What would motivate many that love mining, collecting, and combat. Is unique items. I would love to spend mining in the mining world knowing that very rarely I could find an enchanted drop that I can trade with a villager at the spawn marketplace, or perhaps use to enchant one of my favorite items with.

Having an unbreaking v pick axes, or unbreaking x gold helmet for example (keeping it simple here). Would be pretty cool.

Collecting these artifacts that are quite rare, could mean I would spend more time online mining and trying out my luck in the new mining world with my friends.

And what is that? There's a rumor once a year a villager in a boat arrives with a fortune v pickaxe for x of these rare artifacts?

But yeah, I think it would be cool to hear a bang during mining and find a super rare fossil, some ancient scroll or unique artifact we can then use to spiffy up a buff on armour, or enchantment on a tool beyond what we can normally do.
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I don't see why something like this couldn't be introduced as a permanent feature. We've already done this sort of thing for some of the themed months (for example this just gone Noobween), but if it were permanent it would obviously have to be on a much much rarer scale, but still to the point where it was actually possible.

I've created a work item to work on this which you can view at https://www.noobscraft.com/work/full/random-skill-drop-trades/.

Not really a suggestion, but I noticed in my quest to find out how to see the amount of free chunks I have, that
a- https://www.noobscraft.com/free/ doesn't list how many I can still buy for 0
b- https://www.noobscraft.com/free/ could use the text: Check in-game with : /wild free
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At the current time this is the case because of how it was initially set up in a technical sense; the free chunk site based features are stored locally on the site and then sent to the server when you earn a free chunk, whereas how many free chunks you can actually claim are stored server side. It is a longer term plan to move these features both over to the server and then simply pull them as needed on the site, it just wasn't implemented like that originally. I've created a work item to do this which you can view at https://www.noobscraft.com/work/full/free-wilderness-chunks-merge/.

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...could we get a bit more than 6 friends? .. I am not really sure why it could be a limit of sorts, why not 8 or 10 or 12?...

This is planned; I'm going to be increasing both the Wilderness Builders and Wilderness Friends limits, that will come out with the update to the Wilderness system hopefully coming by the end of this month.

Just a quick post to let you know that thanks to WarriorBen the first part of November's "Fall Quest" is available at /warp theme! As normal you can get the token to begin it using /kit theme.

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Also the trades for Noobween will be up for just a few more days so if you've got any Noobween Candy left over it is probably best to trade it in now.

I feel like it takes to long to first start on the server with all the info stuff and the sign up on the website. I feel like most new players leave before they even start playing because of this issue. I would like to make an idea to stop the length of start up and maybe just make them do /rules and they can start. If they want to read (Most of them don't) about the info of the server and that you could make a warp like /warp help and it goes to that info place when you first join the server. Also make it a bit more simple to first start on the server so more players will be lured to keep playing.
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...then throwing people into the server without forcing them a 15 minute tutorial and rules poll, might keep them around a bit...

Thanks for the idea, but I'm not sure if you've actually experienced or seen the newest area for new players on the server? You can get to it at /warp tutorial. If you do mean a change to the new spawn for new players or you still think this or have any ideas after seeing it do let me know though.

It's really quite short; you don't even have to do any of it if you don't want, it's even ordered in a way that if you get bored as you go around the more important information is first. There is nothing stopping you getting going immediately as soon as you connect if you want. None of the old routes for rule questions and millions of signs spread out exist anymore, it's now very simplified. In terms of just dropping people right into the deep end I can sort of understand since this is a common practice, but we use many completely custom features that aren't used elsewhere and I'd imagine those who aren't willing to walk a few blocks around a few signs are the same people who won't be willing to figure out the commands themselves.

Similarly there is nothing requiring people to register now, people can connect and get going immediately if they want to and know what they're doing. New players have all of the same options as a normal member in terms of gameplay itself.

I can understand the issue you're probably trying to address, but we have tried to make things super easy for new players. If I'm being honest I really am not sure what is putting new people off after they've connected, and I'm welcome to trying new things to get people to at least try what we have to offer. I have witnessed many people connect and almost immediately disconnect without even giving anything a go, not even getting into the few signs at the new player spawn. In the works is a complete simplification of many of the commands, so you don't need to remember the potentially long and complicated wilderness options to get going. Once this is done then a number of the signs at the new "tutorial" can be removed or adjusted to make it even easier.

