Hey Folks,

I’ve been working on something that has been on my mind for quite a while: our own custom-built shop. It’s now open at store.minecraft.country. That’s the same address that used to take you to our Tebex store, but it now leads to the new shop.

I wanted a store that would give me more control over how supporter memberships work and make it easier to offer things to the community. Tebex helped us get started, but over time, I ran into a number of limitations that made it hard to do what I wanted.

What Wasn’t Working with Tebex?

Some features we needed were locked behind paid plans. Even when a […]

Hey Folks,

It has been a little while since the last blog post, and as usual, that does not mean nothing has been happening. Most of the day-to-day updates end up in the Discord, especially in the #server-updates channel, but I wanted to pull some of the bigger changes together here so everything is a little easier to follow.

There have been a lot of changes since the last post. Some are player-facing, some are backend changes, and some are the sort of “hopefully you never notice this because it just works better now” updates that I spend way too much time thinking about. Server Version & Proxy Updates

The server […]

Hello Everyone,

Today, we have hit one of our “community goals” for supporters. We now have 20 concurrent supporters! This is another big milestone, and I am thrilled that so many people are willing to support us financially. I hope that I continue to give you good reason to stick around and to continue supporting the server. If anyone feels like checking out our available supporter package – please do so at our web store!

The Price Drop

This section contains important info for existing supporters!

As promised, the price has now dropped from $6.99 a month – down to $5.99 a month! Important note for existing supporters […]

Howdy Folks,

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve updated the blog. A lot has been going on – and I’ve been in a bit of a burnout period. Thankfully, over the last week or two – I seem to be fully back in the swing of things, and I’ve made some major changes to the server to hopefully improve your experience!

Our Own Proxy – FINALLY…

We have been dealing with proxy issues for a long time. Our first proxy was from TCPShield – and they were pretty decent for awhile, but eventually we started having serious issues where it would just kick folks or not let people on at all. […]

Hey Folks,

I wanted to take some time to thank you guys for playing on the server, and a thank you to those of you who have decided to monetarily support the server by purchasing the supporter role subscription. I’ve started running into a problem recently – in that I never can restart the server to work on it, because we always have 15+ people online. We even recently hit our all time (post-bot invasion of 2023) record of concurrent players. I am super proud of the server community we have established both in-game and also in the discord.

We also just hit 10 concurrent supporter […]

Hey Folks,

I saw that minecraft 1.21.6 released today, and I wanted to talk about why we are still on 1.21.4 natively on the server (and how long it may take to update).

When there is a Minecraft update, a lot has to happen to get the server to that “native” version. Usually, within a few days, we will have our “proxy connector” updated, which will let you join the server using a newer client version, but the features available are still based on the server’s native version. That’s fine, and works well, but people want the new features (understandably). So, When there’s an update…what has to happen?

1. Minecraft update is released.

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