ECHELON UPDATES

Echelon Update 5.0 (Echevents)

Absolutely massive update for content rich features! While this update may seem to not change much in the main survival world, this update does introduce some events! Its a event themed update and as a result I have tentatively named this update

Echevents

A combination of Echelon and Events cause I'm just sooooo creative Right? No need to further introduction, lets get into it!

General Changes and Fixes

Back-end

• Updated the discord calls to be less egregious.
• Changes to the xray detection

Commands

• Fixed "mounting still overrides stored /back location"
• Changed chat dividers to be off by default, toggled on with /toggle.
• Added the option to type /afk to instantly set yourself AFK like waiting does.

Echeload

• Fixed Echeloads counting as a player when sleeping when placed and increased their render to just be like you are standing in that spot so its no longer tied to a single chunk for render to prevent accidental lag farms.
• Fixed a issue allowing Echeloads to gain advancements

NPCs

• Echelite Trader has been moved near the wheat to make room for the Echelon Market NPC
• Changed the Echelite Trader to have a rotation of the items he wants instead of all the items you can sell at all times. (https://discord.com/channels/1439836051504889916/1464359379376672798/1471707452863942797)
• Upgraded the head you purchase from the Echelite Trader to instead be named after you and have your start date and general stats in the description of the head.

Echelite Perks

• Added the option to fully turn off the mob decapitator perk

Advancements

• Added a new achievement to collect all mob heads for 10,000 Echelites

Misc

• Fixed "allay's cant see the item they ar looking for if that items is hidden inside of a group."
• Made leaves from trees decay basically instantly
• Made daytime 30 minutes instead of the default 10 minutes
• Updated the sleeping to reset your phantoms if you were the one to sleep.
• Changed the way you gain Echelites from breaking blocks to 25% instead of prior 50% and make the option to gain them by placing blocks which is 50%.
• Fixed some issues that preventing the Speed 1 from path blocks.
• Added the option to see other teams from the /teams command.
• Changed book text at spawn to "To start just visit the Wilderness NPC on your Right!"
• Added /sit so you can sit down

AI Voice acting

We all can agree that AI can be helpful but it can also be slop. We don't want to make AI a core concept of the game, we just want to utilize this to better provide immersion or even support to you as you play the game. I have added some AI voice acting into the server.

Introduction

When you join the server for the first time, you will be greeted with a AI voice that will detail quickly what the server is about and point you toward the /help command and the /suggest and /bug commands. You can hear the audio below;

Echelon Info

All of the text written in the book will now have a AI voice backing it so you can not only read the information but hear it as well;

Disclaimer

All AI voices here will be optional with a /toggle which will prevent any texture pack music files from playing if you would like to not hear them.

The Great Harvest

As the first in the Events, this amazing feature will allow you to farm to your hearts desires. To begin talk to the Echevent NPC at /spawn!

Click the first option for The Great Harvest

The Great Harvest NPC

When you spawn into the world the very first NPC you see called The Great Harvest will be your absolute go-to when playing. From here you can do a multitude of different things.

Helpful Messages; Event Tools: https://discord.com/channels/1439836051504889916/1464359379376672798/1469414321506353173 Event Perks: https://discord.com/channels/1439836051504889916/1464359379376672798/1469412100073062522

Buying Building Blocks

You may want to decorate or even build a larger farm than you need to. I have provided the materials to be able to do so within this show being;

• Oak Logs
• Cobble Stone
• Iron Ingots
• Dirt

All building blocks will cost Farmers Coins which are obtained during the event.

Buy Harvest Perks

As a rather pivotal point of The Great Harvest, you have the option to buy a massive amount of perks to increase your output of Wheat. The list and cost and description of each perk is;

