Revolutionize Skyblock

I have been playing this server since season one of skyblock and I’ve seen this server have its highs and lows. However over the last 2-3 season there have been minimal changes added that changed how people played for comp, with netherwart farming being the main source of income along with one spawner (skeletons in season 9 and snow golems in season 10 and 11). I personally am hoping for some changes that would bring a fresh change to there skyblock community. At the end of season 10 Unadvised posted a forum thread with content ideas that provided many content changes. The following are some of my recommendations, some which are repeats from Unadvised's post which is below.

https://mccentral.org/community/threads/major-content-ideas-for-the-future.123881/

1. Add new items
Though the teleport pads that were added were useful and unique for this season, it has been a long time since new meta changing custom items have been added to skyblock. Items such as the introduction of harvest hoes, chunk loaders, and silverfish spawners brought a fresh new change that allowed for people to make new ways to get to number one and experiment on this economy centered sub server. However as stated earlier the past two season have been nearly identical with the only change being the removal of 100% autosell and the addition of teleport pads. The idea of pets that boost certain tasks such as farming or grinding mobs, minions that will automatically grind for you while offline, block wands to automatically /block items, or a new custom spawner/generator that gives you items such as different ores or items would be nice.

2. Shifting from Farming
The main source of income has always been crops and spawner drops in the past seasons have. The meta has shifted from automatic cactus farms to melon farms to harvest hoe nether wart/sugarcane farming. Its been harvest hoe farming for the past few seasons, so a new type of economy would be interesting to see. Reverting back to massive cactus farms or introducing a possible pvp centered economy with an obscure zone style grinding area could also be a possible idea. A possible option could be to use a different eco style on each of the skyblock subservers so that one could be farm based while the other could be pvp based to bring a wider variety of players.

3. Island Levels Are Too Hard
Skyblock levels take an extremely hazardously long time to place value. It's to the point that for some of the players who reached is top page 1, it took 10-20 people multiple hours worth of playtime to place all of the emerald or diamond blocks. Two ways to fix it are a island storage and completely changing the island ranking system.

• In factions there is a system within the faction which allows tnt to be stored with the faction's tnt storage that players could store tnt into for future use. If a similar system was added to skyblock which allowed for emerald blocks, diamond blocks, and sponges to be stored within the island's storage, it would allow for players to have a massive storage of blocks without having to create hundreds of chests for storage.
• A new level system that has more expensive and high level items could be a better sytem for ranking is top. By making silverfish spawners way more expensive and making the drops from them a non ore based item such as sponges, tnt, or a custom block the value system could be made so that these blocks have 1000 island level points instead of the 1.5 emerald blocks so that it would only take 1000 blocks to reach level 1,000,000 instead of 666k blocks.

4. Shorter Seasons
One thing that we always see in the skyblock community is the playerbase slowing decreasing as other subservers reset. By the halfway mark of the season skyblock 2 seldom has more than 25 people on the server. I think that shorter seasons is a MUST in the next reset as the seasons feel to dragged out. Shorter seasons allow for players to be more engaged and for the players who play competitively they can have shorter seasons where they are less burned out. If seasons were 2-4 months instead of 6-8 months, it would mean more resets but also more fresh starts that allow people to enjoy the thrill of grinding beginning of the maps. Another options is alternating the starts of skyblock 1 and 2 so that they are staggered by 6 months (For example sb1 resets in January sb2 resets April sb1 resets July sb2 resets October) so that players who want to have a fresh start can jump to the other server and those who want to continue can stay.

5. Competitive Skyblock
The idea of a payout based skyblock has been brought up before and declined, but I just want to bring the option back up. If we look at the success of many of the biggest skyblock servers they have weekly/ monthly payouts for top islands. I know that on MCC skyblock is supposed to be a peaceful more of a survival type server, but many people already do IRL deals and get Buycraft or Keys from playing on skyblock. If a payout was introduced, it would provide an incentive for players to try to get to the top position and allow for more players who are interested in the payout to come play.

These are just opinions and suggestions that I have that could make skyblock a bit more enjoyable. Please feel free to give your suggestions and opinions down below.

 

I see your opinion on the payout and alas I will have to agree to it. This was a concern raised in earlier threads which I agree with due to the amount of rule breaking players will go through. Regarding the farming point I mad, I would be leaning more towards fix 1 where the economy changed to a completely different type of farming. The point I made about minions which other servers had used could be implemented as a starting source of income with caps on the amount and type of minions you can have and then later on the ultimate source of incomes would be spawners. For example, if the main crop was changes to wheat and manually farming wheat was the best source of income, farmer bots with a limit of 10 per island could be placed to get passive income, and the income from that could be used to get expensive spawners that drop the best drops. Mentioning Pie's point on new items being caught behind the paywall, minions like these could be added to the shop in order for all players to be able to get easy access. We just need some sort of change from the f11 netherwart farming.

I think the idea of a solo subserver would be extremely fun to play and would allow both competitive players and players who play for fun to have their individual progress show instead of having mega teams take over the whole sub server. The option of being able to choose between playing with a team or tackling the task of creating your own island by yourself would allow for more diversity. With the teams being smaller, if this were to be implemented the seasons should be around 1 month at the max similar to factions. This is just a thought but if a solo realm were to be added, an option could be to have islands with maybe a 100x100 border where only you can build and then you can explore outside of this area to find different islands for resources. It could be like a survival island type server where there's an economy where you can build your own farms, sell crops to buy spawners like you would in the current skyblock, but in order to get those resources you would have to explore into the void to find different biomes. The biomes could reset daily and change location so people can't find the same islands. This is a completely different take on the skyblock we currently have, and it may be something hard to achieve, but my brain kind of went brainstorming and made this mashup of survival and skyblock.

Regarding changes I understand it would require a lot of work to get plugins and make the maps, so I undersatnd if a lot of changes can't be made, but I think the community would appreciate the changes.