It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!
Some of you might be wondering why I’m bringing you this week’s newsletter. Well that’s cause Joe keeps trying to plan around acts of God, but God keeps laughing at him! For evidence of this, check out the status of Nashville’s electric service here!
For clarity, Joe’s been having internet issues thanks to a storm that’s been terrorizing the area, so I’m here as your faithful reporter!
Let’s get to the news!
Mario Kart wave 4 launch
I hope you’re ready for some kart racing action! With the new wave of Mario Kart DLC launching we have a Mario Kart stream to look forward to this week!
You can tune in to that on the 9th, Thursday morning at 9am US Central Time.
Vacation time
Joe will be going on vacation next week! Some folks may see the word vacation and worry about the discord going into vacation mode again, but worry not! With the trial run of vacation mode being completed and the ModMail tutorial posted in the #actual-rules channel we feel confident in having all the channels stay open while Joe enjoys his trip!
In relation to that, we will not be posting a newsletter next week, so the next edition will be out on the following Monday, the 20th of March.
Upcoming Minecraft Server Events
Some of these have already been announced, but with the lack of a newsletter next week I think it’s good to have a refresher. Let’s see what folks have to look forward to!
Modded Petitions: March 11th at 11am Central
Deep Slate Nine Petitions: March 18th at 1pm Central
Van Gogh Parade: March 18th at 2pm Central
Vanillish Petitions: March 21st, asynchronous
Everstorm Obituaries
After completing its own dying wish, Void withered away among roses
Chefnutmeg fell into the fires of mount doom one block of obsidian shy of opening a portal to the nether realms
Centuritron met the same fate as John Fitzgerald Kennedy thanks to some skeletons
Rei died since metal spoons aren’t the incredibly inefficient weapons they’re advertised to be. especially when wielded by a baby
Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament
Congratulations to Forgantly in a landslide victory!
Week 7: Tales From the Arabian Nights results
Week 8: No Good Gofers
This week’s tournament is only 5 days long so Joe will have time before his vacation to roll it over. Pinball while you can!
Find the details to join in Activity Sign Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges
Upcoming conventions
Tennessee Game Days Spring has come and gone! I hope any folks who attended had a great time! If you missed the chance to go you can still catch Joe at PlayOnCon! 2023 Sales will open at http://www.playoncon.com/memberships on March 12 at 3PM Central.
Normally we like to include a stream schedule, but with the uncertainty of the internet stability we don’t feel confident making a schedule this week. Should all be fine you can expect Joe at his usual streaming times, let’s hope we still get some bonus streams!
So long for now…
Thanks for reading the newsletter! If you made it this far your dedication for staying up to date and being in the know truly shines!
Or maybe you just skimmed the whole thing and have stumbled across this farewell anyhow. Either way, I hope you have a great week!
This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.
Joe Hills here, hoping you had a presidential Monday last week and that today is even better for you! I’m assisted today by our community liaison, ThatTommyboii!
Today’s featured image is a slice of a photo I took of the burned out shell of one of my favorite non-hot chicken restaurants just this afternoon. Time marches ever onward.
Draw4 Charity a success!
Thank y’all so much for ensuring our 2023 Draw4Charity campaign was a success! We surpassed our $10,000 goal and raised $10,500 benefitting WorldBuilders!
Here’s the VOD of the HermitCraft TCG prize match segment I ran! I appreciate so many Hermits showing up to help raise money for a good cause.
Fans of this newsletter and my other miscellaneous work are likely aware that I’m regularly over-scheduled and over-extended as I attempt to balance life as a single parent with my obligations as an entertainer and small business owner. I regret that I’ve been unable to spend as much time behind-the-scenes planning, organizing, and coordinating the twice-yearly D4C charity streams as my other peers on the board.
Our chairman, Jack Mistretta (aka Pastability) offered to let me keep my title due to my early efforts helping him initially launch the event—but on reflection I feel the best way to respect the time of the others on the board and accurately convey my day-to-day level on involvement is to step down.
