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GREEKSB: MAP 7

The Management team at Blaze Gaming Vanilla is excited to announce the launch of Skyblock S7. This map has been in the works since the beginning of S4 with some of the features we have planned to ensure they are implemented as smoothly as possible. Skyblock Season 7 will be releasing on Saturday, 14th November @ 2PM EST.

This thread details everything you need to know about the new Season, from our new Island Core, to economy changes. Make sure you read the entire thread!

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ISLAND TOP COMPETITION

After another successful Island TOP Competition on Skyblock S6, we will be running another in the same fashion.

Payout Dates

• 21/11/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 1
• 28/11/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 2
• 5/12/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 3
• 12/12/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 4
• 19/12/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 5

Weekly Payouts

• 1st. $60 Paypal and $50 Buycraft
• 2nd. $30 Paypal and $20 Buycraft
• 3rd. $15 Paypal and $10 Buycraft
• 4th. $10 Buycraft
• 5th. $5 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $5 Buycraft

Total Payouts

• 1st. $300 Paypal and $250 Buycraft
• 2nd. $150 Paypal and $100 Buycraft
• 3rd. $75 Paypal and $50 Buycraft
• 4th. $50 Buycraft
• 5th. $25 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $25 Buycraft

Total: $1025

The IS-TOP Competition will end on 19th December 2020. All Islands which set their /is setpaypal and/or their /is setdiscord automatically agree to the following rules listed here and are hereby entered for the competition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YYBlPkatYzwGRcfP4wJryJPrTfBEebfqp67lqvnGi-M

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New Skyblock Core

Since Skyblock Season 2, we have been running the same Skyblock Core which has served us pretty well. However, it has many problems including an imperfect Island TOP calculation system and many other things annoying for us to moderate the server.

At the beginning of Season 5, we had one of our developers work on a fully-custom 1.16 Competitive Skyblock Core. Unlike any other, this one is the only one like this in existence and will not be found anywhere (as it is based off 1.8 competitive skyblock server cores). It is constructed using a library used on Factions Servers to ensure it has top-notch code and is lag free. Myself and @Terminated have made numerous revisions, tweaks and converted all of GreekSB's custom plugins which depended on our old Core to our new core. After dozens of hours we have implemented every core feature across to ensure this brings the smoothest gameplay possible.

Unfortunately, a few features were lost in this migration (block count menu per-island and crop growth multipliers) - We decided not to add these back to make...

EGYPT: MAP 1
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After months of planning, testing and development from the team over at Blaze Gaming Vanilla, Prison is (finally) ready to be opened to the public. This server is unlike any ever seen on Blaze Gaming before.

Egyptian Prison will be releasing on the 24th October @ 2PM EST.

I'd like to thank everyone who participated in our beta on Wednesday evening. It was a huge success and has shown us the largest bugs in the setup currently. These are underway of being patched before the start of Season 1 and your feedback has been implemented where possible.

We posted a few Polls on the Blaze Gaming Discord and we've got a few key points:

• Most people would like a five week season on Prison. We will be running 5 weeks of CELL TOP Payouts each map with one week between seasons
• Most people like a mixture of competitive and casual play
• Cells are vastly more popular to Plots, but both will be staying for our first release.
• Cell team size is too small - This has been upped to 8 for Season 1.

CELL TOP
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Similarly to Skyblock, we will be hosting a map-ly "TOP" Competition - in this case, in a Cell! Most of you already saw cells on the beta and this is their primary use on the server.

Cell TOP will be paid out on a weekly basis on the following dates:

Payout Dates

• 31/10/2020 --> Cell TOP Payout 1
• 14/11/2020 --> Cell TOP Payout 2
• 21/11/2020 --> Cell TOP Payout 3
• 28/11/2020 --> Cell TOP Payout 4
• 5/12/2020 --> Cell TOP Payout 5

Weekly Payouts

• 1st. $30 Paypal and $50 Buycraft
• 2nd. $20 Paypal and $20 Buycraft
• 3rd. $10 Paypal and $10 Buycraft

Total Payouts

• 1st. $150 Paypal and $250 Buycraft
• 2nd. $100 Paypal and $100 Buycraft
• 3rd. $50 Paypal and $50 Buycraft

The IS-TOP Competition will end on 5th December 2020. All Cells which set their /cell setpaypal and/or their /cell setdiscord automatically agree to the following rules listed here and are hereby entered for the competition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YYBlPkatYzwGRcfP4wJryJPrTfBEebfqp67lqvnGi-M

FEATURES
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Egypt has a lot of features never seen before on Blaze Gaming - So many, in fact, we will not be showcasing all of them in this thread (as we'd be here all week writing them). Lets look at the main...

Hey Greek Skyblock Players!

We're excited to announce the launch of Skyblock S6: the successor to Season 5 which will be opening on Saturday, 3rd October @ 2PM EST.

This thread will be detailing everything which has changed on Blaze Skyblock for the new map; Make sure you read the entire thread for the new information!

After another successful Island TOP Competition in season five, we will be running another in the same weekly fashion.

Payout Dates

• 10/10/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 1
• 17/10/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 2
• 24/10/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 3
• 31/10/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 4
• 7/11/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 5

Weekly Payouts

• 1st. $60 Paypal and $60 Buycraft
• 2nd. $30 Paypal and $30 Buycraft
• 3rd. $15 Paypal and $15 Buycraft
• 4th. $10 Buycraft
• 5th. $5 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $5 Buycraft

Total Payouts

• 1st. $300 Paypal and $300 Buycraft
• 2nd. $150 Paypal and $150 Buycraft
• 3rd. $75 Paypal and $75 Buycraft
• 4th. $50 Buycraft
• 5th. $25 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $25 Buycraft

Total: $1,155

The IS-TOP Competition will end on 7th November 2020. All Islands which set their /is setpaypal and/or their /is setdiscord automatically agree to the following rules listed here and are hereby entered for the competition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YYBlPkatYzwGRcfP4wJryJPrTfBEebfqp67lqvnGi-M

Goodbye 1.15, Hello 1.16.3!
Blaze Skyblock has been running 1.15.2 as it's primary version for the last two seasons with enough laggy features removed to create a lag-free experience for our players. With this, we have taken the next steps to keep up to date and move to 1.16!

