Update Survival - Release | February The 17TH 2021

Hello, players of JartexNetwork,

We are more than excited to announce a brand new gamemode that will be added to JartexNetwork.

Survival recently has spiked in popularity among the Minecraft players and we have received many requests of adding Survival to JartexNetwork, and we are finally able to tell you that we will!

There will be a whole new Survival gamemode ready to be played. Your regular classic Minecraft survival experience being enhanced with special and unique features we have added to make it even more enjoyable.

Choose a world to settle in, start trading with players with a fully player regulated economy and try to become the richest player at our survival gamemode. Anything will be possible, opportunities are limitless, it's all up to you how you will play.

Make sure not to miss it, because the gamemode will open its doors on Wednesday, 17th of February, 8PM CET.



Events
What is a better way to start of this new gamemode than with an event? We will be hosting a brand new build event that will take place from the survival release on Wednesday right through until Saturday, April 10th at 5 PM CET. All users will be able to participate in this build competition. There won’t be any set theme for this so there are no limits to your creativity. However, you must not break any of our server rules in the process so think outside the box.

You can build in the overworld or the nether and the build can be as big or small as you want. The competition will be enabled with the reset. We will review all of the entries to find our winner. For more information and where to submit your entries, follow this link; coming soon.

Prizes:

• 1st Prize: €75 PayPal Money
• 2nd Prize: $50 Store Coupon for Survival
• 3rd Prize: $25 Store Coupon for Survival

Changelog

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.

The System

In order to be able to provide a smooth survival experience, we had to build a whole separate system operating this. This system took a lot of time to make so we think it is worth telling you how it works, in order to prevent confusion about something working
differently, than you are used to.

Let's take Factions for example, all the worlds in the Factions gamemode is all hosted on the same server, which means mobs, times, chunks, and all those things related to a server will be stored on the same machine.

With 1.16.4 this is no longer possible on a larger scale, the performance of the server software has gotten worse over the past years, but because we want to have survival on the latest version we decided to make it happen, using a whole new system to
still be able to work with proper server software while maintaining good performance at large scales.

For survival there was a need for a system, to combine worlds together, acting as if it's 1 server, while in reality all of these worlds are running separately. This sounds easier said than done, but we managed to do it.
All of the survival worlds will be fully synchronized and you will feel little to no difference from your regular Jartex experience, but some things may act differently than you are used to.

You will be able to chat, teleport, to anyone across any survival server without any problems. You can look at Survival as a small network inside of JartexNetwork that operates with multiple worlds that are all ran separately.
With that being said, let's get into the interesting features of what makes survival at Jartex even better than this system on its own!

Worlds

So with the system out of the way will we continue about the world's itself. To start of the release of survival we will be introducing a total of 6 worlds. This means we have a total of 6 servers running to make all of this possible. If we notice a huge interest in survival are we always able to add a new world, this can be done simply with the new system without being worried about performance.
For now, the worlds below will be the ones we will have for this reset.

• Spawn world - This will be the central place of the server, this is the server where everyone will join for the first time. Here you will be able to find the crates, shop NPCs, the black market, and much more.
• Emerald, Diamond & Gold world - This is a Vanilla 1.16 generated world where you can start your survival journey. Within this world you can claim, build, make shops and much more without being worried about it getting destroyed. Each server will also have its own nether that can be entered by making a nether portal, this means there will be a diamond nether, emerald nether and a gold nether.
  - The world border is 20.000 for the overworld and 15.000 for the nether. Please note this is both positive and negative X.
• Resource world - This world will reset every seven days. Claiming inside this world is disabled, and building in this world is not recommended since it will be resetting often. As the name suggests, this world can be used for resources only.
• End world - We have disabled the use of end portals within worlds. You can enter the end world through a portal located in the spawn. However, there is a catch... you must meet the requirements to enter!

Clans

Are you a solo player, or do you prefer to work as a team? At survival you will be able to create a clan. With a clan you will be able to group up, chat and work together with your friends.

