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How does one make such a copy of a written book (without re-typing the whole thing)?  I have a little story I'd like to type up and sell copies of.

You can copy a book just by adding an existing book with a blank book and quill in a crafting table, as explained here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Written_Book#Copying.

To get permission to create a new town on Noobstown you must first have been grated permission by making and having a new town application accepted in this post. New towns will cost 500,000Nbz as their initial fee, but can end up costing many millions to set up and maintain, owning a town is not a light task you are required to be consistently active and to respect those who become a resident under your title.

By applying for new Town creation permissions you are accepting the rules of a Mayor, these include:

• The ability to take care of a community of player.
• To make good decisions that are fair and acceptable.
• To understand all in game rules and ensure your residents do too.
• An understanding that everything within the town is 'shared' and is not yours to keep. Money deposited in the town bank is to be spent on town related purchases, once you add it to your town or nation money it is no longer yours and you must not take it back for personal use. It should also not be used as a personal bank for your own funds.
• If you become less active you must be willing to pass your town to a high ranked citizen, we'd idealy like to see you coming on weekly but after a month of inactivity your title might be at risk.
• To be a good listener and open to take advice from your citizens.
• Be able to take control of situations that occur in town (Fights, arguments and what not) You should be the one to report any rule breaking to a Noobstown staff member.
• The understanding that items and blocks such as chests in towns do not belong to you. If and when plots are cleared the items do not go to the town or yourself, you must make every effort to return them to their original owner or must store them separately until you can return them.
• Towns are not to be created for small exclusive friendship groups, they are community orientated and must be run that way. This does not suggest you cannot run towns with friends but simply means you must be willing to accept members outside of your friendship group. If you are not an open town you should often accept applications or requests in game to your discretion.
• Understanding that town permissions are your responsibility and that you are responsible for the permissions you set. For example: Setting a plot to public which is then farmed by a random player, that is your choice it will not be considered griefing.
• If a player has broken your town rules, you are responsible for giving them power and this is out of our hands. We do not deal with permission based issues. We do however allow Mayors the right to know who has broken blocks, etc. as required, to ensure that mayors are able to take appropriate action against them in their land. e.g. Kicking or blocking them from town.
• You must have the required money to purchase your town at the time of the application, at the moment this is 500,000Nbz. You must also have enough money to fund the beginning of your town, we'd recommend another 500,000Nbz on top of the original fee to begin with. If you only have 500,000Nbz at the moment your application will not be accepted, you must be able to pay the fee and maintain expanding and improving/building.
• You must be willing to share your power with others. We're more likely to accept applications by small groups of players than just an individual who is likely to need to find extra players in the future.
• You must have an idea/plan on where you'd like your town to be located before applying.
• Upon making a new town you must outline your town rules before accepting any residents so they know what needs to be done as a resident.

There is no specific format for applications, they can be as long or as short as you think you need them to be to get all of the information across, but please include at least the following information in general:

• Your planned town name.
• A general idea about where you'd like to create the new town, coordinates would be great.
• How much money you have at the moment.
• Why you'd like to start a new town and not just join an existing one?
• How will your town be different to all of the other towns?
• How much time will you be able to dedicate to running a new town in general?
• What are your specific plans are for creating plots, farms, whatever you're planning to build, etc. give an overview of your plan.

Be aware we will not just be determining whether or not your application is approved from the post itself, you will need to be an active, rule abiding member of the community already to even be considered. Please don't feel down if your application is not approved either, you will get a chance to apply again if you aren't successful at the time.

By submitting a reply and an application to this post you're agreeing to follow the mayor rules.

Just to post an update of some of the things which we have now implemented, still lots more coming this Summer, but so far we've:

• Introduced Noobstowny! - Work item
• Armour stands can now be used anywhere! - Work item
• Sponges can now be used in the Town world and they'll be coming to the other worlds next month - Work item
• Slime blocks can now be pushed/pulled by pistons in the Town world, and this will be coming to the other worlds next month - Work item

Still a lot more to come this Summer!

