🎃Spooky Springs Voting, General Updates

🍄‍🟫Spooky Springs Voting

• Now that the build phase is complete, you can go vote for your top 3 Spooky Springs plots.

• To vote, stand in a plot and use `/halloween vote <1st, 2nd, or 3rd>`. Tab completion is available.

• You can change your votes freely by re-casting them, and you don't need to vote for all 3 placements. You can't vote for your own plot.

• Thanks to all who have entered!

📝General Updates

• 💡Added `/creative_world light_wand`, which can be used in the creative world to spawn an infinite stack Polaris.

• 🖼️Paintings can once again be changed in a stonecutter.

• 👮Copper bars and chains can once again be scraped with an axe to unwax or deoxidize them.

• 🏹 Whispering once again does its bonus damage on overcharged shots.

❤️Personal Note

Apologies for the above bugs - on a personal note, Bec and I got married last Thursday, the 23rd, so we've been a bit busy as you can imagine!! Thanks for the various congrats and well wishes from those who have already heard. ☺️

Much love everyone 🫶

🎃Spooky Springs Reminder & Update

Hey everyone. Here to give a quick reminder and update on Spooky Springs and a few general updates.

🍄‍🟫Spooky Springs

• Reminder that there's still about 12 days for Spooky Springs, which is plenty of time to make a build. A number of plots are still open!

• We've also decided to add some prizes. These are in addition to the standard and special prizes already announced:

  • 🎃The top 3 builds will earn the Pumpkin Mask charm, which grants -20% detection range and stops Endermen from angering at your sight.

  • 🍬ALL entrants will receive the Treat Bag charm, which allows mobs to sometimes drop Halloween treats even outside of the season.

• We recently doubled the build contest entry prize to 50k silver and 4 Badges of Valor. A simple Spooky Springs build gets you both of those and a Treat Bag!

📝General Updates

• 🤖The Moments runic spell now progresses Copper Golem oxidization. It takes many casts to fully oxidize them, but it's far faster than the hours it takes otherwise.

• 🧙 Fixed some Pointy Hat trades not giving the correct number of potions.

• 🐈‍⬛ Fixed some special Halloween spawns appearing in unexpected areas.

🎃🤖Copper Ages & Spooky Nights!

Hey everyone. Been a bit, but we've got a sizeable update including a new game version, our Halloween content for the year, and some general updates!

🤖The Copper Age

❗ We've updated to 1.21.10, The Copper Age game drop, which includes Copper Golems who can sort your loot, copper decor, armor, and tools, and shelf blocks. On SSS, Copper Golems have unique head drops for each oxidation stage and can sort loot into barrels. Copper is not yet usable with Impetus of Hephaestus. Enjoy!

🍄Spooky Springs Build Contest

Spooky Springs is back! This year, you'll choose from plots within a large, gloomy mushroom cave. We'll add more plots if demand requires. For newcomers, we've got a guide to Spooky Springs, which is where most details (including prizes) can be found. Link below!

• 🗓️Due Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 11:59 PM PDT

• ✏️Full Info: Can be found here on Discord or here on the website.

🌕The Blood Moon Rises

• 🌕When a full moon rises in the survival or resource world, a Blood Moon activates - a sleepless night of dangerous foes.

• 🩸Stronger enemies appear during Blood Moons, but they drop better loot, including bonus XP and occult items. See here on Discord or here on the website for full details!

• 🍬Until the end of October, more witches, black cats, bats, and more will spawn naturally. Seasonal enemies may drop special candy food items.

• 🗓️We have ideas to make non-automatic Blood Moons a permanent feature if there is interest. Let us know what you think!

📝General Updates

• ✂️Dispensers now properly activate runecrafted enchantments of shears and flint and steel, and work with infinite buckets.

• 🍼The Potion Launcher now works with the Impetus of Dionysus happy hour potion discount.

• ⛏️ Magnetism now leaves behind uncobbled blocks if used with Silk Touch.

• 📦Avatar of Shulkers once again properly fires its shulker bullet.

As usual, please post feedback on the new content in the feedback channel on discord 🫶

🍄Spooky Springs 2025

Spooky Springs is a communal build contest run during the Halloween season:

📖Overview:

• The event takes place in a gloomy mushroom cave at `/warp SpookySprings`.

