## What To Expect

As teased previously, we’ve moved away from the "season format" on Hoplite, and with this change, we’re thrilled to introduce the brand-new Battle Pass! This new system is packed with 100 rewards, offering two passes: a FREE Pass and a VIP Pass.

## How It Works

This Battle Pass is designed to be a long-term experience, with no plans for a new one to release for a very long time. Unlike previous passes tied to seasons, this one allows you to progress at your own pace and fully enjoy its content over an extended period.

The rewards include a mix of cosmetics like hats, gliders, and effects, as well as new additions such as custom game tickets, pets, and other cosmetics.

All players can earn FREE Pass XP and unlock rewards. However, only players with a VIP Rank can earn VIP Pass XP and access the exclusive VIP rewards.

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## Returning Cosmetics

Some cosmetics from previous seasons are returning. If you already own any of them, you’ll receive an exclusive variant when claiming the cosmetics.

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The New Battle Pass!

# Battle Royale

## Battle Pass Extension

- The season 7 battle pass has been extended an additional 30 days
- More information about the upcoming battle pass is coming soon

## Changes

- Kim the Transmuter has been reworked.
    - Kim will now only upgrade armor and weapons.
    - Upgrades can no longer fail, and Kim will vanish after 3 upgrades.
- Armadillo Detonator damage on armadillos beyond the first has been reduced by 30%.
- Holiday structures and pregame lobby have been added.
- Santa will now drop Holiday Presents around the map. Use your Supply Drop Tracker to find him.
- Mining ores now has a chance to spawn a Holiday Present.
- Gerald the Sniffer can no longer suffocate.

## Fixes

- Armadillo Detonator will no longer delete items.
- High volumes of falling blocks will no longer be removed.
- Horn of Winter now works when crossing portals.
- Sculkweaver’s Lantern will no longer teleport wardens to the player when thrown through a nether portal.

## Legendary Rotations

**Rotated In:**

- Ravager Horn
- Sonic Crossbow
- Lich Staff
- Midas Sword
- Harpoon Launcher

**Rotated Out:**

- Horn of Winter
- Shadow Blade
- Magma Club
- Excalibur
- Aiglos

# Duels

## Changes

- Kim the Transmuter has been added to the Legendary Weapons custom item category.

## Fixes

- Fixed bots not appearing after the first round in multi-round matches.
- Fixed some Legendary Weapon duplication exploits.
- Fixed custom kits not loading for some players.

# Cosmetics

- The winter crate is back in all lobbies for a limited time, with new cosmetics

## New Winter Crate Cosmetics

- Jolly Sculkweaver’s Lantern (Weapon Skin)
- Frostbitten Evoker Wand (Weapon Skin)
- Evergreen Glitter (Arrow Trail)
- Ice Crown (Hat)
- Snowstorm Helmet (Hat)
- Gnome Rider (Hat)
- Winter Flurry (Opener)
- Deck The Halls (Kill Effect)
- Snowman Suit (Kill Effect)
- Ice Breaker (Victory Dance)
- Unwrapping Party (Victory Dance)

# Monetization

- New Starter Pack ($14.99)
    - 5 Mystery Crates
    - 500 Gems
    - Shiny Virtual Reality Headset
- 30 Day Nickname Pass ($4.99)
    - Grants access to /nick for 30 days
- 90 Day Nickname Pass ($11.99)
    - Grants access to /nick for 90 days

*Nickname Pass can only /nick as random usernames and skins, not selected ones.*
These upgrades are available NOW at [https://store.hoplite.gg](https://store.hoplite.gg/)