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Anything noobstown could perhaps do to replace or add another type of shop to the server that could be like ChestShop but without the signs?

Kinda wish we could use LWC and set the type of chest to ShopChest for example,
that way when anybody but the owner opens the chest (or anybody on the cmodify list) it would show a market value of that item, clicking it twice would buy that item(s).
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I think I can understand what you mean, however if it's not possible to find out from just looking at the chests, how are people likely to know whether a chest is a "shop chest" or just a random storage chest? The current system makes it clear when you can buy from/sell to a chest, but with your idea it sounds like someone would have to go up and try to actually open each individual chest before they even know if it's a shop or not?

Great thanks to everyone who voted last month. We're very grateful for everyone who voted and remember every single vote gets you 2,500Nbz straight away, plus enters you into this competition.

The Top Voters for October 2016 were as follows:

• WarriorBen (+70k)
• eboniics (+70k)
• SweetCrazyMom (+70k)
• Ruinwen (+70k)
• Sesto_Elemento03 (+10k)
• WarriorJ55 (+10k)
• sir_Andrew99876
• ButterfliRose (+70k)
• JustFrnkinstiny
• rueyeet (+30k)

They've all won themselves the money prizes plus WarriorBen has earned the rare head for being the top voter. Those with + amounts next to their name have earned the bonuses for being in the last months in a row too! The base prizes are as follows:

Rank 1 - 100,000Nbz
Rank 2 - 80,000Nbz
Rank 3 - 60,000Nbz
Rank 4 - 50,000Nbz
Rank 5 - 40,000Nbz
Rank 6 - 30,000Nbz
Rank 7 - 25,000Nbz
Rank 8 - 20,000Nbz
Rank 9 -  15,000Nbz
Rank 10 - 10,000Nbz

If any of those in the top 10 list make it into next month's list too they'll earn a bonus 10,000Nbz on top of the prize for their rank too for each consecutive month they've been in the top 10 for! (So those with +10k this month could get a bonus 20k next month , 20k get 30k, etc., and the rest still +10k if they keep in the top 10!) For more information about this read this post.

November's competition already started on the 1st so be sure to take part to try and get into the top 10 for this month! Use /vote in-game or visit Noobscraft.com/pmc! The Top Voters for this month (November) will be announced hopefully in the first full weekend in December!

I know it's a little late, but better late than never; this is a post to outline a whole week of events on Noobstown.com! Plus we've got the Candy drops which can be traded in at /warp noobween and also an on-going Quest starting at /warp theme and /warp theme2 (Part 3 coming soon too!).

As for Events this week though, we've got something every night for the rest of this week (starting tomorrow!), hopefully you'll be able to come along to something:

Find the Head
Tuesday, 25th October at 10pm BST (What's that in my timezone?)



Fishing Tournament
Wednesday, 26th October at 10pm BST (What's that in my timezone?)



Snowball
Thursday, 27th October at 2am BST (What's that in my timezone?)



Find the Head
Thursday, 27th October at 10pm BST (What's that in my timezone?)



Spooky Spleef
Friday, 28th October at 9pm BST onwards (What's that in my timezone?)



Extra Candy Drops + Double mcMMO XP Weekend Begins
Friday, 28th October starts at 11pm BST going on all weekend (What's that in my timezone?)



Noobween Party
Saturday, 29th October starts at 11pm BST (What's that in my timezone?)



For some of these there will be prizes just for coming along and participating, as well as obviously for winning. We'll also be doing random bonus candy drops throughout the week so be sure to join in this Noobween week of fun! A Noobweek some might say

...please add snow to the ./shop, it will be nice...

I don't see any reason why it can't be sold using /shop. Were you thinking snowballs, blocks or sheets?

I've created a work item to sort this out which you can find and vote for at https://www.noobscraft.com/work/full/sell-snow/.

I think we should have a way to view the AFK players, like in the tab menu it might say [AFK] next to a player name. This would be useful because even though it says in chat when a person is AFK the chat goes away and this way it will be easier too see.
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Edit: SweetCrazyMom let me know that /online shows the AFK players.

We don't really want to encourage you to be on the server if you're AFK, if you know you're not going to be actively playing it would be best to just disconnect to avoid potentially annoying people who are trying to contact you and from abusing any automated things you may be stood around, etc. As a result of this it's not likely that this is going to be introduced on the server, you can feel free to do as SweetCrazyMom suggested though.

