📝General Updates

Hey everyone! Hope your shrine builds are going well. Normally I try to keep the general updates to once/week, but there were enough changes recently or missed in prior announcements that I wanted to get some info sent out. Without further ado!

⚔️mcMMO

• Added 5 new potions brewable at the upper Alchemy tiers:

  • Level 625: Glow Berries brew the Potion of Glowing.

  • Level 750: Shulker Shells brew the Potion of Levitation.

    • Note: AoE Levitation potions have intentionally low durations for combat balance.

  • Level 875: Hearts of the Sea brew the Potion of Conduit Power.

  • Level 1000: New tier! Resin Blocks brew the Potion of Luck, and Totems of Undying brew the Potion of Heroism, granting Hero of the Village.

• Fixed missing names on custom potions. This causes newly brewed custom potions to have new ‘/iteminfo’ IDs', so you'll need to update shops selling them (sorry!)

Terminology

• Going forward, all past and future unique items won by players (via Splurges, etc.) will be referred to as Paragons, to highlight them as unique, ultimate items. You're all pretty good about using our designated terms, so I wanted this to be known!

Miscellaneous

• Added ‘/display background <r> <g> <b> <alpha>’, each 0-255, for setting text display background colors.

• Updated Impetus of Zeus to display a progress bar towards your next lightning shot.

• Updated unwaxing copper blocks with an axe to refund honeycomb 50% of the time.

• Updated levitation chambers to play subtle sounds and prevent activating Rocket Boosting by sneaking while within.

• Advancement completion is now announced for vanilla ones of Goal or Challenge tier or certain SSS ones. Let us know if you enjoy this change!

• Fixed Absorption health sticking after the effect expired. Sorry, but this was not intentional.

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⚒️Build Contest & Updates

Hey everyone. Time to start our next build contest and announce a few more general updates!

🪔Build Contest: Shrine

A holy place made to worship the divine. Many deities have recently touched our world; what do you worship?

• 📅Due Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 1:59 AM (in your local time)

  • This event is also listed on the calendar, for those interested.

• ✏️Prize & Submission Info: See ⁠⚒ Build Contest Overview

• 🏆Special Prize: The top 3 entrants will receive +1 Charm slot and a unique charm themed to a Greek deity.

  • This charm will be released widely in the future, but these winners get first dibs.

📝General Updates

✏️Miscellaneous

• Fixed standard color codes (such as &9 or &n) not working in text displays.

  • Note that text displays also support hex codes, e.g. <#ff0000> for red. This isn't new, but stating for visibility.

• You are now auto-equipped with Swift Sneak V leggings in the creative world to help speed bridging while building.

  • This can be disabled with '/toggle creative_world swift_sneak' if desired.

• By popular demand, the Greater Impact mcMMO Axes skill has been disabled.

• Fixed the Potion Launcher not properly firing lingering potions.

📖Runecrafting

• Equilibrium and Adrenaline Rush should more reliably catch your health when activated, and are less likely to get you stuck in a pseudo-death state.

• Coyote Time should work as desired when sprinting down stairs or over grass/flowers.

• Disabled ability to activate Rocket Boosting by jumping while ‘/fly’ is enabled as it conflicts too much with toggling flight.

Thanks friends!🫶

📚Contest Winners and General Updates

Hey again everyone. It's been an exciting few days - we've jumped from 8 discoveries to 19 in the few days since our last announcement! There are over 50 enchants total, so still tons to find, but great work so far! It's time to announce the build contest winners, and give a few more days’ worth of general updates.

🔭Observatory: Build Contest Winners

Thanks much to all the entrants, these were really fun to judge! Here are the top 3 entries:

• 🥇1st Place: J1mbers and Krashafa - A perfect score from all judges! Your warp is set as Observatory1.

• 🥈2nd Place: Starmarsh and Daria! Your warp is set as Oculus as requested.

• 🥉3rd Place: A tie!

  • Maidl and TroyTheCrafter! Your warp is set as Observatory3.,

  • TheJ_Team! Your warp is set as Observatory4.

