changelogs
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Website
This was my last major update to the website update project before moving back to server based stuff. (I still need to do a minor one when you see my next update...)
Added Store page back after 5 years! you can now see your contributor perks!
https://piratemc.com/store/
Fixed Cache on website, somehow I had this turned off at Cloudflare & locally! No idea how Ive done that, pages should get faster.
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Discord
Added @Contributor able to post in #💬│live_gamechat again, if it gets abused @Moderator will just set the global discord mute to prevent use on that pirate. Hopefully it doesn't get spammy.
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Survival
Added Ship type Dreadnought this is a 5000-8500 size ship above Indiaman for the @Contributor rank Major.
Its an indiaman, thats bigger.
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Survival
Fixed hopefully fixed the NPC at cove for the latest @Contributor
Manually set to @Nick_A_Naut as you was the last!
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Store
Fixed Annual Major rank gifts accepting the variables selected at checkout.
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Fixed Vote 4
Fixed Vote 4 site, they did a full re-brand, new design, new url the works, had to set it all up again.
https://piratemc.com/vote4
https://www.minerank.com/piratecraft
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Survival
Updated all the /advent related code, permissions, schedules to update the advent kit to 2025.
Added a NPC at cove with a little snowman prison build & jump pads to get your advent kit!
Updated all the advent kits from last year to include players username in them to make them slightly unique from last year, I really didnt think I would have time to get this advent up, and only remembered today!
Updated /motd to remove Black friday deal (On time for once) and to add about the advent. For the super lazy people you can just click this message to open advent without even typing the command 
Updated Log in bossbar that pops up to remove black friday deal and to advertise the advent kit.
Check out #🎉│giveaway-events for when they drop, it drops server time GMT 10:45am after reboot, as we had issues with permissons saving over reboots before with the automated permissions being added, absolutly no idea why, but it was an issue last time.
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Survival
Advent day 2 manually added as I had the server offline for a bit this morning for maintenance.
Survival & Creative
Update Chat Plugin.
Ive been putting this one off, as something always breaks, but this is an enormous update that changes all configs, is a major re-write for like 80% of the plugin, but its required for 1.21+ so Ive jumped in today and let it auto convert our configs to the latest ones.
I can already see a plethora of issues in the console, so I'm going to slowly start tackling them one by one, for things you find can you post them into;
Issues, bugs, formatting problems throw issues into #🐛│bugs
Suggestions can go into #deleted-channel
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
Updated chat plugins cross-server plugin
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Survival
Fixed join/leave messages.
The chat plugin is fully broken with these messages, I spent hours trying to fix it, testing, its the plugin, made a report & swapped to our premium essentials plugin to handle the messages, annoyingly I had to enable essentialsX join/leave and set to blank, so that I could remove the vanilla join/leave messages, so its not the tidiest method, until Chat Plugin fixes their mess.
But... I'm able to use any placeholder I want in the messages, for now ive just set server time, but we could show anyhting, player bal or playtime when they log in if we wanted.
Sadly. this can be used to spam chat, as this system does not have any of the spam prevention features the chat plugin has to prevent it, so @Moderator @Helper if anyone does use it to spam just give them a temp ban.
Removed the bounty message when people log in with a bounty, somehow this randomly started working after the chat plugin no longer hijacks it, this will take effect next reboot.
I cant express how long this took, testing on a fresh 1.18.2 server with default configs was my answer to it being broken in the plugin and not my configs... drives me NUTS this chat plugin, every time we update it breaks something insane.
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Survival
Changed how you claim bounties, you should no longer need to track a player to claim a bounty now.
You still have the option to track a bounty, but the player will be alerted you did this, but then again you are basically tracking their location, so they should be told! But now, you have the option to collect a bounty without having to track them!
Thanks to #💡│suggestions #deleted-channel via @micqi
Untested, may need a restart. Give me feedback in #deleted-channel once you have tested it. if it dousnt work, wait until restart then try again.
Added 100% drop of the player head when a bounty is collected to the creator of the bounty. You'll collect via /redeembountyheads
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Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Changed all swear filters, after spending an hour on one set and replacing them all, instantly bypassed 20 seconds after being live, put back to similar ones, but more robust.
Fixed being able to write things like "analytics" at the cost of that the word "anal" is easily abused now, but it solves normal talking.
Changed IP & Website regex filters, but ive already seen a false posative using a command(s) so i will have to either revert or try and fix tomorrow, it solved being able to write "id" but gained other issues, its very hard to get proper good regex, even with AIs help.
Partial fix to discord chat in-game, username dousnt dispaly twice, it somehow can check who you are in-game, i show up as my actual name with colors now, but for the life of my I cant figure out why the text is always &0 this isnt anywhere in the code.
Removed some rarly used bad words
TLDR; stil needs work, just give feedback in #deleted-channel for now, so its all in one place for me.
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Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed Discord chat formatting, this was one a sod to figure out, but we've come out of it with more features!
It now displays your username color & hover details as tho you are in-game!
Fixed A ton of formatting issues with missives & /motd showing brackets.
Reverted IP & domain filtering, its the same as what we had before, just more performant way to do it, If you find false positives can you please post to either #🐛│bugs or #deleted-channel asap while im in these configs, so we can get them resolved now.
Still got a few more big ones to figure out, /me Im not sure why its not registering and staff cant use color codes in chat anywhere unless we use /chc color to pick an overall color.
But overall im getting there! I knew it would be a pig to sort out after this update, also no feedback from the devs on their broken quit messages!
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Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed All color replacements for Emojis/Smilies are back, no longer crashes the latest client.
:finger: and willybob are back!
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Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed Next reboot, should fix /me not working, there are 4 plugins tring to do it, and they all unregister the command so nobody gets it! Forced it for next reboot hopefully.
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Added Players /tag for when you log in, so you could select say "PvP time!" to alert people you want to fight, or "Building" and peolpe know you want to build, or just as a way to have a custom login for you, this is available to everyone, not permission based.
Might not keep it if people think its spammy, I just thought of it and thought it was cute 
took 2 seconds to add so itll take 2 seconds to remove if we want it removed.
Put more /tag ideas in #💡│suggestions we can always throw them into the NPC at cove to buy with in-game money.
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Fixing Store Subscriptions
Fixed Commands running for first time on purchase, they wasn't running on initial purchase and was waiting for the renewal.
Given the first ever subscriber £1000 in-game for this report.
Survival
Fixed Chat colors working in chat, it turned out to just be my rank specifically that it wasn't working and just needed a perm!
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Survival
Changed The chat discord intergration back to what it used to be, a solid color, because the dynamic name/colors thing is so inconsistent, this should just be consistent, everyone one discord color, ive opened a ticket with the chat plugin devs to report the issues so hopefully they fix because it was so cool having all the player info in-game when it was used.
Added hover over text to explain contributors can use that feature.
Added missive for Autumn keys, I forgot I have to add this each time.
Added missive for major rank and its features
Removed the banner from the tebex store for sale
Disabled the /me command in Essentails config for next reboot to see if this is being a pain
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Survival
Solved /me not working, it was an investigation. Back up and working.
It wasnt being sent to the server, so I couldnt verbose it, see logs or anything its like the client wasnt sending it. Turns out, when I updated the proxy plugin, it renamed the folder with a capital letter, so made a new folder with fresh configs, that wouldnt have been an issue, except they moved /me into the proxy to make it cross-server instead of on the server side, and it was enabled by default, but didnt actually work, disabled that, rebooted proxy and I was able to re-bind me to the chat plugin. I still have the issue of the vanilla bukkit /me trying to be the main me, but thats one for another day.
What a headache for something so basic, but I couldnt just leave it, was driving me nuts.
Solves the bug that allowed colors in /me that we had previous.
Added /emote alias for it
Added your local time when people join/quit the server in additon to server time, so you get a good idea.
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Survival
Updated/Fixed New player message & added XP boost when new people join.
Moved the new player message to premium essentials I cant get the chat plugin join event to work at all, i slightly foramtted the message to look prettier.
Everyone online will now get a 5 min 1.5x XP boost when a new player joins.
Statistic Events!
The Skeleton Hunt ended!
@Grasco
@LittleStarGoose
@JCardell
We have 3 more statistic events that have started!
