📝General Updates

Hey everyone! I know the pings have been frequent lately but we’ve been getting a lot done. 😎 Got another batch of updates and fixes for you. As always, report any feedback or issues. Thanks!

💎Socketing:

• Horse armor, wolf armor, and harnesses can now be socketed.

  • All can be increased to 11 armor and 2 armor toughness, the same as Diamond Horse Armor.

  • Horse and wolf armor can hold 4 stat gems, while harnesses can hold 6. Gems of Agility socketed into harnesses instead increase fly speed.

• Gems of Tenacity now additionally grant +5% stun resist. This means full tenacity armor reduces stun durations by 80%.

🎮Gameplay:

• You can now capture Happy Ghasts in eggs.

• You now have 64 block reach in the creative world by default. This can be toggled off with ‘/toggle creative_world block_reach.’

• The Hawking Warp can now be used anywhere outside of parkours, though no longer goes through walls.

🖥️Commands:

• Added ‘/map’ to get a link to the live server map.

• Added ‘/toggle sounds combat_end’ to enable a subtle sound when you exit combat.

• Added ‘/vaporize <player>’ as a new simple command (Fine!)

🪲Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Impetus of Hades allowing you to stealth in view of players in PvP arenas.

• Fixed Mulching still giving seeds when used with Magnetism.

• Fixed Noclip warping you when sprinting towards a ladder on a thin wall.

• Fixed display copy pasting not always working for displays of items with custom stack sizes (cakes, potions, etc.)

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⬆️Chase the Skies Update & Live Server Map

Hey everyone, we've got a couple nice updates for you today!

👻Chase the Skies Update - 1.21.7

• The server is now live with 1.21.7, the Chase the Skies game drop! This drop primarily includes the Happy Ghast, a new tame Ghast variant that you can fly around with friends. See here for more info.

• We've made Happy Ghasts meaningfully faster than in vanilla. Note that Dried Ghasts can be crafted with 8 Ghast Tears and Soul Sand.

• Saddles are now craftable, so we no longer buy them in the Server Shop.

• The two new music discs work with Walkman leggings.

• We currently have the locator bar enabled. Let us know what you think of it.

🗺️Live Server Map

• At long last, we've launched an SSS live map! It can be found at https://map.sssminecraft.com/. A quick overview of the features:

• There are maps for spawn, the three survival worlds, and the creative world, which you can swap between in the sidebar.

• You can see who's online in the sidebar, and the map live updates with player positions and world changes.

• Hovering shows coords in the bottom left, and the controls in the top-left can toggle visibility of players, world borders, and the world spawn.

📝Other Updates

• Aphelion of Earth's tendril attacks and Abomination are now treated as magic attacks, letting them synergize with Impetus of Hecate.

• Vanilla rendering updates allow glows to work with shaders, which importantly means you can see ores sensed with Abyssal Armor with shaders on!

• When Transmuting to clay, you now get clay balls instead of clay blocks.

Thanks friends 🫶

📣Charms, Lucky Rush, General Updates

Hey everyone - big weekend ahead! Aside from the PvP events, there's new charms, the Lucky Rush, and general updates with an upcoming build contest FYI.

📿Charms

There are 12 new charms to find:

• 💎The Valor Shop has 5 new charms. They are listed in-game in ‘/valor charms’, but a few examples:

  • 🗿Bobblehead: Gain the Luck effect permanently while wearing your own head.

  • 💧Prince Rupert's Drop: Your hazard enchants activate with massive power when struck from behind.

  • 🗝️Spare Key: Your first charm slot can be modified even while your charms case is locked.

• 💀The Crypt Trial Shop sells the Metal Detector, which extracts scrap in place of junk when brushing suspicious sediments.

• 🎈The Boardwalk sells Balloon Animal, which causes allied mobs to pop on death, applying a radial stun and damage. Tragic!

• There are 5 other charms findable either around spawn or via gameplay, including the Sanguine Phial. Keep an eye out!

Some old charms have also been updated:

• 🍵Coffee Beans: Reworked! Gain speed, haste, and double experience during sunrise.

• 🏌️Golf Club: Reworked! Your attacks gain range, ignore some mob knockback resist, and deal double knockback to small targets.

• 🔻Nerfs: Reduced Adventurer's Tricorne boss payout to 250 silver. Made Hourglass Sands only work on utility items. Reduced Runic Compass proc rate.

