🎄 CavePvP Christmas Update 🎅

Hello everyone! After a month of preparation, review, and planning, we're proud to introduce the Christmas Update!
This update is based entirely on feedback we've received, and we hope everyone enjoys this update!

From our surveys and talking to people, we have seen that the biggest problems people have with Cave are (in order):
Repetitiveness, Ability Items, Cheating, Economy, and Staff.

This update is focused on addressing each of those issues properly.

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday. Thank you for everything ❤️

Release Dates

⚔️ Bunkers Season 6

Friday, December 18th at 5:00 PM EST

⚔️ Kits SOTW

Friday, December 19th at 4:00 PM EST

🌎 Fasts SOTW

Saturday, December 20th at 2:00 PM EST

📋 Global/Background Changes

• All blacklists, bans, and mutes have been reset!
  • All previous factions that were permanently disqualified from any payouts are now undisqualified.
  • All Teamspeak bans have also been reset.
• NEW SIGNATURE RANK
  • The first time we added a new top rank in a year!
  • All perks from Custom+ Rank.
  • Increased Queue Priority.
  • Improved reclaim on Fasts and Kits. 
    
    • 5 Mythical Chests
    • 5 Treasure Chests
    • And more!
  • Access to every vKit.
  • Access to open keys anywhere.
  • Access to /yap [name] - Start a "yap vote" in chat. Every time a player clicks the Yap message, it mutes that player for an extra second. 3-hour cooldown.
  • Access to all color codes for the Custom rank prefix. Can toggle bold and italic aswell.
  • Access to all Kill Effects on Fasts and Kits.
  • Access to a custom kill tag in /killtags.
  • Access to talk in chat during SOTW.
  • Access to /trash - Opens up a virtual trash can. Can't be used in Combat.
  • Access to /sellall - Sell all sellable items in your inventory.
  • Ability to extend your claim twice rather than once.
  • Less cooldown on all Kits and vKits.
  • Fewer restrictions when using /disguise.
• Rank Merges
  • We have far too many ranks, so we're cutting two of them.
  • Cutting the following:
    • Gold (they will get Diamond Rank)
    • Emerald (they will get Pearl Rank)
  • Then we're renaming:
    • Diamond -> Gold
    • Pearl -> Diamond
    • Sapphire -> Emerald
  • New names: Iron, Gold, Diamond, Emerald, Platinum, Ravine, Holiday, Cave, Custom, Custom+, and Signature.
• Free Gold Rank!
  • Now you can type /freegold and follow the following steps to get a Free Gold Rank:
    • Vote on all Links
    • Sync your account on Discord
    • NameMC Verify
    • Follow us on Twitter
• Added another link to /vote.
• Presents can be found around the Hub. Find them all for an exclusive Christmas Prefix.
• Cheating issues addressed:
  • Added far more Aim Assist Checks and preventions.
  • Changed the screenshare rules to better target cheaters and reduce false screenshares.

⚔️ Kits Season 20

Map Information:

• Faction Size: 10 mans, 0 allies
• Map Kit: Protection 2 Sharpness 2
• SOTW Timer: 1 hour
• Release Date: Friday, December 19th at 4:00 PM EST.
• WarZone: 500

New Features:

