Introduction

Hello! from here on out, server patch notes will be posted here in addition to our Discord (where you can see them dating back to 2020). Our focus at the minute is on fixing some long-standing pains with the server's backend infrastructure, which we're slowly working through. Once it's in a state we're happy with, our focus will shift to delivering new content.

Either way, we hope you enjoy reading!

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where floo was not working

  • Fixed an issue where casting mayday & morsmordre would not trigger the announcement

  • Fixed an issue where ops/staff with all perms would have their house overwritten to Gryffindor on join

  • Fixed an issue where /profile stats would be empty until you closed and re-opened the menu

  • Fixed an issue where names and suffixes would appear bold for professors

  • Fixed an issue where advisors were not listed in /list properly

  • Fixed an issue where leave messages were not showing

  • Fixed an issue where sorting messages were not formatted properly on Discord

  • Fixed an issue where /housepoints give (house) (player) would fail

  • Fixed ascendio 4 having an inaccurate upgrade message

  • Changed broom dismount ground distance requirement from 2 blocks to 32 blocks

  PotterPets

  • Fixed pathfinding issues caused by plugin updates

  • Made performance and stability improvements

  Furniture

  • Created a new furniture engine to render custom furniture models without replacing vanilla blocks

  • Added colored couches for each house, currently viewable in the Ravenclaw common room

  • For players without the resource pack, furniture renders as custom item textures rather than vanilla stairs. Ongoing improvements to the pack selection system are being made to address fallback textures

  Resource Pack

  • The resource pack chosen in /packs is now persistent across sessions instead of resetting on reconnect

  • Added a label indicating the default pack in the selection menu

  • Overhauled the resource pack pipeline to serve packs based on Minecraft client version, enabling support for 1.21.4 and newer

  • Added distinct pack options accessible via /pack or /profile > settings > resource packs:

      • 32x32 Font (Default)

      • 32x32 No font (Default textures, default Minecraft font)

      • 16x16 Font (Downscaled textures, custom font)

      • 16x16 No font (Downscaled textures, default Minecraft font)

      • Models only (Custom wands, brooms, and spell icons with vanilla textures)

  House Points

  • Added the house points menu to /profile, displaying monthly and overall point contributions, lifetime points earned/lost, and recent point history

  • Migrated the house points backend to a database ledger with support for historical filtering back to January 2020

  • Automated end-of-month procedures:

      • Automated in-game announcement at 00:00 GMT

      • Automatically giving out the champions tag

      • Fireworks in the great hall

  Core Infrastructure & Backend

  • Migrated core plugin data (responsible for sorting, houses, scoreboard, profiles, and house points) from a 25,901-line flat text file to a proper, structured databases

  • Bank plugin no longer recalculates /baltop every 2 minutes and now refreshes hourly to improve performance

  • Added money transaction tracking within the bank

  • Resolved database concurrency locks during bank access and fixed a rare server crash

  • Made performance improvements to Gringotts, particularly when integrating with other plugins like Towny

  Floo Network

  • Fireplaces at origin and destination points now burn green for several seconds during Floo travel

  • Renamed warps used for floo for consistency and cleaned up internal warp references

  • Standardised colors across items in the floo menu, so it no longer resembles a skittles bag

  Spells

  • Mayday rework: Now summons a particle phoenix accompanied by an enhanced fire effect

  • Fixed an issue where training dummies and combat NPCs would not take or respond to damage

  Chat

  • Updated the chat plugin for improved performance and mute integration

  • Discord bridge messages now route into the standard general in-game channel. Players outside this channel will not see messages from Discord unless in read mode (/ch join standard read)

  • Running /ignore on a player in-game now hides their bridged messages from Discord

  • Removed ping and health from the chat hover menu

  • Fixed an issue where player heads would not display in server-chat due to an issue with the skin provider

  • Fixed an issue where in-game messages would not send to Discord server-chat

  • Fixed an issue that caused chat questions to stop working

  • Fixed an issue where server messages would not have a space between the prefix and the message

  General Fixes & Tweaks

  • Fixed an issue where /warp survival would not take you to the spawn area

  • Fixed an issue where the resort menu would not let you use your house credit to choose a house

  • Slightly reduced scoreboard refresh rate for optimization

  • Improved domain filtering rules to reduce false positives

  • Removed access to /warp rules

  • Tweaked the restart script to prevent the server from hanging on restart cycles