Hey everyone, just a quick announcement.

The Survival Spawn Build-Off deadline has been extended to January 22, 2017*! We've seen many newcomers recently, so we want to give everyone the best chance at winning the build-off.


More details about the Build-Off can be found by clicking here.
Participate for your chance at the top prize, which is a donation coupon worth $50-75!

Cheers~

AEM Staff

good luck everyone !!
date not final**
Hey AEM'ers, it's that time again! On this AEM Update, we have a new map on Zombies and a build-off where you can win 50-75$ on the donation store! Read this update for more information!
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The Survival Spawn BUILD-OFF (/warp buildcomp on Creative)
AEM is having its very first BUILD-OFF! The Build-Off will be hosted on the Creative server (or in single player, if you can send a schematic), with the theme being the new Survival spawn! The winner will take a donation store coupon that can range from $50-75, depending on the detail put into the building! The winners build will be used as the new spawn on the Survival server. All participants are required to reply to this thread to let us know that you are taking part in the build-off. The Winner's Creative plot will be selected in two weeks (around January 22, 2017*, subject to change*), and will be PM'ed their donation code after a future announcement is released!. Good luck everyone! :D

New Zombies Map!
In other news, Zombies saw the arrival of a new map- Dust II from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive! This map features revamped mystery boxes, containing better gear than ever before ([God] and [Legend] items!). If you find any exploits on these maps, be sure to create a thread in the Zombies section of the forums to let us know. Be warned, any players that abuse exploits on these maps can be punished!

Your Suggestions for non-OP Skyblock
Also, @marsel_2000 was kind of enough to create a suggestions thread that we're going to be using until we can get the non-OP Skyblock server up. Be sure to leave your suggestions there, it really helps us out!

Other Upcoming Updates
And finally, in terms of...
Hey everyone,

Here are the top voters of December 2016. Please start a pm with me on the forums for your donation store coupon codes. You will receive them by the end of the week.

1. @J3rkk - 135 Votes ($50 Donation store coupon)
2. @menddm123 - 126 Votes ($40 Donation store coupon)
3. @OreoTwinkies - 119 Votes ($30 Donation store coupon)
4. @CrystalCloud_11 - 117 Votes ($20 Donation store coupon)
5. @Goldrake71 - 102 Votes ($10 Donation store coupon)

We're also running a 40% off sale until January 14th for New Years
Hello AEM'ers! We hope you've been having a great Winter holiday, because we've been working behind the scenes to make your experience on the servers even better!



Free VIP?
Firstly, AEM wants to be more generous to you, the players! As a result, Trusted players on Survival can be promoted to the VIP rank ($5 in the store) after playing on the server for a total of 6 days! We're slowly implementing this on all of the servers in the network, so if you don't have the money to spare, you can still get in on the donation perks!

New Hubs
AEM has implemented new hubs/lobbies, giving a fresh new look to the server! (You may have also noticed the excessive number of players in the hubs some weeks ago. This was due to a network issue, which has been fixed (woohoo!).) Be sure to give us your suggestions! From mini-games to other neat hub features, we want your feedback!

Upcoming: non-OP Skyblock
In terms of what's to come, @Sway has been hard at work to bring you a new server, coming very soon. You can expect non-OP Skyblock to make an appearance in early 2017, with more coming after that!! Non-OP Skyblock brings the classic Skyblock experience and economy back to AEM, with the more OP features staying with regular Skyblock. Your donation ranks will automatically be transferred to the new server, so there's no need to donate again. (and to clarify, this will not replace Skyblock, but be another server alongside it).

Discord: https://discord.gg/AR2Vdfr
Now, if you don't know already, AEM has moved away from TeamSpeak. Instead, we've got our own Discord server! Discord is a lightweight, free client that's packed with more features and customization than TS, and we think you'll like it. You can download Discord...
Hey everyone,

Here are the top voters of November 2016. Please start a pm with me and @Calcium on the forums for your donation store coupon codes. You will receive them by the end of the week.

1. @J3rkk - 121 Votes ($50 Donation store coupon)
2. @menddm123 - 119 Votes ($40 Donation store coupon)
3. @CrystalCloud_11 - 118 Votes ($30 Donation store coupon)
4. @kokoskoekje - 116 Votes ($20 Donation store coupon)
5. @Super__Morris17 - 114 Votes ($10 Donation store coupon)

We're also running a 35% off sale on all ranks until the end of December for Christmas!
Hey everyone,

Here are the top voters of October 2016. Please start a pm with me and @Calcium on the forums for your donation store coupon codes. You will receive them by the end of the week.

1. @menddm123 - 120 Votes ($50 Donation store coupon)
2. @Deluxion - 120 Votes ($40 Donation store coupon)
3. @OreoTwinkies - 119 Votes ($30 Donation store coupon)
4. @Snowzh - 117 Votes ($20 Donation store coupon)
5. @CR7Joyce - 109 Votes ($10 Donation store coupon)

Congratulations to this months top voters!

We will also be running a 25% off sale for the next week. This sale will end on the 13th.
It's that time of the year... The spookies and scaries are awakening, Halloween is a few weeks away, and -

Wait, what's that sound?

Zombies?
Zombies!

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That's right, the Zombies server is back and better than ever! And what's great, it's open NOW for everyone to play! Check it out by interacting with the zombie in one of the Hubs, or by typing /server zombies while anywhere on the network.

With improvements to the zombies plugin and new maps on the way, what are you waiting for? Hop on the server and join zombies today!
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AEM Staff
Hey everyone,

Here are the top voters of September 2016. Please start a pm with me and @Calcium on the forums for your donation store coupon codes. You will receive them by the end of the week.

1. @Godenx ($50 Donation store coupon)
2. @OreoTwinkies ($40 Donation store coupon)
3. @MooMoo ($30 Donation store coupon)
4. @menddm123 ($20 Donation store coupon)
5. @CR7Joyce ($10 Donation store coupon)

Congratulations to this months top voters!
As some of you may be aware, the SkyBlock server was experiencing some issue with islands losing their owners and occasional lag the other day. Unfortunately, we were forced to roll back the SkyBlock server by two days in order to restore full functionality. We're sorry for the inconvenience, and have added a /kit keys with some things to hopefully make up for the time lost.
Update: The network has been opened once again to all players. However, there was an issue that cropped up during the restoration process that caused all player inventories to be reset (player vaults should not have been effected by this). To make up for this, for the next few weeks you can use the /redeemkit command to get some exclusive items that will hopefully get you started on your way back to where you were. Additionally, anyone who purchased crate keys on KitPvP will receive their keys back shortly after their next login.

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Late last night there was an incident in which a group of malicious attackers used an exploit to grant themselves full administrative permissions on KitPvP. The malicious users in question then proceeded to abuse the global bans system to ban a large portion of the players who were online at the time, and attempted to grief the spawn zone of the KitPvP server (now restored).

As soon as the management team was made aware of the issue, we put the network into lockdown mode, in which all services became temporarily unavailable while we worked on evaluating and restoring the damage that was done (rolled back invalid bans from the malicious users and restored the spawn build from one of our backups that are created and archived every few hours).

We have been working overtime to patch the source of the exploit so we can have the servers back up for you all to enjoy ASAP, and we appreciate your patience.

We aim to have everything sorted out within a few hours from now, but are not giving out any exact ETAs for when the server will be coming off of lockdown mode at this time.

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused for you all.