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FAQ Of The NoobsTown Server

This Server is currently Running on 1.7.3
and with 6 gigs of ram!

The server currently runs on the Bukkit plugin.

What is Bukkit?

What is Bukkit? We believe our first announcement revealing the project to the Minecraft community says it best:


Bukkit is an up-and-coming Minecraft Server mod that will completely change how running and modifying a Minecraft server is done - making managing and creating servers easier and providing more flexibility. Learning from the mistakes made by other mods, Bukkit aims to be different and fill the void left by them: built from the ground up we've focused on performance, ease-of-use, extreme customisability and better communication between the Team and, you, our users. The overall design of Bukkit has been inspired by other mods and our experience as Minecraft players just like yourselves, giving us a unique perspective and advantage going into the creation of the Bukkit Project

Your server, your way
Creating the dream Minecraft server you have always wanted has never been easier. Bukkit will provide you with the tools necessary to completely shape your server exactly how you like and makes it easy to maintain it through the use of a built in plugin install, uninstall and updating system. Unlike other mods, Bukkit will not force any functionality on you that isn't absolutely necessary to run a Minecraft server. This results in less bloat and, as a result, better performance. With a click of a button or the entering of a command, you can have a plugin installed onto your server with ease.

More, for less
Having ran a large Minecraft server utilising over 40+ hMod plugins, I can honestly say that keeping performance in mind is key. Though it may not be evident to most of you, the way hMod is designed results in a significant dip in performance that wouldn't be there without it. That's right: most of you who are having performance issues are experiencing them due to hMod doing things in an inefficient manner, like locking everything into one thread - preventing Minecraft from doing more than one thing at a time.

Ease of use
The days of guessing what a command or feature does are over. From the start we've kept in mind the difficulties we've faced when using the other mods available for the Minecraft server and the Minecraft server itself. Up until I got involved in the hMod project, there was an extreme lack of documentation for the mod - making it more complicated than it should have been to run your Minecraft server. When it comes to the Bukkit project, we'll be providing clear documentation and as many resources as we can to make it easier for our users and interested developers. On top of this, we'll be trying our best to make our commands - and encourage plugin developers to make their commands - follow a logical naming scheme that hopefully tells you exactly what a command will do.

A supportive Team and community
As users of other Minecraft mods, we understand that you're often left feeling ignored. Having provided a large amount of support for hMod myself, I have a close understanding as to what difficulty users were having with the mod and what users wanted. My philosophy of caring for our community and our users extends throughout the rest of the Team. The Bukkit Project's philosophy is to be involved with our community, not aside from it as much as possible - letting you have input into how you believe things should be done, within reason.

The possibilities are endless
For players and server admins: when designing Bukkit we made sure to provide plugin authors with as much control over the Minecraft server as is possible. This design choice will allow plugin authors to create many new features not possible on other mods due to poor design or lack of support. With a more feature rich API, you can expect much more out of the plugins that you will be offered for your Bukkit-based server, from entity anti-gravity to controlling different players seeing different blocks, your server will be guaranteed to be unique from any other.

For developers: one of the biggest advantages Bukkit has over other Minecraft mods is how extensible and easily customisable it is. This advantage is further extended by our design choice to keep in the mind the possibility of 3rd party Minecraft servers needing a modding and plugin interface. That being said, when any 3rd party developed Minecraft server becomes stable, Bukkit will be there to allow our collection of plugins to work with them too through a new interface, without any work required for the plugin author to make it compatible.

If you're not a fan of Java (we don't blame you), Bukkit's design allows for plugins to be written natively in any language with ease.

You're in good hands
Much of the Bukkit team consists of people who were Minecraft users first and then hMod plugin developers giving the Bukkit Project a unique and varying view of what a Minecraft server mod should be providing. Along with experience as developers, many of our Team members, including myself run popular and large Minecraft communities and servers.

Furthermore, the core Bukkit Development Team consists of the people who have been maintaining hMod for the past few months. In fact, the birth of the Bukkit Project resulted from a discussion between Dinnerbone and myself about the many changes we were interested in making to hMod which would result in complete breakage of current hMod compatibility. That being said, we have a few months of experience under our belt already maintaining and developing mods (both our own and by other people).




