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Dear community,

As some of you are aware, 2023 will officially mark the 10th anniversary of our beloved Sentinelcraft. We've come a long way from humble beginnings and have managed to remain strong thus far. We strive to continue to improve and build on our pre-existing pillars, and bring to you the best experience that we as a team and community can. We want to extend a special thank you to everyone who has worked on Sentinelcraft for the last 10 years, and has contributed to its long history. We hope to continue this legacy for the future.

Without further ado, you have guessed it by now: We are introducing a new website! Coming LIVE on December 20th, 2022.

We have spent the better part of 6 months creating a new website for this anniversary, we are proud of the work and dedication that was put into it and are happy to take the next step with our website interface.



What to expect?

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• A more modern look and a smoother experience.
• Forums will be integrated to the new website, the current forums will become legacy forums after the 20th and will be viewable for old memories. <3
• Wiki tab for all our guidelines, guides and approved mods.
• News section to check out all our news, this will appear on the main page.
• Account registration: You will have to create a new account for this new website to be able to post on forums and receive notifications.
• Support ticket system through the website.
• Changelog section to see what's getting updated.
• Host migration for the website only.

Stay tuned as many exciting events are coming this 10th year and we hope that you will be pleased with the fruit of our labour <3

Thank you,

-- Sentinelcraft Staff

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What is it?

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Dimension will become our new seasonal events server, if you're wondering what those are too: They are events that happen through 2 to 4 months depending on the event and we host a whole new gamemode on Sentinelcraft! At the end of every season we will reward the winners with unique rewards! These rewards will not be obtained in any other way. Each season will be different and will introduce something that we never had on Sentinelcraft.

Obviously, with the end of every season the world will be reset for our new world to be installed.

What will it have?

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We have many plans and suggestions for this world, with events including: mods, lifesteal and hardcore minecraft! We will take your suggestions aswell for the next season and are open to any criticism you have! We want every new season to have better quality and more fun than the last!

Why now?

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We wanted to add some spice to Sentinelcraft while still keeping the old worlds in place. This allows for us to dive into many possibilities and still get to play with the community in new worlds every time and compete together for the top ranks. We receive many suggestions about things to add to Sentinelcraft but with our older set up and parameters they may not click together, so now those suggestions will go into new seaons.

What's the first season?

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The first season will be: Superior Skyblock with Wild Tools, Wild Chests and Wild Stacker! We will detail more into another post with all that is useful to know before the season begins. It's a much more different plugin and set up than our current Skyblock and includes much more customization. The top players will be determined by their island's worth.

Be there or be square on the 19th at 4 PM GMT! If you have any suggestions, or simply like the idea make sure you mention it!

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How do you get to the lobby?

Use /minigames, /mg or /Olympia.

Paintball (2-10 players):

/pb join train -- Join Paintball arena train.
/pb join portal -- Join Paintball arena portal.
/pb leave -- Leave any arena.
/pb shop -- Buy perks and hats from the paintball shop.

Spleef (2+ players):

/spleef join Biomes -- Join Spleef arena Biomes.
/spleef leave -- Leave spleef arena.
/spleef spectate -- Spectate arena.

PvP Arena (2+ Players):

/col join -- Join arena: Colosseum.
/pvparena leave -- Leave arena: Colosseum.
/ww join -- Join random team of arena WildWest.
/ww join red -- Join team red of arena WildWest.
/ww join blue -- Join team blue of arena WildWest.
/pvparena leave -- Leave arena: WildWest.

Note: Once inside an arena, punch signs to pick a class!

Parkour:

/pa join parkour1 -- Join Parkour Map 1.
/pa join parkour2 (SM+ EXCLUSIVE!) -- Join Parkour Map 2.
/pa join parkour3 (New Map!) -- Join Parkour Map 3.
/pkreward{n} -- Only use in survival mode, replace n with checkpoint value i.e /pkreward1! One time only, make sure your inventory has room!
/pa leave -- Exit the parkour. IMPORTANT! Run this command before you exit the server or exit the game otherwise your parkour progress may not save.

Shift-Right clicking items in your inventory will execute certain events:

- Arrow: Return to checkpoint.
- Bone: Toggle player visibility if they are bothering you.
- Sapling: Leave the course.
- Stick: Resets course, use with caution; you will lose your checkpoints.

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Happy Bungee Anniversary!

It's been a long time coming and we had some hurdles but are proud to announce the official re-release of minigames on SentinelCraft! Coming to you on SentinelCraft on July 28th!

