Hey Fruitsters! Welcome back to another week's news! We have many exciting things to go over today so please relax and take in the good read.

Survival has reset - as always this brings a substantial amount of players back to the server and lag.

I want to make it quite clear, there is nothing more than we can do to improve the server performance.

There are however, a lot of things that you as a player can do to improve the server performance. These include:

- Not teleporting around the map as frequently

- Not relogging to fix chunks that aren't loading

- Not doing stuff with redstone

- Not having large villager farms

You can improve the server render distance by using Optifine. This will retain the chunks loaded with your client. You can download Optifine for 1.16.1 here: https://optifine.net/downloads

Alternatively, Skyblock, Prison and Pixelmon are all lag free :)

Pixelmon

Do you want to pay your respects to that poor player who got destroyed by Joey's Rattata? You can now do so with  /f <playername>

We have now fixed an exploit that allowed item frame protection to be bypassed!

Fancy new notification plugin - you can now see when shinies appear! The chat is also notified when you destroy the poor souls...

Have an idea for a custom advancement?  Suggest them HERE

★Survival

No staff updates this week.

★Skyblock

No staff updates this week.

★Prison

No staff updates this week.

★Pixelmon

Please welcome to the builder team Siliconne!! As well as Timelesskings and Lifeofblu both stepping it up into mod! Congrats guys!

We are always on the hunt for new staff members for our moderating, event coordinator or builder teams, if you think you have something to offer why not put in an application via the website by clicking HERE

Join us every night at 8pm AEST for our nightly events!

Check out this week's calendar for what games we will be playing.

Congratulations to all this week's winners.

Come along to events and you could win yourself keys or tokens!

Fruity Marriages

Wedding bells are ringing for this week’s happy couples!

Want to marry that special someone?  Contact a staff member

and they can help you on your way to wedded bliss.

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Selfie of the Week

We love to see what you get up to during the week, so make sure you post a selfie to the forum thread before Sunday night to be in the running for a token.  When you post your selfie be sure to mention which server you took the selfie on, and write a caption for it also.

Post your selfies HERE

★Survival

★Skyblock

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Build Competition

The theme for August’s build competition will be Outer Space and Astrology!

This build comp is a big one! But we can always count on you guys to produce great builds. There is so much you can do with this theme, we can not wait to see what interstellar builds you submit! Go give it a crack! You never know what you are capable of until you try!

Competition Rules

• The build is limited to 100x100 in size, we'd suggest marking out these dimensions beforehand. There is no height limit.

• The build must follow the theme - Pixelmon Towns/Settlements!

• The build must be completed by 11:59pm 30th July, 2020 (AEST)

• You must work alone, you will be disqualified if others help you.

• 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, BE ORIGINAL!

Entry and Prize Structure

A forum thread will be made where you can submit your entries as well as find out what the prize structure will be. To make things easier for everyone, please only submit your entry on the prize structure thread. Lazy attempts will receive a substantially smaller prize, you have been warned! Remember - 15 quality entries and the prizes will increase!

We can't wait to see what you guys do with your amazing talents!

Hope everyone enjoyed this week's great read of news, we look forward to catching up with you next week! Have a great week everyone and stay safe!

~ Spookygaly, Bayleecraft and condalicious :D