Minecraft 1.9:

Minecraft 1.9,  the "Combat Update". As of today, February 28th, 2016, version 1.9 has been released. The whole combat system has been overhauled. For example, speeds at which you can attack something, meaning spam clicking does less damage than timed hits. Also a bunch of new items have been added. Here is a list of a few: Chorus Fruit, End Rod, End Stone Brick, Grass Paths, Beets, Dragon's Breath, new Potions, different Arrows, Shields, Boat Updates, End Crystal, and Elytra (Wings). These things will be added to the server as soon as a protocol hack comes out and or Spigot supports the new items.

Exceptions:

The server is expected to update a day after of the release, March 1st. As in each Minecraft update, the items from the new update will not be added on the first day of 1.9 being released. We expect the items to be added shortly after 1-2 weeks of the update because of plugin support and Spigot's Protocol Hacks. New things will be added to the server, as expected, but it will take sometime testing the plugins and such.

Server Events:

New server events will be done with this new update. For example, more PvP events: tournaments, 1v1's, etc... With more events occurring it will become harder for me to handle the server, the events, and the community. So I will be added a new staff rank to handle each of the different aspect of the server. For example a community manger will be added to directly talk and talk suggestions from the community and a Event Manger to run all events. We also to make the events more OP than they already due to high demand.

Server Upgrades:

The server will be going through many updates over the next few weeks because of how fast the community is growing. We expect to grow our playerbase by two times over the next month. So prepare for loads of updates and more interaction in the community. The server will also go through back end upgrades: hardware upgrades, database optimization, plugin recodes, etc... As new updates come, bugs are expected. As always, we ask you to please report bugs as it will make your experience better.

Staff Expectations:

As the server grows, we need more staff. So the current staff will likely be promoted as well as community members will be taken into staff. When writing your staff applications, please take the time in writing them. If you do not, we will deny you and not let you reapply for staff. We take this part of the server very seriously and like to have little to no errors.

PvP:

Last thing before I let you go, we are trying to implement a better PvP system. New things like PvP crates will be added. Also new plugins will be added to support the PvP system. Pixelcade will go through a combat update as did Minecraft went through a combat update.

Look forward to more posts on this.

Thanks for reading,

Unknowncall