Noobstowny has now been successfully added to the Noobstown server! The server is back online now you should be able to connect at 'Noobstown.com'. There are lots of new town related features to enjoy now ! I hope you enjoy the new features and improves we've introduced and plan to introduce in the future.

This is the biggest update to Noobstown since we updated to version 6 over 2 years ago now. It's a massive leap forward in becoming independent of third-party plugins which is our longer-term goal.

You can read a list of the changes which have been added through the Noobstowny update at http://Noobs.town/noobstowny/ and can see a full list of the possible commands at https://www.noobscraft.com/guides/town-command-guide too. I'll be on tonight (24th-25th) and over the weekend and beyond to provide help as you try out the new features too. Just ask if you need information about any of it . Or feel free to ask questions here.

As this is such a massive change to Noobstown we are expecting a few minor issues so please don't be alarmed if there are, please just immediately report them to staff and we'll work on a fix as soon as possible. Do not abuse any issues you find. We're also more than open to feedback on the changes so please give any suggestions or ideas you've got.

Just a note we'll be opening up town applications again this weekend, not tonight in-case there are any issues we need to deal with. I'll add to this and make a reply once they open again.

What ranks are there in the new Towny system?

The ranks are outlined at https://www.noobscraft.com/noobstowny/#town-nation-ranks: Mayor, CoMayor, SubMayor, Assistant, and Architect for Towns. And then King and Nation Assistant for Nations.

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Can I assume /res /t /n etc. still apply?

Yes those will all continue to work. There are all sorts of shortcuts/aliases for the commands; not going to list them all though there are thousands of alternatives in total.

This is a pretty much complete list of all of the different Noobstowny commands, there are aliases/alternatives for most of them (hundreds if not thousands; it would be far too long for a post to put them all) but these are the default ones:

/towny

• - Show general information about Noobstowny.
• help - View the general towny world commands.
• prices - Get the prices for general Noobstowny features.
• ranks - View a general overview of the different possible Town ranks.
• nationranks - View a general overview of the different possible Nation ranks.
• map - View a chat based map of the town world land around you.
• mark - Toggle on or off the plot borders within the town world.

/town

• - View information about your current town if you are in one.
• help - View the /town command help.
• [town] - View information about the given town.
• here - View information about the town you are currently stood in, if there is one.
• list - View a list of the current towns.
• residents
  
  • - View a list of residents in your own town.
  • [town] - View a list of residents in the given town.
• online
  
  • - View a list of residents in your own town who are online.
  • [town] - View a list of residents in the given town who are online.
• perms
  
  • - View your town's default permissions.
  • raw - View specific information about all of the individual default permissions in your town.
• new [name] - Create a new town where you are stood, if you have permission and the funds.
• join [town] - Send a join request to the given town. This must then be approved by any town staff online if the town is not 'Open'.
• accept [player] - For use by town staff to accept a request from the given player if they have already made one.
• leave - Leave your current town. This will cause you to lose all of your existing town land permanently.
• approved
  
  • - View those towns which are approved to purchase land directly next to your town.
  • add [town] - Approve the given town.
  • remove [town] - Remove approval from the given town.
• blocked
  
  • - View those players who have been blocked from your town.
  • add [player] - Block the given player from your town.
  • remove [player] - Unblock the given player.
• kick [player] - For use by town staff to kick a resident from a town. This will forcefully remove all of their land too.
• spawn
  
  • - Teleport to the spawn of your town.
  • [town] - Teleport to the spawn of the given town for a fee.
• claim
  
  • - For use by town staff to claim a brand new chunk for the town at the price displayed.
  • outpost - For town staff to claim a new outpost in the spot they are currently stood. Will claim the plot for the town and add a new outpost.
• withdraw [amount] - For use by town staff to withdraw money from the town account.
• deposit [amount] - Deposit the given amount into your current town.
• outposts
  
  • - View a list of outposts owned by your current town.
  • [town] - View a list of outposts owned by the given town.
• outpost
  
