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== January 18 ==
* Upgraded server hosts to allow for better performance
* Added #patch-notes discord channel to relay server changelogs
* Added muted chat colors per rank
* Added daily riftcoin reward via <code>/dailybonus</code>
* Added magical tree saplings to Red's shop
* Added Makeshift Wings to Red's shop (designed by Cubic_Wanderer)
* Players can now pay riftcoins to each other (riftcoin player shops coming soon!)
* Added <code>/baltop</code> to check top player balances
* Added <code>/playtime</code> and <code>/topplaytime</code> to check player playtimes
* Players can now @ each other in chat again
* Fixed bedrock not being able to break on the nether roof
* Fixed piston duplication of carpet and rails not working
* Reduced the rate of falling stars
* The spawn town being egged is no longer a threat (haha!)

== January 23 ==
* Niall's prototype portal pads have now been set up in the spawn town to teleport players to the Shopping District and Red Rose Arena!
* The Red Rose Arena is now ready for casual PvP! Players can battle each other without losing their inventory (or item durability); you'll also respawn at the arena upon death!
* Players can now sit on stairs via right-click
* Updated <code>/lore</code> to link to the lore summary written on Parallel's Tumblr page (which also links to the full Anthology)
* Reduced maximum number of entity collisions per entity to increase performance
* Fixed a bug where hat textures didn't render for players not using Optifine
* Re-added items to some unlooted structure chests that were missing items
* Fixed the spawn rate of the skeleton farm at spawn
* Hostile mobs won't spawn in the Shopping District anymore

== February 2==
* It's Parallel's 10-month anniversary!
* Added chat/sign filter for blocking certain words
* Added general server info to the Parallel Infobook (rebranded from "Rulebook")
* New players will now receive a copy of the Parallel Infobook upon joining
* The Infobook lecterns at spawn will always begin on page 1
* Added <code>/rulebook</code> and <code>/infobook</code> commands to open the Parallel Infobook from anywhere
* Updated the <code>/rules</code> command to add a link to the Parallel Infobook

== April 6 ==
* Regenerated parts of the spawn lake for aesthetic purposes
* Restructured the output of custom chat commands to use the chat format instead of <code>/say</code> format
* Increased performance when players load into worlds
* Updated the Parallel Infobook
* Freed up old Shopping District market stalls and marked free stalls
* Fixed players not being able to throw ender pearls when looking at a block within building range
* Fixed the Parallel Infobooks at spawn still not always starting at page 1
* Restored Mayor Roy. D Buol

== April 9 ==
* Added the Auction House! Players can now use it to sell their items and put up items for auction
* Added a message board on the back of the Shopping District kiosk
* Added new messages to the cycle of server "tips and tricks" messages that appear occasionally
* There is now a public enderchest at the Shopping District kiosk
* Fixed the funky music that played once for every player after a GM4 datapack update

== April 20 ==
* The Shopping District is now accessible only to trusted players - all current players are trusted!
* New players can gain access to the Shopping District either by integrating themselves into the community or filling out the MC Forums graylist application
* Red will now repair your tools for a riftcoin fee (check the shop for a list of currently-supported tools)
* Updated the design of the Shopping District fountain
* Updated the server MOTD to include a slight gradient
* Changed a server MOTD phrase from "Vanilla SMP" to "Semi-Vanilla SMP"
* Players are able to sell up to 3 items at once in the Auction House (this limit will be raised for ranked players in the future)
* Fixed players not being able to sell items in the Auction House
* Fixed players being able to sell items for fractions of riftcoins in the Auction House
* Updated information in the <code>/help</code> menu
* Updated lang files for the Auction House to change some price descriptions from $'s to riftcoins

== April 24 ==
* Server difficulty is now Normal!
* Villagers still have a 100% zombie villager conversion rate

== June 4 ==
* Banner patterns on shields are now full quality (update the resource pack!)
* A blocking shield will now take up much less of the screen (update the resource pack!)
* Added basic tutorial holograms at spawn to help new players get acquainted with the server
* Players will now receive the coordinates of the overworld spawn upon typing <code>/spawn</code>
* Updated the signs about the Ender dragon fight in the spawn town
* Added signs about the Auction House in the spawn town
* Changed the MOTD from "Semi-Vanilla SMP" to "Semi-Vanilla Survival"
* Fixed players getting kicked for flying while in boats

