Announcements
All announcements from the discord #announcements channel. Important announcement below. Please read. Starts from latest to oldest.
2025
December
10 December 2025 - Doozie: 🌲 Winterfest is upon us! /dial stockings to join the Feast 🌲
November
24 November 2025 - Doozie: We have added a redstone flag to bolt, /bolt lock redstone
17 November 2025 - Doozie: We are now running conversion from LWC to Bolt for locking functions, /bolt. Existing locks have transferred over. And we are now updated to 1.21.10.
4 November 2025 - Reiyuka: We have to do a server shutdown today - the utility is doing some power pole maintenance in the area. Shutdown will be before Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 05:00 pm today. Sorry for the short notice. Expected downtime probably only a few hours, but they asked us to be ready for 8 hours.
1 November 2025 - rilelyscastle: Merry Halloween!
October
23 October 2025 - Reiyuka: Servers have been down since ~8:30 PST, am investigating. It took down everything, so it's either internet or power. Probably power. Map is full of many overlapping red zones.
10 October 2025 - Doozie: Graffiti is now in voting!
September
3 September 2025 - Doozie: Graffiti Contest! Deface the western side of Nordawnia Railway! Ends October 1st.
August
5 August 2025 - Doozie: 5th Novylen Map Art Contest is now in voting! /dial vote to visit the ballot station and gallery by spawn to cast your votes. Polling ends August 31st.
4 August 2025 - Doozie: Happy 15th Anniversary Novylen! /dial novy15 for player build fairgrounds. Official Birthdate: Aug 04 10:12:39 PDT 2010 or <t:1754327559:F> your time!
May
13 May 2025 - Doozie: New Map Art Contest starting! End date August 1st.
April
6 April 2025 - rilelyscastle: Keep Inventory is now disabled outside of the main end island.
6 April 2025 - Doozie: Server is now updated to 1.21.4 /dial new or visit wild portal at spawn for new terrain, pale wood available at /dial getwood
5 April 2025 - Doozie: Good News Everybody! Chestshop for nbt data is now functioning! Buy/Sell your unique junk at will
January
1 January 2025 - rilelyscastle: Happy New Years! May 2025 be better than 2024
2024
December
25 December 2024 - Doozie: Happy Giftmas to all! The earth has circumnavigated the sun and the day of stocking has arisen in every corner, including Novylen. 🧦 /dial presents to collect your dues! 🧦
8 December 2024 - Doozie: Stockings are hung by the yeti with care, all little stuffers had better beware! ❄️ /dial presents for gift exchange 2024 ❄️
October
31 October 2024 - rilelyscastle: https://tenor.com/view/jazzskull-trumpet-skull-doot-doot-gif-3005205123992593904
18 October 2024 - Frogofwar: Forum is open to all who can identify which popular gourd is associated with the month of October.
13 October 2024 - Doozie: Diggy Diggy Hole resource side-world is now open for looting, /dial diggyhole
7 October 2024 - Doozie: /dial trials to visit Night Court for a pristine and enormous set of chambers set aside of death and preservation
September
30 September 2024 - Doozie: /dial destiny2 to submit to the Trials
30 September 2024 - Doozie: Server has now updated to 1.21, new terrain available via wild portal at /spawn or /dial new
July
26 July 2024 - Doozie: Map Art Contest! Currently ongoing, deadline October 1st. For more details see pinned msgs #smp
13 July 2024 - Doozie: Just a note: for players who do not wish to be visible on the website map, while ingame type /dynmap hide
April
22 April 2024 - Doozie: Delicious fresh Dargon eggs now available for 1000p at the admin shops in the geode at spawn
January
15 January 2024 - Doozie: Beware the Ides of January! At the stroke of midnight, the Stockings will open. Woe unto all who have not yet done their stuffing.
2023
December
25 December 2023 - rilelyscastle: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
23 December 2023 - rilelyscastle: Hello Everyone! After discovering the fact that we forgot to build a place where everyone can gift presents this year we have built one. it is rudimentary at this moment but should be working fine! The Stargate Address is Stockings. We also have a backup runecraft teleporter incase the stargate fails. you can find it by the big slime in topside which is west of the sign boards and maps.
September
25 September 2023 - rilelyscastle: Minecraft has a new wiki! https://minecraft.wiki/
August
9 August 2023 - Doozie: We are in the process of rendering Flatmap, for everyone who always wanted a huge ingame map of the whole map. Link from website minecraft.novylen.net now redirects here, select from smp and creative options
1 August 2023 - Frogofwar: Hi, everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the new patch and having fun. A quick reminder: Novylen prohibits the use of autoclickers. Using such tools or other scripts to gain in-game advantages may lead to a permanent ban. For an approved mods list, please consult the #faq. We value the fair play spirit of the majority of our players who refrain from using such scripts. Thank you all for taking the time to read this announcement.
July
23 July 2023 - Doozie: SMP is now updated to 1.20, please report any plugin issues. /dial new and wild portal active in new terrain, /dial getwood has a temporary cherry area outside its walls. Spawn will move sometime in the coming weeks.
10 July 2023 - Doozie: Admin shop will now buy and sell cobbled deepslate as a banking option, if you want to store cobbled deepslate for your future retirement.
June
11 June 2023 - Doozie: We are now running 1.20 on temp map for testing, /queue tmp to join
7 June 2023 - Doozie: Update: https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000228509-june-2023-infected-mods-detection-tool/
7 June 2023 - Doozie: "Multiple groups are reporting CurseForge as compromised. Malware has been uploaded in various projects and it may be a security vulnerability in the CurseForge platform. We recommend not downloading or updating any mods from CurseForge at the moment" https://prismlauncher.org/news/cf-compromised-alert/
May
5 May 2023 - Doozie: May 15 Imgur will be deleting images from innactive accounts, make sure to download any precious images, or save them in another manner such as copying to a personal discord server https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
4 May 2023 - Doozie: We will now be returning to our previous twice weekly random end reset schedule.
April
9 April 2023 - Frogofwar: Hi all,
Firstly, happy holidays to all who celebrate, whether it is Easter, Passover, Ramadan, or none of the above.
Secondly, I would like to take the time to clarify some expectations we have for the server. These are not new rules, just some old guidelines I want to make clear through an <#919045985924182087> post.
In-Game:
- When making tickets asking for a region, please do not write out precise coordinates. Instead, please mark them with blocks out or allow us to use discretion.
- Please refrain from sending moderators letters/tickets with nothing more than a greeting. It makes our job more difficult and we will /warn players about the behaviour.
Discord:
- Please only use the designated 'bans-and-reports' channel for the designated purpose. I.e. reporting incidents to the moderator team, or submitting ban appeals. Anybody found misusing the channel will be immediately kicked from the server.
- Please note that 'friends' are not permitted to make ban appeals. If you have received a ban and wish to challenge it, please use your account. Any attempts to circumvent this rule will result in an instant time-out.
- If you want to make a ban appeal, or report something Novylen-related, <#335158837365440513> is the appropriate channel. Please do not Direct Message the mods unless you have a clear reason for your grievance to remain private.
- We appreciate all your suggestion-box posts. But, please understand that we may not be able to act on many of them due to time constraints or other reasons.
Thank you all for being understanding. 🙂
March
29 March 2023 - Doozie: estimated 5.5 hours from now uptime, no guarantees however
29 March 2023 - Frogofwar: Server is currently down as the ISP is doing scheduled maintenance.