Update Directory

Echelon 7.5: The Mini Drop!

Welcome to the brand new referral system and overhauled website!

• Referral System
• Website Revamp
• Spawn Polish
• Tutorial Fixes

Welcome

With the growth of the server on the horizon, I would like to repay anyone who goes above and beyond to help the server grow. The best way to do that is to introduce a brand new referral system!

Referrals?!

This is something that I am not sure any server has ever done. If there is then they stole the idea from my dreams. With this brand new referral system I have decided to open the floodgates to anyone looking to promote the server or someone who keeps playing interactive in game.

Notoriously Minecraft server owners are money hungry and eventually make their server P2W. Obviously, I am not going to be doing that however, as a server owner, it needs to be worth it to continue running the server. As a result of deep thoughts I have came up with this referral system that not only promotes donations for the server but also for you as the player.

Get PAID!

With this new referral system which we will talk about here in just a minute, you will be able to be PAID for anyone who joins from your referral IP and contributes to the server. This is something that will directly impact the server and your pockets.

Quick FAQs

How much tho? For every donation the server receives, you will receive a kickback of 10% of the donation just for referring the user.

How long does this last? For however long the person you refer continues donating.

How soon can I get paid? 60 days after the donation has been completed to ensure chargebacks are not any issue for you or me. Must have at least $10.00 in your bucket to claim.

Do I have to do anything? Ensure you have registered your referral IP on Discord!

How do I see how much my bucket is? Please create a ticket to view your bucket total amount.

How do I get paid? Please create a ticket on Discord. We will work out a payment method for you which can be any of the following:

• Direct PayPal payment.
• Exchanged for Echelars at a 1:2 conversion rate.
• Anything that is of equal value.
• WE WILL NOT SUPPORT CRYPTO AT THIS TIME.

Some Roles Receive More!

If you are someone who has played for a while and gained donation tiers or someone who has donated for them already, you will receive a bonus bucket percentage!

• Tier 1 +1%
• Tier 2 +2%
• Tier 3 +3%
• Tier 4 +4%
• Tier 5 +4%
• Tier 6 +5%
• Echelon Content Creators +6%

Content creators will receive a higher amount which is based on your outreach. If you do content and wish to receive this role please make a ticket!

Referral Summary

• Ensure you have registered your referral IP on Discord!
• Have people join using your referral IP.
• Get paid!

Referral program is subject to change at anytime.

Website Revamp!

The website really REALLY REALLY needed a redo. So we did! This now looks like a website that would fit this absolutely beautiful Minecraft server. See it below:

General Changes

• Changed the text to be more visible for those who wish to skip my beautiful tutorial instead of behind the player on the boat which can be easily missed.
• Updated the leaderboards at spawn to be similar to the Parkour leaderboards.
• Fixed the starter kit to actually show up once you are out of the tutorial.
• Removed the player tips as they are no longer being used.

Summary

I know this was a small update but I want to make it sooner than later. I have bigger plans for update 8.0 which include:

• Expanded Parkour.
• More leaderboards.
• Custom GUIs.

Echelon 7.0: New Player Experience v2

Welcome to the new player experience! v2

• Voice Tutorial Island
• Server Selector
• Parkour
• General Fixes

Welcome

We know that new players joining and then leaving is all a part of running Minecraft servers but we needed to make some changes to the new player experience that would help with the learning of the basics. We also need a clear goal. So we worked on a brand new voice supported tutorial island!

TLDR; New players will have some more information to start with.

General Changes

Additions:

• Echeload will now emit a redstone signal while de-activated until it is re-activated again. Gives the signal 5 seconds before it de-activates.
• Removed the forced italics when renaming a item with the anvil.
• Remove the too high cost on anvils.
• Added brown eggs and blue eggs to the Echelite Trader seller option within the same regular Egg.
• Updated the drinking well to also remove negative effects when drank.
• Added tooltips for beehives.

Fixes:

• Gopher will no longer assign the same task twice in a row if re-rolled.
• Fixed tree feller not always chopping the full tree if the tree is too large.

New Player Experience

With the revamp to the new player Experience we have decided to add a server Selector. The 2 main options will be RPG and SMP!

Within this server selector world, you will get to enjoy this funny AI song I had created for the server. Just plays on repeat with a reactive wavelength that can be muted by right clicking the text.

