Perkelle

Today we present a new TNT Wars map, Archway, created by NinjaOnion, Brentondi_YT and TheEnderGamer4Ks:

Free Auto-Fill Weekend
We're trialling our first free auto-fill weekend. This weekend (Friday - Sunday), all players will have unlimited TNT auto fill, whether you're a donator or regular player.
We're interested to see how this affects the player count, and may consider making this a monthly / bi-weekly event if it goes well.

Vote Rewards
Vote rewards: We're bringing back top voter rewards. The top 3 voters of each month will be rewarded with the following:
       1) 1 month phantom rank + 5000 crystals
       2) 1 month vampire r...

Hello everyone! It's been a while since we made an announcement.

Today we're launching our new SMP gamemode. It's a vanilla server, but with a 8kx8k custom terrain to make gameplay more interesting. PvP is disabled and griefing other players is against the rules. If someone has griefed your base, please let a member of staff know with /report, so that they can find out who made the changes to your base, roll them back and ban the griefer.

Enjoy!

KraftMC and NinjaOnion built 2 new maps for us:

"Snowy Village"


"Tree"


They are live on the servers.

I find reading the Hypixel dev blog very interesting, so I thought I'd write about our internal systems for those who are interested.

First off, I'd like to apologise for the down time to the website and the server yesterday (Saturday) due to these upgrades. So, let's get started!

Let's start with a little context: for Perkelle, we have a dedicated server from SYS with a 4790K and 32GB of RAM, which is enough to run our game servers for now. In addition to this, we have a secondary VPS from OVH (although we're looking to move that to Scaleway) which we host our lightweight backend microservices on so that they have minimal downtime. These microservices include our new Zeus system, our VPN checking system and...