Changelogs

Added:

- Prefixes in the tab list that show whether the player is dead or alive

Changed:

- Updated the loot pool so it is harder to get overpowered items

Changed:

- Players now drop their loot upon death

Fixed:

- Some anticheat bugs

Added:

- Discord to Minecraft and vice versa chat

Fixed:

- A bug where players could vote for a map more than once

Fixed:

- A bug where players would not drop their loot upon death

Fixed:

- A bug where sometimes opening and closing a chest will cause the chest to refill when it isn't supposed to

- A bug where opening a chest that is in a strange location (e.g underwater) caused the chest to not fill with loot

- Fall damage not being present in some maps

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Changed:

- Players on Minecraft versions 1.8 - 1.16.5 are now able to connect, however these versions are not supported

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Added:

- A replay system for the server owners to catch rule breakers

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Added:

- 2 new maps:

- Trainwreck

- Tilted Towers (Credit to Epic Games Fortnite and singer_building on PlanetMinecraft https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/fortnite-tilted-towers/)

- /afk command that exempts you from games

Changed:

- The rarity of some weapons/items

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Added:

- Snipers Only game mode: when a game starts, there is a 10% chance of the game being the Snipers Only game mode, where only snipers and a few other useful items spawn in chests

Changed:

- Increased the amount of chests in the Tilted Towers map

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Added:

- Server store at hellowbr.tebex.io:

- Donation: pay what you want

- Minehut server plans, either subscribe and pay monthly, or do a one time payment for all the different Minehut server plans (excluding Daily)

- Purchasing any item on the store will give a chat suffix beside your name that corresponds to the purchased package.

Added:

- A timer that counts down the time until the next game starts

Removed:

- Tilted Towers map

Added:

- Foundations for soup duels (coming soon)

Changed:

- The stats system to use UUIDs instead of usernames so that your stats won't reset if you change your Minecraft username

Removed:

- Support for previous Minecraft versions

Changed:

- The rarities of some items

Added: 

- An XP and leveling system:

- Kill = 5 XP

- Win = 10 XP

- 100 XP = Level Up

- Lobby Cosmetics

Added:

- If you participate in a game, you will earn 3 XP when that game starts

Changed:

- Your XP will automatically match the total amount of games you've already played

Fixed:

- Some issues with Cosmetics

Changed:

- If there is only one player who is not AFK before a match starts, the match will not start until there are at least 2 players available

- Regular healing apples will now give 6 seconds of Regeneration 2 instead of 4 seconds of Regeneration 2

- The Rust map now has random set spawn points instead of players dropping in. The 20 second grace period is still present in this map

Added:

- An in-game reporting system. Reporting a player will log your report and send it to all online moderators. You cannot report the same player more than once.

Fixed:

- Some issues with the anticheat

Added: 

- 8 new maps:

- Cargo Plane

- Laboratory 

- Origins Island 

- Panels 

- Passenger Plane 

- Platforms 

- Trainwreck (Courtesy of NachoFreckle)

- Warped (Courtesy of Plotonium)

- New Cosmetics = Death Sounds:

- As you level up, you will unlock new sounds that play when you die. You can equip these in the cosmetics menu in the lobby. You can also earn additional sounds by purchasing one of the packages on our shop. 

- New win sound: 

- When you win a game, it will play a sound to go with your Victory! This sound cannot be changed. 

- Void kill credit 

- Enchanting Tables, along with XP bottles and lapis lazuli have been added to the loot pool 

- New Blocks: 

- White Wool 

- Oak Planks 

- Obsidian 

- A bunch of different potions 

Changes: 

- The entire lobby has been changed to show just how significant this update is 

- Rust map recieved some nice tweaks (Courtesy of Plotonium)

- Games are no longer reliant on the border phases, and now rely on amount of players in a game. If everyone is eliminated, the game will end and the map vote will happen 3 seconds after everyone is teleported back into the lobby. 

- With this new system, the map that was previously used will now have to be on cooldown to let the border reset and have the map ready for another game. 

- The entire loot pool has been revamped.

- It is now possible to break/place blocks! However, you can only break player-made blocks. 

