The Last Bell 🔔
The Last Bell is the ceremonial close of an outgoing Chronicle. It marks the moment when official monthly results are already frozen and the server enters its final PvP chapter.
Players may encounter or ring a Bell in Minecraft, but ordinary player interaction cannot finalize standings, enable PvP, replace worlds, or forge an official Chronicle event. The real Last Bell action comes only from the authoritative server lifecycle.
Before the Bell can ring
The system requires a canonical active Chronicle, a matching finalized Seedshift run, the correct cutoff, a completed finalization checkpoint, and immutable official results.
Missing, stale, duplicate, contradictory, rehearsal-only, or nonauthoritative requests fail closed. The Bell is dramatic, but it is not gullible. 🧐
Delivery and acknowledgement
The official action uses a fixed, token-protected relay envelope. Laravel records the request before delivery, tracks delivery attempts, waits for a correlated add-on acknowledgement, and preserves a redacted audit trail.
An acknowledged Bell cannot be issued again. Duplicate acknowledgements are handled safely, and a blocked acknowledgement becomes a manual-review condition rather than an excuse to hammer the button repeatedly.
What happens after acknowledgement
The acknowledged Bell starts the Chronicle's Final Stand timing anchor. The outgoing world remains online with PvP for at least eight hours before any replacement world may be installed.