Empire War v3.1.2
Even though this update has only increased its third digit, it is still quite a big one, technically speaking. The centerpiece of this patch is the migration of the server framework from Paper to Sponge, which as we've explained previously is highlighted by a faster development workflow, considering Sponge works much closer to Vanilla Minecraft than paper does. Thus we're benefiting from a deeper customization of game mechanics and a general avoidance of sketchy coding work-arounds.
The more interesting aspect of this update for an average user, however, is of course the addition of a new map... GRIMSLADE !
We decided to slightly update our latest v2 map and bring it to v3! With Rohan and Isengard battling it out across 5 flags this linear siege map is excellent for both higher and lower playercounts. The class selection mainly consists of familiar classes you all know from Helms Deep and Eoford, giving the silver and gold classes a bit more value. In a future update we might introduce some more unique classes and features
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Starting the Minecraft's 1.20.6 update, Mojang has introduced a lot of new vanilla features for us to work with. The most important ones being custom scale and reach we can now apply to classes. This means we make the game even more immersive! There’s honestly too many changes to list them all, but we'll mention some of the biggest ones.
New features:
- Migrated server framework from Paper to Sponge
- New Map: Grimslade [Siege gamemode]
- New Hero: Bargrisar Team Angmar, Weathertop
- Hobbit and Dwarf classes are now a bit smaller
- Uruk-hai and Elven classes are now a bit taller
- Troll classes now match the size of their hitbox
- Pikes, spears and other longer weapons now have increased reach
- Daggers and shortswords now have decreased reach
- Special food items, such as lembas bread, now give more saturation
- New Website Homepage! Check it out: https://www.empirewar.org/
- You can now Sign Up / Sign In to our Forums with your Discord account
- You are no longer required to accept third party cookies when signing up on our forums
- Added a new Discord channel: #forums (every Forum post will be cross-posted there)
- New YouTube banner! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@EmpireWarSiege
- Updated our Planet Minecraft profile page
- Error messages (such as invalid commands) now appear in full RED
- Added a Staff member ability to freeze chat
- EbiWan and Rio155 have joined our Media team!
- miho47dwa has joined our development team!
Bug Fixes & Balancing:
- Fixed all Trapper Ability bugs
- Fixed all Cake Healing Ability bugs
- Increase armour 11 -> 13 Rohan Shieldmaiden
- Increase armour 11 -> 13 Dunland Ruffian
- Increase arrow count 4 -> 6 Dunland Ruffian
- Increase armour 13 -> 16 Elrohir (hero)
- Added Speed 1 to Elrohir (hero)
- Increase armour 10 -> 14 Elladan (hero)
- Increased main weapon attack 5 -> 6 Elladan (hero)
- Added Speed 2 to Elladan (hero)
- Increased spear count 1 -> 2 Eomer (hero)
- Increased steak count 3 -> 5 Eomer (hero)
We also merged the engineer and constructor class to be just constructor for now. That is until we can implement some more features to make the classes more distinct. If you want to find out what other minor changes we made, you should find out yourself by playing the server!