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hello Dacon,
I was just wondering, the fly perk on parkour from the Canada Chest that allows you to fly in spawn / lounge, so will you just disable it when spawn parkour comes back or will you just do something to still let people fly in spawn and lounge but not spawn parkour?
Thank you...
 

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- Will Survival be updated to 1.16 on, before, or after S7(or do you know)
- How many people have asked you things they should have asked other players about or looked up on the wiki ;P (in thousands if you prefer)
- Definitely by S7, maybe before though
- trillions

Dacon, how did you like the elections and your loss?
What inspired you to create manacube?
where did the name come from?
- what loss? i won fairly and not rigged at all
- server i played on shut down
- it was originally going to be a 2nd magic themed network back in 2015 but I never got around to finishing it. Then end of 2016 I wanted to rebrand minevast and loved to use that name. Funny thing, I had bought the domain for $19, but let it expire and had to pay $5k to get it back a year later from one of those domain reseller sites.... >.<

Hello Dacon!
I have a few questions:

- Why did you change the name of the server from Minevast to Manacube?
- Will there ever be coinflips on parkour?
- Do you ever feel overwhelmed with owning the server by yourself?
- Wouldn't having 6 champ maps on parkour be too OP? That would be around 18-24k mana each week (or 42k every 2 weeks)!!!

Thank you for going out of your way to answer all of these questions on the forums! :D
- We were going to partner with some youtubers and they wanted a fresh name, I also liked the idea of rebranding with a more theme-able name
- Yes
- It can be overwhelming sometimes but I have an awesome team that takes care of so much
- May have to rebalance it or limit how many champ maps u can do in a day

What was the process of making the server and how did it get popular?
We have a full history section coming very soon on our wiki, will post in discord when released :)


What happened to the witch class in Olympus trials? It's a rebirth reward but hasn't worked since at least season 2.
will be added with upcoming ancient trials update


Since (I assume) you agree that Boom looks like Tom Holland, do you think there should be a Spiderboom/Boomerman movie? And if yes, which of those titles do you think fits the best?
Oh god please no

hello Dacon,
I was just wondering, the fly perk on parkour from the Canada Chest that allows you to fly in spawn / lounge, so will you just disable it when spawn parkour comes back or will you just do something to still let people fly in spawn and lounge but not spawn parkour?
Thank you...
you'll be able to fly in spawn but not while doing spawn parkour
 

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#63
Sorry for like the umpteenth question I put on this thread but might as well - my thought processes aren't exactly predictable

- Is the End going to be reset before S7? making a large alien-world outpost and want to know if it's gonna get yeeted or if it's safe for the season.

- [If you want to] What do you think of my skin? been getting conflicting opinions on it some hate it some like it but I spent far too much time on it :p | [Front] | [Back] | [PC go boom version] |

Thanks! <3
 
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Any ETA on when you'll be able to take a bit more care of Skyblock? Both Aztec and Oasis have been really low priority, and with Factions and Survival reset I can understand it, but any sort of timeframe in which Skyblock can be maintained and whenever we can get the fastplace perk fixed, along with sword enchants and trials, would be really nice.
 

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Parkour races for Cubits besides Mana?
 

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#66
Sorry for like the umpteenth question I put on this thread but might as well - my thought processes aren't exactly predictable

- Is the End going to be reset before S7? making a large alien-world outpost and want to know if it's gonna get yeeted or if it's safe for the season.

- [If you want to] What do you think of my skin? been getting conflicting opinions on it some hate it some like it but I spent far too much time on it :p | [Front] | [Back] | [PC go boom version] |

Thanks! <3
- No, it is safe to build in
- I like it! very unique

Any ETA on when you'll be able to take a bit more care of Skyblock? Both Aztec and Oasis have been really low priority, and with Factions and Survival reset I can understand it, but any sort of timeframe in which Skyblock can be maintained and whenever we can get the fastplace perk fixed, along with sword enchants and trials, would be really nice.
demon fortress + a bunch of bugfixes/minor updates are coming

Parkour races for Cubits besides Mana?
sounds good
 

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Do we have any information on the islands reset? It has been dead for a good couple of months now and is in dire need of reset. Will it be completely revamped like skyblock and survival? Will all infinity chest on every server slowly be changed to the new one introduced in survival? (with timed sells). Is w/e a fixable problem for the admins on skyblock or is a problem in the plugin? Who wins in a fight a chicken or a penguin? :D
 

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Question One
How did you start ManaCube? (Was it a dare? Was it something you had planned for a while?)

Question Two
Where did you come up with the name Dacon?

Question Three
How did you choose a penguin as your avatar?

Question Four
How does it feel going onto ManaCube and seeing so many players on your server?

Question Five
What is your favorite food?

Question Six
What is your favorite thing to do?

Question Seven
What type of music do you listen to?

Question Eight
Would you share server secrets for free, or for money? (For example: Would you share the secret of /shout for $20?)

Question Nine
What's the feeling when I tell you I named my alternative account xDaconFan?

Question Ten
What's your dog's name?

