changelogs

The End Update and Group GUI Polish

• Vorpal-enchanted items now track who imprisoned who, and on what day
• Increased damage from Maces by 15%. When falling from a great height, they now do about 4.5 hearts of damage
• Added the following commands for operating upon groups: /autoaccept, /creategroup, /promote, and /remove
• Fixed /journal sometimes kicking you from the server when you use it
• The Group List now shows what your highest role is in each group you're in
• Added edit buttons next to each editable property in the Edit Group screen
• Renamed the Preview button in the Edit Group screen to Preview & Apply
• Revamped the Edit Group Members screen to be easier to use
• Polished the tab screen layout
• Fixed the tab screen saying 0 seconds until night
• Fixed the tab screen and the boss bar not matching for the meteor countdown
• Reworked the Snitch Logs screen. It now aligns timestamps and logs in columns, and has buttons to rename a snitch and clear logs
• Changed the "This message has been deleted by the server" message to say "This message has been deleted"
• If you break End Stone or Obsidian with your hands, it now drops. The break speed has not been changed, so this is still a very painful thing to do
• Clearing mobs out of an area now applies in The End. Foxes will bring you Relics, seeds, flowers, and saplings if you clear an area of mobs in The End
• Spiders and other hostile mobs now spawn rarely in The End
• Added recipes for Dirt, Gravel, and Grass that can only be used in The End
• Added more items to the HiddenOre loot table for The End
• Putting various End, Soul, and Deep Dark items on your head in The End have fun and useful effects. Some items give potion effects, and others only do something when you do a specific action. For example, a Recovery Compass revives you if you jump in the void
• Flying Squids spawn in the end when an area has been cleared. You can ride on them

Machine Translations and Improved Leer Mute

• Rebalanced the cost of Bastions (more diamonds and emeralds, fewer Saved Souls and Clownfish)
• Buffed the droprate for Clownfish from fishing (2x)
• Reduced the Vorpal max fuel to 3 weeks, from 6 weeks. Existing over-cap swords are clamped to the new cap
• Added machine translations for Russian, Hindi, Finnish, Greek, and Esperanto to the Resource Pack. If you wish to become the maintainer of a language (including a fun language like Shakespearean English, or a serious language not listed here) please let Amelorate know
• Updated the textures for Treasure Map, World Map, Vorpal Sword relic, and all of the book items. Thanks Maren!
• Added a Civ+ Setting to Group Settings to add blank lines between each property in group dialogs
• Added more ways to accept or deny an invite to a group. It should now be more intuitive
• When a change is made to a group and you have Change Notifications enabled, the message in chat now better describes how the group was changed
• Snitch webhooks are now managed in the LayerAfterLayer GUI alongside LayerAfterLayer webhooks
• Polished the /leer mute syntax. You can now mute by player, block, snitch name, group, alert type, and any combination of those conditions
• Hovering over a Snitch's name will show what group it's reinforced on
• Fixed the "entered/exited vehicle" duplicate snitch alerts
• Fixed the eff% of an Industrial Furnace going down when the chunk is unloaded
• Polished the hologram for an Industrial Furnace. It should now be readable when a Hopper is placed on top
• Polished the recipe for the Industrial Furnace
• Buffed the recipes for End Rods and Crying Obsidian. Crying Obsidian no longer requires Glow Squid Ink
• Added a tab-list header countdown to the next meteor landing (matching the meteor calendar) and to day/night transitions
• Fixed various bugs with Sweet Berry Bushes
• You now can't use Fulminating Gold on Fulminating Gold if both blocks are reinforced on the same group
• Fixed Empty Splash Potions not being stackable
• News posts' images are now hosted on our own infrastructure, and you can't make a news post if the image won't embed
• Fixed anvil base cost being reset when combining an enchanted item with a fresh one
• Fixed allays picking up items when they shouldn't
• Buffed drops for Spider Eyes, String, and Bones from Skeletons and Spiders

