Looking Back at 2019
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Written by BeanCheese
Edited by Musiueq
This past year has been filled with exciting updates and additions to Potterworld, from the Department of Leisures and Games’ ravishing revamp to stunning new store items! Potterworld has changed greatly during this past year, so let’s look back at some of our favourite updates and what you might have missed!Feature
Written by BeanCheese
Edited by Musiueq
In-Game Updates
The Revelius update is a popular topic to discuss; when the second part will be released, what will be expected to see, what happened in the first update and so on. Part one of the Revelius update was released to the public on August the 4th, making many changes. Talents have been reworked, the Spell Teacher has come back and sells spells that can’t be given through leveling, spell reworks have occurred, all players now have a hundred health and talent, etcetera. We have yet to find out the date for part two, but should be released soon!
Not too long after this, LabyMod became an allowed modified client on the server on September the 15th, allowing players to add friends by the mod, give other nicknames that only you can see, wear special cosmetics like capes, and the list goes on! All features that are not allowed have been blocked, except for the voice feature of the mod. Many people who have used LabyMod in Potterworld have thoroughly enjoyed using it and say it makes the experience even more enjoyable!
Let’s also not forget about an addition many players have been eager to see- the player reset! It was first brought in-game on October the 13th, and it entailed that you could get the reset for free in the store once a month. If you want to buy it in less time, it’ll cost you more than it would if you waited. Unfortunately, it had to be disabled the next day due to some bugs. If you use this, all your data resets, so you start again as a first-year without any items but you will keep store purchases. This is a great way to learn everything again if you have come back from a long hiatus and want to remember what it was like at the beginning or feel like there is not much more for you to do.
Events
On February 9th, the first event in 2019 arrived at Potterworld- the Valentine’s event! You could collect love letters all around Hogsworth and later on trade them for and you could try and complete the love course parkour which would give you the spell ‘Amor Vita’, and there are even more wonderful things you might get the chance to try out next year. It even lasted an extra two weeks, until March the 8th, so we could get to enjoy it longer!
Nine days later, the St Patrick’s Day event came to Hogsworth- with a new game. On March the 16th, along with the event, you could play Quabbleball. You can find Quabbleball in /games. Once there are eight to fourteen players, you get teleported to the lobby and you can choose from either the green or red team. Once everyone is in a team, you have to choose your position and the game begins! There was also; a 20% sale, numerous tasks to challenge yourself to with unique rewards, a beautifully decorated courtyard, and so on.
The first ever Spring Festival was released on April the 13th, created by our wonderful Game Design team. You could take up the challenge of 22 riddles, search for Easter Eggs around the castle, participate in house point competition, and collect many available rewards like the Spring Bunnies spell, 5 different Spring Scarves, and an Easter Basket!
For all you Star Wars fans, the May the 4th event had begun on that very day and lasted until May the 18th. You could also join the exclusive /games like Star Battle and Star Racing to try! Instead of earning Event Tokens, you’d earn Star Tokens and could use those to buy six different sabers, four blasters, two hats, and an emote pack! On the following weekend, a Star Battle tournament was held between fierce competitors, but the winners were DanikAvery, Danneman01, and __Rosetta__. If you love the Porg, then you’d certainly have been head over heels for the new pet in the store, also courtesy of this event. For a limited time only, you could purchase a Porg in /store or participate in the giveaway that would allow you to win the pet for free! A lover of the films or not, this was certainly one of our favourite events.
Potterworld’s biggest event of the year was released the day the May the 4th event ended; The anniversary event! Every week until July the 8th you would get to revisit an event from the previous year and complete the quests and games. Whilst the events were happening, you could also participate in a house competition, a writing competition, and a skin competition.
After over a month without an event, the Fantastical Carnival arrived on August 17th! In this event, you could try and complete a rainbow maze and do a dropper and parkour to collect tickets to buy many prizes from the stalls, like plushies and food. The quest’s objective was to feed the adorable animals by making food for them, which was also a part of the daily reward. Each day, the ‘Rewards’ NPC would give you tasks to complete and would reward you with carnival tickets!
Do you love Butterbrew? If so, then the Butterbrew Festival may just be your cup of tea! On September the 21st, the Butterbrew Festival came to Hogsend with new challenges and collectibles. You could play minigames and earn Event Tokens, which you could trade for unique collectables available at different shops. One very challenging game in the event was the Butterbrew Trial Challenge! Once you completed the Butterbrew Trial Challenge- if you could- you would have been able to receive the one of a kind 2019 event scarf.
