Pinnacle SMP Server News

Pinnacle SMP is proud to announce the June 2026 award winners! This month, nicholattee earned the Member Base Highlight award, recognizing an outstanding build and base design within the community.

The Gameplay Award goes to mermaidxellie for standout activity and contributions through gameplay during the month of May.

For the Community Award, we have a tie! Congratulations to both Atlaskytan and mermaidxellie for their positive impact and involvement in the Pinnacle SMP community.

Congratulations to all of our June winners, and thank you to everyone who continues to help make Pinnacle SMP a great place to play!

Member Base Highlight Results:

• Atlaskytan1
• Beslife2
• McCreeper13181
• mermaidxellie3
• StirfrySurprise1
• nicholattee4
• Diissonance1

Gameplay Award Results:

• Atlaskytan1
• McCreeper13181
• mermaidxellie4
• StirfrySurprise1
• nicholattee2
• Diissonance1
• Someperso1

Community Award Results:

• Atlaskytan4
• mermaidxellie4
• nicholattee1
• McCreeper13182

The Pinnacle SMP Gallery is getting a cleaner layout for Season 12! Instead of placing everything into one large section, Season 12 will now include folder-style categories to make screenshots easier to browse.

The new setup will include sections for MBH and Et al, with MBH further organized by month and winner. Starting with May 2026, players will be able to view the featured builds for McCreeper1318 and Atlaskytan in their own dedicated gallery pages.

This change should make the gallery easier to navigate while keeping Season 12 screenshots better organized as the season continues.

The Pinnacle SMP community recently held a vote on whether the server should switch to Paper 26.1.2 now or wait for the upcoming 26.2 release.

The final vote ended 0–5, with all participating voters choosing to wait for 26.2 rather than move forward with Paper 26.1.2. Because of this, the server will remain on its current setup for now while the community waits for the next version.

This decision helps avoid making a major server change right before another update and gives the server a cleaner path forward once 26.2 is available.

Winner of MBH is a tie between Atlaskytan and McCreeper1318.

• Atlaskytan4
• McCreeper13184

Winner of Gameplay Award is Kananers.

• McCreeper13181
• pinapple_pete1
• Kananers2

Winner of the community award is McCreeper1318.

• nicholattee1
• McCreeper13182

For consistently playing on the server since the beginning of Season 11, making many contributions during Season 11 and now in Season 12, and for their overall growth as Minecraft players since the start of of Season 11, I'm excited to announce that mermaidxellie and @atlaskytan are now Legacy Members! 🥳

Pinnacle SMP Season 12 is officially live! A brand-new world has been generated, giving everyone a fresh start to explore, build, and grow together.

To keep progression balanced and the community close-knit early on, a world border has been set at 3,000 blocks from spawn. This ensures:

• A more active and connected player base.
• Fair access to resources for everyone.
• Stronger early-season collaboration.

The border may expand later in the season, but for now, it’s all about making the most of what’s inside. Jump in, get established, and be part of the beginning of something great. Welcome to Season 12.

"Alpha builds for Paper 26.1.1 are now available. There is still no ETA for a stable build." - Paper Developers. This means they are now going into testing for the update, but we still do not know when we will be able to update our server to the newest version of Minecraft.

Remember this update is a really big one in terms of how servers are run for two main reasons:

• The source code for Minecraft was unobfuscated, meaning old ways of working around obfuscation are now creating problems. This affects all mods and server clients and will take time to work around, but in the long term it should make things easier and more stable because developers can code against what is actually there instead of having to guess.
• Mojang also made changes to how world save data is stored at the same time as making the source code unobfuscated. This means update teams have to be extra careful so worlds do not corrupt when moving between versions.

When there are any more updates, I will let everyone know.

We've updated how ranks work to better reflect activity, contribution, and community involvement rather than only time played. Promotions are no longer automatic or purely time-based.

What changed

• More weight on positive community impact and collaboration.
• Staff review is now part of rank advancement.