- Skript Optimizations 

- Anticheat Fixes - If you try to go outside the world boundaries, it will teleport you back in to prevent unnecessary chunk loading 

Removed: 

- Sword Lobby Cosmetics

- Shield Lobby Cosmetics 

- Alpha Map 

- Beta (A.K.A Island) Map

- Mushroom Village Map 

Fixed:

- A bug where the game would force end mid-game

- A bug where the system that prevents players from overriding lava and water blocks with their own blocks was not working properly 

Added:

- A timer to show the time until the grace period ends

- A system where if you fall into the void during the grace period, you get teleported to a random spawn location

Fixed:

- A bug where if a player leaves mid game it wouldn't register properly, thus making the server think the player was still alive and softlocking the game until the server restarted

- Some incorrect URLs in /discord, /apply, and the ban appeal link

Added:

- The highly requested feature that shows how much health your attacker had when you died

Added:

- Guns (Via Crackshot):

- Shotgun

- Carbine Rifle

- Assault Rifle

- Sniper

- Pistol

- Rocket Launcher

- New Item Type = Power-Ups:

- Lasso (Lead) - If you right click on a player, they will be pulled towards you, kind of like a fishing rod but with more power (2 Uses)

- Gunpowder - Right click makes it explode and damage anyone in a 5 block radius (no knockback) (1 Use)

- Wheat Seeds - Upon consuming this item, you will shoot an egg every 1 second for 5 seconds (Stackable, removes 1 per use)

- Heart of the Sea - If it is in your hotbar then you will receive night vision & move faster in water, and slower on land

- Nether Brew (Nether Star) - If it is in your hotbar then you will receive Fire Resistance, and if someone hits you, they have a 25% chance of getting set on fire

- Fireball (Fire Charge) - Upon right clicking with this item in your main hand, you will shoot a fireball at wherever you are looking

- Smoldering Inferno (Blaze Powder) - Upon right clicking with this item in your main hand, then anyone in a 10 block radius around you will be set on fire (1 Use)

- New Item Type = Traps:

- Teleport Trap (Chorus Fruit) - If it is in your inventory, then you will be randomly teleported every 5 seconds (Disabled in Laboratory map)

- Slow Trap (Honeycomb) - If it is in your inventory, then you will receive slowness 2

- Super Slow Trap (Slimeball) - If it is in your inventory, then you will receive slowness 4

- Fire Trap (Magma Cream) - If it is in your inventory, then it will set you on fire

- Poison Trap (Fermented Spider Eye) - If it is in your inventory, then you will be poisoned

- Glow Trap (Glowstone) - If it is in your inventory, then you will receive the glowing effect

- New Game Modes + Game Mode Vote:

- Default: Regular gameplay

- Default with Guns: Same as regular gameplay but with guns added to the loot pool

- Guns Only: Nothing but guns in the loot pool

- Supreme Only: Nothing but Supreme rarity items in the loot pool

- New /ad Command

- This command lets you copy and paste the server's /ad message easier

- Misc:

- Server Resource Pack (Credit to Echoless and Novaskin)

- Replaced old Anti-Cheat

Changes:

- Updated the server to Paper 1.18.2 (1.17-1.17.1 clients can no longer connect)

- The tablist name system now reads, "[ALIVE/DEAD/SPECTATING/LOBBY] <playername> <player's HP> <player's ping>"

Fixed:

- A bug where if the game force ends, it won't start another game

- A lot of bugs related to updating to Paper 1.18.2

Added:

- Mushroom Village map (Courtesy of aishi):

- Re-added the Mushroom Village map from before the Wonderful World Update

-Made some changes to the Laboratory Map with the help of SailingEmpire, NachoFreckle, and SnazzyFish456

- Added more Chests to Mushroom Village

Fixed:

- A bug where void kills don't contribute to the kills statistic (this is why stats were reset)

- A bug where both the Trainwreck and Warped maps don't work with /spectate

Misc:

- Reset all Player Stats due to Bug.

Removed:

- Totem of Undying (temporarily)

Changes:

- The map vote winner text will now read, "Vote Winner: <map> with <vote number>/<total votes> votes!"

- The game mode vote winner text will now read, "Vote Winner: <game mode> with <vote number>/<total votes> votes!"

Added:

- 3 new game modes:

- Equal Iron, everyone spawns with full iron armor, an iron sword, an iron axe, 32 golden apples, and 16 ender pearls

- Equal Diamond, everyone spawns with full diamond armor, a diamond sword, a diamond axe, 32 golden apples, and 16 ender pearls

- Equal Netherite, everyone spawns with full netherite armor, a netherite sword, a netherite axe, 32 golden apples, and 16 ender pearls

- New Shop Item = Super Votes:

By using a Super Vote, you can override the map vote and select whichever map you want to win the vote, as long as nobody else has used a Super Vote in that game. They are stackable, so buy as many as you want!

