changelogs
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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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Survival
Bit of a late changelog for me at 2am! Don't get used to it 
I did a lot of setting up required for the Nassau/autumn 2021 event today, a lists worth. The take away is that I was able to open to the staff team for alpha testing for initial bugs!
We already fixed a few launch issues tonight and have a few tweaks to make, as always it'll be constantly changing but already good progress on big thing's!
Once initial alpha testings over we will move to beta for the community and then public!
Thanks for your patience! 
Survival - Save Port Nassau is Live!
I haven't been posting changes while we setup, so this is going to be a recap of changes for reference.
Posting on behalf of @CallieMav for his recent changes & Initial setup:
Created 26 custom mobs and 6 boss mobs
Created over 170+ custom items with attributes and items to trade
Created over 100+ mob spawners across the map and random spawns
Created drop tables for events & mobs
Increased all of the 4 pirate lords base damage.
Lowered Pets health. So they can get gone.
Increase toughness and new acid spit on piranha, They can now pull players into the water sometimes.
Added boss skill to set players invisibility to 0 every 5s to prevent loot stealers in invis.
Nerfed deckhand, buffed Chief
Constant changes to drop rates, theres a lot of mobs and items! 
Survival - Save Port Nassau is Live!
I haven't been posting changes while we setup, so this is going to be a recap of changes for reference.
Opened /warp event to everyone.
Created Holograms/Portals/Warps/Npcs/Animated smoke at event spawn & portal at cove.
Created backstory/lore for NPC's, Populated all trades in NPCS and item showoff.
Created boss spawns via pressure plates + item device signs
Created custom map that shows boss locations as markers
Created new Alpha/Beta testing system for opening events, it was very successful.
Created marker on live map for spawn
Added a title when you visit port nassau
Denied sleep on entire island region
Blacklisted spawn_eggs on island (does not block beast eggs, which was the purpose)
Created custom cooldown script for bosses set at 3mins (can change if required)
Trader NPC has had arrows changes twice, still needs a third update to happen yet.
Created blogpost
Created Video for items
Created custom header graphic
https://piratemc.com/2021/11/17/save-port-nassau-new-providence-island-2021/
Created #
│announcements https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/207479302311116800/910860928529072159 
Survival - Key Giveaway prizes
Gave out prizes for #
│giveaway-events
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/648511913206087680/910884160346931230
Created new #│giveaway-events for 5 people to get 15x Autumn 2021 Treasure Chest keys
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/648511913206087680/910884397371236432 Survival - BOTM Prizes
Gave out sep-oct BOTM 2021 prizes
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/648511913206087680/910907168176353350 Survival
Removed Smaug from the end, Removed the 2 plugins I used to spawn him, its conflicting with the custom mobs plugin, the plan will be to replace him with a custom mob in the future (not today!)
Updated Entity limiter plugin
Survival/Creative/Test
Updated premium suite of essentials plugin & its dependancy
Survival/Creative/Test/Play
Updated Anti-cheat and anti-cheat configs, thanks @encode42 
Proxy
Updated premium suite of essentials bungee plugin
Discord
Removed #
│uptime_logs Missive for smaug Weekend Bonanza!!
/lotto buy 10 Lotto tickets extended to a maximum of 10 tickets this weekend!
Casino Diamond jackpot machine Doubled odds! for this weekend!
Lumberjack open to everyone to sell wood to at /warp cove this weekend! 
Get selling!
All Servers
Updated wrapper (This means nothing to you and is just a log for myself!) Proxy
Updated Proxy server
All Servers
Rebooted using updated wrappers
Updated OS Survival
New /kits system! Thanks to @Bombniks for converting all the old kits to this new GUI based /kits system!
GUI based, so you can just /kits and click, ain't nobody got time for commands!
We can use my Treasure World so players can design kit items now! And I can swap them out LIVE! Let's do it live!
Armour can auto get placed in armour slots if you're naked.
We can "Preview" kits that you unlock later, at present I have this disabled to not confuse people.
A live countdown timer is shown when you hover over kits (Ignore the 10s ones on the 1 time use items!)
We can have a redeem number now! Have limited kit uses!
Everyone gets another parrot redeem due to this being a new kit plugin, it has to record you have "claimed" it, this wont be the same for rankup prizes as I used permissions for them (smort)
You can still use the command based kits like /kit cadet
I know the firstmate is in the wrong place, theres no reason it should be there, Ive opened a ticket with the dev!
More options for later are Separate names/Descriptions/Placeholders from any plugin/Custom icons/groups/weights/conditions
Changed permission when you rank-up to this new kits plugin permission for redeeming kits.
Removed permissions for getting kits from old plugin 
Survival
Created /warp botm For @MionaTheGreat Build of the month hall, which is now populated and soon to be properly #│announcements
Changed /lotto back to 3 tickets
Removed Lumberjack being for everyone, back to normal.
Gave out #│giveaway-events prizes https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/648511913206087680/913112761838497842 Creative
Added Treasure world to backups
Removed the auto-merge "feature" from the treasure world Survival
Happy Thanksgiving United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia from the whole team! (Copied countries from Wikipedia 
)
Added a thanksgiving basket of treats to /warp cove this is complementary from @DeofiloW1 !! 
️
Added another favorite [item] is back! The plugin got updated and it seems I must be the first person to test it, as its doing all sorts of weird things to formatting with <> around names and oddities, sending messages twice and showing the [i] before the messages! its kind of working...
The developer already has given me a new version to test! 
