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Our science team has finally stabilized the final portal in Atlantis. Exploratory teams have found the cause of the devastation of the previous civilization was indeed from beyond the portal. We will only have one chance to protect this new world from this threat, and we need you to help us!

Saturday, October 15th, 2016, the Atlantis End Portal will be opened. At that time, we will launch an attack on the End Dragon, in an effort to protect our new world from destruction. We need brave adventurers to join us in this assault.

Please, chose your equipment carefully, as many deaths are expected and you will likely lose any equipment you take through the portal.

The portal will be opened at 10AM PDT/MST, 11AM MDT, Noon CDT, 1PM EDT or 6PM BST. (Check your own time here, http://everytimezone.com/#2016-10-15,300,cn3 )

Hi guys,

As most of you know, HungerGames has had some pretty serious bugs for a while now. I'm going to try and fix them myself, since the developers are not helping. I will need everyone's cooperation and understanding while I work through all these bugs to try and resolve them.

You need to be aware of the following things:

• HG2, HG3, and HG4 are going to be closed until I am confident that all the major bugs with the plugins are fixed.
• HG1 has been updated to 1.10.2, so you need to use that version to play now.
• We will not be discussing combat mechanic changes right now. I realize the PvP mechanics introduced in 1.9 are controversial, but this is not the time or place to discuss them. They are the default 1.10.2 mechanics with the cooldowns and damage changes.
• Everyone's money has been reset to 0. This is not permanent. Your previous balances will be copied over, but not until all the other bugs are fixed. Any money you earn...

Skyblock and Dirtblock have been updated to Minecraft 1.10.2!

You must use a Minecraft 1.10.2 client to play on Skyblock and Dirtblock.

What has changed?

The permissions have been fixed:

• You can once again make other island members the leader of the island.
• Invites work again.
• You can now view the island info and island level for any island.
• VIPs can have 8 island members again.

The tiers of challenges have been renamed.

The blaze rod and ghast tear purchase signs at spawn have been removed. These items will now be awarded in challenges.

The netherportal challenge has been updated and now additionally rewards 4 blaze rods.
The pearlcollector challenge has been updated and now rewards chorus flowers and end stone.
The expertbuilder challenge has been renamed to craftybuilder.
The skylord/dirtlord challenge has been renamed to expertbuilder/dirtexpert.
The glassmaker...

Maintenance will begin at approximately 9pm Arizona time.

To find the time in your timezone, see here: http://everytimezone.com/#2016-9-6,960,cn3
Or here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sandlot+Maintenance&iso=20160906T21&p1=197

All servers will be unavailable for an indeterminate amount of time. There is a major distribution upgrade that must be performed on the underlying OS of the server.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

We have a new ban appeal process. As long as you follow our rules and are a good Sandlot citizen, you shouldn't ever have to worry about anything in this post. If you happen to find yourself banned, read on.

Ban appeals now require a forum account. We want every player who plays on The Sandlot to have a forum account.

If you are banned, and you do not currently have a forum account, you must first register on our website. There are instructions how to do that here: http://www.sandlotminecraft.com/thr...-questions-read-this-first.23541/#post-165749

It will seem odd that you have to apply for the whitelist when you are already a player, but just state in your application that you already have whitelist access and are simply requesting to create a forum account.

When loading the Appeal a Ban page, it will automatically fill in your username and email address from your logged in account. This will prevent typos that can sometimes delay ban pardons....

All good things must come to an end.

The Semi-Vanilla survival server will be reset on September 3rd, which just happens to be my 3 year Sandlot anniversary!

Nooooooooo!

Yes. I know it's sad, but it had to happen sooner or later.

Why are you resetting?

There are a few reasons. While it is sometimes difficult to say goodbye, resetting a server can bring new life into a server and let players come together to achieve a common goal. A clean slate can help spark new interest and new ideas from everyone.

Secondly, the map has grown quite large. Not having a world border turned out to be a not-so-great idea in terms of storage and backups, and it taught us that having a resource world that resets every so often is much more invigorating for the server than having people travel out thousands of blocks to find new items.

And lastly, there's a bunch of new stuff in 1.9 and 1.10 that we can't get unless we reset!...

Dirtblock is now live!



It appears that the creation of Skyblock on the Sandlot server caused an imbalance in the Universe. There was far too much sky, and not enough dirt... and now the Universe has corrected it. Trubuhl was the first one to stumble into this. His account is here:



So it turns out that Dirtblock is just like Skyblock - only with dirt! It's like Skyblock turned inside-out. It is a different kind of challenge. Players start in a small chamber in a huge chunk of dirt floating in the sky, and must use the few resources they are given to survive and thrive. There are lots of “challenges” which can be completed, and each challenge gives rewards which can assist you in improving your dirtblock island and carving out your own little paradise.

A couple of things you should know:

You must be on the latest version of Minecraft to join Dirtblock.

WHITELISTING IS NO LONGER...

Maintenance will begin at approximately 9pm Arizona time.

To find the time in your timezone, see here: http://everytimezone.com/#2016-7-18,960,cn3
Or here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sandlot+Maintenance&iso=20160718T21&p1=197

All servers except the lobby will be unavailable for an indeterminate amount of time. We are going to be testing a new chat system (which some of you may remember from before). As many of you probably recall, a long time ago we were having major headaches with a "Proxy Kick" error. This error was caused by the new chat plugin. Now that some time has passed and that plugin has had multiple updates, and we are on 1.8+ across all servers, and we support name changes, I am hoping that those Proxy Kick errors will no longer happen. The only way I can test this is to take all servers offline, have everyone chat spam (the only time where you aren't breaking the rule!) in the lobby and see what happens. If...

I have updated all servers to support name changes, as well as being able to connect with 1.9 and 1.10 clients. I recommend that everyone update their profile in the Minecraft launcher to use 1.10.2 now (or just Use latest version).

If you have any issues with your name change, please post a bug report. Forum name changes are not supported yet.