Server Updates

Hi Patrons!

Ahead of any announcements in the usual places, because nothing has changed quite yet, I wanted to give a quick update on what's happening behind the scenes.

Updating the Latest Version

You may have already noticed some of our dimensions (PvP, PvE, Zombies, Duels) have already been updated to 1.4.4.9, it's our plan that the entire server is updated before the next game update releases, this will put us in a better place to support the newer game clients joining until we are able to update our servers once again.

Adding a Europe Region

We're also testing out some infrastructure changes. We will be deploying a change that will affect users in Europe, specifically, our Europe players will connected to our Europe servers. You will not notice much of a difference at first, because Build/PvE/PvP/Gamemodes will still use the US servers. Once this change has been rolled out and tested, we will be updating gamemodes to support multiple regions, this will mean players in Europe will be able to be put into lobbies hosted in Europe, allowing players to have lower overall ping. This means that if two players from Europe engage in a duel, they will both make use of the reduced ping! It will also allow us to use our Europe server resources for gamemodes, essentially increasing the maximum number of lobbies that can exist.

We already have a server in Europe, so our extra costs for this change will come from being able to properly route people to the US server or the Europe server based on their geographical location.

This also means that outages in one region will not affect everyone and we can more easily route players to a different region until fixes are deployed.

Nicknames

Once more of our 1.4.4.9 updates have been rolled out, we will be releasing the nickname system to Patreon supporters, this means you will be able to change your in-game display name!