You do not need to report these issues if this turns out that peolpe use this to spam I will remove the plugin again until the developer can fix them.
You can also use [i] in chat! 
Survival
Fixed the firstmate kit item showing in the correct place now.
Updated the [item] plugin, but its conflicting with the chat plugin, so I may have to put a big cooldown on its use for now.
Creative
Added a new item design plugin that adds a whole ton of extra options for unique items, including attributes, avalible to @Media and above for now. hold an item and use /ie edit its GUI based!
Updated Event world on creative, it now matches survival @Builder
Website
Log for myself, Survival
Build of the month hall is now live! /warp botm see #│announcements
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/207479302311116800/914892314500026378
Added missive for the new BOTM Hall
Survival
Created /advent system (custom made with scripts & the NPC plugin) Due to our new /kits system having a bug with reloading kits live.
Should each day automatically from 1st Dec to 25th dec put a new advent item into /advent Everything's active, so we will find out at 00:01 GMT tonight (I think that triggers earlier for USA folks) I'll be asleep by that time, so tomorrow morning I will check if its worked.
If you open it now on the 30th Nov, it will obviously be empty (Don't be dense)
I need to figure out the 3 people that made the items from the ones I picked to give them keys for making the items and give credit, there will be a separate #│announcements this is just a changelog, so its logged. All Servers
Updated protocol hack to allow 1.18 clients to connect to the 1.12.2 server.
Proxy Server
Updated proxy server to allow 1.18 clients to connect. Survival
Created Elf at /warp cove that opens up the advent menu!
Lets hope this works tonight at 00:01am GMT (use /servertime)!
Fixed redcoat admiral spawning at /warp event
Given out Autumn 21 Treasure chest keys to the @Content Creator Alerts that made the /Advent calendar items! Remember anyone can join this team just DM me!
We will be culling all inactive Item designer pirates soon!
@DeofiloW1 140 Keys (21 Items)
@TobySF 45 Keys (2 items)
@Frog616 40 keys (1 Item)
@GodsDead 40 keys (1 Item, you'll know which ones mine when you see it 
) I will hide my keys around /warp event
Gave out the 10 Autumn Treasure Chest keys I missed to each of you from the last #│giveaway-events somehow I only gave out 5 last time!
@DeimosWreck @Gokayy @Xtreme27 @DementedNA @Taulov 
Survival
Updated PvP tag plugin.
/pvpinfo command now displays a player's current enemies
Updated all 25 Advent kit files to only allow restricted spawning, instead of infinite that I released with last night
In the 2 mins last night that a few people saw this and spammed 100s of advent items, don't assume you get to keep them! 
Centered all items from advent kits
Kits where you get more than 1, you can now claim up to that amount
Kissy kissy under the mistletoe /warp cove and punch that elf! 
Discord
Organised some winter channels into a new Winter category, created #deleted-channel as a reference point for people that do not follow #│announcements or #
│changelogs as they happen. Website - Beautiful team update
I was thinking, this team is so good looking, they need a photo shoot!
https://piratemc.com/information/team/
https://piratemc.com/players/
Fixed the @Helper and @Builder @Build Leader now auto loading from in-game ranks, turns out one of my website optimizations plugins broke my javascript! Disabled this "feature" and they are up and working again after some trial and error!
Updated the online user widget with all staff!
Moved inactive staff to the inactive section!
Updated Community manager role to now be @deleted-role (Similar to @Build Leader) so will be shown under the @Media Section now.
Created scripts to automate @Moderator @Media @Developer on the Staff page now! so these should now auto be updated each day!
Removed dedicated website mod section from staff page as inactive and mods are website mods too! Saved some space.
You ladies and gentlemen are now updated ️
Survival
Updated Anti Cheat
Updated Protocol hack plugin
Updated ProtocoLib
Updated custom head plugin Survival, Creative, Test, Play
Updated Protocol hack plugin
Updated Analytics plugin @Bazurka
Updated Permissions plugin
Survival & Creative
Updated Armour stand limiter plugin
Creative, Test, Play
Updated ProtocolLib
Proxy
Updated proxy server
Updated Analytics plugin Survival
It feels like its been so long since I have posted in changelogs!
So much has changed in the last few weeks, that I'm not sure I even covered everything I've done as I didnt keep a proper log!
Upgraded the server from 1.12.2 to 1.18.1
Make sure to read all the changes on our blog post!
https://piratemc.com/2022/01/15/piratecraft-updated-6-minecraft-versions-to-1-18-1/
Survival
New random teleport portal at /spawn this works for everyone, and this works across the whole world including new 1.18 parts! I just landed on the top of a big snowy mountain!
New messages for when you use random teleport portals on the overworld/nether, much cleaner.
Added /wilderness alias
Temp disabled using grindstones until a patch is pushed up stream to fix a bug
Added a trade for the Autumn21 Treasure Chest key for a Winter21 Treasure Chest key at /warp cove via the Tradesman NPC.
Added automatic key drops for the Winter21 Treasure chest
Updated all Eggs on the store (So they work now) and added a bunch of brand new eggs for new mobs! Thanks @Atalantaa
Winter21 treasure chest 5 star items had their names replaced with gradients! First gradient custom items!
Updated how staff see chat, I moved the delete message icon to the right as it was a little intrusive on the left
Fixed sounds working in Treasure Chests
Just a plethora of performance changes, there will be a lot of tweaking involved in the following weeks to try and fix 1.18.1!
