• Reduced the chat text Similarity spam checker, from 60% match to 40%
• Reduced the number of messages it checks from 2 to 1, so only your last message
• Added @username to chat mentions, this will highlight a players name green in chat, so you can direct a message to someone, it also plays an egg popping sound their end. It doesn’t respect tab auto fill, but I have requested this from the dev.
• Added some words to the whitelist that fully bypass the similarity check as they are common words.
• Added RearAdmirals bypasses all chat filters.
• WARNING: I’m purging all skeleton horses, since 1.11.2 I can now run a command to kill just skeleton horses, so I am, every 30 mins. Our Skeleton trap blocker doesn’t seem to be working, so this is a workaround until its updated to work with 1.11.2.
  Yes this does mean your pet skeleton horses will die too, RIP. There’s no point requesting them be replaced, as they’ll just get killed again, im going to run this purge for a week or so to get rid of the sheer amount of Skeleton horses that there are.
• [website] Updated “like” plugin, this may now notify you of likes.

Spawn

Been doing some much needed work on spawn, ongoing process.

• After many attempts, I think most of spawn is the right biome now, Jungle.
• Removed snow, blocked snow and ice from forming.
• Did some terrain work on the mountains, added some new arch and hanging basket.

1.12

Since I have been doing mostly backbone upgrades, 1.12 should be a much faster upgrade for PirateCraft, Its not ready yet but Spigot are testing their open 1.12 server already and I’m keeping an eye on it, when 1.12 does finally drop, I think we will wait a week or two before upgrading as this allows bugs and issues to be fixed (If no plugins break!)