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.
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Development Server Recovered
We have a separate server we use for development, unfortunately recently the host of that server fully disabled/nuked it, which put me in a tough place, bad timing as we were trying to get back on top of things!
But, with a lot of patience and messing around, I managed to recover the entire servers contents myself, re-host it all and get it all back up and live again for us to continue to work, I was almost certain it was all gone and it was a long shot that paid off, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Just in-case anyone was wondering where I vanished to, problem solved.
Still haven't had a reply from that host. 
fml
Lets get back on track!
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival
Fixed Data Remediation for Claim names.
Restored all claim names and merged recently added names, so they should all be back.
I presume this file got wiped from back in April disk full issue due to the creation date of the new data file and nobody reported it until now!
Required full server stop to replace, no reload in-game for this plugin for if that happens again.
TIP: you can use /nameclaim <name> when standing in your claim for it to show up in /claimslist
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative 
@darthdayo04 reported an issue with connection issues and random kicks with the latest Minecraft client, so Ive been trying to look into that.
Updated ViaVersion the protocol hack plugin that lets newer clients connect to the older server software, this is the main plugin that does all the packet conversion from new clients to old server, so most all issues will come from this with rubber banding, connection issues, entities crashing your client etc.
Live on creative, but survival needs to reboot for it to take effect.
Changed setting fix-1_21-placement-rotation: true
Fixes 1.21+ clients on 1.20.5 servers placing water/lava buckets at the wrong location when moving fast, NOTE: This may cause issues with anti-cheat plugins.
Updated PlaceHolderAPI unrelated to new client issues, but they changed thier cloud URL, so I cant update placeholder addons until I upgrade this.
Updated Tebex store plugin on survival, again next reboot.
There are a plethora of other packet related plugins, but ViaVersion should do the conversion to them and they then interact with the server, i tried updating all of these but they in turn break other things, catch 22 being stuck on 1.18.2, right now its driving me insane being on such an old version.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed Backdated Bounties/bounties plugin to hopefully let you actually use it, for next Survival reboot.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added a plugin to prevent some abuse from hacked clients to both survival & creative for next reboot.
Development Servers
Added new backup system that works very well with snapshots & retention policies, took a bit of figuring out, but its absolutely solid, I will be changing the Production servers backup system to use this at some point now Ive run it on the dev servers.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added a bypass permission for @Moderator for above update.
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Fixed Properly backdated the /bounties plugin its now loading.
Figured out all the causes for breaking, we just need to be on a newer MC basically is the TLDR, this version is the older version without the custom GUI changes sadly.
@Changelog Alerts 
Survival & Creative
Added permissions for @Admin to be able to block commands live, in-case an exploit is found live and they dont have to wait for me then, temp disable something until a fix can be pushed.
List, add, remove & clear perms set, sent in admin chat.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend Server - all the backups!
Added new backup/restore tool to replace the old one for all critical server files be it Survival/Creative or any other files on the main system.
1000x faster than the previous system, I’m talking a snapshot takes seconds instead of hours.
Actually works
Does not consume ram all the time (We reclaimed a whopping 2.1gb ram from the server)
Encrypted & Compression on backups
Far superior backup retention, last 7 days, a copy of each week of the year, per month and yearly backups
The ability for me to pull files from any of these snapshots
Two snapshots a day! doubled baby!
CLI tools!
This took me a few days to complete it ended up being more complicated than anticipated, but I now also have notifications if anything goes wrong too.
Reclaimed 400+GB from backup box & 15+GB from the main machine when removing the old backup system.
Info, this isn’t the only backup system, we have multiple backup machines, just in case 
Your building/worlds are safe.
Staff
Removed a bunch of inactive staff, website updated (Some inactive staff are kept for emergencies, we all talk regularly)
Want to be a @Helper? Now is the time to submit! https://piratemc.com/information/staff-application/
@Changelog Alerts
Survival & Creative
Added auto ban for some bot accounts doing sus things
Fixed Death message for entity deaths in the arenas only being shown in the arenas.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend Server - New Operating system
Major upgrades today, our Operating system ended LTS, which meant it wouldn't get any more security updates, our Database also was end of life too, so it too wouldn't get any updates, so I took the morning to upgrade both and complete success! (nearly)
Disk backup Backed up the entire disks on the main server then
Upgraded our servers operating system TWO major versions, had to do it in steps, upgrade it once then upgraded it again, both went well, were now covered until 2030 for updates and security.
Upgraded Our MySQL database multiple major versions, this in itself was a massive maintenance task Ive been worried about, luckily it was all handed by the OS upgrades, its much faster now.
Fixed our wrapper, this is the thing that boots the minecraft servers/keeps them up, this seemed to be the only thing that broke in the updates, now I talked to the dev and he's fully stopping development of the wrapper we've used for 10+ years due to the changes to the linux environment that would require a lot of work to fix it up, i was able to patch it, but I will need to replace it soon.
I already have licenses for a new wrapper so I know what I will move to, I just need to find some more maintenance time to do the migration its going to be a bit of a job too.