Present plunder
Bloody seas
Frozen Expedition
These are all timed, so get statistic hunting! All previous events will forever be shown at;
️ https://stats.piratemc.com/#events
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Survival
Fixed Players with uuids that started with d having their [item] broken in game because it got replaced with a smiley face from the chat plugin =D was green, it is no more! @Tulipss
I may swap the chat priority for the chat plugin to lowest, I just know something else will break tho, so RIP =D being green
Updated Global XP Boosts for new users and when people rank up to a new command that checks if there's already an XPBoost active, and if its not as good as that one, it wont replace it, I gotta find all the other places we do a global XP boost now and replace those! throw them into #💡│suggestions if you know where else I have them...
Fixed The dodgy formatting for the new Major rank notification, its using different color code system, apparently I cant mix and match with the old one.
Added motherfucker to filter as requested.
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Survival
In preparation for 1.21 testing, Ive put my server configs into AI and asked it to check specifically for mob spawn issues, and it found both a conflict between files and a massive performance issue that was overlooked.
Buffed Monster spawning slightly.
Increased spawn-limits (bukkit)
Doubled the mob-spawn-range (spigot)
Buffed soft and hard de-spawn ranges, The Invisible Wall (paper)
Buffed entity-activation-range, so when they spawn they don't just act like statues frozen (spigot)
Nerfed axolotl spawns, for some insane reason, it was set to check every tick, so that's 20 times per second, so since we've been running that for 3 years, maybe nerfing that and improving monster spawns will be a good balance.
Since we just rebooted a few mins ago, thats now live, so your job is to see if its made a difference and my job will be to make sure performance doesn't tank, if it does i will reduce monster spawns again.
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Survival
A few more changes for next reboot for gameplay behavior to save a bit more resources.
Ive done these changes for next reboot, so then you have a day of just monster changes before these ones kick in, just so there's not so many changes at once.
Nerfed Anti-xray to just show all blocks as stone instead of spending CPU to calculate patterns of ores around the player, slightly reduce CPU load.
Nerfed Removed AI from pigmen spawned via nether portals nerf-pigmen-from-nether-portals specifically for gold farms, they will still have all their drops, but basic AI, not their full walling around doing stuff, just not needed for being thrown into a meat grinder to steal their gold, just ones out of portals.
Changed Disabled Villager panic mode, I'm not sure this one is even active, but Ive enabled it anyway, If a zombie gets near a villager trading hall, every single villager will activate their AI to panic and run around, but I think Ive removed their brains anyway, so this one might not make any difference.
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Discord
Gave out prizes for first Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Added a new giveaway for Autumn 2025
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Survival & Creative
Updated Protocol hack plugin to allow 1.21.11 clients onto the 1.18.2 server.
Proxy
Updated proxy server to allow 1.21.11 clients.
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Test server
Fully wiped for live development of 1.21.10/11/x
Ive started work on testing plugins on 1.21.10 live on test server, public so you can join at any point to play/test.
Im using 1.21.10 right now as 1.21.11 only jsut dropped and plugins are not ready for it, I added ViaVersion so you can use the 1.21.11 client.
The plan is to slowly add more plugins bit by bit over time and test them. we have 89 plugins right now, all of these need to be updated by their developers to work with 1.21.10/x.
Updated test server to 1.21.10 with fresh configs
Ive spent the last few days going through all the bukkit/spigot/paper/purpur configs, there is a lot.. im bound to have missed something.
Updated World to match survivals
Updated Database to match survivals
Added 20 plugins out of our 89 to test the core basics of world protection, just the basics
Griefprevention (Not siege yet), Bans
Cannons
Chat plugin
World Border & Dependancy
NPCs
Premium Essentails (homes, warps etc)
Essentails (bal)
Tags
Custom server shops NPCs
Permissions
AntiCheat
Multiple world plugin & nether addon
Placeholders
Protocol stuff & getting newer clients on
Tab
WE
WG
The plan
- build a team of trusted players to work alongside staff to help get this tested as fast as possible, custom rank, custom area on the discord, special tags etc to keep forever once were all done, itll be an invite only system, its not made yet
- Make the global chat channel on test its own channel thats syned with survival to show up as another channel in survival staff can see
- Add a fresh 1.21.10 world to experment in and play about with new stuff
️ live development enviroment at its very infancy, dont report that plugins dont work, they are not on the server!
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Whole Network
Updated the wrapper that runs the server so I could get newer minecraft servers to run.
Test server
Bug Can't get Essentails to boot as its trying to convert half a million user files Crashes the server, absolutle solid work Essentails team. First major bug to solve, thats where your /bal is, maybe its time to kill it off entirely and fully move to premium essentails plugin, that has its own Eco system.
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Survival
Changed for next rebootWither Skeleton drops related to #deleted-channel the outcome was;
This was changed years ago to test mob drops and reduce the chance of drops due to massive farms, but overlooked looting_multiplier for event items, which worked.
Added coal drops back
Removed sunflower drops (Im unsure if this ever worked)
Nerfed looting multiplier, there is no way to set a cap of say looting 3, so any event items say looting 4 or 5 work still, its just been reduced multiplier, kept the chance the same.
Sadly theres no way to recover the beacon market, once created these items dont expire with infinite mobs spawning its an infinite pool that only goes downwards for beacons in the marketplace.
Only way to recover would be to have them as an ingredient for brewing, crafting or a currency for something (Put them in a cannon to fire LOL)
Test Server (1.21.10+ testing)
/server test | test.piratemc.com
Fixed world changing permission issue, unrelated to new version, was set to survival only.
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Discord
Reduced cooldown time on messages for #💡│suggestions & #🐛│bugs the giant paragraphs without people using SHIFT+Enter for new lines is driving me nuts 
Added new tags to #💡│suggestions & #🐛│bugs to suggest & report bugs for upgrading to 1.21+ thats in development on the test server. A place to put your ideas now and tag it properly.
I plan to have a temp new generated world for resources, knowing that will cut down on most suggestions.
Created #🧪│1_21_dev discord forum for all my development woes, I would usually have one giant project in the staff forum, but im going to need help, a lot of it, this will be invite only as this isn't the place to flood with your suggestions, that can go into the new tag for #💡│suggestions and can be reviewed later, straight up for people that will actually be on the front-lines testing & helping and not making my life harder.
Good time to speak up if you want to help with plugins and configs! 
Added discord role @Navigator which will now sync with in-game rank Navigator
All Servers
Updated navigator rank, this is the rank that unlocks all ships for events, well im re-using it, ive bumped its suffix to pass contributor so it shows up as an anchor, this will be the rank we use for special permissions on test server & discord sync
Added 2 commands for @Moderator @Admin /addnavigator <username> /removenavigator <username> Adds a user to navigator rank for 1 week, it stacks, or directly with;
/lp user <username> parent addtemp navigator <username>
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Discord
Gave our prizes for Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Created new giveaway for Autumn 2025 keys
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Website
Fixed http not redirecting to Https. Not sure why this turned itself off, maybe from the cloudflare issues? Thanks @Nick_A_Naut 
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Store
⭐ 29 day sale for 20% off everything in the store (bar annual & subscriptions)
No need for a coupon code! Applied directly! All sales show up in /store
Added a key all drop for an Autumn 2025 key for everyone online for every sale in this winter sale!
/store
https://piratemc.com/store/
Requested via @Texacq
Survival
Added permission for everyone to /kitpreview botm1 botm2 botm3 kits.
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Survival
Fixed /me not accepting more than one parameter, aka words, might need to wait until next reboot for /me to auto tab again.
Updated /motd using a vanilla client and saw it was all over the place, fixed a lot of double lines & added text about 20% off this winter for /store
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Survival
Updated the BOTM items via @TobySF you can view them in-game now with;
/kitpreview botm1
/kitpreview botm2
/kitpreview botm3
Added usernames to items generated next to flag to make them unique.
Fixed The discord #🎉│giveaway-events when people claim BOTM kits to show the month/year properly now, figured it out after some testing!
@TobySF Ready to release the prizes 
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BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @DeofiloW1 @JCardell @CatherineIvy
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Survival
Re-enabled Villager panic mode villagers-active-for-panic few people asked for this back, and I want to run some tests on it to see how drastic it actually is. Via #deleted-channel
Long term the plan will be to add some dungeons to not need iron farms.
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Survival
Santa: Ho ho ho Merry Christmas! I have sprinkled some reindeer dust across the PirateCraft lands which has granted everyone a 1.5x XPBoost for the next 24 hours!
