There's been a lot of progress behind the scenes. CowCraft conversion to docker containers is almost done. In simple terms docker makes minecraft servers extremely flexible and portable. Which will improve the time it takes to reset and/or update and fix servers in future.

Every single configuration and permission for all of CowCraft servers is now public. All of progress is kept up to date on github here https://github.com/beefbytes . Feel free to make any suggestions or point out any mistakes if you find any.

Upcoming

• Voting with new rewards and leaderboards
• Towny revamp
• OG MineZ
• Minigames such as OG parkour and temple run
• Factions reset with few new additions and improvements
• Survival and Creative revamp (plots won't reset)
• New additions to skyblock

Factions
Factions will be launching with the old spawn on the cloud. TNT will be enabled with no custom enchants. The world will use the default minecraft world...

Re-work of whole network is work in progress. Not giving up on cowcraft just yet. If you're interested in cowcraft, feel free to post about which server should be worked on first. I currently plan to reset factions, bring back the OG minez and rvb.

CowCraft discord: https://cowcraft.net/discord

Few of the skyblock server changes:

• You're now able to craft and use enderchests
• Tree feller has been fixed
• Shop has been added
• Hopper limit was changed from 30 to 60, may change again depending on server performance
• More islands types were added, including spongebob island with pet Gary
• Enabled command "/is settings" allowing you to toggle different type access to your island
• Enabled command "/is coop" allowing you to join other islands without losing your own
• PVP arena has been added "/warp pvp"
• Mob arena has been added "/ma join"
• Reset limit has been set to 10 times
• Cooldown between each reset has been set to one hour
• Crates and new rank are coming soon!

TNT on factions has been enabled!

Top three factions will receive rewards at the end of the month (march)

1. $200 in CowCraft store
2. $150 in CowCraft store
3. $100 in CowCraft store

Screenshots of the top three factions will be taken some day at the end of march. This is attempt to prevent factions from mining spawners before logging off.
TNT will be enabled this Friday at 11 PM CET or 4 PM Central Time in US

Factions updates:

• Mythic rank is now on sale for limited time!
• Obsidian price changed
• Added random teleport, use /wild
• Added genbuckets, use /genbuckets
• Fixed command issues with combat tag
• You can now type /showitem to display item you're holding in chat, have to be near other players at the moment. But that will be tweaked later on
• Obsidian, bedrock and lots more rewards are coming to new crate. Didn't have enough time to finish it, should be done by tomorrow
• Trench Picks are coming soon too!

More fixes and tweaks are coming! Was focusing on factions for the most part so not much has been added to skyblock other than new shop. A lot more will be added this week, including new crates and island types.

Due to time limitations I didn't get some of updates done on time. These are some of the changes:

• Gold is now sellable
• Creeper spawners added to ftop
• Border is now visible
• Fall damage is now disabled in spawn
• Player heads will now drop on death
• There is now 40% chance of spawner not being mined
• Everyone is able to mine spawners until monday

Tomorrow:

• Obtainable bedrock with more tnt hits to destroy it
• Vote crate
• Whole new crate with new rewards
• Hopefully fixing tree feller (haven't found the reason why its broken yet)
• New things being added to shop (buycraft)

Info about tnt grace period and ftop rewards will be posted tomorrow along with updates listed above....

SkyBlock's reset date was decided only few days before the reset date, didn't have enough time to add everything I wanted. Rest of features will be added in the upcoming update, here's a list of current features:

• Challenges, to open the menu type /challenges
• Different type islands, currently two available. More to be added in upcoming update
• Nether islands, going to nether will generate you a personal nether island
• Chest shops, sell your stuff to other players
• Leader boards for island level, mcmmo and balance
• You can now show off your item using /show while holding item in hand
• Island warps
• New spawn

Here's a list of features in upcoming update:

• Crates
• Mob Arena
• PVP Arena
• Spawner shop
• Shop
• More challenges
• More island types
• Vote rewards
• Auction
• Spawner mining
• New rank

Screenshots:

Skyblock is going to be launching this saturday at 11 PM CET (EU) / 4 PM Central Time (US)
Lots of improvements over the current skyblock are being made, basically fixing all of current issues and adding some of most requested features.

Factions are launching next weekend, exact time will be posted in another thread. Few of expected improvements, I didn't list small changes.

• Sell bedrock (going to take more hits to destroy it)
• Tweak spawner prices
• Disable fall damage in spawn
• Chance of destroying spawner when trying to mine it
• Player head drops on death
• Visible world border
• Every player will be able to mine spawners on weekends
• Leader board and better rewards for mob arena

I am open to suggestions for both factions and skyblock!

The factions winners are:

1. bub
2. GucciGang
3. Ethereal
4. Colgate
5. Delta

Every faction leader will be contacted (or contact me on website / discord) for the rewards. I seen lots of suggestions and majority of them seem reasonable. Feel free to use this thread for suggesting stuff for next reset. If you posted a suggestion already, you can re-post them here to get some discussions going. Even if I don't reply, I read each and every suggestion.

My discord: Edy#3576

Late factions update, had a limited time to work on this. Sale is now extended and increased to 40% for this weekend! Mythic rank flash sale, it's being removed from store after this weekend! donate.cowcraft.net

Top five factions will receive rewards at start of the next month!

1. $350 in CowCraft store + special tag
2. $250 in CowCraft store
3. $150 in CowCraft store
4. $100 in CowCraft store
5. $50 in CowCraft store

This also means factions are going to reset at start of the next month!
TNT is being enabled today 11 PM CET or 4 PM Central Time in US.

Here are some changes and additions to factions:

• You no longer lose hunger as fast
• Hunger has been disabled in events and spawn
• Chat filter has been added
• Enchanted items repairing has been added for Titan and above.
  Use /anvil to repair your enchanted items! Just make sure you're holding the item before...