Just another small update to let you know that changes made to the server yesterday have meant that /town and /t commands are now possible in all worlds and not just the town one!

You can now get to your town spawn, view a list of the towns and almost all town commands anywhere on Noobstown! The commands themselves haven't changed; the change is that you can do them anywhere now!

We are still working on a new version of the Town system, but this change is for between now and then .

Again I hope this is useful. If you've got any questions please let me know.

If you notice any issues with this change you must report them.

As you are probably aware: for quite sometime now we've had a lot of different plans going at once. It has lead to some delays in the development as the work has been spread out rather than focusing on one project to completion. We've had lots of great suggestions and bugs reported to us and we plan to implement/fix a large number of them. Sadly because of how we operate I'm the only person available to directly develop these changes for Noobstown and as a result they're likely to take time to be slowly added. It is because of this delay that I've created a new feature for you to let us (mainly me, but the rest of the team too) know which of things you'd like to see sooner!

By visiting www.noobscraft.com/work and voting on things you can let me and the rest of the team know what work items you'd actually like to see sooner and also things which aren't quite as important for now. The plan is for me to work on things which are higher up the list until they're complete and then slowly work down; as things get completed they'll be removed from this list.

When you visit the page it might seem quite confusing but it's really quite simple. Each possible work item is listed on the page (ordered by items you've not voted on first, then by the current score it has). Clicking on the item will expand it to view the full description as well as any details about it. To the left of each item is an option for you to vote that item up or down:

It will expand the up/down arrow to allow you to pick whether you want to give between +3 and -3 to the score. Your choice of score should be based on whether you'd like to see it being worked on sooner or later (Not based on whether you agree with the idea, everything listed is definitely coming it's just a matter of time), so if you want to see it sooner give it a positive amount and then items which can wait longer give a lower amount.

You might think just giving everything the maximum or same amount is going to speed things up, but that's not going to help, if you do so you'll effectively be wasting your votes; I can only work on one thing at a time so just voting everything up or down won't effect the order. Try to give items a mix of points depending on what you'd honestly like to come sooner.

You're free to change your vote at any time so don't worry about that. Plus the score will never go below 0; so if you give it a negative amount that will simply negate any positive points which might be added in the future if it's below 0. If you want to see the order of the items update after you've voted simply reload the page.

As more suggestions come in I'll be adjusting the list as well as posting updates here and directly to the work items on that page, so be sure to keep checking it for updates. For now if you've suggested something or reported something which we agreed would be added and don't see it listed please let me know and I'll add it to the list. Some items have been merged together since they're quite small so be aware of that too.

If there is anything you don't quite understand listed on the page or how it works please just ask and I'll adjust the wording or explain it again.

The link again is: www.noobscraft.com/work.

We look forward to your feedback,
- The Noobscraft Team

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'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.

This topic has been moved to Support.

https://www.noobscraft.com/index.php?topic=17633.0

UPDATE: The downtime is hopefully over. More Info

We are aware of the current unexpected downtime. We're sorry about this and are working to get the server back up as soon as possible.

Until then you could join others on our TeamSpeak server (voice.noobstown.com). Again sorry, we're looking to sort this as soon as we can. More information/updates to follow.

Just a quick update for you all;

The mining world, nether and the end have now been reset!

Plus the Noobween candy is now available on the server! Simply continue on with your playing as normal and you'll notice they come at random; just like last year. Plus as with last year there are more surprises lurking...

Stay tuned for more information about Noobween events and updates they'll be posted over the coming days.

Just to let everyone know that Withers are now back on Noobstown, you no longer need to use the villager to trade in your Wither Skeleton heads for a Nether star; you can now fight the Wither boss once again. As always this is only in the Nether and the End to protect the worlds though.

Enjoy this; I'm working through a big list of fixes and other features so more things will hopefully be coming soon too!

Worlds Reset
The temporary worlds including the mining world, the nether and the end have all be reset today for the month of May. Sorry about the delay in doing these.

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Top Voters
As normal when we reset the worlds we've also collated together the top voters for April! As normal they will receive a bonus reward on top of the 2,500Nbz for each vote they cast! They are as follows:

• Mprint
• gamergirlxo
• hoppytoadbob
• biggiebill
• eboniics
• TweeksTweek
• Gigabyteme1
• Halcyon13
• sir_Andrew99876
• warzedan

The bonus prizes are as follows:
The top 10 voters of each month will be rewarded extra for their efforts.
Rank 1 - 50,000 Nbz
Rank 2 - 40,000 Nbz
Rank 3 - 30,000 Nbz
Rank 4 - 25,000 Nbz
Rank 5 - 20,000 Nbz
Rank 6 - 15,000 Nbz
Rank 7 - 12,000 Nbz
Rank 8 - 10,000 Nbz
Rank 9 -  8,000 Nbz
Rank 10 - 5,000 Nbz

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Towny Issues
In regards to the issues with Towny, we are completely aware of these and are working for a solution which is stable and safe for the server, the security of your items and blocks is extremely important to us and as a result a full fix may take a bit longer to be put in place. We're truly sorry that it is taking so long to sort these issues out and we're aware of the effect it is possibly having on gameplay. More information about this will be posted as we become aware or as it's fixed.

