Hello all, this will be the official post for the Skyside Market Plaza! Contained here is a map of the plaza and store locations, as well as frequently updated lists of the items sold by each shop there. Prices aren't listed here because they may change too often for updating to be possible, so check the shops themselves to be sure!

To visit the shops, type /t spawn Skyside and then run directly north up the staircase.

Anyhow, the shop district is set up like this - this is a current map of the shops in the Plaza:


Below are lists of items sold by each shop in the Skyside Market Plaza. Enjoy, and happy shopping!

guarner8 - Enchantments, Tools, & Armor

• Diamond Swords (various enchantments)
• Diamond Pickaxes (various enchantments)

MasterRahl1 - Ores & Mining

• Most Ore Blocks

ummfredfelizco - Redstone

• Pistons
• Doors/Gates
• Hoppers/Dispensers/Droppers
• Buttons/Plates/Levers
• Comparators/Repeaters/Torches
• Redstone Dust/Blocks

Airyi - General

• Potion Brewing Ingredients
• Farmables
• Ores
• Fish
• Mob Drops
• Logs & Leaves

itisnotyou - Potions & More

• Fire Resistance
• Night Vision
• Strength
• Haste
• Speed
• Regeneration
• Health
• Absorption
• Water Breathing
• Invisibility
• Leaping

craftymatt13 - Dyed Wool, Stained Glass, Dyed Clay

• All 16 Wool Colors
• All 17 Glass Colors
• All 17 Hardened Clay Colors
• Brick Blocks & Glowstone

Debo37 - Building Blocks

• All Stone-Related Blocks and Variants
• All Sand-Related Blocks and Variants
• All Dirt-Related Blocks and Variants
• All Log Blocks, Wood Plank Blocks, Leaf Blocks
• All Nether & End Blocks
• All Ice & Snow Blocks
• Wheat Blocks, Bookshelves, Obsidian, Clay, Hardened Clay, and Brick Blocks

Hey fellow Noobs,

I'm proud to announce that Skyside (/t spawn skyside) is recruiting new members to be part of the Skyside North Plaza. This is the first "window" in which we're opening admissions to the public. We plan to expand the town in phases, so after our North Plaza phase completes, we won't be adding new residents to the town for a period of time.


This is the kind of stuff we build.

What we're doing here is something very unique as far as towns go. We're not just admitting you, setting you up with a plot, and letting you be. That's not the Skyside way. We're a town with a huge emphasis on community - friendships with each other, cooperation to build huge things - and generally we're all about people who have a can-do spirit and like to have fun.

If you're looking to join a town with those qualities, keep reading - otherwise, feel free to check out some of the other towns on the server!

The North Plaza project is something that gives you the chance to be part of a community from the get-go. We will be recruiting up to 10 players, and all of you will be formally added to the town at the same time. Together, you will all build the Skyside North Plaza - a 5 plot by 5 plot square that will be the location of your future homes. You will be responsible for gathering the resources, planning all aspects of the design, and working out what you want to do for the plaza centerpiece as a team.

The North Plaza project will proceed with these steps:

1) Recruitment and Selection of the North Plaza Class
2) Building the Plaza framework as a team
3) Building the Plaza centerpiece as a team
4) Allocating House Plots among everyone in the Plaza Class
5) Building your houses, and becoming full residents of Skyside in the process!

Joining Skyside is for people who want to go all in, and have a really deep and rewarding experience with Noobscraft. If you're interested in being part of this select group, post a reply to this thread answering these following questions. Qualified applicants will be admitted first-come, first-serve in the order they replied to this thread!

What is your favorite thing about Minecraft?
Why do you want to be a part of Skyside?
What sort of team experience do you have in life or in video games?
Give us an example of your building skills (a screenshot uploaded to imgur.com would suffice!).
If you are admitted, do you promise to give your best effort in making our town and our community an awesome place to live and visit?