Overall I'm happy with the outcome, jumping 2 major OS versions and getting the database done! Brilliant, I'm happy. I wanted to replace the wrapper anyway, this will just force me to do it.
Thank you for the patience for the downtime today for me to do this.
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
@Changelog Alerts
Survival
Removed $299,998.75 from the eco pool (I reset my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 - Removed $299,998.75
Saturday, January 3, 2026 - Removed $244,802.37
[Saturday 26 July 2025- Removed $299,998.58](https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1398687942943309984)
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:38 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:20 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:53 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2022 12:37 PM
Monday, November 29, 2021 9:31 PM
Last time: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1457141969481498687
@Changelog Alerts 
Backend server - controller upgrade part 1/2 complete
We’ve officially migrated our server setup away from the wrapper Ive used for 10+ years over to a new, modern management platform (Partially). Creative is done, its up and running on the new system, I'm going to let this run for a few days before I do the same with survival to iron out any issues, that's part 2.
Added new modern management platform
Why was this important?
- Primarily because the old one partially broke and will no longer be supported, the developer has moved on and is using the same product we are now.
- Much more modern infrastructure behind the scenes
- Better toolkit for management for modifying things live
Hopefully everything goes smooth with keeping creative up & I can do survival soon and that will complete a full overhaul of the entire back-end that runs everything, were close!
@Changelog Alerts
Backend controller / Creative
Updated Creative servers java flags & increased RAM
Added daily restart for creative again (For maintenance) but its been up for 3 days fine on the new controller 20tps, I might not need to reboot it daily.
@Changelog Alerts
Backend server - controller upgrade part 2/2 complete - Survival moved!
Survival has now successfully been moved to the new controller at lightning speed this morning!
Now its time to do the cleanup and snag list for things that will break with this! 
Migrated Survival to new controller - up and running!
Updated ViaVersion to latest snapshot (packets for newer clients on the older server software)
Updated PacketEvents a packet plugin API for other plugins, but this again handles packets for newer clients.
Updated LibsDisguises the plugin that handles packet disguises for custom mobs, again for newer clients.
I'm still trying to find the cause of the packet issue (You get kicked with network error on some newer clients) for newer clients, its just very hard to update plugins on such old server software without something breaking, I got lucky this morning that I was able to update PacketEvents and LibsDisguises without breaking anything (that I know of...)
That completes an enormous overhaul of the entire backend and sets us up for the coming years for upgrading the server
@Changelog Alerts
Creative
Fixed permissions loading
Fixed Schematics folder
@Changelog Alerts
Development Server Recovered
We have a separate server we use for development, unfortunately recently the host of that server fully disabled/nuked it, which put me in a tough place, bad timing as we were trying to get back on top of things!
But, with a lot of patience and messing around, I managed to recover the entire servers contents myself, re-host it all and get it all back up and live again for us to continue to work, I was almost certain it was all gone and it was a long shot that paid off, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Just in-case anyone was wondering where I vanished to, problem solved.
Still haven't had a reply from that host. fml
Lets get back on track!
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Data Remediation for Claim names.
Restored all claim names and merged recently added names, so they should all be back.
I presume this file got wiped from back in April disk full issue due to the creation date of the new data file and nobody reported it until now!
Required full server stop to replace, no reload in-game for this plugin for if that happens again.
TIP: you can use /nameclaim <name> when standing in your claim for it to show up in /claimslist
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
@darthdayo04 reported an issue with connection issues and random kicks with the latest Minecraft client, so Ive been trying to look into that.
Updated ViaVersion the protocol hack plugin that lets newer clients connect to the older server software, this is the main plugin that does all the packet conversion from new clients to old server, so most all issues will come from this with rubber banding, connection issues, entities crashing your client etc.
Live on creative, but survival needs to reboot for it to take effect.
Changed setting fix-1_21-placement-rotation: true
Fixes 1.21+ clients on 1.20.5 servers placing water/lava buckets at the wrong location when moving fast, NOTE: This may cause issues with anti-cheat plugins.
Updated PlaceHolderAPI unrelated to new client issues, but they changed thier cloud URL, so I cant update placeholder addons until I upgrade this.
Updated Tebex store plugin on survival, again next reboot.
There are a plethora of other packet related plugins, but ViaVersion should do the conversion to them and they then interact with the server, i tried updating all of these but they in turn break other things, catch 22 being stuck on 1.18.2, right now its driving me insane being on such an old version.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Backdated Bounties/bounties plugin to hopefully let you actually use it, for next Survival reboot.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added a plugin to prevent some abuse from hacked clients to both survival & creative for next reboot.
Development Servers
Added new backup system that works very well with snapshots & retention policies, took a bit of figuring out, but its absolutely solid, I will be changing the Production servers backup system to use this at some point now Ive run it on the dev servers.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added a bypass permission for @Moderator for above update.
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Fixed Properly backdated the /bounties plugin its now loading.
Figured out all the causes for breaking, we just need to be on a newer MC basically is the TLDR, this version is the older version without the custom GUI changes sadly.