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Website
Fixed The website; the entire MySQL database corrupt itself; ive never had to deal with this before. I can't belive its timing on christmas! These things always happen at the worst times, but we shall learn and we shall conquer, Ive restored the database entirely and were back in business.
https://piratemc.com
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Survival
Automatically change to Claim block price to $1 at 12:00pm GMT server time 1st Jan 2026 & set it back to $2.5 the next day.
In relation to the above event of changed claimblocks on the 1st, I have written a script to automatically edit the plugins config, back it up, verify it etc for a way to pre-set automated changes like this.
This is like a test, to see if it works as it should, It should automatically send messages to discord, in-game & reload the plugin too after making the changes.
Its all setup to run, ive tested it on a test file, it should be good, but just in-case something fails, then you know its automated and I'll need to manually jump in!
This is exciting tho, because ive never been able to do this before (Aka I never looked) so I can pre-set a bunch of mini changes/events to happen in advance and get it to post on my behalf, but most important change the config back when its done! I always forget!
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Survival
Added command /espawnmob zombie for @Admin to spawn X amount of zombies in peoples villager farms/iron farms to test the TPS in them, this lets admins do it across multiple farms so we can test easily and fast.
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Survival
Fixed PvP death messages in chat (partically) messages now display again, the chat developer changed the placeholder for killers name and didnt fix it when it "converted" the configs, super work! so it just broke entirely.
the one issue I cant figure out right now is, how to get the placeholder for the item that did the killing, ive asked this question to the dev to hopefully get a responce and ill get it updated once im told how. Right now it will just say "DIAMOND_SWORD" etc instead of the items name.
At least PvP kills will show up again.
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Survival
Fixed Script to auto edit configs, needed an environment variable, whoops, Claimblock price will be 21 hours not 24h.
Fixed Dropkey trying to use 2026 as a date, i've just hardcoded 2025 for now for a quick fix to get keys dropping. @Tulipss apparently you thought of the fix!
Removed Santa & Elf NPCs from Cove
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Survival
NY2026 Kit is live! /kit NY2026 
I created all new fireworks with different explosions! 
Set the new year off with a bang!
Disabled Advent kits & xmasdecor24 again, keeping xmas2025 for a little longer for anyone thats been away with family!
Updated The bossbar login to be notice about NY2026 kit.
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Survival
Voidmaw
PvP Disabled for a some COOP gameplay at /warp event Teamwork makes the dream work! 
As requested by; Cant remember who asked.
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Survival
Removed $244,802.37 from the eco pool (I wiped my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account, Ive wiped it quite a few times, Ive only logged it once, thought you might want to know when I clean out large sums of money out of the eco as this is a massive positive for keeping a healthy player run economy because money is generated out of thin air in multiple ways, we need ways to remove money out of the total eco that's on the server, this is something I do from time to time.
Did a lookup for the previous times Ive done this command as I was curious and there quite far apart, no idea what the bal was each time, just that I reset my bal.
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
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Survival
Added @Contributor Major Rank gets special 25 mins afk, Captain is 20 mins. Via suggestion #deleted-channel
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Survival
Changed Database type for Brewing plugin for next reboot.
Changed I may have come up with a temp duct tape solution for the major barrel issue with the Brewing plugin, The issues been solved in later versions of the plugin but they dropped 1.18.2 support sadly. so until we can get on 1.21+ I was thinking about a super simple solution that may work; Barrels dont persist through reboots; you gotta do all your brewing before the server restarts, at which point all barrels get nuked (backed up into a folder).
I figured out a way to do it with the wrapper today, and ive implemented it, but I have to wait for the next few reboots to test its working, just as a heads up, if it does reset them each reboot, we should be able to re-allow use of brewing barrels.
Changed the Barrel creation message to include this rather important information.
Not ideal, but if it gets it back up without major issues; thats a good thing. Takes seconds to remove a sign and re-place it, just gotta remember to empty your barrels before you log off! If all works, youll see another changelog that you can access again.
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Survival
Fixed Vote rewards; to be Kits that are given by the Vote plugin to the winners, somehow the vote plugin that used to generate the items has broken how they generate without any changes, it has done this in the past randomly too, Ive instead told the vote plugin to give the kit item via command, this way the recepies and items generated are both done by the same plugin, ive tested the recipes work with these!
⌨️ /customrecipes
Broken vote rewards can be traded with working Vote rewards at @jpcello /shop4 "Chaos" he will handle the trades for broken ones and ill replenish him, keeps it nice and simple!
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Survival
Build of the month
Updated @BOTM Alerts the winner from Build of the month (botm1) to now inherit Major @Contributor rank now instead of Captain!
Updated @Media Rank to inherit Major @Contributor rank
Added all the latest BOTM entries into /warp botm BOTM Hall!
Public vote coming soon! Go check it out early!
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Survival
Updated all other ranks that inherited captain to now inherit Major rank, Craftsman (on creative) @Builder, Housewright @Build Leader & Shipwright @Developer
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Discord
Gave our prizes for Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Created new giveaway for Autumn 2025 keys
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Survival
Fixed #🦜│online & in-game join/quit messages not showing for vanished @Admin
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Survival
Removed Message "There is no one in range you can chat to." from /p as people were again using this as a knockoff /near without having near perms. I did this previously but the chat plugin update wiped my language changes. 
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Survival
We filled the barrel, sealed it tight,
With sugar, heat, and time,
The oak creaks low by lantern glow,
As patience turns to prime.
It stews and sings of salt and gold,
Of plunder yet to come,
From barrel’s heart and pirate’s art—
At last, a fine dark rum.
Re-added Barrels for everyone to use for Brewing plugin!
Updated Bossbar missive as you log in to tell you about barrels & community BOTM vote.
Disabled /kit NY2026 & /kit xmas2025
️ Comes with a caveat; Barrels reset and contents lost each server reboot! This warning is posted when you make a barrel, you can simply break the sign and re-make it to re-make the barrels!
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Survival
Updated bounties plugin for next reboot
Fixed bounties sometimes not showing target names
Adds a bounty claim tax (tax taken from the bounty reward when claiming a bounty), not active, but available
Fixed Joined message tracking for joined 100 times, added at 50,100,250,1000,10000 joins, if it gets spammy ill dial it back.
I found out, this lets me track any statistic when people log in, like we could track anything from https://stats.piratemc.com/ or /stats if you can all think of anything good put it in #💡│suggestions
Updated /motd with news about barrels & cleaned up old messages.
Removed the VIP login message I was testing, that only appeared on me.
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Survival
All plugin updates are for next reboot.
Updated protocol hack plugin
Updated Lottery plugin
Updated Placeholder API plugin
Updated Discord Intergration plugin
Updated Treasure Hunt plugin /hunt
Updated Jump Pads plugin
Updated Chest looting/drop plugin
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Survival
All plugin updates are for next reboot.
Updated EssentialsX plugin, trying to remove this entirely but for now itll at least be on the latest stable.
Updated Coreprotect plugin 2 major versions.
Fixes and adds a ton of features, only applicable to @Admin
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Survival
Fixed Cobblestone projectile in Bronze double & Iron Double cannons being differnt from other cannons, somehow these had the H-cannon projectile loaded which was only suppose to be a test at one point and never a live thing! thanks for the bug report @ShrekArchaius 
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BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @JCardell @PhilipG_ @Tulipss
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️ Website
Updated store page to link to Spring 2026 keys
Updated Ships guide to include dreadnought ship type, I have no images for the gallery! can you submit some please!
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Survival
Added 5 new custom brews!
Added A new region at /warp event that mirrors the bloodtide area, loot will drop here with your brew hints!
Every 6 hours 2 chests will drop at /warp event (The small bloodtide island at /warp south)
Theres multiple hints for each brew, you will have to collect them all to get all the hints for all the 5 brews!
Sets of 3 brew hints are in one chest and sets of 2 brew hints are in the other!
All Region rules are inherited from bloodtide event.
Each hint has a percentage to appear, so there could be 0 or all of them!
This is live when you see brewhunt1 and brewhunt2 in chat, thats your ticket to get to /warp event and loot!
@TobySF Will follow up with more information as he created them!
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Survival
Updated /motd removing old things & added updated info
Updated Login bossbar message with info about new brew drops
Added hologram at /warp event to explain the drop times & what to expect for brew hints
@TobySF
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Survival
Fixed tripple bronze cannon having a custom cobblestone shot, reverted to normal cobble shot, this was previuosly a test I forgot about.
Thanks for the report @ShrekArchaius
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Survival
Spring Treasure Chest Creator Keys
Given out the keys to the creators of the Spring 2026 treasure chest.
