It is no secret that Hoplite has some stability problems, but our Season 4 launch has made it especially obvious with hundreds of players disconnecting at once on multiple occasions. As the person responsible for managing this kind of thing, I would like to take a moment of you lovely folk's time to explain just what's happening here and the steps we're taking to address these issues in the immediate future. I'll also get into some of the details of how our network works in an effort to build an understanding of the ways your connection to Hoplite might run into issues. 

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**We have immediate plans to migrate our entire network to a new hosting provider within the next couple of weeks.** This is the same provider used by other major PvP servers which share our regional proxy / DDoS protection ("edge") provider. No longer will our connection between our edge provider and hosting provider be subject to the variables and instability of public internet transit facilities and services. We'll be on a known-good, well supported network configuration.

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For the technical and curious folk among you, I'd like to give some more details. Beyond this point, we're going for pure specifics as to how your internet connection reaches our Minecraft server. If you don't care for the nitty gritty details, feel free to completely ignore this and rest easy knowing that within 1-2 weeks we'll have taken action on this.
- First, there's the connection between your ISP and our edge's ISP (Global Secure Layer). `(Path: You -> GSL)`
- Next, our edge has to reach our Hoplite proxies. **This is where things break down.** Our hosting provider does not have a direct relationship with our edge's ISP. They must use a third-party provider to make that connection. Usually, this can be fine, but they only have one third-party provider (CDN77) that can make this route and it's a fairly low cost and unstable option. `(Path: You -> GSL -> CDN77)`
- After that bumpy ride through CDN77, we're back in the realm of stability. After you reach Hoplite's proxies, your connection will be forwarded to the backend Minecraft servers over our internal network. This does not traverse the public internet in any way and does not risk any additional latency penalty. `(Path: You -> GSL -> CDN77 -> Hoplite)`

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Aside from networking, we've made great strides in improving our software-level reliability. Just yesterday (at the time of writing this) our development team reduced the CPU utilization of the service responsible for communications between our different software by a factor of at least 10. Previously, we would see this component become over-utilized, leading to issues like not being able to queue and other interactions across the network failing. Overall, our software is really solid and we have not been able to attribute many more stability issues to any of our code or configuration. I am confident that it'll be smooth sailing with this new provider.


_Thank you so much for your patience and patronage,_

_Airee, System Operations @ Hoplite_

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# Season 4 is Here!
Season 4 is nearly here! Let’s explore everything new coming to Hoplite in Season 4 on April 1st.

# Cosmetics
The Aquatic Crate is coming to Hoplite in Season 4. Thanks to our Discord members **ZacharyRL** and **Kotahz** for the crate suggestion this season! Cosmetics in this crate include the Aquatic Armor Trim, Crab Rave Victory Dance, and the Crab Pet.

And of course, Season 4 features an all-new Token shop with some of our cleanest cosmetics yet!
![1.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Crate_fa91aaa6b2.png)

# Translations
The next big feature coming to Hoplite is the ability to translate in-game text elements (chat, scoreboard, items) to one of our available languages. You can access languages via the new Language tab in the settings menu, or via /language. The languages launching with Season 4 are: German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese.
When a language has reached 80% translated by our volunteers, you will automatically be assigned that language if it is also the language you have set your Minecraft to. Please note that as this is a new feature, there may be translation errors. If you find one, be sure to use the /reportbug command to let us know!
Thank you to our Volunteer Translators for making this possible! (Ximarrao, Dzjo, DanleOwO, tio10, Zuza_ST, Mako_ra, Dqco, arrf, BrueBen, ameliabees, Itiraton, Acivara, Nol760, Lega1410, Kampfschwein29, demisword, Shadeslot).
![2.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Languages_17fffbceea.png)

# New Limited-Time Mode: Flower Power!
Coming to Hoplite this Season 4, is a new Limited-Time Mode! Limited-Time Modes will only be available for a week, so play them while you can!

This update’s Limited-Time Mode is **Flower Power Duos** - a game of Battle Royale Duos, where breaking flowers has the chance to drop random items. Items can range from useless to OP in value, so hopefully you get lucky! Preparation time has been reduced to 10 minutes for this mode.
![3.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Flower_Power_4a63a90248.png)


# Battle Royale
## New Items: Mace and Wind Charge!
A brand new weapon and item are coming to Battle Royale! These are a re-implementation of the Mace and Wind Charge from the Minecraft 1.21 snapshot.

The Mace and Wind Charge can be obtained by finding a brand new structure, inspired by the 1.21 Trial Chambers. This structure contains dispensers, spawners, and chests with Breeze Rods and the Heavy Core. These can be used to craft Wind Charges and the new Mace Weapon.
![4.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Trial_Chamber_eda5e5bbb0.png)

## Supply Drops
Supply Drops have returned to Hoplite! Starting when PvP begins, Supply drops will spawn every 4-6 minutes, and notify players within 250 
blocks.  The “Supply Drop Tracker” can be used to locate a Supply Drop once it has fallen.
![5.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/supplydrop_dd6c36eb29.png)

## New Deathmatch Arena
We’ve added the “Acropolis” deathmatch arena to Battle Royale! Here is what it looks like.
![6.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Deathmatch_Arena_ea9a3d42a0.png)

## New Fisherman Kit
Coming to Hoplite in Season 4, is a brand new Fisherman kit! The fisherman kit starts with a Lure 1 fishing rod. At level 5, this kit starts with a Fishing Rod (Lure 2, Luck of the Sea 2), a Wooden Axe (Efficiency 2), a Cooked Cod x6, a Lily Pad x32, a Boat 1x
![7.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/Screenshot_2024_03_31_212801_119522f40b.png)

## General Changes
- Legendaries can now only be crafted once per game
- Win streaks are now tracked in stats
- Blazes will now spawn naturally in the nether throughout the game.
- Several additional structures were added.
- Structures will appear more frequently.
- Ancient Cities will now spawn less rare loot such as Enchanted Golden Apples, Diamond Leggings, and Music Discs.
- Ancient Cities will spawn 40% less Regeneration Potions.
- Rivers will now be slightly smaller and cut off at some points throughout the maps.
- Dragons reduced from 8 to 6, and will now more consistently spawn close to land.
- The “Golden Bounty” perk will award 9 less Golden Nuggets at each level.
- The “Speed” perk will award 2 more seconds of speed at each level.
- Librarian prices for Fire Aspect books increased to 32 per level.
- Librarian prices for Riptide books increased to 24/48/64.
- Fletcher arrow craft will now award 8 arrows instead of 16.
- Obsidian will decay significantly faster in deathmatch.
- Silk touch will no longer take half the durability of your tool when breaking ice.
- Iron rates have been slightly reduced.
- Copper rates have been significantly reduced.
- Bows have been buffed from 70% to 75% of vanilla damage.
- Wither Skeleton Skull drop rates have been increased.
- Pillager Outposts will always include a Goat Horn.

## Kit Changes
- Miner kit now correctly displays a 10% chance for double ores.
- Miner Pickaxe now receives 1 less efficiency at levels 1, 2, 3, and 5.
- Looter no longer receives the Luck potion effect.
- Archer no longer receives string.
- Archer now receives Apples.
- Archer now receives an Efficiency 2 Wooden Axe at levels 4 and 5.
- Archer no longer receives a slowness potion at level 5.

## Legendary Weapons
### Poseidon's Trident
This trident has the melee stats and enchants of a diamond sword.  You can shift and throw to activate Riptide 3 on a 30 second cooldown. There is a 50% chance to deal lightning damage on Riptide impact, and a 10% chance on throw and melee, with a 10 second cooldown.
![8.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft1_c2dad46553.png)
(Recipe has since been changed to seagrass instead of kelp)

### Ravager Horn
Second is the Ravager horn. Use this horn to summon a rideable, friendly ravager. While riding the ravager, you can deal damage to enemies by ramming into them. This weapon has a 5 minute cooldown that starts after the ravager has died.
![9.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft4_9263d481c7.png)

### Beehive Blaster
The Beehive Blaster launches enraged bees at your enemies. Every 12 seconds, shoot this weapon to launch a cluster of bees at your foes. The bees will chase your enemies for up to 15 seconds before despawning.
![10.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft3_7bda994e49.png)

### Hypnosis Staff
This is a legendary staff that can convert any mob into a companion. Right click to fire a mind control beam that turns the first mob it hits to your side. You can control up to 10 mobs at the same time.
![11.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft2_0d0d92a583.png)

### Wither Sickles
These legendary sickles come in a pair, and require two hands to wield. Dealing a fully charged hit with the main sickle will allow you to instantly attack again with the second.  If you successfully double hit an enemy, there is a 20% chance to knock them back and wither them for 5 seconds.
![12.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft5_1673786ab7.png)

### Jim the Sorcerer
Jim can be given an item up to 3 times in order to attempt to upgrade it.  There is a 65%/35% to either upgrade or downgrade one random enchantment on the item.  The same item can be reused, allowing higher than vanilla enchantment levels on items.
![13.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft6_3b207b0ede.png)

## Basic Crafts
### Panacea Potion
This potion regenerates 4 hearts over 20 seconds when consumed, and can be refilled by draining honey from a beehive.
![14.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/basic1_7c75e39e48.png)