SMP

This is the world you all are currently already playing in however! This does have a new tutorial flow that everyone will be introduced to. This has a slight RPG type flow which is intended to just give you the basics on the SMP and how to play. All commands are disabled by default in this world.

Within this new tutorial flow, you will be guided by voice supported NPCs that will teach you the basics of the SMP. I will not spoil the entire plot however, just know I spent a lot of time on it.

RPG

This is currently a work in progress meaning this will not be available during this update.

Parkour!

We have finally added some proper Parkour to the server! This will be found in place of where you found Enduralon before as Enduralon has been placed on a hold for the moment being. This will still be treated as a Echevent rather than a fully separated world or anything so this will help you gain Echevents for use in the Echevent shop! Special thanks to Fouci and Panta for the design and creation of this Parkour map. Heres everything you need to know about the Parkour!

First off how cool does that look!

Timers

At the start of the Carpets stage, the timer will start. This will continue until you have completed the Carpet stage and start on the ladders stage. Once you start the ladders stage, your timer will start again. The noticeboard will change based on your stage and keep track of your current times!

Rewards

You will receive 1 Echevent per ladder stage completed. Thats it for now!

Summary

This seems like a very short update however, the new player experience should help with the retainment of new players which will drive me further with quicker updates in the future. This has been a fun development experience for me and I will continue to make more amazing unique features in the future!

Echelon 6.0: Foliaish Update

Welcome to the Foliaish update!

• Foliaish Backend
• Infinity Villager
• Echelon Market
• Duels

Welcome

Within this update I have worked on a vast majority of the active suggestions as well as implemented the first ever fully custom forked version of Folia that supports multi world threading as well as dynamic world generation allowing for worlds to be created per player.

What does that mean? Nothing on the surface but does open the doors to a LOT more players to be supported on the same server. Now why did I do that? Well for future proofing. I never want to see you guys lag due to server issues so I want to make sure I always stay one step ahead of any potential threats to your experience.

This is not by any means a cheat code for infinite players but it is the start for it. With the introduction out of the way, lets see what all have changed, been fixed or added with this new update that has taken me forever!

General Changes

Additions:

• Added the option to get a players head when claiming a grave. 10% chance to receive the head.
• Added a Discord page to the website that is just Echelonmc.net/discord that automatically routes you to a invite link.
• Added a Shulker box /claim setting similar to chest claim setting.
• Added a rare task of turning in a beacon for 250 Gopher Points.
• Added the Echelite Pack to the Gopher shop.
• Add a no reports feature which disables chat reporting without all the notifications saying its disabled.
• Added the ability to see how many players are in the /publics while hovering it in the UI.
• Added the dispelling of players from your claims in the /claim UI menu. Whether that player is online or offline, it will allow you to select that player and force them back to /spawn.
• Added the option to rename a bundle in the /claim menu under the bundle chunk settings.
• Added the option to /toggle the Did you knows.
• Added the option to select your timezone from the get roles channel.
• Added the option to extend the claims of a bundle. Does not work if you have the sync on of course.
• Added a rotating message when the Echelite trader changes his favored items.
• Added a enchant glint to favored items to allow them to be more visible in the UI.
• Added the option to use the sell wand to sell mob heads in a chest.
• Added a chat filter for signs, chat, item names, team names, and nicknames.

Changes:

• Removed the death screen which was needed to better support the back-end loading your random spawn if you died with no bed set.
• Updated the way blocks drop when broke to be less shooty outwardsy.
• Moved the nametag for the Echelon Market up.
• Removed gap between no-life and magic mob touch in /adv.
• Changed item bunching to no longer be able to be seen through blocks.
• Updated the heads when purchased to say "As of $date" instead of "As of purchase" so you can compare the dates and see how much you have grown.
• Changed daytime from 30 minutes to 25 minutes to meet in the middle a bit more.
• Prevented setting home in the end.
• Updated the tab player list to display whats coming up next for the vote party instead of just saying vote party.
• Updated rare tasks from gopher to be 10% instead of 5%.
• Increased Elytra to 750 Gopher Points.
• Changed Item bunching to only bunch like items.
• Added mob heads to the sell wand and auto selling features.

