Update 1.36: USA Independence Day Update

JUL 4 2026

Hello all,

In this update we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a new spawn, new weapon remodels, brand new July 4th weapon quests for using American weapons in GunColony, and a returning America Scenario playlist! We have also added the first ~60 Achievements to the server, and improved the winner calculation in Elimination mode to be fairer to teams with fewer players.

NEW SPAWN

We have added a unique July 4th spawn to the server to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary!

NEW WEAPON REMODELS

This update adds many new weapon remodels to the game.

Ultimax 100 is a Singaporean LMG built for accuracy with a constant recoil system. It has been remodeled by CrishTheCreator:

The SC 2010, FAL, MSG 90, AN-94, and IMI Galil have been remodeled by Trexar.

Note: we have also added some weapon models to the resource pack but they couldn’t make it into the update for time reasons. Some of them also have script-generated temporary icons which will be fixed when we actually add these weapons. We will aim to include new weapons in GunColony updates soon.

JULY 4TH WEAPON QUESTS

As a special celebration for America’s 250th independence day, we have added new quests for using American weapons in GunColony! These quests will be available until July 30th.

Note: each of these quests is available separately for each weapon category in GunColony. In addition, Full-Auto and Semi-Auto rifles count as different categories for the purpose of these quests, since we have significantly more American rifles in the server compared to weapons in other categories.

All weapon XP token and weapon upgrade point rewards are available for American weapons in the category only. Note: you can gain quest progress for these quests by using American scenario weapons and special weapons, even including the M134 Minigun!

• American Militia: get 10 kills in PVP modes with American weapons in this category
  • Reward: 500 XP, 1000 Weapon XP Tokens
• American Expert: get 100 kills in PVP modes with American weapons in this category
  • Reward: 1000 XP, 5000 Weapon XP Tokens, Diamond Crate
• Worldsaver: get 50 mob kills in MobArena with American weapons in this category
  • Reward: 500 XP, 3 Weapon Upgrade Points
• Pax Americana: get 500 mob kills in MobArena with American weapons in this category
  • Reward: 1000 XP, 7 Weapon Upgrade Points, Booster Vote Crate

These quests are among the first in the game that take advantage of the new flexibility introduced in the new Place Engine quest system in GunColony.

FIRST BATCH OF ACHIEVEMENTS! (BETA)

Recently, we’ve added a new achievements system to GunColony, but we only had one test achievement in the game. In this update we have added 59 new achievements to GunColony, bring the total up to 60.

Note that over half of the achievements are multi-tiered weapon achievements, and about 20 are unique achievements (these are harder to add to the game). Thanks to pale1 for designing the achievements!

Note: these achievements are in beta and have not been fully tested in-game. Please report any achievements that do not currently trigger normally! We may also adjust the rewards for the achievements in the future but we’ll try to keep these changes minor.

COMPETITIVE MODE IMPROVEMENTS

We have improved the win condition of the Elimination gamemode in Competitive.

Previously, the win condition was purely based on the number of players alive in each team. Now the winner will be the side with the greatest percentage of players alive instead, counted at round start.

This new win condition greatly reduces the disadvantage towards the team with fewer players. The team with more players will continue to have an advantage, however.

Note: when a match is won due to percentage of players even though the winning team didn’t have more alive players in absolute terms, a special Round Win message will be displayed, explaining why the winning team won the round.

PVP MAP VOTE GUI IMPROVEMENT

We have added a new improvement to the PVP map vote GUI: the map vote counts in the GUI will now update dynamically when other players vote for maps while the GUI is open. To avoid mis-clicks, the ordering of the maps will stay fixed, so you still need to re-open the GUI to see the new ordering based on the number of votes on each map.

This improvement is made possible by migrating the PVP Map Vote GUI to the new Place GUI system.

INTERNAL GUI MIGRATION

We are starting the process of migrating all of the GUI user interfaces into the new Place GUI system. The idea is to migrate as much of existing legacy code to individual pieces of the new Place system first, in order to reduce the complexity of a full migration to Place later, and to reduce the number of GUI systems we have to maintain.

In this update, we have already migrated 3 of the existing GUIs in GunColony as a test:

• Purchase confirmation GUI when buying any item with Tokens
• Weapon GUI (/gun)
• PVP Lobby GUI (which resulted in new gameplay improvements as stated above)

Please inform us if you notice any new issues with any of these GUIs. In the near future, we will migrate the rest of the GUIs to the new Place GUI system.

OTHER CHANGES

• We have added support for the latest Minecraft 26.2 client version
• The America playlist has returned! In this very innocuous scenario you get to play with American weapons on both sides. Available for a limited time.
• Added limited time Summer playlist
• Removed limited time Easter playlist (it’s been a while hasn’t it)
• Added a July 4th fireworks kit at spawn, available with /kit for a limited time
• Fixed a typo in the Sniper Ammo modification’s description

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug introduced in the last update where the Weapon Upgrade GUI showed paper for all GUI items instead of the intended items
• Fixed a bug where the FG-42 was included in Arms Race in both Rifle and LMG categories
• Fixed a bug where the FMG-9 was included in Arms Race in the SMG category instead of pistol
• Added Mk 211 HE Ammo to HTI for parity with the M82