As you should all know by now, Minecraft Java Edition has been updated to version 1.20! Known as the Trails & Tales update, we get some pretty cool new additions:

• Hanging signs
• Bamboo wood
• a Raft
• Chiselled bookshelves
• Suspicious sand
• the Cherry blossom biome
• Pots & archaeology
• The camel and the sniffer
• plus the armour trims!

Click the image to check out Mojang’s post on it!

It’s all very exciting, and we’re really looking forward to being able to play it in the servers, but you’ll need to be a little more patient. While it’s released to the general public it takes a while for us to get it. Here’s what has to happen before we get it. We have to wait for our server versions to be updated, plus a bunch of other stuff, and it has to be in a particular order.

1. General release to Vanilla
2. Bukkit developers update Bukkit with 1.20. Bukkit is the program that lets us use the extra plugins.
3. Once it’s stable (a few weeks at least) it goes to Spigot, a better version of Bukkit. Spigot developers update Spigot with 1.20.
4. Once Spigot is stable (more time again), it goes to Paper, an even better version of Spigot. Same thing…
5. At the same time, all the Spigot plugin developerss get their plugins updated and compatible with 1.20. Some do this, some don’t need to.
6. We have to wait until at least our major plugins work before doing anything.
7. While all that is happening, the Builder team and the mod team are busy preparing the 120Survival spawn area for players.
8. Once the required plugins are sorted, then I can update the server.
9. So the server is updated! Hooray! I spin up 120Survival and most likely remove everyone from the whitelist except me so I can preload the new overworld and nether, set up the required permissions and the worldborders. The preloads are very important as it means a much better performance for everyone. The hardest thing for a server to do is generate land as we explore. The preload basically does that all at once.
10. Once we’ve tested and sorted everything out with that world, then the whitelist goes back and we do a little more testing on alternate accounts.
11. Once that’s tested and seems to be ok then I fix the gates on the Ship and after some final tests, we’re good to go.

In amongst all that is a lot of testing, long hours and responding to the relentless excitement from you lot of “JOHN WHEN IS IT GONNA BE READY!?” It’s all good, but as I’ll say now, go easy on us. I want to play on 120Survival as much as you all do. It just takes a LOT of time and a LOT of work to get there.

We’re working hard on it, but we don’t have a date of when it will be ready. You just have to be patient.