### Axolotl boots
A pair of diamond boots crafted with an Axolotl. The wearer is granted Depth Strider II.
![15.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/basic2_b08b2b6b69.png)

### Blazing Crossbow
An advanced crossbow that lights released arrows on fire.
![16.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/basic4_d94042c3fc.png)

### Explosive Pickaxe
A pickaxe that detonates an area around the mined block then drops all destroyed blocks.
![17.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/basic3_5e76c8393d.png)

### Skeleton Leggings
Leggings that have been reinforced with bone plates. When these leggings are worn, hostile mobs will not attack you and you have a 33% chance of not consuming an arrow upon firing a bow.
![18.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/basic5_7125e697dd.png)

### Very Suspicious Stew
A bowl of stew made from a mishmash of ingredients. Consume to regenerate 4 hearts over 5 seconds, and gain a random effect.
![19.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/craft7_575f2a0700.png)

## Recipe Book
Here’s a look at the new recipe book for Season 4!
![20.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/recipe1_935ff25437.png)
![21.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/recipe2_0c79260085.png)
![22.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/receip3_87bb49b7c0.png)


# Duels
- Added Mace + Wind Charge
- Added Custom Mace kit preset
- Added “Wind Burst” Mace-only enchantment
![23.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/maceduels_a8fa63bd0f.png)

# General Changes
- Players can now be blocked via /block <player>. This will prevent you from receiving any chat messages, private messages, or voice audio from the blocked player.


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Season 4 is Here!

# Cosmetics
Starting today, the Valentines day crate is no longer available, and is replaced with the Deep Dark Crate. This crate features all new deep dark inspired cosmetics, including the new Baby Warden Pet and Warden Armor Trim. This new crate will be available for the remainder of the season. (until April 1st)

![wardenpetandtrim.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/wardenpetandtrim_b4eb139f18.png)


# All Games

- Added Animated xp bars to display your level progress after death or victory, replacing the previous chat messages.
- Fixed a bug where Miner Hat and Warrior Helmet could not be Tier Boosted.
We've also fixed numerous common issues with the anticheat:
- Fixed a bug where players would teleport to the ground or get stuck while being affected by the levitation potion effect.
- Fixed a bug where players could not sprint while riding a Camel.
- Fixed a bug where players would get stuck in boats after exiting them.

# Battle Royale

- Increased XP per kill to 20 (was 10).
- Increased XP per assist to 10 (was 5).
- Increased players needed for Solo to automatically start during offpeak hours to 40 players (was 30).
- Increased Solos / Duos world border to 1200x (was 800x).
- Players are now spread across 8 Dragons in Solos / duos (was 4).
- Added Glistering Melons to Nether Fortress chests.
- Trapper class now has +1 Observer added at every level.
- Trapper class perk no longer duplicates crafting tables.
- Trapper class now receives grass blocks and honey blocks.
- Removed Vanilla honey bottle from honey block recipe.
- Second deathmatch border shrink phase now begins after 2.5 minutes (was 5)
- Fixed a bug where Archer's perk would activate from bow shots that were not fully charged.
- Fixed a bug where the Rewards Summary would sometimes show incorrect coin values.
- Fixed a bug with Tim the Enchanter where Axe's would receive Sword enchantments.
- Fixed a bug where Ancient City loot was not properly randomized in solo and duos.
- Fixed a bug where players matchmaking penalties would not decrease after waiting 15 minutes.

# Duels

- Increased overall XP gain when winning/losing
- Added ability to send a rematch request to players at the end of a match
- Increased distance between players when they spawn.
- Removed overall duels level.
- The level progress seen in the duels lobby scoreboard now uses your currently selected kit.
- Reformatted scoreboards across all types of duels matches.
Custom kits now have some item / kit preset restrictions in order to make custom kit queues more fun to play:
- Parkour Duels and Bridge Duels kit presets can no longer be publicly queued as public matches. They can still be created, and used in private games.
- Non-vip players can now only host 1v1 and 2v2 custom kits. 3v3 now requires VIP to host.
- Non-vip players can now only add 1 Legendary weapon to their kits. Tim the Enchanter is excluded from this. 
- Fixed a bug where team colors and health not being displayed for spectators.
- Fixed a bug where enchanted books in custom kits would not have working enchantments. 
- Fixed a bug where Aiglos would show bow enchantments in the custom kit enchantment selector.
- Fixed uneven block placement regions in some Bridge maps.


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Season 3 Mid-Season Patch

As Hoplite goes down for maintenance, let's take some time to explore everything new coming in Hoplite Season 3.

# Rule Changes

To kick this off, let's go through some quick rule changes being added this season:
- Loot Beams is now a Blacklisted Modification, this includes similar mods that display a "beam" or nametag over dropped items and entities.
- Revealing the real name of nicknamed players or streamers, by chat message or voice chat, is now a punishable offense. 

See the complete set of rules at hoplite.gg/rules 

# Cosmetics 

![valentinescombo.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/valentinescombo_159bc3e8d6.png)
Loot Crates are back in Season 3! Head over to the right side of the lobby to purchase Valentines Crates for gems, which offer a bunch of exclusive valentines day cosmetics including the extremely rare Heart Armor Trim and Pink Fox Pet! These crates will only stick around until the end of February, so make sure you don't miss out. 

The return of crates also means the return of shiny cosmetics! Find a Tier Boost inside a loot crate in order to unlock it's shiny mythical variant. All new cosmetics have shiny variants, and some old cosmetics shiny variants have been updated to be more vibrant. On the topic of shinies, it is now possible to preview a shiny cosmetics by shift clicking them in the Upgrade Cosmetics menu.

And of course, Season 3 features an all new Token Shop with all new rewards. 

![token.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/token_9349df0c95.PNG)

With all these new cosmetics we're adding, it only made sense you'll have some personal favorites. We've added the ability to Right Click cosmetics to favorite them, and the ability to select a random cosmetic. When this option is selected, your cosmetic will randomize between your favorites everytime it activates. 


# Battle Royale

Battle Royale has received a update this season, including enabling access to the End Dimension. Here are the Patch Notes for Battle Royale V1.5.0

## The End
The End dimension has been enabled. 
- Stronghold's have a 25% chance to spawn each match, like in previous seasons.
- When a Stronghold generated, between 10-11 Eye of Ender's will already be filled. 
- The dimension has a 500x500 world border
- When the dragon is defeated, the End Transporters will not spawn. Only the main end island is available to players. 
- When exiting The End through the portal, player's will spawn at the center of the map with their glider's deployed. 

## General Changes
- Fire Aspect now only lights enemies on fire if the attack is 90% charged.
- Nether structures odds changed to 55% bastion 25% citadel 20% fortress.
- Increased the rarity of Treasure Bastion chests in the Citadel 1%.
- Increased gold block replacement in Bastions from 40% to 60%.
- TNT minecart nerf has been reduced from 50% to 30%.
- The Nether Reactor Core now always spawns 1 Ancient Debris when placed near ores.
- Arrows and Iron are now only obtained from fishing with the Lucky Rod instead of all fishing rods.
- The rewards summary now displays whenever a player dies.
- The rewards summary now displays a visual progress bar of the player's level progress.
- Fixed a bug where civ teams could potentially be larger than 9.
- Fixed a bug where thrown Enderpearls would damage the user.

## Legendary Weapons

We've made many changes to legendary weapons this season, including our first round of weapon rotations. We've also made some major changes to some current weapons and their balancing.

Changes:
- The Enderbow, Dragon Katana, War Pick, Reaper Scythe have been rotated out. They are no longer attainable in Battle Royale mode.
- Added Sharpness 2 to Grimoire.
- Emerald Blade now receives +1 Sharpness at all times. When crafted, it is sharpness 1. After 8 emeralds, it becomes sharpness 2, etc.
- Changed Magma Blade to a Diamond Sword with no enchants.
- Sonic Crossbow cooldown increased to 22 seconds (was 15).
- Magma Blade can now be enchanted and used in an anvil.
- Adjusted Magma Blade's recipe.

![magma.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/magma_2063d7bdc2.PNG)

New Weapons:
### Aiglos
A legendary elvish spear weapon. Aiglos has the attack speed and damage of a diamond sword, and can also be thrown to create an explosion. After aiglos lands, it instantly teleports back to the user. Enchants that are applied to Aiglos affect the damage and properties of the explosion. 

![aiglos.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/aiglos_3d210d1e82.PNG)

### Shadow Blade
A legendary sword weapon. The Shadow Blade is a diamond sword with a special ability. Right Click to become invisible and gain speed III for 10 seconds. When invisible, only the particles at you feet can be seen. Taking damage or performing a critical hit on another player will cause the ability to cancel early. 

![shadowblade.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/shadowblade_38e3e7e91f.PNG)

### Void Staff
A legendary staff with two toggleable modes. The Void Staff's first mode is the teleportation mode. Right Click to create a portal where you're looking, and right click again to create a second portal. All entites are able to enter the portals to be instantly teleported to the location of the second portal.  The second mode is the Shulker Bullet mode. Right Click to fire a shulker shell, exploding where it lands dealing damage and giving all nearby players levitation for a few seconds. The explosion also spawns 3-5 shulker bullets that seek out enemies.

