Discord Announcement: 2025-11-07T23:39:01.904000+00:00

Hey, just wanted to remind everyone that i’m collecting any of y’all’s named boats from the boat race. Collected boats will be added to the museum wall with your name, along with the past two years of raceboats!

<:sign:300497505479819265> **Contraption Contest 2025**<:redstone:300493802068770817>

Now its time for **you** to show what you can create by using redstone and craftbook.👷‍♂️

You can get to the event location through the Event Hub and the corresponding teleport pad. To participate you will need to replace the sign on **one** free plot and put your name on it. You can also name your creation if you want to.

❗ **Please read the rules on the signs at the location before building**❗

*You have until: to finish your creation.*

The contraptions will be judged by @fuzbol., @.link03 and me. **The criteria for judging wiill be creativity, use of redstone and use of craftbook.**

— With the kind regards
@maurermz

**__Free Speech Under Attack__**

Dear friends, I don’t often post announcements of this sort, but I feel it’s very important for you all to know what’s currently going on.

From the very start, over 15 years ago, one of the key founding principles of MinecraftOnline has been [free speech](https://minecraftonline.com/wiki/Free_Speech). What started out as an uncontroversal, common sense policy, has proved to be a cornerstone of this increasingly unique community. As time has passed and Western society has wavered back and forth in its political leanings, free speech has repeatedly come under attack for political reasons. It has now become common to see arrests for posts on social media in countries such as Britain and Germany, in the name of political control, which have overtaken the numbers even of traditionally totalitarian countries such as China and Russia – a truly dystopian nightmare for freedom of expression and personal liberty.

Throughout this decade and a half of change, MinecraftOnline has held steadfast to its libertarian principles, and remained an oasis of freedom and openness in an increasingly closed and controlled internet. That is, until now.

Microsoft, through their subsidiary Mojang, have issued an ultimatum to MinecraftOnline. We have been told to do away with our free speech policy (which long pre-dates Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang), within 7 days, or face a a permanent block. If that happens, nobody will be able to play on MinecraftOnline again, and the 15-year history of this beloved server will come to a sudden and bitter end. The full email we have received today, signed facelessly only as “Mojang Enforcement”, is included below.

The email makes extremely vague claims about “harmful interactions” and “harmful comments”, and we are asking Microsoft to clarify what specific interactions and comments they consider harmful. In the meantime, please spread the word, share this info on social media. Defend free speech.

-SlowRiot