✨Lucky Rush

The rush starts in just a few! In addition to the Core Bonuses, this rush has two main benefits:

• +3 Luck all weekend. Simple but effective - and good for hunting for charms!,

• Lucky Events can randomly activate to amplify certain events. Keep an eye out!,

📝General Updates

• ⚒️FYI, we'll announce a new build contest Sunday night PST which awards a Charm slot. We're delaying the start to avoid distracting from weekend events.

• 🔨Impetus of Hephaestus gem stats decay when striking with a non-artisan weapon, and Luck caps at 8 stacks.

• ⚡Impetus of Zeus grants charge from landing shots, has improved slow down physics, and slows you while aiming a spyglass.

• ☁️Terados's maps have waypoints for A Vexing Situation's quest locations, and a subtle leaf trail guides the path between them, to aid players new to the quest.

• 🐶More allied mobs grant mcMMO taming XP and benefit from taming passives. This ignores most humanoid allies, like Paradigm of Greed contractors, but works for an Avatar of Phantoms horde, for example.

⚔️PvP Events & Paragons

Hey again everyone! Here to notify you about more PvP tournaments this weekend and some general updates from the past week or so.

🤺BYOG PvP Events

@MrJoned will be holding more bring your own gear PvP events each day this weekend. These events times are visible on our calendar. This will include another 1v1 bracket tournament and some misc events like free-for-all fights.

If you want to participate in the 1v1 bracket tournament, please reach out to Jon in advance. This isn't required, but it will help him prepare the brackets in advance and schedule the matchups.

• 📅Event Dates: Saturday, June 28, 2025 11:00 AM PDT and Sunday, June 29, 2025 11:00 AM PDT

• 🏆Prizes: Badges of Valor and a free copy of the Sanguine Phial charm.

  • This is the charm awarded to the recent build contest winners and which will become generally available soon.

📝General Updates

⚔️PvP Balance

• The Film Reel charm no longer reduces spell cooldowns in PvP arenas.,

• The Aegis runic tome spell now has a 10 second cooldown and lasts 5 seconds in PvP arenas.,

✏️Miscellaneous

• The mcMMO archery, mace, and trident skills now grant far more experience.,

• Weather no longer resets from sleeping.

  • This was changed during the River Rush, but is a general change we're testing. Let us know what you think of it.

• The sell price of tropical fish has been increased dramatically (from 200 silver to 2000), but ones dropped by slain tropical fish are no longer sellable.

  • This is intended to buff tropical fish earned via fishing to the appropriate value relative to their rarity.

• All Valor quests will now have a 4-hour cooldown during rushes rather than just A Vexing Situation.,

• The Moments spell of the Runic Tome is now quieter and ages up animals faster.,

Looking forward to seeing everyone online for the Lucky Rush this weekend 🫶

📖Runecrafting Expansion Wrap Up

With the discovery of Walkman, the final Runecrafting expansion is complete!

Thank you all so, so much for your engagement and enthusiasm with not only this event, but truly the entire content update; we couldn’t be happier with the response! We'd like to wrap with a final special Runecrafting announcement, then a quick look at what’s next.

🏅Special Thanks

First, as thanks for everyone’s efforts, all researchers will soon receive an ancestral Boundary Fragment commemorating your contributions!

We also extend particular thanks to four key researchers who showcased great interest and theorizing. Each will soon receive a unique, ancestral Mythic Rune from the college archives. These runes are relics of other times, now inert and only found in mythical enchants and legends. They are novelties which we hope you will cherish - and thanks to each of you for your outsized contribution to making events like this worthwhile!

• ❤️@J_, for your ingenuity and discernment of all possibilities, you are granted the Rune of Prisms. May it aid your search for other realms.

• 💎@Starmarsh™, for your valor and lasting guidance, you are granted the Rune of Whispers. May their voices guide you.

• 📈@TroyTheCrafter, for your great ambition, you are granted the Rune of Asymptotes. May it lead you ever upwards.

• 🏅@Maidl, for your prolific longevity, you are granted the Rune of Silence. May you be inspired by the persistence of what has always been.

• 🏆As each expansion's top discoverer, @J_ and @Starmarsh™ are also granted the Rune of Singularities. May it pull you to further greatness.

📆What's Next?

The expansion was our big map event, but we have more in the works! No exact timelines yet, but here are some things to look forward to in the coming weeks:

• ✏️A post from the design team covering how we concepted this expansion, and more Valor lore stories.

