The Return of SphereTown

[Maya546]

SphereTown is back under Version 3.0!!
Some of you may have gotten some sneak peeks in the last few weeks, but we are officially announcing the return of the SFT classic SphereTown! We usually do this every few years, with the last being Wppvater's own SphereTown 2.1 back in 2020 (here) so we decided to once again start it up!

Now, some of you may not have been around back when it initially began, so I will let our own MordalThunder (from 2013) explain it:

February 2011 - A manager (Fractalion) decides to build a weird town made out of worldedited spheres called Spheretown. Each of these spheres had its own mini-biome and people could live in spheres. It turns out this "Spheretown" becomes a huge success, everyone over the internet talks about it (reddit, etc) and before you know it, a famous youtuber whom i never knew about (shameful me), joins the server and asks if he can be given flymod to film Spheretown. We agreed, helped him and what happened next is truly a legend.

That famous youtuber was nobody else than CaptainSparklez. His video Spheretown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HKXMxQbW8) helped sft recover from the private community laying in ruins to a public server even stronger than it was before the attack. His video quickly becomes viral and before you know it we start getting hundreds or even thousands of joins each day, all asking about spheretown. This is also when we moved the server to a professional datacenter.

Now, let's get into the specifics of how we are going to operate SphereTown! It is important that we keep it organized while also maintaining the fun that it brings to SFT.

The original SphereTown had biomes as well as areas to live in, whereas more recent versions only allowed you to build biomes. Therefore, we are going to be reverting to the original SphereTown to allow you to build a biome OR a home within the sphere! Since it is a big decision, every player is allowed to have TWO spheres! This may change in the future depending on the number of players who build, so get all your friends to participate (:

Since you are allowed to have two spheres, you are allowed to build two biome spheres OR one biome sphere and one house sphere. The price of the Biome Sphere is approximately 100k emp and a House Sphere is 150k, which we thought is a fair price with our economy!

There are SOME limitations as to what you can build, but not too many that would impede you guys from having fun. The rules for the spheres are as follows (subject to change):
  All builds must be appropriate and legal.
  No building outside of the Spheres.
  No breaking the Sphere glass and replacing it with other blocks.
  No changing the color of the Sphere glass unless given permission.
  No blocking the entrances to any of the Spheres.
  No water or lava should come out of Spheres.

Now! If you wish to start setting up your Sphere in SphereTown, go to /warp SphereTownv3, contact a Manager+ and pay them the specified fee, then they will add you to a Sphere's protection. Please be patient, as we are a small team! If you continuously demand a Sphere or harass Manager+ DMs, we will not allow you to participate.

I hope to see all of you as neighbors soon in SphereTown!! And a very, very special shout out to Nicadean33, one of our Admins, for setting up all of the Spheres and main area that we will be calling home soon!

[NotChocobo654321]

can i have a square sphere

[Nicadean33]

can i have a square sphere

Absolutely. They're all square spheres, I got confused in the making.

Can't wait to see the creativity of everyone!

[Fractalion]

I am a person that has been known to like big floating things, and I approve.

[Nicadean33]

I am a person that has been known to like big floating things, and I approve.

Would love to see a Fractalion sphere make a reappearance!