1.16 comes with the addition of all nether blocks, mobs and performance increases the version is packed with. All have been implemented into the new server as much as possible!

Blaze will continue to support versions 1.8 - 1.16.3. However, to be able to complete some features it will be required to run 1.16.3 (For example, Missions requires mining some of the new "Warped" Materials.) - To increase FPS on 1.16, I suggest running Sodium (FabricMC) or Optifine

The biggest Gameplay features with 1.16 include:

• Zombie Pigman quests, missions and spawners have changed to Piglin spawners, however, Zombified Piglins are also in some elements of the new server
• Hoglins have been implemented as an Island Mission
• Netherite has not been implemented as the new standard for gear.
• Netherite Blocks have replaced Black Terracotta in the Nether Generator

This has...

Hey Skyblockers!

We're excited to announce the launch of Skyblock S5: the successor to our beloved S4 Map which will be opening on Saturday, 22nd August @ 2PM EST.

The last map of Skyblock was a huge success. Not only have we increased our average playercount significantly, we have had a huge number of successes:

• Average Ticks Per Second has increased by 125%
• Average server response time has decreased from 120ms to 60ms
• Average number of players on at non-peak times has doubled

These are just some of the changes which we've recorded on Skyblock this map. Make sure to read the entire thread for all the information about next map!

After another successful Island TOP Competition in season four, we will be running another in the same weekly fashion.

Payout Dates

• 29/08/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 1
• 5/09/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 2
• 12/09/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 3
• 19/09/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 4
• 26/09/2020 --> Island TOP Payout 5

Weekly Payouts

• 1st. $60 Paypal and $60 Buycraft
• 2nd. $30 Paypal and $30 Buycraft
• 3rd. $15 Paypal and $15 Buycraft
• 4th. $10 Buycraft
• 5th. $5 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $5 Buycraft

Total Payouts

• 1st. $300 Paypal and $300 Buycraft
• 2nd. $150 Paypal and $150 Buycraft
• 3rd. $75 Paypal and $75 Buycraft
• 4th. $50 Buycraft
• 5th. $25 Buycraft
• Achievement Top #1. $25 Buycraft

Total: $1,155

The IS-TOP Competition will end on 26th September 2020. All Islands which set their /is setpaypal and/or their /is setdiscord automatically agree to the following rules listed here and are hereby entered for the competition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YYBlPkatYzwGRcfP4wJryJPrTfBEebfqp67lqvnGi-M

Introducing our new Spawn
For this map - we're saying goodbye to our current spawn and will have a brand new spawn for this map! As Blaze Skyblock has changed significantly since we had our current spawn made - it is no longer sufficient in supplying our needs

Our new spawn will come with the classic areas such as the auctionhouse, food farm and a new casino (based in a greek temple!) and an in depth tutorial area to help out new players.

One thing which we really dislike about our current spawn is the wasted space, something which will be fixed in our new spawn!


Introducing new Events: Spleef, Parkour, Juggernaught, Free for All & NEW Sumo
For this season of Skyblock, we have developed a brand new Events system featuring Spleef, Parkour, Juggernaut, Free for All and Sumo. These will run on a completely random schedule every four hours (this does not mean the same event will run at the same time every...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Children of All Ages! Gather round and polish up those teams because it’s time once again for the coveted Blaze Pixelmon:
MEGA SUMMER TOURNAMENT!

We will be having two days of qualifier tournaments on All Servers. The 1st and 2nd place of each qualifier (that’s 16 players total), will move on and participate in the Grand Tournament! Fight it out in this ultimate brawl to bring glory to your server and represent them with pride!

QUALIFIER TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:

DAY ONE QUALIFIERS
All servers: 1:00 P.M. CDT on Tuesday, August 4th, 2020

DAY TWO QUALIFIERS
All servers: 12:30 A.M. CDT on Thursday, August 6th, 2020

GRAND FINAL SCHEDULE:
The Grand Final will take place on Terra at TIME TBD on Saturday, August 8th, 2020

You may only enter one qualifier.
This go-round will be the Monotype Brawl to end ‘em all!
Smogon Monotype Tier Rules

Rules
6 Pokemon
All Pokemon Must Have One Type In Common
1 Legend or UB (Mega Rayquaza is banned.)
No Fear, BatonPass, No Destiny Bond, and No OHKO moves
No Bag Items
Endless Battle Clause Enabled
Team Preview Enabled
Full Heal On
Lvl 100 Raise to Cap Enabled
20 Minute Time Limit
Team Selection Is Permanent

Sign Ups
All tournament and qualifiers sign-ups will be held within an hour before the event starts!

Prizes
Qualifiers :
1st Place: A Spot in the Grand Finals, Plasma Key, and an Animated Plushie of their choice!
2nd Place: A Spot in the Grand Finals, and 2 Laser Keys
3rd Place: $10 Store Credit

Grand Final
1st Place: $75 Paypal, $50 Store Credit, and a Server Boost to your home server!
2nd Place: $50 Paypal, $25 Store Credit, and a Server Boost to your home server!
3rd Place: $25 Paypal, $25 Store Credit, and a Server Boost to your home server!

With this all in mind, GLHF!