CavePvP Halloween Update

Hello again everyone! After collecting everyone's feedback from the last few weeks we are finally here with the CavePvP Halloween Update.

Lots of changes have been made across the network looking at everyone's suggestions, thank you all for the support, we've hit 800-900 players every SOTW since we came back! ❤️  

Release Dates

⚔️ Kits SOTW

Friday, October 25th at 4:00 PM EST

🌎 Fasts Map 4

Saturday, October 26th at 2:00 PM EST

📋 Global Changes

• All bans and mutes have been reset!
  • Blacklists are excluded from all punishment resets.
• INTRODUCING: AURA!
  • For those that remember reputation, this is just reputation renamed. 
  • You gain 1 aura per kill, and lose 1 per death.
  • Check /aura leaderboards to check where you stand.
  • There are 5 tiers depending on how much reputation you have. Each one puts a special star next to your name.
    • SILVER (from 5 to 20 aura) (Gray Star)
    • Gold (from 20 to 50 aura) (Gold Star)
    • Emerald (from 50 to 100 aura) (Green Star)
    • Diamond (from 100 to 200 aura) (Aqua Star)
    • Master (200+ aura) (Purple Star)
    • Champion (Top 5 on /aura leaderboards) (Dark Red Star)
  • Resets every calendar month, doing reputation reset now then a aura reset in November)
• Added EU proxy - eu.cavepvp.com
• Added Direct proxy - direct.cavepvp.com
  • This domain skips over TCPShield for those that want direct connection to the server.
  • However this proxy/IP can be DDoS'd at any time and there's nothing we can do about it. If it lags out, crashes or gets DDoS'd you will not get revived.
• You can now join the Hub whilst banned.
• Made it so you can do /freerank by just voting for those on No Premium.
• Made it so you can /sync your permanent rank if you have a temporary rank on top of it.

⚔️ Kits SOTW

Map Information:

• Faction Size: 15 mans, 0 allies
• Map Kit: Protection 2 Sharpness 2
• SOTW Timer: 1 hour
• Release Date: Friday, October 25th at 4:00 PM EST.
• WarZone: 750

New Features:

• NEW Black Market
  • Every day at 3 AM and 3 PM EST, a black market villager will spawn at 100, -100 in Nether.
    • The villager will despawn after an hour.
  • Use Faction Gems to purchase custom enchant books, partner items, stacked debuffs, fishing rods, cobwebs, and more!
• NEW Mob Grind Areas
  • In each quadrant, there will be an area where zombies and skeletons spawn. Kill them for a chance to receive Prot 2 custom enchanted armor, custom enchants, or partner items!
• NEW Ability Items
  • Scrambler - Hit a player 3 times to shuffle their Hotbar
  • Grapple Hook - Right-click to launch yourself to that position. Only obtainable in the Black Market. 30-second cooldown and unbreakable.
• NEW Reaper Class & Kit
  • Reaper Class is back! Leather Helmet and Boots | Chainmail Chestplate and Leggings.
  • Right Click the scythe in your hotbar to make everyone within 5 blocks bleed for 5 seconds, and you any hits against enemies for 5 seconds heal you slightly.
• NEW Road Outpost is back!
  
  • Whichever faction has this gets 2x Gem Boost and +5 points per KOTH capture.
• Event and Points Changes:
  • Nether Citadel: +500 points (no Citadel loot) every Sunday at 1 PM EST.
  • Overworld Citadel: +300 points every Friday at 4 PM EST.
  • End Conquest: +250 points every Tuesday at 5 PM EST.
  • Sky KOTH: +25 points
  • Hell and End KOTH: +20 points
  • Overworld KOTH: +15 points
  • KOTHs only start with 25+ players online.
• Removed Protection 2 and Sharpness 2 Kit Upgrades.
• Removed TNT Minecarts.
• Removed CE Crate.
• Capturing KOTH now gives you 3 KOTH Keys as 1 KOTH Key now gives 2 items.
• Redone Legendary, Cave, and Platinum Kit.
  
