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Good evening mineblr,

Halloween is here on Parallel! 🎃

Not only are there spooky scary skeletons sending shivers down your spine, but also there are some awesome new Halloween changes that have arrived! Let's get into them:

First up, the entire spawn town has been redecorated to look more revolting and repulsive than ever! Check out dozens of new Halloween displays and hidden secrets (more than we've ever added before), including one very special puzzle by our builder KJwacky that you'll have to acquire some items for...

Next, the Haunted House has made its grand return! To get there, head to the left of the clock tower in the center of the spawn town. Be sure to follow its directions for the optimal frightening experience!

And finally, 10 new Halloween candies have been added! Eating them will give you a random, albeit brief, buff. You can get them by trick-or-treating throughout the spawn town or by killing certain hostile mobs! Can you find all of the candy bowls in the spawn town? Each candy is dropped by one specific mob, so you'll have to figure out which ones they are!

There will also be an all-new Halloween event coming closer to Halloween, but for now, we can't wait to see you all online in your spookiest temperaments!

Happy Halloween,

- The Parallel Team

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[parallelmc]

Hey Mineblr,

Thank you all for participating in the Costume Competition! Every skin submitted was a masterful stroke in spooky creativity and effort!

The results of the contest

> 1st Place - DjMiner369

> 2nd Place - FaeLight

> 3rd Place - PoolOfZol

We also have some nifty Halloween hats that you can claim:

- Pumpkin Hat - get it from the spawn town kiosk until Friday, November 3, 11:59 PM EST

- White Plague Doctor Mask - buy it from Hal's Hat Shop (for a limited time)!

- Black Plague Doctor Mask - buy it from Hal's Hat Shop (for a limited time)!

- Pink Plague Doctor Mask - win it from VoteParty chests (for a limited time)!

- Another Mystery Hat (???) - coming soon!

We aren't quite done with spooky stuff yet, so stay tuned!

Eerily yours,

The Parallel Team

Parallel is a Java Semi-Vanilla SMP serving Java 1.20+ Clients

Our server IP is play.parallelmc.org

Find us on Discord at

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Daily Parallel SMP | Otherside Spawn Town

See for yourself on Java 1.20+ IP play.parallelmc.org

[parallelmc]

Hey Mineblr,

We know you're all excited for tomorrow's release of 1.20 and Part 2 of the Community Update. We're here to announce that **the update will drop at 3:00 PM EST !** Be sure to hop on right at the start to be the first ones to explore new 1.20 chunks (& for a special event!), complete with tons of new structures, our very own custom dungeon system, and dozens of other revamped fan favorites. Pretty much every structure has been updated to either generate more seamlessly or just be more awesome in general!

Also, there will be a few extra Community Update-specific features to top off Part 2, with the rest of the features coming in Part 3.

*See you there!*

**-The Parallel Team**

Parallel is a semi-vanilla SMP currently updating to Java 1.20. We reopen Sunday, July 16, at 3:00 PM EST.

IP: play.parallelmc.org

Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax

[parallelmc]

Hey everyone,

While the Parallel Team is busy working tirelessly on Part 3 of the Community Update, we've whipped up something else to bring to you...

Introducing PARALLEL HEIGHTS!

Have you ever wanted to live in a high-rise apartment building with all of your friends? Do you want to be part of an eclectic area where things are always happening? Welcome to **Parallel Heights,** your brand new home away from home!

To get to Parallel Heights, head to the portal pad at spawn or head behind Nojoe tower at the back left of the Shopping District. Be sure to read the InfoBooks at the front desk (and say hi to Buddy, hard at work!) and then click the sign to deposit 100 riftcoins and get build access! Once you've done that, head upstairs to claim a vacant room and get started on creating your very own personalized apartment room!

Parallel Heights is also complete with a cafe run by one of our builders, Asher, an indoor pool, a working elevator, and much more! We're also open to suggestions for decoration, and players with apartment access actually have building access to everywhere upstairs!

We hope that Parallel Heights gives all of you a neat little extra thing to do in the interim before our last part of the Community Update, and we can't wait to see what all of your rooms become!

*Happy $2800/month rent,*

**The Parallel Team**

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Daily Parallel SMP | “Gaysa” Bolt Minigame map

Be proud all year on 1.20 IP play.parallelmc.org

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Looking to enter or leave your server in style? As part of our Community Update Part 2, we have added custom join and leave messages for players! As your donor rank and voter rank increases, you get access to more custom messages.

Parallel is a semi-vanilla Java SMP serving 1.20-1.20.1 clients.

