Good evening Munchies! After a year or so, Survival Season 4 is finally being released! In a direct contradiction to the Season 3 post, this is the biggest update that Survival has had since it was released as a gamemode. (Take that, Season 3 post!). In this post, we’ll look over some of the new, exciting features coming to Survival this December, and also how the timeline is gonna work!
• How it’s going to work •
The reset is going to be split over four days of preparation, excitement and fun!
Wednesday, 7th December
Map Save
This is when the Season 3 Map will be saved for the Museum world! This means that whatever your base, builds, etc, look like on this day is exactly how they will look when the world is saved! Make sure everything is spick and span, and open your doors to allow easy access to your stuff when the S3 Museum comes out!
Thursday, 8th December
Anarchy Day
This is when all hell breaks loose in Survival, also known as the Anarchy Day! PvP will be enabled for everyone today day and staff can abuse all they want! During this day, claims will be disabled, firespread will be enabled in the main world, and so on!
Because the map has been saved already, none of the changes made to the map on this day will be saved into the Museum world, so feel free to go ham!
Do not hack, or do anything to deliberately harm or lag the server. Basic Munchy rules still apply.
Friday, 9th December
Server Offline
This is the day Survival goes offline to make all the necessary updates for the reset! Feel free to hang out in hub with friends as you slowly lose your mind because what is life without Survival?!. That’s a joke. Kinda. Excitement for Saturday though!!
Saturday, 10th December
RELEASE DAY!!!
Survival Season 4 will be officially released this day, around ~Midday EST~, when everything is all ready for you all! WOOOOO!!
• New Content •
Staggered Release
This season we are trying something new! We have so much brand new content that we will be staggering the release of some parts of it over the beginning of the map. Along with all of the wonderful things available from the beginning of the map, we will be doing mini releases for a few months to spread out the enjoyment! There is simply too much to do it all at once!
New Custom Content!
With Season 4, we are bringing brand new custom content for you all! In the form of new custom pets, new custom accessories, and even more! Keep your eyes peeled for all the amazing content we have coming your way!
Championship Hall!
The long awaited Championship Hall is finally making its way to Survival! With the Championship Hall, or CH, many new minigames and events will be hosted in tournaments with the help of the Survival Hosting team! This is a huge addition to Survival, and I believe you all will love it.
Quests Update!
This is an absolute huge update to the Quests in Survival! Quests will now have plenty of lore with unique characters and bosses in a choose-your-own-adventure style of progression! These quests will still include the grind-y stuff you all love, but they now give you a chance to connect with these colourful characters and to fight the wonderfully difficult bosses that come with them!
No teaser for here yet! Keep your eyes peeled 
Community Events!
Another new feature added are Community Events! Community events are large, infrequent events for all community members that take place in some rather large and rather stunning arenas! We have both a PvP event and a Boss event, so gather your best gear and get ready to get competitive!
Mall Update!
As you all know, for the past two or so seasons the mall has been known to be one of the more laggier places on the server. With Season 4 though, this shall change! New changes are coming which will optimise FPS, have brand new features for easy navigation, and new features for advertising your shops!
Other Updates/Tweaks/Etc!
Of course, with the new season brings an absolutely stunning new spawn, built by the one and only paengi! The spawn will be populated by our friendly NPCs and townspeople so make sure to say hi if you see them!
There is a new mall as well, built by the godly Alkemystix and amazing ZeePog, all to fit with our new theme of Norse Mythology! There will be also be a whole new map seed to explore and travel across!
An update to the claiming system means that you will have access to new features such as claim assistants, subclaims and smaller claim size edit margins! MCMMO will also have some aspects rebalanced to make things more consistent and fair, and the plus and doubleplus ranks will be receiving brand new looks!
With Season 4, Dilbert and Douglas (our lovely shop NPCs) both have exciting new wares to spend your gold (and maybe tokens 
) on! These include some very exciting perks and cosmetic features.
We are also introducing an AFK check to the server to help optimise performance. Never fear, its incredibly generous and actually kinda fun. If you are AFK for a certain amount of time, a pop up will appear to check if you’re afk or not. If you are, you’ll only go as far as spawn. No disconnecting involved!
Quite a few other things have received updates, changes and tweaks, but that’s definitely enough for now! I apologise for it being SO LONG. I guess that just shows how much new and exciting stuff there is coming for S4
• Acknowledgements •
A project this massive can only be done with a whole team of incredibly talented and dedicated people, who definitely need some light shedding on their months and months of hard work! It has been amazing to see this all come together, and I hope you’ll join me in appreciating these amazing peeps!
The fantastic @DarkKnights22 is the master builder of this reset, creating some incredible content at incredible speeds. Our ever amazing @RossRao has worked some magic making the Championship Hall and other features, as well as helping to design and mastermind the entire season! The very handsome @cheater meticulously created our heccing awesome boss fights and has been overall amazing in general. We also have had the epic assistance of the fabulous @Fumaz and the man himself, Mr @Callahan, and all of these guys deserve as much thanks as you can possibly muster!
Of course, this whole thing would also have been impossible without the blood, sweat and tears of @infernalfae and @Alkemystix, as well as the rest of the incredibly awesome Survival Staff team. They have done so much behind the scenes and I’m endlessly grateful to them all! And even though he may not read this, we also owe an awful lot to the much missed @DragonsMaker 
The wonderful BIT team members need a big round of applause for all their input on ideas and on balancing! Thanks guys!
And who could forget our insanely talented builders who have created such an incredible environment for our new season! I mean have you SEEN the spawn and mall?!?! All the love for the overwhelmingly talented @paengi, our incredible @Alkemystix and @ZeePog, and to @Twinkiewinkie, @_Zorincian and @Quorafied 
This is by no means an exhaustive list of people, and you are all amazing.
A small note from infernalfae & Alkemystix;
We, and the Survival Staff Team, would like to thank the lovely @Ibby for all her amazing, hard work on Season 4 and on Survival in general. If it weren’t for her, there would be no Survival Season 4, and probably not even a Survival Season 3! Thank you for all you have done for Survival, and for being an amazing manager for the whole Survival team. We know how much work and time you put in behind the scenes, and we entirely appreciate it. You truly are the epicest Ibbee!! Thank you! 
• FAQs •
Q: What will I get to keep?
The list of things that will be kept are:
- All of your ranks and rank perks
- Claim blocks and claims that have been directly purchased from the store
- Glow particles that have been won from competitions
- Your purchased Accessories (but not any unused cosmicoins)
- Your tokens and clans
- A small portion of your regular claimblocks from the current map (which you will be able to claim using /claimlastmap)
Q: What will be reset?
The whole survival world will be reset, making a fresh start for everyone. This means that the following things will not be kept:
- Inventories, enderchests and backpacks
- All pets, particles and disguises from crates
- All claims and claim blocks from crates
- Gold balances and MCMMO levels
- Your home locations, warp totems and mall shops
Q: What will happen to my base/build?
The entirety of the map will be moved to the museum world, which you can get to by doing /museum. This means you will still be able to visit your bases and builds, but won’t be able to interact with them in any way (no breaking blocks, opening chests, opening doors, etc). The map will be saved on the 7th December, so make sure everything is how you want it by then.
Because home locations are reset, its a good idea to make a note of the co-ordinates of any places you might want to visit again. There is a great post talking about things you can do to prepare your base for the museum world here .
Thank you to everyone who played Survival S3 and for keeping the community as lovely as it is today, and to all the staff who keep Survival a safe and fun environment, y’all forever epic
Here’s to the awesome adventures to come in Season 4!
~ Ibby & Fae xx