I formally resigned earlier this month, but continue to enjoy a positive relationship with everyone involved. I wish everyone at D4C the best, and I look forward to appearing as a guest at their future events.
Mercy Road 4: Save the Date for April 1st!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be playing in one of the charity D&D games benefitting Child’s Play hosted by talented dungeon master Saucefire. The exact time of my session is TBD, so stay tuned for that detail.
I’ll be hosting a small-group voice chat discussion here about Tress of the Emerald Sea at 7pm US Central time tomorrow, February 28th. If you’ve read the book, please pop in!
If you haven’t, it’s about 12 hours on the audio book, and you can probably read the print one in half that. Good luck!
Upcoming Minecraft Server Events
Modded Petitions: March 11th at 11am Central
Deep Slate Nine Petitions: March 18th at 1pm Central
Van Gogh Parade: March 18th at 2pm Central
Everstorm
January Everstorm closes
Survivors of last month’s everstorm have shared their final reports:
NJ took a trip down memory lane and didn’t nearly burn down her barn this time.
SuperStone had fun exploring the ruins of an ancient civilization.
MJ enjoyed looting the shopping district and then mining some terracotta. Built some cubes at NJ’s farm. Shot a lot of skeleton riders … almost shot Ellas too!
Gaea started out on a nostalgia trip and then was immediately entranced by a mystery
TommyBoii met his love again but they were missing their other husband and their church.
Repent! Lenten everstorm opens
Okay, so this started out a bit more Eastery than intended, but put your “Hallelujahs” away. Uh… folks weren’t supposed to respawn when they logged out and back in, I had set the server property force-gamemode to true, and that had some, uh, life finds a way style consequences.
I’ve fixed that glitch, and we should be back on track in the meantime, here’s more obituaries than expected:
NJ tried to help SuperStone and Centuritron but a zombie wanted a hug instead.
Centuritron tried too hard to get spider powers
fancytoy was slain by a baby zombie whilst attempting to craft a pickaxe.
Qwarkeh fought off an invisible spider but succumbed to a drowned
MisterLantz fell in a 1×2 hole, a creeper was kind enough to expand the hole.
ChefNutmeg got stabbed in the back by a trident, while settling farm by the fishing dock.
Void went exploring and got ambushed by three skeletons
Ellas was lighting up a cave when they were cornered and murdered by a bone man
Centuritron after having their soul retrieved from the underworld, was smote by Zeus by request of Hades anyway
MJ, deaths 2-5 skeleton death loop
Void, Going up in flames for science
Discord Updates
I’ve archived the following channels:
#feb-mcyt-poll
#feb-12-mardi-gras-parade
#everstorm-january-2023
I’ve also created a #tbd-tcg channel for testing a self-hosted version of the HermitCraft TCG, which you can find on github at: https://github.com/martinkadlec0/hc-tcg
Please note that my self-hosted deployment of the TCG will not necessarily be updated daily like the one hosted by the developers.
Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament
Congrats to Mr. Hardluck on two weeks of wins in a row! Can anyone take him down this week?!
Week 5: Hurricane
Week 6: Cirqus Voltaire
Week 7: Tales From the Arabian Nights
Join us for a seven day challenge that explores 1001 nights of stories!
Delight with scheherazadenfreuden as your friends fail to catch your high score!
Upcoming conventions
One of my favorite annual events, PlayOnCon just announced their Summer 2023 dates as July 6th–9th! Badges and rooms go on sale on March 12th at 3pm Central! They can sell out fast, so start planning now if you hope to hang out with my friends and I at a gaming convention on the lake!
If you’re a part of the @JoeHills Supporters discord you may have heard about ModMail. It is a system the staff and community members can utilize to report bad actors. This tutorial will serve as a guide as to when to use ModMail, and also how to actually use it.
