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Kestramon game updatesEvery Kestramon update, newest first. Season 2: Hollowtide is live.Invisible item frames and a quiet spawn portal27 September 2026 - server

Invisible item frames: put an item in a frame, then hit the item with shears. The frame disappears and the item stays. Hit it with leather to bring the frame back.

If you take the item out of an invisible frame, the frame shows again so you can find it.

Mobs no longer come out of the giant sword portal at spawn, and no mobs appear in it any more. Walking into the sword still sends you to a random spot in the wild.

We tried a longer view distance (20 chunks) for a few minutes, but it switched off private plots, so it is back to 16. /plot works as before.

No modpack update needed.

The server now runs on its fastest processor cores27 September 2026 - server

The server now runs only on the fastest cores of its processor.

Its main game loop used to be busy about 90% of the time. Now it is about 50%, even with more players online, so it has room to spare.

No modpack update needed.

Kestramon V9.7.3: all 18 wings get a brand-new look27 September 2026 - modpack - V9.7.3

All 18 Kestramon wings have been remade from scratch, so they look solid from every side instead of flat.

The 18 designs include layered feathers, crystal shards, dragon wings and butterfly wings.

Your wings fold in and spread out as you move.

You keep the wings you own; only their look changed. Put yours on with /mywings.

To see the new wings, on you and on other players, open Kestramon in the CurseForge app and press Update to get V9.7.3. You can still play on V9.7.2, but you will see the old wings.

Nothing else in the pack changed.

Spawn sword portal: random teleport with no cooldown27 September 2026 - server

Walk into the giant sword's portal at spawn and it sends you to a random spot in the wild, just like /rtpq.

There is no cooldown on the sword portal.

It looks like a Nether portal, but it does not take you to the Nether.

The /rtp and /rtpq commands keep their normal cooldown.

No modpack update needed.

Store prices now shown in KestraGems27 September 2026 - store

Items in the kestramon.com store now show their prices in KestraGems: ranks, wings, capes, pets and more.

The cart and the checkout also show prices in KestraGems, and the checkout shows how many gems you have.

Only the gem packs still show a real-money price, because that is where you buy KestraGems.

This update did not change any prices, only the way they are shown.

Fixed: capes in the cart used to show €0.00, which also made the cart total wrong.

New leaderboards at spawn with champion figures27 September 2026 - server

Spawn has five new leaderboards: Most Caught, Highest Level, Most XP, Most Boss Wins and Highest Power. They replace the old boards at spawn.

In front of each board stands a figure wearing the skin of that board's number 1 player. When someone else takes first place, the figure changes to them.

The Most Active board is no longer at spawn. You can still find it as 'Most active playtime' on the kestramon.com leaderboard.

Kit menu, a voice chat fix, quieter votes and a new player welcome27 September 2026 - server

The /kit menu now shows the kits of your rank and of every rank below it. Before, it only showed the kits of your own rank.

Voice chat: we raised a voice chat limit that could kick you with the message 'Kicked for exceeding packet rate limit'.

The sounds for in-game votes like /vote day, /vote night and /vote clear are much quieter now. They also follow the Players slider in your Music & Sounds settings, so you can turn them down there.

When a new player joins Kestramon for the very first time, everyone online sees a random welcome message in chat and hears a soft, low chime. It only happens once per player.

Kestramon V9.7.2: Nether portals in your own shapes27 September 2026 - modpack - V9.7.2

Obsidian Nether portal frames no longer have to be rectangles. L shapes and bigger custom shapes work, and flat frames on the floor light up too.

Light the frame with flint and steel or a fire charge. Standing frames take you to the Nether like a normal portal.

A custom portal can have up to 256 blocks of purple portal inside its frame. Normal rectangle portals work as before.

Nothing else in the pack changed.

You need V9.7.2 or newer to join: since the server update early on 27 September, older versions are disconnected while joining. To update, open Kestramon in the CurseForge app and press Update. It installs the newest version, V9.7.3, which also has the new wings.

Rank upgrades: pay the difference plus a 10% fee27 September 2026 - store

Already have a rank? Moving up costs the price difference between your rank and the new one, plus a 10% upgrade fee on that difference, rounded up to a whole gem. It never costs more than the new rank's normal price.

For example, going from Trainer to Kindled costs 14 KestraGems: 12 for the step up plus a 2 gem fee.

In the kestramon.com store, rank cards show an UPGRADE PRICE when you are logged in and already own a rank, and the checkout shows that price before you pay.

Fixed: the checkout used to show the full rank price and could wrongly say you did not have enough gems.

kestramon.com: a Season 2 look and a Game Updates page26 September 2026 - server

The kestramon.com home page has a Season 2: Hollowtide cover with a What's New button.