@Drbipper 20 Items; 35 + (5*19) = 130 keys
@JCardell 8 items; 35 + (5*7) = 70 keys
Remember: you can make items on creative use /customitem to learn, and submit to discord #💡│suggestions just make sure to tag the post as a crate!
Why not work on a whole crate? You could try and do Summer, Autumn & Winter 2026?
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Survival
Fixed some chat logs that had broken variables & setup a discord hook for these chat logs so we have easier to access logs from the chat plugin.
Fixed an @Admin permission to see alerts from these logs
Updated log notify format to include click events
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Survival
Removed Item stat tracking & dependancy due to a bug with it that can cause the server to hang, sad I never got to properly intergrate this but at least its a good thing I didnt, otherwise this would have caused them all to break!
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Discord
Gave out prizes for first Spring 2026 crate keys
Made a new giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
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Proxy
Updated proxy server
Discord
Gave out prizes for 2ndSpring 2026 crate keys
Made 3rd giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
Devlog: I haven't vanished! Ive been learning a new Quests plugin, bit of a learning curve so slow going, if anyone is interested in building quests with me hit me up!
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️ Website
Fixed the event map Bluemap not loading. This was left over from when I moved hosts for the website.
Means I can use it for other event maps/showing off worlds.
https://emap.piratemc.com/#autumn2024:384:64:-3:83:-0.37:1.25:0:0:perspective
Fixed all embeds in blog post https://piratemc.com/2024/10/19/autumn-2024-piratecraft-event-twilight-realm/
Why cant we use that for main map!? Cheating ways into bases/seeing whats hidden in a base, people don't want their stuff all on show!
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Survival & creative
Updated protocol hack plugin
Updated Chat plugin (plz don't break 
) 11.6.2 -> 11.6.7
Bug fixes
Custom item names; Developer added the Item name placeholder for me, as we lost this when upgrading. Ive swapped it out so Killing with custom item names should just show the custom item name in chat again! Changed in 56 death messages.
⏳ Waiting for reboot in 15 mins to make sure its A-ok.
Want a custom death message? Put it in #💡│suggestions Read the docs on what can be done.
️ Website
Fixed the website database issues yesterday, disk got filled from a bad backup parameter I set, whoops.
Discord
Gave out prizes for 3rd Spring 2026 crate keys
Made 4th giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
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Survival
Chat plugin
Fixed double '' in some death messages, i gotta do the rest later!
Fixed weird new lines in death messages
Fixed Custom item names being shown in the death message directly (Do you like my test item name?)
Fixed messages being picked at random for sword kills, found out chat plugin changed syntax I'll have to update the others later
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Survival
Chat plugin - Death messages
Added a ton more death messages for PvP; Bow Kills, Potion kills, Pickaxe kills, Stick kills, Axe kills and general catch all kills.
Improved PvP Death/Kill messages to be unique and stand out more than normal death messages to promote PvP more, they are better formatted but they also include more information, the KDR of the killer & their crew name.
Fixed Random death messages, all the old death messages will now work again at random, the syntax changed and I needed to specifically state it should be picked at random, this will re-add like 200 death messages.
Fixed New line issues where parts of the death message would be on a new line
Updated Enabled region feature for chat plugin for next reboot, so I can have areas that death messages dont show public such as arenas, and idealy custom death messages just for people inside those regions.
Converted all the PvP messages to the improved color & formatting system, all other death messges still use the old format.
This took a lot longer to do than I expected, I didnt know there was so many issues until I dived into it!
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Survival - Paradise island prep
Devlog diary!
Event Information will be posted in #📢│announcements as soon as its ready! 
NO ETA DONT ASK!
People have already seen the world appear on the live map, so im going to post devlog for prep so far, yes theres an event coming soon!
Updated /warp cove portal, created artwork, changed loc & updated holo
Added @Admin Created new command /worldtoggle <open/close> <world>
Replaces all the previous event world open close commands, I deleted them.
Handles the access to the portal at cove, access to the world & moves people out the world when closed
Tested & working with new event!
Added new event world, added regions for it, added world border
Added new warps /warp island and /warp eventfort you can see these on page 2 of /warps already in preperation.
Added Quests plugin, Im starting to learn quests slowly.
Added New world to live map, limited visability to encourage exploring & added markers for getting started.
Added NPCs, doors, portals, holograms, all new mobs, quests, permissions, world settings from dev
Removed Autumn2024 from live map, I thought I did this already.
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Survival
Arena death messages no longer get sent to global chat to reduce chat spam
Added custom arena only death log (screenshot)
Arena death messages will only be sent to people inside the arena region
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Survival
Fixed Major @Contributor rank sign shop limit to be 450.
Fixed Captain @Contributor rank sign shop limit being 350 when it should have been 375
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Survival
Gave out paintings from sep-oct BOTM 2025.
@commanderTechno @JCardell @TobySF @Tulipss Check your inv & echest if your inv was full.
Discord Giveaways
Gave out Spring 2026 keys to winners of the giveaway
Created new giveaway for 3x winners for spring 2026 keys
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Survival
Added November-December 2025 BOTM images in-game and to /warp botm
We seem to be very behind on BOTM!
Stay tuned!
Given out new copies of maps to;
@JCardell In a chest next to your last logout
@MasterDragon013 In your inv
@Tulipss you was on live
@PhilipG_ In a chest next to your last logout
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Survival
Stopped right/left clicking books opening the quests GUI for the event thats not open yet! Thanks @lazydog11 for the report!
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Survival
Added new rule for shops in /rules
Dont use the grappling hook to pull people at shops.
Once a technical fix is available ill just block it, for now it can be a rule to clear up the use of them.
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Proxy
Updated Proxy server (bumped a major version)
Updated Chat plugin cross server plugin
Updated Multiplayer Server listing plugin a major version
Survival
Updated Chat plugin
Fixed Killer item color bypass in death messages showing item as colored when its just got color codes written on it via an anvil.
Broke actual colored items showing in death messages... Ive reported the issue.. I swear this chat dev has AI making his plugins.
Updated Anti Cheat 17 versions
Lots of bug fixes
Fixed move false positive
Now supports up to client 1.21.11
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Creative
Updated Chat plugin
Updated all chat plugin configs to match survival they were drastically out of sync
Updated Premium essentials and dependency plugins
Updated Logging plugin
Updated Ban plugin
Updated Armour stand limiter plugin
Updated Protocol hack plugin
Updated EssentialsX plugin
Updated Plot plugin
Removed EssentialsX protection plugin, not used.
Removed Void generator plugin, no longer needed
Removed Ship in a bottle replacement plugin as it doesn't work well on 1.18.2 & removed its tooling plugin.
Removed Mob arena & addon plugin as this was never used, and will just move this to Dev server for testing
Removed Looting plugin that was on for testing
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️ Website / BOTM
Fixed Competition entry form allowing 2026 dates to be entered for BOTM
Added @Lullaby93 to be able to edit that competitions page, so that all rules/prizes for BOTM can be posted directly on that page so we don't have to deal with forum threads, all in one place then.
TIP: did you know you can filter for all Build of the month by loading the category page? https://piratemc.com/category/piratecraft-build-of-the-month/
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Survival
Added snow, snow_block to harvested blocks & dried_kelp_block for a fuel type for FrostBreaker ship via request from Wyzzyrd
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BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @JCardell, @PhilipG_, and @Tulipss
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Survey results of &ABOTM Vote November/December 2025
88% 12% 64% 24% 8% 4%
Survival
Updated enderman limits in the moblimiter to 10 per chunk, they were set to infinite 
via #deleted-channel @TobySF
There's a global mob cap, just so you're aware that some peoples mega farms could effect other spawns.
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Survival
Added /warp arena1 which is 3 random spawn points for the South PvP Arena with no keep inv, via #deleted-channel
Page 2 of /warps
Added some holograms for each spawn entrance
Added jump pads to each spawn entrance to "jump" in or run in.
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️ Website
Added new blog post - Build of the Month November & December 2025 Entries and Winners via @Lullaby93
Added Link "PirateCraft Build of the Month" to link to all BOTM blog posts in the main navigation under "Information"
BOTM Competition page updated with all rules & prizes via @Lullaby93
Discord Giveaways
Gave out Spring 2026 keys to winners of the giveaway
Created new giveaway for 3x winners for spring 2026 keys
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Survival & Creative
Updated Analytics plugin a major version.
