Update Factions - Reset | December The 19TH 2020

Hello, players of JartexNetwork,

It’s that time of the year again, where we will have a brand new winter/Christmas map ready for you. We're excited to announce the launch of the new winter factions season, which will open its doors on Saturday, December 19th, at 8:00 PM CET. It will begin with a one week grace period, after which a 5-week map starts.

This season we hope to make it a little more enjoyable by adding a couple of extra events you can attend, we have also added a raid outpost, a separate koth world, and of course, we also have a raid event planned for this season hosted by our event team.

We are also introducing a brand new server jar, which we will be using in order to improve the cannoning performance of this season. We are aiming to provide you with a much better cannoning experience, but you will have to try this out after the first grace period week when TNT will be enabled.

So let's not make it any longer and go straight to a full list of fixes and new features, since that's what you all are interested in!
It's with great pleasure that we can announce the new season will be released this Saturday (December 19, 2020), at around 8 PM CET.

End of the world event
To celebrate the end of the season, we will be hosting an end of season event. At around 5 days before the release, we will be placing reset signs at spawn which you can click and claim a number of rewards; Free items, Free gkits, Millions of in-game money, Tons of free experience to level up your overpowered armor. Everyone will be able to to get everything for free. You can fight with everyone without the fear of losing your gear you have weeks to gather.
So clearly this is the event everyone should participate in! Hop on factions and have fun!

Cane Top (/ctop)
We're once again hosting a cane top competition this season. The top three who grind the most cane after the first week of the release will receive these rewards. Winners will be picked and announced a week after the map starts, on the same day that TNT enables.

• 1st Prize: $50 PayPal Money
• 2nd Prize: $50 Store Coupon for factions
• 3rd Prize: $25 Store Coupon for factions

Grace Period base design competition.
Want to win some store vouchers to get free crate keys, and more? We have decided to change the roof design event into a Snow/Christmas themed base design competition. All factions can participate in this competition you simply have to turn your base design into a Christmas-themed base, submit it, and have a chance to win! There are no limits to your creativity, although you must not break any of our server rules in the process!

We will review all of the entries to find our winner. For more info and where to submit your entries, click the following link www.jartexnetwork.com/basedesign/

• 1st Prize: $40 Store Coupon for factions
• 2nd Prize: $20 Store Coupon for factions
• 3rd Prize: $10 Store Coupon for factions

Faction Top Rewards
This new season of factions we will have biweekly payouts for the top factions! This will go on until the end of the season which will last exactly 7 weeks or 42 days. Our schedule for the start and the end of the map is pretty defined and we will be hosting an end of the map payout as well, this will be made on Saturday 30th of January 2021.

Bi-weekly Payouts:

• 1st Prize: $75 Store Coupon for factions
• 2nd Prize: $50 Store Coupon for factions
• 3rd Prize: $25 Store Coupon for factions

End of the Season Reward:

• 1st Prize: 500 USD PayPal Money + €500 Store Coupon for factions
• 2nd Prize: 250 USD PayPal Money + €250 Store Coupon for factions
• 3rd Prize: €250 Store Coupon for factions

The end of the season rewards will be paid out after 42 days of the release!

Changelog
It's getting harder and harder to come up with new, exciting features and changes. We have looked through your suggestions on the forums but there isn't much is suggested, we however still did come up with a couple of new changes for this season. If you feel like there is something missing, use this thread to give your suggestion, and if we like what you suggest, we are willing to give it a chance to be added during this season!

There may be additions to this over the next few days, if you have suggestions! So, let's not make it longer and go straight to what we have updated.

NEW! New builds / Worlds

A change in season means a change in builds, we have a brand new winter map ready for you! We have introduced a new spawn and warzone, of course, in the style of this month so we’ve made them snowy and Christmassy. The warzone contains several things that you can compete in:

KoTH: Be the king of the hill! Twice a day there will be a KoTH to capture within the spawn warzone and you’ll win some amazing rewards.
Present Hunt: Supply crates have been reworked and created into something more fitting for the festive time of year. We’ve hidden 35 presents in the warzone, can you find them all? The loot of those special presents has also been updated and a nice animation is added to the presents.


NEW! Faction GUI

The information about your faction will now be shown in a menu GUI, when executing /f show. It will contain all the important statistics and information of your faction, including members, allies, enemies, strikes and many more.
You can now easily manage to find all the information about your own faction or use the command on any other faction name.

NEW! Repair System

Based on the following suggestion you can find here: link, we have decided to redo the repair system and come up with an updated version. Instead of individually repairing items in /repairer, a GUI will now pop up, directly allowing you to repair items.

