The live map is now a 3D globe
Everything else has been getting updates, so the live map deserved some love too. It's now fully 3D: a real globe, the way Earth is meant to look. Spin it around, find your town, and see who's online and where, all in real time. Honestly, it's 100x better.
What's new
Every country, redrawn
The country flags on the map are far more detailed now. Here are a few of them:
Hover anywhere, click any clan
Move your mouse over the map and the Navigator tells you which country or state you're looking at, and whether anyone has claimed it yet. Click a clan's banner to see who runs it, how many members are online, its KDR, its allies and how much land it owns.
Not a fan of the globe? Press Flat at the bottom of the map to switch back to the classic flat view. Want a clear view? The eye button (or the H key) hides all the buttons.
The Trial Chambers have awakened
The Trial Chambers used to be a quick loot run. Not any more. They've been rebuilt from the ground up into a real challenge: a guard at the gate, waves of mobs, five bosses, elite mobs with special powers, random twists every run, and a rank you'll be climbing for a long time. Oh, and the Autumn Crate Key is waiting in the vault, so it's worth the grind.
To get there, finish the Trial Chamber quests in /quests, then use /warp trialchamber.
How a run works
- 1Beat the WardenA guard boss seals the chambers. Take him down as a team.
- 2Pick a chamberEvery chamber opens for 20 minutes once he falls.
- 3Survive 9 wavesEach wave is bigger and meaner than the last.
- 4Fight the bossesWaves 3, 6 and 9 are boss fights.
- 5Loot the vaultConquer the chamber and claim your rewards.
The Chamber Warden
A guard boss now patrols the corridor to the chambers. While he's alive, every chamber is sealed: nothing spawns, no trial can start and the vaults stay shut. Beat him and every chamber opens for 20 minutes, and everyone who helped gets a Trial Key. When time's up he comes back and seals them again, but any trial already running carries on. He hits hard and slowly heals when nobody's around, so bring friends.
Nine waves per chamber
Step into an open chamber and the spawners wake up. A bar at the top of your screen shows how many mobs are left. Every wave brings more and stronger mobs, and clearing one heals your group and gives you a short breather. Beat wave 9 to conquer the chamber: fireworks, a Trial Key and a shout-out to the whole server.
Five bosses
Waves 3, 6 and 9 are boss fights. Each boss climbs out of a spawner with its own health bar and tricks:
- Watch the ground. Big attacks show a coloured ring first: that's your cue to move.
- Expect backup. Bosses call in helpers at two-thirds and one-third health.
- Finish them fast. At low health they get angry: faster, stronger and more aggressive.
Elite mobs
Some mobs spawn as elites, marked with a ✦ and up to three special powers in their name. They drop extra XP and sometimes a Trial Key.
- Swiftmuch faster
- Brutalbigger, hits harder
- Vampiricheals when it hits you
- Moltensets you on fire
- Frostbiteslows and freezes you
- Venomouspoisons you
- Volatileexplodes after dying
- Shieldedextra protection
- Galebornlaunches you into the air
- Splittingsplits in two when killed
- Undyingcomes back to life once
No two runs are the same
Every trial starts by rolling a random twist (hover over it in chat to see what it does). Higher ranked groups get more of them, up to four at once:
- Bloodlustmobs hit 25% harder
- Fortifiedmobs have 40% more health
- Frenzymobs are 20% faster
- Elite Huntfar more elites
- Galeevery hit launches you up
- Leechingmobs heal as they hit you
- Glass Cannonyou deal and take 35% more
- Darknessthe lights keep going out
- Famineno healing between waves
- Unstableslain mobs may explode
- Momentumlonger, bigger combos
- Golden Trialdouble keys, tougher mobs
And from wave 2 onwards, any wave can turn into a special one:
Trial Rank: the long climb
Conquering chambers earns you Trial Rank: 20 ranks, each shown as a coloured star badge next to your name. We're still deciding whether it shows in the TAB list or under your name, so stay tuned! Reaching the top takes 99 wins, so this one is for the dedicated.