Fixes:

• Fixed the Echeload to proper load like a player. This worked before but was not really that good. Works now for selling while offline.
• Fixed claims costing more than 1k when you hit the cap.
• Updated the right click harvest in the main world to support all the crops.
• Moved the Publics rankings back to the spawn that was previously missing.
• Fixed teleporting with a mob leashed causing the lead to sometimes dupe and sometimes vanish.
• Fixed entities going through the Nether Portal, most notably Villagers as they were not "traveling" to the nether portal in the nether from the main world.
• Fixed the bug where you can type /sethome when you are in the middle of renaming a home which locks the chat into the expectation to rename the home which causes a weird flow. Now the renaming just cancels out if you type /sethome with confirmation that the home renaming was canceled.
• Possibly fixed a bug that caused claim borders to stick around for too long or forever. Will have to see if this was actually fixed.
• Fixed item bunching from deleting items due to invisible bunches that were being created.
• Added additional checks and fixes to the gopher feature for fixing of the prior bug that didnt count items from be counted sometimes.

Folia! Kinda

With the need for more players, I know I need to ensure that more players can reasonably play on the server. Since this is mostly a SMP with spread out players, it makes total sense to have Folia instead of Paper with the whole threading benefit. As a result, I have manually updated the entire Echelon plugin features to support Folia.

This will now properly handle large amounts of players spread over the map. Does that make the server invincible? No but it does help support WAY more players who join.

Does that mean anything will change for you? Nope.

What do you mean its kinda Folia? Its a custom forked version of Folia which allows for multi-world loading that was not currently supported by Folia. My plugin does use that so I needed to have something that was Folia but supported Multi-world loading and run-time world creation for the Great Harvest, so I created a custom forked version myself. Its called "EchelonServer". Might be one of the best names I've come up with thus far!

Emojis!?

Something I have wanted to do for a while but just never did is emojis. Unsure why this is unsupported by default as I think emojis are amazing. You can use them in the chat however you would like! Here are the currently supported emojis:

• :star:
• :chilling:
• :confused:
• :sad:
• :heart:
• :fire:
• :skull:
• :crown:
• :coin:
• :gem:
• :bolt:
• :check:
• :cross:
• :warning:
• :sword:
• :pickaxe:
• :shield:
• :gift:
• :music:
• :sun:
• :moon:
• :leaf:
• :sparkles:
• :home:

Infinity Villager

This is a new item that can be purchased with Echelite for 1,000 Echelites from the Echelite Trader. This little guy works like a normal villager but within a chest UI instead of the normal UI you would see. He will still have all the same trades as normal however theres a few more perks.

• You can reroll trades directly in the screen for 100 Echelites per re-roll.
• Purchase up to 9 pages for saving multiple trades in one villager for 1,000 Echelites per page.
• Purchase an infinite amount of items from the trader.
• Level him up, but at a higher curve than the normal trading xp.

WWE Competition

The embed will explain the vast majority of the competition however the basic idea is:

• Look for the message with the item you need to get.
• Gather said item as much as you can for the week.
• Win rewards.
• Hot Milo will receive the WWE Champ by default if there is no one who has won the prior week.

Formatting

With the prior addition of colors on signs, we have expanded on this with markdown formatting. This includes:

• **Bold**
• *Italics
• ~~Strikethrough~~
• __Underline__
• ||Jumbledtext||
• @X - This resets the formating.

This will clear the formatting each time you edit the sign so do be aware of that!

New /formatinfo command was added for additional support for the colors and formatting that has been added with this.

Echelon Market

Within the Echelon Market, this was limited to what you would sell, we had the suggestion to allow you to place buying offers which was a daunting task as I am not sure on how others would have done it but I have added a new way that I think is pretty neat.

You can now click on Buy Offer and then select any item from a chest UI which lists all the items available in the game. You can then select on the item you want to place a buy offer for and then type in a price similar to when you sell the item and then boom! Its on the market. Players can then sell you that item for the price you have chosen to buy it for.

• This will take your Echelites right away.
• This will deliver the items to the Echelon Market NPC for pickup next time you speak to him.

Echelar Overhaul!

We need some more ways to potentially monetize the server without compensating our morals. We have as a result added some more paid features which you can still earn 100% through playing in-game. The first of the additions is your own custom player NPC that you can purchase for 5 Echelars!

