»[Skyblock] 16 Suggestions + little rant

1) Re-enable gold farms. Just limit the number of pigmen at 1 moment to like 20 pigmen if lag is an issue. Funny how gold farms can be disabled once people have made them while regen walls in facs can't.

2) Increase animal and villager breeding caps. Perhaps tie it to rank or chunk-based limit rather than island based, de-spawning the number that go over? This one is my pet peve as places like survival have a per chunk basis, and people can claim more than 1 chunk but instead we get our entire islands for 15 villagers which is like 100 chunks. Surely animals and villagers don't cause that much lag, and measures can be made to prevent things like laggy auto chicken farms.

3) Fix challenges to make them more repeatable e.g. 64 mushrooms of each type instead of 18 mushroom stew, add /c c_all [challenge] which repeats the challenge as many times as possible, lift the 100 challenge repetitions limit for basic challenges like mushrooms or cactus. Just reduce the reward after 100 repetitions or something. If you want me to go into detail for every challenge I would be very happy to do so. This should really be one of the most important things to change, and as Lorddryst said down below even if it encourages mega farms it is what makes skyblock fun so the lower server capacity would be worth the extra active players.

4) INCREASE. MOB. SPAWNING. RATES. Thank god I was not late to the party, because if I was completing the monster hunter challenge and getting all those mob drops would take weeks without using spawner cages. I have been searching the nether for hours for a single ghast tear. No luck though. Let each island have its own mob cap, and make it a small cap for all I care because 10 is better than practically zero. Pet peve #2
Edit: Nvm, this is sorta fixed now

5) Add the mob stacking plugin that tibo made for factions / survival. Helps with the lag thus making room for more improvements.

6) Disable pvp in the nether for ~500 blocks around the nether spawn.

7) Disable all non-mob based damage for people visiting islands and disable the /tpa commands while near or in /warp pvp. Helps with tp killers.

8) Player / mob head plugin? Idk if it is needed but it would be fun.

9) Disable coarse dirt tilling exploit for regular dirt. I think you can still do it :/

10) Reduce hopper lag by only transferring items once every 4 ticks. Less lag = add more other suggestions = more fun.

Extras from comments below. Good job team!

11) add /is trust or /is coop.

12) /it (island talk), send a message to everyone on the island including visitors and /is chat, toggling your chat to only be directed to island teammates.

13) Balance donateshop. I know you want to make it so that your reward is directly proportional to the amount of money you spent i.e. titan = 350 Euros, donator = 5 Euros hence titan = 70x donator, but that is just stupid. Low ranks need to be buffed a little and / or higher ranks need to be nerfed a little. At least let a donator be able to buy a spawner. Its seriously 40 DC vs 3200 DC among other things; p2w on an insane scale. At worst it should be 160 DC vs 1600 DC. Most people who buy titan don't really care about that little extra stuff they get out of the 150 Euros upgrade to titan, instead they buy it cause they are filthy rich or want to support the server. OFC, money tops equality when it comes to gaming

14) Bring the end back, preferably reachable through one of the final challenges rewarding the player with 12 end portal block thingies

15) auction house / ah notifications when your item sells / expires. Also tells you if anything was sold or expired while you were offline

16) Bring lockette back

wow this is getting big

As it stands once you complete all of the challenges as I almost have, there is little to no reason or drive to play. The sheer number of limitations means that almost anything I would want to do, I can't do or it would have little to no benefit to the island's quality to do it. The only thing that would keep people there would be to stay in touch with other Skyblock players or build crazy awesome builds like an overworld (which I don't feel like doing again thanks to the fact that you can't repeat challenges thousands of times for dirt or sand).

I know the aim with all of these limitations and changes were designed to improve the capacity of the server, but there is no point in doing all of this if it will drive away all the players long-term. Normally I would keep playing skyblock at this point however for some odd reason I don't feel as enthusiastic to keep playing this reset.

If the old sky servers could handle this then I think that it should prove child's play for new servers to handle these suggestions considering practically everything is limited to reduce the server load. More suggestions are welcome.

Ask yourself, which is better: 50 players on average with a capacity for 200 or a full server with 100 slots? I know what one I would choose as a player and which one an owner should choose.

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@aXed please have a look at some of these suggestions.

 

11. Is trust!!!

 

I agree 100%, I've been thru 4 or 5 Skyblock resets now, and I do Applaud Axed and others for their awesome work, bringing us this server back, there are changes that need to be made.

