At Imaginears Club, we take pride in being able to provide an amazing experience for guests of all ages within our parks. We’ve been working hard over the past few months to give you all a brand new, never before seen feature to enhance your experience while you’re spending time with us in the parks, and even after you log out!

Introducing MyImaginears Club, an all inclusive control panel featuring friends lists, applications, transactions, and more!

We wanted to create a central location for all of your Imaginears Club needs. From checking to see who is on your friends list, to applying for a Staff position within our parks, we wanted to make sure we made this process as easy and as fun as possible! Are you excited to see what we have in store? We have some release dates in store, so keep reading to find out when you’ll be able to get your hands on MyImaginears Club! I also would like to introduce you to two of our BRAND NEW features that we’ll be launching on MyImaginears Club.

Introducing your Friends List

It’s now easier than ever to see everyone on your friends list! We wanted to make sure that you always knew who was on your friends list, and who sees you on theirs! Once a guest accepts your friend request, they’ll show up as “Approved” in your friends list on MyImaginears Club.

Introducing Application Status

We know how exciting applying for a staff position is. We wanted to make this process easier, and more informative for you! Now, once you apply for a Character, or for a Cast Member position, you’ll be informed every time your application is updated by our Staff Managers! We hope this will be more informative for you throughout the application process.

We have so many more awesome features for you all to explore once you create your accounts! This has been a massive undertaking for our team, so we’ll be releasing this in batches so everyone gets an uninterrupted experience when they first register.

For guests that have purchased Shareholder, you will be able to use MyImaginears Club Monday, October 24th at 3PM Eastern Time.
For guests that have purchased DVC, you will be able to use MyImaginears Club Wednesday, October 26th at 3PM Eastern Time.
We will be launching MyImaginears Club for everyone on Tuesday, November 1st at 3PM Eastern Time.

How to Register:

1. To register, log on to imaginears.club in Minecraft and type /pin.
2. Click where it says “click here” and you will be brought to the registration portion of MyImaginears Club.
3. Enter an email address, a secure password, and your PIN number if it wasn’t automatically filled for you.
4. Read through our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. Make sure you agree with them before registering.
5. After that, click “Sign Up”. You will be sent a confirmation email at the email you submitted.
6. Check your inbox (or possibly spam folder) for your MyImaginears Club Confirmation Email and click the link in the email.
7. You’re good to go! Log in and get right to using the panel.

We’re looking forward to gathering your feedback and suggestions. If you have any, please let us know by making an issue on our GitHub Issue Tracker.

Since the very beginning, our primary goal has been to strive for a family friendly, safe environment where all ages can come together to have fun & explore the magic of Disney. Throughout the years, we have recreated the Walt Disney World Resort with functioning rides, shows, and much more! Recently, we’ve begun to ask the question, “why stop with just Disney World?” which is why today, we would like to announce that our partner server, MagicalDreams is now officially a part of Imaginears Club!

Joining forces with the team at MagicalDreams will be a massive stepping stone to create a place where magic & memories are made in a safe and secure fashion, now with both Walt Disney World Resort, and Disneyland Resort! Imaginears Club is built around the idea that if you cannot make it to the real parks, you can still enjoy them at home, and on Minecraft. Whether it be meeting characters, watching shows, riding rides, or even eating delicious Mickey ice cream! We find it crucial to deliver the most enchanting experiences possible, all from the comfort of your own home.

With the coming of massive changes, we plan on growing bigger than we ever have before, protecting our vision of a family friendly environment but on a much larger scale; Walt Disney World and Disneyland meticulously recreated. A place where both kids & parents can come to play and make magical memories that will last for a lifetime.

We’re extremely excited for you to see what we have in store for Disneyland, but first we need to make sure everything is ready for guests to explore the park! We’ll keep you updated on our progress, and we look forward to seeing you all in Disneyland in the near future!

“The Dashboard Update” has been in the works for quite some time now. I started planning it back in May of 2015, and started work on it one year later. Obviously, it’s been something I’ve been waiting to release for a while. But, you probably haven’t noticed too many changes. Most of the modifications made in this update were actually made in the back-end, or behind the scenes.

The main goal of this update was to increase the performance of the servers and, ultimately, reduce the amount of times our servers crash. Another was that if a server did crash, the majority of the network would remain online and accessible. So, what was changed?

BungeeCord

For those that don’t know, a BungeeCord server isn’t a plugin, mod or something you install onto a Minecraft server. It’s something that runs on its own and connects other Minecraft servers together. So, when you connect to imaginears.club, you’re connected to a BungeeCord server which, in turn, connects you to TTC, MK, etc.

