Hello, welcome to the August 2024 edition of Community Highlights! This thread compiles the latest CubeCraft news and updates as well as the highlights of recent community content into just one thread. Let's get started with the main updates!
Bedrock Menu Changes 
On August 8th, CubeCraft released changes to several of the menus on the Bedrock network, included new designs for the cosmetic menu, the parkour lobby menu, and the BedWars shop menu. There is now a featured loot tab and a search bar in the cosmetic menu. Additionally, new Discord Wumpus NPCs were added around the main lobby to attract players to join the official Discord server. What do you think of the changes?
An image of CubeCraft's new cosmetic menu design
Java Map Rotations 
Every three months, the Java network goes through map rotations, where some of the current maps are removed and some of the old maps make a return. The latest map rotations took place on August 12th, and a notable change is the return of an elytra/wings map in FFA, called Space. As well as this, two maps were swapped in Lucky Islands and three were swapped in SkyWars. The largest change was made to EggWars, where six maps were rotated out and seven were re-added. In addition to the map rotations, the maps of all gamemodes have been changed so that the player count size is the same. This means that several maps have received new spaces for players or new teams.
You can find the full details of this update in the official news post here!
A list of all the maps changed in this round of map rotations
Team Lucky Islands Returns to Java! 
On August 21st, the mystery limited time gamemode that was arriving on CubeCraft Java was announced to be Team Lucky Islands. Many classic maps have returned, including Stonehenge, Science and Oasis. We don't know how long the game will be here for, so if you're a Java player, make sure you go and play it while you can!
You can find the official news post for this update here!
One of the returning Team Lucky Islands maps, Stonehenge.
Changelog 
Now that we have covered all of the major updates, let’s take a look at some of the smaller changes!
August 3rd
- 4Moonlightt has left the moderation team.
- The Discord weekly topics have been reassigned to four moderators - AnolTongi, JokeKaedee, Hqteful and Thijs. They will take turns to announce the new weekly topics.
- Community Games #5 was held in Discord. Here is the forum announcement!
- The Helper requirements have been updated. There are no longer any report requirements, or message requirements for the forums and Discord. Activity on these platforms is still required but is less strictly defined.
- Lucky Islands has been migrated to a more advanced matchmaking system.
- Hqteful has been promoted to Senior Moderator.
- The Team Deathmatch and Destroy the Core gamemodes have been reenabled in Giga BlockWars.
- Pillars of Fortune and BedWars have been added to the Java statistics menu.
- Reports made with LabyMod are now allowed on the Java reports site.
- FFA has been migrated to a more advanced matchmaking system.
- A poll was created in the Community Talks channel on Discord, asking people if they like the hats in BedWars. 24 users said yes and 13 users said no, while 21 users voted for "kinda".
- A new matchmaking algorithm has been released, which groups players based on their region more aggressively.
- The amount of players needed to start games in a new region in FFA has been lowered.
- No build zones have been added inside BedWars team bases on Bedrock. This was already a feature on Java, but has only now been added to Bedrock.
- BlockWars 5v5 has been migrated to a more advanced matchmaking system.
What’s Next? 
CubeCraft's public update board is a great place to see what is coming next to CubeCraft. You can find projects that the CubeCraft team is working on, categorised by progress, and sometimes you'll even find spoilers! This month, we have seen the addition of a new update, called "Epic Loot + Maps", and "CubeCraft League" has been moved into testing. “Secret Project #1” has unfortunately been given the "blocked" tag, meaning that it is not currently being worked on.
Community Spotlight 
It's time to share some highlights from CubeCraft’s wonderful community! Here are some of the top suggestions and creations that have been posted on our community platforms this month!
This thread by Hoshi suggests a revamp to the trophy points system, starting with adjusting old trophies as well as adding new trophies.
caraMel suggests to change the message that is seen when you are trying to reply to a thread that has not seen any activity in three or more weeks.
A summer themed SkyWars map named Treasure by @SkyWarsMC See their other three maps here!
A cubelet plush created by @BurgerCat13. Find the original thread here.
That concludes our monthly CubeCraft recap, thank you for reading! If you find any inaccuracies or have other concerns, please contact me in a private conversation here. Check out the July 2024 edition of Community Highlights here!
