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The redstone and other materials will need to be from donations. We should get some of the materials we require just from digging out the space we need though, as it will be underground. The shops aren't too expensive to build. In total they require less than 2 stacks of redstone (including torches, repeaters, comparators and pistons) and 8 hoppers worth of iron each.

I can build the circuits for the shops, and if anyone else wants to help they can copy the design after I build the first one. They are not too difficult to make.

I made a shop in the current Spawn Town which uses the same mechanism that I am proposing.

Here it is:


You get 16 cookies for 3 iron ingots. Place the ingots in the hopper to the left and the cookies appear in the chest on the right. The shop is located on Froob St. in the most south-west part of Spawn Town, if you want to try it.

I think you might be misunderstanding. The shops would be player owned. So if you have 20 shulker boxes that you don't want, for example, you could claim a shop and sell them for a diamond each or something like that.

I wonder who would have that many shulker boxes 

My example may have been inspired...

Yeah, I think that would be fine. The picture in the original post is just what the layout of the shops will look like. If someone comes up with a more appealing design for the shop faces we could use that and then players could also personalise their shops to their liking.

You could use it to sell off some of your nearly endless supply of potatoes

I think you might be misunderstanding. The shops would be player owned. So if you have 20 shulker boxes that you don't want, for example, you could claim a shop and sell them for a diamond each or something like that.

Alright. So we always end up with a bunch of shops in Spawn Town. Usually they work by placing an order in a book or on a sign, and then you have to wait for the next time the owner is on. It inevitably takes days or weeks for the owner to check their shop, if they do it at all, at which time the buyer has lost interest. Point is that shops and trading in general do not work very well.

I suggest that in 1.13 we create, underneath Spawn Town, a giant trading platform with player owned automatic shops. All shops would be exactly the same design. They are completely automatic and are made with redstone. They can take up to 63 of any stackable item and in return give up to 319 of any item. They also only take up a 6x6 block space, so we can build quite a large amount of them underneath Spawn Town.

Here's what the front of a store looks like


You place payment into the hopper on the right and the items you are after appear in the chest. The redstone lamp will shine when there are items in stock. When there are no items in stock the hopper will not accept any payment, so you can't be scammed.

I think this would be a really nice project for the community. And it would be cool to see trading between players made more feasible, and also to see a bit of an item economy happening. What do you guys think?

First you need to download the zip or rar file for the map you want (using the links in the original post) and unpack it using Winrar or 7-Zip, or any other program you might use.

This should give you a folder (this is the map). You then need to put the map in the saves folder in your .minecraft folder. The saves folder is in the same place where your resource packs folder is, so it's just like installing a texture pack.

When you've done this you should be able to play on the map by selecting it in the single player world selection menu.

Oh golly gee whiz there's a clue hunt in town!



Take a look in the FroobWorld event shack in Spawn Town to get started. Everyone can complete it once and claim the reward, so there's no race for first. You can do it as a team but please don't spoil it for anyone else.

I don't think you would be trying so hard to get back on the server just to steal stuff again, so you can come back on.

It's in the south half of the circle

This is no longer a problem

This is a problem

There's a lost chest full of treasure, and all we know is that it's located within 1000 blocks of spawn. Below is an image of the search area (it is now known to be south of spawn)



The chest is thought to look something like this:



If you can find it you can keep all of the goodies which it may contain, good luck

You guys are weird