  • All kits now have a 2-hour cooldown instead of 1 hour.
• Cobwebs now despawn after 7 seconds instead of 10.
  • Cobwebs are no longer purchaseable in /shop, only obtainable in the Black Market.
• Removed Fishing Rods from /shop, only obtainable from the Black Market.
• Archer Kit now has Flame 1.
• Disabled enchanting, brewing, and anvils.
• You can now use /pv in your claim as long as you're not spawn-tagged.
• Anti-Pearl faction cooldown reduced to 10 seconds.
• Fixed Recover I custom enchant.
• You can no longer enderpearl through string.
• Made changes to all keys.
• Reduced Airdrop Bow to Power 5.
• Fixed all issues with placing airdrops, droppers, chests, hoppers, etc...
• Implemented knockback, hits, and pots changes.

🌎 Fasts SOTW

Map Information:

• Faction Size: 5 mans, 0 allies
• Map Kit: Protection 2 Sharpness 2
• SOTW Timer: 2 hours
• Release Date: Saturday, October 26th at 2:00 PM EST.

New Features:

• NEW Frenzy Event
  • This event occurs for an hour on Sunday and Wednesday at 3 PM EST.
  • All partner item cooldowns are halved during this time.
• NEW Aggressor Event
  • The event starts whenever Citadel starts (/schedule to view) for 2 hours.
  • This is a base raiding event where you gain Aggressor Points by making a faction raidable.
  • The more factions you make raidable have online, the more points you gain.
  • At the end of the 2 hours, you can use your Aggressor Points in the Aggressor Shop where you can purchase keys, small vouchers or short ranks.
  • The winning team of this event will receive 100 Points, 10 Raidable Points, and 3 KOTH Keys.
• NEW Railway Road
  • Underground railway system 700 blocks down South Road.
  • Railway Event - A DTC where whoever captures it will receive a Railway Key that has a chance to receive less DTR regen, 2x quicker outpost caps, 3x XP Gain for the rest of the map, or 3x KOTH Keys.
  • 2 new farming areas
• NEW Mini KOTHs have returned!
  • Two times a day, at 1 PM EST and 5 PM EST a Mini KOTH will start.
  • Mini KOTHs run in their own world/dimension, to visit it you can hop into the Aether Glowstone Portal at Spawn or 100, 900 down road.
  • You can only visit Mini KOTHs if you have 3 mans or less.
  • Mini KOTH worlds work like an end, where there's an exit where you hop into the water to leave and you can die in the void.
• NEW Black Market
  • Every day at 3 AM and 3 PM EST, a black market villager will spawn at 100, -100 in Nether.
    • The villager will despawn after an hour.
  • Use Faction Gems to purchase various OP items!
• NEW F-Top Trapping (/f top trapping)
  
  • Gain 1 Trapping Point by killing someone in your own claim.
  • Top 3 Trapping Point factions every map will win a prize!
• NEW Fasts Events
  • We have implemented the events from Kits onto Fasts!
  • Custom Ranks can host events using /host.
    • Sumo, OITQ, MineStrike, TNT Tag, TNT Run, Knockout, Parkour, and more!
  • Winners of these events will receive various prizes!
• NEW Enderdragon Event
  • Now right after SOTW, we will be running an Enderdragon Event.
  • Whoever kills the ender dragon will receive 30 Points and a KOTH Key.
• NEW Ability Items
  
  • Anti-Trap Beacon
  • Focus Mode
  • Anti-Dropdown
  • Anti-Ability Rod
  • Explosive Egg (fixed & buffed)
  • Zeus Hammer
  • Reality Stone
  • Vaulted 5-8 ability items (still deciding)
• BETA Hitting a player 3 times will /f focus them, enable it in /settings
  