26.3

• Updated the server to 26.3
• Cushions are protected by the block they are placed on. Because they can be used to cover the entire top face of a block, trying to break a cushion damages its block's reinforcement by 0.5 health
• You can only sit in a cushion once per second
• The Poplar Sapling, Red Shrub, and Shelf Mushroom can be found as recipes in the Garden of Eden Creation Kit

• Added a Retemplate Group button to the Edit Group screen. You can use it to apply a template to a group after you've created the group
• Added a /invite (aliased to /nlip) command. When used, it invites a player to a group
• Fixed group change notifications in chat not saying who was invited to a group
• Fixed many commands involving groups being slow to resolve tab completion
• Added a Safe Logout button to the Quick Actions keybind
• The End Rod recipe now produces 64 End Rods
• Fixed /ctf not putting materials into your offhand when you specify a group
• Fixed /leer mute being unusable
• Fixed sanctuary enter/leave messages being weird sometimes
• Continued to combat the lagspike menace

LayerAfterLayer

• Rewrote NameLayer into LayerAfterLayer
• Groups can be renamed, merged, and linked freely
• Roles are fully customizable, and one player can have multiple roles
• Permissions are organized better, and there are a lot more permissions
• Organize your reinforcements better using subgroups, and move the subgroups to a different group to move the group your reinforcements are on
• You can give a player roles or membership in a group, and have it expire later
• Add a Discord Webhook to a group, and be notified when that group is modified. There's also a setting you can enable to get notifications ingame

• Made the Reinforcement Multitool, Cosmic Companion, Writer's Block, World Map, Frying Pan, and Sticker Scraper fit into a Bundle
• You can now click the title of a /help article to open the topic in your browser
• Added browser-style history navigation to /help. You can click the Back, Forward, and Home buttons to navigate through help topics better
• Added a Civ+ Setting to disable all snitch notifications in chat
• Added a Civ+ Setting to disable switching chat channels when saying a channel name (like !) in chat
• /meteor now shows accurate meteor landing times
• When you die with ExP Levels in your bar, they now drop on the ground as a Mana cookie
• Renamed Angel Dust to Pixie Dust
• Fixed Snitch Webhooks getting rate limited when they have a lot of activity
• Fixed Pistons not working in Sanctuaries
• Fixed bees not increasing Beehives' honey level when the hive is reinforced
• Updated ViaVersion. You should now be able to connect using 26.3
• Updated the rules of the server. Added Gameplay Rules 1.b. Simplified Chat Rules 3 and added Chat Rules 4.

Polish & Bugfixes

• Added a Copy to Clipboard button to /journal. Individual messages can also be copied by clicking them
• You can now unrename an item by deleting its name in an Anvil
• Right-clicking a Fox now takes the item from it
• Added a /item command. Use it like /item minecraft:sand to see how to craft a specific item
• Naming a Snitch in an Anvil and placing it will name the Snitch what you named it in the Anvil
• Added a "Welcome to Civ+" book you get upon joining the game for the first time. Existing players are also given the book, but only once
• Every place that shows a time in-game now also shows the timezone
• Fixed dozens of Zombies spawning through reinforcements when you try to clear an area of monsters
• Fixed explosions not making particle effects or breaking other blocks when a reinforced block is within the explosion's radius
• Polished the colors for the shaded version of the Livemap (will go live when it rerenders some time tonight)
• News posts can now be opened in a new tab and linked to

Bugfixes

• Fixed armor durability increasing instead of decreasing when you get punched
• The weapon weight overburden debuff now only triggers when carrying multiple diamond weapons — iron swords, rapiers, bows and shields no longer count
• Fixed Citadel bug where reinforced multi-part blocks (such as doors) would sometimes not refund their material
• Capped bamboo growth at 15 blocks tall
• Admins now show up in the tab list footer with their player heads
• The contact form on the website no longer asks for an email address, just a Discord username
• Various fixes that may make TPS smoother