There's bound to be a ton more, but I've not been focused on Discord!
Website
Updated website banner & updated online users widget
Added winter21 treasure chest keys to the store https://donate.piratemc.com/checkout/packages/add/4900348/single 
Survival
Re-added similarity check after we've already had some deckhands spamming the same message! Set at 55% similarity, if it needs tweaking or a word added to the whitelist contact staff.
Thanks for the report @Deleted User Website
Fixed all Gifts on the store, and added a bunch of new gifts thanks to @Atalantaa making me a list! 
Bunch of small new things to pick at checkout for Captain!
@Contributor if you contributed recently and it didn't process gifts because it was using old ID's instead of 1.13 names, DM me with a replacement gift, go check the store to see the options now. Survival
Re-fixed the End-crystal damage for next reboot, not sure how it reset itself back to default! (Halved damage) via @DeofiloW1 Survival
Updated server software
Removed lotto and grappling hook from vote treasure chest temporarily while we have neither plugin
Enabled compression between survival <-> bungee, it was recommended to disable it, but this is a trial to see if it improves loading chunks.
Live map fixed itself on reboot
Farm Animals may be soft nerfed while I run some stats on it all. Survival
Re-added beds not exploding in the nether (Next reboot) Not sure how this setting removed itself.
Gave all staff permissions to bypass a full server (Lets hope this works this time 
) @Helper @Moderator @Admin @Media @Build Leader
I cant even join a full server, and i'm OP!
See Proxy changes below
Grindstones are back working! Updated server software which fixed some poor grindstone behavior, massive thank you to @encode42 for developing these fixes!
Fixes bug with Grindstones not removing Attributes/Item name & lore from items.
This means you can finally remove kit and event item names/lore! Sadly you cant use your golden apples in the grindstone to make cider!
Solves bug of pirates removing balancing enchants from event items to make them super OP!
Solves keeping Event/kit items as collectibles without them being modified and be able to stay balanced!
Removed the block & message from grindstones in all worlds.
Removed the compression between survival <-> bungee, wasn't sure it did anything.
Proxy
Updated the maximum allowed players across all servers, and higher limit for "maximum" users to 75/50 on survival, which should give us some leeway to allow staff to bypass. Just a note to staff, please don't push us past 55 online, we can barely handle 50/50 on 1.18 
We will get back there!
Added settings so I can setup a test server again (Whitelist staff only) so I can start playing around with performance tweaks not live! This whole re-building the server process is bonkers time consuming! 
Survival
Fixed the netherite axe in the Winter21 Treasure chest actually spawning with a name when it's won. I guess DM me if you won one that didn't spawn with a name and I will replace it at some point. Survival
Big woopsie happened while I was at work, the Disk got full on the dedi, because I still had all the transfer files, the whole 1.12 and 1.17 version of the server which was taking up most of the space and the backups are absolutely enormous now.
Sadly with how java works, when the disk gets full, it randomly just wipes files, this included the world borders! it looks like a bunch of you made a mad dash for the end cities!
So I would highly suggest giving your out of border loot back to @Moderator or @Admin so you were not exploiting any server glitches! (We will be looking it up!)
So I had to push a bunch of backups for files that randomly died. I most likely didn't get all of them so if you see any odd behavior from plugins pop a message into #deleted-channel
The "discord linked" files also got whacked, so you may need to re-discord link.
I figured out the TPS drops when the treasure key is dropped, it was nothing to do with the dropkey code, it was somehow the schedule system I used that told it how often to drop, it wasn't a plugin but part of my wrapper, extremely strange. So I have moved all my automatic schedules to the premium essentials plugin, sadly this does not look like its bloody doing them on time! 1 step forward 4 steps back!
All in all a pretty negative day 
Survival
Updated server software! I love the speed of these updates.
Temp disabled using shulker eggs please read Ata's #│announcements
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/207479302311116800/933644394614116482 Survival
Updated server software!
Disabled ships plugin trying to re-set the data pack every restart causing the server to get stuck and not boot.
Proxy
Disabled a default setting with a plugin that blocked players with the word bot in their username @RatRaceRobot should be able to log in again 
Server
Improved backup system Survival
Re-built the test server from the ground up today, whitelist only for staff. Survival
I caught him! The cheeky elf that ran away at Christmas with all the advent calendar gifts! I locked them up at cove!! See if you can knock and treats out of him! at
/warp cove
Survival
Updated server software
Updated Anti Cheat
Updated chat plugin
Updated crew plugin
Fixes resetKdr not resetting ally kills
Fixes bb settings
may strip colors from chat messages
Hides the pirates own crew from some tab completions
Adds bb commands for staff
Fixes not kicking a member if there is at least one leader
Updated Shop region renting plugin, with massive thanks to our newest @Developer @andrewandy Big thank you from everyone!
Re-added s25, s35, s66 files, so these should re-activate now for Chiron333 previously BlimpoBallz (Nice username) @levi_aj_06 @Deleted User
Hopefully the server crashing bug is now fixed massive thanks to @andrewandy for doing testing with me last night!
Updated Live map plugin
You will most likely need to clear your browser cache with shift+reload to get the new web files.
Fix block renders for lanterns, bells, pistons, mushrooms, composters, grindstones, end portals, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, crafting tables, furnaces
Fix problem with rendering blocks above Y=304
workaround seams between map tiles
Added Async WorldEdit tasks for @Admin again to regen lands
Pre-warning pirates, 1.18 terrain generation is completely different to our 1.17.10 - 1.17, so regen will not blend in with existing terrain! You have been pre-warned! This will be a massive ongoing process over time!