What Is Towny?

Towny is a plugin where users make towns and nations and spread across the Minecraft map.

The towns cost money to make is currently at 75,000 Nz and costs 100nz to expand

For towny whenever you make a town the plots go by 16x16 blocks

Towns also have Towny Assistants and mayors and residents

for towny you NEED to know where you want your town and how you want your town to look like

if you need help... please refer to my starting a town post

http://noobscraft.com/index.php?topic=81.0

if you already own a town and need help please refer to my LeaderShip post

http://noobscraft.com/index.php?topic=70.0

Extra Towny Info Click http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/inactive-sec-fun-info-towny-v0-59-resident-town-nation-hierarchy-grid-based-protection-531.3358/




Nation Info

Nations are pretty much the same idea as a town except your dealing with mayors as your residents this time...

Mayors who own a town will ask to join your nation and you are free to choose if you do or don't want them too

In towny you can have nation or town wars against other nations/towns

For the commands list for Towns and Nations Please Refer to my full Commands list!

http://noobscraft.com/index.php?topic=97.0


Another Plugin: Iconomy

Iconomy is a plugin where there are shops, lotteries , and even player hosted auctions!

With Iconomy you can earn money by selling items you find if they are available for sale or to be bought in the shop

Another Plugin: BB ( Big Brother )

This is another plugin that many Ops use on servers that help them identify who or how many person(s)

Greifed an object, last touched an object etc... So if your thinking about greifing Especially an ops town.. you might want to think again..

Big Brother NEVER misnames someone of doing absolutely nothing, it will always catch you if the ops use it on something you touched

End of FAQ for now.... looking for help! pm me if you know anything about the server!

Another Plugin: mcMMO

What is mcMMO?

mcMMO is a minecraft plugin where players on a server running with bukkit have skills that they can level up, The more you level them up the more damage/effect they will cause, Here are the skills and what thy are about!

Skills System Info

Mining - Mining increases depending on the materials you mine. Mining ores will give much more XP than just mining stone. How much XP depends entirely on the rarity of the ore. Diamond and Lapis give the highest XP. High skill levels give blocks the chance to drop double the normal items, get this high enough and it will be guaranteed.

Wood Cutting - Cutting down trees is the only way to level this currently. Higher skill levels will allow a double drop proc to happen, and if your skill is high enough it will be guaranteed.

Repair - Gained by reforging old and battered equipment, this skill helps the player use less resources when repairing with an anvil. Anvils are constructed via 9 Iron Ingots in a crafting table (Iron Block).

Unarmed - Punching the hell out of monsters will gain you experience, but you shalt not be rewarded from abusing farm animals. With this skill players can actually make unarmed useful for combat, great for combat even. Get this high enough and you can disarm what other players are holding and drop it to the ground.

Archery - Shooting arrows was cool in vanilla minecraft, for about 5 minutes that is. This skill is looking to change this, archery will let your damage increase at higher levels. And you can eventually daze players providing a very beneficial pvp benefit.

Herbalism - This one is for the harvest moon fans, picking herbs up (flowers, mushrooms) and harvesting crops will help raise this skill. Its benefits include double drops from farming and increasing the effectiveness of bread and stew.

Swords - This will give you even more reason to stab monsters between the eyes. Gaining skill in swords will help your swordsmanship of course, allowing you to perform a parry. Parries happen automagically and negate all damage. Higher skill levels will lead to parrying more often.

Axes - Embrace your inner viking with the axes skill. No longer are axes just for obsessively chopping down forests. With the axes skill, players will be able to do critical hits, instantly killing monsters and causing severe damage to players. As your skill increases, your chance to critically strike will too. At a certain skill level Axes damage will even be upgraded. What axe you use matters for the damage scaling, use a Diamond Axe for maximum damage.

Acrobatics - Finally the days of spraining your ankle have paid off, no longer will you look down a 100 meter drop with fear. With the acrobatics skill your ability to negate fall damage increases. And how do you negate fall damage? By rolling of course, a secret passed down through the ages. Tap into this mysterious 'rolling' ability by falling and training your body. If you're good enough you will never have to worry about fall damage again.