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Hey everyone,

Now that our Halloween build competition is over it's time for us to announce the theme for November! The theme is going to be "Magic" - picked by Joel, this has been left intentionally vague so that he can find out what comes to mind when you hear the word. Maybe you'll build Hogwarts, or maybe the Magic Kingdom theme park at Disney...who knows?

The competition will close on the 28th of November and winners will be announced a few days later - this is also when we will announce the theme for the following month.

In order to enter your build into the competition, you must create a new thread here with the following information:

• Minecraft IGN
• Plot ID
• Screenshots (upload to imgur.com, or your preferred image hosting site)

With every competition there are a few rules - we ask that you follow these otherwise your entry may not be counted.

• ...

Hi everyone,

Our Halloween competition is now over! Thanks to everyone who entered - there were tons of awesome builds submitted! Joel has went through every entry and picked the winners, which we’re happy to announce are as follows:

1st: @ReaperBlossom - https://beanblockz.com/threads/reaperblossom-competition-entry.78121/
2nd: @EpicVillagers -https://beanblockz.com/threads/epicvillagers-competition-entry.78092/
3rd: @BadUnicornz - https://beanblockz.com/threads/badunicornz-competition-entry.77438/
4th: @shiv - https://beanblockz.com/threads/shiv-competition-entry.78124/
5th: @SoggyyBaconn - https://beanblockz.com/threads/soggyybaconn-competition-entry.78117/

Runners up in no particular order:
@AnyLove -...

Hey everyone!

During this rounds staff applications, we received so many wonderful applications, but we couldn't pick everyone. We want to thank everyone for their interest in helping the server by becoming a staff member, regardless if they were chosen or not. Without further ado, here are the newest members of our staff team:

@Natty
@Kavella
@devianceone
@Dinosmore
@pay
@EnnXri3
@Gynx
@Gxrm
@hann4hh
@JoeyDeDestiny
@lydss
@Mxgically
@pops
@RachelCheddar
@ShadowK63
@astronautcat
@SpicyPoof
@strawbbaura
@sunfloury
@salti
@wisuu
@JaysBoat...

Hello beans!

Recently the Management Team has been discussing the server as a whole on a deeper scale and while we can guess, speculate and assume, it's not the same as having legitimate feedback from the community itself - outside of the the Suggestions section that is. So in order to get the results we're looking for, we've decided that outright asking the community for feedback would be the best way to go about things. If you'd like to help us improve the server by providing feedback, please follow the link below to fill out the form. We appreciate it in advance.

BeanBlockz Network Feedback

-Danielle

Happy month of spooks, beans!

Most of you probably remember the Anniversary Week our event team hosted this summer in celebration of Beanblockz’ 5th Anniversary and I’m very excited to announce the implementation of Event Weeks on a more regular basis! Halloween Week, Christmas Week, Spring Week and Anniversary Week - during each of which you will have the chance to win a 'collectible' in-game chat tag and Discord tag prize.

Our Head Event Staff, Ashley, has been working with the higher staff team to make this happen and bring everyone a super fun week of events with an extremely special prize! Not to mention, the event team as a whole has been working very hard on event planning, map making, etc for this very special week.

About Halloween Week
Halloween Week will officially be starting on Sunday, October 20th and will be taking place until October 26th and will consist of a total of 10 events. 5 out of the 10 events will have a prize for the first place...

Hey everyone,

Today we are going to be announcing the next build competition - as you may have guessed, it's Halloween - our favourite event of the year!

The competition will close on the 28th of October - winners will be announced a few days later on October 31st - this is also when we will announce the theme for the following month.

In order to enter your build into the competition, you must create a new thread here with the following information:

• Minecraft IGN
• Plot ID
• Screenshots (upload to imgur.com, or your preferred image hosting site)

With every competition there are a few rules - we ask that you follow these otherwise your entry may not be counted.

• Builds MUST be on the competition server. (/competition on the server, or choose 'Creative -> Competition' in the server compass)
• The plot must be Halloween themed
• Don't steal designs -...

Hey all you beans!

It's that time of year again when we are in need of new moderators! Exciting isn't it? We're looking for some awesome new people to join our ranks and help us in taking care of the server. So if you're mature, hardworking and generally wanting to help keep Beanblockz a safe and happy place, then you should give applying a shot and continue reading below for more information on how you can do it!