New Game Updates page in the website menu: Kestramon's updates in one place, newest first. Tap a button at the top of the page to see only one kind, such as modpack, server, events, store or Discord.

Season 2: Hollowtide is live26 September 2026 - season

Season 2: Hollowtide went live on the evening of 26 September 2026 (European time) with a launch show: the lights dimmed, a totem animation, the SEASON 2 / Hollowtide title, a purple bossbar, sparks and particle bursts.

The show ended with 'Welcome to Kestramon - Season 2 has begun!' and a chat card with clickable commands. /season guide opens the Season 2 guide again, and /season 2 reopens the welcome menu.

Players on the updated modpack get an animated full-screen welcome with their own character and four cards: Wings, Pets, Capes and Hollowtide Pass. Older modpack versions get a 7-page Season 2 guide book.

A fresh season pass, Hollowtide, with new tiers and rewards. Everyone starts from tier 1.

18 animated wings (/mywings) and 156 Pokemon pets that walk beside you and fly when you fly (/pets, /pet <name>).

51 capes made of real cloth that swings and settles (/capes, /capeprogress). Capes can be earned by catching (50 of one type, or 100 with one ball) or bought.

In the store, every pet, cape and wing can be bought with KestraGems only, in three rarities: Mythical, Epic and Uncommon. Gem packs give KestraGems at the new Season 2 rate.

Launch gift: every player online at the launch received the free Hollowtide cape.

Season 2: your KestraGems doubled, and so did prices26 September 2026 - store

When Season 2 began, every player's KestraGems were doubled. Only the owners' own accounts were left as they were.

At the same moment, prices in KestraGems doubled in the kestramon.com store and in the in-game gem shop, so your gems buy the same things as before.

Buying an extra chunk for your private plot (/plot) now costs 4 KestraGems instead of 2, for the same reason.

Gem packs now give twice as many KestraGems for the same price.

KestraGem rewards you earn in game, such as from crates, the pass and kits, were not doubled.

Kestramon V9.7.1: welcome screen cape text26 September 2026 - modpack - V9.7.1

The Season 2 welcome screen now says capes can be earned or bought.

Adds one more cape to the client.

Nothing else in the pack changed.

Kestramon V9.7.0: the Season 2 client26 September 2026 - modpack - V9.7.0

Wings are rebuilt as real 3D wings with layered feathers. They move with you and stay clear of your arms and head.

Pokemon pets walk beside you, and flyers take off with you.

Capes are made of real cloth.

Adds the Season 2 welcome screen.

Nothing else in the pack changed.

Discord self-roles picker26 September 2026 - discord

A self-roles picker is now in the Self-Roles channel on Discord, with buttons for Update Pings and Event Pings.

Menus let you pick your region (one of six), your pronouns (any of four) and your favourite Pokemon type (one of eighteen).

Pick something again to remove it. My roles shows what you have, and Clear all removes everything you picked there.

Faster storage remote and a chest sorting fix25 September 2026 - server

Storage remote (Advanced Wireless Terminal): when your storage is far away, it now opens almost instantly, in about 0.1 seconds instead of 3.

The beacon rule has not changed: you still need a beacon next to your terminal.

In Sophisticated Storage chests, the Sort in Columns and Sort in Rows buttons are now hidden. With stack upgrades they only showed an error and cannot work there.

The normal Sort button still works, and your items were never affected. You get the sorting fix the next time you join.

Update pings, /pay and /balance, and rare spawns that stay25 September 2026 - server

New Update Pings role you choose yourself: a button on the Discord update post gives it to you and removes it again, or type /pings in Discord. Update posts ping that role instead of everyone.

/pay kestracoin <player> <amount> and /pay kestragem <player> <amount> let you pay other players in game. Player names complete with Tab, and you can pay offline players too.

/balance <player> (or /bal <player>) shows both KestraCoins and KestraGems. Tab works here too.

You cannot pay more than you have, pay yourself, or pay a name that has never played here. If a payment fails, nothing is taken.

Every shiny, legendary and mythical Pokemon that gets announced with its coordinates now stays for at least 48 hours, so it is still there when you arrive. These announcements are also posted on Discord.

Kestramon V9.6.7: invisible mobs and Pokemon fixed25 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.7

Mobs, Pokemon and blocks like PCs, chests and raid crystals no longer vanish when they are more than 64 blocks away, or more than 32 blocks above or below you.

The cause was a performance setting in the pack. It is now switched off, and it is also switched off once on games that already have the pack.

Entity Distance is raised to 200% once (only if yours is lower), so mobs stay visible further away.

Your own settings are kept; only these two things change. Update your modpack to V9.6.7 in the CurseForge app.

Event games: own arenas, own items and fixes25 September 2026 - events

Every event game now has its own arena. Paintball has its own field and is no longer in the middle of the parkour plaza, and Tag and Hot Potato each have their own arena.

