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Progressing into bungee has seen the introduction of new chat plugins; some work in a different way than before, to accommodate our new system, whereas others are the same and work the same as you?re all used to. While it will take some time to get used to accessing and using these new commands, we are certain that it will feel normal after you do.

Below is a list of the chat modes that you get used to:


General (Global) - default chat mode, messages visible to everyone; accessible to everyone
Local - messages visible to nearby players only; accessible to everyone
World - messages visible to people in your world/server only, e.g. kattalox, horizon, etc ; accessible to everyone
Senior member - accessible only to senior member rank and above; messages visible only to senior member rank and above
Party - messages visible to players in your party; accessible to those in a party
Clan - messages visible to players in your clan; accessible to those in a clan
Private messaging - messages visible only to the sender and recipient of a private message; accessible to everyone


Commands:


/gon - locks the chat to global chat; you can now type here freely
/lon - locks the chat to local chat; you can now type here freely
/won - locks the chat to world chat; you can now type here freely
/smon - locks the chat to senior member chat; you can now type here freely
/p [message] - sends a message to your party; you need to repeat this for every message you send here
/cc [message] - sends a message to your clan; you need to repeat this for every message you send here
/msg [person] [message] - sends a private message to a specified player; you can use the next command to converse more easily, but you need to repeat for every message you send via this method
/r [message] - replies to a private message you have received from a player; you need to repeat this for every message you send via this method


You can use @[name] to 'ping' someone in chat, using their full in-game username. When someone is pinged, their name will show in lime green, as opposed to the respective chat colour.
Players that use this feature get a 30-second cooldown before using it again. Don't overuse it; you have been trusted to use this responsibly. Failure to do so will result in the feature being withdrawn.

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As the server moves to BungeeCord, new changes are introduced, and chatting with friends and townmates will be a new experience. Clans is an extension to the new Party & Friends plugin introduced to SentinelCraft as an alternative to Towny Chat and is somewhat similar to our McMMO Party plugin that can host a number of people for some chit chat.

To start, a player creates a clan with /clan create [ClanName] [ClanTag] and becomes the clan leader. They can then invite players as part of the clan with /clan invite [Player] and either be accepted or rejected by the invited player using /clan join [ClanName] or /clan decline [ClanName].

To chat with other clan members, type in /clan chat [Message] or /cc [Message], or /clan toggle to directly send messages without the need to enter commands.

Note that McMMO Party is now replaced with the Party & Friends plugin, and that the party created will be deleted once one member is left after everyone else logs out.

Below are the commands for clans and their functions:

/clans - Shows all the commands for clans
/clan create [ClanName] [ClanTag]    - Creates a new clan
/clan name <New name of the clan> - Sets a new name for your clan
/clan tag [New clan Tag] - Sets the clan tag
/clan delete      - Deletes the clan
/clan invite [Player] - Invites a player into your clan
/clan kick [Player] - Kicks a player from your clan
/clan leader [Player] - Makes a new player to the leader
/clan join [ClanName] - To join an existing clan
/clan decline [ClanName] - To decline a clan invitation
/clan leave - Leaves the clan you are in
/clan party - Invites all clan members into a party
/clan toggle - Toggles if you msg directly into the clan chat
/clan chat [Message] - Communication between clan members
/clan get [Player] - Outputs the clan where the given player is in
/clan list <Clan> - Lists the players who are in your/the given clan
/clan stats <Clan> <Stat> - Outputs the stats of your/the given clan
/clan setcolor [Color] - Set the color of your clan
/clan rmcolor - Removes the color or your clan
/clan settings - Outputs the settings interface for clans

Note that clan chat and the towny plugins are two very different things. Towny and towny commands do not require clans to be made in order to function. Clan chat was introduced to fill the void left by removing town and nation chats.

It is up to you if you want to create a clan, but doing so will not affect how towny works, and it is not a must. It is simply there if you want a town chat or nation chat supplement, or rather a chat available to you and friends that you regularly play with on the server.

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Below are the friends plugin commands and the functions of each.

/friend add [Name of player] - Add a friend
/friend accept [Name of player] - Accepts a friend request
/friend deny [Name of player] - Denies a friend request
/friend remove [Name of friend] - Removes a friend
/friend list - Shows a list of all your friends
/friend listrequests - Shows a list of your existing friend requests
/friend block [Name of player] - Blocks a player
/friend unblock [Name of player] - Unblocks a player
/friend blocklist - Shows a list of blocked players
/friend settings - Change friends settings

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Below are the commands for party.