- Chat censor system:

By doing the command /censorchat, any chat messages containing swear words will be replaced with asterisks. This feature is disabled by default.

- Nether Brew (Re-Added)

- Totem of Undying (Re-Added)

- Actionbar timers:

There are now timers that display in the actionbar that show the time until the border will shrink, the time until the border stops shrinking, and by the end of the game, how long the game will take to force end.

- Randomly selected maps will now be announced in chat:

If nobody votes for a map and the game selects a random map, the map that gets selected will be announced in chat.

- Hats:

Hats are the replacement for lobby cosmetics, and due to Technoblade's unfortunate passing during this update's development, everyone will receive Technoblade's crown as a free hat.

- Top Hat for VIP Rank

- Batman's Cowl for Hero Rank

- Red Knight Helmet for Warrior Rank

- Dream's Mask for Gladiator Rank

More hats will be added in the future

- Lobby Holograms that display player stats

- Blood particle effect for when a player is damaged

- A random option in the map vote GUI

- The ability to switch the map you voted for

- A book that appears in the hotbar when a map vote starts:

Right-clicking while the book is equipped will show the map vote GUI

- Holiday Events:

During special occasions, extra items get added to the loot pool, such as:

- Eggs for Easter (March 25th - May 1st)
- Snowballs for Christmas (December 1st - January 1st)

More will be added in the future.

Changed:

- Optimized many Skripts to make the server run better

- Revamped the server resource pack

- Players' level and experience will now display in the /stats command

- The internal system for how mob spawning works (players won't notice anything different)

- Blocks can now be placed in lava and water

- The tablist now has a header that displays "hellowbr.minehut.gg" and a footer that displays the server's TPS from the last 1 minute

- Game mode votes have been replaced with a system that chooses the game mode randomly
- If there is nobody to start a game, the server will now wait for players instead of trying to start a game over and over

- Traps now activate by right clicking on players while the trap is in your hand

- Eggs from the Seeds powerup now deals 4 damage (1 and a half hearts)

- Double tall grass can now be broken no matter what and will not regenerate because it is annoying to fight in

- The color of a map in the map vote GUI will now be yellow if it is on cooldown, and green when it is ready to play

- New stats system, players will not notice anything different

- New lobby structure
- There is now a chat message that appears when a player uses a Totem of Undying

Fixed:

- A bug where players' playtime would display "<none>" instead of 0

- The worldborder in the Mushroom Village map is now centered properly
- A bug where void kills wouldn't register the attacker

- A bug where paintings and item frames could be destroyed by TNT

- A bug where if a player used a Totem of Undying, the game would still think the player died

- A bug where using a powerup would remove all of the used item instead of just one

- A bug where the lasso uses and cooldown would not reset between games

- A bug where other entities that are not players, (e.g zombies) could get kills (Unfortunately due to this bug, all players' stats have been reset)

Removed:

- Heart of the Sea due to a bug (Temporarily)

- Game Mode Voting in favor of the new system where game modes are randomly selected

- Lobby Cosmetics in favor of the new Hats feature

- The Laboratory map

Changed:

- An outdated Discord link in the /report command

- The link in the /apply command

Changed:

- The server now uses vanilla 1.9 combat instead of using a plugin to emulate 1.8 combat

Fixed:

- A bug where the game wouldn't start after the server started

- A bug where entities weren't getting killed after a game started

Added:

- If you are in the lobby while a game is in progress, you will receive an eye of ender in your hotbor that when right clicked will allow you to spectate

- Grim Anticheat (https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/grim-anticheat.99923/)

Changed:

- The /apply command to be more specific about where to apply for staff

Fixed:

- A bug where slow falling takes time to be applied at the start of a game

- A bug where dying to an entity that is not a player causes no death message to appear

- A bug where spectators get teleported to the lobby at the end of a game before everyone else

Added:

- Cosmetics menu to replace the Hats menu, as we plan on adding more Cosmetics that are not just hats.

Changed:

- Hats are now a subcategory of the Cosmetics menu. You can access this menu by right clicking the chest in your hotbar in the lobby.

