We are loving how everyone is responding to SkyWars - it's more popular than we came ever close to imagining.

With this update our goal is to incentivize taking risks leaving your island. Additionally, we did a ton of balance changes that can only come from large scale play testing.

• Starting kit now consists of just a Stone Sword and an Iron Pickaxe
• Made all Boom Boxes, except the Knockback one, throw-able (Right click/interact with air to throw it)
• Added "Knockback Boom Box" - only works on yourself, use it to "Island-Hop" or get away quickly!
• Added Life Spell (A heart will appear above the players head for clear gameplay)
• Mystery Chest: slightly improved rate of snowballs. Added spells, better diamond armor and arrows
• Added 4x "Epic Chests" to each middle island where things like + Diamond Armor can be found (they are the Ender chests)
• Lowered Diamond Ore spawn rate
• Diamond Ore no longer spawns 'useless' diamond tools
• Lucky/Gold Ore no longer spawns (useless) tools, planks or wood. Instead, they can now spawn Andesite
• Resource Ore spawns Andesite instead of planks and concrete
• Reduced duplicates in chests
• You can no longer move outside the world border

Previous changes:

• Heavily reduced snowball drop rate
• Added tracking compass

We will continue to watch everything as time goes on. We are always here to listen if the feedback is thought out and not an angry reaction from losing a single game.

Good luck in your games!