August is over, so it’s time for a little recap.
What we did
We added two new Minigames: Build my Thing, which was introduced in July and made public last month, and of course Endergolf. Both are now at your disposal to play with friends, and both can show up as a daily quest.
In Build my Thing, everybody builds in a small area, with the purpose depending on the mode of the current game. There are two modes: Build Battle, where everybody builds the same thing and then we rate each other. Then there’s Telephone where we build, then guess what somebody else’s build is, just to have our guess built by yet another person. This may go on for a while. We want to add more modes in the future, so keep us posted with your ideas.
In Endergolf, you hit the dragon egg with a gold club in order to make it soar through the air. The goal is to get it in the hole with as few strokes as possible. On a vast selection of maps, you fight against different obstacles, types of surfaces, and the constantly changing wind speed. You can play Endergolf right now, alone or with friends.
Meanwhile, we kept experimenting with split lobbies during events in order to make the matches shorter and have less wait time for everybody. What has been true for Vertigo is now also done in Colorfall and Spleef: Right after the map vote, the lobby is split into smaller groups of 4-8 people, which then play their individual matches. One all the groups is done, we meet again in the lobby and start a new round. Based on your feedback, we may try this out in more of our Minigames.
Like every month, there were also many many bugs which we fixed thanks to the people who reported them. We don’t usually document them, but wanted to highlight some of the more noteworthy ones.
Summary
New features
- Endergolf Minigame
- BuildMyThing Minigame is public
- New Minigame daily quests: Endergolf and BuildMyThing
- New items: Golf clubs and trophies
Feature Updates
- Mass Storage has pick block feature
- Race maps come with descriptions
- Survival Games supports Shulker Boxes
- Skyblock uninvite feature
- Smaller matches in Colorfall and Spleef events, just like Vertigo
- New animal types in Pocket Mob tooltip: Warm, temperate, cold
Bugfixes
- MassStorage Inventory Assist now properly stacks Mob Catchers and other custom items when thrown
- Hide and Seek disguises got stuck when the player died, rendering them invisible
- Item Frames were unprotected in MobArena
Moving forward
A lot of progress was made behind the scenes: The Farming Update is right around the corner. You can try the daily progress on the beta server if you want, but you absolutely don’t have to. What awaits you are 83 unique plants, each with their own unique crop. The pixel work was done by our talented artists, MadCactus_, DaftPunkyTrash, CalmPalm, killergames1, and Lezika. Now it’s time to finish the plugin, and we hope to get that done very soon, so stay tuned.
Some of us are also working on a better wiki. The fine folks at wiki.gg, which hosts the wiki of popular games such as Terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, or Ark Survival Evolved, agreed to host our wiki, and now the staff is busy writing up some pages to get the whole thing going. When that is done, you may not only read the wiki, but also actively participate in its creation.