Happy Holidays Everyone!

[Oplegoman]

Dear Sentinel,

I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday, and we have almost made it to the end of 2020, and I can assure you its been one of the most difficult years for everyone, but instead of dwelling on the bad parts of 2020. As I am usually quite lazy (or am I working on something?), I have left creating my sentinel Christmas presents to last minutes (Brenda plz let me keep my presents?). So instead of trying to cobble together some cobble and diamonds for people, I wanted to write a more personal post to show that I have not forgotten and take a to look back at all the amazing things we have done this year, even though we are an online community this does should not change how proud we should be with our achievements.

The server has been through a lot this year, and it because of the community, our staff team works on the server to bring everyone new experiences, features and just some bug fixes. Here is a brief overview of what has happened this year;

• Sentinel updated to 1.15! We got those bees!  Woo! This brought the changes of removing phant- I mean those sky rats from our main worlds banishing them to Alpha! MOAR world to explore and find those bees!
• A very big change which happened this year was the update to spawn on April 1st (they got us hard with all the talk of removing or resetting stuff!). This was a whole update to everything on the previous spawn island and a fantastic celebration of Migas' third year of ownership and Brenda's third year of being a pesky red admin.
• We worked on the economy to some peoples joy and others dismay, this may not seem like a lot of work on the surface but a lot of thought was put into this, all I can say is that there could be more changes in the future or even addition of features!
• Sentinel updated to 1.16! This changed everything, there was so much to think about and many bugs which have not been resolved yet ☹ such as portals, this again shows us we have the trust and understanding of the sentinel community when faced with such issues, we have not forgotten about it!
• Sentinel went for a major wobble with an update, this caused major disruption; at first, we thought the corruption would be irreversible, but with the hard work of many within the staff team we went to work on those issues and only a few hours later we had sentinel back up again. We did not give up as we did not want to disappoint the community.
• For the first time in a while, we introduced a new feature, crates! Let's just say this ate about 20 million from our economy since its launch! It's one greedy chest.
• More recently Migas' has decided to pass on the baton of leadership of sentinel to Paulina.
• Sentinel has a prom event, this has a major success, we just about filled the server with senior members+ for the duration of the event! This was a new record for Sentinel and something we are unlikely to beat any time soon.
  Many server events have been brought back, such as chicken football and RoW (Busgy's memes have been the highlight personally!).
• At some point, last year we all came together to totally bamboozle Migas and got him a camera and a lovely video to go with it. He totally thought it was some dutch sweeties! I cannot see another server coming together like this and showing our appreciation, again shows that we are such a special community.

There are going to be events or changes (Do add them below, share those memories with us!) which I have missed off this list and that only makes what we have accomplished this year even more special that we are looking forward and wanting to evolve sentinel to everything it could be and more. I think I can safely say that we all joined to play Minecraft, but we all stayed because of the community and this has only been possible due to the leadership over the last 7 years. People have come and gone and it's a testament to how resilient our community is.

I could go on forever about what this community has done and all the great things we have done, this has been a community which I have been a part of since 2014 (even if I may have had some inactive years in between) and has been a community and server which I have found myself coming back to time and time again, this time here to stay. I feel privileged to be one of the community leaders and someone which you all put a lot of trust in. I hope to uphold that trust this next year, as personally, Sentinel has become more than just a game.

Here is to another fantastic year on sentinel, and we shall see what changes sentinel will bring us this next year!


-Oli - One of your clumsy admins

[The Carrot]

Merry christmas and happy holidays!

Great recap of the good and bad, Oliver. I hope 2021 will be an even better year!

Ps: I recently gave away my beating stick, I am glad Migas gave me a baton.. 

[bugsy12]

(Busgy's memes have been the highlight personally!).

Most of those events; server prom, migas' birthday video, crates, and games such as RoW were all leaded by Brenda, Dev, Eli, and Ople. Huge shoutout to all of you, you all continue to plan events to keep the server engaging.

If one good thing has come from the pandemic it's been me able to have more time on the server, growing as a staff member, and connecting with players. Sentinel has, and always will be, a second family to me.

Favorite Memories of the Year:

4. SYNC - if you know, you know. Also pissing off Paulina with my goofy town tag as an added bonus.

3. Ninja running around INSISTING Eli was just talking to her, upon realizing it was just the Eli NPC at spawn

2. Jeff's sponge tower - ask him about it, it's magnifique

1. Basically every RoW event ever, especially my budding Rivalry with Oddstone, but this moment inparticular lives rent free in my mind:

[AceAlmighty16]

1. Basically every RoW event ever, especially my budding Rivalry with Oddstone, but this moment inparticular lives rent free in my mind:

This was one of the best moments of the year.