Not a whole lot has been said about the third town founded in v6, so it's the aim of this post to fill you guys in a little bit about who we are and what we do. Skyside is a town where the focus is on a strong sense of community, wide open spaces, luxurious living, and massive build projects. The things we have built and will continue to build will shock and awe all who come to visit, but unfortunately now is not the time for visitors or new residents.

Our core team of staff is presently making Skyside awesome, and it'll take time before we have anything interesting to offer the general public or any potential residents. But if you're interested in living in a town like ours, keep us in mind - we'll be opening the doors in due time, and we expect a long line of worthy applicants.

Some people have been given private tours of town thus far, so I'd like to take this time to offer some completely made-up testimonials from those who have seen our new digs:

QUAAAAAAAAAARTZ! QUARTZ! Quartz! So much quartz. Too much quartz. Wanna go home, wanna go back to ShangriLa, too much quartz.

Dude. Dude. Duuuuuuude. It's dangerous here, people could like, fall off and stuff. You should sell drowning insurance.

I liked Seaside. But SKYside? You're reaching for names there man. Get it together. You even built it over the sea. Why not call it Seaside 2? I'm going to call my new town Oakvale 2. Or Dark Oakvale, like Oakvale's twin in the negative universe.

I'm a wizard. My last name is Potter. And Skyside is way cooler than Hogwarts, take it from me.

Debo honestly I don't have any idea why you're so adamant about hyping this tow-(interview ended)

It will be our honor to reveal our town to you in due time, but for now we remain private, off the grid. Waiting to open the floodgates. Wait with us, and you might just find yourself a new home and community. Feel free to ask questions of us in this thread, we'll respond to whatever we're able to disclose, and if we can't answer your question directly we'll happily answer it in cryptic and slightly annoying fashion.

Much ,

The Skyside Team

This will be my house in Skyside. It's not built yet but I think it'll get the job done.

As far as I can see, all this will do is get rid of almost all diamonds from the market and will increase even more the divide between rich and poor players.

At the moment all the noobs are trying their best to NOT spend money, in order to gather reasources to found towns, build their homes and stuff.

With fewer diamonds around, people with the most money will buy all in stock and cause the price to skyrocket even more.

To kickstart the economy you don't want to increase the price for a particular resource, because that will cause a stagnation (or worse, a thrust) for that particular market.

You want to give people the power to BUY more, not to SELL more.

To accomplish that, selling different types of junk items to the server (and not to the players) is the optimal way.

Saplings and seeds are a good example since they can be farmed, but they don't give a tremendous yeld like logs and wheat do (oak saplings are ~15-20% of the logs yeld and seeds have 33% of the wheat).

Something like 24 noobs per stack will give people something more to get money from, without taking away resources from the open market.

Nothing so substantial to cause inflation but at the same notable enough to give a hand to the people who can't grind all day or simply prefer to do other things in the game instead of mining.

Just my 2 very accurately ponderated cents.

I respectfully disagree with your assessment here; you assume that the economy operates in a vacuum when in fact a more accurate analogy would be that of a system utilizing a central bank - in this case, the server.

Money does not enter the economy but through ways the server allows. As of now, they are thus:

1) The /shop command
2) The Casino
3) Killing Mobs

Money only leaves the economy through ways the server allows as well. Since we don't yet have the full picture of towns, take everything with question marks with a grain of salt.

1) Taxes on Auctions
2) The Casino
3) Town and Nation Purchases
4) Town Chunk Claims (?)
5) Town Upkeep (?)
6) Wilderness Chunk Claims
7) Chest Shop Creation Tax (?)

It should be fairly obvious that if the flow of money into the economy exceeds the flow out, the size (amount of money) of the economy will increase, and vice versa if more money is flowing out than in. For all intents and purposes there are no restrictions on the amount that can potentially enter or exit - the server can give infinite money to the players, theoretically speaking.

