changelogs
All PirateCraft changelogs are exported automatically from our Discord server and readable below!
This allows people without discord to keep up to date with changes!
Click through the pages to see older changelogs.
Changelogs from 2012-2019 were posted on the Forums, you can Read survival changelogs, website changelogs, Creative, Hub & Games changelogs.
Scroll to the bottom for most recent changelog, this feed is exported backwards as its from Discord!
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Website
This was my last major update to the website update project before moving back to server based stuff. (I still need to do a minor one when you see my next update...)
Added Store page back after 5 years! you can now see your contributor perks!
https://piratemc.com/store/
Fixed Cache on website, somehow I had this turned off at Cloudflare & locally! No idea how Ive done that, pages should get faster.
@Changelog Alerts
Discord
Added @Contributor able to post in #💬│live_gamechat again, if it gets abused @Moderator will just set the global discord mute to prevent use on that pirate. Hopefully it doesn't get spammy.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Added Ship type Dreadnought this is a 5000-8500 size ship above Indiaman for the @Contributor rank Major.
Its an indiaman, thats bigger.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed hopefully fixed the NPC at cove for the latest @Contributor
Manually set to @Nick_A_Naut as you was the last!
@Changelog Alerts
Store
Fixed Annual Major rank gifts accepting the variables selected at checkout.
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Fixed Vote 4
Fixed Vote 4 site, they did a full re-brand, new design, new url the works, had to set it all up again.
https://piratemc.com/vote4
https://www.minerank.com/piratecraft
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Updated all the /advent related code, permissions, schedules to update the advent kit to 2025.
Added a NPC at cove with a little snowman prison build & jump pads to get your advent kit!
Updated all the advent kits from last year to include players username in them to make them slightly unique from last year, I really didnt think I would have time to get this advent up, and only remembered today!
Updated /motd to remove Black friday deal (On time for once) and to add about the advent. For the super lazy people you can just click this message to open advent without even typing the command 
Updated Log in bossbar that pops up to remove black friday deal and to advertise the advent kit.
Check out #🎉│giveaway-events for when they drop, it drops server time GMT 10:45am after reboot, as we had issues with permissons saving over reboots before with the automated permissions being added, absolutly no idea why, but it was an issue last time.
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Advent day 2 manually added as I had the server offline for a bit this morning for maintenance.
Survival & Creative
Update Chat Plugin.
Ive been putting this one off, as something always breaks, but this is an enormous update that changes all configs, is a major re-write for like 80% of the plugin, but its required for 1.21+ so Ive jumped in today and let it auto convert our configs to the latest ones.
I can already see a plethora of issues in the console, so I'm going to slowly start tackling them one by one, for things you find can you post them into;
Issues, bugs, formatting problems throw issues into #🐛│bugs
Suggestions can go into #deleted-channel
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
Updated chat plugins cross-server plugin
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed join/leave messages.
The chat plugin is fully broken with these messages, I spent hours trying to fix it, testing, its the plugin, made a report & swapped to our premium essentials plugin to handle the messages, annoyingly I had to enable essentialsX join/leave and set to blank, so that I could remove the vanilla join/leave messages, so its not the tidiest method, until Chat Plugin fixes their mess.
But... I'm able to use any placeholder I want in the messages, for now ive just set server time, but we could show anyhting, player bal or playtime when they log in if we wanted.
Sadly. this can be used to spam chat, as this system does not have any of the spam prevention features the chat plugin has to prevent it, so @Moderator @Helper if anyone does use it to spam just give them a temp ban.
Removed the bounty message when people log in with a bounty, somehow this randomly started working after the chat plugin no longer hijacks it, this will take effect next reboot.
I cant express how long this took, testing on a fresh 1.18.2 server with default configs was my answer to it being broken in the plugin and not my configs... drives me NUTS this chat plugin, every time we update it breaks something insane.
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Changed how you claim bounties, you should no longer need to track a player to claim a bounty now.
You still have the option to track a bounty, but the player will be alerted you did this, but then again you are basically tracking their location, so they should be told! But now, you have the option to collect a bounty without having to track them!
Thanks to #💡│suggestions #deleted-channel via @mikimoosey
Untested, may need a restart. Give me feedback in #deleted-channel once you have tested it. if it dousnt work, wait until restart then try again.
Added 100% drop of the player head when a bounty is collected to the creator of the bounty. You'll collect via /redeembountyheads
@Changelog Alerts
https://tenor.com/view/azuthius-gif-27376256
Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Changed all swear filters, after spending an hour on one set and replacing them all, instantly bypassed 20 seconds after being live, put back to similar ones, but more robust.
Fixed being able to write things like "analytics" at the cost of that the word "anal" is easily abused now, but it solves normal talking.
Changed IP & Website regex filters, but ive already seen a false posative using a command(s) so i will have to either revert or try and fix tomorrow, it solved being able to write "id" but gained other issues, its very hard to get proper good regex, even with AIs help.
