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Preparing your gifts

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How to send your gifts

Note: Keep in mind that not everyone has registered for a mailbox. Please check the table below for a list of players who registered mailboxes.

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How to receive your gifts
Any non-staff members are eligible to register for a mailbox. (All staff members already have dedicated mailboxes!)
The fun part is, you will not be able to access it until Christmas!
We highly recommend everyone to register for one, in case someone wants to send you a gift but you didn't have a mailbox registered ;(

You can register by replying to this forum post below, following this format:

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- In-game name:
- Do you agree to follow the gifting rules written above?
- Best gift ever received? (optional)

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FAQs and Extra notes

- We have a selfie zone for you to take pictures with the reindeers! After warping to /warp TQLA-Christmas, turn right and follow the path.

- If you walk all the way back, there is a Christmas tree with lots of chests underneath, where you can place letters for SentinelCraft community!

- We also have four shulker boxes on the second floor for letters written to our lovely and hardworking staff team!

- Why not dye your shulker boxes to make them more festive? (;

- Feel free to reply to this post with your questions if you have any!

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List of players who have registered for a mailbox:
1) Elisthetic
2) Eagler1997
3) FurthestYak74
4) CodeJoel
5) ElizaPalooza
6) EMULATOR
7) DanteVentura
8 ) JoeArmageddon
9) Wup
10) Horsebagger
11) JohnBarry99
12) DoxHawk
13) Marcarco
14) Remiaw
15) NickBuilder
16) RikoLay
17) ShadowBlade310
18) Oddstone
19) Aatif
20) Etspiritu
21) Stycore
22) rohanjosephsaji
23) BulkyBunny
24) Purplefireheart
25) Artinity
26) JDdaKiller
27) Creepy_Crawlers
28) swordsmancs
29) Silver_Dragoon1
30) bluemoonredsun
31) HeLiX_iS_BeTa
32) Mwams
33) banacat
34) hi_gadfkhkg
35) coolskeleton24
36) puffcorn
37) Ezgordified
38) mastery55295
39) naibogamer
40) Spectr3
41) GEORGE15
42) NemetskV
43) krxsk
44) Axtrolon
45) jonahhd95
46) AndreChoo
47) Heimburger
48) danybw
49) xendetic
50) hajkido
51) Peckun
52) SrFodonis
53) Lightterr
54) Paniman
55) nmerkl03
56) Joelol
57) Maybe you?

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Introduction

A plague has struck the staff team, it looks like most of us are fighting with the 5zig mod to try and get it to work to filter out chat messages! Word goes some outside of the staff team would like to try it out as well, which is why we chose to open this up to the public with some modifications.

Warning: Ignoring certain chat messages and filtering them out is at your own risk. If you fail to answer staff this might lead to consequences. Players that are thinking about applying for staff in the future, know that ignoring or muting certain chats can negatively impact your chances.

Together, we set up this guide so you guys can easily copy-paste our chat filters and be free from all the spam!
You can download the mod here: https://5zigreborn.eu/downloads/ - drop it in your mods folder, this is pretty common knowledge stuff. If you have trouble with this, feel free to message any of us.

Lets start! (can be skipped if you want)
All settings that we are referencing to will be under Options>5zig mod. This is to make it the guide a little short and easier to read.

1. When the mod is installed fresh it adds so much clutter to the screen, some of this can be reduced in size or even removed.
Let's take a look at Customize display as this will allow us to remove some things from the screen.
For my setup, I removed potions and reduced the scale of stats and armour hud to 50%.

The easy way to disable everything except the second chat, something you are here for, is disabling "Show Mod: Off" on the first page, on the top left.
This disables the armour, potions, coordinates and all that other stuff. It doesn't disable the second chat though, something we are explaining in this guide.

2. Start looking at Server Options>2nd Chat.
This allows us to configure this chat to how we would like and even where we would like for it to show up. For this I have:
Opacity: 75% - Scale: 50%
I do not want this chatbox to be anywhere near as large as the main one. You're free to edit this to whatever you like, we suggest messing around with it!

3. Another thing which you might find annoying is the constant pop-ups about the Mojang login server! This can easily be turned off at Server Options> General>Mojang>Show Mojang Status.

4. Go ahead and mess around with the other settings once you have figured out all the 2nd chat excitement! Let's get started (:


Chat filtering

All things referenced below are done within Options>Server Options>Chat Messages Filter.
There are many ways this can be done and feel free to change and inform us of the better settings as we are still learning!