The basic idea of any economy server is that labor within the game should be able to be translated into money, which functions as a "neutral" source of value that everyone can agree upon and thus use to interact in social ways. In the case of Minecraft, that's exchange of blocks and commodities - the only "pure" sources of capital. While money entering the economy via mobs and the Casino is significant, it is largely irrelevant given that the vast majority of money in the economy comes from sale of items to the global shop. As such, we'll consider the /shop and its impact as the sole focus of this analysis.

The current problem with the economy has been that town creation prices have been incredibly daunting in comparison to the money supply. When you look at the prices in the shop it makes sense - a player wanting to maximize the money he's receiving would logically focus on gathering the most efficient money generator.

Prior to introducing diamonds, unit prices were of two classes - Cobblestone and End Stone sold for 3nz each, whereas Gravel, Rotten Flesh, Netherrack, and Sand sold for 2nz each. Given the relative ease and abundance of Cobblestone and End Stone, these were hitherto the most efficient means of making money, so most savvy players went the route of gathering these en masse and selling to the shop for money.

If you think about it, gathering a stack of either of these probably takes somewhere in the range of one to two minutes - this assuming a good pickaxe of course. To get good pickaxes, one must have an efficient means of getting diamonds and getting xp for enchanting, which formed a bit of an entry barrier to even starting to make money. Finding diamonds isn't easy, and finding a spawner or building a mob grinder isn't easy either.

If we take a mid-line assessment of 90 seconds to gather a stack, we have a peak monetary efficiency of 192nz/90sec = 2.13nz per second.

Dividing the town creation price of 850000nz by 2.13 nz/sec, we get 398437.5 seconds.

That is 110.68 straight hours, or 4.61 straight DAYS, of time it would take of playing Noobscraft at maximal monetary efficiency if you wanted to start a town.

Also note that in practice, you absolutely CANNOT operate at that max efficiency constantly - it's broken up by the process of getting new picks (finding new diamonds, getting sticks, getting xp, enchanting), by going through and clicking the sell buttons when you max your inventory, and by dealing with other externalities (like accidentally digging over lava and having to reorient yourself). It gets a bit hand-wavey here, but I think it's fair to say that all of this overhead adds at least three times the amount of time to the process of making money.

So in a slightly-realistic but still highly optimistic scenario, it would take 13.83 straight days of playing Noobscraft to start a town on your own.

Naturally, that means people are going to have to work together to achieve township in a decent timeframe. There are already groups of members working together to make money, and the consolidation trend was accelerating as more people realized just how much work it would be to get a town.

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Now, diamonds have been added to the shop for 1k sales. And at that price, they're far and away the most efficient way of making money.

Probability is certainly involved, but by mining intelligently it's realistic to assume that you can get a stack of diamonds with a Fortune III pick in roughly an hour. With some quick calculations we justify our assertion that they're a better way of moneymaking:
64diamond*1000nz/diamond = 64000nz
1 hour * 60 min/hr * 60 sec/min = 3600 seconds
64000nz/3600sec = 17.78nz/sec

That's an 8.3x increase in efficiency of moneymaking over the previous best method, which will proportionally decrease the amount of time it takes for people to make a town. Way, WAY more money will flow into the economy due to this change, so naturally as you said, Darkwings, inflation will occur. Prices will go up. But keep in mind that prices are two sided - the rich people will buy things, but the originators of things will be better compensated for them if they're smart about pricing them on the auction.

Smart players will win - buying out auctions that are cheaper than they should be, and ignoring things that are overpriced. The auction will be rolling out statistics soon, so it'll be easier for an average joe to estimate the market price for a given commodity and price their wares appropriately given the push and pull of supply & demand.

The server admins WANT inflation because they want prices to be roughly tenfold from what they were in v5, so things like selling cobble for .5nz cease to happen and broader price differentiation can be achieved.

So as a clarification more than anything, what is the exact situation for people who owned towns in v5 and want to start towns in v6?

