If it's available for just 2/3 stones (since it is indeed made of stone), good.
If it's available for currency, not good.


That was what I meant.
Especially with a VIP shop, if you start adding ways to convert real money into game money right from the start the economy won't even get a chance, the first who'll buy a bunch of such blocks will decide the price.


About the /give command, I wasn't very accurate.

When you create a single player world, you are automatically assigned all administration permissions.
If you are an operator in the server not only you can play the game, but you can also decide the rules.

Probably I should have used the term "gameplay" instead of just "game":
Creative mode is a game mode within the gameplay, just as Adventure is.
Having operator status is unrelated to gameplay (and to game mode as a result).

If you are not granted operator permissions you can't change neither your own or others game mode and you can't use commands, no matter what your current game mode is.
No operator => normal player (even in Creative) => no full double slab.


About other hard to find blocks, the novelty of having them in a build would disappear if anyone could just buy them. Building wihtout limitations just for aesthetics belongs to Creative.
This last part is unrelated to this block, just my 2 cents on the matter.

There's a difference bewteen "not available in surivival" and "not available in the game".

That block was introduced more than 1 year ago in the code but it's not accessible in any way in the actual game, not even in creative.
You need an editor to do that, just like many other things (stacked entities, attributes, etc).

In the past you could find some of the blocks that you could only obtain in creative mode in the vip shop (sponge, cracked bricks, etc) but this isn't the same case and we don't know what will be accessible in the vip shop (if there will be one).


In my opinion it doesn't make a lot of sense to offer such things in a shop (knowing that it could be directly sold back to other players) if they want to mantain a decent economy.

This would also include stuff like sponge, whose only purpose in V5 was to help building underwater (something that worked only in beta anyway) and became a high-end currency as a result. That's not even close to survival.

If it's not possible to obtain in survival then it shouldn't be in a survival server (shop or not), as simple as that.

When you edit a profile you can set the version of MC you want to use, the parameter you want and if you want to use snapshots or not.

A snapshot is not a finished product, it could be unstable and corrupt your world.

You can still load the same world from different profiles that use different versions of MC but the result may vary and that's something that you need to care about if you have important stuff in a world.

You can simply create a new profile that uses snapshots and create a test world.
When you want to play in normal worlds/servers you can switch back to the standard profile and play.

You can just as easily create a backup of a world, rename the copied directory (you'll see that as a description in game) and test whatever you want.

Same here! When they put one-way viewing glass in I will be all good

They're almost there. Try placing 2 blocks/panes of stained glass with 1+ air blocks between them and see the result.
It's almost transparent (light is not blocked), but you can't see clearly through both layers.

If you place 3 rooms like this:
(A)(B)(C) with glass walls, B can see both A and C but A and C can only see B.

Enjoy

I planning to make old classics like whack-a-mole, a combination guessing game and some aiming based ones.
With time and resources something close to a boardgame with dice rolls and events could be on the list.
(all the above would be supported by normal redstone, no mods required)

While game using mods/editors are fun and easier to get (install, paste the circuit, done) they are quite server intensive and of course they require to be installed on the server itself.

I've seen games of tag, gree light red light and such and they can be good, but they involve extensive use of command blocks and wouldn't really work with more than a few players at once.

Even if they added those in the event server, you'd need to take turns to play unlike the old Cube event where you "just" need to have no lag.

I think Spleef is my least favourite

Let's say it takes 10 hours to get a good villager. It doesn't need to be the perfect one, you just need 2-3 of them.

You can't compare it with 10 hours of branch mining, you need to compare the two on the long run.

After those first 10 hours:
The guy mining will need to keep mining cause his diamonds will run out eventually.
He also needs the diamonds to craft tools, time to travel and food to keep going.

The guy with the trade setup instead just need to press the farm button, trade, sell to someone else for diamonds and get stacks of those without losing any useful resource in the process AND spending less time than the mining guy.

In the old server I went mining once.
When I had the farms I needed I always bought whatever I needed.

After 2-3 months Duelcon was the only one on the server with more money than me (after a while I went inactive) and that was just by abusing MMOskills and no automated farm to quicken the process >_>

I dont think you understand what I meant, even if the auction will be injected with items, if people wont buy your traded stuff, then you wont sell it simple?

I understand that and as you said you can't sell stuff that no one would buy.

The point is: who wouldn't by a diamond pick for anything that is less valuable than the 3 diamonds you'd normally need to craft it?

Farm paper (autofarm to avoid any sort of work) -> trade paper for emeralds -> trade emeralds for picks -> sell pick -> economy broken.

Getting paper in the last slot requires time, yes, but it's a finite process (and you could always just get another villager if needed).

That's basically what I was doing in the old server with the server shop (wheat+sugarcane+logs = millions noobz).

The server shop was basically the same but slightly better:
there were fixed prices for everything in the shop but everything NOT in the shop kept going up in price.

Honestly I think vanilla trading should be fine, since it requires alot of trading to get decent items and even to get all trades unlocked you have to trade extreme amounts of emeralds, so yea I see no harm in it and about emeralds, they have no real use except decoration so the price of emeralds shouldnt really matter.

Sadly vanilla trading were never meant to be stable. It would trash any sort of economy.

There is literally no limit to the number of trades you could do and you could just trade paper/wheat/chicken to get emeralds to begin with.

At that point, once you find a decent amount of villagers (let's say 6-10) you are in a loop that generates infinite items from nothing.
Even if you kept findin horrible trades (say, 4 emerald for 1 shear) you could just breed villagers to improve the chances :|

I've managed to find the 18 seconds video on YT that shows the slot machine in action.

Other than fireworks going off there's no sign of actually winning something, nor having to pay something to play so... technically that's not gambling.

Since I'm planning a few different games I'd like an official answer on the matter 

As the title says, can we make games on the server that involves paying with an item and receiving other items in case of victory?

The town im making is underground!!!!!

I think you'll find this interesting then:
http://www.noobscraft.com/towns-nations/deephaven-v2/

Bump!

Some other buildings and styles you could find in the town:
(these are of course concepts and styles, not finished buildings)

This could be a market stall, a  treasure room or even just a wall decoration:


Purple variant:


Public building:


And this is part of something to be released later on

Looks good WindowCreeprr!

I won't make anything fancy... I used a Grim Reaper skin for a whole year.

I'm still trying to make a decent skin on my own and I'd really love if MC supported long hair by default.

As it is, they seem to be glued to one's back no matter what. >_>