- Updated the shop website to reflect these new changes. (hellowbr.tebex.io)

Removed:

- Ranks. Hats can now be purchased individually for 0.99 USD each.

Added:

- Supporter Chat Suffix that you unlock after purchasing any item in the server shop (hellowbr.tebex.io)

Added:

- Blue variant of the Knight Helmet Hat which can be unlocked by linking your Discord and Minecraft accounts in the Minecraft server

Changed:

- The link in the /apply command since applying for staff in HellowBR is no longer done in a Discord forum channel

Fixed:

- A bug where all online players' playtime would increase by 1 minute every time a player joined. (All players' playtime have been reset to 0 due to this bug)

- A bug where joining the server doesn't properly update the player's scoreboard and tablist name

Added:

- Pixel Glasses Hat that players can unlock by getting a Winstreak of 2

- Wins Chat Suffix that players can unlock by purchasing it in the shop (hellowbr.tebex.io)

- Kills Chat Suffix that players can unlock by purchasing it in the shop (hellowbr.tebex.io)

- Winstreak Chat Suffix that players can unlock by purchasing it in the shop (hellowbr.tebex.io)

Changed:

- Cleaned up the backend Skripts for wins, players won't notice anything different

- There is no longer a Discord ping to the Server Status role when the server stops, instead it tells players how to start the server back up to play again

- Increased the price of Hats from $0.99 USD to $1.99 USD

- All Hats in the Shop GUI now show the 2D Top Hat texture

Added:

- More checks to see if there is enough players to start a game before the game starts

Changed:

- If a game is not starting due to too many players being AFK, the server will attempt to start the game once an AFK player is no longer AFK

- A player toggling AFK will now refresh the scoreboard for all players

Removed:

- Warden spawn egg due to a bug (temporarily)

Fixed:

- A bug where if there are two online players and one of them is AFK, the game would start even though it is not supposed to

- A bug where votes for the Rust and Warped maps would not be counted

- A bug where new players spawned under the spawn platform

Added:

- 6 new game modes:

- Guns Only: Only Guns will appear in the loot pool

- Sumo: No chest loot, fists only

- Solid Gold: All chest loot is Legendary rarity

- Lucky: All items from Rare rarity to Legendary rarity have increased odds to appear in the loot pool

- Lucky+: All items from Epic rarity to Mythic rarity have increased odds to appear in the loot pool

- Unlucky: All items from Common rarity to Uncommon rarity have increased odds to appear in the loot pool, while Rare rarity to Mythic rarity items have decreased odds to appear in the loot pool

- Re-Added Laboratory Map

- New game mode selection visualization:

There will now be a three second period before the game starts where the game will rapidly cycle through all the game modes considered for the game, then after three seconds, selects one of them.  Some game modes have a better chance of being selected than others.

- A message that gets sent to a player that gets pulled by the Lasso power-up

- A message that shows the game's leaderboard after the game finishes

Changes:

- Increased the maximum chance for Common items to appear in the loot pool to 90% instead of 50%

- The Seeds power-up is now Rare rarity

- Reduced the maximum amount of the Seeds power-up that can spawn in a chest from four to one

- Hoglin Spawn Eggs are now Mythic rarity

- Tipped Arrow of Poison is now Rare rarity

- Tipped Arrow of Strong Poison is now Legendary rarity

- Splash Potion of Poison is now Rare rarity

- Splash Potion of Long Poison is now Epic rarity

- The Poison trap is now Epic rarity

- Reduced the maximum amount of poison traps that can spawn in a chest from four to one

- Reduced the maximum right-click distance for all applicable traps and power-ups to five blocks (excluding Lasso)

- Increased the chance that the Nether Brew has to ignite the victim's attacker

- Reduced the amount of damage that egg projectiles deal (including the eggs that get fired from the Seeds power-up)

- Increased the amount of damage that snowballs deal to match eggs

- The sound that plays when a game mode is selected is now the player level up sound instead of the explosion sound

- If a player joins the server while a game is in progress, they will automatically start spectating the game instead of waiting in the lobby

- Moved all the player connection scripts into their own file so managing them is easier, this is a backend change and players will not notice anything different

Fixed:

- A bug where the sound that plays upon using a Lasso is played a tick late

- A bug where players would be teleported to the wrong location in the lobby after a game force ends

- A bug where players would instantly be teleported to the lobby when someone wins