/party join [Name of Party Leader] - Joins an existing party
/party leave - Leave the existing party you're in
/party invite [Name of Player] - Invite a player to your party
/party leader [Name of Player] - Makes a member of your party the leader   
/partychat [Message] or /p [Message] - To communicate between party members


Though it is unfortunate that we'll be leaving behind town chat and nation chat, the new plugins will provide a refreshing experience, and it won't take long to adjust to them through frequent use. You can refer to this guide if using the new commands confuses you!

Happy chatting

-- Sentinelcraft Staff

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Hello everyone! It's been a long ride with Sentinelcraft, we've been accustomed to bring forth news every april since 2017. And this year is no exception, we're beyond excited to share this news with you. SentinelCraft in the future will be switching to a Minecraft Network in order to accommodate a new and improved set up! In the past year, SentinelCraft has survived two major crashes which caused data loss. Our staff team has worked hard to reduce the data loss and tried their best to make it up to the community, thankfully we have a very strong community which was very forgiving, and we do appreciate that a lot. For that reason, a brighter future for SentinelCraft has arrived, the project that we've been planning and working on for quite some time now is finally being announced to you all!

Some of you might have noticed that our activity in-game has gone down quite a bit. Major changes and some smaller mundane fixes on Sentinel have taken a back seat due to our limited amount of time available. We can imagine there is growing discontent with that, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We very much feel sorry not being able to implement requested plugins which we are also passionate about as they may not be compatible with our new server.

A little backstory, our current server setup has been around since 2016, marking the end of Pern and the beginning of our current worlds. It has its quirks, stemming from outdated configuration files and being based upon the original 2013 setup. Updating these configurations can be tricky and extremely troublesome (could cause data loss or long downtimes), hence we've started rebuilding SentinelCraft from the ground up again.  We hope that our new set up will last for a long time. We chose to take this course of action as we wanted to reduce any disturbance to your play on the server while also allowing us plenty of time to bug test and break things many times without it damaging players progress.

Towards the end of December, we purchased the new dedicated server to allow us to build and develop our "New Sentinel", in as much secrecy as possible.  We've been keeping this from you as we didn't want to give false expectations. Over the holidays, we spent time getting the foundations sorted. Sentinel will become a Minecraft Network through the use of Bungeecord. This is something we are completely new to and is much more complicated than our current set up. Sentinel will essentially be moving from a singular server to a cluster of 8 servers. This will allow much more modularization of SentinelCraft, and ensure lag is not shared across all worlds/servers. We'll make sure to bore you with the details in another post, as we are still finalizing things and implementing new features! 

This new era will allow us to implement some of the following changes/features:

• Increased render distance - This will be very important and improve the overall feel of sentinel. We all want to see our whole builds!
• Claimable Nether and End - Something we have promised but have not fulfilled as yet.
• New commands & Donation perks - We are changing out some old or outdated plugins for newer ones, which comes with benefits!
• Fix issues you are all noticing and getting frustrated about on Sentinel.

We're aiming to keep Sentinel as similar to the current server a possible. Not to worry! We're going to be transferring all the worlds, which means there's no need for a map reset! This work is still ongoing, and we currently do not have any timeline on when it would be completed.  Many of us are busy with work, studies and/or jobs, as well as learning how to configure everything. Please refrain from asking when these things will happen and other exact details. We simply do not know yet. With a transition this big, we shall give the community plenty of notice and clear instructions of what we expect of them during any period of transition. Our current plan to ensure we keep the community updated on our progress and potential changes is to have a fortnightly development diary which will cover your concerns, the changes, the progress and being more transparent with how things work.

We felt now was the right time to inform you about our plans and ambitions for SentinelCraft, as we do not want you all to think that we have given up or happy with the status quo. We're always interested in improving Sentinel to the best of our ability and putting our best foot forward for the community. Likewise, we would like to thank everyone in the community for their patience and gratitude, without all of you we wouldn't be here right now. Welcome aboard the journey into the unknown!


- SentinelCraft Staff

Hello Sentinelcrafters!

Something we knew was bound to happen was inflation. Simply put, the server was printing money without taking any of it away. This makes for crazy balances while we kept the set beginner prices and shop prices all the same. We have tweaked certain prices, tried to promote player shops, added crates (which has roughly taken out at least 15m from the total balances on the server).

At first, it was about a team of 10 people that were discussing the changes and interventions to come. But now, we'd like a fresh intake on the subject as some of you may have your own opinions on the subject.