![voidstaff.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/voidstaff_57a37aec10.PNG)

### Reinforced Elytra
A legendary (and balanced) wearable Elytra. The Reinforced Elytra provides the protection of an Iron Chestplate while worn. Players can glide to build up energy, then hit the ground to release that energy in the form of an explosion that does not damage the player. Sneaking midair activates a rocket boost ability similar to a firework rocket on a 70 second cooldown. This legendary is only available from defeating the Ender Dragon or as a 1% drop chance from Gerald.

![elytra.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/elytra_a6ba5fb33d.PNG)

## Basic Crafts

This season we've added a some basic crafts to change the flow of the game, including the first few sets of custom armors. Unfortunately because of how custom armor is implemented, resource packs that have abnormally sized armor pieces or include built in shaders will no longer function properly.

![armors.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/armors_21d51c7369.png)

## Short Netherite Sword
A simple sword that provides +7.5 attack damage by default. 1x crafts.

![short.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/short_47f0a6fbca.PNG)

## Neptune's Brew
A drinkable dolphins grace potion with a 30 second duration. 2x crafts.

![brew.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/brew_b8dba6e273.PNG)

## Agony
A splash potion of instant damage II and weakness I (60 seconds). 1x crafts

## Cactus Armor
Armor set with a high level of thorns, equivalent to iron armor. 

![cactus.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/cactus_2cbc34d46d.PNG)

## Mushroom Armor
Leather armor set that is slightly worse than iron, but when the full set is worn, the armor's protection enchantment level becomes stronger as the amount of skylight touching the player decrease, up to Protection V.

![mushr.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/mushr_9ec8b6e583.PNG)

## Ent Armor
Leather armor set slightly worse than iron, that when the full set is worn grants a 5% chance to heal the user for half a heart when breaking a naturally grown flowers.

![ent.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/ent_a182688cc8.PNG)

## Horsetamer Boots
A pair of chainmail boots that grant Speed I to a horse being ridden by the player

![horse.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/horse_2e77f86de4.PNG)

## Bandit Leggings
A pair of golden leggings that cause 50% more gold nuggets to drop from kills.

![bandit.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/bandit_52c15c88b2.PNG)

## Recipe book

The Recipe book has been changed from two pages to three pages to accommodate the amount of items we've added this update:

![layout.png](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/layout_f7568c49ef.png)

# Duels

Duels has received major changes this season. Custom Kit menus have been revamped, queueable kits have been changed, and the lobby has been revamped. 

## Legendaries
First lets talk about legendaries.
- Legendary weapons that have been rotated out of Battle Royale are still available for use in custom kit duels.
- The four new legendaries will be added to duels in coming weeks, but not at the season start.
- **All player's can now use legendary weapons in custom kits**

## Modes

We now have 10 queueable modes in the casual playlist:

![casual.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/casual_0d8ed66763.PNG)

- Removed Roulette Royale
Roulette Royale is still available as a custom kit preset. Upon joining the duels lobby, you will be prompted on how to create a Roullette Royale kit.
- Added Battle Royale Kit
This kit contains the same items as Roulette Royale, but without the Legendary Weapons.
- Added Parkour Duels
Race other players through a dynamic parkour map designed by iTMG. Miss a jump and you lose, but be careful not to be so slow you get caught by the dragon pursuing you.
- Added Bridge Duels
Players spawn at opposite sides of a large bridge. Enter the opponents goal to score. First player to score 5 times wins.
- Added Boxing Duels
Players take no damage and only have a diamond sword, and speed 1. The first player to hit the other 75 times wins.

All new modes support being used as a custom kit preset. This means you can create bridge kits with legendary weapons, etc.

## Menus

Custom Kit hosting has undergone some large changes.

- Custom kits now contain settings for how many players per team, map, and amount of rounds in the match.
- Custom kits created from presets now inherit the settings of the preset.
- Players can select what kit is their active kit to be hosted in the kit editor. When clicking the host kit button, the player automatically hosts their selected kit, making the custom kit hosting process much quicker.
![kit.PNG](https://strapi.hoplite.gg/uploads/kit_d5fa7bbe05.PNG)

We've also made several quality of life changes to the custom kit editor:
- Added the ability to right click in the custom kit editor to duplicate the most recently selected item.
- Added the option to randomly select a map in custom kits and the /duel menu.
- Added TNT and TNT Minecrarts as potential custom kit icons.
- Added emoji support to kit names

# General changes
- Doubled XP rates for all modes.
- Added a new map category, Vanilla, These 3 new maps contain natural terrain, cut from natural Battle Royale worlds.
- The Crystal casual queue now only put players into vanilla maps instead of terrain maps.
- Added the ability to /spectate players. You can control who can spectate your matches between everyone, friends, or no one via /settings.
- Custom Kit Stats now properly track, and are shown on leaderboards.
- You can now shift click an option in the quick play menu to make that category open first when the quick play menu is opened.

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# General

- Golden Apples now grant Regeneration II for 10 seconds.
- Defence political path now grants 3x prot I books.
Defence's pick rate was much higher than we hoped for, and the ability for players to start the match with full Protection 3 if they had a coordinated team was far too strong.
- Removed Brutes from Bastions and Citadels.
- Added Warden spawns to Citadels.
- Increased diamond spawn rates in Citadel chests.
- Changed nether structure odds to 33% of each structure type.
The idea behind adding brutes was to make the gameplay more intense and more risky. However this caused a higher amount of player deaths before pvp than we had hoped for. This change should make the nether slightly easier for less skilled players, and prevent skilled players from entering pvp with multiple player heads.
- Added anti-queue matchmaking penalty to solo. 
Like Civ, when you reach 3 matchmaking penalties, you become unable to queue for 15 minutes. This change along with the nether changes are intended to make solo games maintain higher player counts at pvp.
- Adjusted Ares Blessing loot table slightly.
- Added Efficiency 3+ back to miner at the levels that previously had it.
- Added cow and chicken spawns to swamps, deserts, badlands, and arctic regions.
- Arrow shots greater than 50 blocks away now broadcast in chat.
- Fixed a bug where partys larger than 3 players could get on the same team in Civ
- Added a title to the player's screen when they die.
- Lunar team view now colors party members blue and the king yellow. 

# World Gen

- Removed naturally occuring Ancient Debris in the nether.
- Reduced squid and pufferfish spawn rates.
- Fixed a bug where Amethyst Geodes would spawn at predetermined coordinates across the world.
- Fixed a bug where caves wouldn't spawn properly in Swamp biomes.
Due to how the world generation works, it may take a few days to cycle out maps generated before these changes were implemented.

# Crafts / Weapons

- Prevented lucky rod gold/diamond drops from replacing loot if the loot result is a bow or an enchanted book.
- Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow did not trigger Archer's perk.
- Removed custom book and quill recipe that allowed the item to be crafted with a glow ink sac.
- Removed Sharpness, Thorns, and Swift Sneak from Grimoire
- Reduced Fire Aspect on Grimoire to level 1.
- Changed Poseidon's Treasure to an instabook.
- Increased Pufferfish Cannon damage multiplier to 3x. (was 2x)
- Increased Sonic Crossbow damage to 9.0 (was 6.0)
- Dragon Katana now costs 1x Netherite Scrap and 2x obsidian to craft. (was 2x scrap, 1x obsidian)
- Dragon Katana now crafts with 1 teleport charge.
- Magma Blade increased to Sharpness 3. (was 2)
- Reaper Scythe can now only siphon a max of 3 hearts from a single mob.
- Fixed a bug where Fountain of Fate's secondary potion effect was not removed when the fountain was broken.
- Fixed a bug where punching with Artemis Bow would trigger a projectile damage message.
- Increased Emerald Sword's max Sharpness level to 50.

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# Patch Notes - January 12th, 2024

 ## Battle Royale v1.4.3 

This week we have a smaller patch for Battle Royale as we prepare for some larger changes in the coming weeks. 

- Reenabled multi biome structure. (The original temples and the tree)
- Fixed Artemis Bow not trigger the archer class perk.
- Fixed crafting short sword/bow not giving the upgraded sharpness/power enchantments.
- Fixed loyalty tridents following spectators.
- Fixed boats being placed during DM countdown.
- Changed Poseidon's Treasure recipe to include 1x water bucket and 4x sea grass, and removed nautilus shell.
- Re-added trident damage buff at 1.25x.
- Fixed a bug where players could damage their teammates with tnt minecarts.
- TNT minecart damage has been reduced by 50%.
- Dragon Katana and Tridents are now usable in a grindstone.
- Fixed a bug where Sonic Crossbow and Artemis Bow showed inaccurate projectile damage messages.
- Fixed a bug where Absorption hearts didn't accurately show in projectile damage messages.

## Duels 1.0.3
- Fixed a bug with inspecting opponent's inventories after a duel
- Fixed a bug allowed players to be in multiple duels
- Fixed a bug with the ground pound opener getting players stuck
- Fixed a bug with players being invincible
- Fixed a bug where players could get other items from other kits
- Fixed a bug with golden apples removing hunger
- Fixed a bug that allowed spectators to destroy minecarts
- Fixed a bug where players would get kicked for typing in chat
- Fixed ender pearls getting players stuck in the barrier
- Fixed a bug where some legendary weapons wouldn't show damage dealt in chat

## General
- Player mentioning in chat now works as intended
- Disabled chat mention pings for Lunar Client users
- Fixed damage messages not showing absorption
- Fixed damage messages not showing the correct damage dealt
- Fixed a bug where chat channels would not save when changing lobbies
- Fixed a bug where VIPs with a rank color would keep it when nicked

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Jan. 12th, 2024

This patch will be addressing some gameplay changes in Battle Royale and bug fixes and performance optimizations in Duels. Some active Battle Royale games may not reflect the new patch as the update is rolling out.

