i set up a circle arena and start a game and the 2 players i had in it got a diamond shovel the first time but not again after the only thing i changed between the 2 was i set up the join sign and they joined with the sign
i recently tried having 1 player join via sign and 1 join via command and they both got the shovel when they joined but when the game started they lost it
i set up a circle arena and start a game and the 2 players i had in it got a diamond shovel the first time but not again after the only thing i changed between the 2 was i set up the join sign and they joined with the sign