The SPAWN limits are way too LOW. I've sat by and my enderman spawner for 12hrs and got 12 enderpearls, like how ridiculous is that. Guardian spawner is spitting out 1 guardian every 15-20min.

The 20 animal limit for the entire island is completely unreasonable, you can't even have 2 of every animal plus colored sheep with those kind of numbers. Turn off the non hostile mob spawning, everytime I get 20 animals because of natural spawning my auto animal farms stop completely nothing comes out of the spawners.

The 10 hoppers per spawn chunk I can live with but the fact that the hoppers, furnaces and brewing stands randomly stop working more than 20 times a day and have to be reset isn't acceptable. Please make some changes to improve this wonderful game.

I just wanted to finish on a more positive note by saying thank you very much for the hard work in bringing skyblock back lots of us appreciate it more than you know, we just need some fine tuning now to make it better.

 

Number 5 YES WE NEED THAT ! TOTALLY AGREE !

 

i belive they are nice tho u forgot 1

thing 13)Add /it again it=Island talk

 

I agree with many of the suggestions above, but theres more to add.

I think the challenges need to be improved, for example, we used to have challenges that would require an amount of cactus, and the reward would be sand. The current "Dye Maker" (32 cactus green for saplings) becomes useless after the second or third time you complete it.

We also need a form of party chat, I noticed the "/is teamchat" command, but it doesnt seem to work. Or it just needs to be explained if it is in fact functional, but nobody has figured it out yet.

Bring Lockette back? I know that you're capable of locking a chest with chestshop, but using lockette, you could lock a chest, but allow multiple names to have access to it, when chestshop limits the access to one player.

I'm wondering if it would be possible for /ah to notify you when your item sells/expires. A realtime notification would be great, also if you could be notified if something sold while you were offline, upon logging in.

Im assuming this will be happening at some point soon, but I'd like to see the end enabled, but have it accessable by completing a challenge like it used to be. But maybe limit building/mining in the end to Heros and above. Last skyblock, the end looked like complete shit.

Just a few minor suggestions, I know the server is new so I understand the bugs ect. I know its been said already, but thanks a lot @aXed , you're doing great!

 

11. Agree
-SoundMax

 

True, for a new guy to skyblock like me, who is used to playing factions, skyblock seems useless, challenges should be interesting and you know, challenging, half of the challenges I completed were because of kits lol, not saying that kits should be removed but maybe challenges should be made better, that would actually motivate people to play, cause I personally don't know what I'm doing in skyblock lmao.

 

12. Make it so that donators can buy a spawner from the donateshop.
13.Water bug... sometimes if you press the spacebar twice while in water you'll boost up out of it... this can cause problems for people who are building...
theres probably more but i dont remember...

 

+1
to everything above, we need /it or /ptk back again, and shorten the /is warp
command to /is w, and alots of old commands need to be added again.

 

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Needs to decrease /donateshop balance too
its too much ;-;

 

I want Steyn's skybloc---
Never mind. If I say this aXed's gonna kill meh

 

i still hope donators can buy spawners or at least 1

 

I agre for the nether seriously now i have to stand 5 hours with iron pick to dig up 10 obsidian

 

I will say a complete challenge overhaul is needed. I do prefer the old style, I do see this as making the server less laggy with out all the major mega farms, but honestly thats the fun of skyblock.
Some /shop tweaks would be a great help. Enable redstone in the shop. as currently the only way to get it is to complete some really insane challenges that are way over priced in material for 1 or 2 redstone dust, or donator kits.
Island chat or party chat would be a great feature.
I was lucky with having access to the nether before the gates went kaput but alot of other players either have no access or rely on tps from members that do have homes set in nether.
Gold farms need to be re-enabled and mob spawns increased. I like the idea of having an Island mob spawn limit instead of global.

 

Skyblock Would Be the Best if we had all this and I also think we need Gold Farms to be enabled because people spent money and time into making a obsidian generator and probably spent like 1 day mining obsidian and making the farm
@aXed Tag aXed everyone!!

 

@aXed

 

From what I read all here, seems like skyblock went bad :/ I was banned and haven't played it yet, but when hearing this it seems like I should put my expectation pretty low. I agree to all of this said above :3
Another little side question tho, who should I join when I'm unbanned again?

 

I know a coupe of members who made HUGE! gold farms and the only purpose now is to add to island level and take up space

 

Go back to faction and give meh all money £-£ $$$