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Future Updates
In future news although it may seem like things have been progressing slowly over the last few weeks/months I personally have been working very hard on updates to a large number of different aspects of both Noobstown and the Noobscraft.com site (sorry for being so vague but more information will be released as it gets closer to them being ready for use) and these updates will hopefully become used actively in the coming weeks and months. We're still working to make things much nicer for everyone and to improve the community.

This guide will outline some of the information and commands you will need to know for owning and controlling your wilderness land.

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What is wilderness land?
Wilderness land is land owned by players in the Wilderness world, it is protected from all users apart from those who are granted permission to act on land. Inorder to effectively build in the wilderness world you will need to buy land and control it, because of this griefing won't be a problem, if you give someone the right to use/build/edit your land you do so at your own risk.

What is a chunk?
The Minecraft world is split into 16x16 block columns from which all blocks are located. Using the wilderness world, much like with towny you will own 16x16 areas from bedrock to sky-limit. To highlight the chunk you are currently in simply type /wild chunk highlight.

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Your Land
At any time you can type /wild chunks list to get a full list of all the land you own. Using this you can also teleport to your owned land using /wild chunks home [NUM] where the optional [NUM] is the chunk number.

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Map
Using /wild chunks map you can get a chat representation of the current Wilderness chunks around you. The different shapes and colours represent different states of chunk near you. This can be a useful feature to determine where to buy your next spot or to find out what land around you is actually owned.

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Other Land
All land which isn't set to be public, and you aren't an owner/builder will be locked from your building; you can only build in areas you have right to do so. If you want to know information about a chunk you can type /wild chunk info, and as previously explained you can highlight the borders of the chunk.

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Buying Land
Buying land/a chunk is simple, typing the command: /wild chunk buy will check if you are able to purchase the chunk you are currently standing in, from there you can then type /wild chunk buy confirm if you're allowed to buy the land and it is at a suitable price for you.

Most users will get their first 10 connected chunks for free (A connected chunk is one where in one of the directions you are directly located next to another chunk you own.) from there onwards the prices gradually increase as you own more land. If you decide you want to split away from your existing land you can do so without selling it, it will cost an extra fee though. As a member you'll also earn 1 free chunk for every 3 hours of gameplay on the server; you can find more information about that at Noobscraft.com/free, and using /wild free in-game.

Inorder to ensure that everyone has enough space to enjoy the wilderness you cannot purchase land which is too close to another user. (Apart from "Friends" which are explained later)

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Selling Land
Much like buying land, selling land can be done using /wild chunk sell and then confirming it with /wild chunk sell confirm. When you sell land you will remove all your rights to access any of the blocks in the land and will lose anything you've put in the chunk.

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Transferring Land
You can set up your land to be transferred to another player by typing /wild chunk transfer. This will set your land up for purchase by any of your friends; they will be able to then take the land from you (using /wild chunk buy) for a fee and the price of their next chunk. Once a friend of yours has purchased the land from you, you will no longer have any control of it, it will be given directly to them. Please be careful when doing this, you will lose your land! If once you have set a chunk up to be transferred you no longer wish to do it and you still own the chunk you can simply type the command again and any transfers will be cancelled.

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Managing Land
If at any point you want to lock a particular chunk you own so that your builders (explained later) don't have rights you can do so using /wild chunk lock. If you don't want to lock your chunk but want to make certain features public (everyone can do it) you can do so using /wild chunk public, from here you can choose what feature to toggle as explained in-game.

• Build = Give everyone builder rights. (Do it at your own risk)
• Herd = Give everyone the rights to interact with the animals on your land.
• Switch = Give everyone the right to open doors, use levers, buttons, etc.

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Allocating Builders
Builders are individuals who have full access to modify virtually all aspects of your chunk (apart from the permission allocation and ownership itself). They can break and place blocks and do most Minecraft actions on your land. To view your current builders you can type /wild builder list. You can add builders by typing /wild builder add [NAME] replacing [NAME] with the name of the player you want to be a builder, similarly you can remove them using /wild builder remove [NAME].

