Here follows a brief introduction to the new Economy/Market system. As it's still new some of this may change as Broonie fixes/tweaks the system and code.

Commands:

• /balance
• /check
• /sell
• /buy
• /deposit
• /donate

Typing /balance will tell you how much money you have.
With money you can buy items. In order to buy a stack you need to have at least one of the type of item you require, select it in your inventory and type /check to check how much it will cost to buy a stack of that item. Then you can type /buy to purchase a stack.

You can get money in two ways, selling items to the market will earn you slightly less than half their sale value, (sale value / 2) - 1 to be precise. You select a full stack in your inventory and choose /sell. If the market has enough money it will buy the stack from you.
The second method is to deposit gold. While gold ingots are selected in your inventory type /deposit, these gold ingots are deposited into your account, crediting your account by 1 for each gold ingot in the current selection.

While I refer above to money and credits, the terms are also comparable to gold, though selling gold ingots is not the best way to put gold into your balance as the value of gold can vary with the market.

Currently the value of items will vary with their availability. As items become more abundant in the market their cost will drop (i.e. cobble is very cheap because there is a LOT available). In order to help reduce the cost of items and to help with stock levels you can donate items to the market. This is done by selecting a full stack and typing /donate. You receive no credits/money/gold for donating, a warm fuzzy feeling is about the best you can expect.

(edit 09/09/11 /chk is now /check)

For those that wish for that warm fuzzy feeling, look no further.



Anyway, I do advise against donating rare items. Such as diamonds, and iron/gold bars/blocks.

But please donate any kitable item, and easily made. This means that it will be harder for one person to drain the entire market place with pine leaves for example.

While a full stack of gold ingots are selected in your inventory type /deposit, these gold ingots are deposited into your account for 64 credits.

nand

You can deposit any amount of Gold, it doesn't have to be a stack.

Nice post.

lol ! 2 Women Hugging A Ball Crashing Togather = Nuclear Bomb xD Yay Economy System ! ^_^

It should be noted that the market is far from perfect at the moment.

There are several factors that will change this.

1. The stock on the marketplace will reflect the rarity of items in the actual game. Biggest problem so far are kitable items. doublestep, flowers ect..

2. People will constantly mine gold and add it to their balance. This means that gold will eventually devalue. Making some of those ridiculous prices reasonable.

3. Come 1.8. Right now there is no demand for building materials, at least among those with the money. With 1.8 demand for large projects grow along with resources and money will flow into the market.


The only items I have bought so far have been tnt, tnt powder, sand and signs.