Hello all,
Welcome to the beginning of April which is a totally normal day of the year! Today we have a totally normal event going on in PVP which adds two new maps but definitely doesn’t have a major impact on the server! Also we did not fix a few long-standing major issues in the Competitive gamemode.
NEW WACKY MAP: SPAWN_PVP
Fight in the server spawn in the PVP gamemode! You can access all areas of spawn as well as the scenery around it. This map was adapted from the original spawn build by James_4007.
NEW WACKY MAP: WOOLHOUSE
WoolHouse is similar to ShootHouse, but is made out of wool! Made by Hotline_101.
NEW MUTATORS
5 new fun mutators are now available in the limited-time playlist.
- UltraDamageDropoff: all damage taken is halved every 10 blocks from the enemy.
- DeathTeleportsTeam: when you kill a player, another enemy player is teleported to the dead enemy’s location and have 0.5 seconds of invincibility.
- GunThief: when you kill an enemy, you will steal the first valid weapon in their inventory which will replace your weapon in the same inventory slot.
- Void: when you die, a hole to the void opens underneath you
- Hoarder: when you die, gain $10 for every item in your inventory. Only items in your hotbar are counted in Mine-Spades.
UltraDamageDropoff, DeathTeleportsTeam, and Hoarder mutators can also be added to matches added to the map vote by players with the Specialist rank.
NEW LIMITED TIME PVP PLAYLIST
We have added a new limited time playlist which will appear alongside normal maps for the duration of this event. In comparison with previous years, this year we are going with a more controlled approach which actually focus on combinations of mutators and maps that offer a fun game experience while still being extremely silly. These maps will have a lowercase map name and have a 50X chance to show up in the playlist compared to other maps.
The absolutely absurd mutator combinations of previous years are also coming back, and a few new combinations that include the new mutators have been added. However, these random combinations have a much smaller chance to appear in the map vote owing to potentially being less fun.
MUTATOR CHANGES
Changes to existing mutators:
- Master Builder: the block sphere created when players die can no longer replace bedrock and barrier blocks
OTHER CHANGES
- Changed the message when joining with Minecraft version below 1.19.3 to say “Please update to Minecraft 1.19.3 or above” instead of “Please update to Minecraft 1.19.3 or 1.20.x”.
- Fixed the IWI Galil and IWI Carmel description with the correct spelling of Israel
- Fixed a typo in the description of the Tactical Stock modification
- The new suicide respawn time penalty is now disabled if one of the wacky mutators is present in the match (the name of the mutator in code must start with “Fools” prefix)
BUG FIXES
- Fixed a long-standing bug where if a Competitive match ends early or is aborted due to not enough players, player(s) in the lobby gain a loss stat
- Fixed a long-standing bug where the C4 Finder points to a map’s Defusal objectives even in the Demolition gamemode
- Fixed a long-standing bug where you were able to drop the Defusal Kit, Wirecutters and C4 Finder
- Fixed a long-standing bug where you could duplicate the C4 Finder if you drop the bomb and then the C4 Finder and pick up the bomb again
- Linking Discord for an offline player should now correctly grant the ability to chat without reaching Level 1
- Attempted to fix a long-standing bug where at the start of a round in Competitive, the number of grenades in surviving players’ inventory were not tracked correctly, leading to players being able to buy more grenades than intended
- Updated Kotlin version for custom plugins to maintain binary compatibility with the Kotlin stdlib files located in the Place plugin. This should fix some unexpected runtime errors in the arena unloader code that may have been causing memory leaks, and therefore this change should improve server stability.