Some suggestions that were brought up include:

Higher taxing in Towny:
Some of the people at the top of the balance ladder do own towns. At the time being they are being taxed for low amounts versus their large balances. We would up the taxing per plot to 4 or 5$ to take away money slightly faster.  The downside is that the smaller towns will definitely be paying more, but we believe that if you can't afford keeping a town then it's not advised you make one.

Taxing on death:

For the older players on the server you may remember back when we had a plugin called: Death Control. The plugin would tax you depending on the death for a %, and you had to have a minimum balance for your inventory to be kept. When we updated to the newer world we could not keep the plugin as it was discontinued. In the case we find a way to bring this back we would like to know if it is a welcome change (fully knowing this was an original sentinelcraft feature). Keep Inventory is not a Vanilla feature but it was meant to be a privilige for those who can afford it.

Bringing in new tokenshop features:

We have thought of giving the in-game money a new currency value that would be traded for tokenshop items. Obviously the token shop items will also be subject to change or new additions to promote this new money change.

More crates! :

This was just added to make Oplegoman happy.


All the suggestions above are to be taken with a grain of salt. We have not begun work on any of it and would rather know what you think or want to be implemented before we work on anything: this could be plugins, features, tweaks etc..

We look forward to reading your suggestions, reply down below.

-- Sentinelcraft Staff.

Important Decisions

Dear community,

During the course of this server's life, we have been making essential and heavy decisions. Decisions that may have affected personal relationships,
decisions we did not want to make and decisions to break off members with history within the community.
These decisions were necessary because, once lines are crossed, we cannot stand by and watch as if nothing happened.
Today, unfortunately, is no different. Over the past couple of months, we have witnessed events that ended up with us making a decision that we did not think we would ever have to make. They are: the demotion of AMNOTBANANAAMA and the banning of two members: KibikiKibble and Grotesquity.

The purpose of this post is to be as transparent and straightforward with the community as possible.
Rules and agreements have been broken and no one, not even staff, will be exempt from the consequences.
Certain events have been a chain reaction. We will begin with the event that started the discussion. Click on screenshots to open them in a new window, this was done so they don't take up as much space in the post.


Brenda's letter leak, 10th of August
Around August 2020, some weeks after Brenda got promoted to Senior Admin, Brenda sent Migas a letter with some concerns and points of improvement. This was a private letter which she shared with Banana to give him the opportunity to express his opinion, before sending it to Migas.

Shortly after that time, it was known to us that Banana revealed some of the contents of this letter to other people of the community, distorting the matter of those points of improvements, which were only suggestions and nothing more at that point.

This caused unnecessary conflicts which are settled now. However, with this new information, we believe this was one of the factors that caused Banana to behave differently, alongside those who persuaded him. This belief relies on the fact that Kibiki's name was involved within the letter. This probably sparkled a detour from her and her group of friends from the server. She was soon after demoted because of inactivity. (But apparently available to start a new server).

Oplegoman's Senior Admin promotion, 27th of December
Following Oplegoman's promotion, we understood that AMNOTBANANAAMA was upset over this event and talked to him regarding this.
This happens, he was not the first nor will he be the last, objections are a given with this kind of event.
The Senior Admin team gave it thought for a while and, from our point of view, we made the right choice. No one can contest this as it is our right to decide.

AMNOTBANANAAMA was upset and had his objections over the topic. He was infuriated and frustrated with this. 
However, when we developed a proper response that was made with complete care on our part to explain why we took those steps, we were met with more frustrations.
We were met with inaccurate assumptions on his part of how things have played out behind the scenes, and how we are just doing damage control when that isn't the case. Other than him being a helpful individual, none of what he said is correct.
Simply put: He was not fit for the rank. We are not here to detail the reasons as to why he is not fit, as some are private, personal and borderline humiliating to display publicly on here.
However, we do have the following screenshots that we can share with you which has helped us led to this decision.


Including an unbiased party, 29th of December
We were frustrated. We thought this wasn't going anywhere. We wanted to help AMNOTBANANAAMA get over this hurdle of thinking he was unappreciated by ourselves,
when he was very much being appreciated regarding his contribution towards the server. Access rights, that no other admin has had in the entire history of SentinelCraft, were given to Banana to showcase this.
Banana had gained Migas' trust through his dedication. These special perks did not seem to register with AMNOTBANANAAMA, because of this we decided to let Fedgar in as our unbiased party.
Fedgar was fit for the role of communicating with transparency while remaining unbiased and seeing the other person's point of view. Going into the conversation, Fedgar reminded us of the following:

"He is obviously hurting and is obviously in need of our help.
We can make a difference in his life and I think that makes all the frustration and irritation worthwhile."

