Rocket Riders

Minecraft Version Support

Gameplay Changes

Utilities:

• The Impact Utilities game rule is now off by default, where projectiles now can still deploy if they hit something within 4 ticks (0.25 seconds) of its normal deployment time.
• Arrows are no longer restricted to 4 while the Item Stacking game rule is enabled.
• Vortices once again have a “primed“ state that they enter after being approached once. This state is clearly distinguished by its larger size, faster spin speed, and subtle shaking. The primed state can see players from further away.
• The leaves of canopies no longer delete blocks while the canopy is deploying.
• Cluster Fireballs and Obsidian Shields that are being pushed slowly by a water stream will not deploy/split. This now requires a minimum speed of 2 blocks per second.
• Fireballs more consistently burn canopies when exploding near them.
• Deflecting an Obsidian Shield is more effective as their deployment now gets delayed by 0.5 seconds when they are punched.
• Throwable utilities breaking or failing to deploy will now show the thrower a red action bar message.

Crusade Mode:

• Arrows shot through damage spells in Crusade Mode will absorb the spell, destroying the spell and converting the arrow into a Wither Arrow. If the Wither Arrow lands on the ground, it can be picked up by any archer and used later.
• Arrows are no longer restricted to 4 for archers.
• The end crystals that protect each team’s portal are once again called “Nexuses”, which was accidentally removed at some point.
• Some aspects of the Castle map have been tweaked.
• Some of the tips have been changed.

Capture The Flag Mode:

• Flags in CTF Mode are now 1 block further back when the Hardcore modifier is enabled, rather than hanging over the edge.
• The CTF Mode exclusive Overtime game rule is now remembered separately from the Tiebreakers game rule.
• While a flag in CTF Mode is being lowered, the glass will be gray. It will also be unbreakable until 9 ticks before it can be captured (only 1 tick before when the Instamine modifier is enabled).
• Capturing a flag in CTF Mode while the Hardcore modifier is enabled now requires you to go further back towards your base.

Other Game Modes:

• The region of blocks that get destroyed when the Powerups Platform deactivates has been extended down by 3 blocks.
• The checkered flag in Chase Mode is now 1 block further back when the Hardcore modifier is enabled.
• Space around the base of the checkered flag pole in Chase Mode is now cleared if a missile or utility is deployed or pushed inside of it.
• The bases in the pre game queue will alternate between colors in Swap Mode, to hide what team will have which set of items first.
• Nova Rockets are now stackable in Sandbox Mode.

Miscellaneous:

• The Punchable TNT modifier’s physics has been tweaked:
  • Punches deal 25% more knockback.
  • The player’s velocity has 20% less effect.
  • TNT will now bounce off of any immediately adjacent wall when punched, not just the ground, unless a block on that wall is a honey block.
• Players can now join a team during the tie window before a win has been confirmed.
• Leave messages will no longer appear after a win has been confirmed (for players exiting to the lobby early).
• You can now shift-click the Restore Default Base Details sign to remove all base details instead.
• It is no longer possible to obtain infinite arrows in the pre-game queue by repeatedly shooting your arrows at the ground then leaving and rejoining.
• Added a “Version Info“ page to the pause screen and to the Navigation Book.
• In CubeKrowd public lobbies, there is now a 1% chance of a match (in any game mode) starting with classic Missile Wars team colors (red and green) rather than the normal Rocket Riders team colors (blue and yellow).

Audiovisual Changes

• Updated the look of the bases in Swap Mode to make the light and dark teams far more distinctive, and made the arena as a whole more visually unique from other modes:
  • The middle and front colors of the yellow team’s base are now black & orange respectively when dark (changed from orange & yellow).
  • The accent and detailing colors on base details now both match the white/black block of the middle base layer, and the main color matches the the front layer.
  • If white glass panes appear in any base details, those will also be updated to be black when the team is in dark mode.
• The hue of the yellow team's armor in Swap Mode while it is dark has been shifted to more of a dark orange rather than a murky yellow.
• ICBM items are now called “I.C.B.M.“ instead.
• Each boss bar in Crusade Mode now individually gives more information about the team that it represents, and says that its nexuses are destroyed when it reaches 0.
• Added the “Flight Duration“ tooltip to all throwable utilities, Nova Rockets, and Obsidian Shields.
• Added a tooltip description for Obsidian Shield items.
• Missile item prefixes are given a contrasting color to the team color in Chase Mode when the player’s color matches with the prefix’s standard color.
• Added some new win splashes.
• Win messages now say “ Team Wins!“ rather than “Team Won!“
• End Crystals in Chase Mode are now called Chase Crystals.
• The color patterns of base details for the checkered base in Chase Mode have been tweaked.
• Updated the texture of the Chase Crystal chase blocks in Chase Mode.
• The checkered flag in Chase Mode now glows when the Sonar modifier is enabled.
• The nexuses in Crusade Mode now glow when the Sonar modifier is enabled.
• The fog and ambient light in the parkour area has been removed, so the parkour area is once again a fully pitch black void. (Experimental Only)
• The action bar error messages for failing to obtain arrows, tipped arrows, and canopies (in CTF mode) now say “Maximum already obtained“ rather than only “ already obtained” which previously implied a maximum of one.
• Damage spells have additional particles and sounds for when they break.
• The warning in the Elytra tooltip about breaking near the enemy base is no longer present when giving yourself an unbreakable elytra in Sandbox Mode.
• “You have too many items, so you can't get any more.“ is now “All usable slots are filled; you cannot receive new types of items“.
• The blocks behind signs in the Customizer will change to light gray when locked by a game mode.
• Added social media links for Zeronia to the Rocket Riders menu in the pause screen, added our BlueSky link, and added icons for each site.
• Removed the elipsis from the Rocket Riders button in the pause menu.
• Removed the additional welcome message from CubeKrowd lobbies.
• The secret message buttons in the lobby now produce grey and italic text.
• The secret levers will now reset whenever there’s no one in the lobby.
• Updated the text on some secret signs.
• Shields breaking or deploying now produce 50% white particles and 50% team color particles.
• Splashes and Lava Splashes now have particles and sounds for when they are thrown out of bounds.

