"Noobstown" soon?

Ah ha! I didn't mention the word soon on purpose so you can't blame me for thinking it might be "soon". Not likely to be very soon, but definitely on the plans now.

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Well, whenever its nighttime and I'm near the town borders, stray skellies or ten shoot arrows at me ):

And I've nearly died from getting hit by them. Is there any way to stop these projectiles from going through?
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I can understand the reasoning for wanting this, but because there is a really simple way for town staff to avoid this for their residents, I don't see a major need for it. If the town buys enough land around the edge of their town (or don't put popular areas right at the border) then the skeletons shooting wouldn't be an issue for you, because hopefully they would despawn before reaching you, or wouldn't be able to reach that distance.

We are still a survival server and towns just offer some protection, they aren't there to make you invincible; there are many dangers within towns which can still hurt you.

If you're not current town staff this might be something you could discuss with them regarding extending the border or possibly putting up a wall. Or if it's your own land you could do that yourself as long as your town allows it.

Thanks for the suggestion though, even though I've put it down right now I am in the process of completely redeveloping the Town plugin to resolve existing bugs. This is something I will consider during the development, it's just not likely to be something we'll implement in this version of the Town plugin, sorry for now. If it is introduced then I'll try to remember to bring it up to you, but it would definitely be in the release information once it's ready if included.

Thanks Larry I might start one in a few months but I heard I needed permission to  record your server

Not at all, if you want to record feel free. It might be nice to mention it to existing people who are online before you do so; but you are free to record as you want. If you do end up publishing any recorded content it would be nice if you could refer/link people back to our server too though.

Quick replies? You mean /r or...?

I assume he is referring to the box at the bottom of site topics which allows you to enter a reply without having to go to a different page. (Scroll down a bit and you'll see it )

It was already available to everyone through your site look and layout settings I just updated it so everyone would see it by default now rather than it have to be enabled, so some of you might have already been using it which is why it was never announced. Glad you noticed it though; a very useful feature

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 can now vote for the skin you like the most. Vote at https://www.noobscraft.com/server/skin-competition-vote/

Sorry for the late response, I'm just working through recent suggestions in bulk now.

...Please, consider making it rain less often.  It seems like it rains all the time!...

We haven't adjusted how often or not it rains on the server, that's just how often/long it randomly rains for in Minecraft. We don't really want to adjust things when there isn't a need for it, I'd love to hear other opinions on this though.

...We should have a Princess Bride theme month.  It might sound cheesy, but I think it would be awesomely fun...

As I tried explaining in a different suggestion we've tried so far to make the themes as general on topics as possible so that everyone (even those who might not have specific knowledge on a topic) can take part.

Princess Bride is a very specific topic (I've just Googled what it actually is since I'd not heard of it ) and obviously there are general themes from within that which might be able to become a monthly theme themselves, possibly with quests that could be associated to Princess Bridge's plot or similar. So if you've got any ideas for how to generalise it slightly more I'd love to hear them.

I will however still try to bring this up when we're next planning out the themed months. Thanks for the idea.

So here is my little suggestion/rant about vipshop , why call it vipshop if only vip+'s can use it? Like this makes it very confusing, so I was just wondering if like you guys could like change the name of it to /vip+shop or let all vips use it. idk its a dumb suggestion but I need to get it out of my head lol.

Sorry for the really late response (only a month late ), I'm just working through all of the suggestions now.

For simplicity we excluded the "+". Getting the plus character is hard for some users and isn't really needed to put across what the command does; we do try to keep commands as simple as possible. I can understand some of your confusion though, it does however mention when purchasing VIP/VIP+ what the upgrades included are, so hopefully people will understand this before purchasing.

...my friend got banned for almost a year so I wanted to make him unbanned...

If you know of a player who has been banned but who feels they've been banned incorrectly you can suggest to them that they appeal by posting a new topic at https://www.noobscraft.com/ban-appeal/. If they have already done so and that has not been successful then there isn't anything else they can do to get that account unbanned. We make the decisions when the information is fresh and the issues have just been dealt with, it would be very hard in many cases to look back on issues which happened many months ago and as such appeals can only be made once.

I'm sorry you feel disappointed by this but it is their actions which will have lead to the ban not us for acting upon it. We're just enforcing the rules we have set to ensure the game is safe, fair and fun for as many people as possible.

Due to the recent actions of certain players we'd like to reiterate some specifics in regards to those who have/use multiple accounts. If you don't use more than one account and never intend to this is mostly irrelevant to you.

On Noobstown we allow people who own multiple Minecraft accounts to connect to them individually and play on each independently; we'll treat each account as its own entity and as such they'll all be entitled to take part in our events and claim prizes. That's irrespective of if the same person is playing on many different accounts.

We have however never allowed people to connect to Noobstown using accounts which they do not own; the use of accounts which you do not own is not only against the Noobstown rules; but can be considered illegal in certain places including the UK, the EU, and the USA. If you are caught using an account which you do not own we will act.

As a result of the actions of certain individuals recently we're therefore also introducing a new policy regarding the number of accounts which can connect from the same household in a period of time. This limit is more than enough for any legitimate user to have their whole family play together; if you aren't abusing it's extremely unlikely you'll ever notice this change. If however you reach this limit you (and every account you have ever connected with) will be automatically be banned from the server and we will investigate your account activity and act accordingly.

If you have recently been using accounts which you do not have appropriate access to (and we haven't already been in contact) now is your final chance to own up through PMing me on the site. If you're caught from this point onwards the action will be more serious.

If you are simply playing with accounts you or your family own then there isn't anything you need to worry about; this change is to tackle those abusing the rules and to ensure everyone is aware of our stance. If you have any concerns or questions regarding this please contact me or reply and I'll be sure to answer; we don't want you to be concerned.

- 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.

Explosions on Noobstown don't do any block damage and as such Blast Mining wouldn't really do anything of use; hence it's disabled.