When you should use ModMail
ModMail is a ticket based reporting system. You should use ModMail when you see someone who is breaking the rules and needs to be banned. Some examples of this would be anyone breaking the rules listed in the #actual-rules channel or somebody harassing you in DMs.
If the action harms the community in a way that violates health, safety, or discord TOS then it needs to be reported via ModMail.
When you should NOT use ModMail
ModMail is for serious offenses only, and is not to be used for personality conflicts, such as disagreements in conversations or disputes on the Minecraft servers. If you don’t get along with somebody else in the community we ask that you resolve those matters amicably at your own discretion.
The purpose of submitting a ticket is to remove a bad actor or alert staff of a harmful action or concern. If health and safety are not at risk, do not submit a ModMail ticket.
What about *this* issue?
Issues may arise and you still may not be sure about the best place to go to get help. Here is a general list of issues and the best resource to utilize.
Patreon billing issue, support tier update, etc: Patreon message to Joe
Other unspecified issues not mentioned here: If you have a concern and feel it is not suited for submission as a ModMail ticket and aren’t sure where else it can go, Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii accepts DMs from all folks to assist in guiding them. He may tell you to submit a ModMail ticket, or otherwise let you know the best course of action.
Do not message support staff for assistance. Especially NJCoffeeJunkie, as her job is not community-facing.
Visual guide on how to actually use ModMail
First you’ll need to find the ModMail bot in the userlist. You can find this in the upper right hand corner of the discord.
If you right click the bot, you will find the option to message the bot.
You will be in discord’s direct message feature with the bot. This is where you will type your message to submit as a ticket. You may add image files as well.
If this is your first time using ModMail you will need to authorzie the bot on your discord account. It will provide you a link to a webpage to do so. Without this step you cannot submit a ticket.
Once you have it authorized, your ticket will be submitted as shown below.
All staff members can see all ModMail tickets, so the soonest available staff member will assist you when they can. Your messages will be in green and theirs will be in red. You will always be able to see which staff member is responding to your ticket.
Simply communicate with staff about the issue and we will take action as necessary. If you have any further questions, please reach out to staff for assistance.
Thank you for reviewing this tutorial and have a good day!
It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!
I hope you’re ready for an overuse of exclamation marks, Joe is currently in what he describes as “editing jail” along with “paperwork jail” so I’ll be bringing you this week’s newsletter!
Let’s begin!
Actually, Some of You May Be New Here!
With a new influx of patreon supporters and other folks who may be browsing this site I realize that not everybody may know what’s going on!
I’d like to welcome any folks who may be new with a brief summary of what the newsletter is. Every Monday morning Joe and I meet to write and publish this newsletter here on his site!
Part of my job as Community Liaison is to help establish a connection between all of you lovely folks and Joe, but also help Joe connect with y’all! I’m kind of like a bridge of sorts.
There’s a lot of information that needs to get passed between people in the community, and the easiest and best way for folks to stay up to date on everything going on is all right here in one place!
You can look forward to a new newsletter each week, barring holidays and any events that can cause delays. If you have any feedback we welcome that in the patreon discord at Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-newsletter
If you’re not already a member but are interested in joining you can check out Joe’s patreon page over here!
Now let’s start for real!
Tumblr Poll for MCYTblr Sexyman
This isn’t really what I thought I’d be reporting on when I first started writing the newsletter with Joe, but I’m excited nonetheless!
Round 6 has concluded, and in the match between ZombieCleo vs Joe Hills the winner is… Joe Hills!
I can’t say I’m surprised! With all the propaganda and support I’ve seen on tumblr as well as discord spaces, it’s no wonder he pulled through in such a tight race!
The final poll, GoodTimesWithScar vs Joe Hills, will go up tomorrow, Tuesday the 14th. What a memorable way to celebrate Valentine’s day! You’ll be able to vote in that poll once it goes live at mcytblrsexymen.tumblr.com.
Draw4 Charity: February
It’s once again time for Draw4Charity! This charity event will be benefitting worldbuilders. You can visit their site for more information on what they do.