• NEW CTF is back!
  • A flag will spawn at a random KOTH in the Overworld. Walk into it to pick it up.
  • While holding the flag, you may not enderpearl. Your teammates must defend you as you go towards your base.
  • Once you're at your base and your spawn tag runs out, you will have captured the flag.
  • The winning team will receive 100 points and 5 Treasure Chests.
• NEW End Trader
  • A new trader located in End.
  • Similar to the black market. Players can trade excess ability items for gems (at a reduced value)
• NEW Golden Dagger
  • Functions like a Backstab except it also applies Slowness III, Weakness II, and Blindness II for 5 seconds.
  • Rare item.
• NEW Balloons
  • Supreme Balloon - Strength III and Slowness III for 3 seconds. Enemy receives Nausea X for 6 seconds.
  • Midas Balloon - 2 extra absorption hearts when eating a crapple. In Bard, you can knock everyone away using a shockwave by shift-right-clicking.
  • Ghost Balloon - 3 seconds of Invisibility + Speed IV.
  • Hellshot Balloon - Next 4 shots shoot a fireball that does 2-2.5 hearts and knockback.
  • All of these abilities can be activated by shift-right-clicking your sword that has the balloon. 5-minute cooldown.
• Orbs Changes
  • Archer Orb - Adds +5 seconds to Archer Tags and does 0.5 extra damage with the next 3 tags if you are shift left clicking the bow.
  • All lives are buffed from 2 to 3.
• Now, if a player purchases an item and you say GG in chat, you will receive an Ability or Winter Key.
• Added /minerupgrades to see all the miner class upgrades.
• Added /balloons to view all available balloons.
• Nerfed the price of Cobwebs to 500 for 4.
• Disabled /itemshop, /expired, and /ah in Combat, Nether, End, and outside of your claim/Spawn.
• Removed Time Warps.
• Removed Bow cooldown for all archers.
• Made Grapple Hooks harder to obtain.
• Made Igloos harder to obtain.
• End Outpost now gives a 1.1x point multiplier (every 10 points gives 1 extra point). 
• Most KOTH Items now have 2 lives, meaning if a player dies with them twice, that item will disappear.
• Buffed Archer Damage to 1.5 hearts for 2nd and further tags.
• Removed Projectile Protection from all armor.
• Removed all unused orbs.
• Renamed all Ability Item references from Ultra to Extreme Mystery Boxes.
• Increased Class Limits to 2 Bards, 3 Rogues.
• God Apple cooldown is now 30 minutes.
• Fixed and fully updated the /schedule.
• Fixed statistics not resetting properly.

🌎 Fasts SOTW

Map Information:

• Faction Size: 5 mans
• Map Kit: Protection 2 Sharpness 2
• SOTW Timer: 2 hours
• Release Date: Saturday, December 20th at 2:00 PM EST.

New Features:

• NEW The Vault
  • Underground Maze that opens up and resets every day at 4 PM EST.
  • Low-tier chests are scattered around the build. Whoever gets to the final chest at the end of the Maze first gets a $25 Buycraft Voucher.
• NEW Realm KOTHs
  • Brand new KOTHs that are in other worlds/dimensions.
  • Replaces one KOTH per day. Each realm has its own modifier.
  • Realm A - All Diamond (no bard, archer, rogue)
  • Realm B - No enderpearls, bows, and fishing rods.
  • Realm C - No Anti-Clean
  • Can be seen in the /koth schedule.
• NEW Base Conquest
  
  • The infamous Conquest event is back! Replaces Base Citadel. Takes place on Tuesday at 3 PM EST.
  • Conquest is a multi-KOTH system where there are 4 capzones in each corner of the build.
  • Each capzone has a 30-second timer. Every time you capture a capzone, you gain 1 point.
  • First faction to 200 points wins. If a member of your faction dies, you lose 20 points.
  • Prize is 75 points, 10 raidable points, and 4 KOTH Keys.
• NEW Dropzone Event
  • Drop down opens up under Road Outpost. People have 10 minutes to jump down the hole before it's permanently locked.
  • Once someone dies, they only drop potions. All of their other items go into the Dropzone Treasury.
    • Once someone dies, they can't come back.
  • Whichever team wins the event gets access to the Dropzone Treasury for 10 minutes, where they can take whatever items are in there for themselves.
  • The winning team also gets 30 points and a KOTH Key.
  • No DTR loss within the Dropzone Event, and you can bring whatever you want.
• NEW Gladiator Event
  • Replacement for the Hell Cage Event. Takes place every Monday at 4 PM EST.
  • This is a bracketed tournament where you can bring your own items. Any of your own items except for Jammer Orbs or teleportation items.
  • No limit on faction sizes; any faction, any size can join. For example, a 5v3 can definitely happen.
  • Your team gets a potion refill and whatever the other team dropped upon death in between fights.
  • If your teammate dies, they are disqualified; however everytime you win a fight, you can bring back 1 member.
    • So if you lose two members, you must win two fights to bring back that 2nd person.
  • The winning team gets 50 points + 8 raidable points.
  • There is a losers' bracket as well, for those who don't know what that is, search it up.
• NEW Purge Event
  • Starts every Wednesday at 2 PM EST for 3 hours.
  • During this event, all teams' fence gates will be openable.
  • Unlike the last time we had this event, other factions CHESTS CANNOT be opened.
  • Complete a mission in /purge missions to gain a Purge Mission point.
  • Spend your mission points in the /purge shop, which is a replica of the Aggressor Shop.
  • The faction that has the most Mission Points by the end of the event wins:
    • 50 points and 8 raidable points.
• NEW Treasure Hunt
  • Once every day at 5 PM EST, a Treasure Chest will spawn somewhere random in the WarZone.
  • First 5 minutes, you are only told which side of the warzone it’s on (North or South)
  • Then, after 5 minutes, you will be given a vague coordinate range.
  • That coordinate range will decrease by 1 unit every 3 minutes.
  • Whoever right-clicks the chest will receive OP loot.
    