Admin Changes

• Admin functions have been renamed:
  • admin:enable_death_messages → admin:death_messages/on
  • admin:disable_death_messages → admin:death_messages/off
  • admin:enable_splash_messages → admin:splash_messages/on
  • admin:disable_splash_messages → admin:splash_messages/off
  • admin:enable_team_balancing → admin:team_balancing/on
  • admin:disable_team_balancing → admin:team_balancing/off
  • admin:enable_titles → admin:titles/on
  • admin:disable_titles → admin:titles/off
  • admin:unlock_modification_room → admin:modification_room/on
  • admin:lock_modification_room → admin:modification_room/off
  • admin:repeat_forever → admin:repeat_forever/on
  • admin:repeat_stop → admin:repeat_forever/off
• Added admin functions for showing debug messages in the server console. These aren’t strictly meant to be used as they only show very specific things that are relevant to us as developers.
  • admin:show_debug_logs/on
  • admin:show_debug_logs/off

Resource Pack Changes

• The custom model data ID for the Surprise Egg item has been changed from surprise_missile/all to surprise_egg.
• The custom model data ID for the Celebratory Fireworks item has been changed from celebratory_fireworks to celebratory_firework.

Fixed Bugs

• Archers in Crusade Mode could not pick up arrows after throwing and moving away from them.
• Thrown arrow items could be picked up during the closing phase.
• The checkered base in Chase Mode had started regenerating its back layer in 1.3.
• Join pads in Chase Mode had stopped producing rainbow particles in 1.3.
• Cannon base details on the checkered base in Chase Mode contained yellow glazed terracotta.
• Nova Rockets’ trail particles appeared vertically offset from the rocket’s location.
• Particles produced by yellow vortices moved differently than those from blue vortices while chasing a player.
• Particles produced by stationary vortices in Chase Mode were larger than the same particles in any other game mode.
• The color of the middle section of the checkered base in Chase Mode was a different color in the pre-game queue area than in the arena.
• The winner in Chase Mode respawned inside of the flag pole rather than in front of it.
• The flag support blocks in hardcore CTF Mode would regenerate even if a player was nearby.
• The blocks in the back base layers in CTF Mode and Chase Mode would not regenerate if there were spectators near them.
• The blocks in the floors of bases in Crusade Mode would not regenerate if there were spectators near them.
• The obsidian at the base of the flag in Chase Mode was not placed correctly while the Hardcore modifier was enabled.
• Some of the obsidian at the base of the flag in Chase Mode could be overwritten and would not regenerate itself, unlike the rest of the obsidian around it.
• Bedrock pathways in the The Castle map did not line up correctly with all of the archways.
• The stationary dummy vortex in the lobby used the wrong particle color when not looking at a player.
• Pluralization in the I.C.B.M. tooltip was incorrect.
• Blue team banner colors in Crusade Mode were inconsistent.
• Players could interact with blocks such as cannon buttons, and missile trapdoors/fence gates during the closing phase.
• The parkour timer in the action bar lingered when leaving or finishing the parkour course.
• The flag carrier action bar message lingered when capturing a flag.
• Deploying a shield near the back of the base in CTF Mode would delete all of its white stained glass.
• Spectators could fly into the lobby through the arena ceiling.
• Some obsidian blocks in the team base frames near spawnpoints did not always regenerate correctly in Powerups Mode, allowing it to be replaced by spawning missiles and utilities inside of it.
• The “Simple and Easy” achievement was impossible to achieve in Crusade Mode.
• The “Swiss Cheese“ achievement required far fewer air blocks in the base to be broken in Crusade Mode.
• A column of air appeared in the middle of the map in Crusade Mode whenever a team won.
• The Flag of Shameful Loss showed “Unbreakable“ in the tooltip.
• Obsidian Shields could be used to break portals.
• Spawning a Fireball or Obsidian Shield on the ceiling would spawn it inside of that ceiling rather than below it.
• Fireballs pushed by water streams would continue to create flame particles after it had stopped moving.
• The central Cluster Fireball would sometimes explode upon splitting.
• Punctuation in the actionbar was inconsistent.
• Nova Rockets would not create a firework burst when exploding on a Vortex.
• “Ingame“ was missing a hyphen.
• The Achievements menu took you back to the main pause screen when exiting, rather than navigating backwards normally.
• The Achievements menu was visible in the pause screen, even if achievements were not enabled (the main CK server modes).
• Conditional win splashes had started showing nothing if their condition failed rather than falling back to the default win splash message.
• Late join messages had stopped appearing on CubeKrowd.
• The secret paintings in the lobby would sometimes not change when their pressure plate was stood on.
• Some decorative signs in the lobby train could be interacted with.
• Joining the world with too many tags or attribute modifiers could cause an invalid state and erase your Rocket Riders player data.
• Utilities could sometimes hit the world border, but other times would break before impact. They now always break when thrown within 2 blocks of the world border.
• Splashes and lava splashes could be used to break your own team’s portal when Snipe Portals was enabled.