Last question
Do you like my pics <3

Good day to you dacon !
 
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#75
When does Jay get owner?
when i die

Do we have any information on the islands reset? It has been dead for a good couple of months now and is in dire need of reset. Will it be completely revamped like skyblock and survival? Will all infinity chest on every server slowly be changed to the new one introduced in survival? (with timed sells). Is w/e a fixable problem for the admins on skyblock or is a problem in the plugin? Who wins in a fight a chicken or a penguin? :D
- will be updated with skyblock
- yeah
- fixable
- in no universe does the chicken beat a penguin

1. How do you think having a dev team to make custom plugins has helped manacube move forward?
2. What tips do you have for an aspiring server owner?
3. Eclipse or IDEA (or something else)? manacube uses idea
4. Ik this one's probably confidential so answer or don't: what server hardware do y'all use?
Followup: if you're a hardware guy, what hardware do you recommend for a mainstream server?

manacube uses rental hosting

5. What's your favorite food lol
6. What server(s) (within manacube) do you enjoy playing the most?

ty dacon, have a great day :)
1. probably biggest reason
2. don't give up after 6 months lol
4. most servers use Intel Xeon-E 2288G - 8 c / 16 t - 3.7 GHz / 5 GHz, 32-64GB. mana currently uses 13 dedis

when do you first make this server?
september 2013

i have 2 questions:
1. what do you do with the money you get when people buy stuff in the store?
2. is it aluminium or aluminum?
1. usually 60%+ goes to paying for costs (servers, salaries, advertising, fees, builds, models etc.) the rest is saved and invested for I don't what yet.. maybe a standalone game one day.
2. aluimininimum

Question One
How did you start ManaCube? (Was it a dare? Was it something you had planned for a while?)

Question Two
Where did you come up with the name Dacon?

Question Three
How did you choose a penguin as your avatar?

Question Four
How does it feel going onto ManaCube and seeing so many players on your server?

Question Five
What is your favorite food?

Question Six
What is your favorite thing to do?

Question Seven
What type of music do you listen to?

Question Eight
Would you share server secrets for free, or for money? (For example: Would you share the secret of /shout for $20?)

Question Nine
What's the feeling when I tell you I named my alternative account xDaconFan?

Question Ten
What's your dog's name?

Last question
Do you like my pics <3

Good day to you dacon !
1. Made after a server I was admin on was sold/basically shutdown

2. it's a combination of my real name :p

3. Fav animal <3

4. FeelsGood. although 3 years ago I would be thrilled at 1000+ online, now I would be pissed if there isn't at least 1000..

5. Sushi

6. Sleep

7. basically everything, I do like no lyric soundtrack music when working though, helps me focus better

8. Lmaoo what's the secret of /shout??

9. I lol'd

10. Obi (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

11. they're cute, gj
 

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Dacon will you ever hire me to be owner :p (like fr i deserve it im awesome)

Also where did the name manacube come from
 

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#77
why can't i get book and quill in aether i want to go in cano naked with a signed book and quill that says
So you've killed someone...
Like a pamphlet
 

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#78
1) Where did you get the idea of cubits?
2) On the forums do you use light mode or dark mode (same question for discord)
3) What's your favorite gamemode on Manacube (it better be survival)
4) Bedwars on Manacube? :eek:
5) Can you give me a cookie rating on this post? :p
 

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Hey Dacon,
I noticed, that the /fly perk on parkour has been heavyly restricted. The flight height has been limited to about 20 blocks. That basically destroys /fly perk. It makes it so useless. The reason for that was, that the SpawnPk Players were trolled. As of right now, there are more People that have /fly perk than doing SpawnPk. So my first concern is: Why restrict the /fly Perk, which you even have to pay for to get, when nobody actually plays SpawnPk. I barely see people playing SpawnPk. Another reason why i dont understand the restriction of /fly is that SpawnPk players can easily do /hide and wont get disturbed by flying people. There would be many ways to fix this. Im going to name 2 solutions to fix this.
1. Solution: Autohide on SpawnPk
If you enter SpawnPk, ur flight gets disabled. Why not hide all other Players when u do SpawnPk automatically and then reshow them if you fail.
2. Solution: Disable flight NEAR SpawnPk Players
Basically flight could be disabled if the Player with the /fly Perk comes into a certain radius (for example 10x10x10 blocks) of the SpawnPk player. That would also help the SpawnPk-players getting less annoyed. Also the players that have the perk could make use of /fly and have fun.
Since nobody is playing SpawnPk, this could also need a rework. Mostly SpawnPk doesnt get played cause of the terrible rewards. After you have reached 1000 Jumps theres no real reason why someone should touch SpawnPk again, except if they wanna go for the Emerald Block. Maybe a System that gives you higher rewards, the further you get would be more attractive.
I, and certainly some others, would appreciate it if these changes were mentioned and /fly could be fun again without restrictions.
Finally i wanted to notice you, that Elite-players have still no opportunity to claim their Elite-Key (/gkit Elite) for free on parkour. The only way to get them is by buying them.

I would be very thankful for an answer/statement.

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