As Hoplite goes down for maintenance, let's take some time to explore everything new coming in Hoplite Season 3.

# Rule Changes

To kick this off, let's go through some quick rule changes being added this season:
- Loot Beams is now a Blacklisted Modification, this includes similar mods that display a "beam" or nametag over dropped items and entities.
- Revealing the real name of nicknamed players or streamers, by chat message or voice chat, is now a punishable offense. 

See the complete set of rules at hoplite.gg/rules 

# Cosmetics 

![valentinescombo.png](/bundle/valentinescombo_159bc3e8d6.png)
Loot Crates are back in Season 3! Head over to the right side of the lobby to purchase Valentines Crates for gems, which offer a bunch of exclusive valentines day cosmetics including the extremely rare Heart Armor Trim and Pink Fox Pet! These crates will only stick around until the end of February, so make sure you don't miss out. 

The return of crates also means the return of shiny cosmetics! Find a Tier Boost inside a loot crate in order to unlock it's shiny mythical variant. All new cosmetics have shiny variants, and some old cosmetics shiny variants have been updated to be more vibrant. On the topic of shinies, it is now possible to preview a shiny cosmetics by shift clicking them in the Upgrade Cosmetics menu.

And of course, Season 3 features an all new Token Shop with all new rewards. 

![token.PNG](/bundle/token_9349df0c95.PNG)

With all these new cosmetics we're adding, it only made sense you'll have some personal favorites. We've added the ability to Right Click cosmetics to favorite them, and the ability to select a random cosmetic. When this option is selected, your cosmetic will randomize between your favorites everytime it activates. 


# Battle Royale

Battle Royale has received a update this season, including enabling access to the End Dimension. Here are the Patch Notes for Battle Royale V1.5.0

## The End
The End dimension has been enabled. 
- Stronghold's have a 25% chance to spawn each match, like in previous seasons.
- When a Stronghold generated, between 10-11 Eye of Ender's will already be filled. 
- The dimension has a 500x500 world border
- When the dragon is defeated, the End Transporters will not spawn. Only the main end island is available to players. 
- When exiting The End through the portal, player's will spawn at the center of the map with their glider's deployed. 

## General Changes
- Fire Aspect now only lights enemies on fire if the attack is 90% charged.
- Nether structures odds changed to 55% bastion 25% citadel 20% fortress.
- Increased the rarity of Treasure Bastion chests in the Citadel 1%.
- Increased gold block replacement in Bastions from 40% to 60%.
- TNT minecart nerf has been reduced from 50% to 30%.
- The Nether Reactor Core now always spawns 1 Ancient Debris when placed near ores.
- Arrows and Iron are now only obtained from fishing with the Lucky Rod instead of all fishing rods.
- The rewards summary now displays whenever a player dies.
- The rewards summary now displays a visual progress bar of the player's level progress.
- Fixed a bug where civ teams could potentially be larger than 9.
- Fixed a bug where thrown Enderpearls would damage the user.

## Legendary Weapons

We've made many changes to legendary weapons this season, including our first round of weapon rotations. We've also made some major changes to some current weapons and their balancing.

Changes:
- The Enderbow, Dragon Katana, War Pick, Reaper Scythe have been rotated out. They are no longer attainable in Battle Royale mode.
- Added Sharpness 2 to Grimoire.
- Emerald Blade now receives +1 Sharpness at all times. When crafted, it is sharpness 1. After 8 emeralds, it becomes sharpness 2, etc.
- Changed Magma Blade to a Diamond Sword with no enchants.
- Sonic Crossbow cooldown increased to 22 seconds (was 15).
- Magma Blade can now be enchanted and used in an anvil.
- Adjusted Magma Blade's recipe.

![magma.PNG](/bundle/magma_2063d7bdc2.PNG)

New Weapons:
### Aiglos
A legendary elvish spear weapon. Aiglos has the attack speed and damage of a diamond sword, and can also be thrown to create an explosion. After aiglos lands, it instantly teleports back to the user. Enchants that are applied to Aiglos affect the damage and properties of the explosion. 

![aiglos.PNG](/bundle/aiglos_3d210d1e82.PNG)

### Shadow Blade
A legendary sword weapon. The Shadow Blade is a diamond sword with a special ability. Right Click to become invisible and gain speed III for 10 seconds. When invisible, only the particles at you feet can be seen. Taking damage or performing a critical hit on another player will cause the ability to cancel early. 

![shadowblade.PNG](/bundle/shadowblade_38e3e7e91f.PNG)

### Void Staff
A legendary staff with two toggleable modes. The Void Staff's first mode is the teleportation mode. Right Click to create a portal where you're looking, and right click again to create a second portal. All entites are able to enter the portals to be instantly teleported to the location of the second portal.  The second mode is the Shulker Bullet mode. Right Click to fire a shulker shell, exploding where it lands dealing damage and giving all nearby players levitation for a few seconds. The explosion also spawns 3-5 shulker bullets that seek out enemies.