TNT Run and Spleef use their own tube and snow pit. Sprint has its own speed course, so Sprint times no longer end up on the race records.

Crumble has moved a bit east so it no longer overlaps the PvP arena.

Every game has its own items: boots for Sprint and TNT Run, a shovel for Spleef, and a Hill Pusher stick in King of the Hill that shoves people off the hill.

Tag gives runner boots, plus the Tag Stick for whoever is IT. Paintball gives a gun that never runs out plus your team's armour. Hot Potato gives boots, plus the bomb.

Event items stay in the game and cannot be dropped. Your own items are stored safely and come back exactly as they were when the game ends.

Fixed: Hot Potato now only ever has one bomb, and Sprint now registers players finishing instead of always running out its clock.

Fixed: your inventory now always matches what you really have during events, and golden apples you earn in a game are now yours to keep.

The world grows about 4x faster24 September 2026 - server

A server-side speed-up for world generation: new land now generates at roughly 125 chunks per second, up from 28.

The rest of the 40,000 x 40,000 Overworld needs about 10 hours of generating instead of 44.

When players are online and the server starts to feel it, world growth pauses by itself and picks up again once things are smooth, so most of it happens while the server is quiet.

Nothing changes in how the world looks: the new terrain was checked against the old generator, and biomes and structures come out identical.

No modpack update needed, just rejoin.

/rtp reaches the whole world, plus a new menu24 September 2026 - server

/rtp now drops you anywhere in the 40k x 40k Overworld, up to 19,500 blocks from spawn (it used to stop at about 9,500). The Nether reaches up to 2,000 blocks out.

The /rtp menu got a makeover: pick Overworld, Nether or The End, see how far each one reaches, and see at a glance whether your cooldown is ready.

/rtpq still sends you straight to a random Overworld spot.

No modpack update needed.

Riding Pokemon is smooth again24 September 2026 - server

No more rubber-banding when you ride a Pokemon. Flying or running mounts such as Kilowattrel and Gogoat kept getting yanked back while you rode them; now you stay where you steer.

Boats, horses and minecarts did not have this problem and have not changed.

Cleaner world loading: some old fossil sites from before the Cobblemon 1.8 update threw errors when their chunks loaded, most of all at the edge of the growing world. That is fixed.

No modpack update needed, just rejoin.

Kestramon V9.6.6: Biomes O' Plenty and a bigger world24 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.6

Biomes O' Plenty adds 50+ new biomes, such as maple woods, lavender fields, redwood forests and mystic groves. Pokemon spawn in them too.

The new biomes appear in a new outer ring: the Overworld grows from 40,000 to 50,000 blocks across and the Nether from 5,000 to 6,250. Everything already built stays exactly as it is.

The new land is generated first (about 8 to 10 hours). The border opens and /rtp reaches the new ring as soon as it is done, with an announcement in game.

Also adds TerraBlender and GlitchCore, the two libraries Biomes O' Plenty needs.

Update your modpack to V9.6.6 in the CurseForge app before joining: the server needs these mods.

Kestramon V9.6.5: raid crystals are back24 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.5

Cobblemon Raid Dens is back, made for Cobblemon 1.8: raid crystals generate in the overworld again, Tier 1 to 7.

Find a crystal, host a raid or join one, and beat the raid boss together.

Everything else in the pack is the same as V9.6.4.

Update the modpack in the CurseForge app to get it: you need V9.6.5 to join once the server has it.

Mobs visible further away and AFK after 15 minutes24 September 2026 - server

You now see mobs from much further away: the server used to send them only within about a third of the normal range. Mob farms at a distance are visible again.

AFK now starts after 15 minutes of not moving (was 2 minutes). Farms near you keep running until then.

Tip: in Video Settings, Entity Distance decides how far your own game draws mobs, and 200% is a good middle. The next modpack update sets it to 200% once for you.

No modpack update needed.

Farms and spawners: longer range, stackable spawners, vouchers24 September 2026 - server

Mob spawners now run while you are up to 128 blocks (8 chunks) away, up from 16. Farm chunks keep ticking up to about 9 chunks from you (was about 7).

Mobs far from you are no longer slowed down. The AFK rule is unchanged: if everyone near a farm is AFK, the farm still pauses.

Stackable spawners: right-click a placed spawner with more spawners of the same mob to stack them, with no cap. Sneak + right-click adds the whole stack in your hand; with an empty hand it shows the count.

A stacked spawner's mob is named like Iron Golem (x16) and drops 16x its loot and XP. Mining a stack gives every spawner back, and stacks survive explosions.

Changing a stack's mob needs one spawn egg per spawner in the stack. Stacking works only in your own claim or your party's, never in someone else's claim or at spawn.

