Hey all,

We’ve finally had some time to go and work through fixing some bits and updating stuff, so among a lot of updates and fixes to backend bits – heres some major fixes and changes:

• /spawner has now been fixed [Survival]
• End Rods have been added to /kit glow [Survival]
• The ender dragon is no longer stuck, so can be re-spawned and fought again. [Survival]
• Ranks should no longer vanish after name changes. (We’re still trying to verify that this is fixed) [All Servers]
• /sortc /sorti are now available for Supporter, VIP and VIP+  [PureSurvival]

On top of that, we are thrilled to announce this years Christmas contest!

This year, we’ve gone for a theme of “Gingerbread Houses” – and it’s also a team-contest!

You’ll be able to claim plots from Monday 10th December (hopefully). More details to follow soon!

As always, if you do encounter issues on the server – please make sure you report them to us, either with /report ingame, on our forums, or in the #suggestions-feedback channel on discord. We’ll do our best to get everything running smoothly.

With a slight delay the results are in! 🙂

Here are the winners of the ‘Underworld‘ themed build contest!

As always, first – people whose plots managed to score over 60 points!
Let’s congratulate members of plot 6 (UnbreakableHoe, starrymirth) and plot 7 (_Fenja_) – your tokens will be added to your accounts today!

Now for the podium – and we have a draw for the second place!
Great job team Bravagorr + polo700 (plot 2) and team Laylah + Leockie (Plot 5) – you managed to make it a difficult vote! 😀

Plot 2:

Plot 5:

As for the first prize winners… Plot 4 (as some of you already guessed!) – great job MrBeasty127, BalrogSlayer and Koroshtekure!

Congrats everyone! Thanks for participating and building so many wonderful things! Your token rewards will be added today and the rest will be delivered to you as soon as possible 🙂

World download will be available later on – so check back in a while 🙂

Here are the winners of the Pumpkin Carving Build Contest 🙂

Thank you everyone who participated, as the topic wasn’t a typical one!

First, let’s applaud those that managed to get 60 points or more:
cactus_co2 (plot 2)

And now for the top three winners!
The build which snatched spot number three – a fun looking, realistinc pumpkin from plot 10, by starrymirth:

Spot number two has many faces and some insides, too! Plot 13 by RedBeautysRage:

And the main reward goes to plot number 9, by Bravagorr for a multi-pumpkin build with doors and rooms inside 😉

Your token rewards will be awarded today, the trophies for first 3 places will be waiting at /warp prize, just ask staff members to hand them out when you’re online! 🙂

Info on world update coming soon 🙂

It’s my pleasure to announce our next upcoming contests:

Starting with a “Pumpkin Carving” build contest, which kicks off on Friday 19th October, and you can claim plots now at /contest.

Following that we’ve got a few more build contests planned:

• 26th October Until 2nd November: Big Halloween Contest
  We’ve having a nice long build contest, where team builds are accepted. You can have between 1 and 4 players working together to make one build – the specific theme will be announced closer to the time.
• 16th to 18th November: Life Under the Sea Build Contest
  A chance to try out the new ocean features in our under the sea contest!
• 30th November until 2nd December: Townhouse Build Contest
  A more classical contest theme.
• 7th to 21st December: Big Christmas Event.
  We’re keeping specifics under wraps for now – stay tuned for details!

Good luck to anyone who participates, and if you have any feedback or ideas for other contests please do share them with us on our forums or on our discord!
~Clowner and Team

Here are the winners of our first contest after the break – Elven Theme Build Contest!

Thank you everyone who participated for taking the time and sharing your creativity with us all 🙂

First, let’s give a hand to people who achieved the score of over 40 points:
CoalKza (plot 21) and _Fenja_ (plot 15)

Next, let’s applaud those that managed to get 60 points or more:
cactus_co2 (plot 5), UnbreakableHoe (plot 7), Phalanges410 (plot 19) and MissKawaiiPotato (plot 23)

And now for the top three winners!
The build which snatched spot number three – lovely grove with a hill, a pond and a few houses – congrats Bavagorr! (plot 20)

The double-layered goodness of elven worlds made by MathToKool that placed second – congrats! (plot 13)

And number one, a mountainy home created by MrBeasty127 – congrats! (plot 6)

Your token rewards will be awarded today and tomorrow, the trophies for first 3 places are up for grabs in respective chests at /warp prizes

If you wish to download the world from this contest, please click here.