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Dec. 1st, 2024

# Battle Royale

## Changes

- Solo and Civilization games will now use the Hunger Games Start instead of Dragon Scatter.
    - Players will be spawned in pods around one of 4 Cornucopias at 0, 0.
    - PvP will be enabled for the first 2 minutes of the game, disabled once Mining Phase begins, which lasts 10 minutes.
- All structures have been reverted from their Halloween variants.
- The recipes for the Shrink Ray and Corrupted Crossbow have been adjusted, making them easier to craft.
- Each game will now include 3 Monuments in the ocean.
- Mjolnir and Pufferfish cannon have been removed from Bowless games.
- Roulette Royale is now compatible with Hunger Games Start games.
- Hunger Games Start custom games can now be hosted with the Civilization team size.
- All legendaries now have upgraded versions for the Legendary Pedestals scenario, which is now accurately displayed in their lore.
    - Most Sword legendaries start with 10 Attack Damage (8.5 base + Sharpness 2).
    - Bow legendaries start with Power 4.
    - Crossbow legendaries start with Quick Charge 2.
    - Other legendaries have buffs to their cooldowns, charges, and other values.  These numbers are displayed in white in their lore.
- Hypnosis Staff
    - Players can hypnotize a maximum of 3 Iron Golems.
    - Hypnotized Iron Golems can no longer be healed using Iron Ingots.
    - Iron Golems will no longer freeze when hypnotized while chasing a target.
    - Mobs will now be fully healed when hypnotized.
    - The health of mobs with less than 50 hearts will be tripled (15 heart minimum, 50 heart maximum)
    - Using the ability on a hypnotized mob will now heal it for 10 hearts.

## Fixes

- Fixed instances where Pods would not open correctly, leaving players stuck inside glass.
- Kings Crown will no longer grant excessive max health when combined with Health Boost.
- Fixed an issue causing Monuments to sometimes not spawn.
- Roulette Royale will no longer exclude some legendaries.
- Roulette Royale will now properly give players a new legendary weapon after a kill.
- Enderbow no longer deals damage when using the teleport ability.
- Fixed some legendaries giving attack damage while in the offhand.
- Fixed Guardian Cannon making players untargetable and collide with invisible entities once the beam started firing.
- Fixed Strength potion effect acting as Resistance.

## New Bots

- Bots will spawn around players during the game and will behave like real players, their loot is based on what other players have in the current game.

## **New Legendary Items**

- Sculkweaver’s Lantern
    - Right-click to launch a lantern, when it lands, it creates an inescapable area
    - Spawns mobs inside that help you fight enemies
    - Ability will last for 15 seconds and has a 90 second cooldown
    - Ancient City chests will now not drop one of the following in each game to prevent multiple legendaries from being crafted:
        - Disc Fragments
        - Sculk Sensors and Sculk Catalysts
- Crimson Chainsword
    - Right-click to curse the blade, making your next attack cause bleeding damage (3 hearts over 1.5 seconds)
    - Killing players grants **Strength II** for 15 seconds
    - Deals 1.5x damage to enemies below 30% health
    - Ability has a 30-second cooldown
    - Piglin Heads now have a chance to drop from Piglins.
        - This chance is heavily influenced by the Looting enchantment.
- Kim The Transmuter
    - Give her an item, and she’ll attempt to transmute it into a more powerful version
    - Kim will keep transmuting until she fails three times
    - Transmutes with more valuable results have a higher chance to fail
- Armadillo Detonator
    - Right-click to shoot up to 3 explosive armadillos (20 second cooldown)
    - Left-click to detonate all armadillos, dealing area damage (5 second cooldown)
    - Armadillos automatically detonate after 60 seconds if attached to a player
- Evoker Wand
    - Left-click  to summon three lines of deadly evoker fangs in front of you (12 second cooldown)
    - Right-click to summon two vexes that fight by your side (45 second cooldown)

## Legendary Rotations

**Rotated In:**

- Poseidon's Trident
- Magma Club
- War Pick
- Evoker Wand
- Kim the Transmuter
- Armadillo Detonator
- Crimson Chainsword
- Sculkweaver's Lantern

**Rotated Out:**

- **Emerald Blade**
- **Hypnosis Staff**
- **Wither Sickles**
- **Jim the Sorcerer**
- **Cloud Sword**
- **Corrupted Crossbow**
- **Ravager Horn**

# Duels

## Bots

- You can duel against the Battle Royale PvP bots with standard and custom kits
- Use them to practice PvP or test custom kits without a real player

## Changes

- Casual 2v2 duels have been re-added
- Casual duels are now a single NPC and function like custom duels
    - Duels are “hosted” when players join a queue, and NPCs will spawn allowing other players to join
- Added “Play Random Kit” post-match item in casual duels
    - Allows you to rejoin another casual duel with a random kit
- New legendaries have been added to custom kits and Roulette Royale
- Competitive matchmaking algorithm has been improved to create more fair matchups
- Increased overall XP gain
- Sumo kit has been re-added

## Fixes

- Legendaries will no longer share their cooldowns between players in custom games.
- Fixed blocks in Bridge kit not stacking.
- Fixed Cloud Sword blocks being placed above height limit.
- Fixed a Ravager Horn cooldown bypass.
- Fixed an Aiglos duplication glitch.
- Fixed border damage not functioning after a rematch.
- Fixed string being unbreakable.