PvE Bugfixes

• Spiders and skeletons no longer spawn with random potion effects, and natural spider/skeleton spawnrates were halved
• Reduced spider and skeleton damage
• Strays and Bogged no longer drop tipped arrows
• Invisibility potions no longer hide you from snitch alerts
• Increased Artisanal Leather droprate by 3x for happy cows, and reduced droprate for unhappy cows
• Fixed bug where rare crop drops would never actually drop
• Dried Short Grass can now be made by smelting Short Grass
• An infinite flint and steel can now smelt without coal
• Various minor tweaks and bugfixes related to monsters and area clearing

Monster Hunting

• Killing 80 monsters in an area clears the area the monsters are in. Once an area is cleared, monsters will not spawn there for 24 hours, and increased biome-specific vegetation (such as saplings and flowers) will spawn in the area.
• Saved Souls are now awarded after clearing an area with Smite, rather than killing zombies.
• Spiders and skeletons have reworked mob AI
• Enabled crafting bundles
• The Industrial Furnace now smelts cobblestone for bonus stone, and gives bonus nether quartz ore outputs
• Buffed nether quartz droprate by 1.5x
• Added szepess multi-tile map arts to the Painter's Desk, craftable as bundles
• Reduced nautilus spawnrate in areas that already have too many nautiluses
• Anticheat no longer overagressively kicks Speedo users
• Added various new drops in the End

Mining and Anvils Rebalancing

• Added SimpleVoiceChat support
• Fortune now scales hidden ore drop rates: it makes rare and epic drops more likely and common drops less likely, up to ±30% at Fortune III
• Iron drops now scale with y-level: +30% at or above y17, -30% below
• Diamonds can now be found with a stone pickaxe
• Hidden ore drop chance scales down under Haste to keep droprates steady
• Reduced hidden ore droprates by 10%
• Increased hidden ore droprates by 2.22x for your first 400 drops of each day
• Reworked anvil cost scaling: flatter enchant costs, repair costs capped at 20 levels for tools and 50 for other items
• Added an Industrial Furnace that smelts bonus outputs with ramping efficiency
• Non-combat hunger drain is reduced by 95%, unless you're combat-tagged
• Capped the Fortune enchantment's average bonus drops from breaking ore blocks at +30% (down from vanilla's +120%)
• Shields now reduce damage from attacks instead of fully preventing attacks
• Compression Factory renamed to Item Compressor, which now only requires a 60-minute setup before it works (and no setup on first placement)
• Quick smelt recipes now require coal or charcoal (one per 8 items) and have rebalanced durability
• One ink sac now crafts 8 black dye
• Added flower duplication crafting recipes
• Livestock now drops less meat, especially when unhappy
• Bonemeal no longer works on any plants except tree saplings
• Double copper chests can now be double-reinforced
• Added a /wikiitem command for wiki formatting, and fixed /wikirecipe escaping
• Expensive hoes will no longer break when tilling soil

Stickers and Bugfixes

• Added a recipe to purify Meteoric Magma
• Brought back the Stickers plugin
• Gardener's Grimoire now shows the current time left for a plant to grow, instead of the total time
• Turtles now spawn on beaches
• Vorpal items can no longer be placed in the right slot of an anvil
• Fixed bug where changing the reinforcement group of a double-reinforced chest would make it single-reinforced
• Fixed bug where placing a block in an enemy bastion with a reinforcement material in your off-hand would consume the reinforcement material
• Various other bugfixes

Maces, Chat Links and Bugfixes

• Maces and spears are now enabled with configurable damage caps, and the mace has a new craftable recipe
• Added two new genetic horse traits
• The Shepherd's Grimoire now works on donkeys and mules
• Fixed bug where horses never had twins
• Chat now turns [[CivWiki]], [[w:Wikipedia]] and [[mc:Minecraft Wiki]] mentions into clickable links
• Saying a recipe name in chat with correcy capitalization now links to its recipe
• Bastion radius highlights now animate in a spiral with clearer coloration
• Fixed a bug where the snitch radius was a wonky shape
• Trying to open a stone anvil to combine items now shows a clear feedback message
• Blocks can now be placed against stone anvils and grindstones
• Added a contact form to the website
• News post titles now support markdown formatting