**Battle Royale v1.4.1**
- Removed the Loyalty enchant from Tridents
- Removed the Trident 2x damage buff
- Added a 3 second cooldown for Trident throws
- NEW **Poseidon's Treasure** item. A basic craft found in the Recipe Book that is an enchanted book with Loyalty I. Can be crafted once.
- Reduced the rate of diamonds, ancient debris, netherite scraps, and netherite ingots in Citadels.
- Removed nether wart from Citadel chests
- Fixed a bug where time-based leaderboard filters would not work and display "Unknown User"
- Fixed a bug where the personal entry for BR leaderboards wouldn't switch after changing filters

**Duels v1.0.1**
- Players can no longer dodge matches, if you leave a game during countdown you will lose the match
- Fixed a bug where ender pearls damage wasn't enabled
- Fixed a bug where players would take damage in Sumo
- Fixed a bug where parties of two would not get on the same teams in Casual 2v2s
- Fixed a bug where players would not receive the Play Again item in Casual 2v2s
- Fixed a bug where non-VIP players would not receive Legendary Weapons in Custom Kit Duels
- Fixed a bug where players would sometimes take damage on the last tick prior to being sent back to the lobby
- We've done a few things to optimize Duels performance. We'll continue monitoring performance 

**General**
- Fixed a bug were personal entries on the leaderboard would sometimes displaying a completely random player
- Fixed a bug where players could not hold two times at once on both the Battle Royale and Duels Lobby Parkour leaderboards

**Rule Changes**
Moving forward, we will make updates with our patch notes on rule changes. The rules webpage at https://hoplite.gg/rules is updated frequently, we encourage all of you to read over the page and refresh yourself with our server rules.
- Render distance fog customizer/removal mods in the Overworld or Nether are allowed. (this does NOT include removing fog under lava)
- All of our rules apply to Duels, and some rules are for Duels specifically. Please keep in mind of this when playing the newly available mode.

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Jan. 2nd, 2024

## Mid-Season Update Video
If you'd prefer to watch rather than read, be sure to check out our mid-season update video over on our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFZfmjMEl4)!

# Battle Royale Update v1.4.0
### General
- Added Citadel structures to the nether. Citadels are massive structures containing tons of mob spawners and loot from both bastions and fortresses. Four different Citadel structures exist. Chests and spawners are not guarenteed to spawn at every location everygame. Every Citadel contains a vault room, which randomizes between having gold ores or potion materials.
- Nether structures now have a chance to be 50% Citadels, 25% Bastions, 25% Fortresses.
- Added Piglin Brutes back to Bastions.
- Replaced 50% of gold blocks in Bastions with gilded blackstone.
- Added natural mob spawning to nether fortresses.
- Increased Ancient City spawn rate to 40%.
- Increased chance of rare drops from Lucky Rods.
- Adjusted Ares Blessing loot table.
- Added diamonds as a possible rare drop from Lucky Rods.
- Added arrows and iron ingots as possible fishing drops.
- Shortswords and Shortbows now upgrade to Sharpness II 12 minute after pvp is enabled and upgrade to Sharpness III when deathmatch begins.
- The Trident craft now comes with Loyalty I.
- Increased thrown Trident damage by 1.5x
- Removed price increase on diamond armor villager trades. The second diamond armor trade will still see an increase in price.
- Added slimeblocks to Trapper kit.
- Added 30 new biome specific structures.
- Fixed a bug where King's Crown could grant infinite health.
- Fixed a bug where heads could duplicate when worn by a mob that was killed.
- Fixed a bug where trapper perk wouldn't work if only one block was in the stack.
### Weapons
- Grimoire: Added Power IV, Swift Sneak III, Thorns III to Grimoire.
- Grimoire: Reduced Grimoire sharpness to I.
- Fountain of Fate: Now always grants Regeneration.
- Fountain of Fate: Removed chance to deal instant damage
- Fountain of Fate: Now grants a randomized secondary potion effect.
- Fountain of Fate: Recipe now requires cobblestone instead of stone bricks.
- Reaper Scythe: Health Syphon increased to 20%
- Sonic Crossbow: Now deals 6.0 true damage at the center of the explosion

# Full Duels Release
Duels has now fully released to **all players**! Duels is a classic gamemode from all eras of Minecraft where players are able to clash head-to-head in intense battles with unique kits. Face off in 1v1s, 2v2s, or even play in a group of friends with a party!

We’ve collected the best features from all renditions of Duels gamemodes from other servers in the past and combined them into one ultimate and feature-complete version of Duels. Our Duels is not just a place to fight players, but a sandbox experience where players can tailor their gameplay to what they’d like, whether that you love competing and climbing the leaderboards or like to goof off and play silly modes with friends.

### Modes and Gameplay

In the Duels lobby, players are able to join queues for kits that they would like to play. Once joining a duel, players are matched up against each other with the same kit and items and duel each other in a battle of skill!

Players have the option of playing the following modes: **Casual Duels, Custom Kit Duels, or Private Duels**. Ranked isn’t here yet, but will be coming in a future update!

#### Casual Duels
In Casual, queue with regular kits against other players. Win games and go on winstreaks to earn XP, which can level up your **overall XP** and **kit XP** (more on that later).

In Casual, you can play **1v1s** or **2v2s**. In 2v2s, you can play with another friend in a party or even get a random teammate!

#### Custom Kit Duels
In Custom Kit Duels, host a custom kit 1v1 duel with your own custom kit or play with other players in their custom kits!

In the Custom Kit Duels menu, you can look at other players that are hosting their own duels. 

You can even preview what is in their kit before deciding to join it.

If you’d like to host your own custom kit with your own rules, you can click the “Host Duel” button and run through the options to host your own for others to play!

To see how to edit your own custom kits, see below in the ‘Kit Editor’ section.

#### Private Duels
Players can play in Private Duels with their party! In your party of up to 20 players, play duels with different team modes and choose from regular kits or custom kits!

As the party leader, you can decide the modes to take your party into.

For the teamsizes, you can select from **FFA**, **Team Split of 2**, or **Party vs. Leader**.

For the kits, you can choose regular kits or your own custom kit. You can choose a normal and competitive kit, or let mayhem ensue with chaotic items in your custom kit with up to 20 players!

#### Personal 1v1 Duels

You can send a personal 1v1 duel invite by doing **/duel <player>** to another player on the server to fight them directly. Select from a regular kit or your own custom kit.

### Kit Editor

A core feature of Duels that makes it what it is, the **Kit Editor**!

The Kit Editor allows players to edit kits. You can edit the layout of regular kits or edit custom kits with our intuitive and in-depth menu system.

Clicking on any kit in the editor will take you to the Kit Editor area.

#### Editing Regular Kits

Editing regular kits is easy. Move around items within your inventory to the format you want them to be in, then save using the NPC. Players are also able to edit their kit by moving items around during the starting countdown of an actual duel.

#### Editing Custom Kits

Edit a custom kit and customize every single item, piece of armor, enchant, and even kit settings!

All players have 4 custom kit slots by default. You can edit a different custom kit in each one and play whichever kit whenever, without having to preselect in a different menu. Click on a Custom Kit slot in the Kit Editor to edit it!

### Levels

Players can play in duels to level up their overall level, similar to Battle Royale. However, there are also **kit levels**, which can be obtained by playing the specific kits for those levels. There are kit levels for every kit available in Casual, as well as a Custom Kit level, which can be leveled up by playing in Custom Kit duels!

All players start by having their overall level displayed, but if you want to show off a different level, you can open the levels menu and click on the kit that you’d like to display. Your level display will upudate in chat and in your nametag.

### Level Up the Battle Pass

While playing games, you can also earn Battle Pass XP and level up the Battle Pass! Through the Battle Pass, you can earn Battle Royale cosmetics, like hats and gliders, to stand out more and look cool while playing. More on the Battle Pass can be found here!

There are still many more features to explore in Duels and Hoplite as a whole! Don’t believe us? Join the server now and give Duels a try!

# New Cosmetic Bundle: The Dragon Bundle
**The Dragon Bundle** now comes to Hoplite as our first directly purchaseable cosmetic bundle! This bundle contains the Dragon Hat, the Dragon Glider, the Dragon's Breath kill effect, the Dragon Rider victory dance, and the Baby Ender Dragon pet!
Mystery Crates are gone for now, but don't worry, they will return for our next event!

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# Leaderboards
New leaderboards have been added to each lobby: 
- Lobby Parkour Times (for both Battle Royale and Duels)
- Most Cosmetics Owned
- Most Shiny Cosmetics Owned

# Other
- Cosmetic previews have been added. You can now preview cosmetics from any menu.
- New feature available for VIPs only: Chat Emojis! Type ":" and press tab to type an emojis, and do /emojis to view all available emojis.
- Holiday update and theming is now gone


All Duels stats have been reset from the VIP Early Access.
Battle Royale Seasonal, Monthly, Weekly, AND Daily leaderboards will only reflect starting from today.