In order to ensure we pick the right players for the position, we have a set process for applications that you can find below:

• Forum Application: This is the application form linked at the bottom of the page. The application contains a standard set of questions which will be used to find out some details about you, which will allow us to decide whether or not we think you're a suitable candidate.
• Discord Interview: If we like your forum application, we will potentially invite you onto either our Discord server where we'll have a short chat...

Hey everyone,

As the title suggests today we are going to be announcing monthly build competitions! We will be running official monthly build competition on the server which will allow you to win some awesome prizes. The theme will be different each month and may relate to an event (Christmas, for example) or could be a generic theme. We hope that these competitions will bring in more players on the server from Joel's channel and also provide more content for our current Creative players.

The theme for this month is 'Kingdoms' - inspired by the newly launched KingdomCraft series on the Smallishbeans YouTube channel.

The competition will close on the 28th of September - winners will be announced a few days later on October 1st - this is also when we will announce the theme for the following month.

In order to enter your build into the competition, you must create a new thread here with the...

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone's been having a lovely summer(or winter depending on where you live)! As you can tell from the title of this thread, it's competition time here on Beanblockz once again, but this time with a little twist! This competition is for our Discord server, so if you're not familiar with it, please check it out as sometimes we post updates there that we don't post anywhere else. Without getting anymore off track, this is a competition for new custom emojis for our Discord Server - so if you're an artist or just want to give it a shot, then here's your chance to shine.

Competition Rules/Guidelines

• All entries must be of your own creation and not stolen from somewhere
• You may submit up to three emojis and all entries must be submitted to this thread
• While you can submit three images, keep in mind that you can only win once
• All entries must be uploaded to Imgur.com
• All entries must comply with...

Hi all,

Today we are announcing a new feature on the Creative server - the ability to download your own plot! This feature has been highly requested on the server and can be very useful in a variety of scenarios: A few examples of these are:

• You don't have enough plots left and want to build something new, but don't want to delete one of your existing builds forever
• We run a competition and you want to take a copy of your plot before the Competition Server closes
• You've worked long and hard on something and want to import it into your own single player world (or your own private server for you and your friends)

There are definitely more ways you can utilise this feature, but we'll leave it to you to come up with those. Right now there is no way to import plots (and we don't think there ever will be) - this is purely exportation. The feature is live and ready to be used on the server for players with the King rank or above.

Instructions are...

Hi everyone,

The past 36 hours have been crazy!

Our network has been struggling to keep up with the huge amounts of players joining, so we will be doing some maintenance later today to optimise the servers and improve your experience whilst playing. All of our servers will go down tonight (Sunday) at 8PM EST... which is 1AM if you are in the British timezone. During this time, you will not be able to join the BeanBlockz server as we will be enabling maintenance mode.

We do not have an ETA at this time as to how long maintenance will take. We recommend to keep an eye out on this page for more information. During today's scheduled updates, we will also be changing some things up on the Classic server (see poll here), and we will be pushing some mandatory bug fixes for all the issues that you have reported (including giving back claim blocks, etc.). After maintenance, we will post a changelog...

EDIT: We will be doing maintenance on our website on June 4th at 3PM EST to implement our new theme!

Jesse said:

IMPORTANT: Two updates which weren't included in the announcement:

• Creative: Due to the low player counts throughout, Creative 2 will be shut down
• Skyblock: We can now support more players on one instance, so both Skyblock servers are being merged in one

Click to expand...

Hello everyone,

Last week marked the fifth official anniversary of the BeanBlockz server, and in five years time we have developed a one-of-a-kind community. Together we’ve been through all the highs and lows, Minecraft changes and updates to the server. We are extremely grateful to be working with such an amazing group of people full of love and support, and although we realise we haven’t been on top of things lately, today will mark...

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to another update post! I've got some very exciting news to share today regarding a feature that has been requested for a very long time.

Every week, we receive tons of suggestions from our loyal server community, and although we cannot implement everything, our team takes a careful look at what the possibilities are to improve gameplay. Over the course of the past few months, one feature in particular has especially stood out, which is the addition of Wands. I am very excited to share today that two versions of Wands have been added to the server:

Sell Wand
This wand can sell any items that are stored inside of a chest, simply by right clicking the chest with the wand in your hand.
Sell Wands are available in variations of 1000, 2000, and 3000 uses - but also in an unlimited use version.

Condense Wand
This wand can convert any items that are stored inside of a chest, from their minerals form into blocks. (For example: Iron Ingots...

Hey all!