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Website
This was my last major update to the website update project before moving back to server based stuff. (I still need to do a minor one when you see my next update...)
Added Store page back after 5 years! you can now see your contributor perks!
https://piratemc.com/store/
Fixed Cache on website, somehow I had this turned off at Cloudflare & locally! No idea how Ive done that, pages should get faster.
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Added @Contributor able to post in #💬│live_gamechat again, if it gets abused @Moderator will just set the global discord mute to prevent use on that pirate. Hopefully it doesn't get spammy.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added Ship type Dreadnought this is a 5000-8500 size ship above Indiaman for the @Contributor rank Major.
Its an indiaman, thats bigger.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed hopefully fixed the NPC at cove for the latest @Contributor
Manually set to @Nick_A_Naut as you was the last!
@Changelog Alerts Store
Fixed Annual Major rank gifts accepting the variables selected at checkout.
@Changelog Alerts Fixed Vote 4
Fixed Vote 4 site, they did a full re-brand, new design, new url the works, had to set it all up again.
https://piratemc.com/vote4
https://www.minerank.com/piratecraft
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Updated all the /advent related code, permissions, schedules to update the advent kit to 2025.
Added a NPC at cove with a little snowman prison build & jump pads to get your advent kit!
Updated all the advent kits from last year to include players username in them to make them slightly unique from last year, I really didnt think I would have time to get this advent up, and only remembered today!
Updated /motd to remove Black friday deal (On time for once) and to add about the advent. For the super lazy people you can just click this message to open advent without even typing the command
Updated Log in bossbar that pops up to remove black friday deal and to advertise the advent kit.
Check out #🎉│giveaway-events for when they drop, it drops server time GMT 10:45am after reboot, as we had issues with permissons saving over reboots before with the automated permissions being added, absolutly no idea why, but it was an issue last time.
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Advent day 2 manually added as I had the server offline for a bit this morning for maintenance.
Survival & Creative
Update Chat Plugin.
Ive been putting this one off, as something always breaks, but this is an enormous update that changes all configs, is a major re-write for like 80% of the plugin, but its required for 1.21+ so Ive jumped in today and let it auto convert our configs to the latest ones.
I can already see a plethora of issues in the console, so I'm going to slowly start tackling them one by one, for things you find can you post them into;
Issues, bugs, formatting problems throw issues into #🐛│bugs
Suggestions can go into #deleted-channel
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
Updated chat plugins cross-server plugin
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Fixed join/leave messages.
The chat plugin is fully broken with these messages, I spent hours trying to fix it, testing, its the plugin, made a report & swapped to our premium essentials plugin to handle the messages, annoyingly I had to enable essentialsX join/leave and set to blank, so that I could remove the vanilla join/leave messages, so its not the tidiest method, until Chat Plugin fixes their mess.
But... I'm able to use any placeholder I want in the messages, for now ive just set server time, but we could show anyhting, player bal or playtime when they log in if we wanted.
Sadly. this can be used to spam chat, as this system does not have any of the spam prevention features the chat plugin has to prevent it, so @Moderator @Helper if anyone does use it to spam just give them a temp ban.
Removed the bounty message when people log in with a bounty, somehow this randomly started working after the chat plugin no longer hijacks it, this will take effect next reboot.
I cant express how long this took, testing on a fresh 1.18.2 server with default configs was my answer to it being broken in the plugin and not my configs... drives me NUTS this chat plugin, every time we update it breaks something insane.
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Changed how you claim bounties, you should no longer need to track a player to claim a bounty now.
You still have the option to track a bounty, but the player will be alerted you did this, but then again you are basically tracking their location, so they should be told! But now, you have the option to collect a bounty without having to track them!
Thanks to #💡│suggestions #deleted-channel via @micqi
Untested, may need a restart. Give me feedback in #deleted-channel once you have tested it. if it dousnt work, wait until restart then try again.
Added 100% drop of the player head when a bounty is collected to the creator of the bounty. You'll collect via /redeembountyheads
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https://tenor.com/view/azuthius-gif-27376256 Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Changed all swear filters, after spending an hour on one set and replacing them all, instantly bypassed 20 seconds after being live, put back to similar ones, but more robust.
Fixed being able to write things like "analytics" at the cost of that the word "anal" is easily abused now, but it solves normal talking.
Changed IP & Website regex filters, but ive already seen a false posative using a command(s) so i will have to either revert or try and fix tomorrow, it solved being able to write "id" but gained other issues, its very hard to get proper good regex, even with AIs help.
Partial fix to discord chat in-game, username dousnt dispaly twice, it somehow can check who you are in-game, i show up as my actual name with colors now, but for the life of my I cant figure out why the text is always &0 this isnt anywhere in the code.
Removed some rarly used bad words
TLDR; stil needs work, just give feedback in #deleted-channel for now, so its all in one place for me.
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Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed Discord chat formatting, this was one a sod to figure out, but we've come out of it with more features!
It now displays your username color & hover details as tho you are in-game!
Fixed A ton of formatting issues with missives & /motd showing brackets.
Reverted IP & domain filtering, its the same as what we had before, just more performant way to do it, If you find false positives can you please post to either #🐛│bugs or #deleted-channel asap while im in these configs, so we can get them resolved now.
Still got a few more big ones to figure out, /me Im not sure why its not registering and staff cant use color codes in chat anywhere unless we use /chc color to pick an overall color.
But overall im getting there! I knew it would be a pig to sort out after this update, also no feedback from the devs on their broken quit messages!
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Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed All color replacements for Emojis/Smilies are back, no longer crashes the latest client.
:finger: and willybob are back!
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Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed Next reboot, should fix /me not working, there are 4 plugins tring to do it, and they all unregister the command so nobody gets it! Forced it for next reboot hopefully.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added Players /tag for when you log in, so you could select say "PvP time!" to alert people you want to fight, or "Building" and peolpe know you want to build, or just as a way to have a custom login for you, this is available to everyone, not permission based.
Might not keep it if people think its spammy, I just thought of it and thought it was cute took 2 seconds to add so itll take 2 seconds to remove if we want it removed.
Put more /tag ideas in #💡│suggestions we can always throw them into the NPC at cove to buy with in-game money.
@Changelog Alerts Fixing Store Subscriptions
Fixed Commands running for first time on purchase, they wasn't running on initial purchase and was waiting for the renewal.
Given the first ever subscriber £1000 in-game for this report.
Survival
Fixed Chat colors working in chat, it turned out to just be my rank specifically that it wasn't working and just needed a perm!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Changed The chat discord intergration back to what it used to be, a solid color, because the dynamic name/colors thing is so inconsistent, this should just be consistent, everyone one discord color, ive opened a ticket with the chat plugin devs to report the issues so hopefully they fix because it was so cool having all the player info in-game when it was used.
Added hover over text to explain contributors can use that feature.
Added missive for Autumn keys, I forgot I have to add this each time.
Added missive for major rank and its features
Removed the banner from the tebex store for sale
Disabled the /me command in Essentails config for next reboot to see if this is being a pain
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Solved /me not working, it was an investigation. Back up and working.
It wasnt being sent to the server, so I couldnt verbose it, see logs or anything its like the client wasnt sending it. Turns out, when I updated the proxy plugin, it renamed the folder with a capital letter, so made a new folder with fresh configs, that wouldnt have been an issue, except they moved /me into the proxy to make it cross-server instead of on the server side, and it was enabled by default, but didnt actually work, disabled that, rebooted proxy and I was able to re-bind me to the chat plugin. I still have the issue of the vanilla bukkit /me trying to be the main me, but thats one for another day.
What a headache for something so basic, but I couldnt just leave it, was driving me nuts.
Solves the bug that allowed colors in /me that we had previous.
Added /emote alias for it
Added your local time when people join/quit the server in additon to server time, so you get a good idea.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Updated/Fixed New player message & added XP boost when new people join.
Moved the new player message to premium essentials I cant get the chat plugin join event to work at all, i slightly foramtted the message to look prettier.
Everyone online will now get a 5 min 1.5x XP boost when a new player joins.
Statistic Events!
The Skeleton Hunt ended!
@Grasco
@LittleStarGoose
@JCardell
We have 3 more statistic events that have started!
