Hello everyone! Lots of preparations have been happening and still more updates to get through!

Server Announcements

We have an announcement from our very own H1N9! Take it away!

Congratulations!  We officially passed 20,000 registered members this afternoon on our website.

To celebrate it we have given it a face-lift which we will be rolling out over the coming days. 20,000 is a massive milestone which is down to each and every one of you that has been apart of Fruit since the beginning.

Survival

Well, this week of Survival has been quite busy with Fruitlympics preparations!

Firstly a big apologies to AidenMcG on not announcing! So everyone PLEASE GIVE A BIG WELCOME to AidenMcG in joining the builder team! Woooohoooo!

This week of Survival has been very hectic with in preparation for Fruitlympics! Come get involved and support your server by signing up on the forums now! Go to (https://tinyurl.com/2k19FruitLympics) for more info.

The Fruitlympics opening ceremony happened just tonight with the passing of the torch! Lots of people running with the torch until finally the giant torch of the Fruitlympics was lit with the blessings of the FruitLords!

Just a quick reminder due to your interest in a nether reset, we are planning on doing a nether reset on Friday 19th July! Stay tuned for more info, and start clearing any items you want to save in these areas now as everything will be lost.

Our Staff Squad is currently on the hunt for Event-Coordinators, Builders and Moderators! So if you’re interested in applying… follow this link! https://www.fruitservers.net/staff

Events

This week’s events were very intense!

First on Wednesday we had the griefing Spleef! Our strong spleefing winners this time are Almighty_Dongers, zeldagod1352, Kuote, _Eryn, YigitSancakk, klqrI, xCurlyFry and Crimpy!

For Friday we did not have a normal event however we had the End Reset! I hope you all had fun having a fight with the final boss and found an elytra for yourself from the end cities!

We have also started a forum thread for event suggestions! Do you have any awesome event ideas we can use on the server? Do you think we could run a certain event differently? Please let us know!

We run events every Wednesday and Friday night at 8pm AEDST but also run pop up events throughout the week so keep your eye out for those!

Selfie of the week

“Family portrait of your Neighborhood E-Family” with EnchantedLover!

Marriages

Skyblock

It’s finally time! Fruitlympics is here! Here are last week’s updates, let’s make next week’s just as great!

Fruitlympics

Fruitlympics is an annual event where our lovely servers challenge each other in a week of fast-paced events. You can check the forums for the schedules if you’re interested in joining us. It’s not too late to sign up, just click here! Skyblock has a very strong team this year and we’re excited to, hopefully, take home the trophy!

Staff Updates

No staff updates this week! :(

Maybe you could change that! We’re always looking for new staff to join our team! If you feel like you have what it takes to join our Skyblock staff team apply at https://www.fruitservers.net/staff

Events

This week, we started with Bingo, as per usual. The competition was tough this week, but we managed to see a few new faces win prizes. Congratulations to telibboy, PotatoJacket, Breusa, Bayleecraft, Mrcupcake_550, Vanishedude, and Euphoriella.

Next up, we had a few good rounds of Corners. Congratulations to our best and luckiest dancers, Vanishedude, makeitup, and AnAlphaLonzy. Good work, guys!

And last, but certainly not least, we had King of the Hill! As tempting as those initial whacks are, we appreciate everyone taking the time to stop and listen to broadcast instructions. Our winners this week were DeflatedDolphin, Breusa, Fireman6000, Cytoke, Bellair08, _Clout_9, and tom_meme.

You can win events for cool prizes and the chance to win the coveted event tokens! These tokens can be used to purchase limited edition items at /warp token in-game. For our event schedule, visit https://www.fruitservers.net/events

Marriages

Selfie of the Week

“Riding the tamed skelli horse after my snowman killed its skelli rider...Awesome!!!” Congratulations Nureem!

Remember! If you would like a chance to win an event token, post your selfies in selfie of the week!

Prison

This week we hosted 2 events on Tuesday!

The first game we had was Mob Arena! The amazing winners to win are Renaeissance, ExpressoYourself, Bayleecraft and Alu_umi!

The second game held was spleef! The epic spleefers this week are Netzaltali, Bayleecraft, Mar00271, SkellyBG, Spleggeti and Renaeissance!

To finish it off big congratulations to the MVPs of the Night! Bayleecraft and Renaeissance!

Feel free to join us next week for even more fun!

Once again we hold our weekly event night on Tuesdays at 8pm!

Build Competition

Well well well, it has been awhile but you have definitely been asking for its return, this month we are bringing back the build competition!! This month the theme is as colossal as the other events happening on the server, we are asking for you to build a statue!!! As per usual, there are some rules you have to follow so please keep them in mind as you build your masterpieces.

For more information on this month’s build comp and to submit your entry, please check out this forum post !

Competition Rules

• The build must be a Maximum of a 60 (length) x 60 (width) x 150 (height) blocks. To stay within this boundary, we suggest creating a border to work within.
• The build must contain something built into a statue form!
• Build must be completed by July 30th 8pm AEDST.
• You must work alone, if you do not you will be disqualified.
• All entries must be built on the creative server.
• As cool as pixel art is, this isn’t the place for it.
• Don’t copy another person’s work, whether it be from inside or outside of the server. BE ORIGINAL!
• We need at LEAST 5 people to participate to hand out prizes, so spread the word!
• This build needs to have been started and completed within the month of July.
• Completed entries that don't earn a prize will net the builder a token on their server of choice, the winner will also have their build displayed near the creative servers spawn.

If you have suggestions for themes for future build competitions, please let us know in this forum thread. (https://www.fruitservers.net/forum/m/24982408/viewthread/32747290-build-competition-expression-intereststheme-ideas/post/137668583#p137668583)

• Thank you everyone for taking your time to read this. We'll see you all next week kuro_shibainu, MrRandom287 & Ravioli