Removed WorldEdit in favor of FAWE for regen/cli tools. 
Shops
Shop s71 has been evicted du to be empty and not propperly used as a shop Survival
Re-enabled limits to armor stands that we lost when we moved entity limiting plugins, apparently this new one didn't limit armor stands at all and pirates been abusing it already! Ever wonder why we cant have nice things?
Re-enabled limit of 10 armor stands per chunk.
Disabled armor stands being pushed in water, somehow the only way to do this is to disable their gravity apparently, so this may cause more issues, we will have to see.
Disabled dispenser dispensing armor stands, have only ever seen this used for lag machines, if there is a legitimate use-case mention the use-case to staff and we can decide.
Website
I swear I cant catch a break.
Fixed website not loading/500 internal server errors from automatised update last night and this morning. 
Survival - /warp vip
Fixed long outstanding build issue with the region on /warp vip now all staff are able to build/break here @Build Leader @Builder @Moderator @Admin
feel free to tear down the lot and start again! build what you want, make it pretty! or useful!
The spawner is being worked on to be fixed
Added a Community Garden at /warp vip that all @Contributor can build/break in (Red box in the screenshot)
You'll get a title/message in chat when you enter the area.
Its just a community shared garden space! Not for claiming areas or shops! No shops signs allowed!
We've already had a penis made before its even been announced I'm 95% sure I will have to remove this community garden, but I was just curious what you will all do here as.
Set your own rules in #
│contributor you lot! 
Survival
@Helper and above I created a new collection area/NPC to do staff things with at /warp private and decorated the area a small bit, you can collect your keys from him now!
Survival
Chat configs moved to Github, staff can help me manage filters & formatting!
Re-added Racist filter & automated punishments. Now way more aggressive punishing. After years of testing with tempmutes I cant see many false positives, if it does false positive people can request it be removed form their record.
Automated 5 day temp ban & 30 days mute
Removed kick & warning, as the warning was replaced by the temp ban & mute.
Anyone that tricks people to use it will get the same punishments
Re-added some Missives (thanks @Bazurka for converting these!)
Theres a bug with the chat plugin (surprised pikachu) that will only let me show 1 group of Missives to people
I think i'm going to try and move all the Deckhand/Basic information into the Bible or /guides /howtoplay and /help instead of brining back the groups, as I have liked the chat being relatively clean.
@Helper @Moderator @Admin Fixed the toggle commands for staff channels, no more /thru being taken over for /th
Updated server software
Reduced chrous fruit cooldown from 15s to 5s to match pearl.
Live Map: Set 1.18 new border on the live map to be auto hidden, you can toggle it on in the layers if you want to see where it starts, but its obvious in the terrain change!
Started a full map render, this will take a day or so to complete.
Updated Java profile plugin
Updated GriefPrevention plugin (Claims)
Updated Premium essentials & Lib plugins
Removed Ship region plugin as it does not support flags (Yet)
Proxy
Updated Proxy server Survival
Continued.. Discord limits..
Updated GriefPrevention Claim Expiration settings
Deckhand Claims ChestClaimDays & UnusedClaimDays are for the brand new claims with your first chest (Deckhands claims), Unused claims are empty claims that have not had anything built in them, or just trash like cobble and dirt. ChestClaimDays is a straight up empty claim with nothing in it.
The All Claims checks 1 random player every 1 min from the claims database, if they have been inactive 90 days it then checks if they have more than 1000 claim blocks or more than 2500 bonus blocks (Vote/Buying in-game/Store etc) if they do they they are ignored and their claims are permanent.
If the players gets checked randomly, they are offline 90 days and don't have those values then their claims are removed.
It is aggressive to clean up as many old claims as we can automatically, then once we are happy we will make it much higher, but most peolpe already bypass by having enough claim blocks or bonus blocks already and are safe!
Expiration:
ChestClaimDays: 3
UnusedClaimDays: 14
AllClaims:
DaysInactive: 90
ExceptWhenOwnerHasTotalClaimBlocks: 1000
ExceptWhenOwnerHasBonusClaimBlocks: 2500
We will be monitoring the logs for removed claims to make sure its not removing good claims, we haven't ever been able to test this properly before due to it never working before! if you have better ideas for values PLEASE message staff with your ideas for better values (Not me) and they can pass on the message if they agree.
This description is terrible, I will try and write a better one for the guide page thats easier to understand after I have done some better research, heres a bit of background by me from years ago and seems to be the only documentation for the plugin I can find!
https://piratemc.com/topic/claim-expiration-discussion-vote/ Survival
@Contributor you gained /toggle to /toggle pm, /toggle join and /toggle death to toggle receiving those messages in chat!
Everyone else remember you can /ignore annoying people and you can also /ch Leave the global chat altogether! So you can play in silence! it will auto re-enable when you log off and on again!
I accidentally found /l today which I didn't know listed all online players, not sure how helpful that will be, but it exists!
All staff @Helper I added /g as an alias to talk in global chat, so if you are toggled in a staff chat you can now use /g shut the fudge up landlubbers! Next reboot itll work with tab complete.