Lucky for you all, last months mod apps weren't an April Fool's joke like the rumors have stated! Meaning...we spent the last month going over all the applications - and trust me there were a lot of really good ones! - but sadly we cannot accept everyone. We're very happy that everyone wants to help keep the server a happy and safe place. So, without further delay, I'd love to introduce to you all(and wish them all a lot of luck in the coming months!) our newest members of staff!

@madiisynn
@Sierraa
@Sherxual
@Gxbriella
@Wolffeh15
@haengsyo
@Ashii
@Buffalimp
@LucyAnne
@uwulele
@smhbee
@EmmaRiley
@UnderCONstruction
@Sakana
@TJgirl
@miamxrie
@Naviii...

Hey everyone!

Our Easter 2019 Build Competition came to a close earlier this week! There were many amazing builds and Joel has gotten back to us with his picks of his top ten favorites! We are happy to announce that those top ten are:

6th-10th(in no particular order): @SirMJ_ ,@TudorApples ,@PoptarTs ,@rwer ,@Luna_Moon
5th: @daeva
4th: @shiv
3rd: @3myli
2nd: @CA5PER
1st: @ashley

Congratulations to everyone who placed! Those above will be contacted here on the forums concerning their prizes. To those who didn't place, don't be discouraged as there will be plenty of opportunities in the future to put your building skills to the test in build comps.

Joel has also sent us an exclusive video just for those here on Beanblockz Network! You can view the video...

Hello all you Spring beans!

We hope everyone is enjoying the start of Spring! No April Fool's prank this year, we are in fact opening applications again! We're looking to find some more mature, active(on forums too!), reliable, dedicated and trustworthy beans to join our staff family. If this is something you're interested it, continue reading below to find out more on what the requirements are and how to apply.

In order to ensure we pick the right players for the position, we have a set process for applications that you can find below:

• Forum Application: This is the application form linked at the bottom of the page. The application contains a standard set of questions which will be used to find out some details about you, which will allow us to decide whether or not we think you're a suitable candidate.
• Discord Interview: If we like your forum application, we will potentially invite you onto either our Discord server where we'll have a short chat...

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update to let you know that chat tags are now available as an add-on on the store! On the left side of the page, you'll see an entirely new "Chat Tags" category with the selection out of a variety of tags. These will be updated over time, so let us know if you are missing anything you would like to see added!

Along with this, cosmetic upgrades are now also available. Previously players would need to purchase the entire package again, however this is no longer needed.

Be sure to keep updated with these, and many other changes, by joining our Discord Server! We are actively making changes to the network, which you can keep up with in our #changelog channel. You can join through the following link: https://discordapp.com/invite/HF8awUB

Thanks all,
Jesse

Hi everyone,

We're back with an exciting announcement today! As you may remember, some time ago our team was working on a new in-game friends system. Using this feature, players would be able to add and interact with their friends on the server through an easy and simple to use GUI. Unfortunately this feature had to push this feature back several times - but fear no more! I'm very excited to announce today that this system is available to all members on our server starting right now! Learn more on how to use this feature below.

Adding Friends
It is extremely easy to add new friends on the server. Simply open the friends menu by typing /friends, and hit the "Add Friend" option. There, enter the full in-game name of the player you would like to add as a friend (remember: no nicknames!), and the server will automagically send a request to that player to add them to your friends list. Adding friends is also possible through the /friends...

Hey everyone,

Today I’m happy to announce the start of our annual Easter build competition. The competition is similar to previous - we’re giving you a month to build the best Easter themed plot you can! There's a timelapse of the awesome spawn Joel created available on his channel here. This video also covers the content of this forum post.

The competition will close on the 14th of April - winners will be announced one week later on the 21st.

In order to enter your build into the competition, you must create a new thread here with the following information:

• Minecraft IGN
• Plot ID
• Screenshots (upload to imgur.com, or your preferred image hosting site)

With every competition there are a few rules - we ask that you follow these otherwise your entry may not be counted.

• Builds...

Hello you wonderful beans!

As you know, during the month of January we had moderator applications open. During that time we received so many excellent applications from you all and we're very happy to see everyone wanting to help make this server a better place. Unfortunately, we only can pick so many of you all to become staff and after a long time in picking out the right candidates, we narrowed it down to whom we'd like to have join our team this time around. We wish the best of luck to all of the new staff!

Without any further delay, let's give a warm welcome to...

@Kuroe
@IneffableRaven
@dovena
@Rxsq
@shelfboi
@Wolvesss
@shiv
@gudetama
@chaeri
@MxgicCookie
@TrulyBliss
@celeste39941
@thomass
@lcjump...