Horses & Meteors

• Overhauled horse breeding. Horses have 11 new genetic traits
• Added 20% mutation chance to horse breeding. Non-stat traits have different, rarer mutation rates
• A horse can now only have 8 offspring in its lifetime
• All protection enchantments now affect damage when used on horse armor
• Fixed bug where horses were immortal
• Reworked the look and feel of meteors
• Buffed Copper Chest reinforcement strength to 10× (matching regular chests)
• Added a zoomable live map to the website, which shows sanctuaries, and snitch alert blips
• Use /login in-game to see snitch alerts on the live map
• Anvils now show cost hints in the result slot; hover text moved to a dialog
• Increased Artisanal Leather droprate 4× (1% → 4%)
• Fixed Azalea not growing for real this time
• Fixed a secret bug in Citadel
• Factory recipes now show when clicking crafting requirements, Unidentified Maps show the Adventurer's Desk recipe on right-click

New Website

• Created a new website
• Updated the server to 26.2. Sulfur Cubes spawn very rarely inside the Nether, and Sulfur, Sulfur Spikes, and Cinnabar can be crafted
• Revamped the way meteor chest loot is selected
• Added the Painter's Desk, which is used to craft map arts. Patrons can add new maps to this factory, one map per month per patreon membership level
• Polished the particle effects for reinforcing blocks
• Fixed broken textures of many newly-introduced items, and made them stackable
• Buffed the End Rod recipe. It now crafts 32 End Rods
• Buffed Cactus growth. It now grows in 30 minutes in its best biome, and in 1 day in its worst biome
• Buffed Artisanal Leather droprate by 8x
• Fixed Azalea and Bamboo not growing
• Fixed the Snitch Disguise recipe being buggy
• The message telling you to mine with an Iron Pickaxe to find Diamonds now only shows below y16
• Reenabled sleeping in beds

Bottles, Beverages, and Factory Updates

• Made empty splash bottles throwable
• added the Adventurer's Desk
• Replaced Relic Map drops with Unidentified Map drops (stackable)
• Identify an Unidentified Map at an Adventurer's Desk to turn it into a Relic Map
• Livestock happiness no longer impacts the amount of vanilla drops from killing the mob, only the droprate of rare custom drops
• Milking a cow now has a cooldown of one hour
• Added 43 new brewable beverages
• Added new rare drops from various crops and livestock (to be used soon)
• Increased bastion recipe cost (1 -> 16 Saved Souls, 1 -> 16 Tropical Fish)
• Increased the frequency of getting 'good' relics (with a compass) by 33%
• Increased sanctuary growth cost by 2x (does not change existing sanctuary sizes)
• Increased The Means of Production recipe cost (1 -> 16 Tinted Glass)
• Added more silly effects from beverages
• Gave horses genetic stats (this will overwrite existing horse stats)
• Made genetic horse stats show in the Shepherd's Grimoire
• Vanilla potions no longer need to be aged in a keg, they now have vanilla timers
• Reduced the maximum damage per second a player can deal to a sanctuary, from 1.76 to 1.0
• Disabled putting items into Ender Chests. You can still remove items from Ender Chests, but you can not put new items in. Opening Ender Chests will eventually be disabled
• Revamped Recipe Book handling for Factories. Each factory now has its own category, and you can search for factory recipes without having to be near the factory
• Added an icon to the Recipe Book recipe preview telling you which factory provides a given recipe
• You can now use all factories you are near. Previously you could only use the nearest factory
• Right clicking a factory now displays the recipes for the correct factory if you have another factory nearer to you
• Polished some of the icons in the Recipe Book. Items with custom models will display better
• Added the /journal command. Using it displays all the action bar messages and system chat messages you've received in the last hour
• Added the /recipe command. It can be used as a shortcut for searching through the Recipe Book, though it mostly exists to be aliased to /fm
• Fixed not being able to ignite Nether Portals if any part of the portal is reinforced
• Buffed Nether Quartz Drop Rates in The Nether
• Made the Obsidian placement limit Dialog display on your last successfully-placed block instead of the first prevented placement. This should prevent you from falling when bridging with obsidian
• Fixed Speedos consuming hunger when you're in a Boat
• Added a setting to show chat message feedback when you name a snitch (off by default)
• Fixed a bug where farmland didn't inherit reinforcement from the soil
• The /ping command now shows more detailed TPS information