== June 27 ==
* Part 1 of the SUMMER UPDATE is here!
* Voting has been overhauled! New voter ranks / tons of new vote rewards / vote parties have been added!
* Players can now set a prefix with <code>/tags</code>
* Added a physical auction house to the spawn town!
* The Parallel Museum now has a basement featuring more trophies and a top voter leaderboard!
* Added some hidden secrets to the spawn town (many more to come in part 2 of the update!)
* Updated map waypoints for the spawn town
* Trapdoors can now longer be toggled in the spawn town
* Added Punch Stick to Red's shop
* Added Trident to Red's shop
* Red's Tool Repair Kit can now repair tridents
* Removed Adventurer's Papers from Red's Shop (they will return!)
* Reduced the price of the Blunt Lantern in Red's shop
* Added a hologram in the Sky Kingdom to inform players of its decimated status
* Added a link to the Tumblr lore website in #info-and-rules
* Removed the hearts from the tab menu - we don't have enough space for them!
* Drowneds can no longer spawn in the Spawn / Shopping District waters
* Players should be able to enter Niall's lab again (whoops)
* <code>/spawn</code> no longer shows an error message about missing permissions
* Updated the server MOTD
* Improved performance of the <code>/help</code> menus
* Fixed an issue where players couldn't sell items on the Auction House in the nether
* Cumulative voting rewards will no longer break if a player changes their username
* Simplified the info on how to become a Trusted player in the Shopping District
* Added some new periodic info messages asking players to vote
* Added <code>/twitter</code> and <code>/instagram</code> to promote our social media accounts
* Added the Parallel Instagram and Twitter links to the <code>/help</code> menu

== June 27 ==
* Hotfix!
* Voter prefixes now work correctly in chat/tab/nametags
* <code>/vote</code> works again and shows all five voting links

== June 28 ==
* Hotfix 2:
* Added <code>/votes</code> for players to look at their daily/weekly/monthly/annual/all-time votes
* Added <code>/votetop monthly</code> and <code>/votetop alltime</code> to display monthly and all-time vote leaderboards
* Reformatted the <code>/vote</code> menu to be more colorful

== July 5 ==
* The server has been updated to 1.17!
* Part 2 of the SUMMER UPDATE is here!
* The world size has been increased from 10k*10k to 16k*16k!
* Hundreds of new custom structures are waiting to be explored!
* Jungle / Mountain / Savanna towns have been discovered in the new chunks! Help us rebuild them and make them thrive!
* Regenerated some old uninhabited chunks to allow new 1.17 underground blocks to be closer to spawn
* The Sky Dimension characters have temporarily moved to the spawn town while the Sky Dimension gets rebuilt
* Gino's Bakery in the spawn town is now open for business!
* Rudy's Forge in the spawn town is now open for business!
* Hal's Hat Shop in the spawn town is now open for business!
* The Tool Repair Kit / Makeshift Wings / Trident have moved to Rudy's Forge
* Added Enhanced Fertilizer to Red's Shop
* Added Tinted Potion Bottle to Red's Shop
* New big trees have been added to Red's Shop
* Buddy is now stationed at the entrance of the spawn town to help out new players!
* Added a courthouse and more houses to the spawn town
* Revamped the portal pad area in the spawn town
* Added even more hidden secrets to the spawn town!
* Added some new 1.17 decorations to spawn & the spawn town
* Potion durations can now be stacked up to 2x the original duration
* Vote Chests now have a 0.2% chance to give a Glow Squid Hat
* Players can now equip hats in the hat slot itself without needing to type <code>/hat</code>
* Players can now claim all of their offline voting rewards with <code>/vp claimall</code>
* Parallel Bot now greets new users in the Discord server
* Players can no longer click trapdoors in the spawn town
* Renamed voting-links to voting and added a Parallel Bot message that displays the number of votes needed for the next VoteParty in real time
* Updated some of the vote reward messages to be shorter
* Added a <code>/tags</code> shortcut to the <code>/help</code> menu
* Updated the server MOTD
* Updated the periodic chat announcement messages
* Added extra riftcoins to the cumulative voting rewards
* Fixed the Squid Hat size as a dropped item and tilted it in GUIs
* Known bug: Playtimes for players that haven't logged on since the server reopening are at 0 but fix themselves as soon as they log on

== July 6 ==
* 1.17.1 clients are now supported!
* You won't lose your items if you die at the crash site dungeon anymore!
* Added info/welcome signs at each of the frontier towns
* Added clickable player heads at spawn for our Discord and social media
* Updated the team armor stands at spawn to reflect @DubiousAce (they/them)'s new Admin status
* Added a hologram near the front of the spawn town leading players to the frontier town portal pads
* Added <code>/tiktok</code> to link to our TikTok page
* Added <code>/tumblr</code> to link to our Tumblr page
* Players' total playtime in the <code>/help</code> menu now counts up in real time

