The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

After a lot of brainstorming, some headscratching, a bit of procrastination and loathing, and then a stroke of genius, HungerGames balances have been fixed!

I thought it would be fun to give you guys an inside peek into what it's like to be an administrator, so I'm going to show you how I fixed the balances. There are many different ways this could have been done, and I'm sure some of our more technically savvy players will scoff at my methods, but in the end it worked, so there!

Our HG balances before we allowed name changes were stored in a database in a format like this:

Wow, can you believe The Sandlot has been online for almost 5 years?! That's incredible! I don't know about the rest of you, but ever since I found The Sandlot, I've never wanted to play Minecraft anywhere else! Our community is the best and I am so proud to be a part of it!

To celebrate, I have something fun planned, and I need lots of !

I will be rewarding the 5 top voted cakes with one free week of VIP!

• Build an awesome cake in Creative no larger than 30x30x30.
• You can use any materials you want for your cake, but redstone machines will not be accepted as part of the build.
• Post your name (or the name of the primary "owner" if you are posting for someone else) as well as one screenshot of the cake using the default texture pack as a reply to this thread.
• There can only be one winner per cake. If multiple people helped build the cake, you must all agree to designate one person as the "owner" of that cake....

In about 5 hours from this post, I'd like to take Skyblock and Dirtblock offline so I can try updating them to Minecraft 1.11. The Skyblock plugin should work fine, the only concern I have is with challenge rewards possibly needing to be reconfigured.

I will be doing them one at a time, so hopefully you guys don't mind switching to a different server as they are taken offline.

If all goes well, the outage should only be about 20 minutes per server.

I will also need to keep all servers offline briefly after the nightly restart, as well as moving the restart 1 hour earlier than usual.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Now that we have Arenas on 1.11, there has been some dissatisfaction with the vanilla combat mechanics that were changed in Minecraft 1.9.

I would really like to know what you all think about the combat update, and not just for PvP, but for PvE as well since SVS has been on 1.10 for a while.

Do you like any of the changes? Do you completely dislike everything as far as cooldowns, shields, bows, food saturation/regen, and golden apples? Please share your thoughts!

Minecraft 1.11 is now the preferred version to use when connecting to and playing on The Sandlot.

The resource worlds in Semi-Vanilla Survival have been reset.

All servers can now be joined using the latest version of Minecraft, which is 1.11.

Arenas, Creative, HG1-4, and Build Battle have been updated to Minecraft 1.11.

The map for Build Battle has been reset to fix the damage that was done to the build areas.

HG1 and 2 are now back on the normal map rotation, with Virg's new Outpost V1RG3 map added to the mix.

Even though you can connect with 1.11 now, not all servers are actually 1.11. I know it's hard to keep track, so here are all the versions we are on (again, keep in mind that you can connect with 1.11 to all of these, regardless of the server version).

Arenas - 1.11
Build Battle - 1.11
Creative - 1.11
Dirtblock - 1.10.2 1.11
Easy - 1.8.8
Hardcore - 1.8.8
Hide and Seek - Currently disabled
HG1-4 - 1.11
Lobby - 1.8.8
Parkour - 1.8.8 1.11...

You spawn into a huge underground chamber. It is sterile, white, and almost other-worldly. You can't see the sky, although the ceiling is very high. What is this place?



You explore the surrounding area. It is a huge labyrinth of rooms, yet somehow every part of it appears to have a purpose.







Venturing to levels deep below, you discover an excavation site the size of which you have never seen before!



What, or maybe more precisely where, is this place?



Make sure you are here this Saturday afternoon for the great unveiling of yet another Sandlot-made home-grown HG map!

UPDATE: The map is now available for download here: http://www.sandlotminecraft.com/pages/maps/

Once again, all good things must come to an end.

The Hardcore survival server will be closed on December 3rd. It may be reopened on that date, but most likely it will not be ready by then and will have a grand re-opening at a later date to be determined.

Why are you closing Hardcore?

Hardcore has seen a lot of ups and downs and a couple different iterations of gameplay during its time on The Sandlot. Originally, it was almost purely vanilla hardcore, with no claims, no chest protections, and when you died, you were locked out until the server was reset.

We felt this was harsh to players who had a bad first spawn at night or made a mistake that kept them out of the server for a month or more, so we changed it to a 1 hour cooldown after death. Even this was a bit too prohibitive, and eventually it got to the...

Sorry for the short notice, but my schedule has been a bit hectic lately and I finally got a window to work on The Sandlot.

There are a ton of plugins that need updates, as well as some infrastructure and OS updates. I will try to keep downtime to a minimum, but expect all servers to be down for at least 20 minutes. I will also try to get everyone's balances updated in HG and get HG2-4 online as well, but no promises on that.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Hi everyone!

I have created a plugin to automatically update your username and your badges on the forums when you join the lobby!

Here's how it works.

The first time you login to the lobby, it will try and match your Minecraft player to your forum account. Since the forum currently only has your username stored, it will look for an account with your current Minecraft name.

If it finds an account, it will add your UUID (your unique Minecraft ID that doesn't change when your name does) to your forum account. From then on, if you change your Minecraft name via Mojang, it will automatically update on the forums the next time you go to the lobby.

If it doesn't find an account, a moderator will need to change your forum username to match your current Minecraft name. Once that is done, the next time you go to the lobby, it will add your UUID as stated above, at which point no more moderator assistance is required for forum name changes! Neat!

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