The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

Let's give a big congratulations to all our new staff! Great job everyone and keep up the good work!

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@ItsJustWeb_
@ItsJustMeg_

Senior Helpers

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@GrassPelt
@KristKaT
@Mickeyheart
@zilory

Elders

@LegoBoyo
@MajorPowell
@zilory
@RatMazeMind
De__commanda (@Sh0tD3ad)

Get your fireworks ready and party hats on! The moderators are hosting a party this Saturday at 7:00 pm Eastern. To find the time in your timezone, follow this link: http://everytimezone.com/#2018-1-13,720,cn3 or check the countdown timer here: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/party?iso=20180113T19&p0=197&msg=Sandlot+Party&font=slab

We hope to see you there!

Minecon Earth is coming soon! A worldwide livestream will take place on November 18, 2017 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time!

To find the time in your timezone, see here: http://everytimezone.com/#2017-11-18,240,cn3

For a countdown timer, see here: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20171118T12&p0=179&msg=Minecon+Earth&font=slab

Mojang is not hosting a large and eloaborate Minecon in a convention center this year. Instead, there will be smaller but no less official viewing parties of the livestream all across North America, as well as one (at the time of this writing) in London. The full list of official parties can be found here: https://minecraft.net/en-us/minecon/parties

The events at Microsoft Stores are free, and appear to be set up as first come, first served. The first 50 people in line will get priority seating. They may be allowing more than 50 people inside, but you will at least be able to meet other...

The Sandlot has been updated to support the latest Minecraft client, 1.12.2. You must now use this version to connect to and play on The Sandlot.

The servers themselves may not be on that version (for example, there are no parrots on Easy) but that is the version you must use in your launcher.

Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues. Thanks.

I am going to attempt to update Creative to Minecraft 1.12 this Sunday, August 27th, starting around 5:00 pm Arizona time. To see the time in your timezone, look here: http://everytimezone.com/#2017-8-27,720,cn3

I'm probably going to have to do many server restarts, and I will need everyone's help to test things out and find bugs. I am guessing the maintenance and testing will take a couple of hours. I hope you can join me!

If all goes well, I will probably try and update some other servers too.

This maintenance period may last an hour or more. I am going to try to add support for Minecraft 1.12.1 and update several plugins across all servers.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

EDIT: The maintenance will have to be postponed a couple hours, but should still be done tonight. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

If you live in the United States (or southern Canada!), this Monday, August 21, is going to be a very special day! We are going to have the opportunity to see a solar eclipse from anywhere in the US!

I am making this post for two reasons.

1. I want you to be safe while viewing the eclipse.
2. I want you to learn something amazing about our incredible solar system!

"What do you mean, be safe?" Just because the sun is blocked out by the moon for a while, it is not safe to look at! You can damage your eyes permanently if you try to look at it without proper protection. This does NOT mean you can use sunglasses. You must use certified protective eyewear. Most large cities should have a place you can go to buy glasses suitable for looking directly at the sun without damaging your eyes. I got a pair for $4 at a local telescope shop.

If you do not have the means to get a pair of protective eyewear, you can create a pinhole projector with relative ease using...

Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're lobbying the FCC and Congress to end net neutrality. Why? It's simple: if they win the power to slow sites down, they can bully any site into paying millions to escape the "slow lane."This would amount to a tax on every sector of the American economy. Every site would cost more, since they'd all have to pay big cable. Worse, it would extinguish the startups and independent voices who can't afford to pay. If we lose net neutrality, the Internet will never be the same.

Today, thousands of us are protesting to defend Internet freedom.

I would urge you to talk to your parents, guardians, and any other family members you can about joining in this fight today. Send complaints to the FCC. Talk to your representatives. Tell them to go to this website to get started: https://www.battleforthenet.com/

This is really important....

Our forums were having difficulty sending out emails over the last several days. This issue has been resolved, and you should now get email notifications once again for private message conversations and watched threads.

I have resent confirmation emails to everyone that has tried to register for whitelist approval in the last month and have not confirmed their email address. Please search your email for an email from the address admin@sandlotminecraft.com to find it. I would also recommend adding this address to your contact list so you don't miss important emails from us. It would also be a good idea to look in your spam folder if you are awaiting an email confirmation message and can't seem to find it.

Once you confirm your email address, you will be placed into our whitelist approval queue, which goes through our vetting process. If we receive a large volume of new applications due to this email problem, please have patience as we work through the...

I have updated our network to support connecting with a Minecraft 1.12 client.

This does not mean our servers are actually using 1.12, only that you no longer get a "Server outdated" message when trying to connect.

We must still have patience and wait as plugin developers update their plugins to support 1.12. I will work as hard as I can to update servers as plugins become available, but for the most part all we can do is wait patiently for developers to update.

If you have any problems, please let me know and I will resolve them ASAP. Thanks!