    • Ultra Monthly Crates, Mythical Chest, Perk Keys, Orbs, or a Samurai.
• NEW Energy System
  • This system will replace the Token System.
  • Gain energy by just playing the server!
  • Once you reach 100% energy, you will receive an Energy Key.
  • If you log out, all of your energy will reset.
  • How to gain energy:
    • +1% Energy per minute AFK.
    • +3% Energy per minute in Combat. (Spawn Tagged)
    • +5% Energy per minute when your faction is holding Perk Outpost.
• NEW Insane Anomaly Event
  • Takes place on Thursday at 9 AM and 5 PM EST. Lasts an hour.
  • During this, all cooldowns are halved, including Spawn Tag, Enderpearl, Ability Items, Home, Crapple, and God Apple cooldowns.
  • Global Ability Item cooldown is fully removed.
• NEW OG Ability Anomaly Event
  • Takes place on Friday from 10 AM to 2 PM EST. This event lasts 4 hours.
  • During this event, only ability items found in Winter Keys, Lootbox, Items Keys, and Airdrops can be used.
    
    • Usually, that limits us to only Anti-Blockup, Med Kit, Portable Bard, Ninja Star, Rage Ball, Midas Touch, Portable Resu, Time Warp, Invisibility, Switcher Balls, and Focus Modes.
• NEW Perk Outpost
  • Located 2000 blocks down South Road (x: 0, z: 2000)
  • Triples all XP gains.
  • Doubles Energy Gains for all members.
  • Doubles Gem gains for the faction.
• NEW FFA Event
  • No teams during this event. Everyone is given the Invisibility potion effect.
  • Teleported into an Arena, bring whatever you want.
  • Border gradually shrinks as time goes on.
  • Last man standing wins 1 Ultra Mystery Box or 3 Mythical Chests.
• NEW Mage Class
  • A debuff on your enemies Class from Viper.
  • Gold Helmet, Chainmail Chestplate and Leggings, Gold Boots.
  • Similar to bard except the effects only give negative effects to your enemies.
    • Rotten Flesh - Hunger II
    • Spider Eye - Poison II
    • Coal - Wither II
    • Fermented Spider Eye - Weakness II
    • Golden Nugget - Slowness II
• NEW CTF is back!
  • A flag will spawn at a random KOTH in the Overworld. Walk into it to pick it up.
  • While holding the flag, you may not enderpearl. Your teammates must defend you as you go towards your base.
  • Once you're at your base and your spawn tag runs out, you will have captured the flag.
  • This event will be in the KOTH schedule once a day. The winning team gets 40 points and a KOTH Key.
  • Classes can't pick up the flag.
• NEW Enderdragon Event is back!
  • Much more OP than before, does a lot more damage, and has more health.
  • Automatically starts 5 minutes after the SOTW timer ends.
  • Whoever kills it and whoever deals the most damage gets 5 Perk Keys.
  • For the next 2 hours, whoever kills it gets 50% less ability item cooldown aswell.
• NEW KOTH Items
  • KOTH Fishing Rod: A fishing rod that works (with rod cooldown) now that all fishing rods are disabled (look below)
  • KOTH Milk: Right-click to instantly take all debuffs away.
  • Can be found in the KOTH Crate.
• NEW AFK Pool
  • Sit in this pool at Spawn to get a random reward every 20 minutes.
• NEW Kill Effects
  • Activate special effects every time you kill a player.
  • Available to the new Signature Rank.
• NEW Custom Enchants
  • Headshot - Applies to bow: When you headshot a player, you will deal 10% more damage.
  • Shackle - Applies to sword: When you hit a mob, they will take zero knockback.
  • Cubed - Applies to pickaxe: Every time you break a block, it will mine a 3x3.