Hello! We are proud to announce that we have completed the minigames that we want to release along with new maps, classes, and updated plugins!
We are presenting to you these plugins to have a blast with your friends and compete to be on the top of leaderboards:

Spleef (1 Map):
A familiar minigame in which you attempt to knock down your foes into the void!

Paintball (2 Maps):
A fast-paced FPS where you shoot the opposing team and try to get them to 0 lives! The team with the most lives wins! If you have the reflexes and skills you will love this!

PvP Arena (2 Maps):
If you feel strong enough to get in a battle with three other people then you should give it a try! Try to outsmart your foes and kill them before they get you!

Parkour (3 Maps):
If you like challenging jumps and losing your mind, try out our parkour!


What is new with these minigames?

A lot of things had to change or go away for the sake of improvement and to make it easier to track progress, objectives, etc. The plugins also provide many other functionalities which we put to good use!

- Minigames are all now accessible through the hub and it does not sync up to your survival inventory. This is to prevent inventory losses! Sorry!
- Disabled McMMO for PvP Arenas for the sake of balancing classes and having a variety of classes.
- New PvP Arena classes, no more regular old bow, sword, and axe combos. Now you can be a mage, an evoker, a stealthy assassin, and more!
- Spleef arenas got layers, you start out with a shovel and snowballs. Make sure to use your snowballs to knock down foes up top! You can also double jump
- Paintball has a shop now! You can start out with an advantage or buy special ability hats. You can also use the nuggets inside the game to buy powerups mid-game! More kills more power!
- Parkour checkpoints will no longer be permanent, your progress will save and reset once you finish the parkour. This will allow parkour to be linear and you can challenge yourself by beating your time and racing to the top of the scoreboard!
- Parkour rewards are now in signs and not treasure chests, if you go to your survival and use the reward command you'll receive a shulker of goodies per level! No more inventory problems!
- NEW Parkour map! More rage-inducing!


What's more to come?

- We are currently working on bringing back mob arena! Bigger, better, more challenging, and more rewarding! McMMO will work there!
- More arenas we hope! You can submit arenas and we can look at adding them in the future!
- Give us a suggestion!


Our special thanks go out to our amazing builders who created many of the builds for this world: MHGUforPresident, Quazymoodo, Francias and Annu_Mannu67.

Have fun challenging your friends in the comeback of minigames! We hope it was worth the wait!


--Sentinel Staff

With Origin being a vanilla SMP it is necessary to set boundaries because this is still a part of Sentinelcraft and still requires regulation.

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- 01. All server rules still apply.
        - a. An exceptional world does not mean it does not conform to our server rules, you still need to respect each one present in this board: http://sentinelcraft.net/forum/index.php?board=2.0

- 02. Griefing is not allowed.
        - a. All acts of griefing will not be tolerated and will result in appropriate punishments.
        - b. Excuses like "I didn't know it belonged to anyone" won't be tolerated, you have access to /lb tb.
        - c. Griefing the terrain close to bases or spawn is not tolerated.
        - d. Server spawn is out of bounds for non-community projects and will result in appropriate punishments.

- 03. Community decisions and projects are to be voted on.
        - a. It's important for the entire community to give feedback on projects and additions  to the community.
        - b. Community projects and decisions should be respected, and we want everyone to participate in any little or significant way to these
              projects.

- 04. PvP rules still apply.
        - a. All the rules still apply and you must respect someone's wishes if they see you near their base and ask you to leave.
        - b. You are not allowed to grief into people's bases.
        - c. You can use elytras to fly over walls but repeat killing will result in appropriate punishment.
        - d. You must return valuables to players, pvp is not an excuse to steal others' hard earned items.

- 05. Redstone Machine rules still apply.
        - a. All automatic farms will not be allowed, you will receive a warning or appropriate punishment if you make one.
        - b. Insignificant farms like chicken egg farm can be allowed as they are not hamful.
        - c. Lagging the server with your farm will result in staff intervention.

- 06. Refunds are not a given.
        - a. Losses to server lag will not be reimbursed.
        - b. Exceptional cases will be dealt privately, we will insure transparency in such cases and what will and will not be refunded.
        - c. Loss of unique items will be deal with by the town hall i.e loss of dragon egg, extinction of shulkers.

- 07. Unique structures are not claimable.
        - a. Strongholds, the end island, the spawn are not yours to claim.
        - b. Harming these structures can be considered grief and will be dealt with appropriately.


