April 2025

Three months

There’s three big elements to the news this week, from open sourcing to removing map protection. There’s plenty to get stuck into!

Opening the server

As per your votes, we will be opening the server on Tuesdays, which means today! Throughout April, we will add additional days when the server is opened.

Trailer

For the release, we felt it best to prepare and create a trailer. So we did! You can check it out at https://conwymc.alchemix.dev/trailer

Data Reset

We have officially reset everyone’s data for the final time!

The following have been DELETED:

• Anything on /toplist (kills, deaths, captures, etc.)
• Levels (and score)
• /topboosters
• Non-Event Advancements
• Coins
• Secrets Collected
• Bounties
• Unlocked Kits
• Earnt/Free Boosters
  • Boosters that were earnt from level ups & MVPs were removed

The following have been KEPT:

• Rank Points
• Anything in /cosmetics
  • Temporary cosmetics earnt from a stat (i.e. Killer from top kills) will not be given unless you earn your spot back
• Purchased Boosters
  • If you used a booster you spent, it will be granted again.
• Event Advancements
• Settings
• Punishments
• Voting History

To help ease the transition into this, we will temporarily enable the Friday treatment (all coin kits are playable)!

Open Source

We have decided to make the Castle Siege open source! You can view it here

This is something we feel that is a good step to take for the long-term survival of Castle Siege. There’s loads to do other than just upload the source code to setup an open source project, and we’ll be doing more work over the next week-ish. I’ll have a bigger blog post detailing why we decided to do this, our expectations and our next steps regarding the open source part. Until then, please feel free to create issues about new things you’d like to see or even just check out the source code!

Changes

Map Rotation

When we create maps, we try to make them as best as possible. We’re constantly looking to see what maps could be better. For release, we’ve decided to place our best foot forward:

The only map available to play will be: "Best Map Ever"

Map Protection

Previously we prevented players from breaking blocks. We felt this was the best way to keep the map’s integrity. However, upon high level discussions with senior staff members, we decided that this severely limited player freedoms. So we’ve removed any map protection. You can now break, place and even open chests in a map!

March Leftovers

Sadly I didn’t get a chance to post the changes from March, so here they are:

Mentions

The format for mentions has been changed:

• OLD = @Greenfoot5
• NEW = Greenfoot5@

This allows you to tab-complete a player’s name while trying to mention them. Also:

• Mentions now correctly play a sound if it targets you
• Mentions targeting you are now highlighted in aqua
• Mentions NOT targeting you are now highlighted in dark aqua

Cosmetics

• Updated Viceroy Gradient
• Added new chat colours
  • One for top 10 donators that matches the Viceroy gradient
  • One for top 3 donators that matches the King gradient
  • One for top donator that matches the High King gradient

Fixes

• Fixed lives gain on fully captured message not showing gained as a %
• Fix losing donator rank display on relog
• Fixed not auto-equipping a top donator role when gaining one
• Fixed losing donator rank display when donator rank was changed
• Fixed join ping not playing properly when a player joined
• Fixed some purple text in the barbarian kit description
• Fixed getting bible when using enderchest when not priest
• Fixed no additional lives granted message being sent to everyone (now only sent to current cappers)
• Fixed Warhound ability