As many of you are likely to be aware earlier this week during our monthly server updates and world resets, we updated mcMMO on Noobstown.

This change involved updating mcMMO to its latest version (A full changelog of the changes in this version of mcMMO can be found here.) One of the biggest changes in this update involved the introduction of the "Salvage" child-skill. It was removed from being an ability with repair to being its own skill; a few days ago I wrote a guide to this which can be found here.

As we're aware there are several players who weren't too keen on this change, but it is something we have had to do as we need to keep up-to-date with the latest plugins to ensure a stable server. It is also a much fairer system for the server as a whole. We have however made many improvements since the initial discovery of the Salvage change, including reducing the rank required to salvage damaged items and improved the ability to gain enchants during salvage.

As part of our on-going improvement process we have also listened to players who have said fishing (being a parent skill of salvage) was too hard to level up and was one of the many reasons why people were annoyed by the difficulty in improving their Salvage level. As part of this earlier today we:

• Made the gaining of mcMMO Fishing experience much easier! (And will continue to monitor this and may adjust it again in the future!)
• Lowered the Salvage levels required to gain multiple items back when salvaging!
• Dramatically improved the percentage chances of getting enchants back during salvaging!
• Changed the levels required for different Ranks in Arcane Salvage
• Improved the gain from Smelting (Due to it being another child-skill, we have put them in-line with each other)

We would really appreciate constructive feedback/suggestions regarding these changes. The Salvage ability is something we will continue to actively support so it isn't useful just asking for us to change back; if you have any suggestions on how to improve it though we would love to hear them!