Present plunder
Bloody seas
Frozen Expedition
These are all timed, so get statistic hunting! All previous events will forever be shown at;
️ https://stats.piratemc.com/#events
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Fixed Players with uuids that started with d having their [item] broken in game because it got replaced with a smiley face from the chat plugin =D was green, it is no more! @Tulipss
I may swap the chat priority for the chat plugin to lowest, I just know something else will break tho, so RIP =D being green
Updated Global XP Boosts for new users and when people rank up to a new command that checks if there's already an XPBoost active, and if its not as good as that one, it wont replace it, I gotta find all the other places we do a global XP boost now and replace those! throw them into #💡│suggestions if you know where else I have them...
Fixed The dodgy formatting for the new Major rank notification, its using different color code system, apparently I cant mix and match with the old one.
Added motherfucker to filter as requested.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
In preparation for 1.21 testing, Ive put my server configs into AI and asked it to check specifically for mob spawn issues, and it found both a conflict between files and a massive performance issue that was overlooked.
Buffed Monster spawning slightly.
Increased spawn-limits (bukkit)
Doubled the mob-spawn-range (spigot)
Buffed soft and hard de-spawn ranges, The Invisible Wall (paper)
Buffed entity-activation-range, so when they spawn they don't just act like statues frozen (spigot)
Nerfed axolotl spawns, for some insane reason, it was set to check every tick, so that's 20 times per second, so since we've been running that for 3 years, maybe nerfing that and improving monster spawns will be a good balance.
Since we just rebooted a few mins ago, thats now live, so your job is to see if its made a difference and my job will be to make sure performance doesn't tank, if it does i will reduce monster spawns again.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
A few more changes for next reboot for gameplay behavior to save a bit more resources.
Ive done these changes for next reboot, so then you have a day of just monster changes before these ones kick in, just so there's not so many changes at once.
Nerfed Anti-xray to just show all blocks as stone instead of spending CPU to calculate patterns of ores around the player, slightly reduce CPU load.
Nerfed Removed AI from pigmen spawned via nether portals nerf-pigmen-from-nether-portals specifically for gold farms, they will still have all their drops, but basic AI, not their full walling around doing stuff, just not needed for being thrown into a meat grinder to steal their gold, just ones out of portals.
Changed Disabled Villager panic mode, I'm not sure this one is even active, but Ive enabled it anyway, If a zombie gets near a villager trading hall, every single villager will activate their AI to panic and run around, but I think Ive removed their brains anyway, so this one might not make any difference.
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Gave out prizes for first Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Added a new giveaway for Autumn 2025
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Updated Protocol hack plugin to allow 1.21.11 clients onto the 1.18.2 server.
Proxy
Updated proxy server to allow 1.21.11 clients.
@Changelog Alerts Test server
Fully wiped for live development of 1.21.10/11/x
Ive started work on testing plugins on 1.21.10 live on test server, public so you can join at any point to play/test. Im using 1.21.10 right now as 1.21.11 only jsut dropped and plugins are not ready for it, I added ViaVersion so you can use the 1.21.11 client. The plan is to slowly add more plugins bit by bit over time and test them. we have 89 plugins right now, all of these need to be updated by their developers to work with 1.21.10/x. Updated test server to 1.21.10 with fresh configs
Ive spent the last few days going through all the bukkit/spigot/paper/purpur configs, there is a lot.. im bound to have missed something.
Updated World to match survivals
Updated Database to match survivals
Added 20 plugins out of our 89 to test the core basics of world protection, just the basics
Griefprevention (Not siege yet), Bans
Cannons
Chat plugin
World Border & Dependancy
NPCs
Premium Essentails (homes, warps etc)
Essentails (bal)
Tags
Custom server shops NPCs
Permissions
AntiCheat
Multiple world plugin & nether addon
Placeholders
Protocol stuff & getting newer clients on
Tab
WE
WG
The plan
- build a team of trusted players to work alongside staff to help get this tested as fast as possible, custom rank, custom area on the discord, special tags etc to keep forever once were all done, itll be an invite only system, its not made yet
- Make the global chat channel on test its own channel thats syned with survival to show up as another channel in survival staff can see
- Add a fresh 1.21.10 world to experment in and play about with new stuff
️ live development enviroment at its very infancy, dont report that plugins dont work, they are not on the server! @Changelog Alerts
Whole Network
Updated the wrapper that runs the server so I could get newer minecraft servers to run.
Test server
Bug Can't get Essentails to boot as its trying to convert half a million user files Crashes the server, absolutle solid work Essentails team. First major bug to solve, thats where your /bal is, maybe its time to kill it off entirely and fully move to premium essentails plugin, that has its own Eco system.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Changed for next rebootWither Skeleton drops related to #deleted-channel the outcome was;
This was changed years ago to test mob drops and reduce the chance of drops due to massive farms, but overlooked looting_multiplier for event items, which worked.
Added coal drops back
Removed sunflower drops (Im unsure if this ever worked)
Nerfed looting multiplier, there is no way to set a cap of say looting 3, so any event items say looting 4 or 5 work still, its just been reduced multiplier, kept the chance the same.
Sadly theres no way to recover the beacon market, once created these items dont expire with infinite mobs spawning its an infinite pool that only goes downwards for beacons in the marketplace.
Only way to recover would be to have them as an ingredient for brewing, crafting or a currency for something (Put them in a cannon to fire LOL)
Test Server (1.21.10+ testing)
/server test | test.piratemc.com
Fixed world changing permission issue, unrelated to new version, was set to survival only.
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Reduced cooldown time on messages for #💡│suggestions & #🐛│bugs the giant paragraphs without people using SHIFT+Enter for new lines is driving me nuts
Added new tags to #💡│suggestions & #🐛│bugs to suggest & report bugs for upgrading to 1.21+ thats in development on the test server. A place to put your ideas now and tag it properly.
I plan to have a temp new generated world for resources, knowing that will cut down on most suggestions.
Created #🧪│1_21_dev discord forum for all my development woes, I would usually have one giant project in the staff forum, but im going to need help, a lot of it, this will be invite only as this isn't the place to flood with your suggestions, that can go into the new tag for #💡│suggestions and can be reviewed later, straight up for people that will actually be on the front-lines testing & helping and not making my life harder.
Good time to speak up if you want to help with plugins and configs!
Added discord role @Navigator which will now sync with in-game rank Navigator
All Servers
Updated navigator rank, this is the rank that unlocks all ships for events, well im re-using it, ive bumped its suffix to pass contributor so it shows up as an anchor, this will be the rank we use for special permissions on test server & discord sync
Added 2 commands for @Moderator @Admin /addnavigator <username> /removenavigator <username> Adds a user to navigator rank for 1 week, it stacks, or directly with;
/lp user <username> parent addtemp navigator <username>
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Gave our prizes for Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Created new giveaway for Autumn 2025 keys
@Changelog Alerts Website
Fixed http not redirecting to Https. Not sure why this turned itself off, maybe from the cloudflare issues? Thanks @Nick_A_Naut ️
@Changelog Alerts Store
⭐ 29 day sale for 20% off everything in the store (bar annual & subscriptions)
No need for a coupon code! Applied directly! All sales show up in/store
Added a key all drop for an Autumn 2025 key for everyone online for every sale in this winter sale!
/store
https://piratemc.com/store/
Requested via @Texacq
Survival
Added permission for everyone to /kitpreview botm1 botm2 botm3 kits.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed /me not accepting more than one parameter, aka words, might need to wait until next reboot for /me to auto tab again.
Updated /motd using a vanilla client and saw it was all over the place, fixed a lot of double lines & added text about 20% off this winter for /store
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Updated the BOTM items via @TobySF you can view them in-game now with;
/kitpreview botm1
/kitpreview botm2
/kitpreview botm3
Added usernames to items generated next to flag to make them unique.
Fixed The discord #🎉│giveaway-events when people claim BOTM kits to show the month/year properly now, figured it out after some testing!
@TobySF Ready to release the prizes
@Changelog Alerts BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @DeofiloW1 @JCardell @CatherineIvy
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Re-enabled Villager panic mode villagers-active-for-panic few people asked for this back, and I want to run some tests on it to see how drastic it actually is. Via #deleted-channel
Long term the plan will be to add some dungeons to not need iron farms.
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Santa: Ho ho ho Merry Christmas! I have sprinkled some reindeer dust across the PirateCraft lands which has granted everyone a 1.5x XPBoost for the next 24 hours!
@Changelog Alerts Website
Fixed The website; the entire MySQL database corrupt itself; ive never had to deal with this before. I can't belive its timing on christmas! These things always happen at the worst times, but we shall learn and we shall conquer, Ive restored the database entirely and were back in business.
https://piratemc.com
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Automatically change to Claim block price to $1 at 12:00pm GMT server time 1st Jan 2026 & set it back to $2.5 the next day.
