Hello, welcome to the November 2024 edition of Community Highlights! This thread compiles the latest CubeCraft news and updates as well as the best of recent community content into just one thread. Let's get started with the main updates!
Winter Time 
Christmas came early for CubeCraft this year! The winter event officially rolled out on November 20th, and will end on January 6th. The fan favourite winter gamemode, Snowman Survival, has returned alone this year. This has disappointed some players, but there is a lot of new content elsewhere to make up for this. The lobby hunt has been spiced up with different sections, similar to this year's halloween event. The reward for completion is the snowfall cage on Bedrock and the teddy hat on Java.
Additionally, the team has created some brand new winter maps for this event, as well as returning some old ones that haven't been seen for a while. There is a new FFA map called Gift Factory. EggWars Teams of 4 map, SkyWars Teams of 2 and BlockWars Bridges have also received new maps. Even Pillars of Fortune gets a new map - Snowy!
Another new feature this winter is the brand new ice bundle. It is priced at 990 minecoins and here are all of the cosmetic items it contains:
- Aurora Trail
- Seal Buddy
- Ice Sculpture Cage
- Ski Cage
- Ice Chest Skin
- Ice Lucky Block Skin
- Chisel Opening Effect
- Glacier Pit Skin
- Aurora Prefix
- Frozen Prefix
- Shiny Prefix
The team has also announced an upcoming, exclusive shop at the end of the year. This shop will feature all of the cosmetic items that were released in 2024. In addition, there will be some giveaways and a competition hosted in the official Discord server for a chance to get some of these items for free.
You can read the official news post here.
The new FFA map, Gift Factory.
Java Map Rotations 
Last month, CubeCraft released a series of polls on their Discord server to decide which maps would be included in the next Java maps rotation. Well, the results are in, and the image below shows which maps were added and removed on November 14th.
You can read the official news post here.
What’s Next? 
As we near the end of the year, there's not much to see on the upcoming updates board. We are still awaiting the OG EggWars update which first appeared on the board back in April. On November 21st, more information about what exactly this update will include was released and this is known as the "OG plan":
- Netherite armour, swords and tools will be removed.
- Leather and chainmail armour back.
- Armour will have protection 4 again in overpowered mode.
- Tridents will be removed.
- Elytras will be removed.
- Blastballs will be made more “blasty”!
- The wild knockback TNT gives will be reduced.
- There will be a cap for how much TNT players can hold
- There will be a cap for how many leap feathers players can hold.
- A cooldown for leap feathers will be added.
- UHC will use the prices from normal mode, but the health potion prices will stay the same.
- Structures will be staying at the current price.
- Shop prices will be changed to be similar to pre-seasons prices.
- The Eggmite Emerald perk will be removed.
- The concrete blocks will be changed back to terracotta.
- The half health option will be removed from Java but will still be available in private games.
- Various bug fixes will be made.
A spoiler from the OG EggWars update, titled "mega". What could it be?
Top Suggestions 
Minor QoL: Remove Rank Shortcut from Hotbar for Rank Owners by @Reesle
More coloured kill messages by @SlinkyGnu05604
Sports Bundle by @ReesleTop Creations 
Owl Model by @BurgerCat13 Explosive Win in Lucky Islands Solo 
by @Reesle CubeCraft League LEAKS by @Conea64Changelog 
November 2nd
- Community Games #8 took place in the official Discord server.
- ItzJuan and Kovu have been promoted to moderators.
- Flxen has been promoted to moderator.
- Several bug fixes have been made across the network:
- Skyblock - Fixed an issue with the skyblock menu being a rabbit foot. (Java)
- Skyblock - Implemented extra checks to save profile data on server shutdown. (Java/Bedrock)
- PvP Duels - Fixed an issue with some kits not loading. (Bedrock)
- Global - Fixed an issue with entity movement/knockback. (Bedrock)
- Global - Fixed an issue with some games being unstable/crashing. (Java/Bedrock)
- Global - Fixed an issue with quick crafting tools and other items. (Java/Bedrock)
- Loot - Fixed an issue with some kill effects slowly causing FPS issues overtime. (Bedrock)
- Loot - Fixed an issue with the "Witch Magic" trail. (Bedrock)
- BlockWars - Fixed buckets and shields from being crafted. (Bedrock)
- Global - Fixed an issue with armour trims. (Java/Bedrock)
- Lucky Islands - Fixed an issue causing players to be kicked. (Java)
- Loot - Fixed an issue with Sweet Treats win effect. (Java)
- Skyblock - Fixed an issue with item limit being too low, causing items to be deleted when on the ground. (Java/Bedrock)
- Includes other backend and server fixes
- The forums have been updated to a new backend version and some style performance improvements have been made.
- Efcluke94 has left the CubeCraft team.
- An issue in Snowman Survival that caused the game to break at the start has been fixed.
- Fixed being able to purchase items with stacks over 64 in EggWars.
- Fixed some furniture not working on Bedrock Skyblock.
- Fixed sometimes not being transferred to the correct level in Parkour.
- On the forums, some colours have been made darker for better accessibility.
This concludes the monthly CubeCraft recap, thank you for reading! If you've found any inaccurate information or have any other concerns, please let me know in the replies section or feel free to contact me in a private conversation here.
Check out the previous edition of Community Highlights here!
