Update #1: Reopened the poll, and enabled vote changing. Hey, After our recent thread about the upcoming changes to the server, we've had a lot of amazing feedback from you all about what you think of these changes, and also us giving you a glimpse of what's to come. In the post, we didn't mention Skyblock at all. For that, we've saved it for this post. As Survival 2.0 and Prison 2.0 is coming out, we wanted them to be the main focus in that post, so Skyblock can be the main focus here. With that in mind, we'd like some feedback on the current Skyblock server, and what you think could be improved with it. On top of this, we'd like you to vote on the poll that I'll explain below. We have two major options to consider with the server, and I'd like you, our community to decide on what we do with our current Skyblock server. The first option would be to revamp the server, which involves only fixing up and adding new content to the server, in which nothing is reset, but also means we cannot do anything too drastic to it. Our second option would be a reset, but in the same sense as to what we did to Prison, where we take the current spawn, and remix it. This allows us to have the server done a lot quicker than having to recreate a brand new spawn and layout, which on its own could take weeks. We've heard you about Skyblock, so we want your feedback. Survival 2.0 and Prison 2.0 are slated to release some time this month! Thanks
Honestly, I'd be up for a reset if that means more changes can be made without breaking everything. (Still hopes the old rankup system makes a return.)
I believe that both options work. I would prefer a reset more, so it can be a fresh new start for everybody, and a lot more new things could come out in my opinion.
I choose reset for multiple reasons. 1) Old players who are now OP in there don't really want to play anymore. (Speaking from personal experiences) 2)New players won't feel as behind 3) It will update the server and have a large boost in players because, people love fresh, new things! Welp, that's just my opinion Thank you for reading
As someone who has put a ridiculous amount of hours onto skyblock, I would like a reset. We could fix many of the current issues of skyblock. For any new players coming onto skyblock, they have items that are not obtainable like nether wart. We would be able to put in achievements and do so much needed changes to bring back the hype of skyblock. We all had our issues with skyblock, my biggest issue was the iron golems. As of right now, a player has to kill the IG and it MAY drop a single piece of iron. This is skyblock. We cannot easily obtain any minerals. As long as the IG can be killed with lava without any player interactions and still drop at least ONE iron. That would instantaneously make me start playing again. The only one other issue that rubbed me the wrong way was how low the animal count for the islands were. You can only have 35 animals on your island at once. If it could get bumped up to even 50 that would help out tremendously. Especially if you are going to continue to hand out spawners like Donald Trump hands out insults. Lets talk about the nether. If we did a reset on the nether would we make it a skyblock nether or would it be more like survival nether. I would prefer for it to be more like a survival nether so that there are fortresses that could be raided. However, if the nether cannot be like that then I suggest either putting one nether wart in the chest on the island in the nether. OR we make it a reward in a quest. Lets say they have to kill 100 pigmen, mine 50 glowstone, and cure a zombie villager and the reward is a netherwart and xp levels and money. I highly suggest that we put daily, weekly, monthly quests also with quests that you can only complete once. The quests that would be one time would be like make a cobble generator, go fishing, go to the nether/end. Those quests should give money and NC levels. The daily quests could be something along the lines of cook x amount of food, shear x amount of sheep and be able to do the daily/weekly/monthly one time in the specified period of time. The rewards could be x amount of ores or xp levels. For the weekly quests they would have more than one part to the quests and can be completed in any order but however more difficult than daily. Rewards being ores, xp levels and NC levels. The monthly quests have to be done in a specific order and are very difficult to complete. Rewards Ore fountain key, air drops and money. We could always have mysterious quests that we dont tell you about, Like you fell off you island 10 times your reward is 5 diamonds and 4 sticks. Another interesting thing that could be implemented is there 2 islands. You start on your main island. But some where in your 100x100 area is another island. This island will be very small with a single tree, torch and a chest but the island will be highly concentrated with ores. The chest could contain a tool that isnt OP but still when you find it you do a dance because its better than all of the crap you have. Those are some of my suggestions/ideas/fixes. But for those who voted for a revamp remember we ALL quit playing skyblock for some reason or another. A revamp may fix some of the issues that we are currently experiencing. But everybody loves the chance to start over if they don't want to. We will have a chance to make it new and make it even better than before!
Ik I haven't been on and that but i would prefer a reset because everyone could get a fresh restart without a big deal. As for a Revamp it would take a bit longer but the server would be better. Btw can i get my level set back to level 29? Because my level is gone down to level 3 again. RIP.
It's happened to everyone, and whats the point re-doing everyones when you can just wait a bit longer until it is fixed.
I voted for Skyblock to be revamped. While I liked it when it first came out, it endured a lot of changes within weeks of release that drove many players away. Air Drop Flares are great but no one really liked having to wait for other people to stop using theirs in order to use their own. It became increasingly annoying when people gained X more flares and you had to wait longer. I think many people, including myself, just held the right-mouse button down until the flare was placed. I think the Flares can either be turned into virtual currency where you can spend via GUI command chest or be more instant and less animated. Currently I believe an air drop flare takes about 10 seconds to drop loot. That can be reduced to about 2 seconds and not have a max of 2 uses worldwide if you remove the animation and had it open a GUI chest instead. As people have stated in this thread, I don't believe there was much to do on Skyblock that made people want to keep playing it. I think a lot people just built factories, farms, or just played around until they got bored. There was no objective. Sure there were few achievements but not everyone had the patience for that and those that did found easy ways to do so. Maybe if Skyblock had something like daily, weekly and monthly missions, it would give people more objectives. A daily mission can be to manually farm X amount of pumpkins and /sell them for reward Y. A weekly mission can be to break X amount of stone blocks for reward Y. A monthly mission can be to grow your island to X level and reset for reward Y. Those are just examples though. I expect if it was implemented it would likely be changed. The Admin Shop caused tons of problems in it's last implementation. Item prices were constantly changed and it drew players, whom worked very hard on expensive factories, to stop playing. I don't think there should be an Admin Shop. I think, in order to gain new items a player must complete certain achievements. Must like a previous Skyblock that Noble-Craft had, but this time more extensive. Because there will be no Admin Shop, items you can't normally get will have to be obtained through completing an objective-based achievement. In order to get X Lapis Luzuli player must /sell Y diamonds Again, just an example. These objectives could be repeatable but have a max amount of times you can do them per week, so those who have reset their islands can obtain the item again but not abuse the system. That's just a few things I thought of.... will post again when I think of more. EDIT: Well... surely didn't read your post til after I posted. Give this girl a fortune cookie!
Right now, I'm thinking a revamp. One idea I'd like to add to the revamp would be USD rewards. Baltop: For this, I was thinking that in a certain amount of days, weeks, or months, the highest person with X amount of money would earn a voucher, just like we have for voting! I think this would attract many players to the Skyblock Server, and give people an incentive to grind, and make a good island with efficient farms and such. Island Top: Practically the same as Baltop, mentioned above, the person with the highest island rating would also get a voucher, in a certain amount of days, weeks, or months. In my opinion, I'd suggest possibly making Baltop and Island Top reward days end at the same time, that way they correspond with each other. These were just some short and simple ideas that I thought we could add to Skyblock to make it more interesting, and bring competition and players! P.S. : For the vouchers, I don't really know a fair voucher price, so I'll let staff decide that, cause I don't have a clue.