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Season 2 Mid-Season Update

# Battle Royale v1.3.0

## General
- Added Matchmaking Penalties:
Leaving a solo game before is pvp enabled or intentionally dying before pvp enables will cause the player to receive 50% less currencies in the next game. 
Leaving a civ game before is pvp enabled or intentionally dying before pvp enables will cause the player to receive 50% less currencies in the next game. If the player causes a penalty to be added 3 games in a row, the player will be unable to queue into a civ match for the next 15 minutes. 
Currencies are Coins, XP, Battle Pass XP.
Dying as intended in a game after the pvp phase is reached will remove all penalties.
If a penalty is added in civ mode due to a death, being respawned by the Revival Star will remove that penalty.
Because of the nature of tracking intentional deaths, sometimes penalties may be inaccurately added. We'll keep a close watch on this system and make adjustments to make it as fair as possible.
- Mysticism Political Path now grants an Enchanting Table to the King.
- Made several optimizations to different areas of the game to reduce lag.
- Fixed a bug where players could get stuck deploying their glider if the dragon spawned near the border.
- Added thunder sounds in the sky when a player dies.
- King's crown now only grants extra health to the King if the King's Crown is worn. The King's Crown will not give non King players extra health.
- Set all Vanilla recipes to be unlocked so all recipes can be searched for via the vanilla crafting guide.

## Class Changes
- Nerfed Miner pick to Efficiency 2 at all levels. This means it can no longer instabreak netherrack.
- Added Power 1 to Archer bow.
- Made Archer bow able to be used in an anvil.
- Warrior Perk now regenerates 3 hearts on kill (was 2).

## Legendaries
- Improved Lich Staff projectile visuals
- Made silk touch tools take 50% durability damage when mining an ice block.
This should limit the amount of lich staffs that can be crafted when finding one Silk Touch book.
- Changed Reaper Scythe to copy potion effects instead of stealing them.
- Changed Pufferfish Cannon damage multiplier to 2x (was 3x).
- Changed Pufferfish Cannon cooldown to 20 seconds (was 10).
The Pufferfish cannon works by multiplying the damage Pufferfish deal by a factor the first time a player is damaged by the pufferfish, so this change should maintain its utility as a crowd control / anti-running weapon without being overbearing like it was before.
- Fixed a bug where Mjolnir would deal extra melee damage when it's cooldown was active.
This Mjolnir change was hotfixed in earlier this week.
- Fixed a bug where the Magma Club could be used on loggers.


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Hoplite Patch Notes - Dec. 21st, 2023

# Battle Royale v1.2.0

## General
- Improved Dragon sequence to be smoother and cause less lag at the start of a match
- Added an accessibility setting that changes team flag icons to shaped icons representing the biomes. Access this via the game tab in /settings
- Added support for lunar clients team waypoint feature
- Disabled some disallowed mods on Lunar Client
- Reduced power nerf to 15% (was 20%)
- Reverted projectile velocity change for crossbows and fishing rod bobbers
- Santa notifications now send from a much further distance
- Santa now spawns more frequently
- Fixed a bug where players were sitting on the tail of the dragon
- Fixed an issue that let players bypass the Anti Cheat while gliding
- Fixed a bug where Fire Resistance would end before pvp enables in Civ
- Fixed a bug where Ares Blessing would sometimes break without producing an item
- Fixed a bug where dungeons would generate in the air
- Fixed a bug where multiple players could spawn in the same deathmatch pod in solo

## Weapons
- Fixed a bug where Lich Staff and Pufferfish Cannon could deal damage before pvp
- Fixed a bug where Magma Club wasn't unbreakable
- Reduced Mjolnir's throw damage to 2.0 (was 3.0)
- Reduced chance of music discs spawning in Vanilla structures
- Reduced Sonic Crossbow explosion velocity dealt to enemies by 40%. Shooting yourself with the crossbow will deal the same velocity it previously did.
- Reduced Sonic Crossbow max damage to 14 (was 16)
- Reduced Lich Staff cooldown to 35s (was 40)
- Massively reduced lich staff projectile velocity dealt to enemies. Shooting yourself with the lich staff will deal the same velocity it previously did.
- Improved the hitbox of the lich staff projectile
- Increased velocity of Pufferfish Cannon shots
- Increased amount of Pufferfish shot by the Pufferfish Cannon to 3-5 (was 1-3)


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Hoplite Patch Notes - Dec.14th, 2023

# Battle Royale v1.1.0

## General
- Golden Apple healing has been increased!
- Regeneration 1 now heals the player for **0.5 health** every **37 ticks** (was 50). In Vanilla, regeneration 1 heals every 50 ticks. Regeneration 2 heals every 25 ticks. This buff should result in healing that still cannot be chugged, but can still heal you fast enough to keep you in the fight. Due to this change, golden apples heal for less duration, but heal the same amount of health.
- Arrows now shoot more accurately while moving
- Corrected some errors with structure spawning
- Corrected an issue preventing the Autumn team from appearing in civ matches
- Deathmatch border now deals **1 heart** per border tick. (was .25 hearts)
- Fixed a bug where Santa would spawn in the nether

## Weapons
**Midas Sword**
- Fixed a bug where gold nuggets wouldn't drop from mobs before pvp begins
- Reduced the amount of gold nuggets dropped by mobs

**Fountain of Fate**
- Chance of each fountain type is now **60% good, 40% bad**. (was 50/50)
- Instant damage reduced to **10 heart**s (was 20)
- Instant damage now only applies to the placer
- Lingering potion radius reduced to **3** (was 4)
- Lingering potion duration reduced to **30 seconds** (was 5 minutes)
- Regen effect increased to **3** (was 2)

**Lich Staff**
- Full cooldown increased to 40 seconds (was 20)

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Dec. 7th, 2023

# Battle Royale v1.0.0

## Battle Royale
- Tracker Pack wolves health has been reduced to 7
- Villager Diamond armor trades now cost more emeralds and can only be traded with once per villager refresh.
- Added 3 second delay before play again button can be pressed after dying
- Deathmatch border now shrinks to 2 blocks wide
- Deathmatch border is now centered at the center of 00 instead of the corner
- Dragons will now destroy blocks in their path at the start of the game
- Fixed some quests not tracking
- Fixed weekly quests not resetting
- Fixed some duplication glitches with cobwebs
- Nicknames will no longer show your real star level
- Players are now extinguished when pvp phase begins
- Players can no longer take damage during the deathmatch countdown
- Players who die outside the border will now have their items teleported 10 blocks inside the border
- Removed Wizards

## Legendary Weapon Updates
- Fixed a bug where the Enderbow could be used during the deathmatch countdown
- Enderbow is now power 3
- Dragon Katana can now hold 3 charges (was 2)
- Dragon Katana recipe now takes 2x netherite scrap and 1x obsidian. (was 1x netherite scrap, 2x obsidian)
- Midas Sword now always upgrades sharpness on it's two first kills
- Emerald Sword now takes less emeralds to upgrade early sharpness levels and more for later sharpness levels
- Fixed a bug where Reaper Scythe's ability could activate from far distances
 
## New Legendaries
- **Fountain of Fate:** Place to spawn a fountain that has a 50% chance to be positive or negative, if positive it gives nearby players regen 2 and gives players who were next to it at the moment it was placed absorption V. If negative, gives wither 2 to nearby players and gives players who were next to it at the moment it was placed instant damage 3. Lasts 5 minutes after placed
- **Gerald the Sniffer:** Summons a sniffer that walks around for a bit before digging up a random legendary weapon
- **War Pick:** Diamond pick. Destroying blocks creates a 3x3 explosion, 5 seconds cooldown. Critting a player has a chance (33%) to deal massive damage to a random piece of armor, dealing more damage to higher rarity gear. 15 second cooldown
- **Magma Club:** Sharp 2 iron sword. Chance to catch enemies on fire if the attack is fully charged, grants fire resistance while held

## Holiday Update
- Added surprise presents while mining. Destroy ores to have a chance to spawn a Christmas Present, which will drop early game materials when destroying.
- Added Santa Supply Drops. Over the course of the match, Santa will drop supply drops of high tier loot at locations on the map. All player's receive a Santa Tracker item that lead you to the location of the last drop.
- Added Candy Canes, obtainable from Santa supply drops. Consume a candy cane to regain 2 hearts instantly.
- Solo mode now has a Holiday themed biome at the center of every map, with candy canes and a massive Tree.

## World Gen Update
- Sugar cane now spawns in more biomes
- Added Autumn civ team and biome
- Revamped Arctic region biomes to be less flat and have more trees
- Added more mob spawns to some biomes that were lacking some animal types
- Added Holiday biome to 00 in solo
- Added more 00 biome variation. This change will be seem after the holiday season is over.
- Added water and lava columns in caves
- Removed water puddles that could intersect with mineshafts
- Adding dripping water and lava inside caves.
- Added trees to the mushroom biome
- Added 10 new region based structures

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Dec. 1st, 2023

Hoplite is now down for maintenance as we prepare the server for Season 2. We'll be back at **5pm GMT**!

