The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

So hungry... I sure could go for a chicken taco. Too bad the taco place is closed abandoned...







P.S. I had (almost) zero involvement in this, so when it's released you will have to give props to the creator and builders, not me.

Halloween is drawing near, and people are getting in the spirit of spooky already!

Goodie Bags in the Lobby

I don't know many kids (or adults, for that matter) that don't love candy. Be sure to explore all around the lobby for Goodie Bags! You will know you found one when you see a sign that reads "You found a goodie bag!" Right click the sign to get candy! You can get candy from every sign you find once per hour.

Candy!

Once you find enough candy, you can visit the CandyMan in Diagon Alley (inside the shop to the left of the bank, it's orange and purple). He is looking for as much candy as he can get his hands on! He has an even bigger sweet tooth than me... You can trade your candy in to get Gold Galleons, which you can use to buy wands or...

Costumes!

Yes, the lobby has costumes! Dress up as your favorite moderator! We realized that inventory space is becoming a rather big problem in the lobby, so now costumes are...

Maintenance will begin at approximately 10pm Arizona time and should be relatively brief.

To find the time in your timezone, see here: http://everytimezone.com/#2015-9-21,1020,cn3

All servers will be unavailable for a short time, and the rest of the maintenance window will require restarts several times on all servers. I will be online at the time and informing you via in-game chat when I need to restart a particular server. The maintenance will consist of security updates for the underlying OS and plugin updates.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Rental shops are now fully automated, no longer requiring moderators to "unlock" them for you to use them. This is a detailed explanation of how they work so there will be no confusion.

Shop Types

We have three different types of shops.

Mall Shops

Mall shops are small, affordable shops that you can rent in the main shopping mall building directly adjacent to the bank. They contain 2-5 chests in each shop, and their price is $1 per chest, per week. So, for example, a shop with 3 chests costs $3 per week to rent.

Mall shops cannot be "built" on or modified in any way. What you see is what you get.

Large Shops

Large shops are free standing buildings to the east of the mall. They contain 25 chests each, and cost $25 per week to rent.

Large shops cannot be "built" on or modified in any way. What you see is what you get.

Build Shops

Build shops are flat plots denoted with stone slab flooring, located to the west...

Welcome to the team, @_Razz!

I have some exciting news!

The website maintenance has been completed successfully! I know what you're saying... "That's nice c0w, but whoop-de-doo! What's in it for me?!" Well I'm going to tell you!

Minecraft Block Smilies!

For starters, you now can insert Minecraft block images directly in your posts using the Smilies button! Click the Smilies button, then click the Minecraft Building Blocks tab, then click on the block you want to put in your post. Here's a picture of what you should see when you go to make a post:



I sure do love finding in SVS!

Image Uploads!

I know that many of you had a tough time figuring out how to upload your pictures to imgur.com, or your parents wouldn't let you. Now you can directly upload images right in your post from your computer! To do this, you should now see a button that says Upload a File at the bottom of the new post area. Click that, find the...

I am going to be updating the website and forums (what you're looking at right now) at some point this weekend, so don't panic if the website doesn't load.

Thank you for your continued patience and understanding with the ongoing maintenance that I always have to do.

I might have some fun new toys for you to play with if I get time to implement them.

Thank you for your support and dedication to The Sandlot, and welcome to the team @MJRminer!

Hello everyone,

We are aware that we are pretty far behind on adding your parkour courses to the Parkour server, therefore we are going to stop taking new entries for the foreseeable future. If you are already in the process of building a course, you have until Sept. 1 to finish it and post it on the submission thread here: http://www.sandlotminecraft.com/index.php?threads/post-your-parkour-courses-here.20839/

Entries submitted after Sept. 1 will not be added, but everything submitted before that date will, provided the quality is good enough to make the cut.

We have something big planned, and still need space pixel art created. Please build anything that has to do with space (the pixel arts can be vertical, horizontal, and even made out of carpet) and post it here: http://www.sandlotminecraft.com/index.php?threads/space-pixel-art.24604

Please let me know if you have any questions.

UPDATE: If your plot was substantially damaged, please post the coordinates (not the plot ID) of your plot and a moderator will try and fix it as soon as possible.

If we get a substantial number of reports, please be patient as we work through them all. If you can easily rebuilt anything lost, please do that instead so the moderators are not bogged down with more requests than we can handle. Thank you.

Last night's backup was restored, so at most you will be missing whatever you built in Creative today. We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes you and thank you for your patience and understanding in resolving this matter.

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Well I'm afraid that 00JQ has struck again... When I came to creative tonight, I saw this:



I am going to have to restore last night's backup, then see if we can recover anyone's plot that had major work done between...