🌱 Server Update

This update introduces a brand-new AFK system, improvements to towns, Discord linking rewards, and a large collection of fixes and quality-of-life changes. Here’s a full breakdown of everything included.

💤 AFK Server

✨ Orbs

• Orbs are a new currency earned while idle on the AFK server.
• Earn 1 Orb per minute while AFK
• Orbs can be spent at the new AFK Shop at spawn
• Find Afk Alex just beyond the spawn platform
• Currently, Orbs can only be spent on 2x ValhallaMMO Skill XP Boosters
• More items will be added in the future

🔔 AFK Behavior

• After being AFK for a couple of minutes on the SMP, a sound will play and a title will appear on your screen indicating that you are AFK
• If you do not return to the game within a few minutes, you will be automatically transferred to the AFK servers
• Once on an AFK server, you can return to the lobby or queue by interacting with the NPC
• You can also use /afk or talk to Afk Alex to be transferred to the AFK server

🏘️ Towns

💬 Updated Town Chat

• Toggle town chat with /townchat or /town chat
• Ignore town chat using the new settings option or with /ignoretownchat
• Updated chat format now displays the role a player has within their town

🏗️ Town Outpost Changes

• Outpost creation has moved from /town claim outpost to /town outpost claim
• Outposts can now be created from the town outposts menu
• Destroying an outpost now returns $10,000 of the initial $50,000 deposit
• Claiming and unclaiming outposts now require a confirmation command and clearly warn you about costs and refunds

💰 Town Upkeep Changes

• Town upkeep has been made more lenient
• If a town can afford upkeep but has claimed outposts, outposts will be automatically unclaimed one by one until the town has enough money
• If, after unclaiming outposts, there is still not enough money, the town will be unclaimed instead of disbanded, allowing it to retain members and settings the first time upkeep is missed
• If a town misses upkeep a second time in a row, it will be disbanded

🔔 Town Notifications

• Major town-related events that occur while you are offline will now be queued as notifications for your next login
• This includes towns being disbanded, unclaimed, renamed, promotions or demotions, bans, and more

🚫 Town Ban Improvements

• If a player is inside a town when banned, they will be moved to spawn
• If a banned player manages to enter a town, they will be moved to spawn when moving through the town
• Fixed multiple ways players could bypass town bans

⚔️ Town PvP Adjustments

• Players physically inside a town can no longer PvP players outside the town if the outside player is banned from that town
• When exiting a town with PvP disabled and entering a PvP-enabled area (wilderness or another town), players receive a 30-second grace period where PvP is disabled
• This grace period does not apply if you were already in combat when entering the no-PvP area
• When entering an area with a different PvP status, a notification now appears at the top of the HUD indicating whether you have entered or exited PvP protection

🎧 Town Voice Chat

• Use /townvoice or /townvoicechat to automatically join a voice chat group created specifically for your town
  

🔗 Discord Linking

🎁 Rewards

• Linking your Discord account now grants $1,000 in-game currency and 240 Orbs
• Players who linked their accounts prior to this change will also receive these rewards

🏷️ Discord Roles

• You will now receive Discord roles matching your supporter rank (Rune, Spark, Glyph, etc.)
• Simply join the SMP to refresh your roles
• Faction roles will now properly apply when linking Discord after joining a faction
• If your Discord is linked but your faction role is missing, log into the SMP to update it

⚙️ Other Changes

🛠️ Smaller Additions

• Players now have temporary invulnerability after teleporting
• /tpaccept can now be used in addition to /tpaaccept
• Homes now display a right-click hint for editing in the menu
• The PvP toggle item now includes the XP boost in its tooltip
• Piles can now be placed underwater
• A sound notification now plays when receiving a TPA request
• Building leveling has been made slightly easier

🐛 Lots of Bug Fixes

• Fixed bank interest placeholders showing negative values
• Fixed faction item vaults not scaling correctly
• Fixed a duplication issue involving the main menu time and vaults
• Fixed the join faction reminder sending after joining a faction
• Fixed formatting issues with the faction rank-up ready notification
• Fixed force-joining faction popups causing deaths in PvP
• Fixed home creation issues within towns
• Fixed Builder Ben fast travel point
• And many more!