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.

As you’re probably aware. 1.13 broke a lot of things. At the bottom of this post will be a list of all the commands and mechanics which do not work right now, for your reference.

That being said, I can announce that Auctions have now returned – although we are using a new plugin that works a little differently. You can start an auction with /auc start [(optional) starting-bid] and then place the items you wish to auction into the chest GUI that appears. Use /bid [amount] to bid on auctions.
The new auctions follow a max bid system, pretty similar to sites like ebay.

We’ve also replaced the chest sorting plugin for Supporter/VIP/VIP+ members, so you can now use /sorti to sort your inventory, and /sortc to sort the chest, enderchest or shulker box you’re looking at.

Known Issues:

• The following commands are completely broken or disabled until they are updates:
  /pet /chairs /rename /disguise /wings /balloons /cc
• /glow will only work if you select to glow in white.
• /spawner currently has a bug which makes it unusable.
  (Reported and confirmed, waiting on a fix)
• Some of the Alphabet Banners  in /bm are incorrect.
• Chest and Door lock signs cannot just be placed onto lockable blocks. You’ll need to write out the info on the sign in full (eg [Private] on the first line and then your username on the second). Signs may also turn invisible on occasion. If you manage to lock yourself out of your chests, please do /report [message] explaining what happened and a mod can come unlock it for you.
  • As a quick reminder, if you don’t lock your chests we will roll back anyone who steals from them – if you’d rather avoid the hassle just report a grief if items get stolen and we’ll sort it.
• Rank prefixes sometimes do not show immediately after a name change. If this happens, you’ll still have access to all the perks of your rank – and your prefix will return after about half an hour.
• Survival may experience some lag spikes caused by issues with the old world’s upgrade to 1.13 – these will be sorted once the world is removed on Monday 27th August.

Most of these issues require us to wait for third party plugins to update, so we will try to fix them as soon as possible. If you have any issues which aren’t mentioned here, please report them to us with either /report [message] or by posting on the forums or discord.

This post is a bit later than I had intended, unfortunately things have been rather busy and I’ve only just got around to writing this update.

Parts of our network are now updated to 1.13, mainly Survival, the Hub and Snipertown so far.

Survival

There are some known issues with Survival still, and I’m sure theres plenty more things 1.13 has broken that we’re not yet aware – so if you do see a problem please make sure you report it to our staff, either with /report ingame, or by posting in our discord or on the forums.

Some issues have already been fixed, but several issues are waiting on updates from third party plugins. We will aim to make sure theres a list of which features are currently unavailable over the next week.

For those who have VIP or VIP+ membership I would like to note that we have replaced the Armour Stand GUI with a new plugin, which we’ve found far easier to use for positioning and really gives you more flexibility to use armour stands in new creative ways. It might take a little while to get used to how it works – to open the UI simply hold a bit of flint and right click. You can then select one of many options to adjust your armour stands. Can’t wait to see what people do with the new tools!

Of course, we are not done with work on survival quite yet, as we will be closing the old world on Monday 27th August. We do have a copy of the world from before the 1.13 world upgrade, so those who have lost builds in the upgrade, they are safely stored in our backup – which will be available after the 27th. However this world save will be in the region of 32GB in size, so you may struggle to download it – we may be able to split the file into several smaller ones, but this may happen later than the initial download release.

After the old world is removed the nether and end in survival will open again, and you should also see an improvement to survival’s performance. There have recently been a few lag spikes on survival, which are caused by the old world generating new chunks where areas failed to upgrade properly (yay for 1.13) – since the new worlds have all been pre-generated this should not be an issue in the future.

Please also remember that the survival economy will reset after the world is removed, alongside the new shop opening and our voting perks changing. We intend to add ways to redeem tokens for $$$ on survival, although there may be some delay to this.

General

There will be more network downtime on Monday 27th August while we remove survival’s old world and reconfigure a few things. This is just advanced warning, specific times for the downtime will be announced later, but this should be much shorter than last time since theres no 1.13 world upgrade involved.

After this we will restart our regular build contests and events, more details to follow once we’ve actually decided when they will be… and we also have several other projects we will be finishing or starting. Watch this space for cool things coming soonish™

Due to low usage, and some other problems, we’ve decided it’s time to retire our TS3 server for the time being. If you wish to voice chat with other people from ClownerCraft please use our official discord server.

Creative, PS and Other Servers

Many people have been asking when Creative and PureSurvival will update, and unfortunately this is going to be a little while still. As many people have noticed there have been some significant issues with the 1.13 world upgrading – and because of that we’ve decided it’s best to wait until Mojang fix these issues before we upgrade Creative and Pure – since the worlds there are being kept, unlike survival which is moving to worlds generated/prepared in 1.13.

Until we can update these servers to 1.13.1, they will be staying offline. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Gladiator and SpherePVP will also be staying offline for a while as they need a lot of work to get them working on 1.13. SniperTown however has been updated and is playable now.

Naturally, any questions please do ask in the #update-discussion channel on our discord or on this forum thread.