BronyTales Minecraft

Server Updates

2024-11-17 19:21:
Hi there, @Party Animals!
As you might already know, Harvest and Appreciation* day is almost upon us. And this year, we decided to revive a tradition; what have you been most thankful for this year? Was it somecreature or something in your life, on BronyTales or somewhere else? Tell us your story!
*Otherwise known as Thanksgiving.

Let us know what you're all thankful for this year before Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:00 PM (Eastern US time) and we'll publish your stories to BronyTales' blog around the end of the month! You can find a chest with the submission book as well as a few extra snacks in a chest inside the Ponyville Town Hall! Once you've finished writing your book, you can submit it by placing the written book inside one of the submission chests, these are located next to where you got the unsigned book.

Have a magical day out there! We're looking forward to hearing your stories this year! :sunburstwave:
This post was written by @'Sunburst!

2024-11-13 00:46:
We also wanted to let you all know that we've updated our staff applications form!
You can find the updated link at the bottom of the staff page on our website: https://bronytales.com/staff

The first thing you'll likely notice is that the application is definitely longer than the previous one. This is for a few reasons. First and foremost, the increased application length helps us show you in more detail what to expect when joining our staff team. It also helps us better judge whether or not a person is fit for the specific roles they're applying for. In general, it should be a massive quality of life improvement for both applicants and the moderation staff that vote on applications. You can also now directly apply for Guard, more details for that are on the form.

Since the application form has been overhauled, we'll more than happily use this chance to let you all know that we're actively looking to recruit new staff to the team! We're currently looking for help in all listed positions on the form.
- If you'd like to help realize some of the larger remaining G4 canon towns and have the skills to work with some complex builds, the build team's always looking for qualified help! Future projects are likely to involve builds made of crystal and/or particularly tall buildings that would be a bit more on the modern side.
- If you have ideas for official events and would like to help make those ideas a reality, or maybe you'd just like to lend a hand, the events team would be a great fit for you!
- And if you have experience working with Java and would be interested in expanding the features of our plugins + helping to make server updates happen faster, we could certainly use a hand on the development team!

2024-11-13 00:46:
Hey again, @everyone! With only a few things left on our todo list, the 1.21 update is nearly complete!

The time you have left to submit End builds for migration to the new End world is quickly running out!
Here's a link to the form: https://forms.gle/94crhdGM1GUUGyDu8
If you don't have a Google account or would like to migrate a build for another user, please contact the staff team via #general-server-help with the build's details and we'll be sure to get your build added to the list!

We'll do our best to make sure builds that haven't been submitted are migrated, but submitting your builds guarantees that they'll be migrated. We'll be removing the currently submitted builds within the next few days.
Note: This is ONLY for the End world. The Overworld and Nether won't be getting full resets.

If you haven't spent AT LEAST 30 MINUTES in your Overworld builds since the server's founding, be sure to do so soon!
As mentioned in our announcement post, we're looking to do another selective regeneration on the Overworld. All chunks with less than 30 minutes of total playtime will be marked for deletion. This playtime doesn't need to be recent, even builds from 2019 will be safe provided you or others have spent AT LEAST 30 minutes loading those chunks in the server's entire history.

Testing has shown that most builds won't be impacted! Smaller and less-used structures like large railways and/or roads are the exception to this rule. If any of your builds are impacted after the 1.21 update's selective regeneration you'll be entitled to compensation. Just contact our staff team!

The current plan is to have the update out towards the end of this month. This may change if issues arise, we'll likely give notice a day or two in advance before we take the server offline. A downtime server won't be in place this time around, and we currently expect BT to be offline for 3-5 days.

Check out the full list Here!