Altitude Blog

Hi everyone! We just wanted to make an official announcement to say that the server has been shut down. The world download will be released within the next few days, so please be on the lookout for an announcement with those links! Thank you to everyone who has made these last few days special. We know that this is tough to accept, but we hope to see you all when we come back for 1.18.

You can still message the Altitude Bot (on Discord) or submit a contact form during the off period if you need to report a player and/or a situation. Please try to keep questions about the update in general instead of PMing specific mods or head-staff, we are happy to answer questions but like I’ve said multiple times, this is meant to be a break for us as well. Thank you for being here, and we hope to see you all very soon.

Hi again. As we said in last nights announcement, we were originally going to wait until Monday to post an official announcement to the community. Seeing as our private staff announcement was leaked, we were put in the unfortunate position of sending out a very rushed public announcement with very little information for you. We deeply apologize for this, this isn’t how we wanted this to go and I’m sure that it hasn’t made this news any easier. Please be patient with us.

We have a lot of information to give, so please be sure to take time and read the entire announcement along with the previous announcement if you haven’t yet. We will just refer you back to this if you ask a question that is answered here. To start off, our official shut down date is going to be Saturday, September 11, 2021 8:00 AM. You will have this week to log onto the server, complete any builds you may want to see in a world download, write down coordinates, and just spend some time with each other. We will be creating a poll so everyone can vote on whether they would like the world download to be from September 4th or from September 11th we shut down.

With that being said, the Discord will be open through the shut down, but a majority of the channels will be locked. We will be temporarily hiding every channel besides general and one or two voice chats, and we plan on re-opening off-topic and d-general at a later date. We want you to be able to communicate as a community, but we are also trying to allow the staff team to enjoy this break period. Along with this, we will be enforcing the discord and general rules with much more severe punishments. You all have access to our rules on the website and in the pinned messages, so you are 100% aware of whether something is allowed or not. Please do not test these limits and please keep this in mind when you’re speaking in the Discord. Again, general is only for topics about Altitude, any other topics will have to be postponed until after the other channels are back.

For those who do not have Discord, we will be communicating through blog posts and an occasional tweet (if it’s an important update). The latest blog post will always be linked when you try to join the server during the downtime. We will be releasing information on the event later today, or tomorrow, in a different post. Please be patient with us!

For those wanting to support the server during the down time we will be releasing alpha tester ranks at a later date. Players with this rank will be able to help test new features as we work on them to ensure the 1.18 launch will be as smooth as possible. There will be more info released on the testing phases and how to participate in them in the future.

There will be more announcements as we are ready to share throughout the downtime.

You will remain able to link your discord accounts even when the server is down. This will be done by joining it, and linking using the code you’ll receive.

Hi everyone. This isn’t the type of announcement we wanted to make, but after multiple very long discussions between the head-staff team, we’ve come to this conclusion. As many people have noticed and pointed out, the player count on Altitude (and the staff team) has been steadily decreasing throughout the majority of 2021. The pandemic caused a lot of temporary growth on the server, and obviously this has to go back down at some point. With this decrease in players, we’ve come to a point where we are way in over our heads in regards to the amount of servers we have and the amount of machines that Altitude requires. The server is quite pricey to maintain and unfortunately, the amount of players we currently have will not allow us to continue running the server as is.

We’ve decided that the best option for us right now is to shut down Altitude until 1.18. This obviously isn’t going to be a permanent shut down and we absolutely will be coming back, but this period of time is a perfect opportunity for a break. While the server kind of has to shut down, we also think that this period of time is incredibly important for the well-being of head-staff (and the rest of the staff team). We’ve been working very hard the past 4-5 months specifically and we all know that there has been a lot of problems. This has been very hard on all of us, we feel very burnt out and this will be the perfect opportunity to rework the way we run our team, and the server.

Our plan for 1.18 (at this time) is to fully reset. The only thing that will be kept from this reset will be playtime/playtime ranks/donor ranks. This is basically a necessity in order to completely reset the economy (which is also a part of our plans!!) and we think a fresh start will be our best option. With this, we are also planning on downsizing to two servers to better suit our communities needs.

As you might have noticed by the length of this announcement on such a big topic this announcement is being sent earlier than we originally planned. We had hoped to give our staff team (who we announced this to earlier) a chance to get ready. Sadly the announcement was leaked so to keep it fair to all players we have had to made a rushed announcement. There will be more announcements soon with a lot more detail and info on our plans. There will be world downloads for all the worlds that have been taken before this announcement.

We understand that you will have a lot of questions, but please save them for tomorrow so we can provide all the info in one go.