As many people are aware, in order to update the server, we have to wait for several third party plugins as well as the API they are built on to update to 1.13.

As with previous updates, some features may not be available immediately as we prioritise getting the server updated – meaning any features we don’t see as that important may be left to be updated later. We will share more details of what will not work immediately when we get to the update.

As of right now, we’re still waiting on a couple of important plugins to update, and we expect them to do so within the next few days. However, a few of the admin team are currently away on vacations or breaks, and I myself go away tomorrow, and wont be back for about week. This means we will not update as soon as the plugins update, but when I return.

We were hoping to have updated long before now, and we apologise for any inconvenience you’ve had while having to wait. 1.13 released a lot later than we were expecting, and has a lot more breaking changes than previous minecraft updates.

So on with the bit you probably want to see:

Unless anything goes horribly wrong in the coming days/week, we will be updating on Monday 6th August 2018. This may end up being just Survival, but we hope to also update Creative and PureSurvival at the same time. The network will be taken offline for several hours on that Monday to actually update – and we will share specific times in the days before.

Naturally, with the update we will be launching the new Survival Spawn, and warps, along with the two new worlds – vanilla and custom terrain. As said before, the old world will remain open after this to allow you to transfer your items to the new worlds. This will just be a case of getting items and then teleporting to the new world – just like you do now with Explore, the Nether and End.

We will be disabling the Nether, End and Explore worlds through this time in order to prevent lag.

You will keep your homes. And will need to remove ones to the old world yourself once it is removed. We will be increasing the number of homes given to each rank as follows:
Player: 3, Stone: 5, Bronze: 10, Diamond: 25, Aztec: 50, Modern+: Unlimited.

We will then close the old world on Monday 27th August. (3 weeks later) And this is also when the economy will reset, the new shop opens, and our new vote perks come into effect. Please check previous posts in Server Updates for more info.

This is still not a final ETA on the update, it may still change – But this is the best estimate we can give right now. 

If you have any questions, please do ask in the #update-discussions channel on discord or on the 1.13 update discussion thread on our forums. But please do read through the information already available on the server-updates section of our website – it’s likely your question is already answered.

TL;DR
We will update on Monday 6th August. There will be downtime. The Old world will be removed 3 weeks later.

This is later than planned since some of the admins and myself have vacations we planned long before we knew the 1.13 release date, and some of the plugins we use won’t have updated before those vacations start. Please read through the previously shared information before asking a question.

Thank you for your patience,
~Clowner and the team