Mob Spawner Voucher: right-click it and pick a farm mob: Iron Golem, Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, Blaze, Enderman, Slime, Magma Cube, Witch, Zombified Piglin, Spider, Cave Spider, Cow, Pig, Sheep or Chicken.

Spawner Egg Voucher: turns into the spawn egg of the farm mob you pick. Both vouchers are in the shop at the Curio Dealer, limited to 3 per day each.

No modpack update needed.

Server update: /vote cooldown, tidier chat replies, command fixes23 September 2026 - server

/vote now has a 30 second cooldown, shared by every /vote command.

Command replies now fit the chat box. Long lines wrap neatly, indented, instead of running across the whole chat.

/balance and /bal now show your KestraCoins.

/starter opens the starter picker if you have not chosen a starter yet.

/pokepc takes you to the Pokecenter.

Joining without the Kestramon modpack now shows one clear message: install Kestramon from CurseForge.

/help, /list, /rules, /gametime, /pco, /bal and /balance answer you again. They had been going silent for players.

No modpack update is needed for any of this.

Modpack V9.6.4: a smooth loading screen23 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.4

The loading screen now keeps moving the whole time the game starts, at about 16 frames per second.

Before, it froze for up to 7 seconds at a time, most of all on "Putting it all together".

Modpack V9.6.3: Fresh Animations fixed on every video setting23 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.3

Players who picked Low or Medium in Kestramon Setup saw mobs without eyes and no player animations, because those settings switched off the custom models Fresh Animations is made of.

Those models now stay on for every setting. Low and Medium still save FPS on far-away mobs.

If you already picked Low or Medium, it fixes itself on your next launch.

Modpack V9.6.2: no more lag on your first join23 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.2

On V9.6.1 the first join dropped to 20-30 FPS for about 20 seconds while the CobbleDex drew a picture of every Pokémon.

Kestramon now uses the finished set CobbleDex already ships, so the first join is as smooth as every later one.

Modpack V9.6.1: no warning screen, better FPS, new loading screen23 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.1

Joining Kestramon for the first time downloads everything straight away, with no warning, countdown or checkbox. When it is done, press Restart your game to play Kestramon, then Play again.

Shaders are now only on when you pick High in Kestramon Setup. They were on for everyone and cost most players about three quarters of their frame rate. You can still turn them on yourself.

Pokémon are drawn up to 1.25x the normal distance instead of 5x, and biome blending is lighter. This is set once, and only if you never changed these settings yourself.

A new animated loading screen: a Kestramon galaxy turns behind the logo, and the bar shows what is loading right now.

The setup screens use the same night sky, and the dark box behind their text is gone.

The crate keys, KestraCoin, KestraGem and the shop currency show their Kestramon textures again.

Modpack V9.6.0: one-button first join, your settings stay yours23 September 2026 - modpack - V9.6.0

Joining for the first time: the download starts straight away, with no warning screen and no countdown.

When it is done you see one button, Restart your game to play Kestramon. Your game closes; press Play again and you go straight into the server.

Updates no longer apply the video preset over your own settings, and your sound settings are no longer changed when you launch.

The card binder and showcase keys default to the comma and period keys in every preset. Keys you already set stay as they are.

New installs start with the calmer sound mix again (overall volume 30%, music 10%).

Added Fresh Animations: Player Extension: players run, swim, climb and sleep in Fresh Animations' style. It is switched on once; if you turn it off, it stays off.

Update the modpack in CurseForge. Older versions still join.

Modpack V9.5.3 and AFK farms now pause22 September 2026 - modpack - V9.5.3

Fresh Animations is fixed: a Vanilla Backport helper pack sat above Fresh Animations in your resource pack list, which made mob faces and eyes look wrong. It now sits below it.

The pack list is repaired once on your next launch. If you have already arranged your packs the way you like them, it leaves them alone after that.

That is the only modpack change from V9.5.2. V9.5.2 and older still join, but the fix only arrives with the update.

While you are AFK, your area pauses: mob spawners, hoppers, droppers, dispensers, crafters, Cobblemon pasture drops and crop growth stop, and start again the moment you move. No command, no relog.

It covers everything the server still ticks for you, not a fixed distance. If another player near you is active, nothing pauses for either of you.

AFK means 2 minutes without moving or turning your camera. Being pushed, riding, swimming or being teleported is not activity, the same rule /playtime uses.

AFK is announced in chat again, so you can see who has stepped away and who is back.

Pasture loot is rarer: the overall chance is halved, and nether stars, rare candy, dragon breath and gems now drop at 5%.

Modpack V9.5.2: three small mod updates22 September 2026 - modpack - V9.5.2

Fusion (Connected Textures): see-through items no longer turn invisible on Fabulous graphics, and a connected-texture error is fixed.