• Better Harvest
• 750 Farmers Coins
• Allows you to Right click harvest your fully grown Wheat with your Hoe.
• Even Better Harvest
• 1,000 Farmers Coins
• Allows you to Right click harvest your fully grown Wheat within a 3x3 area with your Hoe
• Better Bonemealing
• 750 Farmers Coins
• Grows wheat to full in just one click
• Even Better Bonemealing
• 1,000 Farmers Coins
• Grown wheat to full in just one click within a 3x3 area.
• Time Traveler
• Starting at 100 Farmers Coins increasing per purchase up to 1,000 levels.
• Speeds up tick speed so your wheat can grow faster with each level.
• Better Hoe
• 250 Farmers Coins
• Tills a 3x3 area
• Better Seed
• 250 Farmers Coins
• Plants in a 3x3 area
• Light Footed
• 500 Farmers Coins
• Prevents crop trampling
• I am speed
• 500 Farmers Coins
• Grants Speed 1
• I am the Flash
• 1,000 Farmers Coins
• Grants Speed 2
• Condensed Wheat
• 2,000 Farmers Coins
• Converts 8 wheat laying on the ground to a Haybale instead.
• Farmer Villager
• 1,000 Farmers Coins
• Speedy Villager that runs around harvesting your wheat quickly.
• Thor's Hoe
• 5,000 Farmers Coins
• Grants flight while holding the Hoe

Harvest Guide

This just basically has all the general information regarding the perks that you can purchase and icons in the NPC.

Sell your Produce

Sell either your wheat or haybales for a profit!

• Wheat
• 16 Farmers Coins
• Haybales
• 144 Farmers Coins

Prestiging your world

You can prestige each world to receive some rewards and increase the amount of Farmers Tokens in the future that you can receive. Lets talk about the rewards;

• Echevent Token
• Used with the Echevent NPC to purchase perks and other goodies. Detailed within the Echevent NPC post below.
• Echelites
• Scaling based on how high in prestige you are. This gives 2,500 Echelites for the first prestige.
• multiplier for Farmers Coins
• Each prestige increases the multiplier by one. At prestige 1 you receive 2 Coins per harvest instead.

Downsides?

• Resets current world completely
• Resets entire inventory
• Resets perks purchased

Full Progress Reset

This is if you prestiged and realized you want to go back down or if you have already reached prestige 10 and want to reset all your progress to go back through to receive more Echevent Tokens per prestige instead of playing the other events!

How to play?

Its very simple. The first step is to plant! How do you do that you may ask? Heres how;

• Event Hoe
• Use this Hoe to infinitely till any land and use your perks detailed above for a easier time.

• Event Seeds
• Never worry about not having enough seeds with this event tool!

• Event Water Bucket
• Never run out of water with this guy!

• Event Bonemeal
• Can't be waiting for growing forever!

• Event Shovel
• Need to break some blocks to place the water in? No worries there.

• Event Empty Bucket
• Oh no! Placed water and need to remove it? Got you covered.

• Event Lead
• Hate where the NPC is and want to move it? Right click the NPC while holding the lead and move them around!

Now that you understand what all the tools do, start your event by planting some seeds and growing them! As you harvest the wheat you will see at the bottom of the screen that you have earned some Farmers Coins. This is the currency we talked about before with buying the perks!

See your basic stats within the event by checking the custom noticeboard for this event like in the main world

Echevents Rewards

We talking about this guy again!

When you click on him you will see the diamond which will provide you the shop to purchase miscellaneous rewards which will be themed based on the events we currently have as well as some big packs!

• Better Harvest
• Allows you to Right click harvest any crop while in the main survival world
• Also unlocks this in the event by default
• Bigger Echelite Pack
• Great reward at a great risk. With a high span from 1,000 to 50,000 Echelites per open!
• Echelar Pack
• Straight option to earn Echelars past the donation/suggestions methods.

More coming soon!

Gopher!

This is basically a Bounty system which places a task to fetch a certain item. You have a time limit and once you have obtained that item in your inventory, you will receive Gopher points. Each item will have its own value and time frame to achieve it. You can endlessly get tasks after you either complete the current or it expires. A list of all the items will not be posted here as that will be something you all explore as you play!

How to start?

1.) Visit the Echevents NPC at /spawn 2.) Click the Gopher Icon (Second on the NPC) 3.) Click Get a task 4.) Look at the top of your screen and see the item to get and the time remaining 5.) Find that item and harvest it into your inventory to receive points.

*Disclaimer* This will consume the item once in your inventory!

Icon to get your task

Indication of what block to get and the time remaining

Pop up of the item fetched and rewarded

Gopher Shop

• You can re-roll tasks with 25 Gopher Points and purchase a reduction to this cost within the Gopher Shop
• Need more time? Purchase the double time for 100 Gopher Points in the Gopher Shop
• Unlock rare tasks within the Gopher Shop
• Purchase the Echevent Token for 5,000 Gopher Points

/RTP

Similar to other servers, I have added the option to issue the command /RTP which allows you to teleport to any random place within a 1,000 to -1,000 radius for free like the Wilderness Teleport does.

This comes with added options to teleport even further out up to 1,000,000 to -1,000,000 blocks away. As the server allows for endless exploring to the native world border, we should allow ways for newish players to explore further out (but at a Echelite cost.) The amount in cost is 100 Echelites per 1,000 blocks. For example;

• 10,000 Blocks would cost 1,000 Echelites.
• 1,000,000 Blocks would cost 1,000,000 Echelites.

Echelite Trader (Notice)

This is a rather large part of the game's economy so this warrants its own section in the Updates post. I have already started to see how "broken" the Echelite Trader can be for gaining currency which needed some sort of attention. I did not want to just straight nerf the cost of some items as that would not be fair to those who have spent lots of time building farms for the trader. I have as a result added a rotation cycle to the trades. The Trader realistically shouldn't want all items all the time, he is like all of us, sometimes he is working on a cobblestone house and other times he is working on the wooden walls.

• Echelite Trader will now rotate each hour to want certain items more than others. Items he will want will now reflect the standard profit. Otherwise he will accept payment for items but at 10% of the cost.
• This is a random rotation for the items he prefers every hour.

Echelites from Fishing!

Great suggestion that I really liked. It gets its own section just because it has some numbers. You can now earn Echelites from just fishing!

• 1-5 from any normal fish
• 2-7 for junk
• 5-15 for treasure.

Echelite Store Additional Perks

We added a few things! The first thing I want to talk about is the Lobby NPC shop!

Here you will be able to find all of the NPCs from spawn ranging in price from 1,000 to 10,000 Echelites. When purchased you receive their head in your inventory to place down anywhere you would like.

Once placed you can interact with them the same way you can at /spawn! To pick them back up just crouch and Right click them.

Music Box and Drinking Well You will also be able to purchase these which will provide the same benefits as they normally do outside of the Drinking Well now being free as you purchase this for 10,000 Echelites from the shop. It will still cost to others which if they use your Drinking Well, it pays you the 5 Echelites!

Got Glass?

Brand new perk to allow you to instant mine any glass while using a Silk Touch pickaxe. That's basically it.

Claims

Claim Decay

There has been some debate regarding this feature and one of the suggestions included a way to sync all of your claims together. This is a great suggestion so it was added!

This feature will automatically claim up to 3 months for every one of your chunks. Every day you will be automatically charged to your Echelite balance based on the amount of claims you have. This also factors the cost for 3 months for each claim. You will also soo how long you have to afford your claims in the hover of the sync button.

Also

• Fixed a issue that was not unclaiming land when it decayed while offline.

Claim bundling

This is kind of confusing but I will attempt to make this simple in this short guide. Basically you can now bundle multiple claims together to manage the chunk settings for the whole bundle of claims! First step to do this is type /claim

Click on your Owned Chunks

Click on create a bundle

Click on each chunk you would like to have inside your new bundle.

Click on create bundle. Once created you will be placed directly inside the bundle options UI where you can manage the Bundle by adding or removing chunks or regular claim settings as needed.

The bundling of chunks may be redesigned in a future update so keep a eye out for those!

Other changes

• Allowed fireworks to be used in others claims similar to consumables.
• Added the option to recolor the borders. (If your borders are shown as white or not at all, its something in your video settings or shaders.)
• Added the option to unclaim everything which has 2 blatant confirmation screens.
• Added /unclaim quick and /unclaim constant.
• /unclaim quick allows you to quickly unclaim the chunk you are in.
• /unclaim constant allows you to unclaim any chunk you walk through.
• Fixed eating chorus fruits in land claims to avoid players getting into certain spots.

Echelon Market

This is a great new addition which allows you to list any item you would like for sale! You can have as many listings as you want. Each sale will include taxes on listed items which are paid to the server as a slight Echelite sink. This is paid by the buyer.

• New item less than 7 days old? 100 Echelite Tax
• Aged item more than 7 days old but less than 30? 50 Echelite Tax
• Old item more than 30 days old? 10 Echelite Tax.