Our IP is play.parallelmc.org

Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax

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Daily Parallel SMP | Excavation Site

Finish the job on Java 1.20+ IP play.parallelmc.org

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Hey mineblr,

# Part 3 of the Parallel Community Update IS HERE!

This is the final part of the Community Update, complete with a bunch more player-requested features and fixes! Let's get into the main features of this update:

## Entertainment District Overhaul 🎪

The Entertainment District has been rebuilt from the ground up to offer tons more games and activities, a better layout, and clearer directions for games! There are 4 brand new hide and seek arenas, a MASSIVE ice boat racing course, a revamped Red Rose arena, and ~~food trucks~~ much, much more! Want to add games to the District? Come on down and pick some of the fresh land to start building today!

## Proximity Voice Chat 🎙️

By installing the Plasmo Voice Fabric mod, players can now use proximity voice chat in-game! This means that you'll be able to talk to other players directly within Minecraft itself, with the added perk of players getting louder and softer as they get closer to and further away from you! Note that this mod is optional; only the players with the mod installed can hear each other! Be careful speaking in ancient cities, though...

## Pets! 🐶

Donator ranks now have access to tons of different pet mobs, ranging from sheep to camels to even the warden! Additionally, you can change a ton of properties about your pets, and you can even ride them! Check our website page https://parallelmc.org/pets/ to see which ranks have access to which pets!

## Custom Note Block Music

Diamond rank players now have access to the `/music` command, where you can play over 100 different note block songs and have access to the server radio! You can even even buy a special Jukebox from Rudy's Forge to place down in the world and play these songs from! Make your parties that much more awesome with Creeper Aw Man, or rickroll someone within Minecraft itself!

## Tons of New Items 🥫

Gino now sells Pizza and Sushi Rolls, each of which have special effects! Red now sells a Flight Accelerator that you can hold to fly twice as fast in Space! Vanessa Moore now sells two new lore books! Hal now sells a White Top Hat (with more cosmetic items around the corner)! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Also, some of the older fishing items do special things now (check #patch-notes in our Discord)! However, due to internal changes, only __new__ fishing items can be smelted/interacted with. Ask a staff member if you want to swap your old items out for some new ones!

## New Emojis 😍

Five more emojis have been added from our server texture artist, CallMeSquidKid! `:wink:`, `:triumph:`, `:sob:`, `:smile_tear:`, `:rage:`, and `:smiling_imp:`! They are the pixelated versions of these, respectively: 😉, 😤, 😭, 🥲, 😡, and 😈. Go ahead and express yourself more than ever before!

First off, thank you so much for sticking with this slight delay; we've been working crazy hard to squash bugs and glitches. We've had a ton of fun putting together this wacky hodgepodge of features for you over the course of the Community Update this summer; we loved seeing what all of you did with these new additions, and we have big plans for updates to keep on rolling. We'll have a blog post coming out soon that will recap all of the big features for the Community Update, and the trailer will also be coming soon to do that a bit more cinematically! As always, be sure to check the #patch-notes channel in our Discord for all of the specific changes that this update brought!

Happy dancing with your parrot pets,

-The Parallel Team

[parallelmc]

Hey mineblr,

# Parallel's 1.20 update is now LIVE!

That's right - hop in to explore over 140 million new blocks of terrain, featuring cherry orchards, dozens of new and revamped structures, a new procedurally generated dungeon, and some other neat goodies (and there might be something secret happening right now, too)! Let's get into it:

## NEW 1.20 Update 🌸

**Parallel has been equipped with everything that 1.20 has to offer!** Ride a camel, explore cherry biomes, and dig for archaeological discoveries! There's also a new server town, **Cherry Town,** that players can find via the portal pads at spawn and join (this is also a really good way to get out to 1.20 chunks really quickly)! Keep in mind that Cherry Town will be rather barebones, and needs your help to become a real and bustling town!

## New Structures + A New Dungeon System

Thanks to everyone's submissions for the 1.20 Structure Contest, Parallel now has **dozens of new and revamped structures** in new 1.20 chunks (plus some extra secret ones)! Essentially, structures will spawn much more seamlessly now. Also, thanks to the help of our developer UnknownSilicon, you will be able to find **procedurally generated dungeons** throughout the world (look for a spooky-looking house above-ground!) that consist of rooms that everyone built for the Dungeon Contest!

## Custom Join & Leave Messages 🏃‍♂️

Voter and donator ranks now have access to **custom join and leave messages** that you can select to personalize your entrances and exits to/from Parallel! The further you climb with voter and donor ranks, the more messages you will have access to (and more will continuously be added)! To access the messages, type `/joinmessages` or `/leavemessages`!

## Parallel Museum Update 🖼️

The Parallel Museum has been behind in documentation for a while, but it has now been updated to display all events in Parallel's history to the present! Go to the spawn town and have a look for yourself (and reminisce about days of yore)!