Imaginears Club used to run off of one BungeeCord server. We never really had issues with handling too many players on our one BungeeCord. In fact, we had over 700 players online once at our January 2016 Public Meeting! But there were still some problems with the way our network was setup. Depending on one BungeeCord server to handle your entire player base is okay for smaller networks, but as you grow and expand, the chances of one of those servers going offline increases. If you have 250 people online and your one connection source (Bungee) goes offline, everyone gets disconnected and waits for service to return. But, what if we could have multiple instances of BungeeCord running?

One of the changes made in this update was the ability for us to use more than one BungeeCord while still connecting everyone’s chat, warping, etc. We currently have two running and, if one goes offline, half of the network still stays connected. Now you might be part of the unlucky group that gets disconnected, but keeping half of the players connected is better than none.

Connecting BungeeCords was a lot more difficult than it might seem because, by nature, BungeeCords aren’t built for “talking” to each other. Their only purpose is to connect a player to a server. To overcome this we created a separate process known as Dashboard (where this update gets its name!) which enables BungeeCords to talk to each other now. Now, if you’re on Bungee 1 and say “Hello!” in chat, players on Bungee 2 will still see it.

Again, you wouldn’t have really noticed any of these changes unless you read this post, which is why they’re considered back-end updates and improvements.

TL;DR: Expect less server downtime in the future

Audio Server

Although only a few changes were made to the Audio Server, I’ll still explain what they were. The old Audio Server used to connect directly to BungeeCord which is why it always crashed after BungeeCord restarted. However, with this update, we can have more than one Bungee. This was a problem for the old code for the Audio Server since it now had more than one place to connect to. Since Dashboard connected all BungeeCords together so they could talk, it also connected the Audio Server. This means that if you get disconnected because of a server crash, the Audio Server will still stay online!

TL;DR: The Audio Server shall (almost) never go offline again!

Multiple Park Servers

If 120 players are on the MK server at our Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and, all of a sudden, MK crashes, all 120 players will be sent to the TTC at one time. This can be a bit overwhelming to TTC since each of those new connections require the server to fetch data from the database. (info like your balance, rank, inventory, etc.) The database is built to handle all of this information-fetching, but TTC has trouble making all of the requests to the database. This can cause TTC to crash and send all 120 players to the Arcade which is the definite fallback server and can handle a load of players connecting at once. But, if you’re on a Park server and it goes offline, we want to keep you in the Parks instead of sending you to the Arcade every time.

To combat this issue, like Bungee, we added the ability to duplicate Park servers. What this means is we can have 2 TTC servers and load-balance between the two. When you connect to Imaginears Club, you’re sent to the TTC server with the least amount of players on it. (type /whereami in-game to find which one you were sent to) This also means that, when MK goes offline again, those 120 players are split between the 2 available TTC servers, each getting 60 of the players. We can also add a 3rd TTC, 4th TTC, etc. however it isn’t necessary right now. (Tip: Connect directly to a specific TTC with /join ttc[number], so /join ttc2 sends you to the 2nd one)

We also now have the availability to split up servers other than TTC like MK and Epcot. However, doing this would make it more difficult for players to meet up with each other at warps, so we have no plans on doing that any time soon.

TL;DR: Joining Imaginears Club should be quicker, and server crashes won’t disconnect you. (most of the time)

Other Improvements and Additions

Unlike the previous two topics, there were some things added during this update that you can see! One of them was a new command: /chat. This command allows you to choose which channel of chat you want to speak in. Guests have the ability to choose between all and party.

If you’re in a party with some of your friends, typing /pchat before each message can get a little repetitive and annoying. Now, if you type /chat party, everything message you type will automatically be sent to party chat! You don’t have to worry about typing /pchat before each message anymore. Note: Commands are not sent through party chat. If you choose the party channel and type /warp castle, you will still be warped to the Castle. To return to typing in main chat, type /chat all.

Another new feature everyone has experienced already was the Welcome Tutorial. Even if you’ve been playing Imaginears Club since the beginning, you still have to go through the tutorial. (Even Cast Members have to go through it!) It’s a 60-second tutorial which goes over the basic features you can use on Imaginears Club such as the Resource Pack, Audio Server, and MagicBand, and explains how to travel to different Parks and Servers. If you haven’t been on since The Dashboard Update was released (October 9th), or are a new Guest, expect a tutorial on your next connection!