  • This feature is only for Custom Ranks, for now, just testing it.
• Increased damage.
• Added /lff
• Added /f mark - Bind this in LC, type this command and it will waypoint to your faction where you're looking. Or hit the command while looking at a player and a waypoint will follow them for 5 seconds.
• Added /f description
• Added LC Nametags to /settings, you can now disable seeing LC Nametags above players' heads.
• Added a Knockback I Item to the Halloween Crate.
• Added Cobwebs to crates.
  • You can only place Cobwebs in Overworld WarZone.
  • You can only carry a maximum of 16 cobwebs.
• Added back /f upgrade effects section
  • You can use Faction Gems to purchase effects on your claim only. A localized beacon basically.
• All new Citadel, Nether, End, and KOTHs.
• Points Change:
  • +175 points from Citadel.
  • +100 points from Faction Tournament.
  • +50 points from First KOTH.
  • +30 points from End and Hell KOTHs
  • +20 points from Overworld KOTHs.
• Teamfighting God Apple Changes:
  • You can no longer use regular God Apples in WarZone, Nether and End.
  • Added a Teamfighting God Apple obtainable in KOTH keys only. This works like a regular god apple but is the only one you can use in WarZone, Nether and End.
• Diamonds can no longer use Fishing Rods in WarZone, Nether and End. Only Bards and Archers can and with the rod cooldown.
• Rogues now have Resistance II.
• Treasure Cove now respawns every 2 hours instead of 3.
• Witch Effect now gives a random Bard click effect every 15 seconds.
• Put a 1 bard, 1 archer, 1 rogue limit past 1000 down road.
• Fixed several issues with several pearls not working.
• Eggport range has been increased back to 10.
• Slightly buffed Poison damage.
• Redone KOTH Loot table.
• Fixed arrows stacking where 5 people can shoot you at once and all hit at the same time making you basically one shot.
• Reduced Potion Material prices in /shop.
• Disabled /fly in the first 15 minutes of SOTW to avoid the way people get claims.
• Having 3 or more dropdowns now results in a ban and a revive for the player you kill. (Warn first offense)
• Changed up LC Rally and Team arrow colors to be based on what class they are, so if they're diamond it'll be blue, if they're bard gold, etc...
• Removed Archer Upgrades (the colored archer sets that give you special abilities)
• Anti-Raid Steal timer now shows up in your boss bar.
• Ability Item cooldowns now show up in your action bar (above your hotbar) when you're holding that item.
• You can no longer pick up Discount Drops while you have a PvP Timer.
• Road Outpost can now be looted if no one controls it.
• Anti-Blockups now make it so you can't use elevators.
• Depth Strider 3 costs more in /xpshop as now you can purchase Depth Strider 1 and 2.
• Removed Recover I from all kits except Custom.
• Now when you are Anti-Blockup'd and try to place, interact, or break blocks it will tell you how long is left on it.
• Miner Kit now has an Efficiency 5 Axe and Ultimate-Miner has an Efficiency 6 Axe.
• Added nearby bases to /f filter.
• Added back the Seasonal Kit from old Cave.
• Anti-Pearl is now back to 1 hit, not 3 hits. Right-clicking an anti-pearl no longer removes your enderpearl cooldown.
• Vaulted several ability items.
  • Crafting Chaos
  • Power Stone
  • Risky Mode
  • Time Stone
  • Soul Stone
  • and a few more (still deciding)
• Now if you have Teamfight mode enabled, you will see any new KOTH waypoints.
• Online Custom Ranks in chat now filters out your name for your POV so you don't get pinged while on LC.
• /f show an outpost now tells you who controls it.
• /discountdrop now tells you when the next one is.
• Shift Left Click a lootbox or airdrop to view what you can get from it.
• /f roster fill now adds everyone currently in your faction to your /f roster.
• Now when we detect a player saying they're letting in in chat they will be added to /lettingin list.
• Fixed Recover custom enchant.
• Fixed several issues with the Battle Pass
• Fixed several pearl glitching methods (it's still very possible)
• Fixed where you can still /f home even after getting hit in certain scenarios.
• Fixed /settings mob drop not working properly.
• Fixed all issues with Implants and HellForged.
• Fixed and re-enabled /schedule.

Plus much more general gameplay changes you'll notice when playing!