Today’s one of those exciting days; we have a bunch of things to announce!

First of all, thank you all for your patience with us as we’ve been slowly working through things. We still have a fair amount on our plate to deal with but we are reading your feedback and noting down things that need looking at – it may just take a little longer than we’d like.

And now, what a lot of you have been waiting for. As of now, ClownerCraft’s Creative server is back online, now on 1.13.1.
Naturally, as it’s only just been updated it’s quite possible theres little things we’ve missed and so if you do find something that doesn’t work please report it to us either with /report or in the #suggestions-feedback channel on our discord.

PureSurvival will follow very soon.

And the other things:
We’re doing contests again, starting with an Elven Theme. You can show off your building talent and win tokens next weekend  (Contest runs Friday 5th to Sunday 7th October). Please do make sure you claim your place in the contest now, by heading over to /contest

There will be more future contests put up on the calendar page of our website in the coming days.

And finally… We will be launching a new thing at the end of October. Something we’ve been working on for some time may finally be opened for everyone to enjoy. But we’ll keep things a little secret for now.

A quick update on what’s happening with Creative/PS/Gladiator at the moment, and why they haven’t updated yet.

Before I get started though, I do want to remind everyone that we are a team of volunteers, and we run ClownerCraft for fun. Please be patient with us, and understand that sometimes real life has to take priority over the server. For many of the team we’ve suddenly hit a busy time with work/college/university etc, and can’t give up quite so much of our time to working on the network.

As mentioned before, there are still issues with 1.13.1 and world upgrading, and we are waiting to be certain this is fixed before we try and upgrade PureSurvival – as we intend to keep the world. PaperSpigot appears to have now fixed this issue, but it’ll still take us a little while to get PureSurvival updated for 1.13.1.

Creative, however, is a little more of a challenge. At the moment we are still waiting on a few rather important plugins to update for 1.13, meaning we can’t really do much to update creative until those release updates. And while we can, in theory, keep it on 1.12.2 – there are significant issues there with 1.13 version support. And generally, managing servers on different versions is not an easy task.

And in terms of Gladiator, the update reset all of the game’s setup (because of changes to the plugin to make it work for 1.13) – so we need to take the time to reconfigure it all. And since we’ve got to do that anyway we have decided it’s time to improve gladiator again, which will include more waves, as well as multiple arenas. But naturally – this all takes time, which is something we’re in short supply of right now.

1.13 is a pretty big update in terms of technical changes, and I think we were really lucky to be able to update Survival so early, but we also really underestimated how long it would take to get everything fully updated.

We’ve finished off the last few bits of Survival’s 1.13 update.

Which means we’ve launched the new server shop, alongside the economy reset.

As well as introducing “TokenCrates” – which allow you to get $$$, heads or blocks with your tokens. The rewards are randomised – but it’s a little cheaper than buying from the tokenshop (assuming you get the items you want of course).

Every player can get up to 5 total crates per day, from either the Economy, Head of Block Crates.
You can find the crates at /warp token.

There are still a number of commands which may be broken or missing and we will be updating those as soon as we can.

I’ll also announce now that until Monday, voting will give DOUBLE TOKENS.
That’s right, until monday, every single vote will give you two tokens, instead of 1.
And the amount given for 1 in 10 and 1 in 50 have also doubled!

This will end on Monday at 9pm BST (4pm EDT I think…).

So go make the most of it and head over to the voting page now!

As most of you already know, on Monday the 27th August, we will be removing survival’s old world, and resetting it’s economy – along with a few other bits and pieces. In order to do this we will have to take ClownerCraft offline for a few hours.

ClownerCraft will be closed for maintenance from 11am BST (6am EDT) on Monday.

We expect to take no longer than 4 hours to complete the work.
We will post on the Server Updates section of our website if we encounter any delays.

We’re still waiting for spigot to update to 1.13.1 before we update PureSurvival and Creative, so please be patient.