Altitude Opening This Thursday

Altitude Opening This Thursday

Hey everyone, it is finally time to announce our opening date. After a lot of work to improve the server and the staff team, we’re at a point where we can open the server. It’s been almost 6 months since we shut down, and we know it hasn’t been an easy wait. We really appreciate all of you being patient with us and we cannot wait to start playing with you again!

We will be opening on Thursday, February 24, 2022 7:00 PM UTC. This is a slightly weird date but we can only open on Thursdays and Sundays due to my availability. We’d rather have a slightly slow opening day but give you guys the whole weekend to play than opening on a Sunday.

Additionally, we are reopening most of the Discord Channels as of this announcement. This includes off-topic, d-general, help, etc. suggestions, marketplace, and bidding are the exception to this, and will be available once the server is open. Since the other channels are open again our rules for them are back to normal. This means basically all the conversation that has been happening in general should now go in off-topic again.

After about a month of uptime, we plan to open staff applications. This will give head staff a chance to familiarize themselves with the community so that we’re able to make accurate judgments on our applications to meet the needs of our new servers. As many of you know, we’ve spent hours rehauling our training and improving our team culture, and we are excited for the next generation of Altitude moderators to join us in the near future!

The Alpha rank is no longer available to purchase. Anyone who has bought the Alpha rank will keep it, this includes the in-game prefix! Everyone who bought Alpha will have access to an exclusive Alpha particle as a thank you. There will be more particles released on the donation store for anyone to buy shortly after release. Once the server opens up, the Alpha rank will not be displayed as prominently on Discord because there will no longer be active alpha testing happening. We will also be closing the entire alpha section of the Discord, this section will only be open when alpha testing is happening. Thank you to everyone who participated in our Alpha testing, you helped us tremendously and we really appreciate you taking the time to help us test. The alpha server will be open throughout this week to continue testing, but it will be officially closed after Wednesday to give us time to open the server.

There will be another announcement when we open which will everyone as well.

TDLR: We’re opening on Thursday, February 24, 2022 7:00 PM UTC!

Update: I forgot to mention, but spawns won’t be fully finished yet. Please give our spawn builders some extra time to finish the small details while you guys enjoy the server. This will give us the opportunity to incorporate community feedback that we get on the spawn design!

World Download

World Download

All survival servers and the two main creative worlds have been uploaded here: https://alttd.com/worlddl. They have been compressed using the 7z format because we’re limited in how much data we can transfer on the service we’re using to host the files. This means you will need to extract the world using 7zip which you can download here: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

The download includes all warp coords in an excel sheet (courtesy of PunchyFoil15). And we might add the world maps later as well (in png format).

Steps to be able to play on the downloaded world:

  1. Right click the file you want to download and click download
  2. While waiting ensure you have 7-zip installed
  3. Extract the file into %appdata%/.minecraft/saves
  4. Play!
Officially Offline

Officially Offline

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.

Official Temporary Shut Down Announcement

Official Temporary Shut Down Announcement

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.

Altitude Temporary Shut Down

Altitude Temporary Shut Down

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.

SNOWBALL FIGHT EVENT

SNOWBALL FIGHT EVENT

The event team are deciding to take a break from the summer heat to host a 4-team snowball fight, which we plan to host on Sunday July 25th at 8pm UTC. We are currently finalizing the build and plugin for this event, so please be aware this date may change if we run into issues whilst testing.

This event will have you build and defend your fort from attackers, equipped with snowballs, with the last team surviving crowned victorious. There will multiple classes to pick from, allowing you to play to your own style. The event will last a couple hours, with multiple rounds last about 30-40 minutes each. Once the event opens, you will be able to access the event through the portal in the lobby, with prizes given to anyone who participates as well as a winner’s prize.

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our hide and seek event. To collect your prizes please go to Summit and complete the command /kit and then click the kits that you are able to claim.

If you participated in a round, participated as a seeker or won a round you are entitled to different prizes, please note that you cannot win the same prize twice.

We will consider replaying this event again soon if there is the want to do so, but this is not confirmed as of yet.

Thank you to our event team who worked on the event, this includes: GrownupDisney, Teriuihi, Kappa, Matt20003, the_amazingrat, Xenovolution, Aprilminty, Pandini, Itstolate, Xios12, Crazy4Cake, Stabba, Momlly, annapie, Chris_p_lettuce, Nicholascooper97, n0tphoenix and myself.

WINTER HIDE AND SEEK EVENT

WINTER HIDE AND SEEK EVENT

We are excited to be hosting our hide and seek event on January 9th at 9pm UTC. The event will involve multiple rounds and last a few hours.

Once open, you will be able to access the event through the portal in the lobby, with prizes given to anyone who participates as well as a winner’s prize.

Good Luck!

LOOKING FOR EVENT TEAM MEMBERS

LOOKING FOR EVENT TEAM MEMBERS

The event team are opening event team applications in order to grow the team with enthusiastic and talented builders. Event team members work together to design and develop unique events for the server, and we hope that you can help us in that process!
It is important to note that joining events will not help you in any applications as moderators as they are unrelated roles.

We ask of the following of our applicants:

  • Shows maturity and is 16+ years of age,
  • Plays an average of 7+ or more hours a week on Altitude,
  • Is friendly and motivated to maintain our events to a high standard.

Applications will stay open for a week until December 21st at Midnight UTC. To apply go to https://alttd.typeform.com/to/Hnt6ra

As a side update: we will be hosting our festive event after Christmas this year to make sure everything runs the best it can, we will announce more on this closer to the event day.

MAPART RULES AND INFO

MAPART RULES AND INFO

If you plan on making some kind of map art that some may consider inappropriate, explicit, or controversial, you can submit a request for review through our @AltitudeBot support bot on Discord. Simply message the bot anything, and the bot will reply with commands that you can utilize. For mapart review requests, you will be using the command !mapart <description of map art>. Please be sure to also attach an image of the mapart (it is not possible to submit the request without an image)! Creating inappropriate mapart without prior approval may result in deletion of the mapart itself and punishment for the creator.

Once submitted, your request will be reviewed by our staff team. Typically, your request will be reviewed in 24 hours, at which point you will receive an automated notification from @AltitudeBot if the mapart is accepted or denied (we expect this turnaround time to typically be much quicker than 24 hours). There may be some special circumstances where we immediately deny. If your request is denied, Head Staff will respond with the reasoning. If your request is approved, enjoy making the map art!

We have also added a page to our website for this (and other things involving mapart)! https://alttd.com/mapart/