As of today we’ve now moved our survival server onto our new permissions system, which was already in use on other parts of the network. And this is one of those changes that you likely wouldn’t notice – but has a significant impact on the running of the network.

We’ve finally replaced GroupManager on survival, since uh, it’s no longer regarded as a decent permissions plugin – when it was the top choice for many back in the day when ClownerCraft first started. But as ClownerCraft has grown over the years, it’s become apparent that we needed to upgrade to something a little more up to date.

This change should make some improvements to stability, particularly reducing the lag caused by typos in permissions commands as well as fixing the occasional vanishing of ranks that occurred with name changes. But above all else, it’s just going to make things easier to keep track of within a multi-server network. If you’re wondering what took us so long, the answer is mostly down to working out how to transition without everyone losing their ranks.

We have not yet switched creative over, but will be doing this in the near future – although we will have some more news to share regarding creative soon™

As far as we know, everyone’s ranks should be in tact, and you should still have access to all the same perks. All being well you should not notice any difference, but if any of your rank perks no longer work on survival, or you’re missing your rank – please create a ticket (/report) and we can get that sorted!

TL;DR We changed a thing on survival. If anything doesn’t work to do with ranks and their perks please tell us so we can fix.

~Clowner and Team

On Monday 23rd, our Survival server will be offline for up to an hour from 12 noon, BST.

This will be to allow us to upgrade the permissions system on the Survival Server.

I apologise for any inconvenience this causes.

~Clowner

Hi All

VIP+ members may now use /dis and /undis again. You can now use it on Survival, Creative, PureSurvival and the Hub.

Enjoy
~Clowner

The scores are in for our No Block Breaking Contest.

Notable mention for plots scoring more than 40 points
DeathtasticEllie on Plot 15

Third Place
lolcoptermaster on plot 10

Second Place
W0lfZZZ on plot 1

First Place
Anvien on plot 8

Congratulations to those who won, you have been given your tokens and $$$ already, and can collect your trophy items from /warp prize.

Hey All,

We’ve decided to remove Supporter Membership from our store, so you will no longer be able to purchase it. VIP and VIP+ are still available and there may be new additional packages in the near future.

For those of you who have bought Supporter, you will keep your perks! And you should also still get a discount on upgrading to VIP or VIP+, this change only prevents new players buying Supporter Membership.

The reason behind this removal is since it’s the least popular of the paid ranks, and we’d rather keep a smaller number of good ranks, than a larger quantity that people only buy a couple of!

We are working on some new packages to add to the store, but we’ll keep those a little more under wraps for now – but watch this space! And if you have suggestions, please do share them on our discord or forums!

~Clowner

Theres been a few changes to the way that sorting chests will work, for Supporter, VIP and VIP+ Members.

/sort will still enable or disable automatic sorting when you open the chest. This however doesn’t affect whether you can sort a chest using ‘hotkeys.’ By default, we’ve now set the hotkey sorting to be disabled. You can enable and disable the hotkey combinations you want with /chestsort hotkeys. The hotkeys supported are Middle clicking anywhere within the chest and Shift+Left Click, Shift + Right Click, Double Clicking on an empty spot.

This applies to Survival, Creative and PureSurvival.

We hope this will help prevent accidental sorting.

Some more updates today, specifically to VIP member perks:

/rename, /relore etc are now available again on Survival, Creative and PureSurvival. This should also work with the new items from 1.14.

We’ve replaced the chest sorting plugin on Survival. VIP users can use /invsort to sort  their inventories (use /invsort all to include hotbar), and should be able to use shift+click to sort in chests (as well as /chestsort to enable automatic sorting!).

We will also have some news to share regarding our paid ranks in the near future, so keep an eye out for that!

Managed to track down the issue with the player shops, and have now got them fixed.

You will however have to recreate all your player shop signs, but once you’ve done that they should function just as they did before!

As always, please report any issues you do encounter – either on our discord, forums or with /report.

Hey all,

We’ve unfortunately run into problems with the plugin that provides the chest based player shops, which means they are currently not functional. If you have a rented shop, please make sure your shop chests are locked with a [Private] sign, while we work on fixing the shops themselves.

On a positive though, we have fixed a couple of permissions issues that prevented you from joining SniperTown, so you can go and play that again now and earn yourselves some well earned tokens.

~Clowner

A few little fixes to Sup/VIP/VIP+ perks:

/music should function properly again

/rocket editor has been replaced with /fireworkmaker or /fwm

/sortc will function for sorting chests.

Unfortunately /glow, /rename, /disguise and /sorti are still unavailable. We are looking for alternatives so we can get these features working again.