If you’d like to support the cause come attend the livestream event! It will be steamed from twitch.tv/Draw4Charity and is running from Friday February 17th, 6pm CST to Sunday February 19th, 6pm CST.
Joe will be popping in and out of this event all weekend, and will be hosting HermitCraft TCG on Saturday February 18th, 2pm US Central time.
He will also be hosting the Quake segment, on Sunday February 19th, 8am US Central time.
Vanillish SMP
February 14th is the date for this month’s Vanillish petitions! At the time this newsletter goes live, that means tomorrow! Make sure to have your requests submitted for our server operator Yirggzmb to review!
Modded SMP
The Cliffside Competition is over! Server operator ToxxicGlitter submitted the winners, so congratulations to Mantuamaker for winning Best Overall and Best Façade! Congratulations as well to MercurialVoid for Best Lair, and thank you to _R2D2 for your wonderful entry!
If you’d like to check out the judging and walk throughs of the builds, you can watch the VOD below!
Also, to better help folks who want to install the mods to play on the Modded SMP, Toxxic has created a handy channel with a list of the mods and some commons issues. You can find that in SMP: Modded 1.19 By ToxxicGlitter > #modded-setup-guide.
Everstorm Obituaries
Magenta fell out of this world while trying to escape an enderman
Deep Slate Nine parade float build contests
Celebrating Mardi Gras was superb on DS9 thanks to Team Lotus! Thank you to MeepedCubed for hosting the parade, and to all the entrants who built floats!
You can watch the VOD of the building and judging of this parade here!
Upcoming Parades
Van Gogh’s Birthday Parade on March 18th at 2pm Central. Hosted by Team Holland.
More to be announced!
Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament
Week 5: Red and Ted’s Road Show results
The winner of this table is Mr. Hardluck! Congratulations!
Week 6: Hurricane
Join the tournament via our Patreon Discord in Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges
Streams
Upcoming Streams
Normally Joe would place an orderly and time accurate schedule here, but I don’t have that. I can instead provide a vague summary of when to expect some streams. Sorry about that, but I hope this will still be beneficial!
Joe Hills here, saying “fare thee well” to January and “well thee come” to February as I always do in Nashville, TN!
Our enterprising community liaison ThatTommyBoii is assisting as well! When asked if he has any special greetings for y’all, Tommy replied “not necessarily.”
Let’s jump right in!
February Book Club: Tress and the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
The book club is back with a shipboard adventure story that really impressed me!
I hope you’ll join me to discuss Tress and the Emerald Sea throughout the month of February in #bookclub text chat!
At the end of the month, I’ll host a discussion in Discord voice chat at 7pm US Central time on Tuesday, February 28th.
Tumblr Democracy in Action
There’s a series of polls this month on Tumblr I have been nominated for. I’m not really campaigning, just occasionally re-posting things I’ve done over the years, but if you’d like to participate, you can do so at https://www.tumblr.com/mcytblrsexymen
HermitCraft 9 Videos!
Vanillish SMP
The Winter Event comes to a close on Vanillish! Our server operator Yirggzmb has provided a prize wall for all participants in the winter event! Spend the points you earned on some fantastic prizes, and thanks again for playing!
The Vanillish server will also be holding petitions on Tuesday, February 14th. If you’re not familiar with the petitions on Vanillish, they are asynchronous! This means folks can submit their petition request in the #vanillish-petitions channel, and Yirggy will review those on the petition date.
Modded SMP
Toxxic’s Cliffside Competition is nearing its end! The judging will be Saturday, February 11th at 12pm central. There’s still time for last minute entries, you can find all the information in the #modded-cliffside-competition channel.
The next Modded petitions will be held sometime in March, details to come.
Everstorm Obituaries
Chefnutmeg fell from a high place in the shopping district.
Deep Slate Nine parade float build contests
GroundHog Day Parade
I appreciate that Team Redstone (Kindalas) went all-out preparing his outpost to host this year’s Groundhog Day parade!