We were starting to get hope back, hope that we can resolve this. Perhaps in the future, we could count on AMNOTBANANAAMA as part of the SA team.
That is if he had gotten past this mental block, something we have seen happen before with a senior admin. We were not considering a demotion at this point in time.

Server Issues, 30th of December
The server issues of December 30th started around 9am GMT, the server crashed, failed to restart on its own and could not be restarted within the console.
This is a highly unusual event, it required extensive time to find out the issue was that we filled our server drive with data, more information can be found here;
http://sentinelcraft.net/forum/index.php?topic=10083.0. This only affected files where currently open upon the server at the time of the crash,
an important file is the server.properties file. Without this file, it becomes impossible to start the server.
We ensured that we correctly set the file to start in offline mode, to preserve all user data, but this was overridden by PaperMC on start.
For 2 minutes the server ran in online mode, this was swiftly fixed, but the damage was already done. By this point work on the server has been going on for the last 6 hours non-stop.
Maps and inventories had been lost. AMNOTBANAAMA stepped up to find a solution to potentially save the majority of the lost maps.
I was there to help with server restarting and assisting to the best of my ability. I assumed that all was resolved after the hard work of our team.

Unfortunately, Banana held a grudge over this situation, to our disappointment. We received this screenshot from another discord server:

It felt like we were pouring water into sand and felt that something was up.
More importantly, this mystery discord server was also a hidden setup that we were not aware of and had been going on for at least 3 months.

Server poaching, 6th of January
At this point in time we stopped all communication with AMNOTBANANAAMA, we did not want to sound the alarm of what was going on.
Our main objective was collecting proof and investigating further before taking any final decisions.
Based on the screenshots and information we received, AMNOTBANANAAMA, KibikiKibble & Grotesquity are the main Admins of a modded server that they are in the process of making.
 
They were attempting to lure in a few of our staff into their team and discussing private staff conversations with none staff members which goes against our guidelines.
Moreover, they were taking schematics of our server. And coincidentally, we share the same project as of last month.
This implied that we did not know what was being leaked, that the access AMNOTBANANAAMA had was being used for us but maybe also against us.
Most importantly, we discovered that this was not just AMNOTBANANAAMA fault. Based on the screenshots, it was evident that discussions and false assumptions were being made by KibikiKibble and Grotesquity.
These were unfounded and manipulative, and AMNOTBANANAAMA was the subject of this manipulation because they had no experience in configuring a server, and he does.



Furthermore, KibikiKibble and Grotesquity were possibly taking schematics from the server, whetheir it is their builds or ours we can't conclude.
Not to mention gaining loyalty by smearing our reputation among themselves and with whoever was in their server. These screenshots won't be included they're distastful "gossip" and some even attack community members, not even the staff.

Now, a modded server experience is not something we care of, people are free to play wherever they want whenever they want.
It is, however, worrisome when a server is run by Sentinel members who start poaching and picking staff that they want to influence into their ranks and build upon the foundation of Sentinelcraft.
This, as staff guidelines clearly state, is a bannable offence. Since Grotesquity and KibikiKibble are the instigators of this project they will be banned effective immediately.
AMNOTBANANAAMA is to be demoted to his normal rank as he still likes the community. He already has been contacted to be informed of why he is being demoted.
Moreover, measures were taken to remove his entire access from server files.

We know that this is heavy news, but decisions have to be made to protect the integrity of Sentinelcraft.
We had hoped for a more peaceful resolution, but it was apparent we had hit a dead-end and had to put an end to the hypocrisy.

-- Sentinelcraft Senior Staff.

First of all, we would like to thank you all for your input into the survey, it is still open and will remain open for any further propositions. Admin+ are open to your suggestions aswell and will note it down for us all to take into consideration.

As the title suggests, this procedure of economy rework will be going through multiple steps, there is no 1 solution to everything and we have to adapt our solutions to what we see fit. After taking into consideration your first proposition we have deduced that you do share some of our opinions and that you do like player shops to be used more. This patch will include a bug fix and an auction house "revamp".

Salvage bug fix:
As you all know, currently the issue stems from Salvage being a big source of what normally are non-renewable resources. As it turns out our salvage file was never intended to be in its default state but it was meant to be in the setup Rich once had which was working perfectly fine from 2014 up to 2019. Pair that with the new village trading and now we have an abundance of supply with little to no demand.
All salvage drop values have been reduced to 50% to what they were.

