CavePvP Christmas Update

Hello everyone! After weeks of preparation, we'd like to introduce the CavePvP Christmas Update!

We've read everyone's suggestions and hopefully have crafted a fabulous Christmas Update for you all!

Release Dates

⚔️ Bunkers Season 5

Thursday, December 19th at 5:00 PM EST

⚔️ Kits SOTW

Friday, December 20th at 4:00 PM EST

🌎 Fasts Map 4

Saturday, December 21st at 2:00 PM EST

📋 Global Changes

• All bans and mutes have been reset!
  • Blacklists are excluded from all punishment resets.
• NEW CUSTOM+ RANK
  • The first time we added a new top rank in 2 and a half years!
  • All perks from Custom Rank.
  • Improved reclaim on Fasts and Kits. 
    • Including 1 of EVERY vKit Shard on Fasts EVERY single week.
  • Access to Custom+ Kit on Fasts and Kits.
  • Access to the Master Kit.
  • New Rainbow Tag option.
  • Access to /disguise.
    • Players can choose their custom disguise name.
  • Access to /skinchanger
    • Players can choose their custom skins, including cape accounts.
  • A full list of perks can be found here: https://store.cavepvp.com/category/liferanks%2Ccustom
• 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 before Fasts SOTW then another February 1st)
  • Before every reset, we will give the following prizes to the top 3:
    • 1st Place - $100 Gift Card
    • 2nd Place - $50 Gift Card
    • 3rd Place - $25 Gift Card
• Added EU proxy - eu.cavepvp.com
• 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, December 20th at 4:00 PM EST.
• WarZone: 500

New Features:

• NEW Armor Sets
  
  • Reintroduced Armor Sets! Get 4 shards, and apply one to each piece of your armor to give your set special abilities!
  • Assassin (Archer)
    • After each kill, you gain 10 seconds of Speed IV.
    • Kill Meter [caps at 10, every kill goes up 1]
      • At 1/10 - Sugar cooldown is 25s instead of 30s
      • At 5/10 - Archer Tags now do 1.8 hearts.
      • At 7/10 - Sugar will now give Speed V for 7 seconds.
      • At 10/10 - Archer tags will have a 7.5% chance of blinding the opponent.
  • Sniper (Archer)
    • Permanent Jump Boost II
    • Archer Tags increase damage by 25% instead of 20%.
    • For every 7 blocks, you are away from your target, you deal +5% more hearts. Caps at 2.2 hearts.
  • Sorcerer (Bard)
    • /sorcerer - Choose a passive bard effect to permanently give to your teammates within a bard radius without you having to hold it. 
    • Bard Energy regenerates 1.5x faster.
    • Shift Right Click your sword to give your team Strength II and Regeneration II for 6 seconds. As well as it cleanses all current archer tags. All teammates must be within 15 block radius. 30-minute cooldown.
• NEW Ability Items added to Kits
  
  • Effect Disabler
  • Berserk Ability
  • Spin Bot
  • Starvation Flesh
  • Focus Mode
  • Guardian Angel
  • Replaced Eggports with Switchers
• VAULTED ABILITY ITEMS
  • Halloween Candy
  • Scrambler
  • Fifty Fifty
  • Anti Block-up
  • Ninja Star
  • Time Warp
• NEW KITMAP RULES:
  • Allying, cleaning, and gatekeeping are NOT allowed in only Overworld or Nether Citadel.
    
    • Gatekeeping will result in a Faction-wide Ban for 1 hour.
    • Allying / One-way allying will result in a 1-hour ban.
    • Cleaning will result in a 1-hour ban.
  • Inviting a Ban Evading player will result in an instant strike. You are fully responsible for whoever is in your faction.
  • Inviting a Blacklist Evading player will result in an instant disqualification or double strike which is up to the punisher.
  • A cheating ban (non-auto-clicking) will result in a strike now.
• Completely revamped Airdrop Loot table.
• Double Gem and Double Points are active every Sunday from 1 PM to 4 PM EST. For points, it doesn't double for KOTH or Citadel captures.
• Anti-Pearl 2.0 no longer gives a faction cooldown.
• Co-Leaders are no longer able to add other Co-Leaders to /f roster.
• You can now /f home during Anti-Clean.
• Fixed all bugs with the MineStrike event.
• Fixed all bugs with the Wool Shuffle event.
• Fixed all bugs with the Spleef event.
• Fixed /f subclaim addplayer not saving.

