Buxville - 140 plugins - The one Notch tweeted about!

This is Buxville, one of the longest running, feature packed SMP Minecraft servers. We have a stable base of reliable admins and mods and are always looking for more players to expand our awesome community!

Notch Shout-Out For Buxville (from back when he still worked on Minecraft)



Buxville is a huge and dynamic world full of mature, creative and motivated players that help make the server a friendly and exciting place to be. With many server plug-ins it is far from Vanilla but sticks to the core principles that everyone should be able to mine and build while offering some of the most advanced grief and theft protection there is. There is never a time when the world is lifeless and many reasons why, If you would like to Join the server please read the entire post (It's long but you wont regret reading it all :P) and there are instructions at the bottom.

Sites

Website and Forums

Queue

Wiki

Chat-Box (IRC)

Status Feed

World Maps

View of the current 2D and 3D map
(With live player tracking!)


Buxville Roles System

Our Roles system transforms the sandbox game into an addictive RPG that encourages all players to interact and help each other in order to excel. It provides a goal that gives you motivation for all the mundane tasks.The core elements remain, so it is still the game that you know and love. The role structure is carefully crafted so that each Role has important perks which are balanced with the others. It does not take away the core elements, that make Minecraft so great, from any of the players. Everyone is able to mine, farm, hunt, and build just the same as they could in the normal game (with a few small exceptions). It is possible to have every role, but it will take hard work and patience. 

There are 19 Roles:

• Alchemy
• Banking
• Combat
• Construction
• Control
• Demolition
• Gaming
• Gathering
• Husbandry
• Mechanics
• Mysticism
• Omerta
• Shopkeeping
• Storage
• Trading
• Travel
• Zoning
• Teaching
• Donor Status
  

Everyone starts out as a peasant, without a role. Much like throughout history the peasants are the ones who fuel the economy with resources that they have collected through the standard means, then the players with roles buy those items to use, sell on for profit , or make into more advanced items to use or sell on for profit. As you advance in the world you gain ranks in your role much like your social class. The lowest ranks of the roles offer basic perks but as you rank up the possibilities for profit and fun increase, but so does the cost. This process requires patience and for many members will take weeks and months but it always feel worth it when you reach the next level. With every rank you go up in your role, you unlock new abilities and perks. Not to mention more respect from within your role and on Buxville; sometimes even a shiny new chat color as well .

You'll need to make your first Bux (The currency on Buxville) by working for others, selling mined materials to a shopper, working on tree farms, you name it. Once you've made enough Bux to join a role, you'll have an important decision to make!

The Economy

Currency and Trading

Buxville server has a plugin that provides a way to track a real currency in game at all times. This currency (we lovingly call it Bux) is used to pay for materials, products, teleport services, ranks and so on. This currency is really involved in everything that happens on Bux.

There are plenty player run shops in Buxville, run by people from the Trader caste who have the ability to trade items straight to the server. They are thus an ideal middleman to sell your spare materials to, and make yourself some early Bux!

Complex Economics

The value's of the items that Traders can buy and sell with the server is dynamic, rising and falling based on supply and demand. The shop automatically and immediately increases the value of materials and items when they are being bought from the shop, and decreases the value when people are selling their wares to the city even reaching a point where an oversold item becomes worthless. This creates an awesome dynamic economy, where smart people can play the market and get rich, and cunning players will try to stockpile materials until prices rise again.

 Buxville also runs an advanced script which provides random economic events. These simulate events occurring in the world which have an instant effect on the value of certain items in the Buxville shop. Traders often collect and hoard many different products and materials to be able to instantly profit during these events. Try and outsmart 'em, but be careful, as hoarding can be profitable only if you're patient!

The Features of Buxville

Magic

Everyone on Buxville has access to the /cast command. Basically the magic system is a list of spells, you can learn spells in different ways. 2 spells (Mark and Recall) are learnt after peasant completes part of his mentoring and other spells are only learnt by paying a Senator and above to teach it to them or by finding a very rare magic bookcase that may still be dotted around the world.

More Information on Magic

CraftBook Installations

Lifts
Lifts can be made by anyone and offer easy travel up and down the map taking a lot of tedium out of making and moving around towers and mines. To make a lift you simply make a sign with [Lift Up] or [Lift Down] with the corresponding opposite lift directly in line with it. The other lines can be used for detail, the standard for lift signs is writing the current level on the top line and following level underneath.