Thanks to everyone who showed up to create floats! Y’all had some really imaginative and fun builds!
Upcoming Parades
Mardi Gras Parade on February 12th at noon Central. Hosted by Team Lotus.
Van Gogh’s Birthday Parade on March 18th at 2pm Central. Hosted by Team Holland.
With discussion happening on future Patreon community goals some excellent points were brought up… points so excellent that we are updating a policy!
Henceforth, all one-shot minecraft events, such as cross-community UHCs, will be open to all discord community members, and not just the $10 minecraft tier patrons.
Draw4 Charity: February
I’ll be streaming as part of the Draw4Charity team on February 17th, 6pm CST – 19th, 6pm CST! Details to come!
Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament
Week 3: The Champion Pub results
Congrats Forgantly for taking 1st on The Champion Pub!
Week 4: Whitewater results
Week 5: Red and Ted’s Road Show
Join the tournament via our Patreon Discord in Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges
Streams
Upcoming Stream Schedule
Monday, February 6th
1pm: bonus HermitCraft stream, HHH
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Wednesday, February 7th
8:30am: Crafts with Cleo
Thursday, February 9th
8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with in-studio guest Quinn Hills
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Friday, February 10th
8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with coffee
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Saturday, February 11th
noon: Modded Cliffside Competition
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Sunday, February 12th
noon: Mardi Gras Parade hosted by Team Lotus
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Notable Streams this week
Upcoming conventions
Registration and hotel booking are both now live for Tennessee Game Days Spring: March 3rd–5th, 2023 in Nashville, TN!
Until next time, y’all!
This is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN. Any final words, Tommy?
“Now I’m on the spot! You wrote when I said not neceesarily and now I feel like I have to match that kind of energy!”
Joe Hills here, writing as I always do from Nashville, TN!
I’m assisted today by our Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii.
It’s been a couple weeks since our last newsletter, and we just had our quarterly meeting, so we’ve got a lot to cover. Let’s jump in!
2023 Q1 quarterly meeting
I also appreciate everyone in the community who submitted feedback in advance or attended live for shaping the discussion!
Some of the decisions made during the meeting went into effect immediately, others, like re-enabling images on all of the channels will occur as I have time to get to them this week.
Video On Demand
Thanks to Tommy for filming and streaming the meeting!
Thanks to Blug, DaUltraMarine, and the other HermitCraft community and fan server admins for running the first HermitFan UHC event!
Our team of Kindalas, Maahes0, MercurialVoid, and Salem managed to live and die together and claimed 4th place out of eight teams representing different Hermits’ communities.
It was a lot of fun, and congrats to the winners (who I won’t spoil here, go watch the VOD of me flying around and commentating)!
Minecraft Servers
Deep Slate Nine petitions and parade this Sunday!
Petitions for January will be held on DS9 at 1pm Central on Jan 29th, followed by the Groundhog Day Parade!
Modded Server updates
I updated several mods last week, so if you try to connect and get weird errors, please pop into #modded-setup-help for the latest list.
January 2023 Everstorm launches!
This month’s Everstorm showcases the Seven of Mine Server at the crucial junction when I created a manual backup to migrate it from a Minecraft Realm to a dedicated server! Come witness a piece of community history… if you dare!
Obituaries… so far!
Laxmi13 was impaled to death because she forgot that evil water creatures were a thing.
2023 Pinball FX3 tournament progress
Results so far:
Congrats to Mr. Hardluck for taking 1st place on both of our tournaments so far this year!
Week 1: Fish Tales
Week 2: Theatre of Magic
Week 3: The Champion Pub
Lace up your boxing gloves and practice your Strongbad voice, because this week’s table is The Champion Pub!
See you in the ring!
Streams
Upcoming schedule
I expect to stream at my usual times this week, with a few bonus streams. All times US Central.
