Each season we try hard to improve the WilderCraft survival experience. Reducing lag and increasing server capacity is a big focus, but so is adding new features, refining/balancing items like in WilderCrate and WilderTools, as well as removing features that didn't work out as planned.

Here's what changed this Season 8:

NEW WILDERCRATE ITEMS

• Butcher’s Axe: looting axe that drops meat only (use on cows, sheep, pigs and chickens)
• Head Bundles: decorate your place with 5 unique heads (11 different bundles)
• Phantom Juice: reset your sleep timer (costs 10 xp levels, increases hunger)
• Calming Cake: calms more than bees  (sometimes backfires)

WILDERCRATE UPDATES

• Baby Animal Feed: now works on all animals
• Sword of Zeus: works on all mobs
• Homesick Slime: removed from voting pool
• Pigaxe: breaks after use
• Bottomless Bucket + Farmer’s Footies: no longer spams chat
• MsPoffy’s Yardstick + TreeHugger Prefix: upgrades coming soon...
• Diorite Not-alrite pickaxe: removed this season for balance adjustments
• Ancient Sapling: temporarily removed, will reappear later this season

WILDERTOOL UPDATES

• WilderBlade only drops heads for isolated mobs (must be naturally spawning, and at least 3 blocks away from other mobs of the same type — sorry endermen farms!)
• WilderPick consumes less coal (40% chance now vs 100%)
• WilderCopia: can drop Eyes of Teleport at all levels (instead of emeralds at Fort V)
• WilderShears: can drop golden apples at all levels (instead of emeralds at Fort V)
• WilderWings: protection 5 enchant is now quite rare (can also roll with fire or projectile protection instead)
• WilderPotion: upgrade coming soon...

WILDERFORGE UPDATES

• When reforging multiple times, the Forge will now always give you a different WilderTool from your previous forge (no more back to back WilderSpades)
• When reforging your two items, the Forge will now always give you a different tool type from either of the two input items (reforging Shears and a Sword will make sure you won't receive either of these as the item returned to you)
• WilderForge upgrades coming soon...

MAP CHANGES

• Greatly increased map size: 40k by 40k (up from 16k last season)
• More server capacity: Elm and Sequoia
• Upgraded server hardware: Expanse and Skyblock now have dedicated resources which reduces load on main survival servers

We spent extra time this season testing and fixing bugs before launch, so hopefully you had a much smoother experience than in past WilderCraft season openings. Thanks to all the players who contine to come back and play season after season. It's been a joy to grow with you these last 3.5 years. Looking forward to many more season launches together.