# Cosmetics

- Seasonal Halloween mystery crate has been removed
- Bringing back our old non seasonal mystery crates permanently: Deep Dark, Aquatic, End, Fire, Mythological

## New Legendary Weapon Skins

- Found in the End Crate
    - Void Singularity Shrink Ray
    - Dragonbreath Katana
- Found in the Deep Dark Crate
    - Skulkripper Shadow Blade
    - Resonant Golem Hammer
- Found in the Fire Crate
    - Inferno Magma Club
    - Radiant Excalibur
- Found in the Mythological Crate
    - Talarian War Pickaxe
    - Serpentine Aiglos
- Found in the Aquatic Crate
    - Fishflop Pufferfish Cannon
    - Guardian Poseidon’s Trident

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 16th, 2024

## What To Expect!

This update introduces bots to Hoplite, new legendary weapon skins, returning cosmetic cases, new legendary items, and exciting changes to Battle Royale.

## Bots in Hoplite?

In Battle Royale, there’s now a chance you’ll run into a bot after PvP begins—fighting just like real players and dropping valuable loot when defeated!

In Duels, challenge bots with premade or custom kits to sharpen your skills before facing real opponents.

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## Legendary Weapon Skins!

A new type of mythical cosmetic has arrived—legendary weapon skins! Find these exclusive skins in our returning cosmetic cases.

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## Returning Cosmetic Cases!

Five of our cosmetic cases are back and available for purchase in the lobby! Each returning case now includes two legendary weapon skins.

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## New Legendary Items!

Five new legendary items have been added and are now available in both Battle Royale and Duels!

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## Cornucopia Update!

For a limited time, Battle Royale games will replace the Dragon Scatter with the Hunger Games start! Players begin in pods around the center cornucopia, where PvP is enabled for the first 2 minutes, allowing you to either grab loot or make a quick escape. After 2 minutes, a grace period begins as the mining phase activates.

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## Patch Notes!
We've created another post with the entire change log for this update. [Click here](https://hoplite.gg/news/patch-notes-nov-16th-2024) to view!

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November Update!

# A year in Review

October 14th marks **one year of Hoplite!**

First off, we’d like to thank you, our community, for an amazing first year of Hoplite. We have so much in store for the future of Hoplite, and many cool things we’ve been working on behind the scenes that we can’t wait to share with you. 

Our plans for Hoplite are changing as we focus on adding new gamemodes and hosting more fun creator events. Read more below!

# October 1st: Battle Royale Update!

On October 1st, we’ll be updating Battle Royale. Be sure to tune into the update video on September 30th to learn about everything new coming to the server, from our week-long birthday celebration, to new custom game scenarios! 

The heavily anticipated "Mega Royale" mode will also be coming on October 1st, with some improvements. Mega Royale will become a toggle-able feature in custom games (see image below), meaning Mega Royale games can be scheduled many times throughout the day.

This update may look a bit different to what you’re used to, as we’ll be moving to an “update” format for all gamemodes on the network. Read more about this under “Future Plans for Hoplite”.

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# Twitchcon

Our current work-in-progress project was revealed at our booth at Twitchcon San Diego this past week. Thanks so much to everyone who visited the booth and tried our teaser demo!

The project will first take place as a big creator event, which will be a **survival zombies game with factions elements**. After the event takes place, it will be **turned into a gamemode** that everyone can play. We are extremely excited to reveal more details to you as the project nears completion! 

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# Future Plans for Hoplite

Going into the second year of Hoplite, we’ll be moving to an “update” format for all games on the network. This means that we will no longer use the “Season” format for Battle Royale, and live reveals will no longer happen in the current format. Additionally, legendaries will no longer be paired with seasons, and will be added on a non-scheduled basis.