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added permissions for @Admin to be able to block commands live, in-case an exploit is found live and they dont have to wait for me then, temp disable something until a fix can be pushed.
List, add, remove & clear perms set, sent in admin chat.
@Changelog Alerts Backend Server - all the backups!
Added new backup/restore tool to replace the old one for all critical server files be it Survival/Creative or any other files on the main system.
1000x faster than the previous system, I’m talking a snapshot takes seconds instead of hours.
Actually works
Does not consume ram all the time (We reclaimed a whopping 2.1gb ram from the server)
Encrypted & Compression on backups
Far superior backup retention, last 7 days, a copy of each week of the year, per month and yearly backups
The ability for me to pull files from any of these snapshots
Two snapshots a day! doubled baby!
CLI tools!
This took me a few days to complete it ended up being more complicated than anticipated, but I now also have notifications if anything goes wrong too.
Reclaimed 400+GB from backup box & 15+GB from the main machine when removing the old backup system.
Info, this isn’t the only backup system, we have multiple backup machines, just in case Your building/worlds are safe.
Staff
Removed a bunch of inactive staff, website updated (Some inactive staff are kept for emergencies, we all talk regularly)
Want to be a @Helper? Now is the time to submit! https://piratemc.com/information/staff-application/
@Changelog Alerts Survival & Creative
Added auto ban for some bot accounts doing sus things
Fixed Death message for entity deaths in the arenas only being shown in the arenas.
@Changelog Alerts Backend Server - New Operating system
Major upgrades today, our Operating system ended LTS, which meant it wouldn't get any more security updates, our Database also was end of life too, so it too wouldn't get any updates, so I took the morning to upgrade both and complete success! (nearly)
Disk backup Backed up the entire disks on the main server then
Upgraded our servers operating system TWO major versions, had to do it in steps, upgrade it once then upgraded it again, both went well, were now covered until 2030 for updates and security.
Upgraded Our MySQL database multiple major versions, this in itself was a massive maintenance task Ive been worried about, luckily it was all handed by the OS upgrades, its much faster now.
Fixed our wrapper, this is the thing that boots the minecraft servers/keeps them up, this seemed to be the only thing that broke in the updates, now I talked to the dev and he's fully stopping development of the wrapper we've used for 10+ years due to the changes to the linux environment that would require a lot of work to fix it up, i was able to patch it, but I will need to replace it soon.
I already have licenses for a new wrapper so I know what I will move to, I just need to find some more maintenance time to do the migration its going to be a bit of a job too.
Overall I'm happy with the outcome, jumping 2 major OS versions and getting the database done! Brilliant, I'm happy. I wanted to replace the wrapper anyway, this will just force me to do it.
Thank you for the patience for the downtime today for me to do this.
Proxy server
Updated proxy server
@Changelog Alerts Survival
Removed $299,998.75 from the eco pool (I reset my balance to 0)
The tax from shops goes to my account
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 - Removed $299,998.75
Saturday, January 3, 2026 - Removed $244,802.37
[Saturday 26 July 2025- Removed $299,998.58](https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1398687942943309984)
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:38 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:20 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:53 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2022 12:37 PM
Monday, November 29, 2021 9:31 PM
Last time: https://discord.com/channels/139382225375330305/545688946143657985/1457141969481498687
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller upgrade part 1/2 complete
We’ve officially migrated our server setup away from the wrapper Ive used for 10+ years over to a new, modern management platform (Partially). Creative is done, its up and running on the new system, I'm going to let this run for a few days before I do the same with survival to iron out any issues, that's part 2.
Added new modern management platform
Why was this important?
- Primarily because the old one partially broke and will no longer be supported, the developer has moved on and is using the same product we are now.
- Much more modern infrastructure behind the scenes
- Better toolkit for management for modifying things live
Hopefully everything goes smooth with keeping creative up & I can do survival soon and that will complete a full overhaul of the entire back-end that runs everything, were close!
@Changelog Alerts
Backend controller / Creative
Updated Creative servers java flags & increased RAM
Added daily restart for creative again (For maintenance) but its been up for 3 days fine on the new controller 20tps, I might not need to reboot it daily.
@Changelog Alerts Backend server - controller upgrade part 2/2 complete - Survival moved!
Survival has now successfully been moved to the new controller at lightning speed this morning!
Now its time to do the cleanup and snag list for things that will break with this!
Migrated Survival to new controller - up and running!
Updated ViaVersion to latest snapshot (packets for newer clients on the older server software)
Updated PacketEvents a packet plugin API for other plugins, but this again handles packets for newer clients.
Updated LibsDisguises the plugin that handles packet disguises for custom mobs, again for newer clients.
I'm still trying to find the cause of the packet issue (You get kicked with network error on some newer clients) for newer clients, its just very hard to update plugins on such old server software without something breaking, I got lucky this morning that I was able to update PacketEvents and LibsDisguises without breaking anything (that I know of...)
That completes an enormous overhaul of the entire backend and sets us up for the coming years for upgrading the server
@Changelog Alerts Creative
Fixed permissions loading
Fixed Schematics folder
@Changelog Alerts
