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That'd be cool. Unfortunately, those donated resources would be exhausted and wasted very quickly. 3 iron for a bucket. How many new players join, hit the ground too hard, try to swim in lava, or get slain in the nether? That's a lot of lost iron.

Also, I think leather armor is too rare and useless. So if this goes through, omit the leather.

[Airlie91]

I would be up for donating one of my two spawn realms for use as a beginner zone with tree farm and cobble generator, and maybe a wheat farm. there would be strict rules for its use though, which if not followed would result in a temp ban.
the main one being: replant anything you harvest

KingSpartacus

P.s. i know my spawn realms aren't particularly close to the spawn point, but i can't see anyone else giving up a realm any closer

[starspeed]

I like this idea. If it happens, I can donate wheat/melon slices.

[sliothar16]

I love the idea, HOWEVER:

Don't have time to read the whole thread / discussion, however I am definately for this idea.

I personally would supply a wide variety of items, such as iron tools, and basically anything you listed.

The only problem:

We could be blindly giving out items to players who aren't serious in any way about the game, or who only plan to log in once, grief, get banned, etc. I'd love to help all the new players out, but over 20% of the new players aren't going to be daily Minerealmers, let alone contributing positively to the server.

-sigh-

I wish there was some way to automatically sort out the goodies from the rif raff.

There actually IS a way to sort them(sort of). I have played on servers that give newcomers starter kits, although the kits themselves were not donated. They are spawned once the user opens a chest, and are instantly transported to the user's inventory. It would require no refilling of chests, and would be much easier to do. If this were added, a user could only open a chest and obtain the materials ONCE, also.

But if anyone disagrees with me on this, I can already see why. I mean, it's spawning items in a survival map, after all.

[The-Jack-DeCk]

Don't have time to read the whole thread / discussion, however I am definately for this idea.

I personally would supply a wide variety of items, such as iron tools, and basically anything you listed.

The only problem:

We could be blindly giving out items to players who aren't serious in any way about the game, or who only plan to log in once, grief, get banned, etc. I'd love to help all the new players out, but over 80% of the new players aren't going to be daily Minerealmers, let alone contributing positively to the server.

-sigh-

I wish there was some way to automatically sort out the goodies from the rif raff.

^
I think it's more like that |

[eplawsl]

When I finish the upgrade to my wheat farming area of superfarm, from 50x50 manual farm to the addition of the Centurion 100x100 automatic no-till farm which will output very close to 10,000 wheat bundles (aprox. 3333 bread) per harvest (based on growth rate of 5-35 minutes and the amount of wheat it will probably take around half an hour per harvest, so when I recover from a recent immediate medical issue I can probably manage 3 harvests a day without disrupting my workflow elsewhere. I will gladly share bread with teh nubs.

[Agentred]

That's the entire fun of mine craft starting out, finding wood and wood and making a home. Getting started. Yeah there are the guys who die instantly, can't find land and cry in chat. Ah well.

Imo free stuff at start is to easy, mine craft is already an easy game.

[MrOrwin]

I started this game, by finding a leaf block that was just floating in there and hoping to Notch that a sapling would drop out.



It didn't.
So I walked about 2000 blocks and found a single tree, walked to Roanoke, and built my property, and that's how I got started.

Found a tree.
Game = won.


edit: tl;dr just give each player a sapling.

[SirJonnySniper]

edit: tl;dr just give each player a sapling.

^ Sweet Jesus, this man is a genius.

[BeBopBoy]

Don't have time to read the whole thread / discussion, however I am definately for this idea.

yeah, u have more important threads to read and minecraft things to do.