Proximity voice chat arrives - install the free Simple Voice Chat mod to talk to players around you with your microphone, with voice groups for chatting at any distance. 1v1 Duels bring kit selection, money wagers, and a spectator mode in a dedicated sky arena, and a Refer-a-Friend system pays out as your friends join. A party locator bar, smarter double-chest locks, death-drop protection, chest-shop profit splits, Bedrock textures, and a stack of quality-of-life fixes round it out.

Voice Chat

Proximity voice chat is now live - install the free Simple Voice Chat mod and talk to nearby players with your mic; voices get louder as people approach and fade as they walk away, out to about 48 blocks
Hold the whisper key to drop your range down to around 24 blocks when you only want the people right beside you to hear
Create or join voice groups to talk with specific friends anywhere on the map, no matter how far apart you are
Open the in-game voice menu to pick your microphone, switch between push-to-talk and voice activation, adjust volumes, and mute anyone you would rather not hear
It is an optional Java-only add-on - install the mod for Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge and it connects automatically when you join

Duels

New /duel lets you challenge another player to a 1v1, with clickable accept and deny prompts and a 30-second request timer
Before the fight you both pick from five kits - Diamond, Netherite, Iron, Archer, or your own Current Gear - defaulting to Diamond if you don't choose in time
Duels happen in a dedicated floating sky arena with a 5-second countdown before FIGHT, so the rest of the server is never in danger
You never actually die - whoever hits 0 health loses, and both fighters get their full inventory, armor, health, XP, and effects restored win or lose
Manage requests with /duel accept, /duel deny, or /duel cancel, and you can't start one while in combat
While dueling you can't drop items or use escape commands like /spawn, /home, /tpa, or /rtp, and disconnecting counts as a forfeit but still restores your gear when you rejoin
Every duel win and loss is tracked in your stats, with your recent duel history viewable on the website
Bet money on a duel - /duel <player> <wager> makes both fighters stake the amount, and the winner takes the whole pot
Spectate any fight with /spectate - it opens a menu of every duel in progress so you can pick which one to watch, and you're sent home when it ends
Losing a duel by being knocked into the void no longer costs you XP or your items - you are safely restored win or lose, every time

Refer a Friend

New referral system - link your Minecraft account on the website, open the Referrals page for your unique 6-character code, and share it with friends
When a friend redeems your code your referral count goes up and you earn automatic in-game cash at milestones of 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, and 150 referrals
Each account can redeem one friend's code once, and you can't redeem your own

Party Locator

New Party Locator puts direction dots for your party members on the locator bar above your hotbar, so you can always tell which way your group is at any distance
The bar is party-filtered - you only ever see your own party members, never random players
Toggle it on or off any time from the compass in your Companion settings menu, and the dots update instantly when someone joins, leaves, or is kicked from the party

Container Locks

Locking a double chest with /claim lock or /town lock now locks both halves at once - no more clicking each side separately
Locking and unlocking a container plays a colour-coded particle burst and sound - green when you lock, red when you unlock - so you get instant confirmation it worked
While in /claim locks mode, every unlocked container near you is highlighted with green particles so you can spot what still needs locking

Claim Offers

Turn on Allow Offers in your claim settings to let visitors open your chests, barrels, and shulkers - view only, so they can never take anything
A visitor clicks an item stack to send you a buy offer in chat, and you get clickable accept and deny prompts; accepting takes their money and hands them the items
It works even on locked containers, so your storage stays protected while you still field offers

Death Drops

When you die, the items you dropped are protected for 10 minutes - only you can pick them up, unless another player killed you while you were flagged for PvP
Restoring a death now mails your current inventory back to you instead of deleting it, so anything you were already carrying is never lost
Fixed items you died with refusing to stack with identical items afterwards - a hidden tag left on death drops is now cleared on pickup so they stack normally again
Fixed your armor, offhand, and held item not always being returned correctly when a death is restored

Chest Shops

/chestshop transactions opens a menu of your shop sales - each one shows as the item traded, with the price, who you traded with, and when on hover (works the same on Java and Bedrock)
Your sales history now reaches all the way back, including trades from before the history feature existed
Profit splitting: /chestshop split <player> <percent> hands a partner a cut of each sale while you keep the remainder. /chestshop split remove <player> removes them and /chestshop splits shows the current breakdown

Nicknames

Commands now autofill a player's nickname instead of their real username wherever you target someone - including commands where the player isn't the first argument, like /town add, /claim trust, /party invite, and /duel accept
Tab-complete no longer lists a player twice when they have a nickname set
Typing in chat and pressing Tab now suggests a player nickname instead of their real name when they have one set

Bedrock Players

Bedrock players now receive the server's custom item textures - keys, shards, UI icons, and custom fish render correctly instead of showing as blank paper

Quality of Life

Vein miner sound effects are louder, on par with the auto collector
In-game tips now rotate every 3 minutes instead of every 6
The Auto Collector enchant now also pulls your fishing catches straight into your inventory instead of letting them fly to you
/baltop is now a visual leaderboard - the richest players shown as their heads with clickable page buttons
New /tps command shows the server current performance at a glance
Pale oak logs now count toward the Logger quest
Harvesting large bamboo, sugar cane, kelp, and cactus farms now causes far less lag
Slimes and magma cubes now combine into stacks, the same way spawner mobs already do - big slime and magma farms stay smooth instead of overwhelming the server
If you cannot join during maintenance or after a ban, the reason now shows up in chat instead of leaving you stuck on a screen wondering why

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