Patch notes/2021

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 /dailybonus
• 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 /baltop to check top player balances
• Added /playtime and /topplaytime 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 /lore 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 /rulebook and /infobook commands to open the Parallel Infobook from anywhere
• Updated the /rules 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 /say 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 /help 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 /spawn
• 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 /tags
• 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)
• /spawn no longer shows an error message about missing permissions
• Updated the server MOTD
• Improved performance of the /help 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 /twitter and /instagram to promote our social media accounts
• Added the Parallel Instagram and Twitter links to the /help menu

June 27

• Hotfix!
• Voter prefixes now work correctly in chat/tab/nametags
• /vote works again and shows all five voting links

June 28

• Hotfix 2:
• Added /votes for players to look at their daily/weekly/monthly/annual/all-time votes
• Added /votetop monthly and /votetop alltime to display monthly and all-time vote leaderboards
• Reformatted the /vote 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 /hat
• Players can now claim all of their offline voting rewards with /vp claimall
• 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 /tags shortcut to the /help 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 /tiktok to link to our TikTok page
• Added /tumblr to link to our Tumblr page
• Players' total playtime in the /help 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 /rtp or /wild 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 /pt [username] and /toppt
• 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 /colors 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 [item] 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 /formats 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 /help 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 /brewingguide which links players to a visual guide on how to brew all potion types
• Players can now use /warns 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 /nut
• /spawn 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 /ping
• 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 /help 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 /aa for more info!)
• The teleport pads in the Space Station are now a little easier to navigate
• /betterarmorstands 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 /voterranks to display the required number of votes for each voter rank
• Buddy will now let players know that the /help 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 /help 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 /trophies 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 /help menu

November 26

• Wandering traders now sell mini blocks again
• Improved performance in the /help 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 /help 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 /help menus
• Updated miscellaneous text in the /help 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 /trophies menu
• Reformatted the /trophies 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 /donate to link players to the server store
• TNT is now disabled in the Shopping District
• /votetop 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