New year, more quality of life. That’s how it goes, right? Well regardless of how it goes, that’s how we’re kicking off the new year!
We’ve got quite an assortment of quality of life additions live on the server that we’ve been adding within the past few weeks! Check out all the details below.
Survival players rejoice! Seed generation is fixed!
The -seed flag for creating survivals, both private & public hosts by our staff team has been fixed! This means you can expect to see more seeded worlds in the near future hosted by our team.
It also means you can more easily host your own worlds with seeds by becoming a Patron here!
All Quality of Life Changes
Here you can find the full list of quality of life changes across the server!
General
/nag now shows how many people are queued up for a gamemode!
/viewteam (/vt) has been added!
/viewteam [team] [page]is the command syntax.- Displays everyone on your team if no colour is listed.
- Displays everyone on the specified team.
/playcount has been added to view a map’s play count on the server! Look for the highest!
/playcount <game> <name> [page]is the command syntax.- Do note this only tracks plays since Mapedit integration. Any plays older than that aren’t tracked.
/who has been improved!
- Fortify now has an icon on
/whoThe Engineering Helmet will show if your friends or staff members online are in Fortify. - You can now check player IDs via
/who -showids.
/friend has new sub commands & flags! The power of friendship grows!
/friend addid– Adds a player by their user ID/friend delid– Removes a player by their user ID/friend pending [page] [-showids]– Checks pending friend requests. Can also check user IDs./friend list [page] -showids– Shows your friend list with all their user IDs/friend requests [page] -showids– Shows all incoming friend requests with usernames & IDs
Weekly & Alltime leaderboard signs have been placed across the server in the following gamemodes!
- Build My Thing, Capture the Gem, Class Wars Hunger Games, Penguin Party, Races, Spleef & Tank Wars.
Various gamemodes that were missing author credits now display them!
Patreon & Voting
/private changes!
- Custom configs are now available! Check out this support page for details about creating your own!
- Fortify is available to be played in private lobbies. Staff will still host this game at their discretion.
/setliveshas been added to games with life counters! (CW & TW)
Patrons can now rename saved vanity sets via /vanityset rename
Patrons can now save up to 30 custom chat presets!
Voter flair remixed!
- The stars that display for voting streaks has been adjusted.
- 1-6 days displays a Mana Star.
- 7-13 days displays a Mana Crystal.
- 14+ days displays an Arcane Crystal.
- Not a fan of the star? You can now hide it via /cs hidestar on. Brought back with /cs hidestar off
Discord
You can now DM Botguin to use commands!
- This also now means you can DM Botguin the command
b!who& it will show which of your friends are on the server!
Build my Thing
The sidebar in Build my Thing has been greatly enhanced!
Player info:
- Your position in the Builder queue.
- How long until the round ends.
- How long until each hint is revealed, and by extension what each hint is.
Builder info:
- Time left to select a word.
- Word options 1, 2 & 3.
- The word you are currently building. Visible after you pick a word.
- How long until the round ends.
- How long until each hint is revealed, and by extension what each hint is.
Guessed items will once again display in chat!
- An update to BmT a while back broke this so we’ve re-added it! We’ve also added it to other messages that were also missing it.
Capture the Gem
/c has been added as an alias for /class.
A timer has been added to display time remaining during class selection for latecomers.
Events now have the following warnings!
- A timer on the sidebar showing when the next event will be at all times.
- A sound effect that plays 5 seconds before the event happens.
- An overhead popup 5 seconds before the event happens.
- And finally a chat message popup 5 seconds before the event happens.
Class Wars
/c has been added as an alias for /class.
A timer has been added to display time remaining during class selection for latercomers.
Players who get the final kill in the match are rewarded!
Penguin Party
There is now sidebar information for games like Platform Panic, Colour Flash and more! The info displayed will vary on each game.
Survival based party games will now tell you how long you survived.
“Go to the _ colour on this list” prompt in Colour Flash now has a longer round time!
Binoculars & demon hearts have been added to all Free For All maps that need them!
Bomb Tag bombers now also have binoculars!
Spleef
A sidebar timer has been added to show when the lava is rising next!
Survival
/votemove prompt is now a bright green! Formerly a cyan colour.
-seed should now work properly again.
- This means all you private survival players can generate special seed worlds directly on the server!
Two new item ban gimmicks!
-ib NoSwordsMelee-ib SentriesOnly
If you’re curious how large last year’s quality of life update was, click here!
But that’s all for now & we’ll see you in the next update! You can expect another one of these quality of life blog posts at the end of Spring!
