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❄️ Winter Update is now Live!

TakenSMP Changelog v1.0.0

⚙️ Server Maintenance & Deployment

This update is now LIVE! Thank you to everyone for your patience during our deployment window. Jump in now to experience the new content and balancing changes!

💎 New Exclusive Content: Winter 2025 Crate is HERE!

The long-awaited Winter 2025 Crate has arrived, bringing with it a collection of legendary, frost-infused weapons and armor capable of freezing opponents solid!

❄️ Winter 2025 Weapons & Tools

  1. Frostfang (Netherite Sword)

    • Ability: Frost Cone (20s Cooldown): Freeze all enemies in a cone for 3 seconds. Frozen targets take +50% damage from the next hit (Shatter).

  2. Frostweaver's Will (Netherite Sword - Staff)

    • Ability: Blizzard (30s Cooldown): Summon a traveling blizzard (15s duration) that significantly slows and freezes any enemies in its 4-block radius path.

  3. Frostbite Reaper (Netherite Sword - Scythe)

    • Ability: Frozen Harvest (15s Cooldown): Reap all nearby enemies within 8 blocks, dealing 6.0 frost damage and pulling them directly toward you (1.2 pull strength).

  4. Glacial Impaler (Netherite Sword - Spear)

    • Ability: Frostbite Lance (15s Cooldown): Launch a frost projectile that freezes the target on impact. The further the projectile travels (up to 30 blocks), the longer the target is frozen (1.5s min / 4.5s max).

  5. Glacial Bulwark (Shield)

    • Ability: Frost Counter (60s Cooldown): Blocking an attack triggers a counter, instantly freezing the attacker solid for 3 seconds.

  6. Nordic Icebreaker (Netherite Pickaxe)

    • Ability: Glacial Tunnel (Passive): Channel the force of a glacier to mine a 3x3x1 area instantly, allowing for rapid excavation.

  7. Glacial Cleaver (Netherite Axe)

    • Ability: Treefeller (Passive): Shatters the base of a tree to instantly chop down the entire structure, perfect for gathering wood in freezing conditions.

  8. Avalanche Spade (Netherite Shovel)

    • Ability: Avalanche Tunnel (Passive): Clears a 3x3x1 area of dirt, sand, and snow instantly to clear paths quickly.

  9. Permafrost Tiller (Netherite Hoe)

    • Ability: Replanter (Passive): Automatically replants fully grown crops upon harvesting, ensuring your farm survives the winter.

🥶 Winter 2025 Armor Set Bonus

The four-piece Winter 2025 Armorset (Winter's Gaze, Glacial Aegis, Hoarfrost Shrouds, Silent Blizzard) activates a unique safety mechanism.

  1. Full Set Bonus: Frozen Rebirth
    • Cooldown: 5 Minutes
    • Effect: Upon taking fatal damage, the ability activates: Freeze all enemies within 6 blocks for 3 seconds, and grant the wearer Resistance II + Regeneration III for 5 seconds, giving you a second chance at life.

🎨 Visual & UI Updates

We have given some of our core menus a fresh coat of paint to improve the user experience.

  1. Art Selection GUI Rework:
    • The Initial Choose Your Art menu and the Art Activation GUI have been completely redesigned. They now feature a cleaner, more polished look to make selecting and managing your Arts feel much smoother.

🐛 Bug Fixes & World Generation

  1. End Dimension Structures:
    • Fixed a critical issue where structures (such as End Cities) were failing to spawn in the End Dimension. You can now properly explore and loot the End!

🛡️ Balance Changes & Item Reworks

To ensure a balanced and diverse meta, we are implementing necessary adjustments to high-tier equipment and temporarily removing unstable items for reworking.

🔮 Magic Steel Armor Adjustments

To align with the global power ceiling, the passive effects of the Magic Steel set have been reduced from Level II to Level I.

  1. Magic Steel Helmet: Regeneration II ➔ Regeneration I
  2. Magic Steel Chestplate: Strength II ➔ Strength I
  3. Magic Steel Leggings: Jump Boost II ➔ Jump Boost I
  4. Magic Steel Boots: Speed II ➔ Speed I

🛠️ Rework Pending: Magic Steel Sword

The Magic Steel Sword has been temporarily removed from the game.

  1. Reason: The current ability interactions were causing severe balancing issues.
  2. Future Plan: We are currently designing a complete rework of the sword's ability. It will return in a future update once it is balanced and healthy for the PvP meta.

❌ Noir Crate has been completely removed from the game, and Noir armor is only accessible from the Noir kit.

⚡ Thunderbolt Armorset

The powerful Thunderbolt Armorset (Crown of the Storm God, Aegis of the Thunder God, Greaves of the Storm God, Boots of the Thunder God) is receiving both an immediate balance adjustment and a future buff plan.

  1. Adjustment: The maximum allowed enchantment level for Protection on all four armor pieces is now capped at Protection V (5).
  2. Dev Note: While we are capping the protection to handle current survivability issues, we plan on adding unique custom abilities to the Thunderbolt set in a future update to solidify its legendary status!

⚔️ Legacy & Custom Sets (Runestone, Mythril, Eclipse, Noir)

We are standardizing the power ceiling for the Runestone, Mythril, Eclipse, and Noir equipment sets.

  1. Armor Caps: The maximum Protection level for these sets is now capped at Protection IV (4).
  2. Weapon Caps: The swords associated with these sets are now capped at Sharpness V (5).

🏡 Gameplay & Region Mechanics

  1. Ability Restrictions in Claims:
    • Players can no longer use custom weapon abilities (e.g., dashes, area-of-effect spells) or Art abilities inside claimed lands. This change is to prevent ability abuse and ensure safety within protected player bases.

Happy Crafting and Freezing!

The TakenSMP Administration Team

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