Well, it finally happened. We have a slightly more accurate – but still very vague – release date for 1.13. If you haven’t seen yet, Mojang say they ‘hope to release by the end of July.’

That being said, I’m going to hold off on setting specific timescales for the server’s update still at this point. At least until a little closer to the time. If you don’t know what our plans are for the update yet, please do read our original announcement, and follow up post.

We are of course aiming for as little delay as possible between the official release and the server updating – but naturally, we do have to take some time to work on things, and check nothing critical is broken by the update.

We are still putting finishing touches on the new spawn and warps for survival, But that’s mostly a lot of little details, so I can’t really show them so easily.

There are now 32 rentable shops around the new spawn, along with the server shop which will have a much wider range to buy/sell than the current shop. These will become available after the old world is removed and the economy is reset.

Most of the custom world generation for the new world has also now been finished, more screenshots below. (Although this still needs the new ocean biomes adding to it.) So now we’re just checking that the world has everything it needs and tweaking things.

On top of all that, we’ve started doing a little work on the current hub server, to help it fit in a little better. We’re not quite done yet – but we’ve already moved the spawn down to ground level and made a few tweaks. We are still working on an entirely new hub, we just wanted to improve what we have in the meantime.

And finally, we’ve redone the /servers menu (currently on Hub, Survival, Creative and PureSurvival) to look a bit better. And tidier.

And here, I’ll leave you with some extra screenshots of the new spawn, to get you all nicely hyped up 😀

Share your thoughts on our discord, in #update-discussion or in the 1.13 update discussion thread on our forums