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PWU - 2/5/15 It's Thursday! That means it's time for the next PickAxis Weekly Update. BTW, these updates will be every other week unless there is enough information to add a couple more into the month. What's New? Changed Voting Sites - You will see that we switched PMC to another voting site because PMC wasn't registering each time someone voted and correctly reporting it back to us. In order to get you all the tokens you deserve, we switched to Mineservers.net. (Also, congrats to Malsamatic for winning Top Voter for January!) 1.8 Updates - Creative now joins Survival and Skyblock as a fully-updated 1.8 server. Enjoy the fun, new blocks! New Token Shop Kits (Skyblock) - On Skyblock there are 2 new 1.8 kits in /shop. Use your tokens to purchase these for 50 tokens each. One kit is the 1.8 Ground Pack & the other is the 1.8 Sea Pack. Have ideas for other Token Kits? Let us know in the comments below. PickAxis Coins & Ranks - They are here! Check out the front page announcements or the Shop page for complete details. Name Changes - Mojang has officially allowed us to change our Minecraft names. While doing so is compliant with most of our servers and plugins, be warned that it will not keep your Skyblock island. We are not yet sure of any other bugs it may cause, but do any updating with caution. What's Coming? Flash Build Contest - We will have our first Flash Build Contest starting this weekend. This means it will be up for only one week. Keep your eyes peeled for the announcement. TF2 Event - This weekend we hope to have our first TF2 event. Join the PickAxis Steam group to be alerted to its start time. See ya there!

PWU - 1/15/15 It's Thursday! That means it's time for the next PickAxis Weekly Update. What's New? Shops in SkyBlock - Personal shops are being added to SkyBlock. If you would like to know more about how these work, see . The ability to create will be purchasable with tokens. These should be fully added to SkyBlock within the next 2 days. Token Shop Updates - We took out permanent fly & permanent world edit from the token shop to allow everyone to get time-limited versions on their first day of voting. You will be able to unlock the permanent version of these features with a donation package. Winter Build Contest Winners - Congrats to our build contest winners! The builds keep getting better and better! We will be making a change for future contests: Build Team members will be only competing against themselves. This will hopefully keep things a little more balanced and fair. PickAxis Coins & Ranks - No later than this weekend, we will have purchasable ranks up. There will be 5 ranks, starting at 10 coins and increasing by 20 coins each level. Coins will be available for purchase in our online store. More will be explained when that goes live, but get excited, it's almost here! Minigame kits will use a different pricing system, and be available for purchase individually. Calendar - We added a new calendar for events to the website. The look of it may change over the next few months, but the content will remain the same. Here you will be able to find things like build contests, scheduled world resets, and other PickAxis events. Currently you can find it on the right side of the screen when on the Forums page. What's Coming? Surprise Flash Build Contest - We will have our first Flash Build Contest in early February. Flash contests are shorter than our Epic contests and are usually going to be a week long. KitPvP Server - This server is being coded 100% by portalBlock and will be in testing this Saturday. After this weekend's testing, we'll determine how much more time is needed before official server launch. Survival Challenges - Staff is working on refining the list of challenges to add to the Survival server. They are almost finished and should be implemented within the next few days.

PWU - 12/18/14 I apologize for not getting one of these out last Thursday. I was in San Francisco's "Stormageddon" which ended up being some rain and a little wind, but inevitably knocked out my power for the day. We have a lot coming soon, which is exciting and nerve-racking all at the same time. Anyway, on to the good stuff: What's New? EPIC Winter Build Contest - The contest has started! You have until January 3rd to build. Staff Profile Avatars - You may have noticed all the staff's profile avatar images by now. If you'd like to get one made for you or to give as a gift, the artist will make you one for $5. Click here to contact her to order. You can also see her banner at the bottom of this post. What's Coming? Survival Mining World, Nether & End Reset - These resets will take place on Monday. Make sure you've removed all personal items and are ready to dig in to the new worlds! SkyBlock Nether & End Reset - These resets will also take place on Monday. Make sure you've removed all personal items and are ready to dig in to the new worlds! Real-money Store - Donations are coming. Still coming! Promise! Winter Events - Some really cool and fun winter events will start this weekend. Watch out for tweets from @PickAxis to join in with the fun! New /shop Timed Items - Currently we have a couple timed perks in the shop, but will be adding more soon. Here's what we have planned to add over the next few days: 90 minutes of /fly in both SkyBlock and Survival, 3 hours of WorldEdit in Creative, and maybe something to unlock a kit for use in SkyWars.

PickAxis Weekly Update - 12/4/14 What's New? Heroes & Villains Build Contest - Winners were announced this morning! Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated! You have already received your tokens for participating/winning and if you won PickAxis store credit, that will be applied to your account for when our store is live. November Top Voters - As a thank you to those who voted the most for PickAxis throughout November, we are giving the top 3 voters some extra tokens. A lot of extra tokens, actually! Be sure to vote throughout December to win Top Voter! December's top voters will receive even greater prizes, as it will be the first full month of voting. Winter Lobby & Challenges - Thanks to everyone who helped decorate our lobby for winter! You will find some fun challenges near the spawn point. There will be more challenges added daily. Hope you can find your way through the riddles! Santa's Missing Heads! - There are 20 missing Santa heads in the lobby. Can you find them all? Let us know if you can. Good luck! What's Coming? Real-money Store - If you would like to give to PickAxis, your chance is coming. We hope to have the store up within a few days. Watch the announcements for updates. Surprise Server - We've been testing a new server that has promise to be a ton of fun! We'll keep working hard and start giving hints about it soon. Surprise Winter Minigame - We're not 100% sure this is coming, but we are working to make it happen. Keep your eyes peeled and your throwing arm at the ready.

PWU (PickAxis Weekly Update) - 11/20/14 What's New? Tokens! You can now earn 50 tokens a day from voting and in the near future even more from winning minigames and/or contests. Do /tokens to see your balance and /shop to spend your tokens on each server. Need help? Ask below or find a staff member. Double jump & Glider in the lobby: <3 This glider plugin was made especially for PickAxis. Let portalBlock know how much you love it...and try not to just hang out in the lobby and jump all night (like I tend to do). Voting: We are now listed on 5 different MC server lists. Voting for our server makes us more visible to those looking for a new MC home. Please help us rise in the lists to attract the MC-homeless. We can and will show them a loving home. Remember to vote every 24 hours! Forum trophies: By now you will have seen little icons under your name on forum posts. These are trophies that represent events you participate in, contests you win, or any other little reason we see to reward trophies. How many can you collect? What's Coming? Heroes vs. Villains Build Contest!: helios8385 is in charge of getting our next build contest up and running. Building should start this weekend sometime. Good luck to everyone! Surprise server: There is a server that, if we start getting enough players on, we will launch in the next few weeks. Who's excited? This girl is!