I feel like I’d be skipping out on a change if I didn’t mention this, but the -> seen in private messages is now green 😛

TL;DR: /chat, a tutorial, and a new color for the private message arrow

That’s all for now, thanks for reading the update! As you can see, a lot of work went into the development, testing and release of Dashboard, and I’m really happy to finally release it. We did experience some weird glitches and bugs here and there over the first few days, but that’s always going to happen with new software. Thanks again, and have a great day!

P.S. Don’t think we forgot about MyImaginears Club 😉

After a long time hiding in the corners of the Arcade, Pixie Dust Shootout is finally making its return! This is one of a few new games coming to the Arcade server in celebration of our 5th Anniversary!

Right now, we have 2 classic maps from the old game (Endor and Wonderland) as well as a brand new map (Nemo). Our team is already working on more maps; they will be changed regularly!

It’s been so long since this game was last playable, most of our current Guests don’t know what it is or how to play it. So, here’s an explanation of how the game works:

• When you join, you can choose to join either the Yellow team or the Purple team.
  • If you don’t choose a team, you’ll be sorted onto one when the game starts.
• After the game starts, you get a Pixie Wand to shoot Pixie Dust at the other team!
• Once you shoot, you have to wait a certain amount of time to shoot again.
  • This time can be changed by purchasing different delays at the Shop Manager in the Arcade.
• During the game, you can launch yourself into the air by double-pressing the space bar.
• You’re limited to a certain amount of double jumps during the game, so use them wisely!
  • Get double-jumps by purchasing more to start with at the Shop Manager in the Arcade.
• Power-Ups spawn throughout the game. Here’s the different kinds you can get:
  • Extra Double Jump: Exactly what it says.
  • Launch: When activated, launch the opposing team into the sky!
  • Seeker: Next time you shoot, it targets the nearest opposing player for you!
• Here’s how you earn money:
  • $1 for every 2 players you hit
  • $1 each time a Power-Up is used
  • $5 for being on the winning team
• The first team to 50 hits wins!

That’s how the game works. You can play now by visiting the Arcade (/join Arcade) and going to the Pixie Dust Shootout lobby (/hub pixie). Have fun!

Hello there! We just recently updated all of our servers with a new Achievement System! Now you can earn Achievements for completing different tasks around the server such as watching Illuminations, riding 10 different rides and even joining for your first time. And what’s better? Each achievement you receive will earn you 5 Tokens! Now you’re able to claim more rewards for enjoying the server. We’ve been looking to implement an Achievement system for over a year now, and are so happy to finally offer it. Some other things have changed recently as well; we’re going to go over them below.

Achievements

Starting today, you can earn Achievements by riding certain rides, visiting a Park, and completing other tasks. You can view the Achievement Menu in your MagicBand under “My Profile” and “Achievements”. You’ll be able to see the names of every Achievement available, but will only see descriptions for ones you completed. Below you can see the differences between the two:

Right now the Achievement list is limited, however we will be adding onto it in the coming weeks!

Another advantage to using the system is, with each Achievement you earn, you receive 5 Tokens! Tokens can be used to purchase Outfits in shops like the Emporium in the Magic Kingdom (/warp emporium).

Ride Counter

If you didn’t already find out on the server, some changes were made to the way the Ride Counter works. For starters, we had to clear everyone’s existing list, but there’s a good reason for it. The old system stored each ride separately with a number attached to it, that number being the amount of times you’ve ridden it. For example, my Ride Counter for Space Mountain would look like: “Legobuilder0813 – Space Mountain – 10”.

The new system now stores it differently, keeping track of each time you ride every ride, as well as the time you went on the ride. This new system provides us with more information as to which rides are more popular than others, and can help us find which rides need improvement.

Friend List

Although the changes to the Friend List were separate from the Achievement update, I figured I would talk about what and why we changed the system here. As you’ve probably noticed by now, your Friend List was cleared about 2 days ago. This is something we tried our best to avoid because we know people use the system so much. Some people had over 1000 friends on their old list! But, the format in which we stored your Friend List was not optimal at all and had to be changed. The new system has already improved processing lists in the backend. Now, let’s go over the difference between the two lists.

Beware: There is a lot of technical coding talk in the next two paragraphs. Just a fair warning!

