The trades using the Easter Reward Token eggs are now available from the villagers at /warp spawn.

There are a range of coloured armour pieces available, plus a few novelty items; hopefully something you'll enjoy. It's unlikely you'll be able to afford everything so be selective about what you might want and save up/trade to get hopefully those things . There is a small chance more items might be added over the weekend too, so keep an eye out for those in case they happen.

The trades will be available for at least this weekend and beyond for a few days so make the most of them while they're here!

For the Easter weekend I've also doubled the rate at which eggs spawn around the world!

From all of the Noobscraft team I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Easter!

Just a very minor update.

It was requested just under a year ago that we introduce a way for people to use the /home command for getting to a range of different homes including those in the Wilderness and even Towns.

We've now finally added an alias of /wild home [n] you can now use /home wild [n]. With the optional number obviously.

As part of the new upgrade to the Town system that we're working on there may also be the introduction of a way to quickly access your plots, which if added will also have an alias using /home ...

I'm aware that some of you might have manually set a /home wild previously and therefore it now won't work, if you have please just let me know and I'll adjust it so that uses a different name for you .

I hope you enjoy this small change, if you have any feedback or ideas we'd love to hear them . The work item regarding this change can be found here.

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Just to let you know that Noobstown.com is currently experiencing some unexpected downtime. The server is currently offline due to what appears to be a problem with the network that the physical machine is on. The team responsible for this are looking into the issue.

I'm very sorry that we're down and have been for sometime today, but we'll be back up as soon as we can be. Updates will be posted/edited once we know more.

The site should be up while these issues are on-going so if you need something to do feel free to make a post or two here .

Again, sorry, we'll be back up again as soon as possible.

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Just to keep you updated as we try to do before every update to Minecraft this is a short post to let you know about our plans regarding the impending release of Minecraft 1.9 and how it will work with Noobstown. This isn't a post about any specific changes, just about our plan for 1.9!

Mojang announced earlier today that 1.9 will likely be released next week on Thursday the 25th of February. We obviously will not be upgrading the server to 1.9 at this time so please DO NOT UPDATE YOUR MINECRAFT CLIENT(S) or select specifically to continue playing in 1.8.9 if you want to continue playing on Noobstown. We will eventually be working to open in 1.9 but this isn't likely to be happening immediately so please if you want to continue playing on Noobstown don't update until we announce it is possible to do so. (You updating and not connecting to Noobstown because of this will not be an excuse for your land to not be cleared.)

Minecraft 1.9 contains an enormous number of changes which are likely to dramatically effect how things function (even if to you it might not look like anything has changed, how the server deals with some of these changes is going to involve a lot of work). As a result a large number of the plugins we use will likely need some drastic updates to continue to work with the updated interactions, transportation, items and world locations 1.9 has to offer. We obviously don't want to update only for it to be extremely buggy and for issues to arise.

Our plan is to wait until we have a stable version of our server software and all of the important plugins we use have been updated. Previously this has on occasion taken multiple months; it will however become our primary focus once 1.9 is released. I'm going to be honest here; this change is likely to break a lot of the existing code we use and therefore this update is probably going to take just as long and possibly longer than ones have previously.

In regards to updating to Minecraft 1.9 some of the specific points we need to sort out before releasing include (not necessarily in this order, it depends how things work out):

• Waiting to see if there is an update which is safe/stable enough allowing you to connect to Noobstown using a 1.9 client but without any of the features of 1.9 (just like we did with 1.8 ).
• Waiting until a suitable development version of our server software is released to the point where we can work on upgrading our own custom plugins.
• Upgrading all of our critical custom plugins, including: the current Wilderness system, several chat features, the entity/mob limiting system, account management systems, etc.
• Waiting for stable updates to the third party plugins (ones we don't develop ourselves) we currently use, including Towny (unless it takes ages in which case we might just jump to the new Town system but no promises on that), mcMMO, LWC, etc. and then safely testing that these updates haven't broken things for Noobstown and if they have work to on a custom fix.
• Producing any extra plugins/protections for things which have been added in 1.9 but which we don't want to allow until we can protect against griefing/theft etc. A list with more details about this is likely to be released in the future.
• Updating the non-critical custom plugins we use, such as: the items gained from events, the drop party system, Snowball, etc.
• Waiting until there is then a stable version of the server software which is suitable to be played on, and then testing this with all of the plugins we normally use.