Halloween is one of people’s most favourite holidays, so of course, Potterworld’s Halloween deathday party is another event we all love. The event lasted from October the 19th to the 31st, leaving you plenty of time to give the games a go. Instead of receiving Minigames Tokens from completing the minigames in /games, you would get Boo bucks, the event currency, or you preferred to give the scavenger hunt a go, which involved you looking for special objects that had belonged to friends of Basically Beheaded Benjamin, if you found the items you’d get to keep them! Did you find any of the items?
Our last event of the year is Winter Waltz! Starting from December the 1st and ending on the last day of this year and decade, this event has had many new additions. The main activity is to forge Bluefyre, which can be done by collecting the four ingredients; Bluefyre ashes, Bells of Dourmstrad, Enchanted Icicles and Cursed Ice Shards and clicking the furnace! You can use Bluefyre to unfreeze specific locations around the castle such as the Great Hall and Library. There are plenty of other things to do as well, like trying out the escape room, giving the history test a go, you can use the Bluefyre you forge to unlock rewards you can buy with snowflakes. You can earn those snowflakes by giving one of many minigames a try. These games are shown in the daily task board just outside Dourmstrad! People have said this was one of their favourite events for the never-ending fun and the variety of different things to do. Which event was your favourite?
The New Website
After much hard work, the staff team released a new website on August the 11th! This website was established for a few reasons, like being limited to what can be done on Enjin and the new possibilities a new website creates. The website is in beta, but there is still so much you can do! If you do ‘/link’ in-game, you’ll be able to link your Minecraft character to the website.
In the new website, there have been many new features added. One new thing is that once you log in, at the top right you'll see a button saying your username. If you hover over that you'll get four options to choose from. If you click ‘My Character’ you’ll get to view, as said, your character. You’ll see your username on both website and in-game, your Minecraft skin, your ranks, and spells you have, which is useful to check your information or check others! The format of the website is completely new, it’s been made so everything can be accessed easier and, as a bonus, looks amazing.
Of course, not all of the website is different, and some parts have only been improved. There still are the wonderful forums where you can check for news, sell or buy unwanted items, advertise role-plays, or head down to the rainbow road for games like ‘Count as high as you can before a staff member comes on’. You can also still post on your profile, create and add a signature, apply for positions, and so on.
Many have found the website addicting and exciting for there are many fun things to do. If you go to ‘forums’ you’ll see many threads with four subsections. The threads are pretty self-explanatory with their name, like ‘News and Updates’ is a good place to go if you’ve taken a hiatus for the game, to keep yourself up to date with everything or to read the latest issue of the Daily Diviner! You can also go to players’ profile and click the ‘start conversation’ button to talk to them if you can't go in-game or use Discord.
Discord Updates
Discord is the main form of communication with the people of Potterworld. It’s a useful application that allows you to talk to members of Potterworld whether they’re online or not and you can easily check for updates this way! Over the past year, some talented staff members have worked hard to bring us new updates to the Discord server.
On March the 18th, The bot managers released a lot of new features to Discord. The Potterworld Discord bot is able to help you in many ways. In #bot-commands type ‘!help’ and a list of commands will appear, like you can do ‘!nc’ to check when the next schedule class is and ‘!spell (name)’ to check information about the spell. As well as this, if you wanted to join a voice channel but could not speak or want to send something only the people in said voice chat can see, there was a text channel added for each voice channel! You’ll have access to the text channel once you join the voice channel, but will not be able to see any previous messages and only the people in the channel can see the messages sent.
With Discord bringing us Server boosts, we’ve been able to change a lot with all the boosts received. The discord server is currently at level two, meaning some of the things the discord server can have is; everyone can send more powerful files, better audio quality, a beautiful server banner and a hundred more boost than the original fifty, and with all the emoji slots left, do feel free to suggest any emojis on uservoice!
We hope you’ve enjoyed this year and all the new things brought to you! There have been some planned updates for 2020 that have already been announced such as the Revelius Update part two-What are you looking most forward to? Unfortunately, that is it for this article, I wish you all a happy New Year and a great year! See you next year!