Latest DWO Minecraft News

01 December 2024

The nights are drawing in, the Thames is freezing over... it's the most wonderful time of the year - Christmas on DWO once more!

Head over to the freshly logged Trafalgar tree at Creative spawn to wrap up presents for your friends. You can leave gifts at the Survival tree too, to show your neighbours some love. You have until the 24th to wrap your presents, but don't leave it too late! If you want someone to leave a present for you - try leaving one for them first! Come Christmas morning, jump onto the server to run through the presents and find the ones with your name on the tag.

Our usual end-of-year bash is a calendar staple - but can you believe this is now our tenth Yule Ball!! It takes place this year on the 21st of December, just before the big day. As ever, the Yule Ball also plays host to The 2024 DWO Minecraft Awards - voted for by you! CLICK HERE TO VOTE for who you think deserves some DWO recognition for the part they play in the community.

So, put the date in your diaries, prepare your fanciest skins, and RSVP to the Discord event for the 10th annual night of silly nonsense to find out who's taking home an award, and to celebrate Christmas, Doctor Who, and most importantly each other.

Murreey

22 September 2024

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Well I hope so, it was only yesterday. But do you remember the 21st version of Minecraft?? Because that's today!

1.21 arrives on DWO, bringing all the new Minecraft features - breezes, maces, armadillos, trial chambers, auto crafters, and more! Plus some other new things too - ever wanted to fly your TARDIS physically around the world, without materialising? You can now! Just add a new Relativity Differentiator to your TARDIS. Or if you do want to stick to materialising, there's new custom particles you can add to the effect, plus new rooms and more.

As usual, if you find anything broken or not quite working as you'd expect please let us know or make a /modreq! Some games are currently out of action and will be updated shortly, and a new version of the resource pack is coming very soon.

Murreey

01 December 2023

The 1st of December on DWO traditionally means the start of Christmas - except this isn't any old year, it's the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who! Russell T has taken over the big bombastic storyline duties this year, and we're celebrating with Watchalongs, Rewatchalongs, spoiler chats and bouncy castles. Check the Events tab in Discord to see everything that's going on, and check out #announcements for some anniversary goodies - with a few more still to come.

That doesn't mean we can't still have a little bit of Christmas fun though!

The Christmas Tree is back at Trafalgar Square, sharing the space with the celebrations. As usual, you can wrap up gifts below the tree for your friends and fellow players to open on the big day. You have until the 24th to leave your presents, so don't leave your shopping too late! And it's not just Trafalgar, you can wrap presents in Survival too. Then come Christmas morning, jump onto the server and rummage through the ever-growing pile to find the ones with your name on!

And another Christmas staple that will of course return is the Yule Ball - this year taking place on the 16th of December! A week after the madness of the 60th specials has ended, to keep the Saturday night fever going. So mark your calendars, prepare your dressiest skins, and RSVP to the Discord event for another night of typical tomfoolery to celebrate not just Christmas, but the 60th, Ncuti, Tennant, and everything else that's made up the 60th year of the show that started all this!

During the Ball we'll announce the winners of the The 2023 DWO Minecraft Awards - as voted for by you! CLICK HERE TO VOTE for the players who've really made this 60th Anniversary year special for everyone. Then don't forget to attend on the night of the 16th to find out if you'll take home one of this year's exclusive pins for your trophy collection!

Next stop - into the Wild Blue Yonder!

Murreey

04 July 2023

Yeehaw, happy 4th of July my fellow cowboys! 🤠🎆🤠 The traditional day of celebration that means only one thing - a Minecraft update! 1.20 arrives on DWO, bringing all the new stuff with it - bamboo and cherry blossom, hanging signs, chiseled bookshelves and of course everyone's favourite mob the Sniffer.

Plus, as usual a new update means new TARDIS stuff! You can now set your desktop to the Ancient Console, grown with a Sculk seed block, the Mechanical Console with polished andesite, and the St John's Hospital Console with white concrete. The Hospital one is definitely a... choice, but no, your eyes aren't deceiving you - that's a double door. You'll need to update your resource pack to use that console, but after updating...

...you'll also be able to get your hands on these brand new Chameleon Circuit models - the Pandorica, the Type 40 Capsule, and the graffitied Bad Wolf Police Box. Plus a new version of the coloured Police Box that lets you pick exactly the colour you want!

And finally, one last new TARDIS feature, a small one - we'd really recommend you /tardisprefs announce_repeaters on, which is a new setting that will tell you what you're changing your repeater settings to as you change them. No more guessing!

As usual if you find any problems with the update, make a /modreq or let the staff know asap!

Murreey

1 April 2023

Err, it appears we may have been too hasty. It turns out you all liked those old games a little more than we expected. Apologies, King of the Ring just isn't the smash hit we thought it would be.

Unfortunately the budget of rebuilding King of the Ring thirty times was quite large, and we were forced to sell off the old games to afford it. They're now the sole property of the Bad Wolf Corporation, so if you ever want to play them again you'll need to take a trip up to Satellite 5! Handily accessible through the same old Games portal you're used to, and the /gamesworld command. Please don't feed the Jagrafess.

Murreey