Chat Message Filters -> Add Message
At the title, you can type anything you want. We suggest repeating the filter at the top for an easy overview.

With the way we have gone with our filters, we have made the second chat the more secondary chat of information which,
if the server was busy, can safely be looked over in favour of the main chat which will contain all the chat messages alongside
any messages you want to keep in the main chat.

As for the action, we put everything on "print to 2nd chat", so you can scroll up to double-check something.
It is up to you if you want to ignore certain messages and remove them completely from your screen.

Here is an example of how it should look after you put in everything, notice the 2nd chat should be on (default: ignore)


Joining & Leaving Server Messages

Nobody likes to see someone join 20 million times because their internet is unstable, here's how to fix it!
Joining the server:

Chat Message: *joined the server!*
Exceptions: (staff names, particular friends you would like to see joining - a list of staff members is at the bottom of the post for easy copy and pasting

Leaving the server:

Chat Message: *left the server.*
Exceptions: (staff names, particular friends you would like to see leaving -  a list of staff members is at the bottom of the post for easy copy and pasting)

AFK-Messages
This again can be annoying when there are many players on the server, you can filter this however you like. It's just nice to have, you know?

Players going AFK.
Chat Message: *is now AFK.*
Exceptions: Friends, staff members - this is totally up to you.

Players coming back from being AFK.
Chat Message: *is no longer AFK*
Exceptions: Friends, staff members - this is totally up to you.

To mute the AFK messages for yourself, use the following chat filters:

Chat Message: *You are now AFK.*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *You are no longer AFK.*
Exceptions:

Voting
Another frustrating one is that of vote spam and this is easily filtered out! This can be done for other people voting and also the extreme spam when voting yourself!

Other people votes
Chat message: *100$*10 tokens*
Exceptions:

Your own votes
Chat Message: *$100 has been added*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *[Sentinel]* Edit Complete.*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *[Sentinel]* <your own username>*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *[Sentinel]* Tokens*
Exceptions:

Repeated Broadcasts (Think we all know them now)
As most of us have been playing for a long period of time and already frequent all these places, this could be something to help reduce the chat spam:

Chat Message: *Keep in touch with us by checking our forums*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *www.sentinelcraft.net/forum*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *Check our page and like us on Facebook!*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *https://www.facebook.com/MCSentinelCraft*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *Make sure to /vote to support the server!*
Exceptions:

Chat Message: *This month's prize:*
Exceptions:


Auction
This one is one of the optional ones and could use it if you find auction spam to be annoying
or just don't really engage with auction often enough to want to keep upto date with new additions:

Chat Message: *(zAuctionHouse)*
Exceptions: (could add specific blocks or items you want to be notified for)

Changing Worlds
When you change worlds, your balance pops up which can be quite annoying if you are staffing around & changing worlds quite often. To filter this out, add the following chat filter:

Chat Message: *Your balance in this world*
Exceptions:

Minigames
Sometimes when there are multiple minigames going on, this can quickly fill the chat. It's even worse when you are not interested at that time with the minigame.
I would only use these ones if you do not want to be notified of minigames. The following will help with that:

Participants
Chat Message: *{prefix}*
Exceptions:

Wild West
Chat Message: *[WildWest]*
Exceptions:

Platform Pvp
Chat Message: *[PlatformPvp]*
Exceptions:

Fly Pvp
Chat Message: *[FlyPvp]*
Exceptions:

(More shall be added here once I see more people play minigames, as people playing minigames goes in waves)

LWC
We all know that placing 20 million chests at once spams your chat and can be annoying, why not move this all to your 2nd chat as well?

Placing a chest/furnace etc
Chat Message: *Created a*successfully*
Exceptions:

Unlocking lwc stuff
Chat Message: *removed lock on the*
Exceptions:

Unregistering stuff (by removing the block)
Chat Message: *unregistered.*
Exceptions:

Useful list of stuff for copy and pasting
List of staff members for exceptions (their full usernames) - this list also has some common names for impersonators so you see when someone is trying to join as staff!

AMNOTBANANAAMA, AceAlmighty16, charactername111, Oplegoman, Zarosi, HvPanda,
BrendaxNL, Brenda, migas94, Migas, Miggles, Fedgar_Lurch, Fedex_Truck, PaulinaCarrot,
Toxic_Demon93, Toxic, Demoncrusher, KibikiKibble, JeffEatsPie, ElizaPalooza, Eliza, bugsy12,
Annu_Mannu67, Silver_Dragoon1, Creepy_Crawlers, Fjerreiro, ninja5132, RogueFriday, FafaKuku, Devereux

If you'd like to see a list of friends Brenda uses (mostly people that are active at the moment), please message her on discord or in-game.

