Updates Patch Notes - May 1st, 2015

Ava · May 1, 2015

Welcome to the third installment of the Patch Notes! We didn't post an update on April 16th, so this installment will cover most major changes within the entire month of April. Not every single change will be included on this biweekly update post - during a typical development fortnight, we make several internal changes to the codebase, and the details of those internal changes are usually irrelevant to players. The biweekly Patch Notes includes most of our publicly visible changes, and starting with this installment, we plan to continue the Patch Notes on a regular biweekly schedule.

UHC Worlds Open Beta Bugfixes

For the second week of the UHC Worlds open beta, we have a whole slew of bug fixes, additions and tweaks for the game. Most of them are as follows:

Added a short grace period after the start of a game where pvp is disallowed.
Tweaked some game lengths and minor world generator settings in accordance to feedback.
Improved some user output, including the scoreboard sidebar.
Tweaked the Skylands generator to be a bit more... solid.
Fixed a few bugs involving the UHC Worlds leaderboards, including players being given negative lifespans and players formerly on the server being counted as participants.

New Features

The New Website and Leaderboards Update
Released on April 1st, the Leaderboard Update is one of the most anticipated updates in MCGamer's three-year history, completely overhauling the leaderboard system. In addition, our new website was also released on the same day. To view the thread detailing those updates, click here.

UHC Worlds Beta Release
One of the things we've been working on most in April was preparing UHC Worlds, our spin on the Ultra Hardcore gameplay style, for a beta release. To view the thread with information about UHC Worlds, click here.

Increased Spectator Limit
SG servers now allow an additional 8 players to join as spectators after the game starts, which means that a standard 24-slot SG server can fit up to 32 people. The game size remains unchanged; only 24 players can be in-game and playing on a 24 player server; however, the additional spectator slots should prove useful for streams and other events that might cause a large amount of spectators to be in a single server.

Hub Sidebar
Hubs now show a sidebar on the right side, which displays the current server ID, UTC time, hub type, and player count.

More Useful Bug Reporting
We've updated our /reportbug command to automatically send debugging information to our database, which will hopefully allow us to find and fix reported issues faster. When you see an issue in-game and you are about to submit an issue report, issue the /reportbug command first. The command will give you a state dump number, which you should reference in your bug report (by saying, for example, "The server state dump number is #1").

Bug Fixes

Players can no longer craft buckets in Survival Games
Fixed miscellaneous chat formatting errors
The deathmatch segment of Quarter Quell now works properly, instead of striking every player with lightning
Players in the hub can no longer open furnaces
/watch <game> will now only allow you to join games with less than the maximum amount of players, fixing a situation where regular players were rejected constantly when trying to watch a random game
Players can no longer take items out of item frames in Survival Games
/join <game> now works on gametypes that do not use the conventional phase system, including Battlegrounds
Ladders no longer break when set on fire
Fixed punishments occasionally not taking immediate effect across the entire network
Fix several bugs discovered after the beta launch of UHC Worlds
Fix XKMB shortcuts not appearing for staff members in UHC Worlds and Survival Bingo
Fix /chat not working
Fix an issue where a player could die in the Deadly Descent lobby, and would be respawned in a vanilla Minecraft world
Fix an issue with wins not registering on Alaskan Village or Demon's Breeze
Fix being unable to tab-complete a player's name while typing commands
Fix players being unable to interact with chests, buttons, etc. in the Survival Games lobby
Fix Hungry Games occasionally displaying the wrong name for a player
Fix an issue that would cause the air drop crate to not appear in Hungry Games
Patch a Minecraft exploit that allowed a malicious client to send a large amount of data to the server, causing it to crash

Closed Issues
This list represents all closed issues from the bug tracker. Note that some issues in this list may be invalid in different ways - for example, issues which do not belong on the bug tracker (hacker reports, suggestions, etc.), issues that are duplicates of others, or issues that do not provide enough information. For an accurate representation of bugs fixed during this month, please see the list above.

croe97 · May 1, 2015

Awesome! I was looking forward to these ^.^
Thanks for the update c:

Mirko · May 1, 2015

First!
Awesome update guys!
EDIT: croe97 :---(

OhFancy · May 1, 2015

Thanks developers!

Lis · May 1, 2015

Yay!
I'm excited about the UHC updates. :]

Giggity69Goo · May 1, 2015

Awesome! Great work devs!

Exzone · May 1, 2015

Awesome !!

smashmaster · May 1, 2015

Great work you guys!

MisiLica · May 1, 2015

Awesome work! Thanks Devs!

SuperMCSam · May 1, 2015

Vigilo · May 1, 2015

This is actually a perfect way to update the community about bug fixes and updates, keep up the amazing work guys!

Ava said:
Increased Spectator Limit
SG servers now allow an additional 8 players to join as spectators after the game starts, which means that a standard 24-slot SG server can fit up to 32 people. The game size remains unchanged; only 24 players can be in-game and playing on a 24 player server; however, the additional spectator slots should prove useful for streams and other events that might cause a large amount of spectators to be in a single server.

This a very good update, pretty good for streamers and for the Deception Games

Yannick · May 1, 2015

Nice!

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