In the meantime, let's go over all of the new content for Season 2.


## Season 2 Live Reveal
If you'd prefer to watch rather than read, be sure to check out the live reveal of season 2 over on our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsrI_tQXE94)!
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# Holiday Update
The holiday season has arrived at Hoplite!

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With this update, mining ores has a chance to spawn presents that have basic gear, there’s a special festive biome at 0,0 with a christmas tree, and there’s a chance for santa’s sleigh to spawn at a random coordinate on the map after the PvP phase. There may be some really great loot in his presents, so you'll want to be the first to find him with your santa tracker, which is a special new compass that you'll spawn into the game with.

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Additionally, all structures on Hoplite have been decorated for the holidays! On top of that, there are 10 brand new structures that have never been seen before, which are, of course, christmas-ified as well.


# World Generation Update
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Included in the 10 brand new structures, there are now structures in the mushroom biome and jungle biome as well.

There is also a brand new team, Autumn, which you may see in some of your games.

And finally, some modifications have been made to the Arctic and Mushroom biomes. The snow region has a lot more trees, has more subtle height variation so it’s less flat overall, and a reduced amount of powdered snow pockets. As for Mushroom, the mushroom hills are much more flat so terrain in the biome can be navigated easily, and mushroom hills now spawn trees instead of mushrooms.

Lastly, most regions now have a higher chance to spawn more types of passive mobs, and the desert and badland biomes now have trees with leaes.



# New Parkour by iTMG
Out with the old, in with the new! Our old parkour has been completely transformed by [iTMG](https://www.youtube.com/@iTMG), and it's seriously awesome. There is also some hidden parkour to try, if you're able to find it!
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# Shiny cosmetics!
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Introducing shinies: a brand new variation of hats and gliders. To unlock them, you'll need an extremely rare tier boost item.

When you tier boost a cosmetic it gets upgraded to the new highest rarity (mythical) changes colour, and becomes enchanted!

And don’t worry, you’ll still be able to equip the non shiny version after upgrading a cosmetic.

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# Mystery Crates
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Next up are the brand new **Mystery Crates!**

We've made triple the amount of cosmetics this seasonal update, but instead of having a seasonal token shop - our holiday cosmetics can be unlocked from the limited time holiday mystery crate.

These mystery crates contain some of the coolest cosmetics ever seen on hoplite. The rarest of which include a brand new type of cosmetic - a custom armor trim that’s applied to all the armor you craft in battle royale.

The mystery crate also contains the first ever pet on hoplite, the snowman pet which follows you around in the lobby!

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You also have a chance to get tier boosts that let you upgrade your cosmetics to the shiny variant, and a small chance for the hat or glider to be shiny when you open a mystery crate. As it is possible to get duplicates, we made it so that you progress towards unlocking a free tier boost whenever you get a cosmetic you already own.

If you own vip rank on hoplite, you’ll be able to claim multiple holiday crates from the brand new delivery man as soon as season 2 begins.

Don't worry if you don't have a rank! There's a ton of brand new deliveries waiting to be claimed, like a daily reward and gems for following hoplite on different platforms.

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# Season Upgrades and Nick Perms
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Next are the new season upgrades on our store!

If you’re looking to get a head start with the token shop this season, and a bunch of gems to use on mystery crates, our new Starter Pack gives you 20 battle pass tiers, 500 gems, and an instant shiny variation of the default hat.

We've also noticed a lot of well known players in the community have been asking for nick perms, so we’ve added that as an option on the store as well. By purchasing the season nickname pass, you’ll have the ability to use /nick and disguise yourself during that season.



# Legendary Weapons
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Introducing the 4 newest additions to our legendary weapon roster! The new legendary weapons this season are: The War Pick, The Legendary Sniffer, The Magma Club, and The Fountain of Youth.

### The War Pick
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By destroying blocks with the War Pick, you'll create a 3x3 explosion on a 5 second cooldown. Critting a player with the warpick has a 15% chance to deal massive damage to a random piece of armor, dealing more damage to higher rarity gear. This is on a 15 second cooldown.

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### The Legendary Sniffer
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This weapon summons none other than Gerald the sniffer, who walks around for a bit before digging up a random legendary weapon!

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### The Magma Club
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The magma club is a sharp 2 iron sword with a 33% chance to catch enemies on fire if the attack is fully charged. The Magma Club also grants fire resistance while held.

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### The Fountain of Fate
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Finally, the Fountain of Fate. The Fountain of Fate has a 50% chance to be either positive or negative when placed. If positive, it gives nearby players regen 2 and gives players who were next to it at the moment it was placed absorption V. If negative, the fountain of fate gives wither 2 to nearby players and gives players who were next to it at the moment it was placed instant damage 3. The Fountain of Fate lasts 5 minutes after placed.

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Season 2 & The Holiday Update Are Here!

There are so many new features in Season 2, we needed a liveshow to showcase it all!

So mark your calendars for this **Thursday** at **8pm GMT**, as we'll be doing a liveshow over on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@HopliteNetwork) showing you all that season 2 has to offer: From the new Legendary Weapon Grand Reveal, to the 3 new cosmetic types, to the huge holiday update, to the worldgen update, and more...


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Introducing: The Hoplite Liveshow!

# Battle Royale v0.6.0

## Battle Royale Changes

This week, we're focusing on level progression and general bug fixes.

### General Changes

- Added Play Again button to player's hotbars after they die.
- Increased speed 2 velocity to **35%** (was 30%).
- XP per level up has been changed to **3000** per level (was 2000). - Most player's levels will be reduced due to this change.
- Revamped XP gain sources to be more rewarding to playtime.
- Added XP reward for petting the dragon.
- Defence path now grants **1x prot 2 book** and **2x prot 1 book** (was 3x prot 2). - This change was hotfixed in earlier this week.
- Replaced Trapper kit observer's with dripstone.

### General Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where totems would fail to activate when receiving a killing blow from some legendaries and the deathmatch border.
- Fixed a bug where Ares Blessing would fail to produce an item if it was spawned inside a block.
- Fixed a bug where assists wouldn't track properly in Civilization.
- Fixed a bug where voting for yourself wouldn't grant King election XP.

### Weapon Changes

- Dragon Katana now gains **1 charge** on kill (was 2) and can hold a total of **2 charges** (was 3).
- Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow lightning wouldn't deal additional damage.
- Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow lightning could trigger without the bow being fully drawn.
- Fixed a bug where infinity books could be applied to Artemis Bow.
- Artemis Homing Arrows are no longer affected by enchantments.
- Fixed a bug where Reaper Scythe could be triggered at range when throwing Mjolnir.
- Fixed a bug where Reaper Scythe could steal potion effects from non player mobs.



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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 23rd, 2023

In just over a week, the very first season of Hoplite will be ending to make way for Season 2. 
What exactly does this mean? Keep reading to find out what new things are coming to Hoplite in Season 2, and what's leaving the server forever.

## Tokens and Token Shop are reset!
Once the season ends, you will lose your **Season 1 Tokens**.

Along with your Season 1 tokens, the **Season 1 Token Shop** will be gone forever. Make sure to use up your remaining Season 1 tokens on any cosmetics that you've been eyeing, as Season 2 will bring on new tokens and an entirely new token shop with new hats, gliders, kill effects, and victory dances!
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## Battle Pass is reset!
And finally, Season 1's Battle Pass will be replaced with a **brand new Battle Pass** for you to max out. This battle pass will grant you **Season 2 Tokens** for the Season 2 token shop.
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## So, what's new for Season 2?
This is such a massive update, and we can't spoil it yet! Stay tuned over the next few days as we reveal all of the new features, events, and brand new cosmetics we have planned for season 2.

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Season 1 Ending Soon!

# Battle Royale v0.5.0 & QoL Updates
## Battle Royale Changes

The focus of this Battle Royale patch is balancing Civilization king election paths and bug fixes.

### General Changes

- Reduced power nerf from 25% to **20%** - this means that Power bows have had their damage increased, again
- In Civilization, the Mysticism path’s randomly enchanted books now include better enchantment possibilities
- In Civilization, the Mysticism path now also provides an anvil
- In Civilization, the Defense path now provides **3x Protection 2 books** (was 1x Protection II and 1x Projectile Protection II)
- Looter kit spider eyes and glow ink sacs levels are swapped, granting glow ink sacs at level 1 and spider eyes at level 3
- New and updated model for King's Crown
- Level progression at levels 100+ now requires 50% more XP compared to levels 0-100
- Proximity chat rewards bonus has been increased from 10% to **20%**
- Bottle o' Enchanting recipe has been changed from using 8x Lapis to 4x Lapis Blocks
- The Haste perk is no longer granted when breaking nether gold or quartz ore
- Deathmatch border shrink delay and shrink speed is faster
- Deathmatch border now has a second shrinking phase, 5 minutes after the first shrink finishes, the border will continue to shrink all the way, causing all players to take border damage forever
- We now have a few new solutions in place to tackle certain blacklisted modifications; moving forward you should see even LESS cheaters in every game