Removed Elf at cove
Removed portal in Kracken at cove Survival
The SignShop plugin (The signs you use to make shops) will be updated tomorrow reboot at GMT 10:30am
This update is from the amazing @IndexOutOfMJ who found some performance issues with @encode42
Hopefully there will be no issues, so please just be vigilant with any oddities from after tomorrow mornings reboot with shop signs, please report any issues into #deleted-channel Survival
Slightly changed /msg colors so it stands out a bit more, it was winding me up blending in. Also, you can msg yourself for some reason.
Survival
Gave @Admin announce permissions /an and gained the ability to now /chc announce using chat, title, actionbar, bossbar & toast, not sure admins will ever need to send out these, but they now have the ability to, good for events maybe. Survival
Re-set clearing people's /back locations when they are killed in PvP (Not other deaths!) This happens silently.
RIP @Taulov for testing for me. 
Survival
Added a bypass permission for @Contributor to not receive Chat Missive group that advertise the store as you are already a contributor! This is entirely untested and i'm going off what the developers told me is the correct way to set this up haha, so I'll have to test it works when i'm home.
For @Admin I gave the /an announcement a default color to yellow, I have no idea why the default was grey that you cant read.
Modified the racist filter regex to hopefully not false positive again, but it is regex and i'm not the smartest man, so never say never!
Did you know? You can post spotify.com links in chat to songs/playlists to share/listen with others, these bypass the advert filter!
Website
Published November 2021 BOTM blog post! Massive thanks to @Lullaby93@Cthulhu and @DeofiloW1 who put this together!
I will be handing out prizes when i'm home tonight!
https://piratemc.com/2021/11/30/november-2021-build-of-the-month-entries-and-winners/
Survival
Gave our November 2021 BOTM Prizes
https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/648511913206087680/938543885372776528 Survival
Added /rr and /rl for next reboot, as alias for /rotate right and /rotate left for sailing ships Via @_con suggestion, Will take effect tomorrows reboot.
Proxy
Updated the Bungee server network compression for sending data between client & server. This will take effect from the next bungee reboot tomorrow morning. Survival
Added /pilot for everyone. This allows you to pilot any ship without signs! This means that ships can be fully used entirely without signs!
For example you would use /pilot dhow this has a 30 second cooldown, as I'm not sure why anyone would need to mass use this command fast!
Added to make life easier
Easier to teach new players how to sail and I can write it on the ships they buy too
Got some ideas for later on with this...
May make some ships easier to steal if they don't have a lock on them (Piston) Bonus points for stealing ships around warps that are just left in the sea! FREE SHIPS!
Shops
Shop 59 has been evicted du to not being used as a shop Survival
Added new /bounty plugin! New GUI!
Use /addbounty to add a bounty now!
Now has a Leaderboard for top bounty /hunters
New leveling The more bounties you collect the more levels which unlocks Kill particles and Kill quotes that show when collecting bounties!
New automatic bounties There is a 5% chance that an automatic bounty gets placed on someone if they kill someone without a bounty!
New head collection You get given the head of your bounty collection that you need to bring to the bounty setter to collect!
New Tracker Uses a compass to hunt, but it lets the target know how many players are tracking them!
New Alerts when you are tracked You are told when you are tracked!
Stack bounties Add money to the bounty pool!
Auto Cleaning Auto removed after 30d if not claimed
Updated Server software
Updated Live map (May require reloading your cache with shift+reload)
Lots of model and block render fixes (campfires, levers, glazed terracotta, azalea, cake, observers, grindstones, comparators, repeaters, etc)
Updated Farm Control plugin
Updated Chat plugin
Updated admin shop plugin
Updated premium essentials plugin
Updated jump pads plugin
Next reboot /rank will do /rankup and /track will go to /rankinfo
Updated /piratecraft to work the same as /guides (Next reboot)
Updated /go /travel & /play to open /warp instead of the old GUI I made pre GUI warps.
Cleaned up some duplicate users in premium essentials plugin
Proxy
Updated Server software Survival
Added back the old PvP combat tag name above head, as this was fixed by the PvP tagging plugin. I added [combat] to explain why people are red.
Removed Glow from PvP tagging via @VEDEVE https://piratemc.com/topic/combat-tag-glowing/
Removed the /siege cooldown on the command due to people screwing up the command and not being able to use it again for an hour, this was left over legacy.
Fixed title when you kill someone no longer showing %otherplayer_iteminhand_<player>% and should display the item name again. This was due to me not installing the placeholder add-on for it.
We are aware that the /siege in the default GriefPrevention sucks and there are issues with it, as mentioned in https://piratemc.com/2022/01/15/piratecraft-updated-6-minecraft-versions-to-1-18-1/ Our old version was a Fork of GP, which means we require an active developer to keep our forked version updated.
What I would much prefer is a custom siege mechanic to my design specs as its own standalone plugin, but again it requires a developer. Please just be patient until we find someone that has the time to do such a project. The Siege blocks are not working at present and after testing today seems like an issue with the actual plugin itself. 
Survival
Added all /emoji back to server replacement.
Added adding color to all commands in chat to highlight them! MUCH cleaner. I'm aware some people will use this to abuse using color in chat, but if you do it'll be a LONG mute like 3-5 days . /If /you /do /this /to /spam /chat /we /will /mute /you and if you continue it'll just be a ban.
Created some Bot type detection for things like How do I sail or how do I set home which wont show the message to global and instead give them a clickable link with custom formatting.
Removed L from filter, this was super legacy toxic filter.
Survival
Backdated jump pads plugin, was doing some funky things to tps.