## New Emojis 😎

Five more emojis have been added from our texture artist CallMeSquidKid! `flushed`, `sunglasses`, `rolling_eyes`, `accept`, and `deny`! They are the pixelated versions of these, respectively: 😳 😎 🙄 ✅ ❌. Go ahead and express yourself more than ever before!

We hope that you all enjoy Parallel's 1.20 update (and Part 2 of our Community Update!), and keep in mind that Part 3 of the Community Update will be coming later this summer, with a bunch more player-suggested features. As always, be sure to read #⁠patch-notes for all of the specific changes!

*Happy Trails and Tales,*

**The Parallel Team**

Parallel is a Semi-Vanilla Java 1.20 server open to 1.20-1.20.1 clients.

Our IP is play.parallelmc.org

Join us on Discord at

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We have now closed for maintenance as we prepare for the Community Update: Part 2, where we will update to 1.20 and add more new features to the server! In the meantime, join us on our Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax to get news about our activities planned for the meantime. We will reopen on Sunday, July 16.

Parallel is a Semi-Vanilla SMP currently updating to native Java 1.20

Our IP is play.parallelmc.org. We will reopen on July 16, 2023.

[parallelmc]

Hey everyone,

PART 3 OF THE COMMUNITY UPDATE IS COMING THIS SATURDAY!

As summer winds to a close, we are excited to announce that the final part of the Community Update is releasing THIS SATURDAY, August 26th!

For those of you who are new and aren't familiar with what the basis for the Community Update is, this update is a massive hodgepodge of highly-requested features for the server! It expands the horizons of almost everything that makes Parallel unique, and it allows for more player expression, creativity, and individuality.

We have a bunch more features coming this Saturday to round out the Community Update and draw it to a close; new items, new areas, new mechanics, and new donor perks only crack the surface! Check the #teasers channel in our Discord throughout the rest of the week for some sneak peeks, and you can even find some special secrets in the image above! We'll be back in the coming days to give you some more details about what's happening this Saturday.

Lastly, we hope that you've enjoyed all that the Community Update has had to offer thus far; we've had a ton of fun working hard to implement everything in it, and we hope you've had fun playing. Check out the #patch—notes channel in our Discord for Parts 1 and 2 of the Community Update to see if you've missed out on anything that's already been released before Part 3!

Happy community-ing,

The Parallel Team

Parallel is a semi-vanilla Java SMP serving 1.20+ clients

Our IP is play.parallelmc.org

Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax

[parallelmc]

A reminder that we update to 1.20 on July 16! We will be closing the server for maintenance on Wednesday, July 12, at 12:00 PM EST. Don't worry, though, we will have activities for players in the meantime!

Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax to find out more!

Parallel is a semi-vanilla SMP currently serving Java 1.19-1.20 clients.

IP: play.parallelmc.org

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Hey Mineblr,

*If you were at the fireworks show, this was already revealed to you, but mount your camels and sniff your plants, because...*

PARALLEL IS UPDATING TO 1.20 ON JULY 16!

That's right: **Part 2 of the Community Update is coming, and it's headlined by Minecraft's Trails and Tails Update!** Featuring new chunks, new structures, and a bunch more player-suggested features, you won't be disappointed! Travel to the brand new cherry grove biome, deck out your armor with shiny trims, and explore all of the new and exciting Parallel-specific features that will be coming your way!

As always, with every Minecraft version update, Parallel goes down beforehand for a few days of maintenance to ensure that all of our tools and systems are good to go before launch. We're actually going to be giving ourselves an *extra* day of maintenance this time around to prevent any funny business. So, **Parallel will be temporarily closing for maintenance on *Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 12:00 PM EST.* Then, on July 16, we'll see you for the grand re-opening; we'll give a more specific time closer to the release!

We've been working really hard on the latest installment of the Community Update, and we can't wait to have you see what's in store!

*Big things are coming (again),*

**The Parallel Team**

Parallel is a Semi-vanilla SMP on Java 1.19-1.20.

Join us at IP play.parallelmc.org

Find us on Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax

[parallelmc]

Hey Mineblr ,

In honor of the 4th of July, Parallel will be celebrating with its **Annual Fireworks Show followed by another Gamenight TOMORROW at 7:30 PM EST**! Come enjoy the show tomorrow night, located in the back right corner of the Shopping District! Shops that were located there were backed up and will be pasted back following the show, don't worry!

After the show, come hang out on the events server to play some fun minigames (IP:events.parallelmc.org). Hop in vc if you'd like, we will even be able to play a new game or two this time! 👀

*Happy 4th,*

**The Parallel Team** 🎆🎇

Parallel is a Semi-Vanilla SMP for Java 1.19-1.20.

Join us at IP play.parallelmc.org

Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/NctW4Ax.