Skylands OverhaulThe new Skylands is finally here (or will be shortly if you are reading this immediately!), and with it comes several new games, and some updates to older games. So here is a rundown of what you can find in the new Skylands, and some useful information for each game.
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New Skylands Spawn
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Skylands Wings: Skylands is now broken up into five different wings: Spleef, PvE/Solo Games, PvP, Versus Games and Racing.
SpleefThere is a brand new spleef arena, with pizza spleef and sand spleef on the same world so you can play a quick game while you wait for the pros to finish their DM! With the new arena comes several new features, including the all important pig riding spleef round now built in as a permanent feature!
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New Spleef Arenas
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ PvE/Solo GamesThe new skylands is shipping with two new solo PvE games: Hero of the Village and Cave Royale. In Hero of the Village you journey to a ruined village, overrun by zombies. Your goal is to rebuild the village and take out the source of the zombies...not as easy as it sounds! In Cave Royale you face endless waves of mobs spawning in a cave system. You will die, it is just a matter of how many enemies you take to the grave with you!
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Village waiting for a Hero
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Don't be deceived, this sheep is a deadly menace to society!
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The PvP arenas have all had some much needed build updates, along with the introduction of a brand new plugin to automate team matches. We've also introduced a new rotation for PvP arenas so there will only ever be four standard PvP arenas open at a time, along with a featured gamemode, and bedwars. These open arenas will rotate every 3 months or so (once per season) which will allow us to update arenas more often during their off-season.
The featured gamemode this season is Juggernaut, a PvP game introducing all kinds of abilities to make the experience fun and unique. I don't have time to list them all so you'll have to go play to find out!
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Some very subtle and understated portals for PvP arenas
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Versus GamesVersus games will feature many of the old favourites you are familiar with, though many of them have had build updates at least. There are also whole new games introduced, including some of my personal favourites: paintball and lasertag!
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Lasers go pew pew!
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Paintballs go splat splat!
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀DynaDude has also had a complete facelift and is essentially a brand new game. There are cool new TNT mechanics to play with, power ups to earn and terrain to destroy! No more waiting for TNT to slowly explode while everyone runs away, you're now guaranteed to have a blastingly fun time!
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An example of a DynaDude arena, definitely not inspired by a DinoSA...
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RacingAs you may have guessed from the Valentines horse race, racing is no longer confined to the nautical realm! You can now race on horses, pigs, striders, with elytra, boats, tridents, and on your own two feet! To fit all these race tracks in, there is a gorgeous new racing lobby!
New racing lobby