== July 10 ==
* Updated the server to 1.17.1!
* New players will not be able to place TNT or wither skulls for several hours - this can be bypassed immediately by filling out the Minecraft Forums graylist application
* Putting looting on shears now gives you extra wool when shearing sheep and extra mushrooms when shearing mooshrooms
* Updated the Parallel Museum
* The public skeleton farm at spawn works again
* Added a message when players type <code>/rtp</code> or <code>/wild</code> that directs them to the town portals
* Tab menu groups are now sorted from A to Z regardless of uppercase vs. lowercase usernames
* Added our discord link to the bottom of the tab menu
* Fixed players not always automatically having their new voter prefix show when they rank up
* Prefix acquisition broadcast messages now properly display the total number of votes a player has accumulated
* Fixed players not being able to have their parrots sit
* All player playtimes display properly again when running <code>/pt [username]</code> and <code>/toppt</code>
* Removed the action bar message "Sleeping through this night" that would show unintentionally
* Rebranded back to "Semi-Vanilla SMP" from "Semi-Vanilla Survival"
* Updated the server MOTD

== July 12 ==
* Added container / player head protection
* Added an online player count to the tab menu
* Players shouldn't experience minor rubberbanding anymore
* Updated some of the spawn holograms
* Moved the hologram that directs players to the portal pads closer to the spawn town entrance
* Added a beacon by the portal pads area to make it easier for new players to find
* Reformatted our Minecraft Forums post
* Our Minecraft Forums graylist application now asks for your Discord username too (don't worry if you don't have one)!
* Mobs won't immediately despawn when a player goes just beyond the point of a chunk being loaded anymore
* Fixed <code>/colors</code> throwing a permissions error
* Implemented several backend changes for better server performance at high player counts

== July 30 ==
* Added Hal's Hat Shop to the spawn town!
* Typing <code>[item]</code> in chat will now display the item you're holding in chat!
* Vote broadcasts from offline votes now display in chat
* New players now cannot place TNT minecarts for several hours upon first joining (or until they get the Trusted rank)
* New players will now get a message telling them about container protection when they place a chest for the first time
* Fixed containers automatically applying a lock upon being placed
* Customized most of the container lock messages
* Fixed the voter rank upgrade messages
* The night won't take ages to skip when a ton of players are online anymore
* Fixed shields being sideways in first-person view
* Changed the "Server closed" message to "Parallel is currently rebooting - come back in a few minutes!"
* Fixed <code>/formats</code> throwing a permissions error
* Shulker bounding boxes should now be fixed (Paper bug) so shulker farms should work again
* Fixed the lecterns at spawn not always starting on page 1 of the Parallel Infobook
* Updated the Parallel Infobook
* Updated the <code>/help</code> menus
* Increased hostile mob spawning rates to what they were before our July 12 update (this may be re-lowered again if performance becomes an issue)
* Optimized mob entity performance
* Optimized chunk loading performance
* Optimized advancement performance
* Optimized beehive inspector performance
* Many small performance improvements
* Added a secret axolotl easter egg 👀

== August 14 ==
* Hal now sells cat hats in his hat shop! These will cycle over time much like the villager hats!
* Boots enchanted with feather falling will no longer trample crops
* Added <code>/brewingguide</code> which links players to a visual guide on how to brew all potion types
* Players can now use <code>/warns</code> to see their warnings
* Commands will only tab complete if players can actually run them (so the tab complete options have been greatly cleaned up!)
* Added #social-media for players to see what we post on all of our social media pages in one place!
* Added <code>/nut</code>
* <code>/spawn</code> now shows the spawn coords of the Overworld or Nether depending on which world you're in
* Made the beacon by the portal pads brighter
* Provided a direct link to our Discord server in ban messages
* Lowered the Minecraft Forums graylist application riftcoin reward to 100 riftcoins
* Raised the price of Makeshift Wings to 300 riftcoins
* Raised the price of a trident to 250 riftcoins
* Players can now push shulkers from the end portal to spawn (but good luck getting them off the top of the spawn tower!)
* Fixed arrows being able to go through hostile mobs in certain situations (this may still occur with some passive mobs in big farms in order to prevent lag)
* Fixed the lore of the villager hats in Hal's Shop
* Fixed players not having permission to use <code>/ping</code>
* Updated the armor stands at spawn to reflect the new staff + team additions
* Updated the discord link in the welcome messages
* Updated the formatting for the main "Unknown command" message
* Updated the auto-broadcast messages
* Updated the <code>/help</code> menu

== August 18 ==
* The Space Station has been fixed up and is ready for exploration again!
* The spaceship behind the spawn town portal pads will now take you to/from space
* Red now sells the Red Astronaut Hat (required to get into the Space Station) at his shop
* Overhauled armor stand customization (type <code>/aa</code> for more info!)
* The teleport pads in the Space Station are now a little easier to navigate
* <code>/betterarmorstands</code> now displays updated info about armor stand customization
* Fixed portal cooldown messages that would show when walking through portals/teleporters too quickly

== August 21 ==
* Our main domain name is now parallelmc.org (parallel.ga is still supported for now)
* Updated the Discord URL in the tab menu / welcome MOTD / /discord command