Denied bounty claiming in /warp arena with flag bounty-claim
️ Turns out The bounty plugin isn't saving bounties over restarts into the database! Its saving player data, just not bounties into the table! I've contacted the developer, see if they can get it fixed soon. Be patient. Survival
Temporarily disabled /siege until the developers of GriefPrevention plugin fix soft blocks working, its causing too many problems with players sieging and getting angry that its not working. I have replaced the siege command with a message that explains that we are awaiting someone to fix it, someone must have broken it when they updated GP to 1.17/1.18.
Related: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/939873180758208522
Updated some other command based chat filters to give extended information too.
You can no longer /mail me directly in-game, it will direct people to /helpop /discord or to create a ticket on the website, I never read these, ever!
Survival
Updated server software
Changed spawn-from-bullet.base-chance: 0 to prevent shulker breeding.
Solves this issue (hopefully): https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/207479302311116800/933644394614116482 @Atalantaa
Re-enabled shulker_spawn_egg in store.
Removed the block of using shulker eggs on all worlds! 
Website
Created a new status uptime page, hosted externally so if everything goes down this can be checked! the old company yeeted all free accounts!
https://status.piratemc.com/
Changed the Github bug tracking to be staff only and not open, as i've had 0 bugs submitted by players, I also deleted the open source repos i've had for years where i've had 0 PR's, everything has gone in-house for the team and I've been working on a big update on how projects are managed and planned.
As players continue to use #deleted-channel and the fourms for submitting errors or create a support ticket for staff for anything major like a dupe exploit so we can reward you. https://piratemc.com/support/ Survival
Gave Deckhands a spawn kit again, turns out since 1.18 not a single deckhand has been giving a starting kit! they have been naked and empty! So any of them that have stuck around are top pirates! Looks like I never set it up to use the new GUI kit system when we did that change and it was using the old text version that broke!
Disabled essentials trying to set the spawnkit.
Gave Deckhands some more starting food in their spawnkit and also some carrots/potatoes for a small farm because they used to be able to search the spawn ship for these things but the plugin that refilled these chest hasn't been updated in 6 years and does not work on 1.18!
Re-added /kit ship Not sure why this vanished, turns out everyone can claim it again! Changed it a bit, stack of black wool and sail guide now added! you can now recommend this to deckhands again! thanks to @lazydog11 for noticing it was missing! Survival
@IndexOutOfMJ 
Your thing to test!
Fixed this mornings reboot getting stuck at reboot, it was the Shop region renting plugin trying to unrent 2 shops and failing with FAWE.
Backdated to normal WE and disabled FAWE @Admin For now don't do any large regens, you still can just do them in small bites! 
Updated OS
Updated MC Server software
Updated Permissions plugin
Updated WorldEdit plugin
Updated Chat plugin
Updated Voting plugin
Updated Analytics plugin
Updated FarmControl plugin
Website
Fixed the in maintenance message showing on this vote website, thanks @Cthulhu 
https://www.trackyserver.com/server/piratecraft-170293 
Connect mc.piratemc.com Website https://www.piratemc.com
Discord https://discord.piratemc.com Rules https://piratemc.com/information/rules/ Live Map https://piratemc.com/map/ Gettin
Survival
Given out prizes for Winter 2021/2022 Treasure Chest key giveaway #2
@Atalantaa @Evanstormchaser @Percket ! your keys have been sent. Use /crate claim Survival
Dock 6 Dhow updated & Buyable I updated this Dock6 Dhow about a week ago and wasnt able to create new shops due to a bug, but was able to today! Dock6 is back up and ready to be purchased! Make sure to get your designs done in #
dhow-schooner-designs so that I can update the rest of them with your competition entries!
Survival
Item sorting and automatic depositing is back! Now PirateInventory!
@Contributor Automatic Item sorting became an in-house plugin! Massive thank you goes out to @IndexOutOfMJ who massively upgraded the old plugin to work on 1.18 with a bunch of new features Coming soon TM
Automatically sort your inventory and chests from Lieutenant
Automatically /depositall from your inventory to nearby chests at Captain!
We're currently testing performance, Im running some metrics in the background, so if you can get in-game and use the deposit features that would be great thankies!
If this is new to you, please read the guide!
https://piratemc.com/guides/automatic-item-sorting/ 
Survival
Updated /doors plugin for next reboot, will hopefully fix it working! Survival
Fixed the demo /doors working at /warp cove, 2 draw bridges and 2 big dock doors!
Fixed pressure plates at /warp cove sending you in-game text
Updated /warp cove Board with an updated graphic and changed the pressure plate to tell you about /guide cove Survival
Updated Server software
Updated our in-house Pirate Inventory management plugin, massive thanks to @IndexOutOfMJ who is working on this all the time!
Performance tweaks
Fixed tab completion for blacklist for /deposit all
Updated vote plugin
Updated treasure chest plugin /treasure
Updated admin NPC shop plugin Survival
@Moderator @Admin Fixed the bug where changing worlds would reset your gamemode to survival, world changing will now respect when you are in spectator. Survival
@Helper @Moderator @Admin New tool! /farmcontrol notify and /farmcontrol history that came in this update: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/943138056054145056
Notifications and history of what the new farm control plugin is doing, I requested this feature from the developer since we lost it when we moved to this plugin and didn't release he added it for me in that update!
Notification's are opt-in, they wont be on by default, and its a toggle. Survival
Removed lore from apple in @Contributor /kit captain so apples can be stacked that are collected from multiple people. Requested by @Frog616
Survival
Re-created /kit boatswain_rankup not sure why this vanished, don't worry if you ranked up the permission was set! so you will now gain access to obtain your boatswain rankup kit of a becaon and this new item I created the Peeping {username} so its custom to you! Sadly I tried to make it a gradient but it wouldn't allow the name to populate in the gradient! Boo!