Doing so will allow us to expand the network and add more pvp gamemodes, host creator events, and much more. We will still update Battle Royale when needed, but are happy with the state of content in the game after 1 year of frequent updates. We're extremely passionate about pvp gamemodes and are confident you'll enjoy what we have planned next!

Also coming with this change will be a permanent Battle pass, which should arrive at the end of 2024. The permanent battle pass will have all the regular battle pass items (hats, gliders, effects) and MORE, such as custom game tickets, pets, and coins. This also means that the Battle Pass releasing on October 1st will be the very last Battle Pass in this format, so be sure to unlock everything while you can!

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Thank you everyone for an amazing year of Hoplite. We can't wait for what's in store in the future!

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What's next for Hoplite!

# Hoplite is Heading to Twitchcon!

We're coming to Twitchcon San Diego! From **September 20th to the 22nd**, you can visit us at **Booth 1800** and check out what we've been working on, and meet the team behind Hoplite.

 

## How to Find us
We are at **booth 1800**, at the far back of the convention centre (near the washrooms).

Here is a map that roughly shows where we are located. (Keep in mind this is **not** an official map and should only be used as a rough guide to find Hoplite at the convention.)
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## Fun Things at Our Booth
### Meet the Team
You'll be able to meet the team that works behind the scenes on Hoplite. You can ask any questions you have, or just pop by and say hi! 
 
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### Play our Demo
At our booth, you can play a demo based off our upcoming gamemode. We will also be giving out stickers to those who successfully complete the demo!

 

### Exclusive Twitch Cosmetic
We will also be giving out codes for an exclusive in-game cosmetic. Please keep in mind we have a limited supply of codes!

 

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### T-Shirt Raffle
And finally, after each day of the convention, we will be picking a handful of raffle winners to each win a t-shirt and sticker. Inventory and sizes are extremely limited. 

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We hope to see you at our booth!

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### Tomorrow (Friday, September 6th) we will be updating to 1.21.1!

This means that if you try joining the server in an outdated version, you will be put in limbo and asked to rejoin on the correct version. There will be down-time tomorrow as we push the update, which you will be notified of in game and in #server-status on our Discord server.

 

Fully moving to 1.21.1 will resolve issues that arose for players on 1.21 when we were running natively on 1.20.6. This issues include:

- Lava & Water bucket desync
- Specific server disconnects related to 1.20.6

 

Thank you for your patience as we worked on the move to 1.21.1!

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IMPORTANT! We're updating to 1.21.1

# Season 5 is here!
Season 5 is now here! Let’s explore everything new coming to Hoplite this season.


# Duels 1.4
## Competitive Duels
- 10 players will be placed into a draft, where the top 2 players will select teammates in a snake draft.
- The match is a best of 3 using the Battle Royale kit.
- Players must complete 10 placement matches to receive their initial rank.
- The MVP (player who dealt most damage) will receive a bonus to their ranked progress.
- Every rank has unique rewards which can be viewed in the Rewards section of the shop, and will be awarded at the end of the season.
- Dodging or leaving multiple matches in a day will result in a queue ban and loss of rating.

## Divisions
Copper Division (I, II, III, IV, V)
Iron Division (I, II, III, IV, V)
Gold Division (I, II, III, IV, V)
Diamond Division (I, II, III, IV, V)
Master
Champion (Top 10)

**Gem & XP Rewards**
Copper - 80 Gems, 500 XP
Iron - 200 Gems, 1000 XP
Gold - 400 Gems, 2500 XP
Diamond - 800 Gems, 5000 XP
Master - 1500 Gems, 10000 XP
Champion - 2500 Gems, 25000 XP, 1 Tier Boost

### Competitive Warrior Helmet
Awarded to: Copper Division and higher
This warrior helmet cosmetic will be awarded to all players who participate in competitive duels.

### Trophy Case Gadget
Awarded to: Gold division and higher
A trophy case showcasing a player's highest medallion

### Dragon’s Breath Projectile Trail
Awarded to: Diamond Division and higher

### Golden Dragon Rider Victory Dance
Awarded to: Master Division and higher

### Ranked Cloak Aura
Awarded to: Champion Division
The top 10 players at the end of the season receive this unique aura showcasing their leaderboard position and medallion.

