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!

Helpers

@AndromedaJulie
@GemTheGerbil
@GomezAddamz
@RainbowRat2004
@Rockclimbergirl
@tmuo

Senior Helper

@SupersonicE9

Elder

@SupersonicE9

That's right, the moment you've been waiting for is one short month away! Easy Survival will be re-opened on March 28th at 10:00 am Arizona time! To see a countdown, visit here:

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...raft+Easy+Survival+Grand+Re-opening&font=slab

To celebrate, I will be livestreaming for 12 HOURS STRAIGHT from 10 am to 10 pm on the new Easy Survival as I play together with you guys! It should be tons of fun and I'm very excited! Hype!

EDIT: Here is our group photo in the lobby just before the opening, and the tab list showing a maxed out lobby with 100 players!

There has been escalating drama, bullying, and name calling in the Arenas server. Frankly, I am appalled at the behavior I have seen and I expect better from all those involved. You know who you are.

I am closing all PvP servers until further notice.

EDIT: This is not permanent. This is until I see some behavior changes and everyone being treated with respect. Please take this time to re-read our rules and treat your fellow Sandlotians as you want to be treated.

EDIT 2: It's open again.

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying time with friends and family over the holidays and that you go into the new year with renewed zeal to achieve your goals and dreams, both in and out of Minecraft.

I would like to lay out what my plans are for the coming year on The Sandlot. I will confess that I have not dedicated as much time to The Sandlot in the last couple years as I would have liked, and my New Year's resolution is to change that! We have many servers on old versions of Minecraft that need to be updated, and possibly reset. Below I am going to tell you a little bit about each server and what my plans are for upgrades this year.

Please keep in mind that all dates below are speculative, and this post is just meant to give you an idea where our priorities are. Additionally, when I say 1.15, what I really mean is whatever the current version of Minecraft is, with the caveat being whether or not there are plugin updates that will support that version....

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...