Skyblock Ideas I've had for years.

Hi guys! Sarah here, not many of you know me anymore because a lot of people are new. To anyone I haven't welcomed yet, Welcome! I have been around for 37 months now. (3 years and 1 month).

I joined before Justcast existed, so unless you know who Davidnutt10 is, or domo1239, or know wolfxlover extremely well. Then you probably don't know what that is.
Im not going to go into much detail, however, In summer of 2013 we merged with another server. Thats all that needs to be known. Either way, Before that merge sky block was pretty simple. We had simple sky block with the corner island, a tree, and a chest filled with 2 ice blocks, lava, seeds, a little food, and starter tools.
I believe we should revamp what we used to have and probably make it more unique. From what I remember, it was pretty popular and it stayed popular. I love the idea of things such as airdrops. However, there were a few changes I think could've been made.

1: Airdrops were laggy, possibly a little too laggy.
2: They turned into more of a status item, I mean people were giving out 20000 for them.
3: Ive said this for atlas 9 months now, but there are several people who paid separate for the ranks. While if it was $20, it was $20 regardless of if you bought the rank before it. The kits were good then too, it was beneficial for us to have all the kits. If we paid for the rank we should have it. We were basically scammed (that word is a little harsh) out of a lot of money.
4: This is adding onto 3 but another thing. When we bought the ranks they included things like 6 diamonds, diamond tools, a TON of cobble/wood, building stuff, an emerald. (The kits were good even for ranks like donator or premium). We also got our head. In the end, we also lost money this way. The kits don't even compare really to what we used to get. At least keep building materials in the kits.

Okay, so thats my main points about sky block. I really only played sky block at the time so I'm not really sure about survival.
In the end, I want to have our old simple sky block back. Where we had spleef in the lobby and things like that. It felt comfortable as well. That might've just been me. Now I don't remember 100% well what our numbers were player wise. I feel like in 2016 we would get players on sky block and keep them for only a couple days. We have had more players join lately, but not a lot of people stay. In 2013-2014, We had fewer players joining in on a day to day basis, but a lot of the people stayed. Im not sure what you guys think and I would love your feedback. Im not hating or anything! I just think that if we re-create sky block in a more simple fashion, we would be better as a server. Of coarse, I'm not a dev like our wonderful Lew_ and the developers we've had/have. So I don't know what plans they have if any. Let me know what you guys think!

Thanks <3!

 

I don't find that to be a bad idea, to be real with you. That's manageable.

 

The reason the kits on the previous version were debuffed in comparison to the original Skyblock is because they were massively unbalanced in the original one. It's obvious that donations keep a server running, but it's unfair to give those people a huge advantage over players so that it's not worth playing for them because unless they donate (which understandably not everyone wants to or even can). They can never compete with a donator who's being given several stacks of cobblestone, wood, a good amount of food on top of upwards of 30 diamonds per day.

Airdrops if remade for Skyblock, won't be laggy at all anymore. Updates to minecraft allow a {NoGravity:1} tag to be applied to every entity. This will cut the amount of entities to a quarter. The items in them will be getting revamped also.

I also like the idea of adding a Spleef arena back, I know some people adore it and frankly it's nostalgic being one of the earliest Minecraft games.

And finally - The basic Skyblock island that we used to have was always accessible even on the new version, when you created an island it would give you three options, and "Classic" was the tiny corner one.

 

Thanks for your feedback guys!!!! <3

 

can you make a too long didn't read version??

 

If anything all the perks that donators get should motivate players to donate as well, rather than leave. I believe the old kits should be limited to:

• 2 stacks of cobble
• 32 steak
• iron tools
• 5 diamonds

Or have them a weekly thing rather than a daily thing, we don't need them astonishingly over powered, just worth the money they paid for. I'll admit that the kits back in the very ancient skyblock were really over powered, although I was a player at the time. Some of my donator friends would let me have their kits time to time. Though it didn't make me want to leave, in-fact I was more motivated to donate than anything. Also with the islands the most recent skyblock had the "classic", "advanced" something like that island type things, though it never had some display of how they would look like. Could you please add a display because I want to see how the islands look like before having to choose one. Thanks! c:

 

Displaying each island type actually wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't know how easy it would be on the development end of things though.

 

Or possibly have them in the background by the signs ?

 

Maybe a way to display it could be on that one server (Not mentioning it lol) it has giant, detailed pictures on like a map, which is hung on an item frame, and at the spawn of Skyblock, it shows which ones you can pick by displaying it on that. (just thought it would be easier than maybe adding a command or something)