It's currently my understanding that we still need to accumulate the 850k noobz, but we're grandfathered into having our request to start a town "approved" per that thread long ago, right?

Go to work

Yes, yes you will, and we shall again build an empire that makes people poop their pants upon sight of it.

GET CRUNK AND PARTY HARD!

Precisely.

Skyside is coming.

Prepare yourselves.

Just posting a couple of teaser images that don't reveal anything especially important, but show the detail we've added to several areas and prove that we're alright when it comes to building.

Hey all,

I know I haven't been super active on the server in the past few months, but since I'll only be working ~40 hrs/week this summer, I'm going to have plenty of time for Minecraft!

That being said, plans are in the works for a v6 town, and it's going to be 10x the awesome that Seaside is. Seaside TAs and their irl friends are automatically grandfathered in if they want to be initial town residents or investors, but we will be accepting a select few who apply in this thread.

The current list of those grandfathered into participating are as follows (people on this list, if you have any friends you want added to it, let me know):

• Debo37
• tmccarvel
• TheNuffimNom
• ChopNukeHank
• sirkraigers
• Dobsnick
• itisnotyou
• SmurfStompa
• MasterRahl1
• SachimoX13
• Craftixen
• Leopardo1
• MeAndBob

If you are not on this list, the only way you will be able to be a part of the town for its first month or so will be if you:

• Submit an application on this thread
• Invest an initial capital amount into the town (several packages will be available, prices will be set once v6's economy stabilizes in the first week or so)
• Contribute resources and time to constructing the town's initial framework

Those of us on the list will first be focused on accumulating money to create the town; simultaneously we will be building the town's spawn. We will be living communally from the spawn's chunks until we have enough money to claim enough chunks for each of our homes. This is going to be a Herculean effort, but I assure you all it will be totally worth it.

At adequate completion of the spawn area, we will invite no more than ten people who have submitted satisfactory applications to this thread to join town and invest; we will have four price points for potential investors, each corresponding to a number of plots. I can't reveal too much without spoiling the coolest aspect of our town, so just understand that investing at this phase will give you a significant degree of control in deciding the design of your estate, and definitely know that this will be the cheapest getting into our town will ever be.

The aim of the new town is to build a jaw-droppingly beautiful city that will also be incredibly efficient economically - we will have the best of the best when it comes to farming facilities, the most reliable marketplace, and a bevy of recreational buildings for people to tour and amuse themselves in. When new people join Noobscraft, I want this town to be the first town they want to visit.

To that end, only the most dedicated Noobscrafters will be sought out to join and have a hand in building the greatest empire this community has ever seen! If you want to apply, copy/paste the questionnaire below and fill it out in your response to this post. If you want to ask questions about the town, feel free as well, but understand that I'm going to be purposely vague. This new town won't open to public /t spawning until it's ready and awesome.

Why do you want to be a part of this town?
What are your favorite things to do in Minecraft?
How will you make Noobz in-game to contribute to the town? (Farming/Mining/etc.)
Are you interested in possibly owning a shop in the new town's market district? If so, why, and what would you want to sell?
What towns have you been a part of in v5?
Are you dedicated enough to spend weeks at a time building MASSIVE structures?
What is your favorite biome type in Minecraft? (Tundra/Desert/Grassland/Forest/Ocean/Nether/etc.)

Started playing Halo 4... uh oh. This is going to complicate my gaming time.

Hi Ben,


When we expand our town's territorial claims we do our best to make sure that none of the territory has houses or other items owned by players, but unfortunately it's just not feasible for us to check out all of the underground cave systems as well.

That being said, we do apologize for claiming your mines and would be more than happy to pay you a good sum of noobz to make up for any income you may have lost, but we urge you to keep in mind that the mining world is the best place to do your mining, as issues like towns claiming caves don't occur there.

Feel free to /mail me in game and I'd be more than happy to work out a settlement.

Best,

Debo37