  • [outpost] - Teleport to the given outpost, either a number of the name.
  • [town] [outpost] - Teleport to the given outpost owned by the given town, either a number or the name of the outpost.
• ranks
  
  • - View those players who are staff within your town.
  • help - Get help with the ranks commands.
  • set [player] [CoMayor/SubMayor/Assistant/Architect/None] - Set the town rank of the given player.
  • remove [player] - Remove any rank from the given player.
• set
  
  • mayor [player] - For use by the existing mayor to change the town mayor to the given resident.
  • name [name] - For use by town staff to change the town name to the given name.
  • spawn - For use by town staff to change the town spawn to the current location you are stood in. Can be moved to anywhere within your town land.
  • public [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether players can easily access the spawn of your town and outposts.
  • open [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not players get automatically accepted as a new resident or not.
  • mobs [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not by default hostile mobs are enabled within the town.
  • animals [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not by default animals are enabled within the town.
  • farm
    
    • crops [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not crops are considered under farming permissions by default in the town.
    • trees [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not trees are considered under farming permissions by default in the town.
    • animals [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not actions on animals are considered under farming permissions by default in the town.
    • kill [on/off] - For use by town staff to toggle whether or not killing animals is considered under farming permissions by default in the town.
  • outpost [name/number]
    
    • location - For use by town staff to change the location of the given outpost to the spot they are currently stood in. Can be used anywhere in existing town land, doesn't have to be near the existing location.
    • name - For use by town staff to clear any name set on the outpost.
    • name [name] - For use by town staff to change the name to the given name.
  • perm
    
    • on - Turn on all town default permissions for all permission groups.
    • off - Turn off all town default permissions for all permission groups.
    • [build/switch/farm] [on/off] - Turn on or off the given permission for all permission groups.
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [on/off] - Turn on or off all permissions for the given permission group.
      
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [build/switch/farm] [on/off] - Turn on or off the given permission for the given permission group.
      

/resident

• - View information about yourself in relation to towns.
• help - Get help about the resident commands.
• [player] - View information about the given player
• builders
  
  • list - View a list of your town builders.
  • add [player] - Add the given player as a resident builder for towns.
  • remove [player] - Remove the given player from being a builder of yours for towns.
• perms
  
  • - View your personal default permissions.
  • raw - View specific information about all of the individual default permissions you have set.
• set
  
  • farm
    
    • crops [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not crops are considered under farming permissions by default in your personal plots. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
    • trees [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not trees are considered under farming permissions by default in your personal plots. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
    • animals [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not actions on animals are considered under farming permissions by default in your personal plots. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
    • kill [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not killing animals is considered under farming permissions by default in your personal plots. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
  • perm
    
    • on - Turn on all personal default permissions for all permission groups.
    • off - Turn off all personal default permissions for all permission groups.
    • reset - Reset all personal default permissions for all permission groups, to use the town defaults instead.
    • [build/switch/farm] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off the given permission for all permission groups. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off all permissions for the given permission group. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
      
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [build/switch/farm] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off the given permission for the given permission group. Reset makes you use your town's defaults.
      

/plot

• help - Get help about the plot commands.
• claim - Buy the plot you are currently stood on for the price it is for sale for. You can only claim plots in your own town or embassies in other towns.
• unclaim - Remove your ownership of the plot you are currently stood in if it's yours, or if you're town staff remove the owner of another person's plot.
• price - Find the price of the current plot you're stood in if it's for sale by the town.
• forsale [price] - Set the plot up for sale at the price given.
• notforsale - Stop the plot being for sale if it was.
• perms
  
  • - View the permissions of the current plot.
  • raw - View specific information about all of the individual permissions the plot has set.
• highlight - Outline the edge of the current plot using particles of smoke.
• set
  