• The cave contains 20 plots. Approach one and right click the sign on its front wall to claim it for free. You can only claim one plot.

• Plots are 17x61x17, extending 30 blocks up and down. Your entire contest entry must be contained within this space.

• If you want to build with a friend, stand in your plot and use `/as addfriend <name>` to give them permission to build there.

• You all then help decide the winners! After the build period, you'll have 2 days to vote for your top 3 plots. You can't vote for your own.

  • Details on how to vote will be sent once the build phase ends.

📝Details:

• 🎃Theme: Halloween. That's it - anything seasonal, spooky, or scary is valid!

• 🗓️Due Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 11:59 PM PDT (Also listed on the calendar)

• ✏️Standard Info: Can be found here on discord or here on the website.

• 🏆Special Prize: Entrants for the top 3 submissions earn +1 Charms slot and a ton of Halloween candy.

📝Build Contest Winners & Spooky Springs Poll

Hey @everyone. We're here to announce the winners of the Forge build contest, and to poll you all in prep for Halloween festivities next month!

🔨Forge Contest Winners

• 🥇1st Place: A tie!

• @projectrallus, @PenroseParadox, and @Bobola0! Your warp is set as `Pigforge`, as requested.

• @rillabel and Stolas_Owl! Your warp is set as `VulcanForge`.

• 🥉 3rd Place: @Maidl, @TroyTheCrafter, @Hollow, and @jpguitar27! Your warp is set as `Forge3`

Thanks to all who submitted. Your prize bundles are in your ender chests, or in your inventory if they couldn't fit, and let us know if you want your warps renamed!

🎃Spooky Springs Poll

For the uninitiated, Spooky Springs is a special build contest we sometimes run near Halloween where each group builds in separate plots in a shared Halloween town. This gives you limited space to work with, but everyone gets to build near each other. To see some examples, check the `SpookySprings2017`, `SpookySprings2019`, and `SpookySprings2023` warps.

This year, we'd like to gauge what you're all most interested in: the typical plot-based format, a more classic build contest in the survival world, or something else. Use the poll here and share any additional feedback here. Thanks!

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⚒️Build Contest & Lights

Hey everyone! We have one more build contest to run before Halloween festivities begin, and a new building mechanic for you to play with.

🔨Build Contest: Forge

From magitech constructs to iron forges in deep dwarven mines.

• 🗓️Due Date: Wednesday, September 18th, 2025 11:59 PM PDT

  • This event is also listed on the [calendar](https://www.silverspringssurvival.com/calendar).

• ✏️Prize Info: Can be found here.

• 🏆Special Prize: Entrants for the top 3 submissions earn +1 Charms slot and a free **Polaris** relic (see below!)

💡Lights

A new Valor relic, Polaris, is available for purchase from Artificer Malachy for 1 Nether Star + 4 Runes of Sparks.

Inserting light-emitting blocks or Runes of Sparks into Polaris charges it. You can adjust its selected brightness, then "place" it to spawn an invisible light at that brightness, consuming an equivalent amount of charge. There is no cap to the charge, which also allows Polaris to act as an infinite sized stack of lights.

For example, torches give off 14 light, so inserting one adds 14 charge. You can use this to place 1 light of 14 brightness, or 2 lights of 7 brightness, and so on. Looking forward to seeing how you all use this to enhance your builds!

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🍻 Tavern: Build Contest Winners

Hey @everyone. Time to announce the winners of the Tavern build contest!

• 🥇1st Place: @NetworkGremlin and @gabreno! Your warp is set as `Tavern1`.

• 🥈 2nd Place: @J_, @Starmarsh, and @Daria! Your warp is set as `Mycobarrow`.

• 🥉 3rd Place: A tie!

  • @J1mbers! Your warp is set as `DeadEnd`.

  • @Cubic and @nate! Your warp is set as `JourneysEnd`.

Thanks so much to all who submitted. Your prize bundles are in your ender chests, and lemme know if you want your warps renamed!

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⚒️Build Contest & General Updates

Hey everyone, been a while! Today we've got a new build contest kicking off, and a few general updates.