Hanging Blocks and Soulless Anchor Nerf

• Reverted hanging blocks reinforcement system
• Hanging blocks such as torches, doors, buttons, etc will no longer inherit their reinforcement from their supporting block, and damaging them will not damage the supporting block. They must be reinforced separately
• Made weapons that have the Thorns enchantment hurt you when you attack with them
• Disabled using the Soulless Anchor to pick up Dolphins
• Fixed pathing and stripping causing tools to break

Vorpal Lore and QoL

• Improved the way Vorpal items' lore is formatted. They now show both fuel percentage and duration, and imprisoned players have their head displayed next to their name
• Improved the way /vp locate is formatted
• Fixed the Shepherd's Grimoire not working and baby animals not growing
• Improved the /ping command. It now shows your ping and the server's TPS
• Retuned some of the numbers in the Soulless Anchor. It should now no longer delete itself in edge-cases involving water

Compass and Modmail

• Added the Soul Hunter's Compass, which lists all imprisoned players on the server. If you click a player's name in the Dialog, the Compass will point to their Vorpal
• Added a recipe to The Means of Production to turn Meteoric blocks into Compressed blocks
• Saying modmail in chat will now link to https://civ.plus/about/
• When the server sends you coordinates in chat, hovering over those coordinates will now show which dimension they are in
• You can no longer craft a Reinforcement Multitool with an enchanted Pickaxe
• Fixed a bug where The Means of Production would assemble instantly

Fire Resistance and Anvils

• Buffed Fire Resistance Potions. If you've already brewed Fire Resistance potions you can update them by putting them in a Keg and them removing them
• Fixed a bug involving Anvils

Reinforcement Multitool Updates

• Added Reinforcement Insecuring to the Reinforcement Multitool. You can select a permission, and then click a block to give that permission to everyone who interacts with that block. For example, a door insecured with DOORS permission will be openable by everyone, and redstone will open the door even if triggered by a non-player entity
• Polished the lore of all Reinforcement Multitool modes
• Significantly buffed Blast Protection. The total Blast Protection levels across all worn armor are summed to determine a damage cap (20 minus total levels, subject to a minumum of 4 half-hearts). Explosion damage is tracked over a short rolling window, and once a player has taken damage equal to their cap, further explosion damage is heavily reduced until the accumulated damage decays over time. This creates a short-term “damage budget” that replenishes gradually
• Fixed the Saved Soul missing a texture
• Fixed the /leer info Dialog being too wide for some players
• Fixed a bug where you could form the shape for a Bucket but it'd show Shears in the result slot
• Nerfed the reinforcement multiplier for Buttons

Factory and Shop Updates

• Changed the recipe for the Garden of Eden Creation Kit. It now better matches other factories and crafting stations
• Revised many of the tutorial books. You can see this by doing /help Tutorials ingame
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't open a tutorial book unless you've already gotten the tutorial yourself
• Soulless Anchors now have an enchantment glint when they have a mob inside
• Made the name of the mob a Soulless Anchor is carrying a bit more obvious
• Fixed a bug where using a Soulless Anchor near water would delete it
• Renamed the Shop Gem to Shop Ledger. It also now has a custom texture to match the name
• Changed the recipe of the Shop Ledger to better match its texture and name
• Added /rules as an alias to /help Rules