Partial fix to discord chat in-game, username dousnt dispaly twice, it somehow can check who you are in-game, i show up as my actual name with colors now, but for the life of my I cant figure out why the text is always &0 this isnt anywhere in the code.
Removed some rarly used bad words
TLDR; stil needs work, just give feedback in #deleted-channel for now, so its all in one place for me.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed Discord chat formatting, this was one a sod to figure out, but we've come out of it with more features!
It now displays your username color & hover details as tho you are in-game!
Fixed A ton of formatting issues with missives & /motd showing brackets.
Reverted IP & domain filtering, its the same as what we had before, just more performant way to do it, If you find false positives can you please post to either #🐛│bugs or #deleted-channel asap while im in these configs, so we can get them resolved now.
Still got a few more big ones to figure out, /me Im not sure why its not registering and staff cant use color codes in chat anywhere unless we use /chc color to pick an overall color.
But overall im getting there! I knew it would be a pig to sort out after this update, also no feedback from the devs on their broken quit messages!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed All color replacements for Emojis/Smilies are back, no longer crashes the latest client.
:finger: and willybob are back!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up.
Fixed Next reboot, should fix /me not working, there are 4 plugins tring to do it, and they all unregister the command so nobody gets it! Forced it for next reboot hopefully.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added Players /tag for when you log in, so you could select say "PvP time!" to alert people you want to fight, or "Building" and peolpe know you want to build, or just as a way to have a custom login for you, this is available to everyone, not permission based.
Might not keep it if people think its spammy, I just thought of it and thought it was cute 
took 2 seconds to add so itll take 2 seconds to remove if we want it removed.
Put more /tag ideas in #💡│suggestions we can always throw them into the NPC at cove to buy with in-game money.
@Changelog Alerts 
Fixing Store Subscriptions
Fixed Commands running for first time on purchase, they wasn't running on initial purchase and was waiting for the renewal.
Given the first ever subscriber £1000 in-game for this report.
Survival
Fixed Chat colors working in chat, it turned out to just be my rank specifically that it wasn't working and just needed a perm!
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Changed The chat discord intergration back to what it used to be, a solid color, because the dynamic name/colors thing is so inconsistent, this should just be consistent, everyone one discord color, ive opened a ticket with the chat plugin devs to report the issues so hopefully they fix because it was so cool having all the player info in-game when it was used.
Added hover over text to explain contributors can use that feature.
Added missive for Autumn keys, I forgot I have to add this each time.
Added missive for major rank and its features
Removed the banner from the tebex store for sale
Disabled the /me command in Essentails config for next reboot to see if this is being a pain
@Changelog Alerts 
Website
This was my last major update to the website update project before moving back to server based stuff. (I still need to do a minor one when you see my next update...)
Added Store page back after 5 years! you can now see your contributor perks!
https://piratemc.com/store/
Fixed Cache on website, somehow I had this turned off at Cloudflare & locally! No idea how Ive done that, pages should get faster.
@Changelog Alerts Discord
Added @Contributor able to post in #💬│live_gamechat again, if it gets abused @Moderator will just set the global discord mute to prevent use on that pirate. Hopefully it doesn't get spammy.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added Ship type Dreadnought this is a 5000-8500 size ship above Indiaman for the @Contributor rank Major.
Its an indiaman, thats bigger.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed hopefully fixed the NPC at cove for the latest @Contributor
Manually set to @Nick_A_Naut as you was the last!
@Changelog Alerts Store
Fixed Annual Major rank gifts accepting the variables selected at checkout.
@Changelog Alerts Fixed Vote 4
Fixed Vote 4 site, they did a full re-brand, new design, new url the works, had to set it all up again.
https://piratemc.com/vote4
https://www.minerank.com/piratecraft
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Updated all the /advent related code, permissions, schedules to update the advent kit to 2025.
Added a NPC at cove with a little snowman prison build & jump pads to get your advent kit!
Updated all the advent kits from last year to include players username in them to make them slightly unique from last year, I really didnt think I would have time to get this advent up, and only remembered today!
Updated /motd to remove Black friday deal (On time for once) and to add about the advent. For the super lazy people you can just click this message to open advent without even typing the command
Updated Log in bossbar that pops up to remove black friday deal and to advertise the advent kit.
Check out #🎉│giveaway-events for when they drop, it drops server time GMT 10:45am after reboot, as we had issues with permissons saving over reboots before with the automated permissions being added, absolutly no idea why, but it was an issue last time.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Advent day 2 manually added as I had the server offline for a bit this morning for maintenance.
Survival & Creative
Update Chat Plugin.
Ive been putting this one off, as something always breaks, but this is an enormous update that changes all configs, is a major re-write for like 80% of the plugin, but its required for 1.21+ so Ive jumped in today and let it auto convert our configs to the latest ones.