In relation to the above event of changed claimblocks on the 1st, I have written a script to automatically edit the plugins config, back it up, verify it etc for a way to pre-set automated changes like this.
This is like a test, to see if it works as it should, It should automatically send messages to discord, in-game & reload the plugin too after making the changes.
Its all setup to run, ive tested it on a test file, it should be good, but just in-case something fails, then you know its automated and I'll need to manually jump in!
This is exciting tho, because ive never been able to do this before (Aka I never looked) so I can pre-set a bunch of mini changes/events to happen in advance and get it to post on my behalf, but most important change the config back when its done! I always forget!
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Added command /espawnmob zombie for @Admin to spawn X amount of zombies in peoples villager farms/iron farms to test the TPS in them, this lets admins do it across multiple farms so we can test easily and fast.
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Fixed PvP death messages in chat (partically) messages now display again, the chat developer changed the placeholder for killers name and didnt fix it when it "converted" the configs, super work! so it just broke entirely.
the one issue I cant figure out right now is, how to get the placeholder for the item that did the killing, ive asked this question to the dev to hopefully get a responce and ill get it updated once im told how. Right now it will just say "DIAMOND_SWORD" etc instead of the items name.
At least PvP kills will show up again.
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Fixed Script to auto edit configs, needed an environment variable, whoops, Claimblock price will be 21 hours not 24h.
Fixed Dropkey trying to use 2026 as a date, i've just hardcoded 2025 for now for a quick fix to get keys dropping. @Tulipss apparently you thought of the fix!
Removed Santa & Elf NPCs from Cove
@Changelog Alerts Survival
NY2026 Kit is live! /kit NY2026
I created all new fireworks with different explosions! Set the new year off with a bang!
Disabled Advent kits & xmasdecor24 again, keeping xmas2025 for a little longer for anyone thats been away with family!
Updated The bossbar login to be notice about NY2026 kit.
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Voidmaw
PvP Disabled for a some COOP gameplay at /warp event Teamwork makes the dream work!
As requested by; Cant remember who asked.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Removed $244,802.37 from the eco pool (I wiped my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account, Ive wiped it quite a few times, Ive only logged it once, thought you might want to know when I clean out large sums of money out of the eco as this is a massive positive for keeping a healthy player run economy because money is generated out of thin air in multiple ways, we need ways to remove money out of the total eco that's on the server, this is something I do from time to time.
Did a lookup for the previous times Ive done this command as I was curious and there quite far apart, no idea what the bal was each time, just that I reset my bal.
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
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added @Contributor Major Rank gets special 25 mins afk, Captain is 20 mins. Via suggestion #deleted-channel
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Changed Database type for Brewing plugin for next reboot.
Changed I may have come up with a temp duct tape solution for the major barrel issue with the Brewing plugin, The issues been solved in later versions of the plugin but they dropped 1.18.2 support sadly. so until we can get on 1.21+ I was thinking about a super simple solution that may work; Barrels dont persist through reboots; you gotta do all your brewing before the server restarts, at which point all barrels get nuked (backed up into a folder).
I figured out a way to do it with the wrapper today, and ive implemented it, but I have to wait for the next few reboots to test its working, just as a heads up, if it does reset them each reboot, we should be able to re-allow use of brewing barrels.
Changed the Barrel creation message to include this rather important information.
Not ideal, but if it gets it back up without major issues; thats a good thing. Takes seconds to remove a sign and re-place it, just gotta remember to empty your barrels before you log off! If all works, youll see another changelog that you can access again.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Vote rewards; to be Kits that are given by the Vote plugin to the winners, somehow the vote plugin that used to generate the items has broken how they generate without any changes, it has done this in the past randomly too, Ive instead told the vote plugin to give the kit item via command, this way the recepies and items generated are both done by the same plugin, ive tested the recipes work with these!
⌨️ /customrecipes
Broken vote rewards can be traded with working Vote rewards at @jpcello /shop4 "Chaos" he will handle the trades for broken ones and ill replenish him, keeps it nice and simple!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Build of the month
Updated @BOTM Alerts the winner from Build of the month (botm1) to now inherit Major @Contributor rank now instead of Captain!
Updated @Media Rank to inherit Major @Contributor rank
Added all the latest BOTM entries into /warp botm BOTM Hall!
Public vote coming soon! Go check it out early!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Updated all other ranks that inherited captain to now inherit Major rank, Craftsman (on creative) @Builder, Housewright @Build Leader & Shipwright @Developer
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Gave our prizes for Autumn 2025 crate giveaway
Created new giveaway for Autumn 2025 keys
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed #🦜│online & in-game join/quit messages not showing for vanished @Admin
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Removed Message "There is no one in range you can chat to." from /p as people were again using this as a knockoff /near without having near perms. I did this previously but the chat plugin update wiped my language changes. ♂️
@Changelog Alerts Survival
We filled the barrel, sealed it tight,
With sugar, heat, and time,
The oak creaks low by lantern glow,
As patience turns to prime.
It stews and sings of salt and gold,
Of plunder yet to come,
From barrel’s heart and pirate’s art—
At last, a fine dark rum.
Re-added Barrels for everyone to use for Brewing plugin!
Updated Bossbar missive as you log in to tell you about barrels & community BOTM vote.
Disabled /kit NY2026 & /kit xmas2025
️ Comes with a caveat; Barrels reset and contents lost each server reboot! This warning is posted when you make a barrel, you can simply break the sign and re-make it to re-make the barrels!
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Updated bounties plugin for next reboot
Fixed bounties sometimes not showing target names
Adds a bounty claim tax (tax taken from the bounty reward when claiming a bounty), not active, but available
Fixed Joined message tracking for joined 100 times, added at 50,100,250,1000,10000 joins, if it gets spammy ill dial it back.
I found out, this lets me track any statistic when people log in, like we could track anything from https://stats.piratemc.com/ or /stats if you can all think of anything good put it in #💡│suggestions
Updated /motd with news about barrels & cleaned up old messages.
Removed the VIP login message I was testing, that only appeared on me.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
All plugin updates are for next reboot.
Updated protocol hack plugin
Updated Lottery plugin
Updated Placeholder API plugin
Updated Discord Intergration plugin
Updated Treasure Hunt plugin /hunt
Updated Jump Pads plugin
Updated Chest looting/drop plugin
@Changelog Alerts Survival
All plugin updates are for next reboot.
Updated EssentialsX plugin, trying to remove this entirely but for now itll at least be on the latest stable.
Updated Coreprotect plugin 2 major versions.
Fixes and adds a ton of features, only applicable to @Admin
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Fixed Cobblestone projectile in Bronze double & Iron Double cannons being differnt from other cannons, somehow these had the H-cannon projectile loaded which was only suppose to be a test at one point and never a live thing! thanks for the bug report @ShrekArchaius
@Changelog Alerts BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @JCardell @PhilipG_ @Tulipss
@Changelog Alerts ️ Website
Updated store page to link to Spring 2026 keys
Updated Ships guide to include dreadnought ship type, I have no images for the gallery! can you submit some please!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added 5 new custom brews!
Added A new region at /warp event that mirrors the bloodtide area, loot will drop here with your brew hints!
Every 6 hours 2 chests will drop at /warp event (The small bloodtide island at /warp south)
Theres multiple hints for each brew, you will have to collect them all to get all the hints for all the 5 brews!
Sets of 3 brew hints are in one chest and sets of 2 brew hints are in the other!
All Region rules are inherited from bloodtide event.
Each hint has a percentage to appear, so there could be 0 or all of them!
This is live when you see brewhunt1 and brewhunt2 in chat, thats your ticket to get to /warp event and loot!
@TobySF Will follow up with more information as he created them!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Updated /motd removing old things & added updated info
Updated Login bossbar message with info about new brew drops
Added hologram at /warp event to explain the drop times & what to expect for brew hints
@TobySF
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed tripple bronze cannon having a custom cobblestone shot, reverted to normal cobble shot, this was previuosly a test I forgot about.
Thanks for the report @ShrekArchaius
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Spring Treasure Chest Creator Keys
Given out the keys to the creators of the Spring 2026 treasure chest.
@Drbipper 20 Items; 35 + (5*19) = 130 keys
@JCardell 8 items; 35 + (5*7) = 70 keys
Remember: you can make items on creative use /customitem to learn, and submit to discord #💡│suggestions just make sure to tag the post as a crate!
