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CU Updates #44 - 1.19.2 Update, Discord NSFW Channel Changes

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Hey, everyone - as of today, we've officially updated our MC server to 1.19.2! If you don't care for the details, feel free to hop straight on. However, for those of you concerned about chat reporting, or interested in what stuff has changed on the server with the update, keep reading. We've also got an important notice in regards to the #nsfw channel on our Discord at the end.

 

Chat Reporting

Minecraft's 1.19.1 update has become infamous in the Minecraft community for its chat reporting feature. This feature allows players to report chat messages to Mojang - and depending on the severity of the messages, can result in that player being temporarily or permanently banned from all of Minecraft multiplayer. Not just from a single server, but from the entirety of multiplayer. This, of course, was a terrifying concept to a lot of players at first - and for many, it still is.

 

Originally, we made an announcement stating that we would be holding off on updating until further notice - as we initially were pretty worried about what might happen. Since 2014, our guidelines have been pretty lax in terms of chat - with only things like racial slurs and outright, blatant harassment being disallowed. Would our policy of permitting most other language result in either us, or our players getting banned?

 

As of right now, the answer is most likely no. The guidelines created by Mojang have been clarified and relaxed a fair bit since their initial introduction. That being said, we are still concerned that, in the future, some of these guidelines may change - or the potential for current guidelines to be misinterpreted by those reviewing reports. As such, we have installed a plugin that effectively disables chat reporting entirely. For the foreseeable future, chat reporting will simply be impossible on our MC server. You will see a warning message in the top right of your screen when switching servers as a result, but we feel that this is the best way to make sure that both us, our players, and future players will feel safe from Mojang's enforcement when they play here.

 

SkyBlock Reset

A little while ago, we held a poll on Discord asking those of you who played SkyBlock what your thoughts were on potentially reverting to our original SkyBlock plugin. The poll was given a universal vote in favor of reverting - which was a surprise, but only kind of.

 

The plugin that we used going all the way back to Nuclear District's server in 2014, through to MC 1.16 was called uSkyBlock - also known as Ultimate SkyBlock. However, with 1.17, that plugin broke - and eventually it was the only thing holding back the update. As a result, we had to find an alternative - and the only one that seemed up-to-date was called IridiumSkyblock. Unfortunately, this plugin left a lot to be desired. Most immediately, the island choices it provides are pretty "meh", and some of them don't even have trees available by default - thus resulting in player's only way to get wood being the shop. Additionally, this plugin broke a mechanic that players could do in the past, where you can physically expand your island out enough and effectively "link up" with your neighbor. Many players did this in the past - but with the way the new plugin worked, this was no longer possible.

 

There were other strange mechanical differences as well - enough to where we felt that it would be ideal to switch back. Luckily for us, the original uSkyBlock plugin was in fact updated - apparently they updated shortly after we finally gave up - go figure. As such, we are now back on the original uSkyBlock plugin - however just like the last plugin switch, this does unfortunately require a reset.

 

That being said - since so few players used the previous SkyBlock plugin, we will manually migrate your old island forward into the new world. You will need to ensure that you start a new island using /is create, and then let a staff member know to migrate your island. Once we're able to, we'll copy it forward for you.

 

As per usual, though, the previous world will soon be put up for download - so even if you don't request a migration, your work will still be preserved that way fairly soon.

 

Other Changes

Other than those two changes, we do have a few other changes to go over, though these aren't as major.

 

First and foremost, Semi-Vanilla, Survival, and Vanilla have all had their world borders expanded to allow for the discovery of new content. The old/new border sizes can be found in the full update notes linked at the bottom of the post.

 

Additionally, Vanilla once again has a livemap available. We originally disabled this, since Vanilla was originally slated to be, essentially, anarchy. While anarchy-style gameplay wasn't the main focus, there was absolutely nothing in place to prevent players from doing so - and they wouldn't be punished for doing so. However, shortly after its introduction, the decision was made (after a community vote) to disallow grief in Vanilla and introduce CoreProtect so that we can roll back any grief that might happen. As such, there's no reason to prevent the use of the livemap on Vanilla - so it's once again available in the server menu on the livemap page.

 

Discord NSFW Channel Changes

Up until now, we have been aware of a few underage users in the #nsfw channel on Discord. At first, we ignored this - since realistically these users were old enough to know what porn is. However, after further consideration, we have decided to play it safe - and so going forward, anyone who is known to be under 18 will not be allowed in the NSFW channel. This is due to potential legal concerns, as well as the potential for the Discord server itself to be taken down. While there's no clear yes or no verdict as to whether or not those would actually be cause for issue, we are no longer comfortable taking this risk. Any existing users who were underage and opted in have had their access revoked, and any future users who are known to be underage will also be disallowed. Mind you, this only applies to the NSFW channel - you won't be banned or otherwise punished, you simply won't be able to view that channel until you're old enough.

 

 

 

As of now, though, that's all we've got. You can view the full MC changelog here if you're interested. As usual, if you find any issues, be sure to report them on our bug tracker. Otherwise, keep your eyes peeled for future updates!

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