Look a lot of people who play Minecraft and play on survival multiplayer servers talk about economies they wonder what kind of currencies they think will work best on the server a lot of servers just go with diamonds this makes sense diamonds have the most deuce value they Go into the best armors they go what are the best weapons and tools but of course diamonds are difficult to get they’re grindy I know that and new players will sometimes feel intimidated by the fact that the veterans already have all the gear they need and they might want to Jump into what the veterans are doing building large-scale builds doing things that only could happen with a silk touch pickaxe one of the options people have available to them for these economies is to just get a plugin these are common on County servers to be honest I’m not a Fan of taking the direction of the server that far away from vanilla I prefer the vanilla game as much as possible but there are some things that we have modified just like hermit craft and other servers have done but more or less servers like ours remain vanilla despite these mods so what about Currencies well we all default usually to the really great currency of diamonds as we said before but not a lot of mine crafters feel confident to get diamonds all the time it is a hard job it takes a while and that’s why we decided on our server to start the diamond loan program We all know how to get diamonds really fast we can create a stockpile and we can get them ready for new players as they come in the catch is that the player will have to have already gotten four diamonds or more that’s the thing in order to become a member of the Diamond loan program in order to take out your first loan you need to provide a little bit of diamond upfront this helps preserve the stockpile of loanable diamonds and also incentivizes that those new players to actually figure out how to do it themselves before they get A loan you might be thinking are you crazy why would you loan diamonds to people that you just said are too afraid to get their own diamonds well that’s the thing on a server like ours where anybody can start a shop for any reason and sell anything for diamonds if you’ve got the Goods you can get diamonds to pay back a loan without ever needing to mine anything you might say well what if people aren’t active on the server what if the loans dry up what if people just decide to up and quit and leave the server guess what you’re not trying to Get people on your server who don’t want to play regularly you’re trying to get the people who want to dedicate half their free time to the game or more on a side note if you’re worried of inviting strangers on the internet and trusting them on your server maybe you need an interview Process for who gets to come on at any rate eventually people are gonna have to pay back their loan and when they come back they’re gonna have to pay some kind of interest rate we haven’t worked out exactly what our interest rate is gonna be I think that it should Be very low though but in any case when they come back to pay they once again are adding a little bit more diamonds than they brought out to be honest we haven’t fully implemented this on our server yet but I wanted to share it with the Minecraft YouTube community and the Server community at large because I think it’s a good idea I think it incentivizes people to shop it incentivizes new players to begin shops and it incentivizes everybody to do something in a game that is called minecraft mining I mean I know we all wanted the cave update but diamonds are Still important go get them maybe this all doesn’t make sense to you maybe you have a better idea for a currency system maybe I sound insane for wanting to make people take out loans in a game especially during a time when people are struggling financially but no I think the illusion of any kind of financial assistance would be nice at this time wouldn’t it as soon as we open our server to new players start our recruitment efforts via interviews then we’re probably going to start this program I think along the way I’ll be documenting how it works whether it Works at all in my youtube series so stick around whatever like I just said if you’ve got any better ideas please put them in the comments and if you like this kind of content if you like the tours I’ve been doing if you like these kind of videos on weird ideas about Minecraft please like this video and subscribe you Video Information
This video, titled ‘How to build a VANILLA SMP server 💎 economy NO PLUGINS, COMMAND BLOCKS or MODS!’, was uploaded by Grymgar on 2020-06-26 19:00:07. It has garnered 2044 views and 56 likes. The duration of the video is 00:04:03 or 243 seconds.
This is how you build a server economy without mods or plug ins, in vanilla Minecraft!
Update: Recently I have been calling this the line of credit on my new smp server called Stonecraft. Check out my videos and stay tuned for more ideas on Minecraft economy.
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