When the Creative Re-created, we will allow you all to re-create every single rankup kit from scratch as they are all so dated and could really be properly buffed with cool/new/custom named things.
Survival
Global Chat Removed click event on global chat message so URLS can be clicked again.
You can post links to any piratemc.com page, including the Wiki, punishment tracker, or map URL
You can also post spotify.com links to share music (No we will not add youtube!)
@Helper /helpop Changed chat color to bright yellow, like it was before bright and bold!
Removed message click event, so URLS can be clicked
Added extra details when you hover over player names from helpop messages, like timestamp
@Moderator @Admin Changed Mod/admin chat channel color as requested by @Atalantaa to not blend in with the crew chat! we are now bright pink baby!
You can also click the MOD text on the left to copy the message into the chat bar like in helpop 
Removed message click event, so URLS can be clicked Survival
@SlothSupreme wanted a quick way to check the weather so I made a quick /weathercheck this will tab-complete next reboot.
Survival
I have a date for the Legacy nether removal 15 July 2022 the old nether goes!
Added 3 new missives:
Legacy nether gets removed 15 July 2022, loot your old stuff, that's 6 months then.
Do not use your event pet eggs, there not working atm, just keep them in a chest for now.
Do your part, kill villagers, see #│announcements
Slight change to how missives are sent, hopefully they all get sent now, where as before they were only sending 1 group.
Removed 2 older missives about the Vote Treasure chest and Gambling hole at the cove.
Removed Beast Master at cove as Event eggs not currently working, dont use them. 
Survival
Started full render of the live map for the flat view of the overworld, this will take a while. Survival
Updated server software
Changed a server setting ment for performance to do with chunk saving that caused a crash earlier Survival
Fixed the bounties flag denying collecting bounties in the arena claim-bounties is the correct one (For my own reference later when I forget what it is)
Made some headway with the developer trying to fix bounties saving after reboot, he said hes fixed it, just waiting for a release!
Thanks for the report I_Sell_Hugs Survival
Improving your ping Introducing dynamic render distance for those with poor internet connections to dynamically reduce render distance when you have poor connection, also good for people with intermittent wifi!
Reduced how aggressive the anti-xray is, this is still on, but its going to be way less aggressive, I was reading PR's to the server software and a comment mentioned that having the anti xray turned to max actually sends more packets of data to peolple! Why this isn't commented in the docs I have no idea.
Updated server software
Boring Details
1.18 doubled the packet data sent to players, which has proven problematic for people further away to any Minecraft server, not just PirateCraft or just poor internet connections. Couple this with larger render distance and players not changing their render distance from default (Even after repeatedly asking them to do it!) this means maximum render distance of 7 chunks is being sent with these new 1.18 double data per chunk, choking peoples connections.
I have decided to look into methods to dynamically change peolpes render that does not require them to change their client settings, before I drop the render back down to 4, as a lot of us prefer having the option to have larger render (I do).
I did a poll, 90% of players just use default client values, and/or are worried about changing client settings.
The server software actually respects your client settings if you change your render distance in client the server sends less packets of data for chunks to you! YOU have control and need to be adapting your settings still.
If this does not work, I have another plan that I will implement of a hard render of 4 and my own custom opt in command to toggle 7 render without this dynamic plugin Website
Re-created the webpage redirect for https://mc.piratemc.com and gave it an SSL cert, for some reason some people try and use this as a website address instead of a server connection, so now this redirects to the website if they try and put the server IP into a browser, I had this before I had to re-build the server. Website Survival/bungee
Changed how analytics plugin generates @Bazurka Survival
@Helper @Moderator @Admin @Build Leader
Staff protected from PvP when they are in Duty now No more accidentally worrying if a staff member is doing something without knowing/checking tab or chat. They cant PvP you, you cant PvP them.
Staff now have a name tag show above their heads when they are in Duty mode so you can see when they are busy!
I screwed up todays earlier update for the dynamic render distance, I uploaded the wrong plugin! Derp. Next restart tomorrow the dynamic render will activate Survival
How is it Monday already? Where did the weekend go
Updated Crew plugin
Should hopefully fix chat priority, filtering crew chats again!
Something cool was added, but I need it to be tested before I can announce it.
Updated live map plugin, may require clearing cache shift+refresh
Updated chat plugin
Updated premium essentials plugin
Holograms got re-written, be on the lookout for any dodgy holograms around the world
Updated Tab list plugin, that sorts people in tab & shows names above heads
Updated ProtocolLib (Addon for other plugins)
Updated Anti-cheat plugin
Upgraded to the paid premium version, which adds a few more premium checks.
Updated configs, thanks to @encode42 Proxy
Updated Proxy server software to get 1.18.2 Clients working on the 1.18.1 server, waiting until the server software updates to 1.18.2, please be patient.
Survival
Added protocol hack to allow 1.18.2 clients to connect to the 1.18.1 server software, we will update to 1.18.2 when its ready.
Updated Live map plugin again today, quick patch.
Updated premium essentials plugin and its dependency again today too!
Reverted the /c join priority, as it was posting the message twice in chat, I have created a ticket for the Clan developers, so not being filtered again Survival
Crews can now create a Discord channels to sync your in-game crew chat!