Congrats winners! For all entrants, your prize money has been distributed (split evenly where necessary) and your prize items are in a bundle on the bottom row of the submitter's ender chest (J1mbers, Star, and Maidl for the joint entries). Winners, feel free to request a free warp rename if desired.

📝General Updates

• 💎Socketing

  • Gem socketing now works for custom helmets!

  • Note that Runecrafted enchants can be applied to custom helmets. This isn't new, but stating it for visibility.

• 🪙Shops

  • Updated the stock and price of items sold at ‘/warp buyables’. Notably, we now sell Creaking Spawn Eggs, Gilded Blackstone, and Reinforced Deepslate.

  • You can sneak + punch to bulk sell to the server shop. This was changed a little while back, but listing it for visibility.

• 📖Runecrafting Event:

  • The enchant research quest board now displays % progress of ongoing projects, and a board has been added for new discoveries from this expansion.

• ✏️Miscellaneous

  • Fixed potions brewing directly to their extended state and sometimes not granting mcMMO Alchemy XP.

  • You can now cleanse candles in a cauldron to undye them.

  • Added a toggle in /toggle sounds to disable the sound that plays every jump with Avatar of Slimes.

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📚Contest Reminder & General Updates

Hey again everyone. Another week gone! We've had 8 enchant discoveries so far. It's been great to see everyone's theories about what's to come. Time for a quick reminder and to summarize the main updates from the past week!

🔭 Build Contest Reminder

Reminder that there are just over 48 hours left in the Observatory build contest, and that the top 3 entrants get 2 Boundary Fragments. Good luck!

📝General Updates

• 💎 Valor & Trials:

  • Added a new Silence Tonic (seen below) to the Artifact Trader for a water bottle and Rune of Echoes. Use one on an entity to silence it. Each has two uses.

  • Fixed bugs with the Asteroids Hawking class and adjusted its boss fighting prowess. The bonus warp damage to bosses is lower, but it now generates Entropy when damaging bosses with warps or the black hole.

• 📖 Lexicon:

  • Added `/lexicon by_rune <rune>` to view all enchants whose recipes use the rune. This replaces the list in each `/rune` entry.

  • Updated `/rune` to show the rune's main *meanings*, the spell it casts in the Runic Tome, and a link to its `/lexicon by_rune`.

• 🪄 Enchantment adjustments:

  • Buffed the hunger/saturation restored by Taste Test.

  • Added rooted dirt and gravel as low-value transmutables for Transmuting shovels.

• 🌎 Rune Locales:

  • Increased spawn rates in Skatheim (Chills) and The Allforge (Moments), and increased the strength of The Allforge's copper golems.

  • Added corrupted variants of Arkose (Mortus) and Plimmýra (Tides). Thanks beccc!

• ✏️Miscellaneous:

  • Made poisonous potatoes compostable in a composter.

  • Fixed `/sit` and similar commands not working in chome...

  • Many other minor balance tweaks, bug fixes, and general optimizations.

Thanks friends! 🫶

📚Trusted Promos and General Updates

Hey again everyone. Hope you're all enjoying the event so far! We've had two discoveries so far - Mulching by JenoSnowconeIce, a hoe enchant which automatically composts surplus seeds, and Pestle by skelud, a mace enchant which crushes enemies into primordial dust which can be used to dupe gems. Excited to see more discoveries start ramping up!

We've got a decent batch of people we're promoting to [Trusted], and some general updates and fixes from the past week.

🤝Trusted Promos

We've got a big build up of people who have been around a while, play quite often, and have consistently shown good behavior and community involvement. All of the following players are now [Trusted] rank - congrats and much love to you all!

• Bunniworth

• ElectricSparx

• JenoSnowconeIce

• MareeAM

• Mishiaria

• MrHollowPoint99

• Shotdown01

• skelud

📝General Updates

• We've made many general optimizations to improve performance. Lemme know if the TPS feels better on average!,

• The boardwalk now sells a Creaking modulator, and the clairvoyant's hint is now for a random undiscovered spawn secret instead of always your next one.,

• Fixed Bane of Arthropods not working on Shulkers, and Kuiper Shulkers duping using the vanilla mechanic. These combined should make Kuiper less annoying!,

• Displays:

  • Many cases now show useful info when omitting arguments. e.g. /display brightness with no extra args shows the brightness of your selected displays.

