The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

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...

Hi everyone,

I have updated the plugin that updates your forum avatar to your current Minecraft skin, so hopefully it will update properly for those of you who were having trouble getting skin updates to show up.

Additionally, I wrote a script that automatically updated every account that didn't have a proper skin to have one now, which should mean a lot less male/female symbols for avatars. As a friendly reminder, do not attempt to update your forum avatar yourself. If you do, it will "break" and you will get a generic male or female symbol as your avatar and it will never update properly to your skin unless I fix it myself by running the script I wrote again.

I know all of this is confusing, so if you have questions let me know.

I have increased the Easy world size by 1000 blocks in each direction. The total size now is 10,000x10,000 blocks. I shall hear no complaints about there being "no land left to claim."

The live map has been updated to reflect the changes.

Hi everyone!

It seems like the no kit, no shop HG5 we setup has been a hit, so we are going to rework the servers some. Here is what will happen:

• HG1 will be unaffected.
• HG2 will become the new HG5 with no kits and no shop.
• HG3 will be unaffected.
• HG4 will also have kits and the shop removed. Pure PvP from scratch! Who can make an iron sword the fastest?!
• HG5 will be removed for server performance reasons.

Also, I have added two new maps into the rotations for HG1 and HG2. Please try them out and let me know how you like them!

Tomorrow, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 10 for free to one billion devices. It's pretty awesome. To coincide with the release of Windows 10, Mojang is releasing a new version of Minecraft built specifically for Windows 10. Here is what you need to know.

Will I be able to play on The Sandlot with this version of Minecraft?

No.

Is it free?

Yes, it is free if you currently own the PC/Mac/Linux version of Minecraft (which all of you do, because that's what you need to play on The Sandlot). All you have to do is create a Microsoft account (if you don't have one already) and claim the game. Details on how to do that can be found here: https://mojang.com/2015/07/get-minecraft-windows-10-edition-beta-for-free/

If you don't have the PC/Mac/Linux version of Minecraft, you can buy this new version from the Windows 10 store for $10 during the beta period.

What's the difference between the Windows 10 Edition and the one we have...

SVS now has a resource world! The only way in is using the Resource World warp sign by the nether portals at spawn, and the only way out is by using the SVS warp sign at the Resource World spawn point. /spawn, /home, and /sethome cannot be used in the Resource World.

The new world is 5000x5000 blocks and should have all available ores. Do not build in this world unless you don't care about its loss. The resource world will be reset from time to time based on community feedback.

Post below if you have any questions.