- 08. Punishments for breaking the rules.
        - a. You may be temporarily or permanently removed from the world.
        - b. Warnings may be given depending on the severity of the infraction.
        - c. Actions on this world will affect your applications.
        - d. Additional punishments may be handed by the town hall in form of bounties and such.
        - e. Malicious griefing will result in a ban from the server and not just Origin.


If you have any questions ask a staff member for clarifications, all punishments are up to staff's discrection. We expect everyone to play nice.

-- Sentinelcraft Staff

Redstone Machine Rules!

These rules will define the redstone machines on the server as they have become more and more prominent. These come to clarify any sort of future misunderstandings or questions you may have for the future.

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Definitions:

An automatic farm is a farm that requires no form of effort or intervention to get the final outcome of the farm. The effort to build the farm does not count.
A semi-automatic farm is a farm that requires pulling a lever, pushing a button, or having to collect it manually. You must not be afk'ing at a spot waiting for the items to come to you as that is equivalent to an afk-farm and crosses the blurry line between auto and semi-auto.

The Rule: No auto-farms, you must put effort into making money! This includes afk-farms.

• a. Redstone machines should not be running all the time as redstone keeps chunks loaded and that causes lag.
• b. Bypassing the rules with technicalities i.e: Turning a lever on and letting the farm run is not okay. The fact it has an on and off switch does not exclude other facts like the automatic part of the collection and harvest.
• c. Large farms and industrial size farms will be subject to evaluation from a staff member, you cannot build them and judge them yourself, you need approval.
• d. Since there's a vast sea of farm models we have concluded that some will not be allowed: Automatic sheep farm, you must add a switch to shear the sheep yourself. Villager crop farms, although a game mechanic, are not allowed.
• e. Some traditional farms will be allowed with conditions: Flower farms with a button, 2 block high flower farms as long as it's not running infinitely, cacti farms will be allowed as long as they respect the above rules & the player is doing another activity in the area other than just standing still at the collection point.
• f. Some criterias of judgement that are not ultimate but will give you a rough idea if your farm is allowed or not: Are you
  actively interacting with the system other than standing still i.e pushing a button? Is there an on/off switch? Are you collecting
  it yourself? If you answer at least 1 No then you must ask for a staff's opinion.
• g. If you have any doubts, ask a staff member. We do not punish you for making the farm, we punish you for using an illegal farm and hiding it from staff.
• h. SA reserve final say in exceptional cases, pushing auto farming will lead to the punishment and removal of the machine.

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We hope you understand the importance of making such rules for farming as minecraft's ever-expanding universe and technicality leads to some game-breaking and economy-breaking designs that simply do not have a place within a community. It is meant to keep some sort of balance for players to have a chance of catching up.

-- Sentinelcraft Staff.

We can't have a break can we?

It is basically tradition by now that we make a monthly post of something breaking on us without us expecting it, that's just how servers that run this long work. Sometimes it's great and being nice to us, and other times it acts out like a child craving for attention.

Today after the restart at noon GMT DST, the server started not recognizing the chunks it was loading, it was either reverting them back to nature or loading them from scratch, we weren't gonna stick around long enough to find out as what we could tell is: The more people played, the more chunks we lost. We shut down the server as it ran for 30 minutes, enough for some to lose their entire bases that they loaded and have looked at the issue about half a day later when we were available.

It seems the issue has been caused by Paper, for some that remember a year ago, a similar issue with paper also corrupted chunks this way. Although our paper build has been running fine for a month, it seems that it was bound to break at some point if not updated dilligently. Horizon being the larger world and running since 1.12 does not help its cause either. As it so happens the last back up we have of the world is from pre-1.17 update, that means we were put up with 2 choices for now: Revert 3 weeks back or leave things as is and resolve the matter with 4-6 people who were hurt by this issue. We felt it was appropriate to choose the latter as it will involve the least damages to overall playerbase.

What measures we have taken so far?

- Server backups will be made regularily at the expense of longer restarts (5 to 10 minutes), on the upside restarts will now be once every 12 hours.
- Updated paper to the latest build from https://papermc.io/downloads.
- We will make sure to compensate the people who have been damaged.


We apologize for the trouble that this has caused and the significant downtime, 1.17 being so fresh, plugins are bound to break and crumble as that is how issues are found and fixed. We will keep trying our best and push forward for an enjoyable player experience.

If you were affected by the issue then please contact an SA+.

-- Senior Staff