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Admin team addition​

Hey everyone,

We are super excited to announce that @Mr. Dumpling is joining our team as an admin as a development project manager who will very closely be working with the developers and will help oversee and manage the developer team and the development priorities. Excitingly enough, he has been fulfilling those responsibilities for a few months now, but now with being on the team...

 

Hey y’all! Today I’m announcing a SUMMER KICKOFF SALE and some changes to how we do sales on DiamondFire.

For the last several years, we’ve offered a whopping 75% off ranks on Black Friday. This has an unfortunate effect on the rest of the year. It feels wasteful to just buy a rank when you want it, because it’ll be so much (4x!) cheaper if you wait for Black Friday. That means up to 12 months of waiting where you can’t enjoy the rank.

We don’t want to pressure players into waiting...

 

VIP Pass launch announcement:

Q: Can I purchase the VIP Pass for a limited time, without auto-renewal?
A: Yes. However you cannot currently prepay more than 1 month of VIP.

Q: If my VIP pass expires, will I lose access to the perks?
A: Generally, yes. Some plots may handle this differently, so be sure to check /vip perks on each plot for more detailed information.

Q: How are VIP plot creators compensated?
A: Our current structure is we commission VIP content, to be...

 

I am incredibly excited to announce the new DiamondFire VIP Pass!

It gives you access to exclusive premium content and perks in some of DF's top games. Our launch plots include Site-03, Sputt Time, +1 Clicker, God Abuse, Orig 4, Be Crushed By a Speeding Wall, Trash Gang, Subterranean, and Pickaxe. We have even more plots on the way!

A bit about how it works: DiamondFire pays plot creators to add new content for the VIP pass. As I'm sure you've guessed, these payments...

 

Hello all!

Something we've been thinking about a lot is: is the creator points system good for DF? Way back when I added CP I was inspired by competitive online games and figured such a framework could be adapted to DF. As time has gone on though, it seems increasingly out of place in a creative and learning-focused environment. When you play a competitive online game, you expect competitive systems that compare you against other players. On a creative platform, you don’t expect that, and...

 

Hey everyone!

We are proud to announce the return of @MrMine05 to the DiamondFire Admin team! He will be working with @Numero on events. He's got some awesome plans, and we hope everyone gives him a warm welcome back!

For more information on DiamondFire events, stay tuned here on the forums and at our Discord server under the event announcements.

 

- Website update -
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Hey everyone! We are excited to announce that the website has been updated to a new software patch, which introduces lots of new features to the community who use the forums! The new features are now being utilized to help make the website an even more awesome place for everyone here.

Some of the new patch features that affects the community:

• Profile banners​
  • Attach a fancy image to your forum account. This is currently...​

 

Hey everyone,

This upcoming Wednesday, I will be hosting a music session over at DiamondFire's Discord community server.

> Information

Times:
1:30 PM PST,
3:30 PM UTC,
4:30 PM EST.

You can convert the times using your own timezone by clicking here, or clicking on the Events tab over the Discord server. The community will be able to suggest songs or add them to the queue. Keep in mind that any NSFW or...

 

Welcome to the 5.3 patch notes! A shortened version of these patch notes can be found in game.


Major Additions/Changes

There are some major code-related additions this patch! They are listed here.

Vectors

"Committing crimes with both direction and magnitude!"

Vectors are a new code value...

 

Hey everyone! Patch 5.4.2 has been released.

Original announcement @Jeremaster

In this update, we’ve reworked the event prize ticket system. Prize tickets no longer expire, and they stack now! This means you can save up tickets across multiple events. Note that prices in the ticket shop have been adjusted accordingly. Special thanks to @ADumbChicken for his work on shop re-balancing, and @Reason for being the main driver and implementer of this rework.

This...

 

Hi all! As many of you know, we began testing world plots on Node Beta yesterday. Through this, we gained a lot of helpful user feedback, as well as important information on the server resource usage patterns of the world plots system.

Background​

World plots have been planned for a long time as a way to make the server capacity more scalable as our playerbase grows. The system would offer better plot isolation and stability, as described in our previous dev blog. Development of world...

 

Team addition​

We are very excited to have @hibao aboard our admin team! Through awesome building, project management, and leading a build team and build project, hibao was confidently chosen to be on the admin team as a build team leader! A lot of the work has already been shown—the new Node 7 "Blossom" spawn was a massive build project led and managed by hibao and resulted in an astonishing build with a massive lore and background, and not to mention an alternate...

 

Hey everyone! Node 6 and Node 7 has officially been launched!

• Node 6 ("Canyon") features the winner of our spawn contest, an excellent build by the Aspire build team! A big thanks and congratulations to CortaPlague, SylvTheSpoon, okspaghettisalad, Lil_Hoodie, Clone3A7
• Node 7 ("Meadow") features a classic spawn by DragonSlasher02. Long-time DiamondFire veterans will remember this one!

For a limited...

 

Patch 5.4.1 has been released!​

This is a small patch adding mostly convenience features and some missing actions.
Highlights include:

• Negative numbers are now rounded correctly.
• There are now actions to manipulate lecterns.
• /rs works in spawn.
• The tab list is now sorted by rank.
• Game Action: Generate Tree can no longer bypass plot borders.
• The Jukebox gadget now uses the "Note block sounds" category.
• ... and more!

Big thanks to our...

 

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Hi all! Today we're going to talk about a big update coming to DiamondFire that we're currently working on. We'll be looking at what's planned and what you should be aware of regarding this update.

Background​

Currently, your plot is stored on a...

 

Hello everyone! It's DiamondFire's 7 Year Anniversary! The server has grown a lot in the past year. To those of you who are new this year, welcome! To those of you who have been here since nearly the beginning, a very special thanks to y'all. We wouldn't be here today without you!

Special shoutouts to the staff team for taking on the challenge of increased player counts and providing an excellent experience for players. Thanks to the efforts of our support staff, moderators, event planners...

 

Hey everyone!

We are thrilled to announce three new developers who are now aboard the development team: @KabanFriends, @Vattendroppen, and @Reason. They will be working with each other to create new DiamondFire systems and features to be released in future patches. Make sure to give them a round of applause and to congratulate them!

 

Update: The sale has concluded. Thank you to everyone who supported the server!​

BLACK FRIDAY IS HERE​

From now until 11:59PM Friday (PST):

All ranks are 75% OFF. This makes Overlord $25 or less!

All plots and boosters are 50% OFF. This makes basic plots just $1 apiece!

There is also a Special Offer, limited to one per player: A massive plot PLUS a 2x booster for just $5.

Enjoy our biggest sale of the year, and...

 

Patch 5.4

I'm happy to announce that Patch 5.4 has been released!

This update comes with a great new code feature. the dictionary data structure. Dictionaries hold key-value pairs, similar to tables. You can use them to store information and retrieve them with keys. With efficient lookup times and a variety of supported code actions, dictionaries should become a valuable tool in everyone's coding toolkit.

This update also introduces some new cosmetics for fun times...

 

Update: The server is back online.

FAQ
Here are the "Frequently Asked Questions"

Spoiler: Reveal

• Q: What happened?
  • A: There was a security incident where some DiamondFire services were breached. We took the server offline for around 4 hours to investigate the issue and take appropriate countermeasures.
• Q: Did anything happen to my plots?
  • A: No. Your plots are all fine, as well as your tokens and other data.
• Q: Is my data safe? Was...

 

Hi all! I had the opportunity to present DiamondFire at Snap!con 2021, a virtual conference for computer science educators and researchers hosted by the University of California at Berkeley. Here's the video that was included in the presentation: