A blood moon rises
Added Blood Moon for Autumn 2026!
Every 8 days an eclipse covers the Pirating world, The full moon moves into the shadow of the Earth cast by the sun, and is momentarily darkened...
Illuminating with an ashen to dark red glow, the blood moon rises, bringing with it, untold horrors.
All mobs will drop special loot during a blood moon
All Mobs will be stronger with more health and damage during a blood moon
All mobs can apply special effects during a blood moon
You can not sleep during a blood moon, and dying during a blood moon will drain all your experience!
/guide bloodmoon & /events
https://discord.gg/piratecraft-139382225375330305?event=1552617395846123540
Updated premium suite of essentials plugin and dependency (Updated 3 versions)
This introduces a fix for a 10+ year old bug, that allows the use of homes you no longer have permission for, so ranks that had higher homes, the homes were made and then that permission expired, could still access, theres now a fix, but its not a good fix, as it wont let you use any homes at all until you delete some to meet your home limits, so for now Ive disabled this, but this fix will come in to patch this bug once it lets you just use the latest homes you made not require a deletion. Take this as a per-warning to clean up your old homes you no longer need.
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Fixed tab for @Admin for /inv new version required an additional perm
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Added new Bloodmoon 2026 Treasure chest at /warp cove
New 5 star item! Thanks @Drbipper
Added Crafting recipe, use your bloodmoon fragments in a line in a table and create a key!
/events & /guide bloodmoon
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Added server list MOTD for Blood moon
Added /motd when you log in for Blood moon
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Updated /events for all Bloodmoon, Blood Sands & Voidmaw battles.
Updated /guide bloodmoon to have the correct days
Updated Blood Moon message to include note about /guide bloodmoon for new players
Updated Premium essentials plugin dependency plugin, this should fix the issue with the portal at /spawn that makes you randomly teleport around the world, takes effect next reboot.
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Teleport requests for people with warmups changed and I missed it in the changelogs!
/tpaccept with warmup, the player will be teleported to the location that the accept was accepted, not where the player currently has moved to since the warmup has taken place, its now tied to the location not the player.
Fixed /wild random teleport at spawn portal, deleted it and re-made it and it worked for whatever reason.
Added /kit 14years we will be 14 years old tomorrow on the 27th! Crazy! Thanks to @Drbipper for the kit!
Removed kit xmas2025, NY2026
@Changelog Alerts Happy 14th Birthday to PirateCraft!
Added OldSalt Rank to everyone for 24 hours!
Adds Instant Teleport
Adds /back /condense /near /top /hat & /ender
Adds Color to all signs/books
Adds Use of all ship types from navigator
Adds You will be pink!
Remember to pick up your /kit 14years
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Changed teleport settings again, Iām trying to figure out what the previous teleport was setup like, theres no changelogs that really explain what changed and nobody is being clear with me, so here are the actual settings I can toggle, so far we had them both set to true, people complained, then we tried it both set to false, people complained, so im trying this for next reboot, TPA goes to player and tpahere goes to location it was set. hopefully this is the winning combo.
As for the interaction for chests etc cancelling the teleport with no message, that has to be a bug, because there is absolute no setting for me to change for that, i've made a bug report already.
CurrentLoc:
# Applies for tpa, tpahere and tpaall only
# If set to true then player will be teleported to current player position after accepting teleport request
# If set to false then player will be teleported to player at which teleport request was issued
tpa: true
# Applies for tpahere only
tpahere: false
Added /down for @Admin opposite of /top
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Updated premium suite of essentials plugin.
The developer has added a config option just for PirateCraft to allow using chests etc while in the warmup period! How brilliant is that, not even 12 hours after asking him, It may require another reboot to take effect, so tomorrow but he added it just for us!
Updated CoreProtect logging plugin
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Fixed an issue with diskspace getting full again, purged an almighty large 180gb database down to 90gb, took a few days of pottering around, but all back up with a lot more space now!
Going to swap out fixed icon from changed too, very different things!
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Added New premium crates plugin for next reboot.
The old (current) one is deprecated, no longer maintained or updated.
100x easier to make crates, faster, cleaner & staff can make crates themselves on the development servers
Many many new features (we wont use yet)
Same drop rates as current plugin
Future proof
* No crates are ready, but I will slowly replace things, like vote etc, this is initial setup.*
ļø Deprecated all previous crates. Use your keys up.
The current crate plugin will be removed in the future, along with the old crates from history, so use your old keys up now!
I will be running both plugins side by side while I go through the process of replacing current perm crates.
I will send out an alert into announcements nearer to the time of complete removal. All old crates will be removed so you need to use your keys.
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Removed birthday message from /motd
Changed natural mob spawning is now disabled at /warp cove /spawn /shops /warp north,south,east,west
Spawners still work like /warp spawner
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Added latest Build of the month entries at /warp botm you can go view them now!
Added a copy of all maps to a chest where you last logged off @Ironicset @lazydog11 @Olveron and @TobySF
Added new BOTM blog post! https://piratemc.com/2026/10/07/build-of-the-month-competition-summer-2026/
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Fixed a lag issue
Proxy
Updated the tab list for blood sands to include /quests and when golden wake is active to include it too, so people can look up what it is.
I'm contemplating adding 4 and 5 star items into an NPC or something as I showed off a bunch and nobody had seen them before
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Fixed /warp spawner
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