Why not work on a whole crate? You could try and do Summer, Autumn & Winter 2026?
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed some chat logs that had broken variables & setup a discord hook for these chat logs so we have easier to access logs from the chat plugin.
Fixed an @Admin permission to see alerts from these logs
Updated log notify format to include click events
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Removed Item stat tracking & dependancy due to a bug with it that can cause the server to hang, sad I never got to properly intergrate this but at least its a good thing I didnt, otherwise this would have caused them all to break!
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Gave out prizes for first Spring 2026 crate keys
Made a new giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
@Changelog Alerts Proxy
Updated proxy server
Discord
Gave out prizes for 2ndSpring 2026 crate keys
Made 3rd giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
Devlog: I haven't vanished! Ive been learning a new Quests plugin, bit of a learning curve so slow going, if anyone is interested in building quests with me hit me up!
@Changelog Alerts️ Website
Fixed the event map Bluemap not loading. This was left over from when I moved hosts for the website.
Means I can use it for other event maps/showing off worlds.
https://emap.piratemc.com/#autumn2024:384:64:-3:83:-0.37:1.25:0:0:perspective
Fixed all embeds in blog post https://piratemc.com/2024/10/19/autumn-2024-piratecraft-event-twilight-realm/
Why cant we use that for main map!? Cheating ways into bases/seeing whats hidden in a base, people don't want their stuff all on show!
@Changelog Alerts Survival & creative
Updated protocol hack plugin
Updated Chat plugin (plz don't break ) 11.6.2 -> 11.6.7
Bug fixes
Custom item names; Developer added the Item name placeholder for me, as we lost this when upgrading. Ive swapped it out so Killing with custom item names should just show the custom item name in chat again! Changed in 56 death messages.
⏳ Waiting for reboot in 15 mins to make sure its A-ok.
Want a custom death message? Put it in #💡│suggestions Read the docs on what can be done.
️ Website
Fixed the website database issues yesterday, disk got filled from a bad backup parameter I set, whoops.
Discord
Gave out prizes for 3rd Spring 2026 crate keys
Made 4th giveaway for Spring 2026 keys! 3 winners!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Chat plugin
Fixed double '' in some death messages, i gotta do the rest later!
Fixed weird new lines in death messages
Fixed Custom item names being shown in the death message directly (Do you like my test item name?)
Fixed messages being picked at random for sword kills, found out chat plugin changed syntax I'll have to update the others later
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Chat plugin - Death messages
Added a ton more death messages for PvP; Bow Kills, Potion kills, Pickaxe kills, Stick kills, Axe kills and general catch all kills.
Improved PvP Death/Kill messages to be unique and stand out more than normal death messages to promote PvP more, they are better formatted but they also include more information, the KDR of the killer & their crew name.
Fixed Random death messages, all the old death messages will now work again at random, the syntax changed and I needed to specifically state it should be picked at random, this will re-add like 200 death messages.
Fixed New line issues where parts of the death message would be on a new line
Updated Enabled region feature for chat plugin for next reboot, so I can have areas that death messages dont show public such as arenas, and idealy custom death messages just for people inside those regions.
Converted all the PvP messages to the improved color & formatting system, all other death messges still use the old format.
This took a lot longer to do than I expected, I didnt know there was so many issues until I dived into it!
@Changelog Alerts Survival - Paradise island prep
Devlog diary!
Event Information will be posted in #📢│announcements as soon as its ready! NO ETA DONT ASK!
People have already seen the world appear on the live map, so im going to post devlog for prep so far, yes theres an event coming soon!
Updated /warp cove portal, created artwork, changed loc & updated holo
Added @Admin Created new command /worldtoggle <open/close> <world>
Replaces all the previous event world open close commands, I deleted them.
Handles the access to the portal at cove, access to the world & moves people out the world when closed
Tested & working with new event!
Added new event world, added regions for it, added world border
Added new warps /warp island and /warp eventfort you can see these on page 2 of /warps already in preperation.
Added Quests plugin, Im starting to learn quests slowly.
Added New world to live map, limited visability to encourage exploring & added markers for getting started.
Added NPCs, doors, portals, holograms, all new mobs, quests, permissions, world settings from dev
Removed Autumn2024 from live map, I thought I did this already.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Arena death messages no longer get sent to global chat to reduce chat spam
Added custom arena only death log (screenshot)
Arena death messages will only be sent to people inside the arena region
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Fixed Major @Contributor rank sign shop limit to be 450.
Fixed Captain @Contributor rank sign shop limit being 350 when it should have been 375
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Gave out paintings from sep-oct BOTM 2025.
@commanderTechno @JCardell @TobySF @Tulipss Check your inv & echest if your inv was full.
Discord Giveaways
Gave out Spring 2026 keys to winners of the giveaway
Created new giveaway for 3x winners for spring 2026 keys
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added November-December 2025 BOTM images in-game and to /warp botm
We seem to be very behind on BOTM!
Stay tuned!
Given out new copies of maps to;
@JCardell In a chest next to your last logout
@MasterDragon013 In your inv
@Tulipss you was on live
@PhilipG_ In a chest next to your last logout
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Stopped right/left clicking books opening the quests GUI for the event thats not open yet! Thanks @lazydog11 for the report!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added new rule for shops in /rules
Dont use the grappling hook to pull people at shops.
Once a technical fix is available ill just block it, for now it can be a rule to clear up the use of them.
@Changelog Alerts Proxy
Updated Proxy server (bumped a major version)
Updated Chat plugin cross server plugin
Updated Multiplayer Server listing plugin a major version
Survival
Updated Chat plugin
Fixed Killer item color bypass in death messages showing item as colored when its just got color codes written on it via an anvil.
Broke actual colored items showing in death messages... Ive reported the issue.. I swear this chat dev has AI making his plugins.
Updated Anti Cheat 17 versions
Lots of bug fixes
Fixed move false positive
Now supports up to client 1.21.11
@Changelog Alerts Creative
Updated Chat plugin
Updated all chat plugin configs to match survival they were drastically out of sync
Updated Premium essentials and dependency plugins
Updated Logging plugin
Updated Ban plugin
Updated Armour stand limiter plugin
Updated Protocol hack plugin
Updated EssentialsX plugin
Updated Plot plugin
Removed EssentialsX protection plugin, not used.
Removed Void generator plugin, no longer needed
Removed Ship in a bottle replacement plugin as it doesn't work well on 1.18.2 & removed its tooling plugin.
Removed Mob arena & addon plugin as this was never used, and will just move this to Dev server for testing
Removed Looting plugin that was on for testing
@Changelog Alerts️ Website / BOTM
Fixed Competition entry form allowing 2026 dates to be entered for BOTM
Added @Lullaby93 to be able to edit that competitions page, so that all rules/prizes for BOTM can be posted directly on that page so we don't have to deal with forum threads, all in one place then.
TIP: did you know you can filter for all Build of the month by loading the category page? https://piratemc.com/category/piratecraft-build-of-the-month/
@Changelog Alerts@BOTM Alerts Survival
Added snow, snow_block to harvested blocks & dried_kelp_block for a fuel type for FrostBreaker ship via request from Wyzzyrd
@Changelog Alerts BOTM Prizes
BOTM Prizes given to @JCardell, @PhilipG_, and @Tulipss
@Changelog AlertsSurvey results of &ABOTM Vote November/December 2025
88% 12% 64% 24% 8% 4% Survival
Updated enderman limits in the moblimiter to 10 per chunk, they were set to infinite via #deleted-channel @TobySF
There's a global mob cap, just so you're aware that some peoples mega farms could effect other spawns.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added /warp arena1 which is 3 random spawn points for the South PvP Arena with no keep inv, via #deleted-channel
Page 2 of /warps
Added some holograms for each spawn entrance
Added jump pads to each spawn entrance to "jump" in or run in.
@Changelog Alerts️ Website
Added new blog post - Build of the Month November & December 2025 Entries and Winners via @Lullaby93
Added Link "PirateCraft Build of the Month" to link to all BOTM blog posts in the main navigation under "Information"
BOTM Competition page updated with all rules & prizes via @Lullaby93
Discord Giveaways
Gave out Spring 2026 keys to winners of the giveaway
Created new giveaway for 3x winners for spring 2026 keys
@Changelog Alerts @BOTM Alerts Survival & Creative
Updated Analytics plugin a major version.
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