More Information on Lifts

Bridges
Bridge's can only be made by Tradesmen and above, they instantly fill a gap with the blocks at each end and can be used for drawbridges. They are made much like lift's are but with [Bridge] on the second line. The bridge must be made of 3 of the same accepted blocks (expensive blocks not possible) with a sign in the centre facing another bridge sign with the same set-up.

More Information on Bridges

Integrated Circuits
Integrated Circuits (IC's) are much more complicated that the other installation's and are only available for placement by Genius's and above. Their purpose is to condense redstone circuits into signs to increase processing speed and space needed for advanced circuitry. Here are some examples:
[center]Sign Code (On second Line) - Function
[MC1000] - Repeater
[MC2020] - 3-bit random number generator
[MC1110] - Wireless transmitter[/center]

More Information on Integrated Circuits

Cauldrons
Higher ranked players from the Construction caste can build a cauldron. There are several unique and rare items which can be crafted in these cauldrons. You do this by actually placing a pattern of blocks in the cauldron, then activating it with a flick of the mouse, and *poof*, your crafting is done! There are even random cauldron events, where a special and usually valuable recipe is only available temporary, and one ingredient block is a mystery block!

More Information on Cauldrons

Skills
Skills are an essential part of the server, as it rewards players in a new way for their work. Not only does mining and woodcutting now grant the standard drop, it will also grant experience, and ultimately skill up for that specific stat. With higher skill comes better bonuses. Where woodcutting and mining enables double drop for every block destroyed, other skills, such as excavation enables entirely new resources to be found when digging. Herbalism will give you the ability to plant grass, or even create mossy cobblestone. Repairing (mechanics role feature) will allow broken tools to gain their durability back. Taming will boost your pet wolves combat capability. Every weapon (including unarmed) is also covered to give minor edges in pvp combat. Such as igniting people with a bow and arrow. Disarming your opponent for a short time when fighting unarmed. Parry attacks using swords. And ultimately dealing double damage on chance with your axe.

Every ability has it's unique features and perks. Some will even come with actual abilities that can be used for faster harvesting, better loot or just dealing more damage in combat. In a persistent world, persistent rewards are granted through leveling up these individual stats.

More Information on Skills

NPC Quests
There are three types of quests: bribed, random and trader.

 Bribed quests are quests started by Omerta. Their clients will sometimes ask from them to bribe a quest, and will ask that in that quest, a certain item should be used as quest item. Of course, as part of the Bribe, the item used in the quest, as well as the starting NPC may be specified, which makes these type of quests very powerful.

Random quests are semi-scripted events that give players an opportunity to make quick Bux in many ways and give boost to the economy though increasing demand. At random times during the day a NPC quest will pop up in the chat log with a quote from 1 NPC and you have to figure out what NPC it is and rush to him. Once you talk to him (using you book) you can see and accept his quest, which will be to take a number of a certain item to another given NPC.

Trader quests are given to traders, where they can hand in a certain amount of an item in return for a Bux reward.

More Information on NPC Quest

And a lot more!

To be fair, we won't post all the features we have. Why? Because we want you to discover everything yourselves. This doesn't even consider the fact that if we did post everything, this would be unbearably long.
 So, take your time, join, and feel free to explore. You will find that even though most features are role-based, there's still plenty around. So, join us, and discover Buxville!

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!!!How To Get Whitelisted!!!

This post only describes a small part of our features and fun, go read our Wiki and/or Forum if you want the full beef! Do you want to join the Buxville community? Are you already having troubles deciding which role to start with? 

If you'd like to get on Buxville, please post your info as a reply in this thread:
- IGN (in-game name):
- Possible referral (can leave empty)

If you enjoy Buxville, please vote for us by clicking this link: http://minestatus.net/78-buxville/vote (takes a few seconds, no registering required!)

Make sure you have read and understand our server rules.

You will see older templates providing more information, but we now have an extensive in-game Tutorial zone, thus this information no longer needs to be posted here, you will learn all about it once you're in game!

Note: it can take minutes, hours, or days to be whitelisted, depending on how busy we are. If you can't wait, then read the next section regarding donating.

If and when you register on our forum, please make sure you register with the exact same name as your Minecraft name (IGN). This includes capitalization!

Donate for Instant Access

A donation gets you whitelisted and reservelisted by our automated Perks system, within a few minutes after your donation - just make sure the name you donate with matches your Minecraft username!

Donating has other advantages as well, ranging from Sprint and Jump abilities, to a Vault and even an entire private Island, which only you can access! Click the link below for more information:

Donate!

Buxville is one of the biggest, oldest, and most popular MC Survival servers around. We launched in October 2010 and have over 60,000 whitelisted players. Join us for the complete MC experience!