🌎 Fasts SOTW

Map Information:

• Faction Size: 5 mans, 0 allies
• Map Kit: Protection 2 Sharpness 2
• SOTW Timer: 2 hours
• Release Date: Saturday, December 21st at 2:00 PM EST.

New Features:

• NEW Purge Event
  • Starts every Wednesday at 2 PM EST for 3 hours.
  • During this event, all team's fence gates will be openable.
  • Each faction is allowed to open up to 5 chests in enemy territory.
  • Item-frames and signs will be scrambled during this event so you can't know what they might have where.
  • Complete a mission in /purge missions to gain +1 chest openable in every territory.
  • The faction that completes all missions the fastest will gain a Mythical Chest for every faction member.
• NEW Ability Generators
  • Place an Ability Generator NPC in your faction territory.
  • Occasionally, a random ability item will be generated and held by the NPC.
  • Right-click the NPC to access and obtain ability items.
  • There are three levels, the higher the level, the faster ability items are generated by it.
  • Can be killed, when it's killed it drops all ability items.
  • You can only have up to 3 ability generators in your claim.
• NEW Fasts Mini-Games
  • 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
  • Clone - Right-click to spawn an NPC that fights with you for 30 seconds.
  • Rift - Right-click in two locations within the same claim to set a portal where your teammates can travel through.
  • Focuser - Right-click and for the next minute, the compass will point towards whoever has the least amount of potions within a 10-block radius.
  • Devil's Curse - Hit a player 3 times and for 6 seconds they will have Nausea, Blindness, and Slowness.
  • Rich Bill - Hit a player 3 times to swap their helmet out for a Gold Helmet.
  • Escape Plan - Right-click and for the next 10 seconds all players within 10 blocks gain invisibility and friendly fire is enabled amongst all of you.
  • 1 more that will be updated in the forum post soon.
• NEW Custom Enchants
  • Headless - Apply to sword: Kill a player to drop their head.
  • Cubed - Apply to pickaxe: 25% chance of mining a 3x3.
• NEW vKits
  • Right-click to open a scroll animation where you either get the Lifetime vKit or just one-time.
  • Raider, Trapper, and Ability vKits.
  • Each vKit has a sword, pots, custom enchants, and dedicated ability items.
• REMOVED ABILITY ITEMS
  • Guardian Angel
  • Starvation Flesh
  • Anti-Trap Rod
  • Anti-Trap Star
  • Effect Disabler
  • Close Call
  • Anti-Trap Beacon
  • Thor Ability
  • Eye of Dylan
  • Explosive Egg
• Added Cobwebs to crates.
  • You can only place Cobwebs in Overworld WarZone.
  • You can only carry a maximum of 16 cobwebs.
• FALLER TOKENS are currently disabled and will be re-enabled soon.
• Added Increased Spawner Limit /f upgrade.
• Added a few more Battle Pass challenges.
• Added Archer & Rogue limit past 1000 down the road.
• Added /f roster leader so you can transfer leaders.
• Added anti-nametags system making it so cheaters can't see what enchants you have on your sword or what your name is through the Nametag cheat.
• Added Aim Assist Team Lock-on, so now aim assisters will lock onto their teammates some of the time. (not 100%, could have bypasses)
• All new Citadel, Nether, End, and KOTHs.
• Depth Strider 3 costs more in /xpshop as now you can purchase Depth Strider 1 and 2.
• Slightly buffed all rank reclaims.
• Removed Recover I from all kits except Custom.
• Re-enabled Minecarts.
• You can now run /lettingin every 5 minutes.
• When you get revived, the death will be wiped from your statistics.
• Online Custom+ Ranks in chat now filters out your name for your POV so you don't get pinged while on LC.
• /ratio is now disabled during SOTW Timer.
• Removed the Books kit.
• More messages are now filtered through the /settings annoying messages filter.
• Fixed Implants enchant negating Starvation Flesh ability item.
• Fixed not being able to put Redstone in Fancy Brewers.
• Fixed Aggressor Points not saving.
• Fixed being able to obtain Aggressor Points from people who are already raidable.
• Fixed /seen staff members.
• Fixed all known issues with /f roster.
• Fixed Spawner count in /f show being incorrect sometimes.
• Fixed Ninja Staring to dead people.
• Fixed Portable Bambe stacking with Skeletons.
• Fixed not getting the rank you purchased sometimes.
• Fixed several pearl glitching methods (it's still very possible)
• Fixed and re-enabled /schedule.
• Fixed /f filter nearby teams not working.

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