• 🔋The return of runic surges in a new form.

• 📿A Charms drop containing roughly 10 new charms to experiment with.

• ⬆️Rotating rush weekends which will give free boosts in various areas. These will happen every weekend!

• ⛏️QoL updates for builders, including updates to ‘/display’ and access to light blocks.

• ⚔️A new duo BYOG Trial with unique prizes.

• ⚒️Continued contests and events as long as there is interest!

Thanks again everyone. We love you and couldn't do this without the encouragement we get from your enjoyment. It means the world!

-🫶Staff

📚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! 🫶

💎1.21.5 Valor Shop Changes

🔧System

• The Valor Shop has a new home. Explore the great haunted galleon, the Stygian Wake, and meet its captain, collector of many stories.

• Badges of Valor can now be submitted at each Trial Shop to gain 10 Trial Points for that Trial.

• 1 Badge of Valor can now be found each map by killing your first empowered enemy.

  • We hope this helps introduce new players to the Valor system.

• You can now use /valor in-game to view the various Valor armor, relics, charms, and services.

🛡️Armor Sets

• The Valor Armors have had a full reshape. The following sets are now offered.

• All armor sets now give Diamond tier stats by default, but like before cannot be upgraded to Netherite tier.

• Note that the Salamander, Deep Sea, Huntsman, and Strongman sets have been removed, though some find spiritual successors among this list.

⛏️Abyssal

WE REMEMBER

• Per-piece: Increased mining speed

• Set Bonus: Gain Night Vision. Mining blocks no longer causes vibrations, and you gain abyssal charge from mining ores, which can be spent to delve to the next lowest open area or to briefly sense ores in a radius.

⚔️Ethereal

IT BECKONS

• Per-piece: Increased sweeping damage

• Set Bonus: Gain Night Vision. Sweeping damage bonuses now apply to all sweeping enchants, and strikes grant ethereal charge. At full charge, the next direct damage you take is negated and triggers a 1-second stealth.

🏹Umbral

THEY LAMENT

• Per-piece: Increased sneaking speed

• Set Bonus: Gain Night Vision. Sneaking prevents enemies from detecting you unless nearby and facing you. Ranged strikes grant umbral charge and deal bonus damage from behind or undetected. At full charge, you can spend it to enter shadow form, an empowered stealth.

🌎I.N.D.I.G.O.

(Integrated Navigational Device for Inputting Gravitational Offsets)

Nothing is off-limits.

• Per-piece: Increased aerial mobility and fall distance safety

• Set Bonus: You can adjust your gravity between 2x and -0.1x. Gravity resets upon dealing direct damage or exceeding the world height.

🥊R.E.D.

(Runic Exoskeletal Database)

Perfection of the human form.

• Per-piece: Grants access to an additional stance or the database.

• Set Bonus: You can scan enchanted books into your database, accessed via the R.E.D. helmet, where you can freely select one enchant per-category to apply to every other punch. Every 3rd punch can apply bonus enchantments based on your stance.

📦V.I.O.L.E.T.

(VoidTek™ Inventory Organizer for Layering and Extended Tethering)

Keep everything at your fingertips.

• Per-piece: Increased block interaction range

• Set Bonus: Using a piece of the V.I.O.L.E.T. on a block with an inventory tethers to it, allowing you to access it from anywhere via your chestplate. Activating your helmet or boots cycles your inventory 1 row up or down, respectively.

🌟Relics

• “Relics” are how we’ll refer to the unique non-armor Valor items going forward.

• Relics must now be upgraded from an item of their type (e.g. an Elytra is required to purchase Iron Cicada Wings).

• Most relic weaponry now gains its behavior from a mythical enchantment.

• Mythical enchantments compete with a normal enchantment group, and are denoted by a 🌟 symbol.

• We hope mythical enchantments feel cool thematically while giving room for unique relics that don’t power creep their competitors.

✨New Relics

🐍Chimaera

Versatile and deadly, for those willing to commit.

• Chimaera is a hybrid bow which can split into or reform from two swords. It's back!

• Lion's Claw and Goat's Horn, the swords, apply a mark which the bow's strikes redeem to apply venom, a rapid poison which heals you.

• Serpent's Fang, the bow, applies a mark which the swords' strikes redeem for 2x damage or 2x knockback and a stun, respectively.

• If you like mid-range skirmishing and making fast-paced combat decisions, this relic may be for you!