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Organisers
These are individuals who have full access to all of the units (explained later) on your land providing you haven't denied their access. Managing these people is very similar to your builders; use /wild organiser list to get a list of your current organisers. You can add organisers by typing /wild organiser add [NAME] replacing [NAME] with the name of the player you want to be an organiser, similarly you can remove them using /wild organiser remove [NAME].

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Friends
If you trust a few particular users you can "friend" them. You can view these players using /wild friend list. Adding a friend is easy using the command /wild friend add [NAME] replacing name with the player's name. You can remove friends using /wild friend remove [NAME]. Both of these commands will effect both you and the other individual. Becoming friends is not something to be taken lightly, doing so will allow them to purchase land directly next to yours, thus limiting your growth, it will however not give them building rights; you'll need to make them a builder as well to do that.

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Chests, Furnaces, etc.
For the purposes of keeping it simple any block where other items can be stored within it we're referring to as a "unit" (this replaces LWC in the wilderness and connects it all to your owned land). Commands relating to these blocks therefore being /wild unit. When you or and builder of your land first place any unit it is defaulted so only you, as the land owner, are able to access it. You can however change the access rights to give certain individuals or groups of individuals the right to access your units. Only you as the land owner are able to perform commands on a unit.

To act on a unit you must be directly facing it with your cross-hair over the block you want to act on, ensuring that no other blocks are in the way. To get information about a particular unit type the command /wild unit info.

By default anyone you have added as an Organiser (see above) is able to access all units you place on your land. Plus if a builder or another user places the unit themselves (having got permission to build on your land) they will automatically be granted access. You can toggle allowing your organisers access to the unit using /wild unit organisers while looking at the unit. Similarly you can allow/disallow your builders access using /wild unit builders. To see whether they currently have access use the info command above.

You can also give specific users who are able to access the unit; these will be given access irrespective of your organiser or builders settings. Just type /wild unit allow [NAME], it's a toggle so type it once to add them and then again to remove them.

If you want to you can also deny a specific users access, this will override any other groups they may be part of and block their access to a unit. To do this just do /wild unit deny [NAME]. They will be unable to then access that specific unit.

If you wanted to you could make the unit public; this would allow anyone to access it (apart from those in the deny list as explained above). To do this simply look at the unit and type /wild unit public, if at any point you no longer want it to be public you can type it again and it will reset.

At any point you can reset a unit back to its default settings by simply typing /wild unit reset. Once you have done this you can then check the permissions as explained above using the info command and set any you want to.

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Shortcuts
There are a lot of commands to type out using the Wilderness system, you can tab complete things, but if you want to do things quickly you can also use some of these shortcuts:

• '/wild home [number]' = '/wild chunks home [number]'
• '/wild mark' = '/wild chunks mark'
• '/wild buy' = '/wild chunk buy'
• '/wild sell' = '/wild chunk sell'
• '/wild map' = '/wild chunks map'
• '/wild go' = '/wild chunks go'
• '/wild list' = '/wild chunks list'
• '/wild free' = '/wild chunks free'

There are also hundreds of spelling variants for each of the commands, so hopefully things should be easy to use. If you don't understand anything just ask for support!

This topic has been moved to Suggestions & Ideas.

https://www.noobscraft.com/index.php?topic=16998.0

All our temporary worlds (mining, nether and end) have now been reset for January (sorry it's a little late). They are still using a 1.7 seed as we haven't updated yet.

More updates regarding the change to 1.8 will be released once we've got a more stable version where we feel safe updating.

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The totals are also in and the top voters for December last year have been counted and verified:

1ST Hexidecima
2ND gamergirlxo
3RD WarriorBen
4TH sir_Andrew99876
5TH EliteMustangGT
6TH TwistedLover
7TH cruisinkiy
8TH hoppytoadbob
9TH Halcyon13
10TH adam5979

The top 10 voters of each month will be rewarded extra for their efforts.

Rank 1 - 50,000 Nbz
Rank 2 - 40,000 Nbz
Rank 3 - 30,000 Nbz
Rank 4 - 25,000 Nbz
Rank 5 - 20,000 Nbz
Rank 6 - 15,000 Nbz
Rank 7 - 12,000 Nbz
Rank 8 - 10,000 Nbz
Rank 9 -  8,000 Nbz
Rank 10 - 5,000 Nbz

Congratulations to the winners. Remember voting is really easy just click the link on the homepage or in-game type /vote, it also helps out the server greatly! It's a great way to help out the server and earn yourself some quick and easy in-game money!

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December's Chunk of the Month winner and information about this months competition will be posted over the next few days.