• Click the diamond chest plate to repair all your armor.
• Click the gold chest plate to repair the armor you are currently wearing.
• Click the gold sword to repair your weapons.
• Click the diamond pickaxe to repair your tools.
• Click the minecart chest to repair your full inventory.
  
  The new repairer system automatically calculates what your repairing will cost, and will repair it for you based on what you click and need.
  
  
  New design

  

NEW! Lightning Wands

Currently, all creeper eggs give you a 60% chance of getting the spawner you blow up, but we are now introducing a new system during this season: lightning wands, which will boost the percentage of dropping the spawner.

They will make the creeper charged and based on the tier of the lightning wand, the percentage of spawner drop chance will increase.

NEW! ItemFlip

Everyone is already familiar with the concept of coinflip, so we will now introduce a new feature for people that are braver. The itemflip will add an item of your choice, which will be gambled against someone else’s item.
Choose the flip that you wish to participate in and try out your luck!

A separate KOTH world.

We are introducing a separate world where a new koth will start everyday. This world can be entered by simply using the /koth warp command, it will then take you there, where you and your faction can capture the koth for special loot.

Beware, once you get killed within this world, there is no way back, as you may only enter twice! However, you won't lose any of your own items while participating in this koth, since its purpose is to simulate PvP with the same server-sided sets for everyone.

NEW! Cannoning JAR

This season, we will introduce a brand new cannoning jar, which is tweaked a lot and able to provide a better cannoning experience compared to last season. It will now make the whole process smoother and better, therefore upgrading your factions experience.

NEW! Raiding Outpost

Raiding Outpost is a separate world where factions are able to raid a server generated base, with chunks of walls surrounding it. To capture the Raiding Outpost, your faction will need to set up a cannon and shoot through all of the walls to break into the base.

Once you've breached the base, your faction will be marked as the one who successfully captured it. However, once you capture the Raiding Outpost, it will reset all of the walls that you've previously breached, meaning that your faction will now have to defend it from other factions who'll try to raid.

Whilst you have the Raiding Outpost captured, your faction will receive amazing extras as rewards!
ENABLED WHEN GRACEPERIOD IS OVER AND TNT IS ALSO ENABLED

Christmas Crops

Since this season will be a Christmas themed one, we have decided to add some special crops, which you will be able to plant, grow and harvest, while feeling the holiday vibes in your farm!

They are special for a reason, as they will help you start this season in style, with great sell prices that will get you enough money to obtain overpowered loot and prepare your bases during the grace period.

Christmas Calendar

Since we are in the December month will we this year have a daily Advent Calendar. You can claim a daily reward every day in the run-up to December 31. Log in and claim your reward which could be exp, a booster and some other special surprises.

Claim your daily reward through the Advent NPC or by using /advent.

Misc. Updates & Changes​

Here's a list of some of the smaller things that have been added with this update.

• All broadcasts updated
• Added a custom /mutechat
• Disabled /afk while main chat is muted
• Fixed a bug with unclaiming.
• Redid the koth loot, and made it properly work on the weekends.
• Buffed supply crates, and de quantity of supply crates is also buffed
• Added the command /koth top to see what faction has claimed the most koths
• Fixed a mobcoins glitch with harvesterhoes
• Fixed infinity speed bug.
• Increased tnt limit with the new cannoning jar.
• Increased tnt bank limit.
• Lowered the price on trenchpickaxes III on release.
• Fixed settings.
• Fixed fortified walls.
• Remade the base kit for immortal & God rank.
• Removed the current desert-themed special sets from transfer and updated them with new balanced sets for this season.
• Fixed the gkit dust not giving the correct dust %
• You can no longer see carpets with /invsee
• /f liststrikes only counts the active strikes
• Harvesterhoes are now renameble
• All /f logs will automatically expire after 7 days.
• Updated all plugins to the latest versions.
• Fixed custom enchantment descriptions.
• Disabled certain fragment names with renametags.
• /f vaults will also now be logged and displayed within /f logs
• You can now see exp from other with /exp username.
• Added a cooldown on transfer so not one person can purchase all stock.
• Transfer updated with new items and redid some of the prices.
• New and a lot more leaderboards are added.
• Redid the way gkit enchants were added, only working enchants are now on gkits.
• Vanishzone added for the spawn point and crates area.

And much more. . .

That's about it from our end, and a big thanks to you all for being so patient!

Please note: Any suggestions for changes feel free to leave them in the comments.



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