We've decided to change it. A separate preload server will be open very soon. There is nothing to do once you finish loading as you will be stuck on the loading screen.
The new opening time is:
December 31st at 4:30PM EST / 9:30PM GMT
Merry Christmas everybody! Hope everyone got some kick ass presents this year.
For those who look forward to the annual new years event, we've got something great in store for you guys! As some of you already know, to spare the community from having to experience pirate adventure New Years for a 3rd year in a row (sorry Queuenard), I offered to hand him the updated version of the 2018 New Years build. I know this build has had both strong positive and negative opinions,
but a lot of things have changed:- Build now contains a large central gathering area. (In front of the Madman Building)
- Handful of new interiors to explore. (Courtesy of Jam Jar who has been working on it since 2018)
Spawn area is no longer on the airship, players will spawn
around the gathering area.- Several new pirate-adventure-esque interactions
- Several outdated jokes replaced (I hope we got them all 🙄)
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Side note: some have stayed for "historical archival purposes" (will not go into details)
- Train track that goes around the build (just like in the previous years)
- Clock has been moved from the airship docking entrance to the Madman building.
- Several new unique achievements and chest locations.
Even though some of you might have already played on this map before, you'll see that we made a lot of changes that will offer a fresh experience. And for those who haven't seen it, you're in for a surprise (Though, it also has been over 7 years since anybody has seen it.) And for those who might remember us promising to release it seven years ago, I'll answer some questions for you
What happened to the build?In 2017 when we started this build, most of the project was built by kobewarrior with help by Jam Jar. The project started pretty late, a lot of buildings went unfinished and some of the events we had never made it into the final project. (One of the events we wanted to do was a Takeshis Castle/MXC style obby minigame) Kobewarrior unfortunately left blockland shortly after 2018 leaving the project to Jam Jar to finish the build. Jam worked really hard adding a lot of interiors to buildings and even revamping some of the old ones. Unfortunately the VPS Company that Jam had hosted the server on shut down and a lot of the progress he made on the build was completely lost. He did have a back up, though a not very recent one, that I gave to Q to use and we've been working on it since.
Will it finally be released?I can't answer this one unfortunately. We've only had about a week to polish the already unfinished version of this map. I was at first very hesitant to add the changes that was most necessary to Queuenard because I thought a giant gathering area would go against the design philosophy we had with our cramped city street aesthetic. After putting the work into it though it has most definitely grown on me and I think the gathering area compliments the build nicely without taking away the vision me and my friends initially had for the project in 2018.
So, is it finally finished?Yes.. Uh I mean, no. Wait, I-
Look, from the sweat my friends poured on this project in 2017 to the hours of work Jam Jar put in between then and now, and the crunch and richard-aroundry I did in the past week, (Along with the help of Patyos and Rose the Florian. Thanks guys.) You guys are gonna have a great time.
Who's hosting this? Queuenard
Why are you doing this?I don't care if Blockland truly is dead, I'm not done with it yet. I don't think I will be for a while. I truly enjoy making stuff for this game. I still have Blockland projects I have on the back burner that I want to share with the community. One being a video commemorating all the wonderful people that played this game for the past 20 years, (which I will make a thread on soon because I need YOUR blockland videos and screenshots, but more on that another time) Maybe I'll finally host Floating City again in 2025. Who knows.
I love this game. All the fun, laughter, good times, bad times, heart breaks, friendships, nothing even comes close to it. I'm doing this for you guys. Love y'all, Merry Christmas. See y'all at New Years 😉
