Ayy, it's your boy Lux here again with your weekly sip of sweet until-recently-NDA material!
First of all, thanks for all the feedback guys, both on Reddit as on Mumble. We knew commiting ourselves to a weekly blog/changelog text-thingy was something new for everyone, but we're glad that we received great responses.While we do know we've been very obsessed with keeping things NDA and not communicating that much with you guys between big events, remember that we aim to give you one awesome server.
So now that the sentiment is out of the way, let's get to the fresh Weekly SoonTM!
Our code wizards and gods have bestowed me this time with the following changelog, which I will walk you through:
Fixed bow damageSo we had this issue with bows and damage. Yeah. I honestly don't know what exactly was the problem, but I'm glad it's fixed.Remember that Killme prioritizes big issues, so maybe this launched you into orbit or something.
Fixed fishing up stone blocksThose who have been playing Minecraft since ancient times either know about the randomly catching items,or you have simply stopped caring to keep up with updates since Mooshrooms became a thing. Either way, there's one thing less to find on the end of your fishing rod. So all is well now.
Fixed sheep being healed by melee damageUnless Mojang implemented some half-forgotten Scottish tradition of violently healing sheep, the Code Gods have recently fixed a glitch in the Matrix so weird it might almost work in real life.Animal Lovers Disclaimer: AvatarMC does not condone any attempts of healing sheep by means of physical violence. This is how you make kebab instead.
Fixed horses not working with roadsHorses didn't like roads. Roads didn't like horses. But through superior diplomacy they figured out how to overcome their differences and create a functioning coalition based on the wonderful principles of freedom, democracy and equality.
Added /hint command to show tea leaf hintMy personal favorite. Did you get tired of waiting half an hour for that Hint Message to come up. Or were you bothered by the fact that you had to depend on other players and actually ask them what the hint was?(Ofcourse not; you just asked where the Tea Leaf was, didn't you?) In any case, we added this simple command to use at your disposal in case you're too bored to just ask people where the Leaf is.
Made progress placing in the fasttravel nodesRemember that awesome trailer we posted a while ago? That new Fast Travel system? It's coming. "When", you ask? SoonTM. Very Soon. But seriously, we are making a lot of progress on implementing everything so that you can travel the world with ease. More details will follow as soon as we can share them, but what I personally know is that 5 of the 11 regions for fast travel are done so far. These include the Water Tribes, Western and Southern Air Temples and the Fire Nation Capital. The remaining work on making the other regions ready for use is build work. All these fast tarvel stops are known as "nodes" and look like buildings from a company we like to call Fast Travel Inc. How's that for a good corporate name eh? Anyway, the remaining work should be done [insert analogy for the word Soon as to avoid people poking fun at this].
So that's all for this week. I know it's sad and all, but we better have some patience or devout our life and soul to the Build Team. I hope this informed you well enough on what we are doing at the moment and I'd appreciate anyfeedback in the comments. So have fun hunting Tea Leaves and I hope to see you again here next week!
Hey everyone! Yes, this is happening: we are actually sharing information on what we are doing. Amazing right?
Today we post the first of a new type of post: the Weekly SoonTM. It’s Weekly, and SoonTM, but most of all a weekly update on things that have been worked on on the server. So basically this is a change log with all things that we fix or implement but are too small to post an entire announcement about.
We will try to get these out every Friday for your entertainment and judgment. So you can see what we do, and perhaps get a little sneak peek while we’re at it. (New Fast Travel screenshot anyone? Just don’t tell Zuko!)
So without further ado, here’s the change log of this week:
Notable changes
Trees no longer grow when anything solid is around them
Add experimental monster arena near the FNC harbour. This is a work in progress.
You can now use /tea to see the amount of tea leaves you have.
Tool damage is further nerfed down and swords are now considered tools.
Give new players one move by default
Bugs fixed
Recipes for items such as TNT, stone sword, enchantment table and brewing stand are now properly disabled
Enchantment tables and brewing stands are now impossible to interact with
Fix resource pack making a round-trip every time, should be a lot more smooth now.
Fix issue with impersonating player skins and async I/O of NPCs
Fix players loosing their level/inventory on death in arenas
Fix focus not opening when only one move is available
Fix players not gaining a tea leaf when shift or right clicking the tea leaf in tea flower inventory
Fix music not automatically playing again after a song was played by staff
Fix music not directly automatically playing after changing worlds
Fix trees growing above saplings
Fix demo wands from spawn being upgradeable
Fix combat log not working due to a missing symlink
And that’s all for this week! Props to Killme for compiling this list and making most of these bits of progress possible. See you next Friday!
Hi everyone, as you may have noticed the server was closed for non-staff players the last few hours. We had to whitelist the server due to scheduled maintenance. Expect us to be fully open again within an hour of this being posted!
Unfortunately the maintenance requires us to disable pets until several weeks. Don't worry: we will let you know when you can enjoy your animal companion again! We will try to do this as fast as we can.
Participants will play as either assassins or escorters, focusing on completing the objectives for each team. Escorters will try to escort the Fire Lord into the Fire Nation Capital, while assassins try to murder the Fire Lord before he arrives.
Everyone who joins will receive a Tea Leaf which you can use to unlock or upgrade moves at the bending masters in the elemental capitals. The winning team will receive an extra Tea Leaf!
After the event you can find a Tea Bush in order to obtain a Tea Leaf every day in one of the cities.
The new release will be updated to the live server after the event!
This event has a special resource pack! This resource pack will download automatically once you join the event. If you have problems downloading the resource pack in general, please use this link to download the resource pack that is linked to this event. If you don't know how to install resource packs in general, you can follow our guide!
A lot has happened in the past year, but after two failed concepts and a lot of other work done, we're finally able to say: bending system is almost done. But before we can roll it out, we need to make sure that everything is working right. That's why we are inviting YOU to come and make sure all the moves are working right, and are properly balanced.
Just send an email to contactavatarmc.com if you are eager to try out the fabled bending system we have been talking about for the last year now.
The actual testing will probably take place early next week and may span several group sessions. Please make sure to mention your availability in your email.
Thanks for reading,
The Admin Team
EDIT: Our applications are closed now, everybody should have received an e-mail with a response.
avatarmc.com if you are eager to try out the fabled bending system we have been talking about for the last year now.