I can already see a plethora of issues in the console, so I'm going to slowly start tackling them one by one, for things you find can you post them into;
Issues, bugs, formatting problems throw issues into #🐛│bugs
Suggestions can go into #deleted-channel
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
Updated chat plugins cross-server plugin
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed join/leave messages.
The chat plugin is fully broken with these messages, I spent hours trying to fix it, testing, its the plugin, made a report & swapped to our premium essentials plugin to handle the messages, annoyingly I had to enable essentialsX join/leave and set to blank, so that I could remove the vanilla join/leave messages, so its not the tidiest method, until Chat Plugin fixes their mess.
But... I'm able to use any placeholder I want in the messages, for now ive just set server time, but we could show anyhting, player bal or playtime when they log in if we wanted.
Sadly. this can be used to spam chat, as this system does not have any of the spam prevention features the chat plugin has to prevent it, so @Moderator @Helper if anyone does use it to spam just give them a temp ban.
Removed the bounty message when people log in with a bounty, somehow this randomly started working after the chat plugin no longer hijacks it, this will take effect next reboot.
I cant express how long this took, testing on a fresh 1.18.2 server with default configs was my answer to it being broken in the plugin and not my configs... drives me NUTS this chat plugin, every time we update it breaks something insane.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Changed how you claim bounties, you should no longer need to track a player to claim a bounty now.
You still have the option to track a bounty, but the player will be alerted you did this, but then again you are basically tracking their location, so they should be told! But now, you have the option to collect a bounty without having to track them!
Thanks to #💡│suggestions #deleted-channel via @mikimoosey
Untested, may need a restart. Give me feedback in #deleted-channel once you have tested it. if it dousnt work, wait until restart then try again.
Added 100% drop of the player head when a bounty is collected to the creator of the bounty. You'll collect via /redeembountyheads
@Changelog Alerts
https://tenor.com/view/azuthius-gif-27376256 Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Changed all swear filters, after spending an hour on one set and replacing them all, instantly bypassed 20 seconds after being live, put back to similar ones, but more robust.
Fixed being able to write things like "analytics" at the cost of that the word "anal" is easily abused now, but it solves normal talking.
Changed IP & Website regex filters, but ive already seen a false posative using a command(s) so i will have to either revert or try and fix tomorrow, it solved being able to write "id" but gained other issues, its very hard to get proper good regex, even with AIs help.
Partial fix to discord chat in-game, username dousnt dispaly twice, it somehow can check who you are in-game, i show up as my actual name with colors now, but for the life of my I cant figure out why the text is always &0 this isnt anywhere in the code.
Removed some rarly used bad words
TLDR; stil needs work, just give feedback in #deleted-channel for now, so its all in one place for me.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed Discord chat formatting, this was one a sod to figure out, but we've come out of it with more features!
It now displays your username color & hover details as tho you are in-game!
Fixed A ton of formatting issues with missives & /motd showing brackets.
Reverted IP & domain filtering, its the same as what we had before, just more performant way to do it, If you find false positives can you please post to either #🐛│bugs or #deleted-channel asap while im in these configs, so we can get them resolved now.
Still got a few more big ones to figure out, /me Im not sure why its not registering and staff cant use color codes in chat anywhere unless we use /chc color to pick an overall color.
But overall im getting there! I knew it would be a pig to sort out after this update, also no feedback from the devs on their broken quit messages!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed All color replacements for Emojis/Smilies are back, no longer crashes the latest client.
:finger: and willybob are back!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Chat plugin update changes
All changes are related to the chat plugin update, read up. Fixed Next reboot, should fix /me not working, there are 4 plugins tring to do it, and they all unregister the command so nobody gets it! Forced it for next reboot hopefully.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Added Players /tag for when you log in, so you could select say "PvP time!" to alert people you want to fight, or "Building" and peolpe know you want to build, or just as a way to have a custom login for you, this is available to everyone, not permission based.
Might not keep it if people think its spammy, I just thought of it and thought it was cute took 2 seconds to add so itll take 2 seconds to remove if we want it removed.
Put more /tag ideas in #💡│suggestions we can always throw them into the NPC at cove to buy with in-game money.
@Changelog Alerts Fixing Store Subscriptions
Fixed Commands running for first time on purchase, they wasn't running on initial purchase and was waiting for the renewal.
Given the first ever subscriber £1000 in-game for this report.
Survival
Fixed Chat colors working in chat, it turned out to just be my rank specifically that it wasn't working and just needed a perm!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Changed The chat discord intergration back to what it used to be, a solid color, because the dynamic name/colors thing is so inconsistent, this should just be consistent, everyone one discord color, ive opened a ticket with the chat plugin devs to report the issues so hopefully they fix because it was so cool having all the player info in-game when it was used.
Added hover over text to explain contributors can use that feature.
Added missive for Autumn keys, I forgot I have to add this each time.
Added missive for major rank and its features
Removed the banner from the tebex store for sale
Disabled the /me command in Essentails config for next reboot to see if this is being a pain
@Changelog Alerts 
