**Welcome to Majora - HalfastMC Season 5 Update (1.21.1)**

Welcome to Season 5, everyone! The new map name will be Majora. To those who know, *Legend of Zelda* is one of my all-time favorite franchises, so you’ll probably notice a *LoZ* theme here and there. The server will open at 4PM EST today (In about two hours from now)

I’ve tried to keep things pretty similar to how everything was run last map, but there are some changes, both large and small, to take note of.

**World Border**

The world border will start at 3K in all directions and increase later on in the Season. The Nether will be at 2K.
Due to the rapid pace at which Minecraft has been releasing updates, I found it best to keep the world border small to start, so if there are map-changing updates, it’ll be very easy for us to access them later on. Thanks to one of the plugins we’ve installed, chests and loot will auto-replenish, so you don’t have to worry about discovering empty chests in dungeons. However, with the addition of Vaults, there will be plenty to do in this map.
More details to come on when the border increases will happen.

**The End**

The End will be disabled for a month. This will allow everyone a chance to build up, explore the overworld and nether, and not feel rushed to get to the dragon. Another reason is that I have larger plans for custom dragons and loot in the End, but I haven’t had the chance to implement them yet, so this buys me a bit more time. I know Shulker boxes are important, so there will be a shop in Spawn where you can get Shulker boxes in exchange for *ETH*. Right now, the price is 5 ETH = 1 Shulker Box.

When the time comes, the End will open up with a temporary portal in Spawn, so everyone will have a chance to take on the dragons. More details to come on this later next month, but please be patient—I’ve got a very busy schedule.

**Claims**

Claims will be mostly the same as last Season, but this time we’re starting out with only **one claim per player.** At the end of the month, this will increase to two. When the End opens up, it’ll increase to three claims per person.

Spawn is now grounded, with the addition of four very long bridges that connect to the wild. You can claim next to any of these bridges and build—however, building here is subject to me telling you to change it for any reason. No health beacons, farms, withers, traps, etc. If I see something I don’t like, I’ll ask you to take it down.

**Blood Moons**

Right now, Blood Moons are similar to last Season, except for the rewards they drop. They currently only drop extra EXP and extra vanilla drops. Later in the Season, I’ll be adding custom drops like last time—I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

**Top Survivor**

Top Survivor is still the same as last season, but the prizes haven’t been put on display yet. The plugin we use to manage them had a huge update, and I haven’t gotten around to updating that yet, so in the meantime, TS will still go on, but you probably won’t be able to claim your keys for a bit. I’ll also be working on getting some new prizes made—so stay tuned.

**Vote Rewards**

ETH and claimblocks are still rewards for voting, so make sure to get your votes in! Potion rewards are broken, but I plan to fix this later this week.

**Overall State of the Server**

I’ve been trying my best to meet the timeline that I sent out last month, but as I’ve said over and over again, I’ve been quite busy and haven’t had time to implement all the things I wanted. Friendly reminder that this place isn’t called a half-assed server for nothin’! Hope you guys enjoy the start of the season, though.