By vote, the update will be done on Friday, November 20th.

The main server has been updated to 1.16.4. It only took a week and two days to re-open, but it happened!

This update will be the largest jump between versions that Pearl has made, but thanks to developers in the wider Minecraft community, the process should take about the same time as the last few server updates. That said, the server configuration will be adjusted to accommodate all the new survival-related content from 1.13 to 1.16.

Due to the size of this update, I am splitting coverage into multiple posts over the coming days. Some will be poll threads and some will be more detailed posts/threads about a specific topic. This thread is locked to set up...

Well it only took 5 years for it to happen. Today (Archon day) I finally promoted Shayne1010 from Tutor to Scout. In 5 years maybe he will make officer.

Everybody send a great congratulations to Shayne1010.

As part of the preparation for the upcoming server update, the total member ranks will be reduced from eight to four. The following presents how the reduction will be formed.

Visitor - current spirit rank
Citizen - current tourist and citizen ranks
Master - current worker, adept, and master ranks
Legend - current elite and legend ranks

This will be applied around Jan 16th (minimal downtime, if any).

Master and Legend will be the only upgrade ranks and have the benefits of all the ranks combined into each group. Master will be the same price of one stack of Pearl (64 ghast tear) and Legend will be somewhat increased, to two stacks of Pearl (128 ghast tear).

There won't be any significant changes to the rank perks as a direct result of merging groups. However, new perks,...

Woot, December 17 (tomorrow, Tuesday) is almost here, it is the day that we give players the ability to fly on Pearlmc for an hour.

Wait, in prior years you announced on the day of First flight day, what gives?
I was being generous and giving you a day notice (3 years in a row), woot for me.

What is first flight day on Pearl?
It is a day that we give players an hour(ish) to fly.

Do I get to fly all day?
Nope, flying time is between 7PM and 8PM EST. Be on the ground at 8PM or that first step might hurt. Hey, at least flight is not limited to the 12 seconds 0f the first Wright Brother's flight.

I just login during that hour and I can fly?
Yes, however you have to /msg cyberdrifter the flight password.

What is the flight password?...