![voidstaff.PNG](/bundle/voidstaff_57a37aec10.PNG)

### Reinforced Elytra
A legendary (and balanced) wearable Elytra. The Reinforced Elytra provides the protection of an Iron Chestplate while worn. Players can glide to build up energy, then hit the ground to release that energy in the form of an explosion that does not damage the player. Sneaking midair activates a rocket boost ability similar to a firework rocket on a 70 second cooldown. This legendary is only available from defeating the Ender Dragon or as a 1% drop chance from Gerald.

![elytra.PNG](/bundle/elytra_a6ba5fb33d.PNG)

## Basic Crafts

This season we've added a some basic crafts to change the flow of the game, including the first few sets of custom armors. Unfortunately because of how custom armor is implemented, resource packs that have abnormally sized armor pieces or include built in shaders will no longer function properly.

![armors.png](/bundle/armors_21d51c7369.png)

## Short Netherite Sword
A simple sword that provides +7.5 attack damage by default. 1x crafts.

![short.PNG](/bundle/short_47f0a6fbca.PNG)

## Neptune's Brew
A drinkable dolphins grace potion with a 30 second duration. 2x crafts.

![brew.PNG](/bundle/brew_b8dba6e273.PNG)

## Agony
A splash potion of instant damage II and weakness I (60 seconds). 1x crafts

## Cactus Armor
Armor set with a high level of thorns, equivalent to iron armor. 

![cactus.PNG](/bundle/cactus_2cbc34d46d.PNG)

## Mushroom Armor
Leather armor set that is slightly worse than iron, but when the full set is worn, the armor's protection enchantment level becomes stronger as the amount of skylight touching the player decrease, up to Protection V.

![mushr.PNG](/bundle/mushr_9ec8b6e583.PNG)

## Ent Armor
Leather armor set slightly worse than iron, that when the full set is worn grants a 5% chance to heal the user for half a heart when breaking a naturally grown flowers.

![ent.PNG](/bundle/ent_a182688cc8.PNG)

## Horsetamer Boots
A pair of chainmail boots that grant Speed I to a horse being ridden by the player

![horse.PNG](/bundle/horse_2e77f86de4.PNG)

## Bandit Leggings
A pair of golden leggings that cause 50% more gold nuggets to drop from kills.

![bandit.PNG](/bundle/bandit_52c15c88b2.PNG)

## Recipe book

The Recipe book has been changed from two pages to three pages to accommodate the amount of items we've added this update:

![layout.png](/bundle/layout_f7568c49ef.png)

# Duels

Duels has received major changes this season. Custom Kit menus have been revamped, queueable kits have been changed, and the lobby has been revamped. 

## Legendaries
First lets talk about legendaries.
- Legendary weapons that have been rotated out of Battle Royale are still available for use in custom kit duels.
- The four new legendaries will be added to duels in coming weeks, but not at the season start.
- **All player's can now use legendary weapons in custom kits**

## Modes

We now have 10 queueable modes in the casual playlist:

![casual.PNG](/bundle/casual_0d8ed66763.PNG)

- Removed Roulette Royale
Roulette Royale is still available as a custom kit preset. Upon joining the duels lobby, you will be prompted on how to create a Roullette Royale kit.
- Added Battle Royale Kit
This kit contains the same items as Roulette Royale, but without the Legendary Weapons.
- Added Parkour Duels
Race other players through a dynamic parkour map designed by iTMG. Miss a jump and you lose, but be careful not to be so slow you get caught by the dragon pursuing you.
- Added Bridge Duels
Players spawn at opposite sides of a large bridge. Enter the opponents goal to score. First player to score 5 times wins.
- Added Boxing Duels
Players take no damage and only have a diamond sword, and speed 1. The first player to hit the other 75 times wins.

All new modes support being used as a custom kit preset. This means you can create bridge kits with legendary weapons, etc.

## Menus

Custom Kit hosting has undergone some large changes.

- Custom kits now contain settings for how many players per team, map, and amount of rounds in the match.
- Custom kits created from presets now inherit the settings of the preset.
- Players can select what kit is their active kit to be hosted in the kit editor. When clicking the host kit button, the player automatically hosts their selected kit, making the custom kit hosting process much quicker.
![kit.PNG](/bundle/kit_d5fa7bbe05.PNG)

We've also made several quality of life changes to the custom kit editor:
- Added the ability to right click in the custom kit editor to duplicate the most recently selected item.
- Added the option to randomly select a map in custom kits and the /duel menu.
- Added TNT and TNT Minecrarts as potential custom kit icons.
- Added emoji support to kit names

# General changes
- Doubled XP rates for all modes.
- Added a new map category, Vanilla, These 3 new maps contain natural terrain, cut from natural Battle Royale worlds.
- The Crystal casual queue now only put players into vanilla maps instead of terrain maps.
- Added the ability to /spectate players. You can control who can spectate your matches between everyone, friends, or no one via /settings.
- Custom Kit Stats now properly track, and are shown on leaderboards.
- You can now shift click an option in the quick play menu to make that category open first when the quick play menu is opened.

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Hoplite Season 3 has arrived