Vale - A Minecraft Survival Server

Vale Roadmap
First off before starting, I just want to wish you all a merry Christmas and hope that your all having a fantastic time. This post is to show you our future plans for vale and also clarify a few things.

Pixelmon
I have thought long and hard about this, I have finally decided that this pixelmon server will be seperate from vale as I know all of you are concerned about server fragmentation affecting a very small community. If you want to join the pixelmon server you'll have to contact me directly as it would be seen as advertising on the vale discord.

Skyblock
The new skyblock redesign is currently underway on the SkyblockBeta server (sbb), we are planning to have a new spawn that will correspond to the theme of the skyblock season (I also want to hear your thoughts on having seasons that last for 6 months and with different themes). New ranks and perks are coming, so when we deploy them make sure to tell us what you think of them. Skyblock beta...

Vale Changelog - 1/12/19
This post will define the changes that have occured recently, not all changes may have been put on here due to them being tiny and not worth noticing.

Towny
General News
Events are back! Chemicalss will be managing the events for Towny, already we have had a prom and pvp event and more to come in the future, you can post your event suggestions on the vale discord: Join the Vale Discord Server!
Plugins:
Removed due to lag and plugin author not releasing updates: mypet (temporarily removed)
Updated plugins: Quickshop, Procosmetics, Mudgeclicker (the cookie clicker), Luckperms, Jobs, GCore, Crazy Enchants

Crates are being re-done, the only changes that have been applied are the vote crates and some of the arcane crate loots. Suggestions for what should be added would be great.

Recent Discussions:
Should we nerf /shop?
Should there be more player shops...

This has been such an exciting past month!

We opened on July 11th, and honestly, I didn't know if our new server was going to work or not. I expected everything to break and a week later, give up on trying to run a server. But that didn't happen, and you guys seem to of love what we're doing.

Thank you guys!

However, that doesn't mean we didn't have a bunch of issues and bugs. It's been difficult trying to fix everything, but we sure are trying.

Here's what we've changed so far, along with a bunch of issues fixed.

Major Changes
We did many changes, but these are notable.

• Improved Performance
  • We optimized our server configuration files, such as less mobs and render distances.
  • Removed unimportant plugins and or plugins that attempt to help lag but just makes it worst (Like clearlagg)
  • Added merge mob in an attempt to save performance. Mobs are so laggy!
• Improved /shop...

Phew, it's been a while, hasn't it?

What happened?!?!

Back in May, I closed down Vale, as I didn't see any sort of growth, and it wasn't meeting my own expectations. While renaming our community helped progressed us a little, we needed more then just a new face on an old server. I had to make the decision, to either give up and close the servers forever, or close it down temporarily and try to figure out how we can do better. I took the latter approach, but I decided to close down everything, as I believe we needed more then just a reset, but a complete reboot of Vale.

With the help of NintendoFrosty, Waffle_Raws and a few other friends, we were able to come up with a new server that I think you guys will absolutely love.

What's new?

Everything.

For the past 7 years, we've always been a mixture of survival and creative. You started out as a survival player, but if...