Please be aware as explained previously in the post this update is likely to take sometime, and therfore don't update your Minecraft clients until we've said it's suitable to do so if you want to continue playing on Noobstown!

I hope you're excited about what is to come for Noobstown though.

Just an update to let you know that the Mining world, Nether and the End have been reset for this month!

A new theme for this month will also be coming this weekend/early next week! Plus don't forget we've got double mcMMO XP all this weekend to celebrate Version 6 being open for 2 years!

Just another small update to let you know that changes made to the server yesterday have meant that /town and /t commands are now possible in all worlds and not just the town one!

You can now get to your town spawn, view a list of the towns and almost all town commands anywhere on Noobstown! The commands themselves haven't changed; the change is that you can do them anywhere now!

We are still working on a new version of the Town system, but this change is for between now and then .

Again I hope this is useful. If you've got any questions please let me know.

If you notice any issues with this change you must report them.

As you are probably aware: for quite sometime now we've had a lot of different plans going at once. It has lead to some delays in the development as the work has been spread out rather than focusing on one project to completion. We've had lots of great suggestions and bugs reported to us and we plan to implement/fix a large number of them. Sadly because of how we operate I'm the only person available to directly develop these changes for Noobstown and as a result they're likely to take time to be slowly added. It is because of this delay that I've created a new feature for you to let us (mainly me, but the rest of the team too) know which of things you'd like to see sooner!

By visiting www.noobscraft.com/work and voting on things you can let me and the rest of the team know what work items you'd actually like to see sooner and also things which aren't quite as important for now. The plan is for me to work on things which are higher up the list until they're complete and then slowly work down; as things get completed they'll be removed from this list.

When you visit the page it might seem quite confusing but it's really quite simple. Each possible work item is listed on the page (ordered by items you've not voted on first, then by the current score it has). Clicking on the item will expand it to view the full description as well as any details about it. To the left of each item is an option for you to vote that item up or down:

It will expand the up/down arrow to allow you to pick whether you want to give between +3 and -3 to the score. Your choice of score should be based on whether you'd like to see it being worked on sooner or later (Not based on whether you agree with the idea, everything listed is definitely coming it's just a matter of time), so if you want to see it sooner give it a positive amount and then items which can wait longer give a lower amount.

You might think just giving everything the maximum or same amount is going to speed things up, but that's not going to help, if you do so you'll effectively be wasting your votes; I can only work on one thing at a time so just voting everything up or down won't effect the order. Try to give items a mix of points depending on what you'd honestly like to come sooner.

You're free to change your vote at any time so don't worry about that. Plus the score will never go below 0; so if you give it a negative amount that will simply negate any positive points which might be added in the future if it's below 0. If you want to see the order of the items update after you've voted simply reload the page.

As more suggestions come in I'll be adjusting the list as well as posting updates here and directly to the work items on that page, so be sure to keep checking it for updates. For now if you've suggested something or reported something which we agreed would be added and don't see it listed please let me know and I'll add it to the list. Some items have been merged together since they're quite small so be aware of that too.

If there is anything you don't quite understand listed on the page or how it works please just ask and I'll adjust the wording or explain it again.

The link again is: www.noobscraft.com/work.

We look forward to your feedback,
- The Noobscraft Team

Just like we did last year we've compiled some possibly interesting facts from the past year of Noobstown and the Noobscraft community. (Some of these were taken from just before this post was published so would include any changes made in the first 40ish hours of 2016)

Noobstown Statistics 2015:

• We ended the year with 40,784 registered members!
• Nearly 7,000 new players visited us for the first time.
• 2,055 new Members joined us. That's almost 1 in every 3 who visited us for the first time!
• Over 8,000 existing members visited us at some point during the year!
• Over 11 years worth of time was spent by all people playing on Noobstown put together!
• We ended the year with everyone as a total having 868,273 mcMMO levels. That's nearly 400,000 more added!
• The year ended with the server economy having over 400,000,000Nbz! More than doubling in 2015 compared to 2014! 84% of this being owned by players.
• The top 10 richest players had over 35% of the whole server economy.
• We saw the most people on the server at 8:33 PM on the 19th of September!

