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Maintenance will begin at approximately 8pm Arizona time.

I will try and keep downtime to a minimum. It's nothing exciting, I am just updating the OS with security updates and updating some plugins, and allowing for 1.15 clients to join the server (we are NOT updating the server to 1.15 yet).

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to inform you about this maintenance window earlier. I wasn't sure when I'd have time to work on this until now.

If you don't care about details, the important bit is this: All servers will be taken offline tonight around 10 pm Arizona time and will be offline until either 1. I finish the maintenance or 2. I get too tired. If option 2 happens, I'm really sorry but I will need to take the servers offline again on Saturday. I will keep you informed about the progress as I go.

Now for the details. We're getting an upgrade! After testing the 1.14 update, I have come to realize that our current server will not allow us to run more than a few 1.14 Minecraft servers, so I have decided to rent a brand new server with more performance than our current one. I am hoping that this upgrade will help and allow us to update everything to 1.14 eventually.

Our current server has the following:

Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 4c/8t - 3.7 GHz / 3.9 GHz...

I have opened a new survival test server on Minecraft version 1.14.4!

I'm sure you can barely contain your excitement, but please bear the following things in mind:

1. This is a test server, so there will be bugs.
2. Don't expect the server will always be available. It will be restarted randomly from time to time, or it may crash, and you may be kicked without warning.
3. Nothing on the server will be saved long term. This is purely for testing out Minecraft 1.14.4 and our various plugins.
4. Your inventory, homes/builds, shops, claims, and anything else may be deleted at any time without notice.
5. You must be using Minecraft 1.14.4 to join the test server. You cannot use 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, or 1.14.3 (or anything earlier than 1.14 either).

To join the test server, go through the portal marked ??? in the lobby.

Your testing and feedback is critical to make our transition to 1.14.4 across all our servers a success. Please reply in this...

The website and forums will be taken offline for maintenance this Thursday, July 18 at around 8:00 pm Arizona time. The downtime is expected to take several hours. During the downtime, the website, forums (including private conversation messages), store (for VIP purchases), live maps, new whitelist requests, and ban appeals will be unavailable.

When you visit www.sandlotminecraft.com in your browser, it will show an error. This is expected and will return to normal when the maintenance is complete.

All servers and gameplay will be online, available, and unaffected by this downtime.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Hi everyone,

I am terribly sorry to have to do this, but I need to take all our servers offline for pretty much the entire day. I am going to make offsite backups of all our servers and then have our hosting company replace our hard drives. I can't guarantee this will fix the problems we have been experiencing lately, but I hope that it does. I will keep you all updated throughout the day as I have more information. Please direct all bug reports and questions about servers being down or connection problems to this thread if people ask. Thank you.

Hello all you wonderful Sandlotians! I would like to wish each of you a happy 2019 full of friendships, family, and Minecraft fun!

This past year has been a very difficult one for me on a personal level, and I have not been able to give The Sandlot all the love and support that it needs. It doesn't help that Minecraft itself has changed dramatically and the server software and plugins we use have been met with lots of turmoil and uncertainty. (That's a fancy way of saying that a lot of the stuff we use has been abandoned or is taking forever to update.)

While we do have several new whitelist requests every week, I am also not blind to the fact that our server population is a lot smaller than it has been in the past. I am of the opinion that having fewer servers with more people is better for the community than lots of servers with few or no people in them. To be able to give you a fun experience on The Sandlot, I am therefore going to be making a few changes that are...

This is not a typical maintenance announcement. Our server Operating System (OS) requires an upgrade. I will have to take all servers offline for an extended period of time to perform the upgrade.

To prevent any data loss, I will need to take a full backup of all servers, worlds, maps, player data, etc. while the servers are offline and ensure the integrity of our offsite backups before the OS upgrade can begin. Our offsite backups are very slow, so after the servers are taken offline, it will take several hours to copy the backup offsite. Once the copy is completed and its integrity verified, I can begin the upgrade process, which will take (hopefully) about an hour. If all goes well, I can then bring all servers back online without issue.

If I run into major issues and have to restore our server data from our offsite backup, it may require several more hours of downtime. I don't expect there to be any problems since I have done this update before, but I...

Maintenance will begin at approximately 7pm Arizona time.

I will try and keep downtime to a minimum.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

As you probably know, Minecraft 1.13 was recently released. If you are trying to connect to The Sandlot and get the error "Outdated server!" that means you are trying to connect using Minecraft 1.13. The Sandlot does not yet support this version of Minecraft, so you will need to change the version you use to join us.

In the Minecraft launcher, open the Hamburger menu.



Select Launch options.



Select Add new.



Create a new Minecraft Launcher profile. In this example, I called mine Minecraft 1.12.2, but you can call it whatever you want. You can also assign a new icon to it by clicking the furnace and selecting your desired block. For Version, make sure you select release 1.12.2 (or your 1.12.2 optifine version if you use it, as you can see in my example).



Select...

The Sandlot welcomes players of all ages and all walks of life. However, The Sandlot is not a place to discuss mature topics that involve politics, religion, or sexuality. The Sandlot is focused on allowing our community to play Minecraft together in a safe environment. It should not be used for a soapbox to push your ideals or agendas onto others.

We have modified one of the guidelines under Rule 4 from:

Do not discuss politics or religion in public chat, or in private chat with players who are not interested.

To:

Do not discuss religion, politics, sexuality, or other mature topics on the Sandlot.

Thank you.