We Are Waiting for 1.14.2

We Are Waiting for 1.14.2

Hi all. In case it wasn’t clear already, I’m making this official announcement to state we ARE waiting for 1.14.2. I apologize for the late announcement, I’ve been a bit busy.

Again, even after 1.14.2 is released, there is NO guarantee we will update – it all depends on how stable and efficient Minecraft is after it is released. We need to be able to run a server that will not have major bugs, will not crash, and can support at least 50 people on at once. I really want to update, but we will need to wait until those criteria are met.

Thanks for your understanding!

Thank You Patrons!

Thank You Patrons!

Our Patron members are huge supporters of the Altitude server. Their automatic monthly donations provide stable and predictable income for the server that allows us to rest a little easier knowing that we will have the funds necessary to keep Altitude open every month.

Finding a good way to thank our Patrons has always been tough, though! We don’t have many in-game perks to offer players. So, today, I am excited to tell our Patrons that their names are now shown on the homepage of our website as well as the Patron page on our donation store!

Thank you to all of our Patrons: Skizator, KushPinata, astrayalien, Codyc1, darkdeath29, Jim_was_here, sillygoatj, ChaoticNerd, ScorpionAC582, Thorny_, Darkmeyr, Rabbacake, Flamed_, tale_zero, and ThatCatGirl.

See the website at: https://alttd.com
See the store page at: https://donate.alttd.com/patreon

Notice of Return Policy Change

Notice of Return Policy Change

On May 9th 2019, Paypal changed their policy so that sellers do not get refunded the transaction fees if they issue a refund. You can read the official notice of this change here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full. For this reason, we no longer offer refunds on Paypal transactions. This new policy is in effect starting today, May 12th 2019.

We have offered an alternative payment gateway for over a year now called “Stripe“. It has proven to be a trustworthy and reliable gateway for payment processing. We will continue to honor our old return policy on all Stripe transactions, and we strongly encourage users to use Stripe at checkout instead of Paypal! If you would like to read our return policy you may do so at https://alttd.com/tems

Thank you.

Votes Now Work Across Servers!

Votes Now Work Across Servers!

Starting today, all survival servers will store votes in a shared SQL database. This way, if you have votes spread across multiple servers, the network will still be able to give you your daily and weekly voting rewards. Whichever server you are on when you send your last vote (5th vote for daily rewards, 36th vote for weekly rewards) will give you your reward.

I.E. If you vote 4 times on Valley and then go to Meadow and vote 1 more time, Meadow will give you a daily crate key for voting 5 times.

Please note: The rewards (vote crates) are still specific to each server (if you get a key on one server, it won’t show up on another – it must be used on the server you received it on).

Also, the SQL database does not have any of the old data, so any current streaks will be reset. You can request a staff member to manually give you a key today or tomorrow if you should have received one.

Worldborder Extended!

Worldborder Extended!

Since we are not updating yet, I want to give you all new land to explore/mine/whatever else you do. So, I’ve extended all of the servers’ worldborders by 1,000 blocks in all directions (Old border: +/-10,000 New border: +/-11,000). That’s almost 25% more land!

The extended worldborder is already active, enjoy!

We Are Waiting for 1.14.1

We Are Waiting for 1.14.1

Good morning everyone!

I’d like to give you all a bit of an update regarding 1.14.x on Altitude. We DO want to update to 1.14.x – we’ve always run the latest version of Minecraft on our server, going all the way back to 1.8.3 (here is our first trailer: https://youtu.be/5Hx-zjJe0Dw). However, it is clear that 1.14 has some major issues that Mojang needs to resolve including poor performance, chunks failing to load, and lighting glitches. Dinnerbone has tweeted that 1.14.1 should be released “soon” to fix these issues (https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1121807490235211776).

Due to these issues, we will be waiting until at least 1.14.1 before updating our server. We cannot risk running a version that will reduce the number of players we can support, or introduce bugs that will ruin everyone’s experience on our servers.

Please note that this does NOT mean we will be updating once 1.14.1 is released. It is possible that 1.14.1 will still contain bugs or performance issues that prevent us from updating. We also do NOT know how we will update – I know some people are concerned about whether the world will be replaced and the answer is: I do not know. I cannot decide how we will update our world until everything else is working – there are many things still being worked on that could affect our options. Right now, 1.14 isn’t even working correctly with native 1.14 worlds, so don’t worry about it and just enjoy the server as is.

Thanks!

ChestShop Bug

ChestShop Bug

Players are not getting their money from chest shops while they are offline. We are aware of this issue and working on fixing with the help of the developer. If you are worried about losing money, you can block access to the sign while you are offline. We will let you know as soon as the issue is resolved.

Build Contest Winners

Build Contest Winners

The build contest is over and the winners have been chosen! Each build was judged based on it’s detail and realism – with a large focus on how close to the real image the build was. We only focused on the sides that were visible in the original reference photo.

The builds were judged by 9 staff with each staff member picking their favorite (worth 3 points), second favorite (worth 2 points), and third favorite (worth 1 point).

The winners are:

Arhub – with 22 pts
deals4you – with 19 pts
GooseInk – with 13 pts

This was a very close challenge with a LOT of amazing builds! We were very impressed by the quality of ALL of the builds. Due to how close the race was, we will be giving second and third place a $20 discount code for the Donation store in addition to the $50 discount code for 1st place!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the event!

1.14 Status

1.14 Status

We are still experimenting with 1.14 to see how it performs and make sure all of our plugins are compatible. So far, we have not made any decisions on what our plan is for 1.14. Many of our plugins are not compatible yet, and performance and stability are still uncertain. We cannot decide what we are going to do until we know for sure whether a 1.14 server can run stable, support more than 50 on at once, and have all the features that we currently offer.

We will make an announcement once we know what we are going to do. Until then, please do not ask about 1.14 – if we haven’t made an announcement then we have nothing to share – and continue to enjoy 1.13.2!

1.14 Client Support

1.14 Client Support

Starting tomorrow (after the next automatic reboots) you may join the servers with a 1.14 client if you want to. This is ONLY to make it easier for people who don’t know how to change their version – WE ARE STILL ON 1.13.2! You will not be able to use any of the new 1.14 blocks – the server will convert them back to 1.13.2 items. It is still recommended that you play on the same version as the server (1.13.2) for the best compatibility with the server.

If you are confused, just ignore this and keep using 1.13.2.

EDIT: Some people are reporting issues switching servers when in the nether. This bug is inconsistent and can be fixed by closing your game and re-joining the server you want to be on directly instead of “switching” to it from another server.