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The results from December and the next month's entry information will be posted in the next few days.

I tried to put one of my spawners on auction and it wasn't letting me, it just showed the spawner as a question mark in a black box? When will this be fixed?

This has now been fixed, you should be able to see and sell them.

So spawners are only allowed in Towny, because you said "town"?

As explained by others but I'll just confirm, you can place spawners in any land you own, but be aware once you've placed it you cannot then pick it back up again. Also be aware anyone can break them if your permissions allow, so be careful when choosing a location.

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1. Spawners will only spawn up until there's 15 mobs in a chunk, as there's a 15 mob per chunk limit [so I believe], yes? So as soon as you kill off the mobs within the chunk they should start spawning again?

2. If you have a spawner in one chunk and a second spawner in another chunk directly beside it will they interfere with each other? As in, if they spawn 15 in one chunk would it cause it not to spawn in the other chunk? Or anything like that at all?

3. How quickly do these spawners spawn on the server? I remember in V5 it could take a ridiculous amount of time for something to spawn. We had one spawner per chunk in a 2x4 grid and it could take minutes on end for one of the spawners to spit out a mob. It made it pathetically slow to get anything useful out of the mobs there, especially important leather.

4. If two spawners are in the same chunk would they both spawn until the 15 mob limit is reached or will only one work?

5. Do spawners need to be at a certain Y value, or have dirt/grass around them in order to work? I also presume they need to be lit up unlike with hostile mob spawners?

P.S. .....Why bat spawners? They don't really do anything, they don't even drop xp. So I'm kind of curious why the addition of that, haha.

• Mobs from spawners do take into account the overall mob limit for the worlds; once the limit for either the chunk the spawner is in or the world is reached no more will spawn.
• You might be best of spacing them out if you're concerned about this, however it isn't likely to be an issue. The same information as my answer for question 1 applies. Also take into account though that spawners don't actually spawn the mob directly on the location of the spawner, so if you're going for maximum efficiency you'll need to take into account the possible spawning spots and where the mobs actually can get to.
• Spawners spawn at vanilla Minecraft rates currently, but will simply not spawn anything or will spawn only a limited number of mobs if the world or nearby mob limit has been reached. Don't take this as they will constantly spawn like a normal spawner though; the area and world limits are constantly automatically adjusted according to a variety of factors and as a result you may see limited spawns even when you think they should be fine, similarly you may see excessive spawns when you'd not expect it.
• The spawners do take into account the overall chunk, area and world limits so be aware of this when placing them near each other. If the limit has been reached then nothing will spawn from them irrespective of other nearby spawners, if it has not been reached then spawns will continue as normal (read my answer to question 3 for that).
• They are simply vanilla Minecraft animal/mob spawners and work exactly the same for the requirements, most animal spawners require a layer of grass to allow the mob to spawn onto, this is true for these spawners yes. As far as I'm aware there currently isn't any Minecraft requirement for position in the world itself as long as there is the correct lighting and a valid spot for them to spawn.

Regarding bats; why not? They're a fun animal and some people might enjoy them randomly flying around their base or similar. You could make an aviary or something else fun.

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Just one question: Why not make spawners that can spawn hostile mobs?

We've selected to not allow you to get hostile mob spawners for a number of reasons, including:

• The ability to sell a lot of selected monster drops to the /shop.
• Monsters are already extremely easy to get; simply go out somewhere at night or go into a dark area and you'll find loads of them.
• It sort of removes some of the fun and excitement of finding a monster spawner itself if you can simply obtain one and place it.
• The efficiency of a custom placed spawner/spawners in the perfect spot would greatly exceed a lot of the current setups for existing hostile mob spawners. You'd be able to perfectly position a number of them near each other in order to "farm" perfectly with absolutely no risk, this just isn't something we want to see, coming across a number of hostile ones near each other currently is a rare and possibly dangerous occurrence.

Part of the reason we've added animal spawners is the fact that animals don't always respawn as you might want them but this isn't true for monsters; they are constantly spawning all around in dark areas/at night, the need for them as a spawner just isn't there.
That's not to say that in the future we definitely won't add them though.

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I was wondering what the process would be to reset chunks claimed by a player who has
A. Has shown little to no activity for over a month
B. The claimed area is empty of structures

In the wilderness players have up to 3 months (providing they are a member) to come back and start playing again (irrespective of if there is a building on it or not), after that if you notice some land get in contact with a member of staff and we'll look to getting their land cleared. If you know the player is a guest then they have only 2 weeks or their land can be reset, so if you know they are a guest please PM me their name and I'll sort things for you.

If you are referring to towns, you will have to check with your town rules and town staff.

Hope that clears things up for you.

Sorry this took so long to respond to.

I was thinking maybe more visit sets could be add to have more than one for those who have a shops in towns and have shop plots and maybe if you wanna show off a build.

This is something we too have considered however the introduction of multiple visits might cause confusion when doing the commands. Currently the visiting is very simple you simply need to know the player's name and you can go to their land; adding multiple visits would add a second layer to the command where you would then have to select from their locations, which makes the visiting more complicated than we'd planned.

I do have some plans relating to the Chunk of the Month competition though which should free up your visit if you're concerned about that.

Could we have a hoe in /kit tools???

Hoes are so infrequently used that they aren't really needed in '/kit tools' people would be much more likely to just discard them as they're not needed as often as the other tools. Once you've become setup on Noobstown your reliance on /kit tools should also not be as high as you should in theory have materials to create farms and upgrade away from the stone tools.

Just to keep you updated we're still planning to update to 1.8 as soon as possible. The current versions of the server software aren't as safe/stable as we'd like right now, we will continue to check them and will update as soon as we think it's good enough for Noobstown! Sorry for the delays, as always these things are unpredictable, but we haven't forgotten it is still our plan to update as soon as we can.