Crew Leaders use /crew discord create this costs £500 one time!
Private to your crew only! You can write between Discord <-> In-game Crew chat!
Nice way to quickly search/history/keep updated with your crew on the go!
Requirements; At least 3 verified Crew members, £500 in-game and the Crew leader has to run the command.
There's a hard limit of 100 crew channels that can be made (100 crews) due to limits with Discord channels, so its first come first serve.
I will reduce the price later on, waiting for feedback from staff on price, for now its the same price as setting a crew home. Survival
Added new missive about Crew discords (Above)
Added March 2022 BOTM Missive @Lullaby93
https://piratemc.com/topic/march-2022-build-of-the-month-entry-form/
Updated Missive prefix/suffix display for all Store missives
Updated Announcement missives colors/layout/gave title 
web/server
Bunch of backend server monitoring for myself, just a note so I know when I did it - dear GodsDead a note for you. Love, GodsDead. Survival
Nerfed respawn_anchor explosion damage to match end crystal power, as that boi packs a punch! My god does that do some damage! Prevent this being used in PvP for 1 shot kills (Personally I like that ) But I can see why people would get upset getting blown up by one. Will take effect next reboot as I missed this mornings reboot. Survival
@Helper @Moderator @Admin Fixed muted players usernames. Survival
Locker is back up and working! When I moved from 1.12.2 to 1.18, I decided to get rid of the per-world inventory plugin as it was a massive overhead saving every single persons inventory every time you interacted with something, this was only on the server to have a separate inventory for the Locker! So I wrote a script today to that saves/restores inventory when entering and leaving the locker. Took the time to improve it while I was at it.
@Moderator @Admin Locker now requires a reason, which is saved as a Warning to the player so they know the reason they were sent to the locker and its logged.
/locker <username> <reason> (You have no idea how tempted I was to locker people automatically that try this command that do not have permission )
Now forces a reason/warning.
Custom message is sent with the warning message to the user thats been sent to the player, see screenshot.
Inv is saved then wiped when entering the locker, so players always have fresh inventories if they have visited the locker before.
Inventory is restored when getting yourself out of the locker or staff use /unlocker (Even more tempted to wipe inv if people thy this while in the locker)
Manual unlockers are logged to mod chat so staff can see it.
WTF is the locker?
The locker is a punishment, its a purgatory world that I came up with. You are sent here with no tools, armor, food which you cannot get in this world!
The only way to get out is to mine sand by hand, buy sand Dollars and then use those Sand Dollars to pay Davy Jones to pay your debt out of this world!
You can not use any commands or chat in the locker.
https://map.piratemc.com/?worldname=locker&mapname=surface&zoom=4&x=-73&y=64&z=70 
Proxy
No longer limiting maximum accounts based on IP (Bot Protection) Changed this to enable during attacks instead of always on.
@GIBear @quillful If anyone has contact for LeonLushV, brunogenny give them a DM to try again. Website
Updated my online user widget with latest staff list. Survvial
Re-added the old Entity farm manager plugin
I have specifically added this to get a timings report for when it creates a TPS drop so I can report the issue to the developer @Helper Keep an eye out for the message that pops up and watch tps to see if it still does this.
This will most likely start cleaning up entities that were not covered by the other entity managing plugin, Most importantly Villagers. But everyone's had plenty of warning!
The other farm managing plugin is still on, as it manages AI for farm animals.
Bumped the distance it checks
Updated Essentials suite of plugins
Updated Premium essentials plugin
Updated Treasure chest plugin
Updated PvP Manager plugin
Updated Permissions plugin
Updated Tab sorting & Overhead tag plugin
Updated Protocolib
Updated Dynamic render distance plugin (I dont think this is working as I expected it to)
Updated GriefPrevention plugin Survival - more bloody performance changes
Villagers seem to still be the number one source of server resources, even after that mini purge for liming them per chunk! I underestimated how rubbish their path finding/POI system is! If anyone can find a better POI replacement for Villagers, PLEASE send it to me! I cant seem to find a replacement, other than a plugin that you right click a block on them to set their profession, then the POI may be entirely disabled? Not sure.
Trialing a hard nerf on giant villager farms, those with over 50 villagers+ all within 160 blocks of each other, this is reversible and can be changed live, so don't panic.
A hard nerf means these two settings are added: remove-awareness Removes the entity's ability to pathfind.
and disable-collisions Stops the entity from colliding with other entities.
They should still function as villagers! This should hopefully stop them all trying to find a Point of interest, especially those giant farms with pre 1.14 villagers of players that are long gone with mammoth farms with old villagers in that have no profession! These will all have to be cleared up by admins over time.
Just be in contact with staff if this somehow drastically changes villy farms (Other than setting POI), I will only be able to know if this makes a big difference when we are full again, so I may need to wait until the weekend Website
Sneak peak at a part of a custom private dashboard I made myself in the last few days, queries and shows me entity count live (this part) so I can keep an eye on the entities that are alive and ticking that current minute!
You may be able to figure out what entity we need to focus on reducing next! (there are 9 people online when I took this screenshot)
This screenshot in no way reflects the average numbers of the server, there were 9 players online when I took this screenshot! This is very, very, very low to what we have loaded on average.
Survival
Backdated the dynamic render plugin, a few errors with it.
Updated Discord integration plugin
Updated logging plugin
Updated custom head plugin Survival
Backdated Discord integration plugin, Other plugins reliant on it haven't updated to the newer version, breaking parts of other plugins.
