Obtaining nether materials in the new map

i know it is yet to be discussed if costum drops should return or not, but that aside, there might be other ways to obtain rare items. Im mostly focusing on the materials your usualy only getting from the nether. Netherrack, Soul Sand and Glowstone are all very useful and decorative and i think it would only be fair if players would gain any kind of access to them.
Ive thought of some ideas for that, but i dont want you to be limited on only those.
Add your own thoughts if you got some.

Nether Server:
This idea has been discussed before and is most unlikely to come true since it would require a second server.

Costum Drops:
This idea had been realized already as most of you may know. I would be fine if nether materials were even rare, but at least there needs to be any legal way to obtain them.

Tiny Nether replica on the server:
This is a new idea. How about creating a single big area that is made as a nether biome. Players can mine the materials they need and after a certain time, the area gets rolled back. It could also be made into a kind of adventure. For like lets say the nether "spreads" out of a large nether gate in the center and its the players quest to fight back the spreading and try to destroy the gate for a reward.

Your ideas:
Add more ideas if you come up with anything. Im not trying to push anyone. Im just doing this for a collab of ideas and possible inspirations.

The biggest argument to not having nether materials dropping from mobs, was that it was unfair for those who had a lot and couldn't front it at the price they wanted anymore. That shouldn't be a problem anymore :p Easy access to nether materials are not a bad thing.

I'd say it's ok to get nether materials, but... make them rare; they are actually used for rare things, I mean... You don't actually build with them or anything.

You kidding? Best docks ever are made with Soulsand (boats don't break when the hit them) and eliminate ugly torches with Glowstone

Ugly torches aren't ugly.

PetePorty wrote:I'd say it's ok to get nether materials, but... make them rare; they are actually used for rare things, I mean... You don't actually build with them or anything.

I wouldnt be so sure about the "no one uses themt o build anything" part.
Im planning to make a nether style house with nether gate entrance, netherrack floor, soul sand rugs and glowstone ciecling lights, also including lava falls

I'm thinking they should be added to admin shops at the spawn, but do we want them as a rarer item or a more common item?

Well ,orc don't you still have they other two servers ,would,it make sense to just have one of them as a nether server.

Common item. Keep them uninteresting to circulate.

darkxephos wrote:Well ,orc don't you still have they other two servers ,would,it make sense to just have one of them as a nether server.

It would indeed, the only problem being serverport is a complete clusterfuck, I was trying it about a week ago on two servers and just couldn't get anything going between them.

I agree that they might as well be reasonably common (cheap).

Problem is that selling them from the admin shops...everything from the admin shops is super expensive to buy. (bread 60 gil a piece, wood pickaxe 100 gil, stone pick 250 gil, etc).

So if nether items are the only cheap ones at the store, then newbs might buy tons of them instead of the beginner materials.

Maybe as a common mob drop? Make every spider that you kill drop 1 glowblock or one netherrack or whatever. That's tough to exploit because its not like you can find and kill 5000 spiders a night or something, but at the same time its not overly tough to get some.

I'll set droprates to ~50%, I wouldn't want a situation where people were making glowstone houses rather than mud huts.

Yay for nether materials! Do zombies drop them btw?

Each common mob drops a block from the Nether.

So, I hear diamond blocks are pretty common over in the nether

i suggest a like 30% or so chance to drop mossy from a mob