• The year ends with 37 towns, and 4 nations.
• There were over 1,300 town residents!
• 19,861 chunks were owned by towns! (That's over 1.3 billion blocks available for them!) More than doubling since last year!
• Dracomere was the most commonly visited town spawn! It was visited 8,938 times!
• Windermere had the most residents with 226.
• Windermere also had the most town land with 1,433 chunks!
• There were still just 4 nations!

• 3,466,237 commands were issued! That's 546,781 unique (completely different)!
• /ah was the most commonly used valid command! And we didn't even introduce that until June! The command was used nearly 215,738 times! It was used more than twice of any other command!
• /ch g was the second most used valid command, but it was used just 105,338 times.
• The /home options were used 280,578 times. The homes 'storage', 'wild' and 'w' were the most commonly used after the defaults 'home' and 'bed', you do know you can do /wild home [n] right?
• The most commands issued in one minute occurred on the 31st October at 10:58 PM. With more than 8 times the normal rate occurring then!

• A total of 1,629,123 chat messages were sent.
• The most commonly said chat message of the year as simply "lol" again. It was said just 25,793 times in the year though!
• The most chat messages sent in one minute occurred on the 20th of September at 10:23 PM.

• The year ended with over 178,500,000 blocks having been mined! Nearly 93,000,000 coming from 2015; equal to more than 25,000 each day!
• It also ended with over 44,000,000 blocks being used. That's over 22,000,000 in 2015; just more than last!
• Over 34,800,000 blocks were crafted by the end of the year too. 16,000,000 of those in 2015!
• Stone was once again the most mined block of the year. The different stones were mined a total of 42,000,457 times in 2015!
• Dirt was still the most commonly used block by the end of the year! It was used 3,287,816 times in 2015!
• Wood Planks also remained the most commonly crafted block at the end of the year! In 2015 they were crafted 4,573,855 times!
• Diamond Ore was mined 218,803 times the year, making it the 25th most mined block!

• A total of 8,558,501 items were crafted in 2015!
• Under 50,000 items broke though! That's less than half 2014's amount! (49,711 to be exact)
• By the end of the year items were used. 102,824,247 in 2015; beating 2014 by nearly 10,000,000! That's more using items but less breaking; on the ball in 2015?
• The most commonly crafted item by the end of the year was the Stick. In total by the year's end a total of  had been crafted; 1,243,237 in 2015!
• The second most commonly crafted item ("smelted" to be correct) was the Iron Ingot, only just missing out on the top spot being crafted a total of 3,035,423 times by the end of the year!
• The most commonly broken item was the Stone Pickaxe being broken a total of 36,801 times by the end of the year. Just 8,490 in 2015!
• The most commonly used item was still the Diamond Pickaxe, being used 55,134,874 times in 2015!

Since June when we updated to 1.8:

• Chests have been opened 1,837,640 times!
• Enderchests were opened 37,693 times.
• Trapped chests were triggered 250,739 times!
• Hoppers were searched 77,438 times.
• Dispensers were searched 9,306 times and droppers only 7,183.
• Crafting Tables were used for crafting just 80,828 times! (VIPs used /craft a lot.)
• Furnaces were searched 239,674 times!
• Brewing stands were interacted with 105,538 times.
• Beacons were interacted with just 2,281 times! That's almost 6 times for each beacon which has been crafted!

