Pig Spawners

[Yukar9]

Lots of people have complained about it being too hard to get food when you're new to the server. Even though I know some people like it that way as a sorta test for new players, we also need people new to minecraft to join this server, instead of just experienced people. So my suggestion is to add a couple protected pig spawners at random locations between 500 and 2k blocks from spawn, and to make it a little challenge probably put a skele/zombie/spider spawner nearby so you can't just farm them at ease. Thoughts and alternative ideas are very welcome.

[Xestia]

Don't particularly like it. If people don't know how to get food then this is quite simply the wrong server, I'm not saying you should have to be pro to play here, but this shouldn't be a kindergarten server either. Add some info about how to get food in /qa instead.

[SilasOfBorg]

I left everything behind during the server reset (intentionally) and really only started active play again a couple days ago, buck naked and without immediate allies.

Difficult? Yes. "Too hard"? No way. It was a nice challenge, once that required some ingenuity to solve. I would have been rather disappointed to find a pig spawner 500 blocks out.

I don't think we're there yet -- once it becomes physically impossible to run far enough to find tall grass and/or trees without dying of starvation, I think some divine intervention might be necessary.

[RevStoningpot]

People can breed animals now so we sure don't need to worry about lack of animals. All you need to do to get a good start is wait till morning and collect up some bones and rotten flesh. with bones you can grow your own grass for seeds and then grow wheat good and quick. It is so easy i find bitching about the lack of food laughable. ha ha ha

[Ellidon]

I, also, think this is a bad idea. I just recently joined the server, and I love the fact that you have to fend for yourself. If there had been any sort of "easy" food I probably would have quit. It's one of the reasons I never joined a server with a built in shop; the game just gets too easy. Rev is right the idea that you can't get food is laughable.

[trouble_355]

you can sprint about 1000 blocks before starving to death so if people are unable to find any trees they are doing something wrong.

perhaps leave some signs guiding people how to survive rather than giving them easy food. there's many ways to get food now so it should be even easier. I bet you the people who constantly starve to death are the same people who come to the server and ask "why don't I have build rights?"

[Xestia]

Add some info about how to get food in /qa instead.

Yeah, it's mostly the same group of people who ask where the trees are, why they can't build, is hacking allowed, and where they can get food.

[pianiseemo]

I really don't mind writing a guide on how to get out of spawn and go as far as you want in the first few days lol