Whenever you're exploring and you face tall grass, you're never sure what's hiding behind it. Worse, if you're playing in science areas, you can't hit mobs through it. What a bother.

We have added a new server plugin to solve exactly this: if you try to attack an enemy through any tall plant, your hit will carry instead of being stopped by the scenery. Thanks to GodofRandom23 for the suggestion!

Welcome to the second month of the year already, with a fresh set of challenges:

• Ongoing Chinese New Year
• Grindatron results
• Hunter's Lodge
• Horsemen Quests
• Guilds tasks

Scattered across Laurasia are many sites with lore and history. These places are near and far. Rich with stories of travel and triumph. Be one of the first three to find all 8 and return to Central with a token from each one to win a prize!

This Saturday, at the start of Event Night, Groovy would like to invite you to an event. The event will take place on the newly completed Buddha island (which he asks you not visit until the event). The event will be a scavenger hunt locating 8 special items hidden accross the island. Specific details will follow on Event Night. First, second and third prize will get very nice shulkers full of goodies as well as the traditional merit points awards for events. Additionally, anyone who finds all the items will be awarded a shulker of goodies as well. The event will start at the beginning of event night, we will meet at Groovy's nether hub which is located on the east line out of Ender Station. Once you get to Ender Station just look for the GroovyBanana sign, go down that line, run past the portal till you get to the Nether Hub. See you there!

Chinese New Year has come once again and this year, it's the Year of the Rabbit! This means the Year Dealer has a new book for you.

To better integrate your online identity, we now have a proper way to link up the accounts you use for the Creeper's Lab and Discord!

Happy New Year to all! Here's your monthly rotation of challenges and events:

• Grindatron returns to Kenorland
• Hunter's Lodge
• Horsemen Quests
• Guilds tasks

The network has been updated to 1.19.3, which contains bug fixes and improvements as usual. Java players, it's recommended that you use the latest version for the best results, but we have also kept the compatibility with previous versions up to 1.19.2. Bedrock players, you always want to be on the latest one!

One specific game setting has been changed for Superia: in that world only, lava will now behave like water with the lavaSourceConversion game rule. If you're hoping to create or change lava lakes and keep a nice, flat top to them, this is for you! There are no plans to do this on any other worlds.

Our resource packs have been updated to show as being compatible in-game. No other changes are included within.

Space ships might make no noises in space, but you can definitely hear the comments that onlookers will give on them! Our group of judges went to visit the hangar and assigned scores on each entry of our latest building contest. Here are our top three winners!

1st place: GroovyBanana
2nd place: StTheo
3rd place: AnomalousSparrow

Congratulations to everyone! The full list of entries along with screenshots and judges comments are now available on the contest results page. Feel free to drop by the hangar to see them in person, the location itself is worth a detour too!

Rewards will be handed out winner-to-winner starting by the first position, while participation prizes have already been distributed. For more on this, get in touch with Andrew!

Happy start of the holidays season, everyone! For you this month:

• A new Seasonal challenge
• The advent calendar returns
• Christmas cards
• Science and guilds updates