The old system stored friends in the same place we store your balance, tokens, rank, and a lot of other options specific to your account. But, your friend list was just stored as one text field, which in Java we call a String. It stored each of your friend’s UUIDs (Unique User Identification) in one string. One UUID is 36 characters (letters, numbers, and symbols) in length, which is relatively small. But, if you have 100 people in your friend list, that’s 36 x 100 = 3,600 characters in length. Plus, each UUID is separated with a space to distinguish between one UUID and the other. So, add 99 spaces in there and you have a 3,699-character friend list. That isn’t too bad, but, if you have 748 people on your Friend List, you’d have a friend list that is 27,675 characters in length. As the lengths get larger, it takes longer for the server to process (only milliseconds of a difference, but enough to impact performance). Along with your Friend List, every friend request you’ve ever received gets stored in a list just like that one. So, 320 friends and 50 requests later, you’re taking up 13,688 characters. TL;DR: the old system was very bad.

So, now that you know how the old system worked, here’s how the new one is stored. There is a separate area in which we store friends now, away from where we store your balance, tokens, etc. In fact, we store everyone’s friends in the same place. There is a different entry for each “friendship” along with a status symbol. So, if I send a friend request to Helopoh, there’s now an entry with my UUID as the sender, Helopoh’s UUID as the receiver, and a status number (either 0 or 1) which tells the status of the friendship. If the status is 0, Helopoh still has the ability to accept or deny the request since she’s the receiver. When she accepts it, the status changes to 1, letting the server know that entry can now be added to my Friend List when I join the server. If she denies the request (which has happened before), the entire entry is removed. Thanks to this new system, I can tell you that, since we implemented the updated system a couple days ago, 1,296 friendships exist and 329 requests haven’t been answered. If I wanted to do that with the old system… let’s just say I would rather cry. TL;DR: the new system is amazing.

End technical coding talk

Now you see a lot of thought goes into something so easy-to-use as our Friend System. Even though it’s one of the easiest features on the server to use, the Friend System is probably one of the most complicated in the backend. The only thing that is more complex is how we upload and download your Backpacks and Lockers, but I won’t get into that now. It’ll take 10 pages to explain that one.

That’s all for now! Over 1000 words later, now you know about the new Achievement System, the changes made to the Ride Counter, and why we had to regretfully reset Friend Lists. Remember, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, just contact a Cast Member on the server; that’s what they’re here for! Enjoy the new Achievements, and as always have a magical day!

As most of you probably know, Creative’s map will be resetting on Monday June 20th. However, we feel everyone deserves to keep what they’ve build despite the map being reset. So, from now until June 20th, we’re offering Plot downloads on Creative! This is a little guide explaining how to get the download of your Plot.

1. First, make sure you’re on our Creative server. Log on to imaginears.club in Minecraft and type /join Creative
2. Visit your plot with /plot home. If you don’t have a plot, you don’t have anything to download!
3. When you’re standing on your own Plot, type /plot download.
4. The server will begin processing your Plot; it shouldn’t take more than a minute.
5. You will receive a message with a link, similar to this: 
6. Open that link and you’re good to go! Your Plot will begin downloading to your computer as a schematic file.
7. Because of the amount of Guests that will be downloading their Plots, we aren’t able to help you load the schematic into a world. Here are a few tips that might help:
   1. Using WorldEdit, paste your schematic into a world on a server. If you don’t own a server and don’t want to set one up, you can get one 15% off with our partner MCProHosting!
   2. Install the Single Player WorldEdit mod and paste your schematic into a single player world.
   3. Hold on to your schematic forever and ever and never let it go.

There you go, that’s how you get your Plot download! If you have any issues getting your schematic, just ask any Cast Member. They’ll be happy to help!

Recently Imaginears Club has gone through some networking changes. As a result of these changes, we have had much better protection against attacks as well as better stability overall. Still, a few guests have reported issues attempting to join the server.

Above is an image of 1 of the many possible errors you can receive upon connecting. It seems that there are issues with certain internet service providers and their domain name servers. What this means, simply, is that your provider is slow to find us.

HERE ARE SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:

Note: This is not certain to work. If you’re still having issues after doing this, please report it to a Cast Member on Mumble or on Twitter.