I just joined this server and became a member the day before yesterday [Oct 8]! I'm really happy that I found such a great server!    -Starcandycakes

Hey, we've spoken a few times on the server already, but welcome to Noobstown! I hope you enjoy things here .

September's contest for a Tree House is now over, and I've been through the entries, lots of great entries. Because I didn't specify it explicitly in the rules section of the original post I included all entries using /cotm submit, even if they didn't reply to the topic (and if you don't reply in the future I'll do the same). The winner for September's contest is therefore: AJ_Andy. You see see his design at Noobscraft.com/cotm/ and it's in the screenshot below.



Thank-you to everyone who took part in last month's contest...participation awards and prizes for the month including those for taking part will be given out soon (potentially already depending on when you read this ).

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Each month you get the opportunity to submit a chunk you own to be reviewed in our contest, we're looking for creative, interesting and well-designed plots according to a monthly theme! You can find out about the previous winners at Noobs.town/cotm/.

How this works:

• Each month we'll make a post like this on the site and give a theme for that month.
• You then have the rest of the month to make design and build something in either the Wilderness OR the Town world according to the monthly theme, in a chunk you own.
• You then submit your chunk using /cotm submit while stood in that chunk. Then make a reply to the monthly post outlining your design, explain it a bit if you want to.
• At the end of the month I (and possibly other members of the staff team) will then go around all of the entries and judge which we deem to be the winner. Another post will then be made announcing the winner and all entries/prizes will be handed out.

It's very simple to take part, just use /cotm submit!

A few rules:

• Your build must be within 1 single Minecraft chunk (16x16), but height doesn't matter. If you're using Minecraft 1.10+ you can use F3+G to view the boundaries in yellow !
• You must own the land you're submitting your entry in, if it's in the Town world you must individually own the plot, and in the Wilderness you must own the land.
• You need to follow the theme.
• You need to actually build something, just submitting a simple few blocks to get the rewards won't count.
• You need to submit your design using /cotm submit before midnight on the last day of the month (UK time)! This deadline is automated so don't miss it.
• You need to leave your build up after the end of the month because we need chance to judge it!

The winner of each month will earn themselves:

• A unique winner trophy for that month
• 100,000Nbz
• Your chunk showcased at Noobs.town/cotm/
• Your name forever listed in-game when doing /cotm contests
• 5 FREE Wilderness Chunks This is irrespective of if you built in the Town world!

Plus everyone who takes part will receive a participation prize and a free wilderness chunk (again irrespective of if you built in the Town world).

Got any questions? Just ask them below in a reply or in-game!

As for this month's theme (October) the theme is Halloween!

Quick update: The Mining World, Nether & End worlds have been reset for October now!

• /warp mining
• /warp nether
• /warp end

I'm going to start doing a monthly recap of Noobstown's goings on to keep everyone up-to-date about what's happening in a summary at the end/start of each month. It will outline some of the important announcements, updates, events we've ran, changes planned, and other important announcements for the last or coming next month. This is the first one, looking back over September 2016. I've seen people saying not much happens; but we've changed loads in this last month, and coming in October we'll be getting back into events!

General

• 3rd September - Temporary Worlds reset
• 10th September - We came back from maintenance, transferring over to new hardware
• 11th September - An important message about Noobstown moving forward now that Foob has stepped down from his ownership and administration role

Server & Site Changes

• 10th September - The big site update and new logo
• 24th September - More maintenance and updates including:
  
  • Wilderness changes
  • Sponges in all worlds
  • Slime blocks with Pistons in the Wilderness
  • General smaller fixes
  • A massive update to the way we store data ready for name changing
• 28th September - Changes to Chest shops
• 30th September - Finally support for complete Minecraft account name changing!

Competitions & Events

• 3rd September - Top Voters for August were announced
• 3rd September - Chunk of the month returned! (Prizes and winners for this will be announced later this week, plus the October contest will begin then too)

Coming in October
Just a few already announced/known things coming this month, there will obviously be more than this so keep an eye out, but some of the known things:

• A new themed month will begin later this week! Noobween
• Temporary worlds will be reset this coming weekend.
• September's Top Voters will be announced, as well as Chunk of the Month winners and the next contests for them
• We'll be bringing back regular events, including a clear timetable of what's going on when.
• We'll finally introducing a decorative head shop!
• Plus more...!