🍻Build Contest: Tavern

A place for drinking, stories, perhaps sparring? Rustic inn, pirate bar, snowy lodge - whatever "tavern" means to you.

• 📅Due Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025 1:59 AM CDT

  • This event is also listed on the calendar.

• ✏️Prize Info: ⁠⚒ Build Contest Overview

• 🏆Special Prize: Entrants for the top 3 submissions earn +1 charm slot and a free Fermentation Barrel charm.

📝General Updates

• 🎃Pumpkins can now be carved in a stonecutter. This does not drop seeds like carving by hand does.

• 🟩Slime and magma cube heads now drop more reliably. This also fixes them never dropping from the Wishbone charm.

• 💎Boundary Shards can no longer be used in uncorruptible locales and don't get you stuck in the disenchant mode once used at the Arcanum.

• 🌍Recasting Aphelion of Earth's spell for Curse of the Forbidden Ones now moves the existing obelisk without resetting sacrifice progress. This is generally useful, but notably also makes it usable on Corrupted Footage charms.

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📚Contest Winners and Clarification

Hey again everyone. Time to announce the winners of the Greenhouse contest, and one clarification regarding the Parkour Rush.

🪴Greenhouse: Build Contest Winners

• 🥇1st Place: @Starmarsh™, @J_, and @໓คriค! Your warp is set as Rafflesia, as requested.

• 🥈2nd Place: @J1mbers, @Krashafa, and @ElectricSparx! I've set your warp as SerraLontana, but LMK if you want it changed!

• 🥉3rd Place: A tie!

  • @Hollow and @jpguitar27! Your warp is set as Eden, as requested.

  • @Maidl, @TroyTheCrafter, and @Shotdown01! Your warp is set as Greenhouse4, though feel free to request a rename!

Thanks so much to the submitters. We've done the prizes a bit differently this time, using voucher items to redeem your silver, Trial points, and/or charm slot. These vouchers are in the reward bundles, which are in your ender chest, or in your inventory if your ender chest is full.

‼️Parkour Rush Notice

Just wanted to make something clear about the Parkour Rush now that it's over - the loot chest reset from the rush is permanent, not just for the rush. If you've already beaten any parkours, you can now go beat them again whenever you feel like it! Only catch is Raceway won't give a charm slot again. Apologies that this was unclear.

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📝General Updates

Hey everyone, just a few quick general updates.

• ⬆️We plan to update to 1.21.7 within the next day or two. Get your updated clients ready!

  • Note that saddles will be removed from the shop when we do this, as they are now craftable. Sell any you have off now if you'd like!

• 🌍The resource world has received a few updates

  • Biome warps now generate with more randomness, and the warp names are now more generic. For example. "ResCold" warps to a semi-random cold biome, like frozen peaks, and "ResForest" warps to a random large forest, like jungles or dark forests. The desert warp is still a mainstay.

  • Warps should be much more likely to generate further apart from each other.

  • This is experimental, so let us know what you think of the general idea!

• 🌏Your creative world inventory now persists between visits.

• 😴Insomnia no longer resets if you die in non-survival scenarios.

• 🍯Signs can now be unwaxed by right-clicking with an axe. This returns the honeycomb 50% of the time.

• 🛡️Impetus of Athena effects are rebalanced. Warfare attacks now damage in a cone, while ambush only empowers the attack used to exit stealth, so it is now single-target, but it temporarily shreds 50% of their armor. Stare additionally costs +1 Aegis versus players.

• 🗓️Reminder that the Greenhouse build contest is due next weekend, and that you can submit entries as early as you'd like!

Please leave feedback on any changes in ⁠💌feedback-and-suggestions, thanks🫶

📚Contest Winners and General Updates

Hey again everyone. Time to announce the winners of our Shrine contest, and one quick general update for an important fix.

🪔Shrine: Build Contest Winners

This one was very interesting! We had many extremely competitive entries, leading to multiple ties. Sometimes, ties at higher placements can push out lower placements, but to celebrate how great the entries were, we're awarding all entries at the top 3 scoring brackets. These winning entries all averaged a score of at least 8.5 out of 10 across judges - all well deserving of the awards, IMO, so great work!