    • Note /display info exists to show all info about selected displays.

  • When setting a text display to fixed billboard mode, it now turns to face your head so you don't lose it.,

• Fixed mob scarecrows not placing correctly.,

• Buffed Ground Pound by ensuring it uses pre-roll damage.,

• Various bugs and compatibility issues fixed, notably for Cerberus and Wrath (still more work to do for them...)

Thanks all!

⛏️1.21.5 Gameplay Changes

🪄Rune Locales

The Great Runic Shift has fully transformed the following locales:

• 💨Gusts: New locale - Aethryn, the Helm of Terados. Floating islands holding an old observatory. Once used for navigation, now only the Breezes call it home.

• 💎Stones: New locale - Ruit, the Shimmering Grotto. A cave of geodes beneath a giant tree, with magical waters that empower the Silverfish within.

• 🐝Vitality: New locale - Thriaechor, the Amber Eaves. The bees in this canopy of the great tree above Ruit do not take kindly to visitors!

The following locales are also affected by the Runic Shift:

• ❄️Chills: Now housed in Skatheim, the Winter Bastion (previously the Mortus locale).

• 🔥Cinders: Now home to Blazes instead of Wither Skeletons.

• 💀Mortus: Now housed in Arkose, the Crimson Crypt (previously the Stones locale).

Additionally, the following changes are applied to all locales:

• The base rune drop rate is increased from 3% to 5%.

• The most difficult and frustrating locales have been toned down - lower stats, shorter levitation from Kuiper shulkers, and no Thorns on the Mystic Grove witches.

• In exchange for the above, some locales have more spawners to make them harder to cheese.

  • Also note the Extinction changes in the Enchantments changelog, which reduces the ease of farming runes late game.

• We hope this combines to make farming runes more enjoyable and less polarizing.

✨Luck

Now affects many areas of gameplay:

• Increases the odds of high-value rolls from Bottom Feeder, Schrödinger’s Thumb, the boardwalk claw machine, and the Tip Jar charm.

• Increases the activation odds of Hot Rod, Hands-On Learning, the Juniper Sprig charm, and the Runic Compass charm.

• Increases the average drop count from Trawling, Tithing, Cultist bosses, and the Opulence Runic Tome spell.

• Increases the chance of Rune and Gem drops in survival worlds and duping the Shiny Gold Coin.

• Reduces the odds of hostile mob heads during whack-a-staff.

• Increases the drop rate of heads. (This isn’t new, but stating it for visibility)

• Increases the quality of fishing loot. (This is vanilla, but stating it for visibility)

💎Socketing

• A new Gem of Favor has been added, granting +0.25 Luck per gem. These can be obtained in the same way as all standard stat gems.

• Armor now only has 4 sockets. Gems are not buffed to compensate - this is an intentional nerf to give room for power in more interesting areas.

🔱Tridents

• Can now be crafted using 3 Twinkling Sea Crystals, 1 Nautilus Shell, and 1 Prismarine Shard.

• Riptide is now more compatible with other trident enchants, including Runecrafted ones, and so is now only exclusive with Loyalty.

• Note that Loyalty tridents are already buffed to return if they fall into the void and generally return faster.

🛡️Shields

• Shields can now parry by blocking <=0.3 seconds before a strike. Parrying an attack stuns the attacker, while parrying a projectile reflects it.

• Shields can now bash by quickly double blocking, pushes enemies away in a radius in front of you.

• Axe attacks now only disable shields for 1.6 seconds rather than 5.

• We intend these changes to make shields more considerable as a primary accessory into the late game.

📝Miscellaneous

• Applying splash or lingering potions to targets other than yourself now grants mcMMO Alchemy experience.

• Projectiles now bypass invulnerability frames.

• Stuns are a more present mechanic from various items and enchants. Stuns prevent the target from acting, but are broken if they take direct damage.