  • reset - For use by town staff to reset all town aspects the plot, including the price, name, permissions, spawning settings, farming settings, etc. won't effect blocks or locks.
  • normal - For use by town staff to change the plot type back to being normal.
  • shop - For use by town staff to change the plot type to be a shop.
  • embassy - For use by town staff to change the plot type to be an Embassy. Cannot be done if the plot already has an owner.
  • name [name] - Change the name of the plot to the given name.
  • mobs [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not by default hostile mobs are enabled within the plot. Reset causes this to use your town's default setting.
  • animals [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not by default animals are enabled within the plot. Reset causes this to use your town's default setting.
  • farm
    
    • crops [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not crops are considered under farming permissions. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
    • trees [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not trees are considered under farming permissions. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
    • animals [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not actions on animals are considered under farming permissions. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
    • kill [on/off/reset] - Toggle whether or not killing animals is considered under farming permissions. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
  • perm
    
    • on - Turn on all permissions for all permission groups.
    • off - Turn off all permissions for all permission groups.
    • reset - Reset all permissions for all permission groups, to use your personal or town defaults instead.
    • [build/switch/farm] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off the given permission for all permission groups. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off all permissions for the given permission group. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
      
    • [all/builders/residents/allies] [build/switch/farm] [on/off/reset] - Turn on or off the given permission for the given permission group. Reset makes you use your personal or town's defaults.
      

/nation

• - View details about your current town's nation if it has one.
• help - Get help for the nation commands.
• [nation] - View information about the given Nation.
• list - View a list of all of the Nations.
• capital
  
  • - Visit the spawn of your nation capital (capital town). There may be a fee.
  • [nation] - Visit the spawn of the given nation. There may be a fee.
• ranks
  
  • - View information about your Nation's staff.
  • set [player] [Assistant/None] - For use by Nation staff, change the given player the nation rank you give.
  • remove [player] - For use by Nation staff, remove any ranks from the given player.
• online - View a list of those online residents who are in a town which is in your Nation.
• join [nation] - For use by town staff to request to join the given Nation.
• accept [town] - For use by nation staff to accept a request by a town to join the nation.
• leave - For use by town staff to leave the Nation they are currently in.
• kick [town] - For use by Nation staff to kick the given town from the Nation.
• withdraw [amount] - For use by Nation staff to withdraw money from the Nation.
• deposit [amount] - Deposit money into the Nation you are currently part of.
• set
  
  • name [name] - For use by Nation staff to change the name of the Nation.
  • capital [town] - For use by nation staff to change the Capital town of the Nation, this will also change the King to be the mayor of that town.

Basically for anyone who wants to make a sheep farm for wool purpose, under the new system of noobstowny anyone can kill your animals that you have for public wool use. In order to repopulate you would have to breed more, there is a five minute breed timer per sheep. If you had 20 sheep thats 100 minutes to repopulate.. who wants to waste their time doing that for someone to be able to kill them a minute later? I suggest adding a kill perm(toggleable) to the animal farm type so that people cant kill your wool farm and save you time!In towns^
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Firstly I appreciate the suggestion it's something which if there is enough demand we could definitely consider but you can already avoid the problem even without this new feature you're suggesting. For example you could:

• Store a backup of sheep in an area with animal farming off which could then be used in the case that you get someone killing them rather than shearing,
• Use spawn eggs (although they are rare) you could use some eggs to get a few more sheep to make your breeding faster),
• Use a spawner itself, these can be purchased in-game using Noobz using /spawners, then there would be literally no issue if people killed or sheared it wouldn't matter,
• Make use of the 'blocking' feature coming in Noobstowny which would allow you to stop people who abuse your farms from using them again in the future.

I am willing to implement this if there is enough demand, but it really seems like a duplicate feature for something you could already avoid. We'll wait to see how the poll goes.