• NEW Faction Upgrades
  • Extended Spawner Limit - Only works after you've upgraded the first Spawner Limit. This increases the limit to 15.
  • Potion Tracker - Whenever anyone in your faction dies, all members will be told how many hearts, potions, and ability items that player had.
  • Bard Ultimate Buff - With this upgrade, Bard Ultimate effects now last 2 seconds longer.
• NEW Boss Changes
  • Krampus Boss - A new boss that teleports players towards them, summons silverfish that are 2x Speed "Elves". Throws Snow Boulders and spawns Ice Prisons that trap nearby players in ice for 3 seconds.
  • Nerfed the Wither and Iron Golem boss.
• NEW Skybridge Event Changes
  • Everyone now gets a premade kit instead of being able to bring their own items.
    • Protection 2, Sharpness 2 set. A knockback I item and Switcher Balls.
  • Replaced fence gates with string to avoid easy cluthcing.
  • Implemented all new kill boosting checks.
  • Reward is now 3 Mythical Chests and 5 Perk Keys.
• NEW Faction Gem Revamp
  • You now gain:
    • +2 Gems per Kill.
    • -5 Gems per Death.
    • +5 Gems per Trivia completed.
    • +10 Gems per Cave Says completed.
    • +10 Gems per faction made raidable.
    • +10 Gems per faction mission completed.
    • +25 Gems per MiniKOTH/KOTH Capture.
    • +100 Gems per Gladiator/Aggressor/Conquest/Citadel win.
    • You lose half your gems upon going raidable.
    • 2x Gems whilst holding Nether Outpost.
  • Revamped all prices.
• NEW /fightbreakdown
  • Shows all recent teamfights, breaks down hits, sorts by top hitters, damage, pots used, etc...
  • Only works on fights that were flagged by Anti-Clean in Nether, End, and WarZone.
• NEW /lb extended - An extended section that shows leaderboards for:
  • Most Hits, Damage Dealt, Pots Splashed, Pots Brewed, Ability Items Used, Raidable Points, KOTH Captures, Battle Pass Tiers, Cave Says Completed, Trivia Completed, and more.
• NEW Lifesaver Orb
  • Upon going below 2 hearts, you gain 2 absorption hearts. Works once every 10 minutes.
• NEW Claim Items System
  • Upon winning an event such as MiniEvents, Skybridge Event, Cave Says, Trivias, Bosses, etc, you will get the items sent to the Claim System.
  • Type /claim when not Spawn Tagged and in your own claim to claim items.
  • This is so you don't lose rewards for having a full inventory.
• NEW /f top wins - Shows factions with the most anti-clean fights won.
• NEW ABILITY ITEMS
  • Santa's Slam - Right click to be launched. When you land, all players within a 5x5 radius will take damage and will be knocked away.
  • Coinflip - Right click for a 50/50 chance of either Strength II and Speed III or Weakness II and Slowness II for 6 seconds.
  • Shadow Step - Hit a player once to teleport right behind them and give them blindness for 3 seconds.
  • Spider Chaser - Right click, and the last player you hit will get a cobweb placed right under them and Slowness II.
• REMOVED ABILITY ITEMS
  • Switch Stick
  • Clone
  • 1 more item...
• All new Spawn, Road, KOTHs, End, Chapel, Citadel, Nether, Terrain builds.
• Battle Pass Changes
  • Buffed all of the rewards.
  • You can now "Focus a Battle Pass Challenge" by clicking it in the Battle Pass menu. This puts live progress updates on that challenge on your bossbar.
• Faction Contract Changes
  • Ensures that players selected for the contract have moved within the last minute.
  • Buffed Rewards.
  • Fixed all previous issues.
• Added new Faction Missions:
  
