Salutations!

As we near the "Holiday Season" we're often bombarded by one in particular... You may already be seeing the merchandise out already, conveniently skipping two other holidays!

Here over in Miranda, the Super C decided to fight the major corporate greed by celebrating HALLOWEEN instead! That's right, we're giving October a bit of love.

Okay? What exactly is involved? Well, for the entire month of October, Contractor's Evening will be enabled. That's October 1st through Halloween, October 31st. Allowing you plenty of time to get any major builds (hopefully some awesome Halloween themed builds) accomplished in Miranda.

Maybe the community can get together and add a new town? Something creeeepy? :)

For those who are new, or need a refresher: Miranda is an affiliate server made for larger scale builds or those who bemoan gathering resources. There's a store at spawn, that you can gain access with a single iron ingot to give you stacks of all major building blocks, as much as you can carry. So you don't have to spend hours gathering materials for your build. Plus, Keep Inventory is on full time, so you don't have to worry about losing it all if you happen to fall off your build.

Contractor's Evening (Not to be confused with Events Night on the sLab)is usually on Wednesdays at 6PM EST. During it, a shrine at spawn is active. One push of the button at said shrine will grant you the power of flight until you tap the button again, or disconnect.

Quick reminder of the rules, Creeper's Lab rules apply with a few addendums.
1: Trusted rank required to join.
2: No mob, iron, gold, or other auto-farms.
3: Build awesome things.

tl;dr
Contractor's Evening will be active October 1st through October 31s to celebrate Halloween and kick Christmas in the head.

As many of you already noticed, a big challenge coming from Minecraft 1.14 is a lack of performance: slowdowns are fairly common. This isn't tied to our hardware, as the game itself is known for running slow in multiple situations.

I've done some setting tuning on Laurasia in the past 10 days to try to improve the situation, and the results so far have been positive. I've now extended this to the other servers, hopefully giving us a smoother gameplay experience!

The September challenge is now live! This month, we're doing something a bit different: a special map is available, where your mission is to destroy as much of it as you can! You've read that right - grab your best griefing tools and go nuts on an established place. We want this done properly, though, and not recklessly, because we care. If you accidentally die, you'll be kicked off the world for a full week, following the UHC rules. Workers safety first! To ensure that the spawn point remains usable, a 50x50 area around it is protected.

If you hang around a bit, you might even get a surprise... or two... or three... or...

Since tracking exactly who deals the most damage is difficult, we won't even try: anyone registered who enters Kenorland this month will get 5 Merit Points.

Have fun!