January Changelog | Jan 31, 2025
The first month of the new year is always a little more quiet in the Minecraft scene, and while Minehut itself has actually picked up activity recently, we decided to keep our focus this January on solidifying our network and services. Bug fixes, stability enhancements, performance improvements, and more have been on our mind, and it sets us up for an amazing future.
Focusing on solidifying Minehut doesn't mean we didn't add in some cool new features you can see for yourself, though! Check out the full list of changes:
Website
- Extended: Boosts are now 1 hour per day per Verified player until March 1st
- Updated to Paper 1.21.4 stable for servers to select
- Server Owners can now require their sub-users to have 2FA enabled
- Sub-user counts and access now properly updates on server plan change
- Purchasing Ranks for an invalid username no longer deducts credits
- My Servers list now remembers when you open or close the dropdowns and other minor visual edits
- Server Settings page minor visual edits and cleanup
- Several Server Icons replaced to not be invisible or break the in-game server GUI
- Add-ons tab now shows a warning at the top of the page about broken functionality
- File Manager and Custom Server Plan settings now with more helpful descriptions
- Improved Verified Accounts setup to fix several bugs and speed issues
- Patched the weird website bugginess preventing user interactions (permanent fix incoming)
- Server Creation rate-limit no longer triggered for normal server creation behavior
- Fixed a Velocity TOML error preventing proxy startups
- Fixed a Geyser OOM crash issue
- Say hello to our two new Discord bots: Minehut Bot and Defender Bot 👋
In-Game
- Earn a bonus 25 credits with every Cosmetic purchase!
- Major Friends system overhaul with various improvements
- Latest News popup when you rejoin and there are updates to know about
- Cosmetic Backpacks and Wings fixed positioning
- Redesigned Lobby tablist
- Reduced the total number of lobbies from 18 to 9
- Deleted servers no longer show in scoreboard
- Page Number in the server list GUI now properly updates
- Autograph Booth no longer displays chat ads (like the No Ad Zone)
- Improved error handling when joining a server that's in-queue
- Servers are now distributed more evenly across available nodes to balance resource usage
We've also spent a lot of time over January focusing on security, stability, DDoS protection, and monitoring tools so that we can improve on the services we provide to all of you even more into the future. For outages, network disruptions, and other negative performance incidences we are continuing to build out better reporting, response, and documentation procedures to help prevent these issues in the future. We also have new disaster-response and lock-down tools on hand that will help us quickly take action in the event that other incidences occur. While these updates may not impact you directly in the game or on the website, they do make Minehut more stable and solid for the future!
In February, we'll continue our work improving the networking and backend infrastructure, while also releasing a fun new competitive minigame, a completely new lobby, and a few new perks for Verified Accounts to unlock. Stay tuned!