### General Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where head pickup priority would prevent picking up partial stacks of some items until the head was picked up
- Fixed a bug where breaking an empty furnace with a Smelter’s Pickaxe would grant XP
- Fixed a bug where players reaching a star prestige (level 100, 200, etc.) would not upgrade their prestige color until the level after
- Fixed a bug where players in Solo would spectate a random player rather than the player that killed them
- Fixed a bug where the Smelter’s Pickaxe could be used in an anvil
- Fixed a bug where spectral arrows could damage teammates
- Fixed a bug where right clicking a chest with a head or golden head would eat the head rather than open the chest
- Fixed a bug where you could warp party members that didn’t play into your game as spectators
- Fixed a bug where opening a chest in a shipwreck containing a map would lag the server
### Weapon Changes

- Reduced Lich Staff frostball damage
- Lich Staff now always replaces blocks to blue ice instead of normal ice
- Reaper Scythe cooldown increased from 22 -> **30 seconds**
- Enderbow cooldown reduced from 45 -> **35 seconds**
- Pufferfish Cannon cooldown reduced from 15 -> **10 seconds**

### Weapon Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where a Totem of Undying would not activate if hit with a fatal blow from Artemis Bow lightning or Mjolnir throw

## QoL Changes & General Bug Fixes

- Players can now acquire VIP rank in the main Discord server as long as they do /link in-game and link their Discord account
- Improved/revamped a few textures and GUIs, like the Gift Box and the Victory icon displayed when winning in Battle Royale
- Halved the cooldown between click actions in the friends menu
- Fixed a bug where weekly quests would reset everyday. This fix won’t go out immediately and will instead be fixed 4-12 hours after this patch has been posted
- Fixed a bug where lobbies would appear out of order in the Lobby Selector GUI
- Fixed a bug where clicking the next page in the Friend Requests GUI didn’t work
- Fixed a bug where nicked players would have their nicked names shown on the leaderboards


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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 16th, 2023

# Battle Royale v0.4 & Network Updates
## Battle Royale Changes

The focus of this Battle Royale patch is balancing potions and bug fixes.

### General Changes

- Players are now only able to brew up to **6 potions per game**
- Speed II now provides **only +30% speed boost** (was 40%, Speed I = 20%)
- Strength I now buffs attack damage by +0.5 (was +1) and Strength II buffs attack damage by +1 (was +2)
- Nether now has a **100% chance** to spawn a structure again (was 50%)
- The Power enchant is now only **reduced by 25%** (was 30%)
- Breaking a furnace with a Smelter’s Pickaxe will smelt everything in the furnace. Ex. a furnace with Raw Beef inside being broken will turn into Cooked Steak
- Treasure maps can no longer be found in chests in structures

### General Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where players would be able to bypass the party limit in Civilization
- Fixed a bug where players would receive assists even after never dealing damage to the player they received the assist for
- Fixed a bug where Miner and Trapper would not display the prestige weapon in the Class Upgrade GUI
- Fixed a bug where you could damage teammates in Civilization with a trident
- Fixed a bug where the game would tell you you could craft a Golden Head despite only having 1 head and 7 gold
- Fixed a bug where Golden Heads received from Ares Blessing would not stack with regularly crafted Golden Heads
- Fixed a bug where strongholds would spawn at or close to the surface

### Weapon Changes

- Teleportation damage dealt by Dragon Katana has been reduced from 6 -> 3

### Weapon Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where players could use the Enderbow during the deathmatch countdown
- Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow arrows would home onto spectators if they were in the way
- Fixed a bug where the Emerald Sword would have bugged interactions occur when removing it from offhand
- Fixed a bug where Lich Staff would have weird knockback physics with players
- Fixed a bug where a Sonic Crossbow being enchanted with multishot getting kills would not contribute towards the "Kill players w/ a ranged weapon" quest

## Network Updates

- Added more servers to support higher capacities in each mode of Battle Royale
- Fixed an issue where random lag spikes and freezes would occur, especially in the lobby
- Fixed an issue where joining any server would take several seconds
- Fixed an issue where when reaching the front of the queue, the server would not send you and you would be stuck in the queue lobby
- Fixed an issue where the Friends menu would not load up immediately
- Fixed quests; quests now track properly and provide rewards
- Overall improved server processes and performance in several other areas

### QoL Changes & General Bug Fixes

- In the Server Navigator, If players click on “Battle Royale” while being in a Battle Royale lobby it opens the Quick Play GUI (and eventually, vice versa)
- In the friends list, you can now see more accurately what a friend is playing (solo or civilization). More changes will be coming to this soon, like displaying if a friend is in the limbo or how many players are remaining in the friend’s game.
- Rewarded XP from weekly quests have been lowered
- The Lobby Selector now correctly shows every lobby’s number
- Added /lobby, /leave, and /l as command aliases to /hub
- Added /p inv as a command alias to /p invite
- Fixed an issue where the bossbar and actionbar would stick around even after getting out of the queue or upon bypassing the queue for ranks with permissions
- Fixed an issue where VIP ranks of different colors would not be correctly organized in order of priority in tab

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 9th, 2023

The latest patch notes are here! This article contains patch notes for version 0.3 for our Battle Royale gamemode, as well as some website changes and server optimizations.

# Battle Royale

### General Changes
> - Proximity Chat bonus now only applies if the player is undeafened
> - Nether now has a 50% chance to not spawn any structure
> - Defence political path now gives one Protection 2 Insta-book and one Projectile Protection 2 Insta-book
> - If a player is hooked by a fishing rod, and is either taking damage or dealing damage to the rod's owner, the fishing line will break
> - Piglins now trade crying obsidian
> - Games are now on normal difficulty, causing explosions to deal less damage
> - Halloween candies, halloween structures, halloween cosmetics, and the halloween spawn have been removed

### General Bugs
> - Quests now grant XP properly
> - Players are now prevented from using tracker packs during the deathmatch countdown
> - Kit stats now track accurately
> - Shooting a player that has absorption hearts now sends a damage indicator message
> - Throwing a mjolnir now displays the projectile hit message, like other projectiles
> - Crafted Obsidian now has crafting hints
> - Kit Items now have crafting hints
> - Corpses no longer drop double of whatever item was in their hand
> - Corpses no longer turn into drowned zombies
> - Rejoining now shows your and your teammates team flag on tab
> - Fixed a bug where sheared trees would drop apples in deathmatch
> - Fixed a bug where too many players could get into a game
> - Fixed players being able to fishing rod ares blessings mid air to duplicate it
> - Fixed Revival Stars spawning players above the deathmatch barriers
> - Fixed a bug where players wouldn't be teleported to deathmatch
> - Fixed a bug where players wouldn't be correctly added to a game as it started

### Weapon Changes
> - Added Sharpness 2 to Grimoire
> - Added a chance for emeralds to drop from mob kills while using the Emerald Sword
> - Lich Staff now has a 1 second cooldown in between its ice shots
> - Lich Staff deals more horizontal knockback to the user of the staff
> - Dragon Katana no longer grants speed when held

### Weapon Bugs
> - Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow was being overly nerfed by the power nerf
> - Fixed a bug that let players infinitely trigger the Midas Sword kill ability
> - Fixed a bug that let players duplicate Mjolnir
> - Fixed players being able to use a Midas Sword in smithing tables
> - Fixed a bug where killing corpses with a Midas Sword or Dragon Katana would not activate the weapons kill ability

# Website Updates
> - Patch notes will now be posted as Blog Posts on the website
> - The Installer page now has more information with an FAQ section
> - Various store items have been updated to have more information and more graphics

# General Changes & Optimizations
> We've been closely monitoring the situation with network lag and we're making the effort to address these problems, especially in the lobby. 
> With this patch, we've rolled out a few optimizations and bug fixes that we believe will mitigate some of the lag. 
> We'll continue to oversee how operations are performing and our ultimate goal is to make lag no longer an issue. We appreciate how patient everyone has been with this process!

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 6th, 2023

**Halloween has come to Hoplite!**
Curious about the features in our limited-time Halloween update? Read this blog post to find out more!

## Limited-time Halloween Cosmetics
Head over to the token shop to see a limited-time "halloween" menu. Here, **VIPs** can unlock rare Halloween themed gliders, kill effects, and hats! Better be quick, as there's only a short amount of time to unlock these cosmetics until they're gone forever.

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## Custom Halloween Structures
The custom structures in Battle Royale have been **spookified**! For a limited time only, some structures have received a very scary makeover.
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## Halloween Candy
Go trick-or-treating in custom structures for a chance to find these halloween candies in chests. Be careful, as the effects of these candies can be unpredictable! You could get a treat like regeneration, or a trick like poison...
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Halloween at Hoplite!

Introducing: **Hoplite cosmetics!**

We have a variety of cosmetics to unlock in each gamemode and all of them are super high quality and impactful. As we only have a limited amount available in the shop each season (every 2 months), you'll need to level up your battle pass and unlock as many as possible before they're no longer available!

A limited amount of cosmetics will be available for you to obtain each season.

## What Cosmetics are There?

There are different types of cosmetics across the server. In the Battle Royale gamemode, there are:

**Hats:** There are a variety of different hats that you can wear into battle. All hats have the same armour value as a diamond helmet, so you'll get to wear it all game. But don’t worry, *everybody* receives a basic starter hat!

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**Gliders and Dragon Skins:** Glide into a Battle Royale game in style! By equipping a custom glider, you’ll stand out amongst the crowd in each Battle Royale game as you soar from the sky to the ground.