Please try the following–

Windows:

1. Log in to Windows using an Administrator account. (If your account doesn’t have Administrator privileges, you may not be able to adjust your DNS server settings. Ask your parents for help)
2. Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.Note for Windows 10: Simply click the Search icon (magnifying glass) in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and search for “Control Panel”. It will appear at the top of the search results as the best match.Note for Windows 8: Simply begin typing “Control panel” while viewing the Start screen. Click Control Panel in the search results to open it.
3. In the Control Panel, select Network and Internet, and then Network and Sharing Centre.Note for Windows XP: Click “Network Connections” and then skip to step 5.
4. Select Change adapter settings in the left-hand column.
5. Right-click on your active internet connection (this may be “Ethernet”, “Wireless Network Connection” or “Local Area Connection” depending on how your computer is set up) and select Properties.
6. In the Networking tab, click once on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to highlight it, and then click Properties.
7. Select Use the following DNS server addresses and then enter the following:

Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8
Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4

1. Click OK to finish.

Mac OSX:

1. On the desktop, click the Apple icon in the top left-hand corner and select System Preferences from the drop-down menu.
2. Select Network.
3. Select your Connected (Ethernet or Wi-Fi) connection from the left-hand column and then click Advanced.
4. Select the DNS tab and then click the minus(-) button in the lower left-hand corner of the window removing all that is there.
5. Select the DNS tab and then click the plus (+) button in the lower left-hand corner of the window.
   • Type the following and then click OK to finish:
     DNS server: 8.8.8.8

After completing all these steps, please try and reconnect 🙂 if you still can’t connect it might take some time for your old DNS cache to flush. You can reboot, or wait a few hours.

Hope this helps!

-DevSlashNull

We know you are confused and we’re here to help!

The concerns most Guests are having, in regards to the ResourcePack, are rarely found when using Minecraft 1.9.4. If you are on 1.8 (or an earlier version of 1.9) you should immediately be upgrading to the latest version of 1.9.4. This way you’re aligned with our servers.  Continuing to use 1.8 (or early versions of 1.9) will result in a few small quirks. So, to make it easier for you, here are a few tips:

1. First and foremost, UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE! Get yourself on the “Latest Version” of Minecraft in your profile. You should be on version 1.9.4 – anything less will mean continued visual quirks.
2. If you are on 1.9.4 and still having visual concerns, remove any other ResourcePacks in your menu. These can sometimes conflict as most ResourcePacks are only 1.8 compatible.
3. Only load MAIN from /pack or in your MagicBand. At present, our /rp menu and the link on our website may be working, but your best option is using our built-in tools like the MagicBand.
4. If a ResourcePack is unable to load or you do not see the ResourcePack, the most logical reason is that you have resource packs turned off on our server. To change this:
   1. Go to your multiplayer menu (Where your Servers are located)
   2. Select (click once) on our Server
   3. Click Edit (on the bottom of the screen)
   4. Click the button to say “Server Resource Packs: Enabled”
   5. DONE!

Finally, in regards to our “Audio Server”: We are moving 100% away from the Sound Pack. All rides and shows should be on /audio. A few are still being added so we ask for your patience. In fact, you may notice that you are getting disconnected every minute or so. This is normal as we transition our Audio Server to 1.9, as well. Please be patient as this may take the entire day, today, or even into tomorrow. We promise to have it back as soon as humanly possible and working better than ever!

For now, please wait for us to announce when the Audio Server is back up. Thanks.

We hope you are enjoying the Parks and as always– Have yourself the most MAGICAL of days!

Disney might’ve discontinued the beloved Star Wars Weekends in Hollywood Studios, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be celebrating! Symphony in the Stars is a Star Wars-themed fireworks spectacular that shows nightly at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. And now, for a limited time, we will be bringing it to Imaginears Club!

We will be showing Symphony in the Stars exclusively in our New Hollywood Studios park for everyone to see. The show will premiere on Wednesday May 4th at 9pm EST at /warp sits. The spectacular will continue showing until May 11th with the final showing at 9pm EST. The daily schedule can be found by Right-Clicking on the Watch in your inventory while on our server.

This show features an amazing fireworks display as well as a soundtrack based off of the real show arranged by our Imagineers. Please be aware that in order to hear the audio for the show you must be connected to our new Audio Server, the music has been updated and is not in the Audio Pack.

This show will only be on Imaginears Club for a limited time, so make sure you come and see it! Share pictures of you watching the show on Twitter with #Imaginears ClubSide.

Show Times can be found in the list below (All times in EST):

• Wednesday May 4th
  • 9pm (Premiere)
• Thursday May 5th
  • 11am
  • 4pm
• Friday May 6th
  • 9pm
• Saturday May 7th
  • 11am
• Sunday May 8th
  • 4pm
• Monday May 9th
  • 4pm
  • 9pm
• Tuesday May 10th
  • 11am
• Wednesday May 11th
  • 11am
  • 4pm
  • 9pm (Final Showing)