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The deadline for setting the visit is November 31, but my American calender only has 30 days in it.  I didn't realize England used a different calender!     Learn something new everyday!

Haha thanks for pointing that out, sorted! Visits need setting by the end of today (GMT)!

IGN:gamerguy172

WHY?:I want to make a town were players new and experienced alike can enjoy themselves.

EXPERIENCE: I a was a assistant in Maple-forge in V5.

TIME:I have way to much free time so I plan to be online often XD.

PLAN:I hope to start a town for the community to enjoy be a part of.

Agreement

I, (gamerguy172), accept the liability of the role and all of the citizens in my town.

Accepted.

IGN:tomisbomb789

WHY?:I'd like to have a town to make new friends and be more interactive with the noobscraft community. Having a toen is fun and a great way to make new minecraft buddies, while getting more involved with the community. It's also A great way to give back, by having gi e aways, or helping a fellow town member.

EXPERIENCE:I have owned 2 towns, Each town was successful, the first one more than the 2nd, only because we had lost some great assistants.

TIME: I have plenty of time, I'm home all day

PLAN:My plan is to build a large community with big buildings, like a city, some custom forrest areas, some sandy areas, etc.. I want my residents to interact with one another, so maybe have town get togthers or something in the lines of that.

Agreement

I, tomisbomb789, accept the liability of the role and all of the citizens in my town.

Accepted

IGN: EliteMustangGT

WHY?: I would like to create a town where members are free to join at anytime and be able to show their building skills freely. I have been with noobscraft for a while now and I would like to give back to the community in which I enjoy playing.

EXPERIENCE: I was a mayor in V5 just for a couple of months before the update for V6. I have been in Pallet-Town as a sub-mayor and understand the responsibility it takes to make a efficient town.

TIME: I am online almost every day (when I am not working).

PLAN: Plan to build a castle and have plot on the bottom of a hill. I currently have the 900,000 nbz to start a town.

Agreement

I, (EliteMustangGT), accept the liability of the role and all of the citizens in my town.

Also accepted.

This is a guide to the updated salvage since there has been a little confusion with how it works. I'll write it a bit like a FAQ type thing with questions and answers.

What has changed?
In relation to the old system of salvage (pre-November 2014) lots has changed. Everyone now has the ability to salvage irrespective of your repair level, there are also now abilities to salvage damaged items and get enchants back from items.

I already had repair 1000 with better salvage why change it?
We have to keep up-to-date with plugins, we don't directly create McMMO we simply use it on our server, this means we have to go with any changes the developers of it implement, including this change. This change is however a lot fairer as you work up towards getting a better salvage rather than it randomly starting at an arbitrary number. Salvage can also now be much more powerful with the ability to restore and gain enchants from items.

What is Salvage?
Salvage allows you to get back some (or all) of the items required to craft certain items by clicking the item against a gold block. It will break apart the item into its components, some of which will drop on the floor for you. The higher your salvage level the more (and better) items you'll get back.

Who can salvage?
Everyone is now able to perform salvage, no matter what repair level you are!

How to I level Salvage?
Salvage is a child skill (meaning it is calculated as an average of other (parent) skills) of repair and fishing. So to level up salvage you need to work on repair and fishing.

How come I only get 1 item back?
Salvage is a progressive skill, so the higher your level the more if gives back, basically meaning that you need to be a very high level before it begins to give multiple items back.

How come it says I need a higher level?
This is likely referring to damaged items. In lower levels of salvage you can only salvage full (completely undamaged) items. As you level up you'll unlock advanced salvage which will then allow you to salvage even damaged things!

What is advanced salvage?
Unlocked at a certain point; advanced salvage allows you to salvage back damaged items. As with normal salvage the higher your level the more you get back.

What is arcane salvage?
When salvaging an enchanted item arcane salvage gives a percentage chance for you to get back either a part of full enchant back from the item in the form of an enchantment book. You can then use the book to enchant something else. The higher the level the increased chance of getting the enchant (or as close to the enchant) as possible.

If you have anymore questions please feelf free to ask them, and I can add them to the above list.

I was recently looking into the Minecraft EULA situation and relised that Noobstown is not following the rules. Now someone please tell me I'm wrong, but looking at one of the blog posts on the Mojang website (https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation/) it says that real life money shouldn't be exchanged for ingame money and that it shouldn't affect gameplay.

This is where Noobstown comes in. The donation store (http://external.noobscraft.com/donate/) is currently offering money for real life cash AND this affects the gameplay. So does this mean Noobstown is going against the EULA? If so I hope somethings can be ammended.
I hope I have made a mistake and this gets corrected Thoughts?

As explained here: https://www.noobscraft.com/server/cloudsquid-eula-information/ We have no plans to change the way we deal with donations. We are only able to survive due to the donations players give us, unlike many servers we don't personally take any money made from these; all money is fed back into running the games we provide.

Mojang themselves haven't updated the user agreement as they claimed they would and as a result the current situation is a legal minefield, we currently have no plans to change anything until we're directly asked to.

You don't need to worry about these things though, we will keep you informed if we have any plans to change anything, and even then no previous donations will be reverted. Your best bet currently is to read the post I linked to above.

Some of you may have noticed that over the last few days several small things have changed on the site. This is all in work to moving over to using HTTPS on as much of our Noobscraft.com public site as possible! Starting earlier today most of Noobscraft.com will now run over a secure connection. This change isn't really likely to effect your everyday use of the site, but it is an important change with moving forward in internet standards!

Wondering what HTTPS is?

If you notice/experience any issues with this please PM me or reply below.

Please note: There are no changes to the Noobstown Minecraft server connection or how you access the site.