The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

By popular request we are bringing back Hard Teams for the Holidays, new and improved! Come join everyone in a special Holiday themed world that isn't quite as Hard as usual and join with others on your team to build big things, do Achievements (AACH) to get points for your team and just have fun with everyone. Yes you can even have fun with people NOT on your team! Note: Team Leaders must decide if they want to share any big Auto-farms that are made by their teams. Please post clear signs saying whether farms are Public or Team Only - either are OK!

At a minimum we should have an automated team scoring system, more improvements are TBD. We will NOT have separate team chat channels because we decided it's just way more fun for an event when everyone is chatting together.

You can expect snow and ice and christmas trees and holiday structures (giant candy canes etc) and who knows what else.

There will be four teams you can choose from,...

Parkour will have a grand reopening event on August 19 at 3pm EST!

Will the leaderboards be reset?
Yes, the leaderboards will be reset. The record times are still documented on forums, however.

Will my levels and progress be reset?
Yes. However, you can get more levels by playing courses with your friends!

Changes to levels
Easy courses: 1 level reward
Red Easy courses: 2 level reward
Norm courses: 2 level reward
Red Norm courses: 3 level reward
Hard courses: 3 level reward
Red Hard courses: 4 level reward
Cray courses: 4 level reward
Red Cray courses: 5-6 level reward.

The courses will also have a short reward delay.

Seasonal Courses
Courses from the old parkour server will be added on a monthly or seasonal basis. These temporary courses can be found in the normal parkour lobbies with the rest of the courses, but will have a blue sign. Some of these courses may be improved and become regular courses.

Color coded course signs.
This...

Parkour will be under maintenance in order to implement all the new changes. There will be another announcement soon about the relaunch. The server is being reset and relaunched, but we will keep the same spawn and nearly all the same courses.

Will the leaderboards be reset?
Yes, the leaderboards will be reset. The record times are still documented on forums, however.

Will my levels and progress be reset?
Yes. However, you can get more levels by playing courses with your friends!

What new changes are there?

Color coded course signs.
This has been a feature for a little while now, but course signs in the Easy, Norm, Hard, and Cray lobbies are now visible and are color coded based on their difficulty. Green are the easy courses, yellow are normal/intermediate, and red are harder courses. This is helpful for seeing the difficulty of a course within the Easy, Norm, Hard, and Cray difficulties.

Optional tutorial/training course.
Players will no longer...

Hi, all!

After quite a few months, it's time for the grand opening of Bedwars on The Sandlot! What better way to do this than by adding four new Bedwars maps?!

First up, we have StarWars, built by @WanderingLlama! When you're playing this map, you'll be transported straight into the world of Star Wars. Relax in the comfort of your very own TIE Fighter, but be wary of the Death Star when you're out gathering emeralds! Either way, you're guaranteed to have an out of this world experience when playing this map.

Next, we have OuttaWater, built by @RainbowRat2004! You won't believe what you're 'seaing' when you 'sea' this map. As soon as you step your fins on the sand of this map, you'll be transported under the sea and be playing Bedwars right next to a giant sea turtle! Swim your way to victory alongside seahorses in this awesome aquatic map.

Up next, we have ToriiGates, built by @sprainedd! When you join this map, the...

Hard Teams Event opening Saturday July 1 @Noon eastern time!

Hard will be closed Wednesday night in preparation for the opening of Hard Teams Event ON July 1 at noon eastern time. Hard will reset with a mostly Vanilla world (we reserve the right to include surprises), and four teams will compete to see which one can win the event!

Anyone can join, new players to Hard are welcome as this is the perfect time to join forces with experienced teammates and play on the Hard server. Player scores will be totalled for each team to determine the final placements at the end of July. More players = more scores for that team so recruiting could matter a lot here!

Please choose a Team by replying to this message. You may choose any team you want!

Team BigIronMouse - led by @big_doogle, @Ironstance, and @ElleMouse you can count on having a great time with these Hard server veterans leading...

Exciting news! After a very long period of testing, configuring, more testing, some head scratching, and some computer magic from @waseric, I am pleased to announce that The Sandlot now supports Minecraft: Bedrock Edition! This means you can now play on The Sandlot from the following devices:

• Microsoft Windows 10/11 PC (Minecraft for Windows Edition)
• Nintendo Switch
• Xbox One S
• Xbox One X
• Xbox Series S
• Xbox Series X
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• Android phones and tablets
• Apple iPhone and iPad
• Amazon Fire tablets

Please bear with us as we start this new adventure together. There are likely going to be bugs, quirks, and oddities that we didn't discover during our testing (and some that we did, but don't have solutions for). There is a lot to cover, so let's get started! I will go over all the Sandlot specific details first, and then device/platform details further down in this post.

What is...

Hello everyone!

I proposed some changes several years ago to the Adventure server, which you can read about here: https://www.sandlotminecraft.com/threads/adventure-discussion-feedback-requested.35706/

I am going to begin implementing these changes soon, and I need your help. One of the things I am planning on doing is "polishing" the Hogwarts map. What this means is that I need everyone who can help to go into Adventure and look for the following list of things, and posting either the coordinates and a description of what you found, or a screenshot with your F3 debug menu on so I can see the coordinates and what you are looking at:

• Monster spawner blocks
• Floating leaves or blocks that look out of place
• Blocks like stairs or chests that are sideways/backwards
  
• Broken signs or redstone devices
• Signs with typos on them
• Areas that seem like they should not be accessible
• Holes in the barrier/glass wall that shouldn't be there

I would...

Please give a hearty congratulations to all our promotees today! You are all amazing and we are happy to have you in our community! Congratulations!

Elder

@RainbowRat2004

Moderator

@MCtwilight
@WanderingLlama

We want to honor the hard work and achievements of those Sandlot players who are graduating this year. We are planning a celebration on Saturday, 3 June 2023, for all interested graduates.

Participant Criteria:

1. You are graduating this year (homeschool, public school, private school...) from your intermediate or senior level education program, or from post-secondary education. (Post-secondary education includes college graduations for anyone earning an Associate, Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral degree, or anyone earning a Trade School Certification.)

In the spoiler are my best estimates of equivalencies for USA, Canada, UK, and Australia education programs. If you are graduating from your country's intermediate or senior education program, and want to participate, please let us know.

Hi everyone!

Our payment gateway, Tebex, has updated their platform, which is forcing us to change how we process VIP payments. I will go over what the changes are, the purpose of the new VIP+ package, what you will need to do if you are a current VIP, and answer any questions you may have.

Payments and Sales Tax/VAT

The biggest change is that payments will be processed directly through Tebex now, instead of through Paypal. It also means that you will now (unfortunately) be charged sales tax or VAT. Please note that you can still pay through Paypal, if you wish. You will be able to see all of your payment history, and cancel any recurring VIP subscriptions you have through Tebex now, instead of Paypal.

VIP+ Package

With this change, Tebex is taking a larger fee from your payment, meaning The Sandlot gets less (even though you are paying more, including the sales tax/VAT). I did not want to change the current VIP price, but with us getting a...