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Halloween Apocalypse Event

The next Halloween Apocalypse approaches... the network will be hosting an advent calendar from the 11th of October to the 4th of November, in celebration of the spooky season. To view the full calendar, check out the thread here!

The apocalypse will include fun things like a new lobby, scavenger hunt, map events, a rotation update, and even events for two gamemodes that previously went unplayed. There also may be more surprises not listed throughout the course of the Halloween Apocalypse. Stay tuned to find out!

Development News

Aside from other work behind the scenes, UHC has had some additions, which will be tested during the next few days. The new features are:

• players drop a number of golden apples upon death, which is proportional to the number they've eaten, but not in a one-to-one ratio;


• XP drops upon death proportional to how long match was running;


• enchanting and combining is now more expensive for diamond tools and armour.

Once these modules have been tested, we plan on adding a few more, and once testing concludes, Stratus UHC 1.1 will be released. Make sure you play in the next scheduled matches!

New Maps

In the past two weeks, the following maps were added:

• Haunted Corridors

  , by Moo8x8  and Strangey 



• Grassy Mounds

  , by mitchiii 

Staff News

• ALM

    stepped down from his role as a developer.



• Despite not having a website badge for now, sslumper , Nixani , Sharkskill  and Xuph  have been promoted to tournament builders. Congratulations!

Biweekly Question

In the last issue, we heard your responses! There's a lot of maps that are loved by all different backgrounds by the community.

However, we want to know something new this week: how could UHC on the Stratus Network be improved? Leave your response in the posts below!

A full list of past issues can be found on our profile page, and if you have any feedback about Stratus Status please let us know below.

Add more gamemodes to the UHC's you guys usually host - CutClean and a few others like PortalDoor are just getting too stale and although you guys are testing newer ones, try to bring back some old ones from Reddit or something related to it. I do have 2 gamemodes to add though if you guys are interested.

1. Jackpot - This gamemodes was used a lot during 2014 - 2015 UHCs (I'm pretty sure, if not I am sorry.) It basically starts whenever PvP is enabled - There is a scoreboard of how many diamonds and gold can be obtained after 1 kill. For instance - every 45 seconds, 1 gold is added to the scoreboard for someone to obtain, while 1 diamond can be obtained every 1 minute and 30 seconds and so on - It could start 5 minutes before PvP at some times whenever there's a large amount of people in the game.
   (Edit, as soon as someone gets a kill, that person will obtain the x amount of gold and diamonds shown up at the scoreboard)
   

1. This one I do not know the name, but I guess I could call it Miner Alerts LOL. - This gamemodes basically broadcast whenever you mined an ore, specifically gold and diamonds. Whenever you mine the ore, it'll broadcast the coordinates of that ore of where you mined out globally, that way Players can easily find others through simple alerts like that. Makes the game fast paced and also makes you feel determined to leave the current cave or stay.

1. *If I dont put 1
   

1. And 2, it puts 1 and 2 automatically *
   

1. Moles. Pretty famous, shouldnt explain tbh
   

1. Fower Power. Same, fun as hell
   

1. Gone fishing. Really basic, shouldnt take much development to do, if it takes some. /give's should do the work
   

1. Speed UHC. You guys are already working on it (?)
   

1. Nether in the overworld. Epicube had this on its speed uhc. Basically theres a chance for a big square of "nether" to spawn inside caves. Inside there is nether fort's loot, and some blaze spawners. Can be used as a workaround for the lack of nether due to PGM