Diamond gear is easy to get. This is coming from someone whom owns but a single skeleton grinder, and hasn’t used it much; this I acquired quite recently. The lovely thing about this server is that it is easy to play.

You start by placing your chest down-that area is now claimed. You mine a few trees using your fists, and you cover the chest with a log (siegeproof block).

You use /tools and the rest of the logs to make a spade and a pick. You mine the dirt away under your claim, and you mine some stonebrick. Using a crafting table (obtained using the earlier logs) you make a stone pick, and a furnace.

You mine some coal.

You create Stonebrick. 8 pieces of coal and a stack of cobble later, you have a siegeproof house, as it is made of stonebrick. You ensure chests are covered.

You continue playing minecraft; expanding the claim, making a farm, making the house larger, obtaining resources. Your chests are covered; if you die, you lose merely tools. You sell, you grow, you sell, you mine, you sell, you get rich. You play minecraft as you otherwise would, obtaining diamonds, visiting the end and the nether; its easy!

As godsy has said many times, there will be a new world, with the focus on ship vs ship combat. Teleporting will be off, and it’ll be more like a hardcore server. Muskets may be added, and it will be more of a ‘pirate’ experience.

Staff can only do so much, and if you disable too much of vanilla minecraft, a number of problems arise. Firstly, you have to use half a million extra plugins to disabled the fundamentals of the game. You then have half a million devs to talk to, when you end up finding 30 million bugs and exploits. The server runs slower, and there are more risks should a plugin stop working. You can only update to a new minecraft when all the plugins have; this could take months, if you have many of them.

You also have to deal with the constant ‘why can’t I craft potions’, and other such complaints, alongside those who quit when they can’t be arsed to explore this complicated new sever.

That’s why all these ideas are being introduced with the new server. And, please, for all our sakes, read the forums, a post identical to this was made merely days ago.