To list a item just click on the List items for sale icon

Place in the item you want to sell

Set the item price by click the sign and typing in a number

List the item!

To view all the listed items and their pricing, click on the other icon

View all the items here to buy.

Team Chats

With the brand new /teamchat, you are now able to talk with just your team! The text is a different color to indicate that it is a team chat message and only shows to you and your team mates. This makes it so much easier to talk about whatever it is you need to talk about without projecting to the whole server.

If you see a team chat message while not having the /teamchat command on, you will see a helpful reminder to go into team chat using the command.

Seen

Curious when someone was last online? Use /seen and check!

Sitting

You can do this now

Colors!

This was something I have put off for a while but it is surely time to add. You can now use a custom pre-fix to color text on signs and items. You can use for example @R for a red color. The full list of colors are listed below;

• @darkpurple = Dark Purple
• @darkgray = Dark Gray
• @darkblue = Dark Blue
• @darkgreen = Dark Green
• @darkaqua = Dark Aqua
• @darkred = Dark Red
• @lightpurple = Light Purple
• @black = Black
• @gold = Gold
• @gray = Gray
• @blue = Blue
• @green = Green
• @aqua = Aqua
• @red = Red
• @yellow = Yellow
• @white = White
• @reset = Reset
• @dgr = Dark Gray
• @db = Dark Blue
• @dg = Dark Green
• @da = Dark Aqua
• @dr = Dark Red
• @dp = Dark Purple
• @gr = Gray
• @k = Black
• @o = Gold
• @b = Blue
• @g = Green
• @a = Aqua
• @r = Red
• @p = Light Purple
• @y = Yellow
• @w = White

Vote Rewards

Voting really should have some sort of rewards. So now it does! Woooooo

To see the next reward check the player tab list. This will also show if There's a active vote event.

The current supports vote events are as follows;

• Double Echelites from breaking blocks
• Double Echelites from placing blocks
• Echelite Pack
• Echelite Box
• Vote Boss

Vote Boss

This boss will spawn once 100 votes have been received in the server which is spawn a large variation of any hostile mob. Once killed they will rewards all those who did damage a random amount of Echelites.

This will be expanded even further in a future updates.

Official Wiki

This is a insanely needed feature. This allows you to search through our website to find information on any feature. A lot of this information was quickly written and to not fault of my own also written by AI because it was so much content that I singlehandly could not do it on my own. The website looks amazing and the content is pretty much all there! If something doesn't look Right, please let me know and feel free to suggest any feature changes to the website or typos as needed!

https://echelonmc.net/

Sell Wand

Per request, we now have a sell wand! This looks like a brush and can be used by shift + left click any chest with sellable items inside. If you just left click a chest, you can turn it into a automatic chest seller so any item that is funneled into the chest is automatically sold. Updates on the items sold will be sent to your chat box letting you know when you have earned some money!

With this ability to modify the chest to automatically sell, we have added the option to allow for automatic selling only if that item is favored by the Echelite trader! You can also select specific items to sell from the chest or anything that is in the chest.

Skins

You can now purchase cosmetics skins and change them in-game without changing your skin through your launcher!

This is a cosmetic change which requires Echelars to complete. You can currently purchase any skin from the NPCs found at home and more skins will be coming soon! To purchase the skins, please visit the Echelon Store.

Summary

I know it has been quite a while since the last update and as you can see, I have been very busy working out a massive amount of features for everyone to enjoy. We completely knocked out every suggestions and bug report in this update and added some other great features! Every feature added will still need some polish which I intend to do in the following update. I believe I will focus on massive content updates and then polishing updates following to ensure you guys get the content quicker and the refinement of the features are completed afterwards based on your feedback! Thank you to anyone who has supported the server thus far and thank you to everyone who has been playing. It means a great deal to me!

Disclaimer

There is an absolutely massive amount of content in this update. Yes, I know some of the features may seem unpolished but like I said before, I wanted to get this update out now with the limited polish for each feature than just one feature fully polished or taking forever to put the update out. There will be bugs with this update and I quickly as they are discovered I will be working to fix them. I am just one boy 😢 *kidding im multiple people in one*

Thank you

Just thank you to everyone so far. You all mean the absolute world to me. I love this project and I am so happy to take this further with everything you guys suggest!