With yourself purchased you can stand him at your front door and even add items to him for him to wear. This will stay purely cosmetic and outside of being a cool armor stand, this will be a great addition for your home! To remove your armor that you put on him, just right click him again. Taking him and placing him works the same as the other NPCs you purchase from the Echelite Store.

I have also added myself to purchase for 10 Echelars as well!

Particles!

We have added a few particles that you can now buy for Echelars as well. These will be based on your walking around and look like this:

Echevent Token Shop

We heard the suggestion for the tree harvesting and we decided to add it! This has been added to the Echevent Shop for 1 Echevent Token which will grant you the ability to cut down a whole tree with 1 single log broken. This will cost you 1 hunger and take the normal durability of the axe as a result.

Echelon Tooltips

With some plugins requirement client side downloads and Echelon being a purely plug and play type of server, we have added some server side tooltips to help you play!

Animal Breeding Tooltips

This feature allows you to see when a animal can be bred and if not how long until they can!

Furnace Tooltips

Ever wanted to know how close a furnace was to being done or how long it would take? Well look no further! Now you can. You will see similar to the animal breeding tooltips a new line of text above the furnaces that show you how long until the items are done smelting.

Crop Tooltips

You can also enjoy the tooltips with crops! This will show a approximation for the growth time based on the current growth stage and how long it would on average take since they grow at random normally.

Chest Finder

This is something I have always wanted to add to help players find their items a bit faster instead of always relying on the item frames or signs that never get kept up on if you are like me. I have added a new "tooltip" which highlights any chest within your render with the item you are holding.

• This only works if you or someone on your /teams placed the chest.
• This does not work for chests placed down prior to the update.
• This does not see through walls.

Toggles For Tooltips?

Yes! It will be within /toggle and everything will me toggleable there!

Duels!

I have wanted to add this for a while and wanted to make sure this was something that was fun to do without causing issues. Taking some inspiration from how WoW does dueling I have created a nice system that allows you to duel your friends or random people without the downsides! This way you can tell who is better at PVP.

This is something anyone can do while playing with their friends without destroying the ground or requiring teleports back or wasting resources.

How do I duel someone?

• To start the duel you first need to be beside the person. You then would right click them to see the new interface that pops up allowing you to duel.
• Click on start duel and you will see a flag drop from the sky in between you and that player.
• Right click the flag to accept the duel even if you started it and the other player must right click the flag to accept as well.
• Once accepted, you will then see a countdown for 5 seconds which will start the duel. Then you can fight!
• Any damage to the ground done while in the fight will be resorted once the fight is over.
• Any resources used during the duel will be given back.

New Player Flow!

Reworked the way new players join with a new flow being they instantly spawn into the wilderness with 60s of immunity and as they complete certain actions tips will show up to help guide them on their way. There will be lecterns with books and blatant beams/text that show up as they play with particles that guide them to the tip so they can read what's relevant to them! More tips will be added over time however, the basics are now in!

Summary And Notes

This update was intended to fix quite a few bugs that was persistant in prior updates and flush out a new backend system to allow for more players. While this update has not been fully polished, there will still be bugs that will be worked out over time based on your feedback.

Suggestions/Bugs

I have heard your feedback regarding the suggestions only being able to be added through in-game and this is done on purpose to prevent people from spamming the suggestions channel with half-baked ideas or talking in the suggestions channel about other suggestions without being within the thread. I may revert this ideology at a later date however for now this flow will remain.

Beta Testers

While this was something I had added in attempts to gather enough supporters to test features before they went live, this did not go the way I had intended. I received less beta testing than I had hoped which does result in features possibly not working as intended as well. I am not hounding anyone who is currently a beta tester however everyone must understand that I do not have time to personally test every aspect of each feature therefore some things may be unintentionally left out or broken. Once I receive the proper feedback on said feature, it will be promptly fixed.

Future Updates

I have decided to go with more updates frequently moving forward over large updates less frequently. I feel as if the interest in the server dwindles over time without constant updates. This does not mean that there will not be large updates still however, this does mean that updates will not be absolute monsters like this update and the prior updates were.

Thank Yous

I have said this before and will say it again, thank you to everyone who has beta tested thus far and who has played in general. Everything you guys do make me want to continue doing this even longer and I hope this project continues to grow in numbers so we can have even more good things! Keep suggesting and keep the feedback coming as it only helps the server become more and more polished!