Well i was planning on making a big comeback since i'm a serious OG player of this server and haven't been active in what.... 3 maybe 4 years? Well, i can't do this because you don't allow name changes? If anyone remembers me or has ss of anything i did // chat pls reply with them:
 MY USERNAME WAS ' beth_beth ' 

Hey there,

Welcome back firstly, great to see you've got an interest in playing on Noobstown again ! I'm sorry you were unable to connect to the server, we don't currently support name changing, this is something which is going to be coming to the server in the next few months now though.

I take it your new username is 'Bethification' correct? If so would you like me to update your account to use that new name for you so you can come back to playing here again ?

The Mining World, Nether & End have finally been reset for August! (Finally others can get End Stone now ) Next month the resets will be closer to the normal beginning of the month all going to plan, sorry for the delay this time.

The Top Voters for July will be announced later today also!

Might it be possible to add a personalized message to sent gifts, instead of the default "player sent you a gift!" message? 

It would be nice to be able to include a note like "I know you like these" or "your share of the loot" or "in return for all the stuff you lent me" or something that adds context and a bit of fun to the gift.

Perhaps this could take the form of /gift (player) (message) or something similar?  And then the message could take the place of the default mail message that gets sent.
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This is a great idea! I feel stupid for it not being an option initially, it's definitely something we can add.

I'll get round to adding this as soon as possible, keeping in mind lots of other things are also to come. If you want to see it worked on sooner you can vote for it at https://www.noobscraft.com/work/full/gift-message/.

I'm wondering why /help was changed to a message thatr redirects you to /helpop or the Support page in the website. Seems weird and out of place, since /help is used almost universally to check the player's available commands. There's a few commands that I don't know off the top of my head, so why change it?
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The /help change was made well over a month ago now, it was changed because the list of plugins which could be used and commands which showed up when using that command didn't really match up with the majority of those which are actually useful for you to attempt. Quite a number of newly connected players would use /help and see an overwhelming list of hundreds of commands where the majority of them can't even be used or have no real purpose, so the decision was made to hide that list and suggest players ask for help since other players and online staff would be able to explain almost all of the available commands. The list was also not completely comprehensive, there were certain commands completely missing such as /shop (which is actually one of the most important commands to learn about). It is likely a cleaner, and more useful help guide will be added to replace the older system in the future, but it's not a high priority right now when there are other very simple ways to get help.

If you were looking for a specific command what did you want it to do, if you explain what you were looking for I'll point you in the right direction for the command? We have guides on the site for the majority of useful commands, and if you do /warp tutorial there is a quick and simple new tutorial which outlines the more important ones.

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Also, was the advert command removed?

Yes the advertise command was removed, it isn't really needed anymore since the global channel (/ch g) shows up for the majority of players now anyway, the advertise feature was a way to send your message to everyone irrespective of world they were in previously, but since merging the world channels it's not as important. We also don't have the continuous chat (because we don't have as many players online most of the time) like before where a message might need to stand out for you to notice it, so just discussing your project (whatever you were going to use the old advertise command for) in the global channel should pretty much have the same effect but now for free.

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If you've got any feedback after hearing my reasoning on either of these changes or you disagree with my choice, I'd love to hear why.

My chunks claimed in the wild are surrounded by a ton of claimed but unused chunks and im pretty sure they have been inactive for over 3 months can someone help and unclaim them all so i can expand?

Hey,

If you do /ticket while stood in the area you need clearing and include the inactive player's name in the ticket then I'll get around to clearing it for you when I get chance. A player needs to have been gone for at least 3 months before we'll consider clearing their land. If you see me in-game before making the tickets just let me know and I'll do it for you there and then if I'm available .

You can finally transfer in your Snowball Winners Tokens in for a range of different items available at /warp snowball. There are dozens of possible items to trade in for, most of them are collectable variants of common items but there are also a few exclusives. You can play a game of Snowball with others using /snowball join.

The prices/availability of certain items may be adjusted as it becomes clear if they're not suitable though.

I hope you like some of the items on offer, they're not all special but it will give you at least some reward for winning. If you've got any feedback about the options available or you'd like to see something specific just suggest it below.