Dynamic Surroundings: sounds that another mod plays from the wrong thread are now dropped instead of played.

A shared core library used by several mods gets a small text fix.

No server change needs this update, so V9.5.1 and V9.5.2 both join.

Modpack V9.5.1 and server update: /playtime, Sell Chest, fixes22 September 2026 - modpack - V9.5.1

Shaders load again on a fresh install, and Entity Texture Features keeps the pack's settings. You can switch shaders off at any time in Video Settings, Shader Packs.

V9.4 and older no longer match the server, so update the modpack in CurseForge. V9.5.0 and V9.5.1 both join.

Commands like /level, /daily, /pass and /power answer you in chat again instead of printing nothing.

Almost every item now has a coin value, and a Sell Chest sells almost anything: full tooltip price for your first 5,000 KC (KestraCoins) a day.

/playtime shows your active playtime, counted from 22 Sept. AFK time (2 minutes without moving or turning the camera) never counts. On /playtime top, the weekly and monthly top 3 win prizes.

Every leaderboard on kestramon.com has a Lifetime view that never resets. In game, use /leaderboard.

A bug that could stop players from joining is fixed, a problem with the Pokémon in /boss and /tower is fixed, and the day/night/weather vote messages fit the chat box.

8 planks make a normal chest again. Carved Wood chests are a normal chest plus 1 plank of that wood and take Sophisticated Storage upgrades. Nether /rtp should now put you well inside the world border.

Modpack V9.5.0: Fresh Animations, faster start, mod updates22 September 2026 - modpack - V9.5.0

Fresh Animations moves again. The pack sorts your resource pack list by itself, also if your list was already set up, and removes a beta helper pack that froze the mobs.

3D Poké Rods is switched back on for players who lost it.

No more missing-texture checkerboards on placeholder items, and the roughly 400 missing-model warnings per launch are gone.

Faster start, measured on a fresh install: first launch 44.3 s to 38.0 s, later launches 41.2 s to 34.1 s.

The pack now asks the CurseForge app for 8 GB of memory. If the game still stutters, give this profile at least 8 GB in CurseForge.

Updated mods include Open Parties and Claims (existing claims carry over), the minimap and world map, Mega Showdown 1.2.0, Radical Cobblemon Trainers, Simple Voice Chat, Waystones and Complementary Shaders.

The server updates its matching mods at the same time, so update the pack before you join.

Modpack V9.4.0: capes, wings and price tooltips21 September 2026 - modpack - V9.4.0

Your game can now show Kestramon's own capes (52 designs, 28 of them animated) and wings (18 designs) on players who wear them. They are coming soon to the store.

Item tooltips show the server's prices: "Worth X KC" and "Sells for Y KC" (what the Sell Chest pays). The numbers come from the server when you join, so they stay right after every economy update.

Items that are only sold for gems say "Not sold for coins".

Kestramon Onboarding is updated.

V9.3.0 can still join. Update in the CurseForge app to see capes, wings and the new tooltips.

Modpack V9.3.0: Carry On, new blocks and Cobblemon 1.8.121 September 2026 - modpack - V9.3.0

Carry On: hold Shift and right-click with an empty hand to pick up and carry chests, blocks and animals. It respects claims, so you cannot carry things out of someone else's land.

Carved Wood adds chests, barrels, crafting tables and more in every wood type, and Moar Concrete adds 144 concrete stairs, slabs, walls, fences, gates and more.

Interactic lets you pick up items with right-click, throw items and use the Item Filter.

Dynamic Surroundings adds biome ambience, waterfalls, fireflies, footsteps and more, with its reverb switched off so it does not stack with Sound Physics.

Enchantment Descriptions shows what every enchantment does, and Cobblemon Info shows spawns, evolutions, drops, moves and stats inside the recipe viewer.

Fresh Animations 1.9.2 is back, in the right order with the Vanilla Backport animations, plus Infinite Music, Canon PC Wallpapers and glowing evolution-stone ores.

Cobblemon is updated to 1.8.1 (from 1.8.0), with Capture XP, Cobbled Counter, TimCore and Unchained updated to match.

Once the server switches to this version, V9.2.0 and older can no longer join. Update to V9.3.0 in the CurseForge app.

Modpack V9.2.0: LumyMon removed21 September 2026 - modpack - V9.2.0

LumyMon has been removed from Kestramon. Nothing is lost: no player had LumyMon items, and LumyMon blocks already in the world stay in place.

Kestramon Onboarding is updated so your game joins with every block lined up exactly as the server expects.

Everything else is unchanged from V9.1.2.

Modpack V9.1.2: the version that launches20 September 2026 - modpack - V9.1.2

V9.0.0 through V9.1.1 all failed to launch. V9.0.0 was built from an outdated mod list, the next three versions each fixed part of the damage, and V9.1.2 fixes the rest.