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Brenda: I always think it is nice to start at the origin of something, would you'd like to share with us where you are from,
where you grew up and how you found out about SentinelCraft?

Ople: I have had quite a busy childhood. For the first 6-7 years of my life, I lived in East Yorkshire, England but I don't remember much of this.
After that, for the next three years of my life, I lived in Southern Italy. This was a different experience, partaking in schooling in a completely different language!
Their teaching was so different, I had school for six days a week from 8 am till 1 pm. Fast forward some more, the financial crisis happened, and we moved back to England.
Then just before I went to college the server I used to play on died rather quickly! I needed to find a new one, I stumbled on SentinelCraft in the summer of 2014.. and I have not joined another survival server since.

Brenda: What! Italy? So there's a little Italian dude hiding within our Oliver? Does this mean you actually speak fluent Italian?

Ople: Yea, I was really good at Italian but not good at speaking it. Studying French all through high school ruined any chance of me remembering the language.
I did get a GCSE in it when I was 12 but I didn't do that well! I loved the people and the places in the south of Italy. It was so tranquil and I would love to go back once I can afford to!

Brenda: That's such an interesting fact, guess you could say I am a little shooketh. You mentioned that you joined Sentinel back in the summer of 2014..
went inactive for a while in between and now you're back! Was there a special factor, special someone (!!) or something else that convinced you to stay with us?

Ople: I lost interest in Minecraft once I started college, I found that college was hard and did spend a lot of time studying to make sure that I could keep up with the classes.
Later I went to university which was even more work and socialising, leaving me less time for the server or quality time.
I stayed with the server as it was always much more open than any of the other servers I have ever been on.

Sentinel has an active Senior Admin team, I found this to be a great sign of a really promising server, the admins their approach really set the tone for everyone else.
About a month after I joined, RogueFriday joined and has been an active member still this day, as a lot of you may know and some of you might not; Rogue is my father and it's so fun seeing everyone's response!

Brenda: Ooh! I always find people their reactions so fascinating, especially when they've interacted with you two for a while.
Do you and your father do a lot together in-game? Speaking about college/university - most people know that you are a huge fan of mathematics.
Would you'd like to elaborate on this a little more & were your grades for mathematics always higher in secondary school?

Ople: Back in 2014, which was the beloved Pern, we had our houses/bases rather close but over time have done our own things as we have different styles and are usually on at different times.
Even though I am still the pickaxe repairer!

Yea, if I talk through my studies in maths from the beginning.. I was not that good at maths at highschool but could say above average, I did well in my high school exams.
I think I was just good enough to torture myself with Maths, Further Maths and Physics! I can imagine them being some peoples worst nightmare.
Through college, I got better at maths as I had some great knowledgeable teachers. I also put in a lot of studying once exams came around.
I ended up having 14 maths exams and 6 physics (passed them all with A,B,C: maths, further and physics), which were the most exams I have ever done!

This allowed me to go to university and study Mathematics. When I first started, I thought I made a mistake!
The lectures were just too difficult and I could not follow it at all! (the partying didn't help though..)
I kept with it for a few months and felt much more at home with the course, even though none of it was easy.
Two more years studying, I finished my mathematical education with a high 2:1 (no idea what that is in other systems) and I was happy that it was over!

But as time passed I was drawn back to mathematics or the more interesting parts of it, and my favourite text explains it well.

I later got into tutoring and using my big brain helping more disadvantaged and struggling students with mathematics.
My explanation usually is different than their teachers, for a lot of students this really helped them.
I felt like I could make a difference to many others, this is one of the reasons why I am aiming to become a teacher!

Brenda: Does this mean you're actually studying or following some kind of course to teach mathematics in a secondary school? 

Ople: From September, if at all possible, I hope to be on a mathematics teaching course which would take one year to complete and I will be well on my way into my career and hopefully inspiring more people about mathematics and hopefully make a difference.

Brenda: Twinsies! We're both going to educate some kids, I'm excited about your teaching course! Hopefully, it works out for you!
Let's get back to some more Minecraft related questions... Besides restocking BuildyBlocks actively and trying to destroy Market's reputation - what do you like to do on a regular Minecraft day?