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In /shop, all stones get sold through "Any Stone". That includes andesite, granite and diorite. But, what if you go mining and you do NOT want e.g. granite and diorite, but you want andesite to use as decor? To then sell off the granite and diorite, you then must keep the andesite out from your inventory when you sell to the "all stones", which is a bit of a hassle.
So, why not do it like this:
In the previous iteration of shop, there was also a form of "any stone" in there. But, there you had to right-click, and then sell the stones off from there, selling one kind of stone at a time. What we can do in the current version of /shop, is to add a new "any stone", where you can choose which stones you want to sell. Right-click the "any stone" in how much you want to sell, then another tab opens up where there would be 7 categories: Stone, diorite, andesite, granite, and then the polished version of andesite, diorite and granite as a tab each.
Another example where this can be a problem (not as big though) is "any Wood log" and "any new Wood log". Same thing can be added as 2 new tabs, with every log in that category that is listed.
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Great idea, I've now changed how the /shop works for Stone and Logs, it will now open another menu which will allow you to again just sell all generally or to specifically pick which type you want:





I hope this is what you wanted, if not I'd appreciate any other feedback .

If you haven't read it already it's important you read the post made by Foob a few days ago where he made an announcement that he would be stepping down from his long term role as a server Administrator and the project lead for Noobstown.com within the next few months. This post is just some information about the future of Noobstown moving forward. I want to begin by personally thanking him for the many years of enjoyment and fun he has provided to thousands of people including myself, and for giving me the opportunity to help out all those years ago and to now keep the community going forward.

Firstly I want to reiterate very clearly: this is not the closure of the server, all of the aspects of the server which used to be controlled by Foob will simply be moved over to me, and we will continue on as before. There will likely be a few changes to things, both in the short term and longer term; but they will not be major and I will definitely consult you all as players before we do anything large/game-changing. I have already been the main contributor to changes and have been managing many of the aspects of the server myself for several months anyway so that is just going to continue. I speak to a number of the active players on a daily basis and really hope I can make Noobstown even more of a community moving forward.

As for a few planned changes and things which were in the works I do need to make a few aspects of the future of Noobstown clear though, I know a few questions have been asked so these should answer some of the larger ones:

• The Summer updates will continue on as before, there are more coming later this month (July) and further ones in August. Some of the in-game changes such as the head shop and Snowball rewards might take slightly longer, but they will still be coming this Summer!
• All of the planned changes listed at Noobscraft.com/work/ will still go ahead as I get the time to implement those changes/develop those features.
• The planned Noobstown Dungeons project (the MineApoc merge) will be put on hold for now, this was a project being introduced by Foob primarily and without him it is likely to take much much longer than the many months planned anyway and as such for now we won't be implementing it as planned. That's not to say the features won't come in the future, but for now it is on hold. The ability to get VIP/VIP+ for free if you had it on MineApoc is also on hold because of this.
• Any Donations made between now and when the server is passed over to me are still welcomed as a gift to Foob for his hard work, and will continue to provide the benefits in-game and on the site as normal, but since the longer term funding of the server is going to be from myself you should be aware at the moment  they are unlikely to be directly assisting the longevity of the server. The plans for any changes to the perk purchasing system once Foob has passed over to me will be announced later.

There is likely to be an amount of downtime as we move over from the hardware Foob is currently using to some that I will pay for, any downtime will be planned and announced with estimated dates/times beforehand though.

If you have any questions at all about the future of Noobstown, me taking over things, Foob's goodbye or anything of the sort please do ask it, I'll respond to any questions asked if you've got any.

- ItsLawrence

Just a quick post to let you know it will be double mcMMO XP for all of the 12th and 13th of July (UK time)! I hope you enjoy this, it's just an extra thank-you for playing .

We'll be posting more information about more Summer events and the rest of the Summer updates over the next few days/weeks too .

just wondering does 12 mid mean midnight or midday?

If you click on the times it will take you to a site so you can see the times listed in your timezone. It is midnight most likely though.

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Larry, does boat racing mean what I think?

I'm not certain what you're thinking, but most likely no, these events have been organised and are being ran by Hexi not me.

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 June 2016 were as follows:

• WarriorBen (+30k)
• eboniics (+30k)
• Othyem (+30k)
• Xylira (+20k)
• MagicMan27 (+20k)
• SweetCrazyOne (+30k)
• ButterfliRose (+30k)
• MeriLizzie (+20k)
• CHEFKRON
• Prof_Templeton (+10k)

They've all won themselves the money prizes plus WarriorBen has earned the rare head for being the top voter once again. Those with + amounts next to their name have earned the bonuses for being in 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.

July'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 (July) will be announced hopefully in the first full weekend in August!

Another quick update to let you know that the Mining World, Nether and End have all been reset for July!

The top voters for June will be announced either later today or tomorrow but July's competition for that has already started so make sure to /vote.