This topic is for the discussion of an idea our admin came up with, to use GLOWSTONE, an extremely valuable and useful item, used for light in places from underground, to underwater, to as streetlights, as nothing more than a Currency. This would extremely restrict the usage of it, as his proposition is that one Glowstone DUST has a value of around two million dollars. That would mean that, instead, you have to spend 18 million dollars to get one block of glowstone!

I offer a counter suggestion. Why not, instead, use slime balls as this rare currency? Slime balls have no current use, and are unable to obtain on the server, because the nether does not exist. This would allow for the citizens who wish to use glow stone to not have to rant about how over-priced it is, because it is probably the best and most useful item when it comes to light. it can be used to make streetlights, underwater lighting(for, say, a submarine pen), and can even be hooked up to redstone!

We can discuss this further in this topic. What do you guys think?

 

I myself have never run into a Slime, ever. In addition, the server has mobs set to off in the first place, So why would we need to worry? Haha.

 

But why? Glowstone is one of the most useful bricks on the server, And people wont be complaining about the fact that you've limited an extremely useful brick to be used only by extremely rich members like kraken(who i havent seen in awhile) or paranoid.

1. Glowstone can be used underwater
2. It is its own brick
3. It provides the most light of all
4. It can be used as design tools
5. it can be used in streetlights

Vs Slimeballs

1. You can throw it.

In addition, even if you accidently DID throw your slimeball, it would be your fault for throwing it, and losing it, as it is with every other item. By not choosing glowstone, you won't have me, or numerous other people, complaining for a long time about how you've, as i said before, limited an extremely useful object to the extremely rich.

The only reason you've really given us for your usage of glowstone, which many people want, not a super rare currency, but as a normal, purchasable item, is that it looks like a "pile of money" in whatever skin your using. No offense, but i just find it somewhat annoying that you're being somewhat stubborn on this. Alot of people dont want it as a rare currency. We, including myself, love the idea, just not the idea of using Glowstone for it.

 

Whatever. Since i apparently don't have a say in this, nor does my opinion matter any longer, I'll atleast be able to say i went down with a fight against this whole waste of glowstone.

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Multiple people, myself included, have been asking for glowstone since the server went public...