Ople: The first I'll do when I get online is checking BuildyBlocks and collecting all the profits. Next, I look at what I need to stock up on; most of the time this is sand, gravel and quartz.
Then I usually go off building my little kingdom which I have spent many months on - building slowly as I have found when I build so quickly it always turns out terrible!
Recently, I have made a great guardian farm which has been popular and is now helping my shop out so much more.
During this I help people wherever I can as the community is everything, this could be helping from commands to other more complex things.
So thinking about it, I don't seem to be doing much! I have tried more creative approaches to things such as the new spawn video we all got!
And..some other secret things that could be on the way!

Brenda: Speaking of BuildyBlocks, a member of our community asked if you think that you can 'beat' HvPanda with your advertising skills!

Ople: I don't think could ever beat Market with my advertising skills! Market sells so much more than me anyway.. but I like to think that BuildyBlocks is a strong and coming up store!
Also just because this is a good moment for it, BuildyBlocks is looking to expand into other areas and to do this, I am looking to hire a fellow player to help with this!
With a few more months BuildyBlocks might become the household name, overtaking Market! #BuildyBlocksisBest

Brenda: Pfff shameless advertising excuse you?? I was about to ask about your future plans but that's definitely clear now!

Ople: BUILYBLOCKS!

Brenda: You mentioned helping people whenever you can in the community, would you say you enjoy being a moderator? Are there some challenging parts to it?

Ople: I do enjoy helping the community and I hope that the community can attest to that. I am always available to help, I think a lot of people like me because of that - could I be the moderator of the people?
I found that starting out as a moderator could be quite difficult at times. There is much more to remember and much more responsibility that comes with a role like this. 
Over the last six months, I believe that I have grown into the role well and use my new skills helping where I can!

Brenda: The moderator of the people huh? Now, if someone *cough* me *cough* accidentally kidnapped Migas and you were to be the owner of the server for a while,
what are three big changes that you would make on the server?

Ople: Wow! Three big changes, that is going to really hard to think of as everything is going extremely well at the moment :open_mouth:
Three things that I would change. First would be the server render distance up a little (I know this isn't possible at the moment but would be so nice!)
Second, I would send a search party for Migas; need Migas to fix everything after I break everything!
Finally third, hmmm, I can't think of anything as I would have already broken everything by then with my clumsy hands and tinkering!

Brenda: Woah, as a third thing I would've guessed something related to your recent videos - something that is worthy of putting on your resume!
That server spawn video was majestic, is this something you plan to continue working on? If so, what kind of content can we expect?

Ople: I am so happy everyone loved the video I made! Truth be told, this was the first time for me trying anything like this and took a long time to create a short 2 minute video.
Currently, there are many ideas flying around as a way to highlight mega stuff around the server; a video to do with Pern something you would all like to see?
Other than that, some more informative videos might be on the way, so I would keep an eye out and subscribe to the servers Youtube Channel to keep up to date on all future videos!

Brenda: Now, Ople, the world needs to know your opinion on this. If you had to choose between Ace & Creepy on the server, who would you choose and why?

Ople: I'll be choosing Ace.. as I find Ace funny! Watching people gang up on Ace at times is hilarious xD (Sorry Creppy!)

Brenda: Oof! Time to break some more hearts (; Smooch, marry kill with all the staff members, go!

Ople: Wow, you want all the gossip! If I have to answer it would be smooching you, marrying Banana and killing Rich. He scares me!

Brenda: Smooching me?? That's some gossip right there, I'm sure you must have heard more spicy things in SM/Mod chat, would you care to share some with us?

Ople: Oh no! I have a brain like a sieve for things like this! But one I might have once overheard was #Migas4Member! No idea how far their crusade as gotten though or even if it got underway

Brenda: I 100% support that movement, where can I sign the petition? Thank you for being my first "test" subject, do you have anything else to share with the community besides promoting your shop? (;

Ople: Apart from BuildyBlocks (I had to do it!), I look forward to the long future that I can see SentinelCraft having and all the amazing updates that are coming up! I'm also looking forward to playing together!
I hope you all liked this and learned a little more about me, your favourite and only Lego on the server!

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- In-game name:
- What town are you currently in?
- Motivation for joining our society:
- Did anyone ask you to join us?
- Do you promise to be unbiased during your hunts, as well as following the PvP rules stated here?


An answer to your application will be given via discord, in private.

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