Smoother Server, a Sharper Discord Bot & Builders Wanted

We're not slowing down! This update makes the server run smoother, fixes a few things you reported and gives our Discord bot a fresh look. And we need your help building something new. 🧱

In this update:

• 🗳️ There's still time to vote for our next server
• 🧱 Builders wanted: help create our new lobby
• 🏅 Survival milestones in chat
• ⚡ A smoother server with fewer lag spikes
• 🌌 Safer End arrivals, for real this time
• 💬 A cleaner, reworked Discord
• 🤖 A sharper Discord bot
• 🏆 Voting Event: top 3 voters win a reward
• 🙋 Staff & Content Creator applications are open

🗳️ Still Time to Vote: Our Next Server

Haven't voted yet? The poll for our next server is still open. It's the same poll as in our earlier updates, so if you already voted there, your vote is already counted. You can still change it here.

• 💀 Semi Hardcore: a 2-week ban when you die instead of a permanent one, full custom generation, and a ton of extra custom features
• ☠️ Extreme Hardcore: no passive health regeneration and permanent death, with a revival system to bring someone back

🧱 Builders Wanted: Our New Lobby

Every player passes through the Lobby before they join the server, and we want it to be something special. We're looking for builders to help create a brand-new main lobby.

The plan:

• 🏝️ Floating islands over the void, connected by paths and bridges
• 🌀 Two portals: one for One Life Hardcore SMP and one for our next server (Semi or Extreme Hardcore)
• 💎 A shop area that shows what every rank and perk does
• 🎯 Room for leaderboards, info boards and maybe even a parkour

Good at building and want your work to be the first thing every player sees? Open a ticket under Other, title it Builder Application, and show us some of your builds (screenshots or a world download are perfect).

🏅 Survival Milestones

Staying alive on One Life is an achievement, so now the whole server gets to see it. When you've survived 25 hours, 50 hours, 100 hours and then every 50 hours after that (150, 200, 250…), everyone gets a message in chat.

• ⏳ It counts your playtime, which on One Life is the time you've been alive
• 🎉 You'll hear a little sound when you reach one
• 🌟 Already past a milestone? You'll be announced at your next one

⚡ A Smoother Server

With more of you online, the server was getting close to its limit and lag spikes started to creep in. We've tuned how the world runs:

• 🐟 Fish, squids, bats and axolotls are spawn-checked a lot less often. You'll see just as many, the server just wastes less time on it
• 🗺️ The area around you that's "active" (mobs, crops, farms) is now 8 chunks instead of 10. You still see just as far, but farms more than 8 chunks away from you pause until you come closer
• 🐞 Our own plugins were checked as well: none of them were causing the lag

💡 Tip: big villager trading halls are one of the heaviest things on any server. Keep them compact!

🌌 Safer End Arrivals

Some of you still landed on the obsidian platform when entering the End. That happened when other players were already near the main island: the random spots near them were skipped, and in the end it gave up and used the platform. Now it always picks a random spot, preferring the one furthest away from other players, so nobody can camp the platform anymore.

💬 A Cleaner Discord

Our Discord got a full rework, so it's easier to find your way around:

• 🗂️ Every channel is sorted into clear categories with a matching look, from server info at the top to the community chat below it
• 📝 A new #wiki-updates channel shows what's happening on the [One Life Wiki](/wiki): new pages, edits, comments and new death pages
• 🎮 The server chat channel now also shows tips, survival milestones, votes and restart warnings from the game
• 📚 The forum channels have closed. Server ideas, memorials, guides and stories now live on the Wiki, where they're easy to find and don't depend on Discord

⚠️ 24 hours left: the last forum channel, #player-memorials, will be removed in 24 hours. Have anything in there you want to keep? Back it up now, or move your memorial to the [Player Memorial](/wiki/c/player-memorial) page on the Wiki.

🤖 A Sharper Discord Bot

• 📊 New: /stats in Discord, just like in-game. Start typing and it suggests players and every stat:
• /stats player: IkBrian: someone's main stats
• /stats player: IkBrian stat: players_killed: one stat
• /stats player: all stat: players_killed: the leaderboard (add page for more)
• 📢 Server messages now show up in the Discord chat too: tips, survival milestones, votes and restart warnings
• 🔗 Sharing your stats in-game with [Share] posts them to Discord again
• 👥 playerlist (and /playerlist) got a brand-new image in the same style as the in-game tab list: everyone's rank tag or custom tag in their own colours, plus a ping that's green, yellow or red
• ⚔️ [item] cards now show item stats the same way as in-game: "Found by … · date" and "Flight time » 7h 13m"
• 🎒 [inv] now shows your actual XP level, instead of a total of all enchantment levels
• 🖼️ [item], [inv] and [enderchest] now look just like the game: your inventory with your own skin next to your armor, item names in their rarity colour, and shulker boxes show what is inside, with a menu to inspect every item
• 💀 Death posts now count your real advancements. Before, every recipe you unlocked was counted too, which is why some of you had over 200
• 📱 Death records of Bedrock players are now saved properly, so their death info is still there for appeals after a restart

🏆 Voting Event

This month, Vynish is hosting a special Voting Event!

• 🥇 The top 3 voters on One Life Hardcore SMP get a special in-game reward from Vynish
• 🗳️ Vote on every site with /vote in-game, every day you can
• 📊 Keep an eye on the Votes leaderboard in /stats to see if you're in the top 3

Every vote also helps the server get discovered, so thank you! 💙

🙋 We're Looking for Staff & Content Creators

Want to help the team? Staff applications and Content Creator applications are now open.

• 🛡️ Staff: help keep the server fair and friendly, and help players when they need it
• 🎥 Content Creators: make videos or streams on One Life Hardcore and grow with the server

Apply on the website, it only takes a few minutes:

As always, if something looks off, let us know on Discord or open a ticket. 💙