Fabric Loader is back on 0.19.5, which fixes the "Replace mod 'Fabric Loader' 0.19.3 with 0.19.5 or later" crash.

Cobblemon is back on 1.8.0, matching the server, and the seven older mods that do not work on Cobblemon 1.8 are removed.

The install screen says Kestramon again instead of AutoModpack's stock text.

Still included: the furniture and dungeon mods (Macaw's set, YUNG's Better Dungeons, Sit, Tree Harvester, Double Doors, Collective) and the updated Kestramon Onboarding.

Cobblemon Economy is still delivered by AutoModpack rather than the pack, which is what stopped the endless "Restart your game!" loop.

Modpack V9.1.1: Kestramon install screen is back20 September 2026 - modpack - V9.1.1

The install screen shows the Kestramon explanation again instead of AutoModpack's stock "MODPACK INSTALL" text.

Cobblemon stays on 1.8.0 like the server, and the seven older mods that do not work on Cobblemon 1.8 stay removed.

Still included: the furniture and dungeon mods (Macaw's set, YUNG's Better Dungeons, Sit, Tree Harvester, Double Doors, Collective) and the updated Kestramon Onboarding.

Cobblemon Economy is still delivered by AutoModpack rather than the pack, which keeps the restart loop fixed.

Modpack V9.1.0: Cobblemon back on 1.8.020 September 2026 - modpack - V9.1.0

V9.0.0 and V9.0.1 shipped Cobblemon 1.7.3 while the server runs 1.8.0, which stopped fresh installs from starting. Cobblemon is back on 1.8.0, matching the server.

Removes seven older mods that were pulled in by mistake and do not work on Cobblemon 1.8: Battle Extras, Raid Dens, Pasture Collector, CobbleEMI, Pokedex Scanner, Firework Capsules and Drop Loot Tables.

The furniture and dungeon mods stay in: Macaw's set, YUNG's Better Dungeons, Sit, Tree Harvester, Double Doors and Collective.

Kestramon Onboarding is updated.

Cobblemon Economy is still delivered by AutoModpack rather than the pack, which keeps the restart loop fixed.

Modpack V9.0.1: fixes the endless restart loop20 September 2026 - modpack - V9.0.1

Fixes the "Restart your game! Successfully updated the modpack!" loop that asked players to restart after every launch.

Cobblemon Economy was being delivered twice, once by the pack and once by AutoModpack. The pack no longer ships it, so AutoModpack alone delivers it, like the other server mods.

Nothing else changed: same 172 mods, configs, keybinds and resource packs. Shop text and the KestraCoins and KestraGems names are unaffected.

Modpack V9.0.0: furniture, dungeons and more20 September 2026 - modpack - V9.0.0

Adds the Macaw's furniture and decoration set: doors, windows, roofs, fences, stairs, trapdoors, bridges, paths, lights, paintings and furniture.

Adds YUNG's Better Dungeons, Double Doors, Tree Harvester, Sit and Grind Enchantments.

Updates Kestramon Onboarding.

Clear join screen when the server is under maintenance20 September 2026 - server

When the server is briefly closed for maintenance, anyone trying to join sees a proper screen explaining what is happening, with the reason if one was given and a link to the Kestramon Discord, instead of a blank error.

The server list entry shows "BACK SOON" while maintenance is on.

Big batch of fixes finished, arriving with the next modpack20 September 2026 - server

Bosses can no longer be pushed around during /boss, and /boss rewards get a streak system with milestone loot at 10, 20, 30 and onward, including a Master Ball at 500 and 1000.

Tower: bosses that spawned late or not at all are fixed, /tower is separate for each player with invites, and /towerback works like /bossback.

The pasture loot drop chance goes from 5% to 10%, while rare candy and nether star pasture drops are set to 1 drop at a 20% chance.

Mobs can no longer attack AFK players, hostile mobs cannot attack you during a Pokemon battle, and the Recharge move shows its proper name instead of a missing translation.

Fixes for /gts kicking players, water and lava vanishing when placed, an invisible off-hand shield after /rtp, the inventory darkening after /shop, buried treasure maps and /claim add confirmations.

Crates show their matching key and showcase rows, /crate odds shows the right roll count, very rare crate wins are announced in chat, and the Mythic crate gets its own chest block.

Economy: almost every item has a price, shopkeepers are redone, Sell Chests get blast protection, a shop-bought Sell Chest no longer turns into a normal chest, and rank upgrades cost only the difference.

Also: Fresh Animations works again, every prefix is recoloured, onboarding no longer forces keybinds, and Discord support tickets and join-to-create voice channels are improved.

