State of Loka

By Loka Minecraft

Listen to Loka Staff discuss what's up on the server! Listen in to what's going on in Loka, and what's coming for the future

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How many episodes does State of Loka have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.

State of Loka episodes:

August 18, 20252025 Catchup and the Pale Garden
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and plenty of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
Recently Released Features & Content
Fight Sharding
EU PvP Server
Zyre Islet Fracture
New Community Manager
1.21.8
Upcoming Features & Content
Q4 2025 Plans
Advertising
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
Zyre ○ Main Island Revival ○ Main Island KOTH ○ Removing Fissure from Rotation
Food Grinding Update
The Nether Update
○ Swift Sneak & Soul Speed Enchantments
The End Update
Deep Dark
Tactical Rush Module Nerf
End Crystals
Why Reduce DBR to 2 Minutes?
Reroll Mutators on a Territory After Fights
Why Doesn't the Development Team Do Exactly What Players Want?
Automated Vouch System & Blocked Countries
Unban Waves & the Consistency of Replies to Appeals
Rewards for Top Kills, Charges, etc.
Unique Ranked Helms for Each Season
More Armor Trims in the Future
When Will Loka Be Shut Down
Orange Trees?
...more
2h 2min
November 22, 2024Looking Forward to 2025
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and plenty of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
1.21.3

Rest of the 2024 Plans

2024 recap

2025 plans
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
When will we see the rest of the mutators?

EU Loka/ranked duels

Conquest modules being rebalanced or more being added and possibly rotated?

Any more content left to be released in regards to the Ocean update?

KB sync plugin

Add the ability to buy treasure knives in bulk

Increasing passive mob spawns/make food easier to grind

Getting rid of punch bows on cove/fissure?

Future of raiding, will it ever be disabled?

When is Towns 2.0?

Are they're any plans for additional ways to grind ores? A balak and rivina RI?

When is the Nether Update along with the Pale Gardens being added to Loka?

Will Loka's Staff/Development roles be advertised? When will the server advertise more?

Improve new player experience, new tutorial?

Any plans for Loka to get more programmers?

Will the Warden be added to Loka?

Any updates to improve Subscriber? Adding treasure knives?

Plans for new policies?

VPN usage for better ping

When can we expect future SOTS?

How will the rest of the armour trims be obtainable?

How does staff feel about Loka's playerbase being mainly PvP oriented? Especially considering the general toxicity and cheaters.

New potion physics
...more
1h 44min
February 23, 2024Year of Growth
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and plenty of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
Year of Growth

Treasure Knives

Overall 2023 Catchup

Conquest Hype Vid
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
When can we expect the waterstone to be added to Loka?

When will the original cove map be returning?

Will beachheads or something similar ever come back?

Will netherite armor trims ever be obtainable on gear?

Red tag nether/end PvP

When/Will any new armor trims be added to Loka?

Orange Trees.

Can we expect swords/bows to be added with special abilities? When can we expect tridents to be added?

Can you add an EU Loka proxy to help EU players who are playing on an average of 130+ ping

Will there be ranked queue options to select what region your opponent is from?

I liked the old coloring of kill messages better, is there any reason to think we could revert to that?

When will battlegrounds be fixed like VotA and Dominion Vale as well as their town leveling?

LokaCon 2024
...more
1h 24min
July 02, 20231.20, Achievements, and Treasure Knives
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
1.20

Treasure Knives

Custom Mob Spawning

Achievements

Changes to Promotions

New Content
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
What can you tell us about the planned future of mutators in conquest?

Is there any plan to balance tgen/inhib modules since some of them arent used at all, while others are used all the time?

Where are cherry and mangrove trees going to be?

When are the requirements for creating/maintaining a town going to be changed?

When is the Loka API coming out?

What happened to the town logs discord channels?

What is the use for the third party asset pack posted by Cryptite?

Would there come a new position to fill the void between PVE and Web & Art? A position for active maintainers of 3rd party software, like EldritchBot or Loka Conquest Watcher. At this moment there isn't a good fitted position for those people.

Rivina Mutator? (on continent, so it would be 2 tgen mods and a 10v10 battle)

Any updates on ocean content?

Will orange trees be added soon?

When can we expect town chests to be brought back?

Has anything new been worked on regarding town level prestige?
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1h
March 24, 2023Loka API, Mutators, and 1.19.4
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
Loka API

Mutators

1.19.4

Treasure Knives
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
Why wasnt the mutator update in conquest released as Conquest 4.0?

Make applications open for a developer(source code not just our current dev team) position on Loka

Beachheads when?

Increase frequency of fishing tournaments?

Multiple callouts for reinforcements?(30-15 minutes?)

Alterations to south and west RIs to make them more worthwhile? For example, make Kalros RI cave entrance closer/Ascalon RI better

/list type command but to see who are the oldest players currently on the server

How are player generations decided?

Will prismarine become more easily available in the near future?

Make it so when you are a participant in e reinforced fight, your town portal takes you to the War District in spawn

LokaCon 2023?

When will town upkeep fees be increased like previously mentioned?

Will Feather Client ever be allowed on Loka?
...more
1h 10min
January 23, 2023Town Vendors and The Year of Content
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
Town Vendors

Town Audit Logs

2022 in Review

2023 - The Year of Content

Loka API

1.19.3

Ranked Season 12

12 Year Anniversary in February
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
Will translators get an in game reward for contributing on Loka Academy at some point

Add auction house at spawn for players to auction items

Why do we have town voting for capital policies?