  • Make a faction raidable.
  • Kill 5 players past 1000 in Overworld.
  • Kill 3 players in End.
  • Kill 3 players in Nether.
  • Use 100 ability items.
  • Added Kill Boosting checks for all the missions. Boosting and bypassing can result in a strike.
• Implemented a new knockback configuration.
• Time Stones, Orbs, and Masks no longer affect Exotic Item cooldowns such as Samurais, Time Stones, Hot Potatoes, and Thor Abilities.
• Time Warps now notify players around them.
  • Players who are in their own claim will NOT be notified.
    • For example, if SimplyTrash Time Warp’s in LamboXD’s Claim, everyone except for LamboXD will be notified.
    • This is so we can let people know when someone Time Warps when kiting, but also keep it secret when you’re being trapped.
• You can no longer use a Switcher Ball on teammates on 5-6 man maps.
• You can now win 7d Premium Status from a Perk Key.
• Aggressor Sharpness has been nerfed and now has 2 lives on it.
• Added glass bottles, spider eyes, and fermented spider eyes to the Brewer Kit.
• Added water buckets and sponges to the Block Shop.
• Buffed Regeneration and nerfed Resistance slightly. (Switched to a Regen meta)
• Implemented further Kill Boosting checks for the Aggressor Event.
• Kills in Duels no longer count towards your statistics.
• Rogue Classes Mask now increases backstab damage by 1 heart.
• Anti-Clean tag no longer goes away around bases if the fight started in WarZone, Nether, or End.
• You can now customize the height of your base when using a base token.
• Rods are now fully disabled everywhere for Diamonds.
  • Bards and Archers can still use fishing rods with a short cooldown.
• Implemented a 1.5s Bow Cooldown for Diamonds and Bards in Nether, End, and WarZone.
  • Cooldown only applies when you land a successful hit.
  • Cooldown does NOT get applied whilst in Lava.
• Full Invisibility is now disabled in Payload and Road Outpost.
• Nerfed Diamond Protection III by 10%.
• Nerfed Diamond Protection III chances in regular KOTH Crates.
• Removed Bard Energy Cap faction upgrade.
• End Outpost bard Energy boost is now 120, not 130.
• Trapper vKit now has a Efficiency VI pickaxe.
• Implemented a pause before the payload can go from Contested to Advancing.
• Now, when you go raidable, you will lose half of your F-Top Raidable Points. The other faction doesn't get any, though.
• Nerfed the Hot Potato Ability Item.
• Improved catching Enderpearls mechanics.
• Decimals indicating milliseconds will now be shown on Time Warps, Enderpearls, and other various cooldowns to reduce confusion instead of just displaying "0s".
• Chat Filer and the auto-mute system no longer affect the faction chat.
• PvP Timers no longer take any damage, anywhere.
• PvP Timers can now use /shop anywhere.
• People who have MOTW now have a special nametag.
• You can no longer kill bosses or participate in the Egg Seeker event with MOTW or PvP Timer.
• Fall Damage has been slightly increased.
• Whenever a Citadel/Chapel/Nether Citadel/Invasion gets captured, a Hell KOTH is put up right after.
• Orbs are now rarer to obtain.
• You can no longer pick up Ability Items in MiniKOTH if you already have 8 or more.
• Hell KOTHs now start before 12 PM on 4-man maps and less.
• KOTHs now get automatically announced whenever they start and get captured in a special telegram channel.
• If you don't have a home set but have a claim, typing /f home teleports you to the middle of your claim.
• If you are out of Spawn Tag, in your own claim, and no enemies are found within 75 blocks, /spawn will then take only 5 seconds.
• Fixed not able to /f focus or /f show or tab disguised players.
• Fixed Fight Night resetting after reboots.
• Fixed issues with /daily and its rewards.
• Fixed some enderpearls teleporting you through bedrock sometimes.
• Fixed not getting Enderpearls back after using one when someone Ninja Stars to you and it fails.
• Fixed losing a Rage Ball when right-clicking something while on cooldown.
• Fixed all known issues with payload.
• Fixed issues where voucher rank extensions don't work.
• Potentially fixed the Fancy Brewer hopper issues.
• Potentially fixed mobs being too slow to kill.
• Potentially fixed reboots resetting peoples playtime.
• QOL:
  
  • Added /keyall to see when the next one is.
  • Added /citadel that explains what that is.
  • Added /points that break down how many points you get and from what
  • Added several new tips.
  • Vouchers now show different icons based on which voucher you have in /vouchers redeem.
  • Area-based scoreboards:
    • Spawn, Treasure Cove, and Cornucopia now have helpful information on your scoreboard when you're inside their claims.
  • Reformatted the Ability Item Lore to include cooldown time.

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