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Hello CubeCrafters!
It's been a busy few months here at CubeCraft HQ for everyone, the whole team have been busy working on new games, new maps and plenty of updates to the games you love! Our aim since the start of summer has been to deliver you new content at least every two weeks, and we've been hard at work giving you just that!
This week, I'm super happy to bring you a SkyWars update that I've been working on...
CHESTS
Following your feedback on the forums, we've rebuilt whole chest system from the ground up! Starter Island Chests are now weighted meaning everyone will get a fair playing field on equipment - For example, getting a good sword means that your armour will be weaker and vice versa. Alongside this change, every starter island will have food and blocks to survive and you'll no longer get duplicate things like armour pieces, like 3 helmets on your starter island! (This mostly affects Solo SkyWars) Furthermore, there are no more hidden or difficult to access chests on the starter islands, this will make it easier than ever to grab your gear and get into some PVP super fast!
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Game in play.
Something I'm super excited about is the chest refilling in both solo and team mode. There is now a timer on the scoreboard which shows when chests are next being refilled.
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The refill timer.
This time varies for each map to ensure a fair balance of refills. Smaller maps, for example, refill slightly quicker, but on average it’s every 5 minutes. Within these refills you'll now also find more Enderpearls to help combat those ridiculously long games!
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An example chest refilling.
MAPS
Along with the updates to the actual game, we've got some new maps to introduce for you! Luke and the rest of the build team have been hard at work, so there are 5 new maps along with a few subtle changes to existing maps.
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Paris - Solo
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Canyon - Solo
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Alien - Team
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Streets - Team
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Fruit - Team
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New Team Pre-Lobby.
MODES
We also know that not everyone enjoys Projectile PvP on SkyWars and as such have added a projectile options which you can choose from. This lets you choose one of three options.
No Projectiles - Chests do not have projectiles and projectile kits are not usable.
Normal Projectiles - The standard, normal mode.
Soft Blocks - Just for fun! This keeps loot same, but will make snowballs, eggs, exp bottles and arrows break blocks on contact. You can break through walls and stop those campers!
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Eggs in Soft Blocks mode, destroying the blocks beneath Rubik's feet!
We also heard your feedback and noticed that very few players played, or liked, the "No Kits & Abilities Mode" so this has been removed to allow other games to fill up faster.
KITS
Again, we have listened to the communities opinions on kits, and as such, we have balanced all kits to make the game much more fun and enjoyable for everyone. The OP Swordsman kit for example, is no longer as OP it used to be.
Along with the balancing, we have added 4 new kits:
Farmer (500 points)
Golden Hoe (Fire aspect I).
Golden Pants (Protection I).
3 Golden Carrots.
Spawn with 5 Chickens when game starts.
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Smuggler (850 points)
Care Package (This will contain 1 Equipment, Food and Blocks)
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Enderman (1000 points)
20 End Blocks.
Full Set of Black Leather Armour.
Receive an Enderpearl 2 minutes into the game.
Receive an Enderpearl 5 minutes into the game.
Receive an Enderpearl 10 minutes into the game.
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Healer (1150 points)
Potion of Healing II.
Splash Potion of Healing I.
Splash Potion of Regeneration (10 seconds).
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ABILITIES
Alongside the new kits, we have also got 6 new abilities to show you! These can be bought in the Shop just like normal.
Enderproof - Chance of not taking enderpearl damage.
AutoSmelt - Instantly smelt ores when mining.
Void Treasure - Get a random item from enemy inventory after pushing them into void.
Extra Protection - Get an extra protection enchantment for random equipment after getting a kill.
Projectile Magnet - Pick up projectiles that hit you.
Quick Heal - Get a splash potion of health after killing someone.
STATISTICS & ASSISTS
Finally, we've also added Kill Assists into team SkyWars, so you know just how much help you were to your fellow teammate. Assisting with kills now gives you hot bar message, showing how much % of the total damage you did to the enemy. There is also a Kill Counter next to all the names so you know exactly how many kills everyone is on.
Further to this, when there’s a kill with assists you can now see in chat exactly how many people assisted with that kill, and hovering over the assist message shows how much damage each person did. Kill Assists will give you 1 point if the amount of damage you dealt was less than 50%, 2 points if it’s more than 50% while getting a kill gives you 3 points. Dying in a team game will now also give you a win if your team wins.
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Alongside these Assist statistics, we've also added current game statistics which will show after you die or game ends. This shows : what place you got, how long you survived, number of kills, number of assists and bow accuracy (percentage of arrows that hit an enemy) We've added auto re-spawn which means when you die, you'll no longer have to click a respawn button.
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ENJOY!