Level up your clan and gain new perks in the process. Land claiming is not related to clans and require the different claimblock system, which is explained further in this post. With a clan you will be able to safely store items in to the Clan Vault, store money on to the Clan Bank. Manage roles with your different Clan Members, build up your empire and become the biggest clan with the highest level!

Due to survival operating on a system that has different servers you will be able to have a different clan in each world. If you create a clan in the Gold World, your Clan will only exist there, unless you decide to make one in other worlds as well.



Claiming

When building your unique survival creations would you also like them to stay, to stop any griefing from happening, we also needed a claiming system.

This is why we have decided to go with an old and well-known claiming system called grief prevention. It is an easy to use claiming system, and we think many players are already familiar with the system.

GriefPrevention is a plugin that provides self-service region protection functionality for anyone who doesn't know what grief prevention is, giving you additional options to fine-tune aspects such as door, chest, and build permissions for users or groups of users! Below are some basic instructions for claim management.

• Creating a new claim: Right click at two points to mark the corners
• Resizing a claim: Right click once in an existing claim to see the markers. Right click on a corner block and then again on a different position to move that corner.
• Cancelling operations: Putting away a golden shovel without completing an operation cancels all actions

• Right clicking shows existing claim locations
• Shift right clicking searches for all claims in a 100 block radius and shows their location
• Left clicking hides the markers

For more information about the commands click here (Notice that this is the grief prevention wiki, some command may not work on JartexNetwork)

Economy

With the release of survival will be introducing a new style of economy, with this style of economy we hope to have a long-lasting, balanced economy. Since survival, in our opinion, a game mode is you shouldn't reset for months, does the economy need to match with that. We don't want people to have millions within the first weeks of the release.

This is why the server will not have any shop created by us, at least not a shop where you can buy every single item. We hope that with this economy and our shop system to have a well balanced and long-lasting economy.

• You can find all the player shops on the server inside /shop
• Everyone is able to create chest shops, however, donaters have the ability to create more player shops.
• You have to advertise your playershops with gemstones to be displayed inside /shop
• You can get those gemstones by logging in daily, crates, kits, and other ways.
• All activity for the shop is logged and can be seen inside the GUI

Levels

Player levels are a great way for you to show your skills and earn rewards within survival. In the duration of the survival season, you will be able to grind your way through our level system.

All players start at Level 0, the beginning levels will be simple, and as you level up, the challenges will get harder and harder, but better rewards. There are currently 75 levels, will you complete them all?

Earn a special currency with the levels that you can spend at the mystery man within spawn! To get started go in-game and type /level. Your player level is also displayed within the chat.


Allowed versions

Survival will be the first game mode on JartexNetwork that will run 1.16 the latest version possible, we have decided to also drop any support for any versions below 1.14. This means you can only join with 1.14 up to the latest version possible, as soon as a new version gets released will we update the server!

Pets​

We're also introducing pets! We heard how much people loved the pets on Prison and Skyblock, so we are bringing a survival version of pets over to Survival.

Pets are companions that you can level up for special powers. They stay tucked away in your pets inventory, but when you want to summon them for help, you just right click them and they will spawn next to you! When active, they provide boosts, powers, and more.
Each pet's identities and powers are secret for now, so make sure to check them out when they are implemented!

Misc. Updates & Changes​

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

• Added a guide book.
• Added broadcasts to give you some helpful tips.
• Added crates
• Added kill messages
• Added an auction house, you can only access the auction house through spawn.
• Added multiple leaderboards.
• Itemrename has been added and it works with all the newest items.
• Gravestones added; Gravestones can save your items, having a gravestone token will put all your items within a chest when you die, those items will be saved and protected for 15 minutes
• The server difficulty is set to NORMAL
• A PVP arena is added.
• We added some custom models.
• Mob heads have a 1% chance of dropping
• Trade is added so you can safely trade with other players
• Lockette pro is added so you can use [private] to protect your chests.
• A global tablist between all servers.
• Nether claiming is enabled.
• Banknotes & expbottles are added.

And much much more. . .

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