GamerSafer Update Logs

2024

GamerSafer Acquisition (February 27th, 2024)

• Minehut acquired by GamerSafer, owners of FindMCServer, from Super League.

Main article: Super League Update Logs

• stifflered becomes Product Manager of Minehut under GamerSafer.
• Creation of the GamerSafer channel on Discord.

Abandoned Server Deletion (May 3rd, 2024)

• On May 30th, 2024, servers not started in over a year will be permanently deleted.
• Server names of these servers will also be released to players.
• Owners of abandoned servers emailed to remind them to keep their server.
• Owners of abandoned servers have the option to keep their server or download its files.

New Discord Roles & Server Name Cleanup (May 15th, 2024)

• New Pingable Roles — To stay up to date with Minehut changes & events.
• Server Name Cleanup — Cleaning up inappropriate server names.

Server Name Reservations (June 26th, 2024)

• Over 3 million abandoned server names released to the public.
• Increased the hardware capacity of paid servers by 20% to reduce server queues.
• Avatar Items renamed to Cosmetics in the top menu.
• Free servers can now download multiple files.
• Website Accounts have now been fully migrated to the new login system.
• Several bugs related to login confirmation emails fixed.

A New Lobby & More! (July 3rd, 2024)

In-Game Experience:

• Introduced a brand new lobby, the Construction Lobby.
• Introduced a fully refreshed compass menu.
• A brand new Control Center menu for managing your servers, friends, tags, cosmetics, and settings.
• Random join portal returns to the Minehut lobby.
• 1.8 PvP category added to server categories for a test period.
• All non-ranked players now get click-to-join feature on /ad.
• Vote reward announcements now show a click-to-vote prompt when hovered over.
• Added some helpful commands like /help, /support, /ranks, /tags, etc.
• Tablist is now ordered based on rank.
• In-game server creation time has been cut in half and onboarding is much easier with a new menu.

Website Experience:

• The file manager now displays the size of folders.
• There is now a dashboard warning for server owners using more than 85% of their server storage.
• Improved the flow for changing your server version to decrease errors some users experience.
• Upgrading and managing your server plan is much easier.
• 1.21 Experimental can be selected (it is unstable and backups are recommended)
• Server categories are now ordered alphabetically.
• Wide variety of bugs fixed and other backend adjustments to improve performance across Minehut.

New Website & In-Game Changes (July 12th, 2024)

Minehut Wiki:

• Launched the Minehut Wiki with work done by the moderators.

Website Changes:

• Removed the automatic backup option when changing a server’s version to avoid confusion.
• Added instructions on how to make a backup when changing a server’s version to avoid confusion.
• Lots of changes to upgrade and downgrade messages to educate players on their server plans.
• Credit purchasing page has “Manage Your Subscriptions” at the top for easy access.
• Credit purchasing page shows the total number of credits needed each month to cover your paid server plans & ranks.
• All credit subscriptions and server plan subscriptions consolidated in one place to avoid confusion.
• Changing a server plan now has a note in the popup telling you if you have an active credit subscription to cover your paid plan each month.
• Server plan auto-renew toggle removed to reduce confusion.(Servers with auto-renew already on will stay on until they toggle it off)
• Server plans now clearly explain that they will use credits every month, unless the plan is downgraded to free, to reduce confusion.
• Server plan labels changed in plan change dropdown to be more clear on what they mean.
• New “Upgrade” menu item added to the server management view so it is not hard to find.
• When clicking “Upgrade”, the current plan you have on that server is highlighted so you don’t have to remember what plan you already have.
• Email notifications updated to reduce confusion.
• Website home page is fixed.

In-Game Changes:

• Paper 1.21 EXPERIMENTAL updated to build 62 (Backups still recommended)
• The command /find now shows player tags.
• Lobbies updated to 1.20.4. (Joinable on any version through ViaVersion)
• Geyser updated to 1.21.20. (Affects Bedrock players)
• More typos fixed and minor changes in the menus.
• Players can no longer break boats in the lobby.
• A bug relating to cosmetic auras was fixed.
• Trimmed the overworld outside of the actual lobby.
• Chat toast popup when switching servers removed.

1.21 Tricky Trials Update (July 22nd, 2024)

• Paper 1.21 has been added as a server version.

Olympics Event & More (July 26th, 2024)

In-Game Changes:

• New infinite parkour course.
• New torch relay event, with a brand new tag called the Torch Bearer tag.
• New fun pressure plates around the lobby.
• Invisible players now properly have invisible cosmetics.
• Players can see how many ads they have left in the Control Center menu.
• Favoriting and Unfavoriting servers in the menu has a sound effect and chat message confirmation.
• Retired tag in game has had its description fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused muting lobby chat and ads rarely.
• Fixed a couple bugs causing auras and leashed cosmetics to not work consistently.
• Fixed the Tags book going to the wrong menu on the Back option.
• PvP and 1.8 PvP Category icons adjusted.

Website Changes:

• You can now select 1.21 for your server.
• When creating a new world on your server, the name can no longer be blank.
• SFTP credentials area has been rebuilt to be easier to use.
• Upgrading and Downgrading plans is much easier to do with a better step-by-step process.
• Servers with plans that are scheduled to downgrade now show the date the current plan expires.
• Fixed some issues relating to credit and subscription purchases.
• Faster startup time of 1.21 servers with caching improvements.

August Update Batch (August 23rd, 2024)

In-Game Changes:

• New /wiki command
• Scoreboard removed numbers
• Cosmetics updated to support 1.21 players
• Falling off the parkour now teleports you right to the start so you can jump back in faster
• New warnings feature added for our moderators to ping rule-breakers before a mute/ban
• Servers created in-game, default randomly generated name, with 0 joins (even by the owner), no activity in more than 15 days, free plan, and not on a proxy will occasionally be purged
• The factory workers have lobbied to get new scaffolding added around the place so you all can get to the upper levels

Website Changes:

• The "Create Server" popup is improved to allow server owners to select version and server type before creation
• New quick links added to the server settings card (Contact Support, GS Defender, and Minehut Servers Discord)
• File Manager has improved performance and reduced risk of OOM crashes
• File Manager now estimates the size of very large folders with many files instead of perfectly calculating the size
• An error message now appears if the server is not fully started yet in the file manager
• Sub-users are nearly ready
• Clicking the "Change Proxy" option on a server shows more helpful information
• Choosing "New Proxy" in the dropdown now shows a more helpful modal instead of redirecting to the server plans upgrade page (which was confusing)
• Server list dashboard now replaces the "Change Proxy" text with the applicable proxy name if a server is already connected to one
• Improved server downloads and speed on startup
• Optimized backups system and added better handling of errors
• Note: Our updated support hours are Mon - Fri 8am to 8pm EST

Sub-Users are here! (August 29th, 2024)

• Sub-users finally released on Minehut, after 4 years of waiting by the community.
• Sub-users initially rolled out to paid server plans only while it was being improved.
• New cosmetics released.
• Old cosmetics brought back to the Minehut Cosmetics store.
• Boops counter added to the scoreboard.
• All servers still pending deletion finally deleted.
• Networking adjustments to help external server connections.