Zedling Council Meeting 2016-09-10

Attendance

Present

Apologies

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OneEyedTurtle [3 strikes] - Removed from Council: 3 Strike Rule
ACERPROSPY [1 strike]
ThatNurd [3 strikes] - Removed from Council: 3 Strike Rule
Etho_ [1 strike]

Topics

Market Suggestions

The Market near Spawn has been renovated, but the Zriends wanted to know if there were any further suggestions or ideas for the Market. The main suggestion was to make the process of setting up a personal shop easier for people. The Zriends are working on a better way to handle shop claiming less reliant on high sales. A line of glass in spawn leading to the Market was considered, but it was determined that would be frustrating for newly joined players wandering around spawn who would be denied access to the Market.

Mob Limit

Zed was asked about raising the 1 block mob limit (a system that causes animals to die if there are too many of them in 1 block at any given time). Zedwick explained that the system is designed to prevent laggy 1-block clusters of mobs, and that sometimes, mobs' feeding AI causes them to bunch up in a corner and trigger the mob limiter. To avoid this, separate your animals within their pens with fences or other blocks to make sure too many don't occupy a single space.

Elytra Distribution

The Guardians have recovered several ill-gotten Elytras from a banned player and wish to distribute them in a fair and fun way! Previous suggestions have been: prizes for a scavenger hunt, prizes for a buildoff, prizes for a puzzle challenge, or to be distributed by Zriends as rewards to players who help with future community builds. Zedwick had the idea of creating a long, difficult elytra course to earn an elytra, as an alternative for searching in the End - Players would temporarily be given an elytra when they warp to the area, and would be given only a certain number of tries per week. If you fail, or leave the area, the elytra is taken from your inventory and you are returned to spawn. This idea was well received, and the details may be changed slightly if it is chosen.

Voting Rewards

We want to help you help Zedwork get to the top of the server lists where it belongs! The council discussed ideas for small rewards for voting for Zedwork (!vote in game and click the links to get to the voting pages). A 1-3 Diamond payment was suggested, but most thought this was a bit too valuable for a vote reward. Custom Heads were also suggested, but some players thought this was too fancy or non-survival. Bread, steak and fireworks were also among the suggestions. Zedwick mentioned his ambition to add single player games to ZestyGames and add the ability to host private games, and possibly give tokens for these games to zedlings for voting for Zedwork on those sites.

BlockLog Plugin

EarthCow suggested the possible use of the BlockLog, a plugin that logs block placement, possibly making grief investigation easier. Some players were turned off by the idea as the use of plugins would make LVS non-vanilla. Zedwick explained that his vanilla logging system serves the same purpose.

End Farm Crop Farm

BigBuilderAl suggested that he add a crop farm to the End Farm area for players running low on food or staying extended periods of time in the End. The council agreed this was a good idea as long as it is lit up and out of the way of the existing facilities.

New Member

Congratulations, Wolvergal! Welcome to the Zedling Council!

Next Meeting

HOMINIX is hosting the next meeting on 24th September at 8pm BST.