The Sandlot - A Family-Friendly Minecraft Community

Hello everyone,

All servers will be taken offline for some unscheduled maintenance in about 40 minutes from the time of this post. We will be updating our chat plugins. You won't see any new features on your end, but this is important for us to be able to support future versions of Minecraft.

Hopefully maintenance goes quickly and we will only be offline for 15-30 minutes. I will post updates to this thread.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please give a hearty congratulations to all our promotees today! You are all amazing and we are happy to have you in our community! Congratulations!

Helpers

@ChampionCaden
@Krakhis
@Mizalin
@piiyy
@.YarnGrandma

Elders

@FantheFanofFans
@Gwyg
@Miadel7
@Mizalin
@.YarnGrandma

Senior Helpers

@FantheFanofFans
@GrimpyHalfhand

Moderators

@Firepyth
@MajorPowell

Hey everyone!

Join us in the Lobby on April 5 at 3pm ET for a spring dance party! We will have flowers, food, fireworks, and, of course, fun. Bring your best pair of pastel dancing shoes!

After all, it's a Sandlot party. Who knows what else could happen...

See you all there!
-MC

We want to honor the hard work and achievements of those Sandlot players who are graduating this year. We are planning a celebration on Saturday, 15 June 2024, for all interested graduates.

Participant Criteria:

1. You are graduating this year (homeschool, public school, private school...) from your intermediate or senior level education program, or from post-secondary education. (Post-secondary education includes college graduations for anyone earning an Associate, Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral degree, or anyone earning a Trade School Certification.)

In the spoiler are my best estimates of equivalencies for USA, Canada, UK, and Australia education programs. If you are graduating from your country's intermediate or senior education program, and want to participate, please let us know.

HARD TEAMS WILL RETURN THIS JULY!

Since everyone seemed to have fun with this last year and again during the holidays, we're bringing Hard Teams back this July!

If you want to play on the Hard Server Teams event in July, please post a reply to this message with your minecraft name. You may also include the names of your family or friends who want to be on the same team together. You can also post on behalf of other players in game who do not use the forums (as long as they requested it).

As you may know, things in Hard change all the time and Hard Teams is no exception. This month we will be trying something new, and the theme will be ADVENTURE! We encourage all of you to try what I believe is THE most fun thing in Minecraft: grab some friends and get out there and have adventures! Explore the mountains, the oceans (the monuments!), the jungles (yay jungles!) find animals and shipwrecks and caverns - and actually fight...

Hello everyone! This new and improved February lobby will be full of fantastic fun! You will have a chance to win a mending elytra, shulker boxes, and 15 moderator heads in the February lobby scavenger hunt!

There are 15 moderator challenges that are scattered around the lobby, with a cool game or adventure for each one!
At the end of each challenge/adventure, click the sign saying that you found a moderator's head. You will get a token, which you can use to trade with villagers for any of the 15 moderator heads listed below, a shulker box, and a mending elytra!
The villager is located in the sunken shops next to the Hunger Games portal.

Depending on how the scavenger hunt is going, clues will be provided.
Always remember to push buttons, swim, and walk all around the lobby to find the entrances to each head quest.

You will now be able to get and store items in shulker boxes in the lobby!
Trade two tokens with the villager to get a shulker box.
At the purple/magenta beacon (a...

Sandlot will be undergoing some important maintenance today, January 12.

Edit: And we're back! Sandlot is now online.

We will start our four hour maintenance window at 10pm US Eastern time (EST), and will be back online with the normal restart at 2am.

Our IP address is changing.
Please restart your Minecraft game any time after the maintenance starts before trying to reconnect.
There is nothing else you need to do.

Bedrock Edition users who use our "Method 1 - Using custom network settings" to connect:
During maintenance, all you need to do is restart minecraft.
You will need to change the IP address for your DNS server by January 26.
We will update instructions in the next day or two.
The new IP address is 15.204.44.34.
The old IP address 66.70.181.137 (will stop working on Jan 26).

During maintenance:

Give a big congratulations to our newest helpers, senior helpers, and elders! You guys all deserve it and we are glad to have you in our Sandlot family!

Helpers:

@Erik_Riel
@GrimpyHalfhand
@lolo5151

Senior Helpers:

@ElleMouse
@Firepyth

Elders:

@Firepyth
@sprainedd

By popular request we are bringing back Hard Teams for the Holidays, new and improved! Come join everyone in a special Holiday themed world that isn't quite as Hard as usual and join with others on your team to build big things, do Achievements (AACH) to get points for your team and just have fun with everyone. Yes you can even have fun with people NOT on your team! Note: Team Leaders must decide if they want to share any big Auto-farms that are made by their teams. Please post clear signs saying whether farms are Public or Team Only - either are OK!

At a minimum we should have an automated team scoring system, more improvements are TBD. We will NOT have separate team chat channels because we decided it's just way more fun for an event when everyone is chatting together.

You can expect snow and ice and christmas trees and holiday structures (giant candy canes etc) and who knows what else.

There will be four teams you can choose from,...

Parkour will have a grand reopening event on August 19 at 3pm EST!

Will the leaderboards be reset?
Yes, the leaderboards will be reset. The record times are still documented on forums, however.

Will my levels and progress be reset?
Yes. However, you can get more levels by playing courses with your friends!

Changes to levels
Easy courses: 1 level reward
Red Easy courses: 2 level reward
Norm courses: 2 level reward
Red Norm courses: 3 level reward
Hard courses: 3 level reward
Red Hard courses: 4 level reward
Cray courses: 4 level reward
Red Cray courses: 5-6 level reward.

The courses will also have a short reward delay.

Seasonal Courses
Courses from the old parkour server will be added on a monthly or seasonal basis. These temporary courses can be found in the normal parkour lobbies with the rest of the courses, but will have a blue sign. Some of these courses may be improved and become regular courses.

Color coded course signs.
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