This thread was for the previous iteration of Skyblock. DO NOT use this thread for help. Nathan's Skyblock Guide (2017 Reset) Welcome to the new Skyblock! Click on a spoiler to view more information on a topic. Spoiler: General Information -To begin your Skyblock journey, type /island or /is in chat. It will take you to your new island, with minimal resources but enough for you to get started. -If you want to invite one of your friends to build with you on your island, type /island invite [name]in chat. Example: /island invite SnorlaxHugs. If you're the player that was invited, you type /island accept to join. However, when you switch islands, your inventory is cleared. So you need to make sure that you give all your items to the person inviting you to put in a chest so you don't lose the items. -If somebody is snooping around on your island and you want them out, you can do two things. The first thing you could do is type /island ban [name]. Example: /island ban Yoowy. Another thing you could do is /island lock. Island lock means that all players that don't belong to your island cannot enter your island. It's useful if you have something like an AFK grinder and you don't want others using it. -If you'd like to create a warp so others can easily get to your island, you place a sign and on the first line of the sign, type [Welcome]. That allows people to type /is warp [yourname] to get to your island. Example: Someone has villagers on their island (they're disabled now, so they're hard to come by) and you'd like to trade. If the person is willingly allowing you to use their villagers, you'd go to that player's /is warp (if they have one). EX: /is warp Fantasy. Please note that you need an island level over 15 to create one of these warps. It's fairly easy to achieve that, though. -The nether is enabled. You need to build a nether portal to get into your nether island, which is similar to the main islands but Nether-style. Here you can get nether resources like soul sand, glowstone, nether wart, and netherrack. -Villager converting is now ENABLED. -Iron golems are ENABLED. -Hoppers are disabled. -Snow golems are ENABLED. You kick a member from your island by using /island kick [player]. Example: Kyleep was being a meanie and broke my island. He's gone. I do /island kick Kyleep. Spoiler: Voting/Crates/VoteParty A great way to make money (you use money to buy items in /shop, which we'll talk about later) is to vote twice a day. Every time you vote, you get a fixed amount of $500, a grass block and a vote crate key. However, you can get lucky and earn more than the fixed value. When you get the vote keys, you go to spawn and right click on the crate 'Vote Crate'. It will then choose a random reward from the crate and give it to you. In the crate, you could pull out a Common Crate key, which gives better rewards. In the Common Crate, you could pull out a Rare Key, which can get you insane rewards. Every time someone votes for Minetime, it is counted up. Once there is a total of 200 votes, it starts something called a Vote Party. When a vote party occurs, it gives out vote keys to every player on the server at the time. You can get one or more keys for every Vote Party. Spoiler: Challenges A great way to earn money is by completing challenges. To see the challenges GUI, you type /challenges or /c. Various challenges appear, in different sections, ranging from Novice to Elite. You complete these challenges by gathering the resources needed. One of the challenges is gather 2 stacks of cobblestone from your cobblestone generator. Once you complete all the Novice challenges, it unlocks a new set of challenges to complete that are harder, but have better rewards. Spoiler: Shop When you earn money and gather resources, the main way to spend and sell it is by using /shop. /shop is a GUI with all different kinds of items to sell and buy. I use /shop a lot to buy stone bricks to build with. I also use it to sell resources from my farms and grinders on my island. -A great way to make money is by investing in a mob spawner. Mob spawners can cost up to $500,000 but once you gather all the drops from the mobs, it becomes 100% profit. Spoiler: Reaction Reaction is probably my favorite addition to Skyblock. Every few minutes, a message pops up in the chat that says '[Reaction]: Hover to type!' or '[Reaction]: Hover to unscramble!' You hover over that message and you see the word that you have to type in chat. Sometimes, it is a scrambled up word, and you have to unscramble it before you type. The first person to type the word is rewarded with money. Example: [Reaction] Hover to unscramble! [Reaction] Charisa unscrambled CypriotMerkz in 3.56 seconds! Spoiler: Island Level Island level is what classifies how good your island is. The more you place expensive blocks and the bigger your island is, the more your island level goes up. You can view your island level with /island level, or view the top ten island levels with /island top. Spoiler: Lockette Lockette is a very important plugin that allows you to keep your chests private from other island members. To use lockette. you place a sign on a chest and don't write anything on the sign. The sign then has the text [Private] on the first line and your IGN on the second line. If you're sharing chests with somebody else and want them to be able to access the chest as well, you type /lockette line 3 [name]. If you'd like to add a second person, do /lockette line 4 [name]. Example: /lockette line 3 Nuggets. Spoiler: Player Shops These are sadly not used much these days, but are still useful. To create a player shop, place a chest and a sign above it. On the sign, you have to type in a certain format for the player shop to work. On the first line, you type your IGN. On the second line, you type the quantity of the item you're selling or buying. On the third line, you type B or S (buy if you're selling the item,S if you're buying from the people visiting) and then the price of the item. On the last line, you type the item you're selling. Examples: H_Teabag2001_H 1 B1 Cobblestone Pile_Of_Butts 1 S3000 Diamond Spoiler: Mob Spawners A great way to earn money is by using mob spawners. Mob spawners make grinders 1000% more efficient, spitting out mobs way faster than a regular mob grinder. You use the spawner for a while and kill the mobs that spawn, then go into /shop to sell your drops. This is a great way to make loads of money and you can AFK there if you use MobAura. To change the mob type on your spawner, type /espawner [mob]. This is different than the previous Skyblock iterations, which just used /spawner. Thank you @Snorlax, @Fantasy, @Yoowy, @Gabby, @Tyler (rip), @Sir-Teabag, @Kyleep and @Pile for being my example players. Thank you so much for reading my guide! If you have more ideas to add to the guide, just tell me and I'll happily add them.
A bit more pictures or color would be nice. It would make it easier to read and more appealing to see.
LOL NATHAN YOU USED MY NAME AS AN EXAMPLE ILY AND YOU BANNED YOOWY OF ALL PEOPLE ILY EVEN MORE Nice guide though, you may want to add how to kick players from your island and that Snow Golems are also disabled. @Pile pin?
Great guide Can you also add how to change a spawner type which is /espawner because in the old plugin you could change it by doing /spawner
Nathan, to me this shows that even though many people (including myself at times) disagree with your opinions, no one can argue that you dont care about minetime. Good job, and thank you.