When will the next LCR election take place?

Have sots on weekends instead of weekdays

Possibility of 4th main Continent for Conquest?

How is Loka going to boost player numbers?

KOTH game on Zyre with small rewards like conquest points? To encourage more fun natural occurences like the recent Siege of Fortload video

New ranked rewards, such as kill messages, and achievements?

Will nether and end yellow tag be switched back to red due to lack of activity there

Will nether be updated and will shrines be either buffed or removed because red infested tiles are better

EU Loka?

Loka Merch store when?

Make weekday vulns shorter by an hour

Can we expect any overhauls to shake up the metas of conquest?

End update? possibly end shrines or an area similar to the dreadfort for faster grinding

More world bosses like the horseman please!

Make deepslate instabreak with eff V haste 2 diamond(it wasn’t Jib asking I promise)

Can there be one more each of yellow and red infested tiles
...more
1h 28min
November 16, 2022Nether's Eve, Treasure Knives, and Why You Lag
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
Nether's Eve

Routing, Connections, Lag, and You

Achievements

Treasure Knives

Ranked Season

Hex Color Lores
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
Can we expect nether shrines to receive an update?

Will there ever be a Conquest 4.0?

When can we expect Loka to update to 1.19?

From my perspective a lot of people want an EU continent, is this something that may be possible?

Is Towns 2.0 (overhaul to town permissions, zoning, GUIs, etc) something we can expect soon?

Instabreak Deepslate pls

Will there be larger Rivi fights like 15v15 and 20v20 soon?

How can we tell if a ban evader trys to act like hes new to loka on a alt, and people give him loot etc without knowing its someone like dnalol or ltmatas will we get punished?

Could continent fights be limited to 40 v 40 or a similar cap?

When can we expect the Town Vendor NOC to be added?

When will town chests be fixed?

What are plans for Yuletide this year?

Can we expect new capital policies?

Please add a public API that developers can use other than just EldritchBot

Why is scamming at tournaments allowed?

Ocean content update?
...more
1h 31min
September 19, 2022The Anti-Pearl, Dupes, and More!
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!
🟧 Server Topics
1.19

Anti-pearl Item

Bug Fixes

Dupe glitch fixes

Zyre Changes
🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
Ranked Season Rewards?

Will there ever be a way to fight for resources on other continents besides capital bounty fights?

Title or similar reward to player with high/most amount of achievement points?

Ability to create industries/warp beacon by just placing the chests down or just the warp button down

Hex colors on foes slain

Why can’t end be red tag?

Will you be adding easier ways to get titles, helms, kill messages, etc?

Sign/indicator near the Zyre dock at spawn telling you the player count on Zyre

Spawn Auction House?

Town perk that makes broken blocks immediately appear in your inventory(instead of dropping and potentially falling off of a tall build etc)

Make ender dragon fight harder

More quest lines like the Arrival?

more collectible pets? Dogs? Etc

Add religion chat to be visible on discord?

Add a way to remove the “dropped by” tag from Zyre

Is there any plans to add/will the deep dark and the warden be on Loka

Will there be any updates to Preksak’s lore?

Leaderbord for charges/kills/deaths in the war district at spawn?

how will Mojang username history API removal affect /find/loka

Daily quest to brew a certain alcohol for a good reward in shards, xp, etc to incentivize exploring the brewing plugin
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1h 6min
July 21, 2022Anti-Pearling and the Passive Queue
A brief roundup of upcoming changes to the server and a load of player questions throughout! Have a listen!

🟧 Server Topics
️Recent Zyre Changes

️1.19

️/help (Intro work)

️General Server Stability

️The Alliance Town Cap (how it's going)

️Passive Queue

️Anti-Pearl Item

🟦 Player Submitted Topics/Questions
️RI Timer(So players can see how long until particular Resource Isles reset for them)

️Monthly/All Time conquest stats leaderboard in War District/Aladra

️Better rewards for 2nd and 3rd in Fishing tourneys to encourage participation

️Possible 15v15 or 20v20 conquest? Where would it be/What would it look like?

️How can the server tackle the issue of 100 v 100 player fights not being fun for people fighting? More objectives in conquest?

️Has the server's machine/host been changed recently?

️Please change the server to be EU, most of the players are EU and I have 1mb download speed in my country and 400klb upload its a bit hard to play on 200 ping and 0.5 tps

️Aladra and Zyre maps on the website pls

️When is the next ranked season going to start?

️Add pages for escrow chest?

️Towns 2.0?

️A mail of all of our conquest warp stats? Or an npc that gives Zyre/conquest stats by month?

️A button to send all Zyre/Rivi refunds to town VS instead of having to manually click

️Removing signatures from items

️Either revert kill messages to the old colors or make them not as red?(maybe a profile setting?)

️Zyre compass on other continents when partied
...more
1h 22min
June 15, 2022 New Player Experience and Zyre Changes
Many changes are coming to Loka to help new player retention. Hear about our current and upcoming changes to the New Player Experience as well as changes to Zyre that have been long requested by the players! Have a listen!
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1h 15min

FAQs about State of Loka:

How many episodes does State of Loka have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.