Events now keep your inventory safe20 September 2026 - events

Spleef and TNT Run no longer delete players' inventories.

Every event now saves your full inventory before it starts, whether or not the game gives you a kit, and you get everything back when the round ends.

Player inventories are now backed up much more often.

Affected inventories have been restored, and events are open again.

Level 80+ bosses no longer bring a second Pokemon20 September 2026 - server

Fighting a level 80+ boss alone now means facing exactly one Pokemon, instead of a second Pokemon of the same species appearing from the first turn.

The boss is still the hard version, with perfect training, a Focus Sash, battle level 90 and strong AI. Nothing is easier; only the extra Pokemon is gone.

Fighting a boss with a party keeps the boss phases: a longer fight with better odds.

The fight message now matches what you actually face.

Bosses below level 80 are unchanged.

Event update: music, bigger games and three new modes19 September 2026 - events

Every event game has its own soundtrack that plays from the countdown until the game ends, at a middle volume, and players who walk in halfway hear the track already playing.

Drop Party: no more slow floaty landing, shoves are aimed away from the middle and about three times stronger, real fireworks go off the whole time, and there is more sparkle over the drop zone.

The PvP kit is upgraded from iron to diamond: Protection II armour, a Sharpness II sword, a Power I bow, 4 golden apples, 4 ender pearls, 8 golden carrots and 32 arrows. Still no enchanted golden apples.

Nightmare: no more phantoms, no blindness when the floor drops, solid floors, an edge barrier that is 12 blocks tall instead of 4, and every class kit is stronger (the Knight's slowness is gone).

Parkour pads are at least 3 blocks wide with jumps as long as before, soul sand is out of Inferno, and Crumble has a platform over twice as big with a fourth floor.

Games last longer: PvP 5 to 8 minutes, Parkour 5 to 10, Crumble 4 to 8 and Nightmare 30 to 45.

Three new games: Speed Parkour (the same courses with Speed and Haste), TNT Run (the floor disappears the moment you touch it) and King of the Hill (hold the middle for 60 seconds total).

Also: rare candy and nether star pasture drops are capped at one per drop, menus no longer throw your cursor back to the middle, AFK players no longer earn playtime XP, and there is a new Bug Tester rank.

Voting fixes: Storm key, full inventory and double keys17 September 2026 - server

The Storm key needs 10 votes that have not already paid one. Voting on all 14 sites still pays one Storm key a day.

A bug that could pay out a second Storm key is fixed.

No more false "your inventory is full": keys stack, so a part-full key stack counts as space. The reward still waits for you if your inventory is really full.

A hiccup that could hand out vote keys twice is fixed. Keys are now recorded once.

The vote page's old "next storm in 24h" countdown is gone, because nothing used it. The bar shows exactly what the prize counts.

A new look for the GTS chest at spawn17 September 2026 - server

The GTS chest at the spawn market is a special diamond-trimmed chest with a floating "GTS - Global Trade System" sign, so it no longer looks like a normal chest or a crate chest.

Right-click it to open the GTS as before.

Green trading sparkles around it arrive with the next restart.

Pasture drops: item bans lifted, rare candy and nether stars capped17 September 2026 - server

All 26 items that pastured Pokemon were blocked from dropping are unbanned, including meat, fish, leather, bone, bone meal, spider eye, rotten flesh, rabbit hide, sharp beak, honey bottles and wool.

Pastured Pokemon could hand out stacks of 2 to 6 rare candy at a time, and nether stars far more often than intended.

Rare candy and nether stars are capped at one item per drop with a 20% chance, on every Pokemon that drops them: all 77 species tables, alternate forms included.

The cap changes nothing else: every other item keeps the exact chance and stack size it had.

Both changes go live with the next server restart.

Join to Create voice rooms and a Kestramon Discord link card17 September 2026 - discord

Join the Join to Create channel and it becomes your own voice room.

The room owner controls it with /v name, /v mute, /v kick, /v ban and /v claim.

The welcome message only shows inside that room, and empty rooms are cleaned up.

Sharing the Discord link from kestramon.com shows a Kestramon card instead of Discord's invite box with the member count. Clicking it still opens the invite straight away.

Discord polls and event scheduling17 September 2026 - discord

Discord polls can have up to 10 answers. Vote with the buttons, and click again to take your vote back.

Polls close by themselves (after 24 hours by default) and show the result.

Time polls let you vote on one or more times for an event. Everyone who picks a time gets a role for it, and the time with the most votes wins.

The winning time is posted with everyone who is going and becomes a Discord event. The role is pinged when it starts and removed when the event is over.

Events for everyone are announced to the whole server with a Discord event, and everyone is pinged again when they start.

Everyone sees event times in their own timezone.

Crate plaza fixed: the Mythic crate is back17 September 2026 - server

The Mythic crate is back as a dark netherite chest, facing the spot where people stand.

