Introducing the fifth theme for the Elemental Fury season… 🌱 Life!

With the four elements finally exhausted, the presence of 🌱 life can be felt once more! This benevolent force of nature begins to restore the world and heal the damage the elements have caused. Let’s celebrate the tenacity of life!

📆 This week…

— 💬 Text chat channels for teams have been added to help you plan your builds!

— 🏆 Competitions have a fresh look and are easier to navigate than ever!

— 🤝 Team matchmaking now works in-game! Type /team match to get started.

— ⌨️ Tons of new in-game commands, including the /commands command. Seriously.

— 🐝 We found a lot of bugs buzzing around and swatted them. No big deal.

✨ New

— 💬  There’s a new chat tab on the right side bar that you’ll see when you form a team.

— 💬  See when you have a new message from the left sidebar and easily navigate to the chat page. Join a voice channel by clicking the speaker.

— 💬  Get a new chat for every competition and access chat history for previous competitions.

— ✨  One click join! You can now register for competitions straight from cards.

— ✨  See when submissions are due. Cards will now tell you when you need to submit by and submit from cards.

— ✨  See what you won when a competition ends including where you placed and how much you won.

— 💎 New starts at field tells you when a competition starts.

— 💎 Details can now be hidden so competitions are easier to browse.

— 💎 See an ETA for when winners will be announced after you submit.

Changelog

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— ✨  Team chat — get a space to chat with your team.

— ✨  New competition cards — improved competition cards make it easy to join a competition right from the card as well as see when you need to submit.

— ✨  Improved competition page — improved competition page with sections that can be hidden and ETA for result announcements.

— ✨  Submission success modal — get a list of recommended competitions to do next after you submit your build.

— ✨  Inviting people to team up automatically adds them to your team — unless they’re already in the competition. No need to accept or decline invites.

— 🐞  Theme modal will now only display once — fixed a bug where the theme modal displayed more than once.

Minecraft

— 💎 Visit any past competition — Now you can visit any past competition using the normal /join or /go commands.

— 💎 New commands — Use /creative or /go creative to navigate to the creative world. /go competition [name]can be used to go to competitions. Now you can also teleport to other players using /tp {player} or /go @{player}.

— 💎  The right sidebar now explains what commands do — you can also discover more commands using /commands.

— 💎 Matchmaking from in-game — type /team match before any competition starts to get matched to a teammate to build with.

— 💎 New onboarding — now friends joining Ender for the first time can skip the tutorial if they don’t need it. Use /tutorial to start the tutorial at any time.

— 🐞  Prevent from accidentally dropping the Ender Pearl — fixed a bug where you can drop the Ender Pearl and not be able to get it back.

— 🐞  Fixed competition reminders from being off-center — fixed a bug where the theme modal displayed more than once.