Prison launch, Minions, store sales in game and deeper leaderboards

Prison

Prison launched on Saturday 26 September at 20:15 UTC. Here is what shipped with it and in the hours after.

Minions

• Prison pets are now called Minions. Open them with /minions or the Pets button in the Prison menu. Your existing minions and vouchers keep their levels.
• Three minion eggs: the Crypt Egg, the Ore Egg and the Space Egg. Place an egg on the ground to hatch it. Each egg has its own model and hatching animation, and its lore lists the minions it can hatch with their odds.
• Crypt: Sewer Rat, Crypt Hound, Sewer Hag, Wraith, Necromancer, Sewer Warden. Ore: Coal Sprite, Iron Wisp, Redstone Imp, Gold Golem, Diamond Elemental, Emerald Titan. Space: Mercury Mite, Venus Charmer, Mars Marauder, Jupiter Juggernaut, Saturn Sentinel, Neptune Tyrant.

Prestige

• Prestige costs were lowered from Prestige 2 upward. Prestige 5 now costs 2.88B (was 4.28B) and Prestige 10 costs 6.51B (was 15.9B).
• The prestige ladder now runs to Prestige 100 instead of stopping at 10.
• Every prestige now adds 10% to your prestige multiplier.
• Rank Skip vouchers can now carry up to 1,200 ranks (was 500).
• New Prestige Skip voucher, a rare pull from the Twilight Lootbox. Each use skips the rank requirement and the fee for your next prestige and still pays that prestige's rewards. Unused skips come back as a smaller voucher.

Dungeons

• Create Party at the party board now opens a setup menu first. Pick public or private and the difficulty before the party is made. Your difficulty choice is remembered for your next run.

Other

• Achievement auto-claim is on by default, so finished achievements pay out on their own. You can still turn it off in /achievements, and that choice now survives restarts.
• Quests, achievements and robot progress are stored in the main database now, so they are covered by every backup.
• Fixed Rebirth Skip vouchers paying a rebirth reward twice when a normal rebirth landed at the same moment.
• Fixed robot Sell All and auto-sell paying out twice or losing items in rare cases.

Skyblock

• Legendary Collectors now move 64 items per hopper transfer.
• Performance pass on islands: custom block lookups, ticking block checks and generator tracking cost far less per tick.

Prison and Skyblock

• World backups no longer freeze the server while they write to disk. The save now runs in the background, which removes a stall of about a third of a second on every backup.

Store and shops

• /store shows sales properly: a sale banner on the main menu, glowing tiles for discounted items, the percentage off, a countdown, the list price next to what you pay, and "You save N gems". VIP savings get their own line.
• Crate amounts are grouped into one tile with an amount picker (1, 3, 12 or 25), the same as the website.
• Purchase broadcasts now name the sale that was applied.
• The website store shows what you save on sale items, and category counts count a crate family once.
• /shop buy confirmations show the total you paid, for example "You have bought x64 Stone for $1,280!".
• Auction house: trying to buy a gem-priced listing without enough gems now shows the gem price instead of a money message.
• Lootbox crates such as the Twilight Lootbox announce all your pulls in one message instead of one alert per reward.
• Cleaned up /store item lore that showed raw formatting tags and "Gems gems".

Network

• Leaderboards page through the full rankings instead of stopping at a fixed top list. This covers /baltop, tokens, beacons, shards, vote coins, mob points, the Prison mine, blocks, rankup and rebirth boards, vote and donor boards, gems and gift card menus, and dungeon times.
• Joining through a gamemode address such as prison.netherite.gg while that gamemode is down or in maintenance now sends you to the hub instead of disconnecting you.
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