Q2 2026 Town Hall Summary
Preshow
Banning capo.
It’s very hot in Europe.
Nickster doesn’t like to bring out his southern accent.
Main topics
Kopia
Cleaned backups, switched to Kopia as a backup paradigm.
Creating snapshots should be smoother now and it also fixed some issues with Patrick due to storage limits.
Daily restarts start on 9:00 UTC now, going through every server one by one, each one taking about 5 minutes.
ChattORE
Bubbles (temporary chat channels) feature is almost finished.
Toggle for fun commands.
Compact chat mode.
Player nicknames showing up in /msg, join / leave messages, etc.
Permissions
Getting opinions on /ignore and /plot deny commands.
- players expressed an interest for this functionality
Unifying permissions for World Edit between /build, /school and /boat.
Considering enabling plot flags for players (weather, time, interactions, etc.)
Misc
Encoding Bee and Shrek movies.
New pets on /hub - hopefully they are invincible.
If you have a cool seasonal idea, DM a staff member.
Staff incident handling consistency
- public audit log
- Pishle loves the idea
- more transparency - more good, duh
Staff projects threads.
Questions from public
give engi 512 plot size (default mchprs plot size) wen
~ModPunchtree
We should give engineers access to claim more plots on their own.
is there on ORE mcphrs?
~Pishleback
Techncially there is one that is on 1.20, needs updating.
There is a plan to make a proper working MCHPRS ORE server eventually.
seeing discord channels in game
~jacklak
Just open Discord.
nick make chungus 3 wen
Nick went on a great tangent showing his 2012 high tech and talking about his great ideas such as prime numbers CPU.