== August 27 ==
* Players can now lock item frames / armor stands / paintings!
* Added a link to info about allowed spawner types in info-and-rules
* Added <code>/voterranks</code> to display the required number of votes for each voter rank
* Buddy will now let players know that the <code>/help</code> menu is opening when they click on him
* Fixed a bug with AdvancedArmorstands that let players run some commands they shouldn't have had permissions for
* Edited the formatting of some "Unknown Command" and "No Permission" messages
* Updated the server IP in #info-and-rules
* Updated voting info
* Updated the <code>/help</code> menus

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* Players can now lock glow item frames!
* Fixed players not being able to lock item frames / armor stands / paintings because of a hidden permission

== September 13 ==
* Players can now lock all head types / brewing stands / note blocks!
* Added screenshots for players to post general server photos
* Fixed voter rank upgrades not automatically applying the new voter prefix
* Updated the auto-broadcast messages

== October 10 ==
* The spawn town is now Halloween-ified! 🎃 🎃 🎃
* Fixed hopper minecarts not being able to pull items out of containers in the Shopping District
* Disabled fire spread in the End
* Fixed some of the server maintenance messages that display to connecting players

== October 16 ==
* The End has been reset and revamped! All player structures in the End are still intact!
* Chests in the End now auto-replenish after 3 hours - note that the same player can't loot the same chest twice!
* Several new custom structures can be found in the End!
* The End worldborder has been increased to 16k * 16k
* Elytras now have an 0.5% chance to spawn in an End treasure chest
* Eeetle chests now replenish over time
* The server will now restart daily at 7 AM EDT instead of 4 AM EDT
* Enabled slowmode in shop-advertising to prevent people from chatting in there
* Edited the server MOTD

== October 21 ==
* The prize for the corn maze in the back of the spawn town has now been added!
* The daily server backup now runs closer in time to the daily restart

== November 25 ==
* A new settlement area has opened across from the spawn town! Message a staff member to get permission to build there!
* Added <code>/trophies</code> menu to claim trophies and see your trophy history
* The spawn town has been reset to its regular state (this is a pretty late patch notes entry)!
* Added teasers 👀
* Beehives and bee nests should now keep the correct amount of bees and honey inside when mined and placed
* Expanded the Shopping District protections to the new areas
* The Shopping District map has been expanded to reflect the new areas
* Fixed the skeleton farm at spawn
* Removed some duplicate armor stands in the spawn town to remove lag
* Fixed some auction house messages to use riftcoins instead of $
* Updated Red's shop region chat message to reflect the newer chat format
* Changed the server MOTD
* Added a trophy menu link to the <code>/help</code> menu

== November 26 ==
* Wandering traders now sell mini blocks again
* Improved performance in the <code>/help</code> menus
* Updated some Parallel team members' heads in the Team List menu
* Clicking a command in the General Commands menu will now close the menu when running said command
* The main <code>/help</code> menu now shows your player head again as well as your exact riftcoin balance
* Rebranded the word "staff" to "team" in several places in the <code>/help</code> menus
* Updated miscellaneous text in the <code>/help</code> menus

== November 27 ==
* Added a "Where to Start?" page to the Parallel Infobook with suggestions of where new players should go first
* Added signs at spawn directing new players to the "Where to Start?" page in the Infobook
* Added the Trophy Archive (to see old trophies that were given out before the creation of the Trophy menu) accessible from the <code>/trophies</code> menu
* Reformatted the <code>/trophies</code> menu

== November 28 ==
* Added #shop-discussion for discourse on shops and the server economy

== December 1 ==
* The spawn town has been decorated for the holiday season! Go explore and see what you can find! 🎄
* 1.18 clients can now join the server (note that the server is still natively in 1.17)!
* Updated the server MOTD

== December 2 ==
* Added a hopper to the left of the Shopping District kiosk to insert shop advertisements into
* Shopping District advertisements written by players will be featured in the books in front of the SD kiosk
* Lowered the chance of getting a shulker box in a VoteParty chest from 10% to 5%

== December 12 ==
* Players can now donate to Parallel via store.parallelmc.org!
* Added a limited-time Early Supporter Glasses cosmetic for donators
* Added <code>/donate</code> to link players to the server store
* TNT is now disabled in the Shopping District
* <code>/votetop</code> defaults to top monthly votes if no argument is specified
* Fixed some heads not showing in menus
* Updated the auto-broadcast messages
* Updated the join MOTD message
* Updated the server MOTD

== December 14 ==
* Red now sells Christmas Tree saplings!

== December 17 ==
* Added a link to the server store in #info-and-rules and in the join MOTD
* Fixed vote party reward chances for rare items from being higher than expected
* Fixed vote parties not giving vote chests

== December 23 ==
* Fixed some heads not displaying properly in the Trophy and Trophy Archive menus
* Updated the server MOTD to add a cool countdown for our 1.18 Caves & Cliffs update

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