Auction house revamp:
In order to encourage more player shop trading and player interactions, we will be blacklisting diamonds, iron and ingots from the auction house. We may still submit further changes to the blacklist, why are we doing this? Simply because the intended use of auction house was to create a new way for players to sell items that you could not sell on signs, i.e enchanted armor, potions, the rarer items. We didn't expect it to be flooded with stacks of dirt and a price undercutting war. Another thing we also made the minimum price of selling: from 25 to 100, and the maximum price from 10000 to 20000; this is to encourage more valuable sales and less junk in the auction house.
We have also an issue on the server: we are giving money with almost none of it getting out. This is why we added an auction tax of 10%, every interaction will take 10%: You sell something for 3000, the buyer gives 3000  and you receive 2700.
We won't be too keen on people who bypass these restrictions on the auctionhouse.

Further changes will come along the way. They won't happen right away though but through a process of studying how the market has changed: We expect to change some selling and buying prices of some /shop items. It was never our intention for people to take the Selling prices their treshhold of tolerance, it was meant to incite to sell for higher prices, for example iron at 18-21 (not 13-14). Your price range was meant to be inbetween the high end and the lowest end. Other patches may discuss: Economic ethics, farming, new ways of spending money.

Our changes are aimed at the best of the community and in no way to discourage people from selling or buying, we aim to not ruin the economy because yes we do have an economy and yes it matters to the gameplay and eventually allow newer members to integrate better into it.

Sincerely,
Sentinelcraft Staff.

After years of trying to add towny ranks, they're finally working! Woohoo!

We tried to make a list of the ranks that are most useful and have been asked for a while, you can use these ranks with the commands /t rank add and /n rank add.

The rank helper was removed from both town and nation due to it being negligible.


- Co-Mayor:
This person will be capable of doing pretty much everything a mayor can, /!\ only give to people you absolutely trust. /!\

• Has all previous assistant perms.
• Can kick members, can withdraw from bank, can give all ranks below, can set tag etc.

- Assistant:
This is the previous assistant rank but nerfed, some people want someone that helps run the town without giving them their town bank etc.

• No longer capable of withdrawing from bank.
• No longer toggles public status
• Can choose who to put as vip
• No longer claims town plots

- Landlord:
This rank will be able to manage town plots, someone that will take care of selling your plots for you. Has access to:

• Exempt from tax
• Can reclaim plots from players for the town.
• Toggle perms and plot settings on any plot in the town
• Put plots up for sale and take them down again

- Architect:
This is the builder rank of the town:

• Can build, destroy and use switches all over town.

- Recruiter:
This person will be able to add people to the town

• Can /t add.
• Exempt from taxes.

- Vip:

• Exempt from taxes.

- Sheriff:
This already existed, this person can jail people who are outlaw.

• Now has access to /t outlaw add

- Assistant:

• Can now set title and set surname.
• Can give rank herald

- Chancellor:
This person will be able to manage your nation relations!

• Access to /n add
• Access to /n ally, /n enemy
• Can accept or deny alliances

- Herald:
This person is the recruiter of the nation.

• Access to /n add

Make sure to check out the towny guide by HvPanda!

Christmas Building Competition!

It's holiday season in Sentinel again! And you know what's been lacking these past holidays? Coal in Migas' socks and a building competition with a sweet prize!

You will have the opportunity to win 2 months of fly and a command of your choice from our previous events! There will be one winner per category.

All you gotta do is fill in the application form to join the event until December 20, we will put them in themes:

- Christmas tree.
- Santa Claus.
- Winter Wonderland.

Christmas tree theme will mainly focus on your own personal tree. Santa Claus is your own santa interpretation, and lastly winter wonderland is for the more ambitious ones that want to build on a larger scale! Builds in flatgrass won't be considered.

You will be judged based on your creativity, respect of the theme and bonus points if it relates to Sentinelcraft!

We are so eager to see your lovely creations this year, and hopefully with a successful edition we will reinstate furthermore competitions such as these with each coming holiday with awesome prizes!

Fill the following application form when you've completed your build!


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Application form:

1- In-game name:
2- When are you usually online:
3- Which competition are you entering:
4- What are the coordinates of your build (X Y Z, World,Nearby warps so others can see it too if possible!):
5- Additional information:



Please make a new topic in this board: http://sentinelcraft.net/forum/index.php?board=211.0 with your application. You can participate in more than 1 theme AND win multiple themes at once (The fly prize will stack (2months per theme))