• Nearly 100,000,000 hearts of damage were taken!
• More than 105,000,000 hearts of damage were dealt by players! That's more than 5 times as many as in 2014. It's also more than was dealt! (Enough to kill over 10,000,000 Zombies!)
• The most commonly killed mob remains the Skeleton being killed over 1,133,000 times in 2015.
• The most commonly killed animal was the Cow! Beating the chicken this year by almost 25,000 kills.
• There were just 33,100 player deaths in 2015. Almost half the amount of 2014.
• The most deadly mob remains the Zombie, killing over 4,000 times in 2015. (Still less than half the amount of 2014 though.)
• The least deadly mob this year was the Endermite, with only 5 kills since they were introduced in June. The wolf moves down from 1st in 2014 to 3rd in 2015, with them killing 90 times in 2015.

• Just over 350,000,000 metres were travelled. (Over 218,000 miles; 8,314 marathons worth, or enough to roughly circle the world nearly 9 times!)
• Nearly 37,000,000 jumps were made! An average of more than one every second!
• Horses were the most popular mode of travel after walking. Being used nearly twice as much as boats in 2015! They account for just 1.5% of travel though.
• In 2015 someone finally managed to visit all biomes! But only 1 player; craftymatt13!
  

• Despite not being available for more than half the year; 4,901 gifts were sent!
• The player who received the most gifts in 2015 was Harukia!

• Visit locations were set a total of 3,038 times; by just 397 different players.
• Players were visited 60,111 times using /visit.
• Mprint was the most visited player using /visit.
• Just 469 valid visits were set at the end of the year. /visit set.

• Just 53,324 animals were bred, almost a 3rd of the number in 2014.
• 122,726 fish were caught.

• Just 603 tickets were submitted. More than half of 2014.
• /helpop was used just 280 times. Nearly only 10% of 2014.
• Only 61 support topics were made on the site!

• 398 unique clients connected to our TeamSpeak server.
• 232 accounts were connected to in-game accounts!
• A total of 39,423 connections were made to the TeamSpeak server by the end of the year.
• We saw the most people on TeamSpeak at 9:42 PM on the 21st of February!

• Just 751 topics were made; just over 2 per day.
• 4,807 posts were made.
• 6,089 personal messages were sent on the site!
• The most users on the site at once was just 186 on the 14th of January.
• We received almost 3,200,000 forum page views!

Hopefully you at least found some of those interesting! You can view some of these statistics plus thousands of others at https://www.noobscraft.com/gamestats/ and https://www.noobscraft.com/stats/.

We hope everyone had a wonderful New Year! And we also hope you're looking forward to what is going to be a great year for Noobstown and the Noobscraft community!
- The Noobscraft Team

You've been asking for it for months now and we've finally brought back a new form of gifting just in time for Noobmas! You can now use /gift [name] again to send gifts to other players in-game. This time it uses a slightly different (but hopefully nicer) way to collect though.

Each player can now receive 54 gifts at once without having to collect them (that's a possible of over 93,000 items which could be waiting for them)! When you send a gift just use /gift [name] and it will open an extra inventory on top of yours, put any items you want to send to the user in there and then close your inventory; they'll automatically then be sent to that user. You can now sent up to 5 gifts to each player without them having to collect any from you!

To collect a gift you've received just do /gift collect. This will open a new menu which lists all of the gifts you've received! Just find the one you're looking for (most recent ones are shown first) and click on the sender's head to claim it; the items they sent will then be passed on to your real inventory! It's that simple! There is no extra chest like previously.

We were aware with the old system that people often received gifts annoyingly from players they didn't want to. So now you can block a player from sending you gifts; just use /gift block [name] and they won't be able to send you anymore gifts!

If you believe you had items left from the previous gifting system which you never collected please PM me, and I'll transfer it over to the new system for you!

I hope you all really enjoy this change, we know people loved the old system and hopefully this one will be even better! If you've got any questions or ideas regarding this just respond! If you notice any bugs with it you must report them.

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UPDATE: The downtime is hopefully over. More Info

We are aware of the current unexpected downtime. We're sorry about this and are working to get the server back up as soon as possible.

Until then you could join others on our TeamSpeak server (voice.noobstown.com). Again sorry, we're looking to sort this as soon as we can. More information/updates to follow.