Tuesday, January 24th
8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with in-studio guest Quinn Hills
Wednesday, January 25th
8:30am: Crafts with Cleo
Thursday, January 26th
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Friday, January 27th
8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with coffee
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Saturday, January 28th
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Sunday, January 29th
1pm: Petitions
2pm: GroundHog Day build contest
8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
Notable streams recently
Dracula concludes
Crafts with Cleo
Upcoming conventions
I hope to see some of y’all in March for Tennessee Game Days Spring!
Biggest freelance client for Joe’s freelance contract has ended and has not been renewed. It does mean less revenue but it also now frees up time for Joe to work on more creative ventures.
Joe is also sleeping better as a whole and is more creatively energized
Joe hasn’t felt this excited about editing in years
Streams have had tech back where Joe would like them
Friday morning streams are a hit
Saturday night reading streams are grinding but thoughtful
Focused work streams like that are good for maintaining forward momentum
Potentially adding more morning streams, but requires balance with editing time
Music/Albums
Quinn Hills will be joining Joe in studio to hang out with a guitar for a stream soon
Commercial real estate is cheap right now from the pandemic, and an off site studio is being considered
Night streams might be less elaborate if so, but in the long term Joe would like to stream from the road
More of that will be addressed in depth at the next quarterly meeting
Volume 3 is coming, branding needs sorting but the most important aspect is that Quinn feels comfortable
Joe Hills Speaks Spoken Word project
TTRPG games were fun, and running more one shots on the discord is desired
Call of Cluethulu
Patreon goals and tier review
$3000 goal at last meeting has been meeting that goal
This is because one person has been hitting the $500 tier but it is not long term
Short term/immediate investments have been made with tech upgrades
Long term goals are known, the matter is meeting them.
Kindalas suggests updating the patreon quarterly so folks know it is not abandoned and more folks can be drawn in
If we hit a certain monetary goal (4k or 5k a month? numbers need to be run) do we make some of the servers available to everyone?
Not an individual sponsorship program
Yes this is something we can open feedback for and consider in the future
Funds would cover more staff time and hardware such as laptops for server operators
Vacation mode considered a success
Concerns raised were “does Joe not trust his mods”
He does, vacation mode was not made from a lack of faith in staff
Joe wants to prepare for situations like the company doing well and flying the staff team to PAX for a booth, or so well that we do a staff retreat for a week. In those scenarios, everyone trusted to run the discord in unavailable. Preparing for failure needs to also be met with preparing for success
The test of vacation mode was to see if the discord could exist with NO staff available.
Vacation mode isn’t being considered for when Joe goes to Europe for spring break as Joe trusts his staff to run things while he is away. If that doesn’t work out well that shows the scope for how the discord runs.
Server operators cannot do emergency maintenance on the server consoles as Joe will not provide them with root access on personal devices.
If spring break is a nightmare and can be fixed we will do that. If it goes poorly and can’t be fixed vacation mode would be used in instances like when Joe gets married and goes on a honeymoon.
Vacation mode is for cases of extreme unavailability, such as honeymoons or PAX.
Likely won’t be used for an entire month again, vacation mode is intended to be used sparingly.
Minecraft servers
Long-term server reset schedule, season 9 is intended to last longer than season 6
Current HermitCraft Season expected to run at least 9–12 more months.
This means our flagship server wouldn’t change until then, and not be reset for a while
Modded and vanillish servers would reset on their own needs based upon community members desires and resources
Joe would like to launch a side series/modded server at some point mid year
We’ll solicit feedback for that in March for a May/June launch
Maintenance schedule
Joe was wiped from server maintenance from freelance work but is now more free to do that
Have a preflight checklist before travel and have one item be server maintenance
One server needs an operating system update
Dependant on the data center and Joe’s availability
Discord
One issue is that people are posting big gifs that aren’t alt texted and is hard for Joe to process, and he can’t parse the intended meaning
Spam channels are supposed to be for user-created work, and folks posting reaction images push that work further up and distract from it
Joes proposes best option may be text only channel/category, community agrees
Joe creates All-Text category to host #feels #introductions and #alt-general
Joe knows he can’t broadly replace discord’s full functionality, but he is prepared to spin up an alternative online forum as a place to go should discord but taken over by facebook
Our first channel cull was a learning experience
Future culls will be more forward-looking and consider upcoming game launches, like Pokémon
Culls will not occur every quarter; at most once a year or every other year
Culls will be announced 3 months in advance
Adding channels will be done quarterly
Spam things you wrote channel has been added to the discord
Pokemon channel has been added to the discord
Joe says removing it was a mistake
Dwarf Fortress will NOT be added.
