Recently a young player told us that their birthday is coming up soon but they're scared. They want to have a birthday party but the fireworks in Minecraft can sometimes trigger seizures due to Epilepsy. They asked us if we can have a party for them but not do fireworks.

The problem with this is that we can't control what everyone else does. There's no way to reach every single player, especially since some players will be joining in on that very day, and some will just plain forget.

This got me to thinking and on the same day he asked, I wrote a new plugin just for Autcraft that makes it so that each player can take control themselves. The new command on the server is:

/togglefireworks

Now, each Autcraft player can disable all fireworks from their point of view by running that command. Running it again turns them back on again. Players won't see them or hear them.

This not only benefits players who may suffer from seizures but also those who have computers that might lag heavily under the weight of the particles, or players who are feeling overwhelmed at all of the lights and sounds.

So if you or your little one is on Autcraft and you want to be able to turn off fireworks, now, you can do that.

This is an awesome feature. I appreciate how valued players are here on Autcraft. Thank you AF!

excellent feature AF, also excellent skin :)

AutismFather:

Recently a young player told us that their birthday is coming up soon but they're scared. They want to have a birthday party but the fireworks in Minecraft can sometimes trigger seizures due to Epilepsy. They asked us if we can have a party for them but not do fireworks.

The problem with this is that we can't control what everyone else does. There's no way to reach every single player, especially since some players will be joining in on that very day, and some will just plain forget.

This got me to thinking and on the same day he asked, I wrote a new plugin just for Autcraft that makes it so that each player can take control themselves. The new command on the server is:

/togglefireworks

Now, each Autcraft player can disable all fireworks from their point of view by running that command. Running it again turns them back on again. Players won't see them or hear them.

This not only benefits players who may suffer from seizures but also those who have computers that might lag heavily under the weight of the particles, or players who are feeling overwhelmed at all of the lights and sounds.

So if you or your little one is on Autcraft and you want to be able to turn off fireworks, now, you can do that.

mad respect for how you and the staff team handle accessibility by not only making it something that actually works for individuals, but also something that players actually BENEFIT from (and not something they need to feel bad asking for)

thank you for all the time you put into updates like this, and running the server in general <333