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**Kill Effects:** Because killing people the normal way is lame. Smite your opponent with a strike of lightning, send the head of your slain enemy into the underworld, or make gravestones appear from the ground.

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**Victory Dances:** For those who like to show off a little. Why not win in style with a cool fireworks show, a human cannonball, or by riding a camel to victory?

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## Level up the Battle Pass and Earn Tokens

You can earn XP by playing games, completing quests, earning proximity chat bonuses, and more! Use your XP to progress through the battle pass, or speed up progress with gems from our store.

When you complete a tier of the Battle Pass, you will earn tokens which you can use at the token shop.

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## Welcome to: The Token Shop!

In the token shop, you can use tokens that you’ve previously earned to purchase cosmetics. By unlocking each slot in the token shop, you are coming one step closer to unlocking a rare cosmetic at the end of the tier!

Each cosmetic can be obtained freely in any order, besides the cosmetic in the last slot of each row. This is the completion cosmetic, and it is of legendary rarity. All 5 cosmetics in the row must be purchased before the completion cosmetic can be obtained!

The first tier of the token shop is free for everybody, however by purchasing VIP, you will unlock tiers 2, 3, and 4. The shop resets every 2 months, so you better be quick! The next reset will be December 1st, and there may even be a festive surprise waiting in store for you…

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## Buying Battle Pass tiers with Gems

Is it the end of the battle pass and you *need* that one last cosmetic before the store resets? Maybe you’d like to boost your progress on the Battle Pass and be the first to unlock this season’s cosmetics?

By buying gems in our store, you can directly purchase Battle Pass tiers! This can be done through our webstore, which is coming very soon…

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So, which cosmetic are you getting first?

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Battle Pass & Cosmetics

Open beta means that Hoplite has gone through the majority of its critical testing and development, and is now considered in a playable state for the public. This means that anyone can hop onto the server and play!

Our goal during the open beta stage is to get player feedback early on, find bugs, and create a community around the server.

### How long will it last?
Open beta will last until all bugs have been fixed and both of our gamemodes (duels and battle royale) are fully implemented with all of their planned features. When open beta is finished, Hoplite will be considered officially released.

### Testing Timeslots
During the first few days of open beta release, we’ve decided to run **timeslots** from **4-7pm EST** where anyone can join the server. This allows us to condense all players into the timeslot and run more efficient tests with as many players as possible.

These timeslots will only be implemented during the **first few days** of open beta, afterwards we will open the server for you to play at any time.

### Server Cap
The server will be **capped at 600 players** on the initial launch of open beta. We will gradually increase this over time as the server grows, and we feel confident that it can support many players at once.

If the server is full, you’ll be put into a **queue (limbo**). Purchasing VIP will allow you to **bypass the queue**.

### Store 
Our VIP rank is a monthly subscription that renews every 30 days. For a limited time only, you will get 500 gems when purchasing VIP!

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What is Open Beta?

Battle Royale is our most extensive gamemode, which is a fast-paced adaptation of SpeedSilver’s Battle Royale series. The goal is to mine for resources and try to become the last player standing! As natural regeneration is off, you’ll need to get golden apples for healing and get kills for more gold and edible player heads. 

This article goes in-depth about Battle Royale, so keep reading to prepare for open beta!

## Solo and Civilization Modes
There are two modes in Battle Royale to choose from:

🥇**Solo** - The solo mode is quite tough to win. You'll be playing alone against 60 other people in a game that lasts 50 minutes. Solo has proximity chat, and you'll have the option to hear everyone, nobody, or just your friends!

🏆**Civilization** - In the civilization mode, you'll join forces with other players and elect a king, making winning a lot more possible (with the right strategy). Each game will hold 10 teams of 9, and you can make parties with up to 3 friends. This mode also has proximity chat, and you can toggle between hearing everyone, only your team, or just your friends. (Or nobody, but those who connect to proximity chat will receive an XP bonus!). Games are 50 minutes long, and end in an epic deathmatch!

## Game Phases

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🐉**Phase #1: Dragon Scatter** -
You’ll start each game on a dragon, customized in Civ mode to your team colours. After which, you’ll soar safely onto the ground with the help of a glider.

⛏**Phase #2: Preparation** (15 minutes) -
Next is preparation. PvP is disabled, so you’ll be safe for a short while! Use your time wisely to get materials, gear up, go to the nether, and craft legendary weapons to support you in battle.

👑**Phase #3: King Election** (1 Minute, Civ mode only) -
If you're playing civ mode (teams), you’ll have 1 minute to elect a king. You can use the “/vote” command to open the menu, but it will auto open after 30 seconds in case you forget! Make sure you participate, as you get bonus coins and XP if you vote for a king. Whoever has the most votes becomes king!

There are different political paths that players can select when running for king, and these give buffs or items to *everyone* on the team when the election is over! These paths include offense (gives sharpness books), defence (gives protection books), farming (gives golden apples), mysticism (gives random enchanted books).

⚔ **Phase #4: Pvp** (40 minutes)  -
This is what you’ve been preparing for all game! The border will start shrinking, and now you can fight other players or teams. If you’re still underground, now is the time to resurface. If you're underground for too long during this phase, you will be given a warning to get above ground before meeting a deadly enemy…

🔥**Phase #5: Deathmatch** -
After PvP, the remaining teams and players will be teleported to the deathmatch arena where you’ll have to fight to the death. After some time, the border will begin shrinking both vertically and inwards, and the match will go on until only 1 team (or player) is left standing!

## World Generation

In Battle Royale, we use a custom seed generator so each world is completely unique and different from the next. The biomes are completely custom, and so are the structures that you’ll find randomly across the map. You may even recognize some structures from SpeedSilver’s Battle Royale and Purge videos!

The world only goes down to y=-14 and deepslate begins at y=8, making caving much quicker in early-game. One ancient city and one stronghold both have chances to generate each game, at a completely random location. 

You’ll never know what to expect from the world when queueing into a new Battle Royale game, and this is what makes it so much fun!

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## Nether

Your able to enter the nether right off the bat. Only 1 structure has the chance to spawn each game, which will appear at the centre of the nether. The border in the nether is 150 blocks, and slowly closes as the game progresses. Not to worry though, if your portal gets taken over by the border, there’s always an unlit portal at 0 70 0 so you can get back to the overworld!

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## Recipe Book

There’s both basic crafts and legendary weapons to unlock each game. Keep your eyes peeled for a **future blog post** where we’ll **reveal all of the recipes**, so you can be extra prepared for open beta!

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## Levelling (Star) System

As you play Battle Royale, you'll earn XP that you can use to level up! Each time you level up, you'll earn coins that you can use to level up your classes and perks.

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## Classes & Perks

Classes and perks are upgradable with coins that you earn by playing games and levelling up! Our classes currently include the Miner class, Warrior class, Archer class, Looter class, and Trapper class. When you progress your classes, you can obtain a rare corresponding hat for that class at level 5, and a special skin for the main tool at prestige.

Perks are also upgradable with coins, and include haste, experience boost, starter health, speed, golden bounty, and saturation.

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## Proximity Chat

Proximity chat will be in both solo and civ gamemodes. You’ll have the option to hear only your team, everyone, nobody, or just your friends… the choice is yours! Keep in mind however, that you will receive XP and coin bonuses if you connect to voice chat.

In order to use proximity chat, you’ll need to link your Minecraft account to your Discord account in our Discord server. More information on that is to come!

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Introducing Battle Royale!

Hoplite is an upcoming Minecraft server with a brand new Battle Royale gamemode, which is a fast-paced adaptation of SpeedSilver’s popular Battle Royale series on YouTube. Throughout the server, you’ll find a ton of exciting features such as server-wide proximity chat, cosmetics, and other game modes!

This blog post covers all that Hoplite has to offer.

## Battle Royale 
Battle Royale is an action-packed gamemode where you can play in teams or solo, craft legendary weapons, and fight to win! 
You'll start by riding a dragon over a giant custom world, and can glide down to explore the vanilla and custom structures as seen in SpeedSilver's YouTube videos. Then, you'll receive a recipe book with custom items that help with survival (like the smelters pickaxe, a lucky supply crate, or a nether reactor core!). You can also craft all of the legendary weapons to use in battle once pvp enables after 15 minutes. As the border begins closing in, only one team can be left standing!

There are two modes of Battle Royale:

### Solo
The solo mode is quite tough to win. You'll be playing alone against 60 other people in a game that lasts 50 minutes. Solo also has proximity chat, and you'll have the option to hear everyone, nobody, or just your friends!

### Civilization
In the civilization mode, you'll join forces with other players and elect a king, making winning a lot more possible (with the right strategy). Each game will hold 10 teams of 9.

This mode also has proximity chat, and you can toggle between hearing everyone, only your team, or just your friends. (Or nobody, but those who connect to proximity chat will receive an XP bonus!). Games are also 50 minutes long, and end in an epic deathmatch!

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## Duels
Duels is our second game mode on Hoplite. With our intuitive, custom GUIs (thanks, [Looshy](https://twitter.com/looshysucks)!) you can queue into custom, casual, and private games more easily than ever before. You can even make your own kit using our kit editor!

This is something to look forward to post-release, as Hoplite will not be releasing with Duels. Keep your eyes peeled on our Twitter account and Discord server for future updates!

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