So minecraft 1.8 is supose to drop live tomorrow.
This will not let people connect to PirateCraft as we run 1.7.9, Now the happy news is that the amazing spigot team has managed to release a protocol hack to let 1.8 clients use the spigot 1.7.10 builds! Problem is, I havent updated to 1.7.10 because this breaks a few plugins, mainly the live map.
It may be a while until I can test all the server plugins with the 1.7.10-r3 1.8 protocol hacked spigot build, so for now this is a heads up for connecting you will need to use a 1.7.2-1.7.10 client to continue to play on PirateCraft.