Space channel has been added to the discord
Food-and-drink channel has been added to the discord
Spam-work-you-commissioned channel has been added to the discord
This is an experimental channel.
TTRPG channel has been added to the discord
Technology channel has been added to the discord
Suggested channels that need more feedback are a fashion channel and a research/science channel
New feedback channel for emojis has been added, emojis are likely to be added based on whimsy, emotional investment in your proposals is not advised
The next quarterly meeting is tentatively scheduled for the 3rd weekend in April.
Happy New Year! I’m launching into 2023 with help from our community Liaison ThatTommyBoii!
Final agenda for the Quarterly meeting
Our next Quarterly meeting is January 21st at 11am US Central time.
I will be on voice and screen-sharing on Discord, and Tommy will stream it on his channel as well. The VOD and minutes will be posted afterwards.
If anyone has feedback they’d like to ensure we see, please post it in the relevant channels in the #joe-hills-meta category.
Creative work in 2023: episodes, streams, and songs
Less freelance work, more creative energy
Review patreon tiers and patreon community goals
Vacation mode moving forward: how it will work and when to use it
Minecraft Servers
Long-term server reset schedule
maintenance schedule – Brandon (netcropolis)
Discord
Image and embed functionality
Enable ability to share images in channels such as gaming-general and minecraft – Aviva
Text-only channels or categories
Spam channels clarification on posting non-user-created images. – Tommy
Channel culls and reintroductions
Follow-up: Review accessibility implications of screen readers and consolidated channels – Meep and Joe
Frequency of channel culling
Adding channels back to discord
Review server emotes – Kindalas
New and returning channels under consideration
Here’s the current list of channel suggestions. If y’all have others you’d like to see considered, please share them between now and the Quarterly meeting in Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-more-channels
#dwarf-fortress
#food
#pokemon
#space
#spam-things-you-wrote
#spam-work-you-commissioned
New Year, new Pinball FX3 tournament series!
I’d like as many folks as possible to enjoy our weekly pinball tournament, so I’m kicking off 2023 with Fish Tales, a free download for anyone with Steam on their PC.
I hope to see you on the leaderboard!
Minecraft servers
Deep Slate Nine petitions
Petitions for January will be held on DS9 at 1pm Central on Jan 29th, followed by the Groundhog Day Parade!
Modded Server cliffside build competition
Looking for a long-term build contest? ToxxicGlitter wants you!
Build a home, city, post-apocalyptic society, or whatever dwelling you deem fit, in one of the sheer cliffs around spawn.
At noon Central on February 11th, I will be streaming a visit to the modded server to judge y’all’s work! I’m looking forward to it!
Rules and info can be found in SMP 1.19 Modded by ToxxicGlitter > #modded-cliffside-competition
Parade float build contests
Groundhog Day!
It’s Groundhog day! Again!
Team Redstone will be hosting our next Parade Float Build Contest on January 29th at 2pm Central!
If you’d like to participate, please sign up in Activity Sign Ups > #jan-29-groundhog-day-parade
New Year’s!
Thanks to Team Radical for hosting the 2023 New Year’s Parade Float Build Contest!
Congratulations to our winners SuperStone and Dahlia!
Notable streams recently
Upcoming conventions
I hope to see some of y’all in March for Tennessee Game Days Spring! They should have registration info going live soon, so keep an eye on their website this week!