Also just to be slightly overcritical of your 100 minutes for 20 sheep, it would in theory if you were doing it efficiently only take around 45 minutes to get to 20 sheep, and you could dramatically speed that up if you feed them and let them graze. Here's a table explaining how that works (assuming it takes 5 minutes per breeding and 20 minutes for a sheep to grow up) :

Minutes in	Adult Sheep	Baby Sheep	Total Sheep
0	2	1	3 (2 adults and the first baby)
5	2	2 (bred 1)	4
10	2	3 (bred 1)	5
15	2	4 (bred 1)	6
20	3 (1 baby has grown up now)	4 (1 grew up, but a new one was bred)	7
25	4 (next oldest baby grows up)	5 (the 1 baby which grew up has gone, but 2 new ones now made from the new adults)	9
30	5 (next baby grows up)	6 (baby grows up but 2 new ones)	11
35	6 (grows up)	8 (another baby grows up but 3 made now)	14
40	7 (another one grows up)	11	18
45	9 (2 grow up now since we started making 2 per 5 minutes 20 minutes ago)	13 (the 11 from 40 minutes less 2 which grew up, but 4 from breeding)	22

And it would just get faster and faster as you wanted more.

If anyone has any feedback on the suggestion though please make it, I'd love to know what everyone thinks about it.

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 May 2016 were as follows:

• Othyem (+20k)
• SweetCrazyOne (+20k)
• eboniics (+20k)
• WarriorBen (+20k)
• Prof_Templeton
• MagicMan27 (+10k)
• MeriLizzie (+10k)
• sir_Andrew99876
• ButterfliRose (+20k)
• San57x100 (+20k)

They've all won themselves the money prizes plus Othyem has earned the rare head for being the top voter once again Can no one knock him off the top spot ?. 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.

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

Thanks for listening to us today Lawrence. It's much better now. I just have to get over my obsessive use of the elipsis...

You should be able to use dots "......." as much as you want now . Obviously don't spam though .

The stage 2 of this change has now been put in place. If anyone notices any issues or problems please let me know, not likely to be a problem though .

What happens if a player asks to join a town and no one is online at the time?  Will that request show up to the town staff when they log on?

If a player tries to join a town when there aren't any town staff online for that town then it will tell them to try and join again later. Like this:

As you are hopefully aware by now, for almost the past year now I've been working on the new town system for the server; Noobstowny. This has been an enormous project which has taken me hundreds of hours to work on, we're really nearing a point of release now though, as explained in a previous post we will be releasing it this Summer!
 
As part of our plan we wanted to completely rebuild Towny such that we'd be able to support our own features and fix bugs much faster than we could do if we continued to use the existing third-party plugin, it was however our plan to make the system work in a very similar way so that most commands are exactly the same, if you know how to use Noobstowny then hopefully it won't be much of a change at all.

Despite it being very similar to Towny we do however still have quite a number of changes which I'd love to discuss with you all, you can find a list of some of the bigger ones at https://www.noobscraft.com/noobstowny/ (just click on the heading image and the content will expand). The page is quite long, it's a lot of information and reading. I really would recommend you read it all though as there are a few important new features and changes you need to be aware of as the changes may directly effect you. These changes definitely aren't set in stone though, I am more than open to your feedback and ideas about them, please feel free to moan or praise them; we want Noobstowny to be something everyone wants us to move forward to so the changes need to be what the majority want, so things in that list can and might change. That also isn't a completely full list of the changes either, there are far too many small things to list, but they are the big ones which are likely to be polarising, cool or require your attention.  There will be a detailed and full guide for how to use all of the new features and commands coming just before the release which will be the final changes list.

We will be releasing Noobstowny before the name changing update and other larger Summer things to ensure minimal issues arise as we update each time. So initial update explained below will only be for Noobstowny, not the other Summer things yet!

Finally I'd like to announce our planned release date for Noobstowny! The server will go down for the update at around 7pm BST on the 24 of June (What's that in my timezone?)! We will then work on transitioning over and will release later that night or early Saturday morning in the UK, we can't give a time for when we'll be back online since we don't know exactly how long the change over will take. But we will be going down to begin the update at around 7pm BST.

This is an enormous update for the server and I really hope you like what we've got planned, but please do give any honest feedback you've got on the changes available at the page linked above. I look forward to hearing your feedback and I hope you enjoy it once we've changed over; really not long to wait now!