• 1st Place: A tie!

  • @Starmarsh™, @J_, and @໓คriค! Your warp is set as Shrine1.

  • @nate! Your warp is set as Shrine2.

• 2nd Place: Another tie!

  • @J1mbers! Your warp is set as Shrine3.

  • @Maidl, @TroyTheCrafter, @Shotdown01, and @Hollow! Your warp is set as Shrine4.

• 3rd Place:

  • @beccc! Your warp is set as Shrine5.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered. Your prize money has been distributed (split evenly where necessary), your prize items are in a bundle in the submitter's ender chest (Star, Maidl, and ElectricSparx for the joint entries), and as usual the winners may request a free warp rename if desired.

The winners will additionally find one Sanguine Phial🩸charm per entrant in their award bundle. This charm heals you on combat exit based on the number of enemies slain. If you slayed many enemies that combat, you will additionally be granted a reward from a small loot pool - spoils of war from the god of war himself!

General Update

The crossbow form of Aphelion of Pluto should now behave properly with Bolt-action and should no longer disappear when trying to swap it while not wearing the Aphelion. Apologies for everyone this burned!

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⚔️Contest Reminder, PvP Tournament, Paragons

Hey again everyone, hope you're well. We've got reminders and news about upcoming events and this map's awarded Paragons being distributed.

🪔Build Contest Reminder

Quick reminder that your build contest entries are due in less than 24 hours - submit them by Sunday, June 15, 2025 11:59 PM PST for them to be judged!

⚔️BYOG PvP Tournament

We're holding a “bring your own gear” PvP tournament next weekend, hosted by MrJoned . This event is also visible on our calendar. Most new content of course hasn't had much PvP testing, so we expect this to be a bit wacky. We'll aim to do a balance pass on some outliers this week, but please be pragmatic and just try to have fun!

• Tournament Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025 1:00 PM

• Prizes: TBD

✨Paragons

Starmarsh™ and ElectricSparx have officially received their Paragons, which I'm formally announcing here in an effort for the Paragons to be more well-known. These are unique items designed in partnership with each of them, though as usual with Paragons there's a possibility that a subdued version of one or both of these becomes generally available in the future (that's where the Runic Tome came from!)

• Following a spark of inspiration, @Starmarsh™ has engineered CoSMOS, a marvelous rebreather which can alchemically empower the wearer, mutating their physiology or injecting potions from provided reagents.,

• From deep within the Arcanum's now-corrupted lower shelves, @ElectricSparx has discovered the Eldritch Codex, a Runic Grimoire whose arcane script has been altered by the void, now casting an entirely alternate set of corrupted spells.

• We'll soon add a ‘/paragon’ command to view the existing Paragons in-game, for those curious.,

There have been other updates and bug fixes this week, though none worth taking up announcement space, and the other new content announced recently is still planned and underway. Thanks for your time and good luck completing your Shrine builds. ✌️

⚒️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!🫶

⚒️Build Contest Overview

Overview

We run periodic build contests for in-game prizes. These contests have a specific, loose theme, and typically run for about 2 weeks. Entries must be built in any survival world, and are judged by staff. Ties are possible, in which case each tied submission will receive the placement full prize (e.g., if two submissions tie for first, they will both receive the full 1st Place prize).

Standard Prizes

Prizes may vary between contests, but typically follow this structure:

• 🏆Top 3: A public warp to your build and a special prize per-contest.

• 🥇1st Place: 250,000 silver and 16 Badges of Valor.

• 🥈2nd Place: 175,000 silver and 12 Badges of Valor.

• 🥉3rd Place: 100,000 silver and 8 Badges of Valor.

• 🏅Entry Prize: 25,000 silver and 2 Badges of Valor.

• Entry prizes are given to all entrants who put in sufficient effort but don't make the Top 3.

Submission Rules

• Submit your build coordinates to Simba on Discord or via in-game mail (`/mail send Mr_Simba <coordinates>`).

• You may submit your entry as soon as you'd like - it won't be judged until the due date.

• You can work with friends, and the prizes will be split evenly among you. If you do, include their names in your submission.

• You can submit something you've already built if it fits the theme.

📚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! 🫶