OfficialRS wrote:

I think you should remove all unreasonably-large spawners because there’s really no need for them now and they look pretty ugly from the map.

You mean the portals? I might do this and offer the people the obsidian instead, it would be much quicker for one of us to regen them and give them obsidian, they are hideous and don’t fit in with the Pirate theme either.

PaulOnFire wrote:

Yesterday I was approached by a player who wanted to know whether gold farms were allowed or not. I told him that overworld portal gold farms had been disabled, and that gold farms were generally not allowed due to PvP balance and mob spawning issues. Afterwards I did however realise that I might have been giving outdated advice. With the advent of 1.9, gapples are no longer craftable. What does this mean for nether gold farms? Now that gapples are no longer craftable, gold is far less of a PvP issue than it used to be. You still use small amounts to create certain potions and you require 8 bars to craft a crapple. Donators currently get two free crapples every four hours. That means if you log once a day, you’ll have a grand total of 730 free crapples or more than 12 stacks over the course of a year. It is even more if you log on twice or three times a day regularly. Overworld farms are disabled, but nether farms are still possible to build. You basically need to plaster a huuuge area with slabs to be able to get one to function. I don’t think they’d cause too many mob spawning issues, mainly because the nether and the overworld are two different maps. Or am I mistaken? What does this mean for nether gold farms? Are they permitted, banned or simply frowned upon?

Overworld gold farms are not going to change, they will always remain banned. I’t was way, way too easy to farm using little resources and setup time, the rewards are far too OP for the setup. Gold is a mineral that should only be mined and retain value.

Kits will change at some point in the future, and those C-Apples are going to go! Or at least get cut down/longer time, find the kits thread to discuss that.

Nether gold farms isn’t something I can police easily, the overworld was easy, disable mobs coming out of nether portals, If someone puts in a lot of effort to build something to the scale I think they deserve the benefits. Its when farms are super easy to make and take little time and resources for high output of items that they become an issue.

Some people just get super lucky with mob spawner locations.

I’m closing this thread as its from June 9, 2015 and there isn’t any change on Gold farming, If it takes a lot of effort to build a gold farm in the nether that isn’t creating an over powered amount of items for little effort then that should be fine; if at any point its very easy to farm gold then it will be banned. Its common sense to not want to destroy the survival, since this is a survival server.

Closed.