🐺Cerberus

The last thing they'll ever see.

• Cerberus is a hybrid crossbow, which can morph to or from an iron axe.

• Hellhound's Maw, the crossbow, has the mythical spread enchantment Tartarean Hellhound🌟:

  • Tartarean Hellhound: Loaded projectiles fire with lower base damage but in a tight, rapid volley.

• Hellhound's Fang, the axe, triples the projectiles loaded in the crossbow on every 3rd attack, up to 27 after 9 hits.

• If you like ramping into explosive, shotgunning damage, this relic may be for you!

🏹I.R.I.D.E.S.C.E.N.T.

(Incorporating or Repulsive Inter-Dimensional Energy and Storage Conduit with Enclosed Natural Terrarium)

Turn the beauty of the void against them.

• A bow with the mythical ammo enchantment Tesseract🌟:

• Tesseract: While drawn, the bow pulls items to you and small mobs and projectiles into its tesseract, releasing the first stored entity, or a weaker energy shot if no ammo available, once fired.

• If you enjoy using unique utility items to your advantage, this relic may be for you!

🌩️Supercell

Forged to calm the tides of war.

• A mace with the mythical radial enchantment Ragnarok🌟:

• Ragnarok: Right click to float and charge a mace throw, after which you slam down to the mace, stunning in a radius and gaining chain lightning damage for a few attacks.

• If you simply like feeling epic and powerful, try this relic!

🕸️Orbweaver

Tricky, but once you get the hang of it...

• Sister to the Grasshopper! Right click to fire a web shot. If it hits a block, you're pulled towards it. If it hits a mob, it's pulled towards you.

📚Taming Guides

• A set of three skill books, each allowing you to tame, then ride, a set of 5 mobs. Some mounts have abilities that can be activated with spacebar.

  • 📗Guide to Terrestrial Taming: Requires 125 Taming. Allows taming Sniffers, Goats, Llamas, Pandas, and Polar Bears.

  • 📘Guide to Aqueous Taming: Requires 250 Taming. Allows taming Turtles, Dolphins, Guardians, Magma Cubes, and Slimes.

  • 📙Guide to Hazardous Taming: Requires 375 Taming. Allows taming Spiders, Ghasts, Hoglins, Breezes, and Ravagers.

📝Updated relics

🏹Karru’Val (Reworked!)

Whispering winds guide arrows to their marks.

• Now comes with the mythical damage enchantment Whispering🌟:

  • Whispering: Shots deal +50% damage, collect loot, and don't cause vibrations. Shots overdrawn for 1 second whisper, gaining homing and +25% sonic damage.

• If you like measured, precise, and consistent archery gameplay, try the updated Karru'Val!

📖Runic Tome (Reworked!)

An ancient aura emanates from it.

• Now has a 5-slot rune inventory. Right-click an inserted rune to select it.

• Most spells have been adjusted, most notably:

  • Aegis: Reworked. Forms 3 orbiting shields which each fully block 1 hit.

  • Chills: Now fires a projectile, casting where it lands.

  • Cinders: Now lasts longer, is stronger, and cuts healing, but costs more.

  • Gusts: Reworked. Forms a wind wall which first deflects then destroys projectiles.

  • Kinesis: Reworked. Forms a gravity well, then launches all pulled targets in the direction you're looking.

  • Mortus: Reworked. Releases a wave of death which plagues and marks enemies to take bonus damage from your next spell.

  • Stones: Now visually encases targets in blocks and stuns them.

  • Tides: Reworked. Releases a tidal wave which wets block and pushes targets.

• These changes should help the Runic Tome compete as a primary accessory or even weapon for more players.

• If you like flexible spellslinger gameplay, try the updated Runic Tome!

🚽Portable Hole

Surprisingly weighty

• Slightly increased radius.

• Now works in the main survival worlds. For safety, regardless of world, it only affects breakable blocks that aren't tile entities or protected with Bolt.

❌Removed Relics

• The Bear Taming skill book is removed, in favor of new, more expansive Taming Guides⬆️.

• The Unarmed Stance skill books are removed, in favor of the R.E.D. armor, which more cohesively enhances unarmed combat.

• The Heavy Shield has been removed in favor of the new shield bash and parry mechanics.

🛎️New Services

😈Mark of the Cult

• Replaces Rune Scented. Once purchased, grants the same effect as Rune Scented passively without needing a specific chestplate equipped.