Right-clicking it without a key shows "You need a Mythic Key to open this crate." and no chest inventory opens.

Right-clicking it with a Mythic Key opens the Mythic reward screen and uses the key, exactly as before.

All 8 crate chests face the open side of their rooms: Ember, Celestial and Sprout face east, Tide, Eclipse and Storm face west, Vote faces north and Mythic faces south.

The crate chests hold no items, so nothing was lost when they were turned.

Modpack V8.0: Macaw's decorations and item price tooltips16 September 2026 - modpack - V8.0.3

V8.0.0 brings in what players asked for in the suggestions channel, and V8.0.1, V8.0.2 and V8.0.3 follow the same day with fixes.

Eleven Macaw's decoration mods join the pack: furniture, doors, windows, roofs, trapdoors, fences and walls, paths and pavings, lights and lamps, bridges, paintings and stairs.

Hovering over any item shows what a shopkeeper charges for it, or what a Sell Wand pays for it.

Kestramon's own menus get a themed look: a deep galaxy panel with a neon rim, vines and a creature watching from the title bar.

Ordinary chests, ordinary crates, the shop and your own inventory keep their normal look.

If you installed V8.0.0, the theme could switch itself back on at every launch and make ordinary screens look dark. V8.0.3 switches it off and leaves your own resource packs and their order as they were.

The Pokemon dismount key is G everywhere, matching the layout the setup screen applies, instead of X.

The earlier keybind fix is kept: a new install does not start on somebody else's keybind layout. The pack has 154 mods on Minecraft 1.21.1 with Fabric.

Modpack V7.5.3 to V7.5.615 September 2026 - modpack - V7.5.6

Four modpack builds are released on the same day: V7.5.3, V7.5.4, V7.5.5 and V7.5.6.

Each carries 143 mods on Minecraft 1.21.1 with Fabric, including the Kestramon Onboarding mod.

Modpack V7.5.113 September 2026 - modpack - V7.5.1

Modpack V7.5.1 is released with 143 mods on Minecraft 1.21.1 with Fabric, including the Kestramon Onboarding mod.

Modpack V7.4.1: Cobblemon 1.812 September 2026 - modpack - V7.4.1

The pack moves to Cobblemon 1.8.0, together with every addon that has a 1.8 build.

Fabric Loader goes from 0.19.3 to 0.19.5, the minimum Fabric Language Kotlin 1.14.1 needs. Without it the newer Kotlin is ignored and an older copy loads instead.

Catch Indicator 3.0 and Catch Rate Display 2.11.0 replace their 1.7.3 builds, which relied on a Cobblemon value that 1.8 renamed.

Complementary Unbound r5.9.1 and EuphoriaPatcher 1.10.1 are matched, fixing the "SHADER NOT FOUND" screen. Complementary Reimagined is removed: the pack supports one shaderpack.

The main menu always plays yakusoku. It used to pick from four tracks, three of which did not exist, so the title screen was silent three launches in four.

Audio settings: Master 30%, Music 10%, Jukebox/Note Blocks 10%.

Client updates: Sodium 0.8.13, ImmediatelyFast 1.6.13, EMF 3.3.5, ETF 7.2.1 and MoreCulling 1.0.10, plus an updated Kestramon Onboarding mod.

Removed because no Cobblemon 1.8 build exists: Cobblemon EMI, Battle Extras, Firework Capsules, Raid Dens, DropLootTables, Pasture Collector and Better Pokedex Scanner.

Modpack V7.0.0: card keybinds and music fixes11 September 2026 - modpack - V7.0.0

Cobblemon Cards: Open Card Binder and Open Card Showcase each have their own key in all four keybind presets.

Audio defaults are Master 30% and Music 60%.

Menu music is fixed: it pointed at a track that was never shipped, which silenced it.

Gameplay music plays a random rotation of the tracks the pack already ships, instead of one repeated track.

The bundled Kestramon music pack had the same broken track setup and is updated to match.

Modpack V6.0.1 and V6.0.24 September 2026 - modpack - V6.0.2

Two modpack builds, V6.0.1 and V6.0.2, are released on the same day.

Both carry 154 mods on Minecraft 1.21.1 with Fabric, including the Kestramon Onboarding mod.

Voice chat fixed and the world pregenerated2 August 2026 - server

Proximity voice chat works for everyone after a connection problem was fixed.

The world is being pregenerated out to 8000 blocks so exploring does not stutter.

The Nether and the End are already pregenerated.

Shops, GTS, random teleport and land claims are live2 August 2026 - server

/shop is open for KestraCoins and /store for gems.

/gts lets you trade with other players.

/rtp drops you at a random spot in the Overworld, the Nether or the End.

Land claiming is live.

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