Draftout

Supporter Tiers and Store

• Visit https://draftout.paynow.store to support us and fund future events!
• Some features include:
  • More board color options
  • Select teams in Lobbies
  • Choose seed type in Lobbies
• Tiers are a monthly subscription and offer some cosmetics & Lobby features.
  • Tier 3 is priced highly because it will offer Tournament features (access to Live match API, spectator in Lobbies etc.)
  • It will (soon) include Lobby Spectator option and offer more tournament tools.
• You can now link your Discord account from Settings -> Account.
  • If you buy a Supporter Tier, you will get access to a new Supporter-only channel (#supporter-chat).

Leaderboard reset & new ranks

• Reset all Competitive ratings, leaderboards and added new ranks.
• Ratings now use the Glicko 2 system which rates you closer to your skill, faster. In general, elo gain/loss is way higher early on, than lower than it previously was.
• Getting rated will now take more games (usually 4 or 5).
• New ranks:
  • Silverfish (0-499)
  • Slime (500-999)
  • Vex (1000-1299)
  • Evoker (1300-1599)
  • Phantom (1600-1799)
  • Guardian (1800-1999)
  • Warden (2000+)
• Matchmaking now uses an expanding Elo & Rank window, which should make matches slightly more balanced.
  • Queue times will be slightly longer.
  • We will be monitoring and adjusting the queue speed.
• Existing leaderboard is still available here!

Goals

• Added goals:
  • Obtain Colored Harness
  • Obtain 16 Glow Lichen
  • Use Cartography Table
  • Lock a Map using Cartography Table
  • Break Fishing Rod
  • Break Shield
  • Mine Obsidian
  • Obtain "The Power of Books" advancement
  • (Lobby only) Teleport through Nether Portal using Ender Pearl
• Removed goals (from random goal pool):
  • Visit all Nether Biomes
  • Die to Void

Gameplay

• (Quick Play) Added "Rematch" button.
• Standardized more RNG:
  • Leather drops from Cows/Horses/Donkeys/Mules are now shared.
  • Mob held items drop rates (Witch - held potion, Pillager - crossbow etc.).
  • Ore drops are now shared between Deepslate & Stone variants.
  • Seed drops from Grass/Fern blocks are now shared.
• Added progress messages in chat to more goals (foods, breeds, mob kills).

Lobby

• Split mode selection into more intuitive toggles
  • Board: Random/Drafted/Custom
  • Teams: Custom/Single
    • Supporters can select each player's team color (and group players into teams - for example 2v2 is now possible).
• Added Seed Type selection (requires Supporter Tier 2).

Replays

• You can now zoom in and out of the followed player by holding sneak/jump.
• Updated replay board GUI:
  • shows player's dimension under the time bar
  • goal completions on the progress bar are now clickable
• Fixed some bugs (breath meter ticking, spectator dying in void etc.).