## General Changes
- Damage dealt will be shown after matches.
- Added Duels border.
 - Shrinks to 10x10 over 5 minutes.
- Casual kits are now best of 3.
- Bridge and Parkour are now usable in custom kits.
- Legendary weapons have been removed from custom kits.
- NPCs have been added for all Casual queues
- Added Mace casual kit queue.
- The following basic crafts have been added to duels.
 - Armor: Cactus Chestplate, Cowboy Boots.
 - Food: Very Suspicious Stew, Panacea.
- New Weekly Quests:
 - Achieve an 8 win streak in any mode.
 - Win 10 Battle Royale Duels without any healing left.
 - Play 25 2v2 or 3v3 Custom Kit Matches.

### Custom Kit Settings
- You can now add custom permanent potion effects to custom kits.
- Friendly Fire (also applies to explosives).
- Explosives Auto Ignition: This setting applies to creepers and TNT instantly igniting upon being placed down.
- Ender Pearl Cooldown.
- Border Shrink Time.

# Battle Royale 1.7

## General Changes
- The Archer kit now receives arrows instead of feathers.
- Ghasts will always drop a Ghast Tear.
- Blazes will always drop a Blaze Rod.
- Raised the amount of gold blocks replaced in Bastions from 60 -> 70%.
- All Iron armor now has +2 Toughness.
- Monuments now spawn in the ocean near the border in 50% of games.
 - Elder Guardian mining fatigue range reduced from 50 -> 25 blocks.
- Horse packs are 75% less likely to spawn.
- All Deathmatch chests will now contain exactly 1 Golden Apple.
- All Chests now have a small chance to contain a Slime Ball.
- Empty Buckets are no longer stackable.
- Fixed some blocks such as Netherrack and Glass not decaying in deathmatch.
- Eyes of Ender will no longer break when thrown.
- Added an extra 30 seconds at the end of games before the server restarts.
 - +100% Spread Effectiveness

- All players will receive max level perks, which will grant the following:
 - 10 seconds of haste when mining ores.
 - 15% XP Boost
 - Absorption IV for 15 minutes.
 - 15 seconds of speed when consuming a head.
 - 27 Nuggets per kill
 - 15 minutes of Saturation.
- All players will receive a 100% refund for coins spent on perks.

## Item Changes
- Mace damage capped to 15 hearts.
- Hypnosis Staff limited to 1 Warden per team.
- Skeleton Leggings no longer affect mobs controlled or spawned by players.
- Dragon Katana no longer requires end stone to craft.
- Shadow Blade buffed from 7 -> 7.5 damage.
- Shadow Blade will no longer be cancelled by arrows shot by allies.
- Axolotl Boots now have Protection 1 and a cheaper recipe.
- Blazing Crossbow no longer requires a head.
- Panacea can now be crafted with any 4 Tulips regardless of color.

## New Items
### Barbed Rod
- A Fishing Rod that knocks players back on hit instead of pulling them.
- 75 Durability which lowers when hitting enemies.
### Corrupted Crossbow
- A Crossbow which fires 3 poisonus arrows in rapid succession.
- If arrows collide with a block, they will start to decay blocks in a large radius.
- 20s Cooldown.
### Harpoon Launcher
- If the harpoon collides with a player, the player is damaged and rapidly pulled towards you.
- If the harpoon collides with a block, you are rapidly pulled towards the block.
- You can shift while being pulled to cancel it.
- 12s Cooldown.
### Guardian Cannon
- Pull back to begin charging for 2s. Being damaged during this time will cancel the charge.
- Once the charge is complete, a beam will fire and damage any player or block in its path.
- 30s Cooldown.
- Use while in water to shoot 2 guardians forwards, and blast yourself backwards.
- 25s Cooldown
- Hold while swimming to gain Dolphins Grace.
### Cloud Sword
- 7.5 Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, +7.5% Movement Speed, -100% Fall Damage while in main hand.
- Right click to start summoning clouds below your feet for up to 10 seconds.
- Right click to toggle this effect on and off during the duration.
- 30s Cooldown

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Season 5 is Here!

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!
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# 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).
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# 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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Hoplite Patch Notes - Jan. 18th, 2024

# 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
