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May 23, 2023May 23, 2023

Newsletter #47 for May 23rd, 2023

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

Forgive me for not getting this newsletter out to you sooner, I had an internet outage yesterday and didn’t get wifi back until about 3:40pm eastern. Such is life, but it worked out for the better this way, as now I get to report DS9 petitions to you as well!

Let’s not get too far ahead in this intro, here’s the news!

Minecraft Servers

One week before Deep Slate Nine server downtime!

As a reminder to folks, the DS9 server has expected downtime from May 30th-31st. This is so Joe can upgrade the hardware and thus give the players a better experience.

Joe will also be utilizing that time to reset B’hala, so players will have that to look forward to. If you have any major projects or tasks you were working on, you have the next week to finish or get them in a stable state! Thanks!

DS9 May Petitions

We held asynchronous petitions for DS9 on the 22nd! Folks submitted their requests in writing and had them reviewed live on stream!

You can find the VOD and minutes from the petition here.

DS9 event schedule

DS9 Server downtime
- Tuesday May 30th to Wednesday May 31st.
Pride Parade, hosted by Team Gaymers
- Sunday, June 11th, 2pm US Central Time
DS9 Petitions
- Saturday, June 17th, 1pm US Central Time
Summer Solstice Parade, hosted by Team SCP
- Saturday, June 17th, 2pm US Central Time
DS9 Map Art Build Contest
- Ongoing until judging on Saturday, July 15th

Everstorm obituaries

No obituaries to report, phew!

Modded SMP

An update has come in from server operator ToxxicGlitter! The modded server’s restart is aimed to be on June 13th! It will run for about 3(ish) months, and will be a more serious modpack, specifics still to be determined.

You can make suggestions over in SMP: Modded 1.19 by ToxxicGlitter > #modded-feature-request

Vanillish

Petitions for Vanillish happened on May 16th! Server operator Yirggzmb has two updates! The full details can be found in SMP: Vanillish by Yirggzmb > #vanillish-petitions. I will provide a summary for you here:

Request for voice mod for the server
- The request has been green lit and given to Joe, this change will not be immediate, and will require the server to stay on one specific game version as opposed to updating to the newest version, as DS9 does.
Other Stuff
- Now that we are on 1.19.4, Yirggzmb has added chairs to Vanillish!
  - Name a minecart “chair” (all lowercase, no quotes) and hold it in your main hand. This will transform into a special item you can place down to create a “seat”. It is an invisible item you can see by turning on hitboxes (f3+b). You sit with right click and break it with a left click. These are entities, so caution is advised in terms of lag.

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Oops! Firstly, let me apologize for me dropping the ball and not noticing this slip up. We have been off with the count of the pinball tournament weeks! This week’s tournament is actually Week 20, sorry for the confusion!

I’d also like to apologize to Mr. Hardluck. I falsely announced last week that he had won 4 weeks in a row, but this was not correct! My count was off by one.

Week 19: The Party Zone

Congratulations to Mr. Hardluck for winning this week as well, as that means his win streak is now, accurately, 6 wins in a row! Be sure to celebrate!

1st: Mr_Hardluck. 2nd: DarkHorseAsh. 3rd: JoeHills. 4th: Laxmi13. 5th: fgluckman.

Week 20: High Speed II, the Getaway

Race to win this week’s tournament!

If you’re interested in joining the pinball tournaments you can find information under activity-sign-ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges.

Streams

Upcoming Streams

Due to the chaotic end of school year events and Joe’s lack of confidence in predicting his availability we are unable to present a stream schedule to you at this time, sorry!

With the holiday next week there will be no newsletter, so you can expect a stream schedule on June 5th!

If it will provide any benefit, here is a list of streams that are CANCELLED. There will NOT be any streams on these dates:

Evening of Friday, May 26th.
All times on Memorial day, Monday, May 29th.
Evening of Thursday, June 1st.
Morning of Friday, June 2nd.

Notable streams

Though this VOD starts with the DS9 petitions, Joe says there’s an intense TCG match worth viewing, check it out!

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear, we have tentative dates for Fall and Spring TGD! Again, the dates are NOT final, as the hotel contract has not yet been signed!

July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon
Tentative: September 14th-17th in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Thanks as always for reading the newsletter! Your support helps keep this going, and I appreciate you for taking the time to read! Thank you!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

May 23, 2023

Petitions May 2023

1st ruling: centuritron, no magic shulker eggs, should be community effort to gather live ones
2nd ruling: Void, no hoglin or zoglin eggs, should be community effort to gather live ones
3rd ruling: Ellas, no sheep eggs, should be community effort to gather live ones
4th ruling: Tommy requests set B’hala reset date for next reset. Joe agrees to roll that into server update on May 30-31st.
5th ruling: Mantuamaker, you can gather wither skeletons as a community activity.
6th ruling: Mantuamaker requests cod heads and player heads (steve) in time for June Pride Parade. Joe agrees to add those to b’hala loot.
7th ruling: Chefnutmeg requests Phantom egg, but has since rescinded it. No action taken.
8th ruling: Kindalas requests enchanted button. Joe agrees to add those to B’hala loot table.
9th ruling: Centuritron requests custom golden swords
- Joe agrees to add the following to B’hala loot table: golden_sword{Unbreakable:1,Enchantments:[{id:sharpness,lvl:13},{id:knockback,lvl:2},{id:fire_aspect,lvl:2},{id:looting,lvl:3},{id:sweeping,lvl:3},{id:unbreaking,lvl:3},{id:mending,lvl:1}]}
10th: MagentaAvocado requests a haiku about base at given coords
- The sun is shining
  Teletubbies would live here
  If only they could
11th ruling: StellarSpider requests special fortune enchanted stone picks for iron mining, Joe agrees to load up B’hala loot tables with stacks of 9-iron blocks.

May 15, 2023

Newsletter #46 for May 15th, 2023

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

We’ve got some updates for you, let’s begin right away!

Minecraft Servers

The DS9 petition date has changed!!

Due to scheduling conflicts, Joe will need to cancel the upcoming DS9 petitions. But worry not! We’re just gonna do things a little bit differently this time!

We will be doing asynchronous petitions reviewed live on Joe’s stream! Folks can submit their petition request in our new channel, S9 Vanilla SMP: Deep Slate Nine > #ds9-asyncronous-may-petitions.

Then, on Monday, May 22nd at 8:30pm US Central Time, Joe will review the requests live on stream! Folks can still attend the petition of course, this method just ensures folks who can’t attend on a weekday can still submit items.

If you have any questions, please let us know in the channel!