A win only counts towards your rank if:
- the trial was at your rank or higher (so you can't climb by carrying lower-ranked players),
- you died at most once during the run, and
- you were there by wave 2. Joining just for the final boss doesn't count.
Losing a trial costs you one win of progress, but you'll never drop a whole rank. Higher ranks mean tougher mobs and bosses, and more Trial Keys to make up for it. After every run you'll get a summary with your score, kills, best combo and the run's MVP.
Rewards
Everything pays out in Trial Keys: beating the Warden, bosses, conquering a chamber, Blitz waves, catching a Treasure Breeze and sometimes elites. Use them on the vaults, which is where the real loot lives, including the Autumn Crate Key. Each vault can be opened once every 24 hours.
Check your progress with /trials stats, see the leaderboards with /trials top, and see your current run with /trials info. /tt works as a shortcut.
Clan updates
Banner icons
Your clan's icon on the map is now a banner, and there are 16 of them, one for every Minecraft dye colour. Change yours with /clanmap icon, which opens a menu showing each banner. You'll need a clan icon voucher to swap it.
Clan warps
Every clan can now set up one public warp that anyone can visit. Show off your base, your shop or your arena!
- Visit one:
/clan warpopens a menu of every open warp. Or type/clan warp <tag>and press Tab to see them all. - Set yours: clan leaders use
/clan setwarpwhere they're standing. It only costs $10,000. - Open or close it:
/clan togglewarpcloses it to visitors without losing the spot. - Remove it:
/clan delwarp.
Leaders can also let trusted ranks manage the warp. The clan menu (/clan) has had a refresh too: a Clan Warps button, real banners in the ally and rival lists, and a check before you end an alliance or rivalry.
NATO vs SCO
Two rival super-alliances have arrived on the Earth SMP. Clans can pick a side, fight alongside their allies, and help steer where the alliance goes next.
Joining a side
- Your clan leader sets your alliance HQ, then joins with
/clan nato joinor/clan sco join. - It costs $1,000,000 from the clan bank.
- Each alliance holds up to 12 clans, and a clan can only be on one side. Choose wisely!
- The whole server hears about it when a clan joins.
What you get
Talk to your side with /clan nato chat <message>, or /clan nato chat toggle to send everything there. See who's in with /clan nato members. (SCO members use sco in place of nato.)
Weekly alliance meetings
Every Saturday at 18:00 Dubai time (14:00 UTC), each alliance holds a one-hour meeting at a member clan's HQ, and a different clan hosts every week. Before the meeting, clan leaders can put forward ideas, or a vote to remove a clan. During the meeting, leaders vote with /clan nato vote. A proposal passes when more clans agree than disagree and at least half the alliance has voted.
Stay active! A clan with nobody online for 14 days is removed from its alliance (leaders get a warning first), and a removed clan has to wait 7 days to rejoin. Leaders can leave any time with /clan nato leave, but there's no refund.
Rent out your market
Got a market you're not using? You can now rent it out to another player and earn money while you're at it. Congrats, you're a landlord now!
- Rent yours out:
/as rentout <shop> <price> <duration>hands your whole shop to another player for a while, and they pay you for it. - Find one to rent:
/as rentfromshows every shop other players are offering. - It's still yours. You stay the owner, you can take it back whenever you want, and it comes back to you on its own when their time runs out.
Shops can also have proper names now, so you'll see “Bakery” instead of “market_47”. New to all this? /as guide opens a menu that explains everything in plain words.
Better voting rewards
Voting for KiwiSMP now grants money vouchers from the Vote Crate, worth anywhere from $250 all the way up to $10,000. It only takes a minute, and it helps new players find the server too.
Builders, this one's for you: on the Creative server, every vote now unlocks one hour of WorldEdit perks and custom heads. Vote, then go build something big.
Happy exploring,