The current state of things:

Feels like just yesterday the 1.21.6 update came out…

So, you’d think they would be working on 1.22? Or, at the very least, taking a rest after releasing an update.

But, no.

Instead, they were working on a bug fix release, and wanted to add references to A Minecraft Movie. Seen below are the new Dennis painting and the new music disc which plays a remixed version of Jack Black’s “Lava Chicken” song.

With so little content added and so few bug fixes in this release that pertain to certain hardware fixes, I have decided not to update the server to this version immediately when it comes out until I can confirm that it will not break existing plugins on the server.¹

A bit of trivia though: Did you know that this is the first Java Edition 1.x.7 release since 1.8.7, which released more than a decade prior (in June 2015)?

But, there were some changes in between now and then so here they are:

New Features & Enhancements

• The server has been bumped to the newest Paper build: 57c202e

Removals:

• Removed the Banknotes plugin until a more modern solution can be rewritten by me

And that’s my two cents on this, I plan on adding new plugins (maybe) that will hopefully add new mechanics to the game but, we’ll see. People are already getting burned out², but, the goal was to get every achievement, and there are plenty more than still have not been achieved yet.

And that’s it! Please stick around for future updates and 1.21.7!

If you made it to the bottom, congrats for reading! Redeem your prize by running

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to get free 32 cooked chicken, cooked slowly by lava. But hurry, because this code expires in 24 hours!

Footnotes

1. No release date for the update has been shared with anyone, and the new changes are already live in a Bedrock preview, so I assume its only a matter of time before they go to Java. ↩

2. Just suggest things in the Discord and I’ll look into things ↩