Important Boosting Value, Minimum Prices and Competitive Rules

[_iGhostly]

Boosting Value, Minimum Prices, and Competitive Rules

This thread covers everything there is to know about the 'boosting value' and 'competition' rule.

Before we start...

• We are going to hand out verbal warnings for minor offences. Note that this is purely at our discretion, and if you get struck immediately while someone else receives a verbal warning instead, there is a reason for that, so don't use it as an argument to support your claim.
• This thread is subject to change at any time without prior notice. It is your responsibility to check it regularly to see if anything changes.
• If you feel like something written here should be changed, please suggest it HERE.
• While we don't strictly disallow some actions, we clearly label them here as something you shouldn't do. Failing to follow that might get you punished.
• If you get punished for boosting/sharing value, your disqualification is permanent throughout the whole season.
• Other disqualifiable actions, which are not listed here, are purely at your own risk.
• Based on the boosting situation, the island that boosted and the island that received the boost may both be punished, only one may face consequences, or neither, depending on the circumstances. The decision is made at our discretion based on the severity.
• Betraying your island, whether by selling ores to other islands, intentionally playing on multiple islands, or any other action that jeopardizes island competition, may result in punishment. The decision will be made at our discretion based on the situation.

What is boosting/sharing value?
Boosting/sharing value is an act of using shady or forbidden ways to increase your/another island's value. This results in a disqualification from the Island Top competition. Below, you can see what is allowed and what is not. Note that some items have minimum prices for which you can sell them, so going lower might get you punished.

• Selling spawners/mines world ores for a low price- Disallowed
  • Certain items have specific values attached to them, which competitive players are expected to follow. Read further to find out the exact values of each item. Note that going below them may get you punished.
• Making a public grinder- Disallowed
  • A public grinder is an area where players can teleport to kill mobs from your spawners, so you can get the loot from them. Competitive players are not allowed to profit in this way, and you can get punished for making such a grinder.

TRADING

• While trading Excessive amounts of spawners/In-game money for Pika Gold, Pika GiftCards, Gkits, Ranks, or any other goldshop item, it must follow the standard conversion rate of 500b=100gold.
• For Goldshop items, the conversion rate is based on the undiscounted price, which means an item that costs 5000 gold without a discount can be traded for 25 trillion or an equivalent amount of spawners
• Backpacks bought must be empty, and the buyer should have a small clip of the backpack they purchased being empty to ensure, no shady methods were involved in transferring ores
  • If you fail to record/prove that the backpacks were empty while trading, it may result in your island being struck/disqualified
• Ores (Normal and enchanted) must be sold only at the player shop for money, no other forms of currency are allowed to trade Ores (Normal/Enchanted) cause of the loopholes or shady methods used

Disallowed Item List for gifting/giving away

• Mine World Ores
• Spawners
• Sell Wands
• Head Wands
• Crystal Wands
• Money
• Booster
• Booster gkit voucher
• Backpacks
• Temporary Infinite chests

Allowed Item List for gifting/giving away

• Any rank or gkit voucher (other than booster)
• Seasonal keys
• Level Skips
• Premium pass
• Tags
• Gsets/Gswords
• Seasonal armors (Except those that involve money boost)
• Kits

Minimum⁴ prices for mines world ores (per one normal ore) and spawners

• Aquamarine: $1.4 million OR 700 experience
• Jade: $1.4 million OR 700 experience
• Opal: $2 million OR 1k experience
• Ruby: $1.1 million OR 550 experience
• Sapphire: $700k OR 350 experience
• Silver: $350k OR 175 experience
• Topaz: $550k OR 175 experience
• Tourmaline: $200k OR 100 experience
• Spawners should be purchased at a price equal to or greater than the price listed in /shop to maintain fairness in the economy. Any transactions below this threshold will be considered a violation of the rules and may result in penalties

All Competition Rules

Competition rules:

Cooperative island spam->
Flooding the chat as an island and making it unreadable will result in an island punishment instead of a standard warning/mute. This means if multiple island members are sending the same message or similar in the public chat with the goal of spamming, the island will get struck. Does not apply when the entire server is typing 'L', 'LOL', or similar when someone gets banned/struck/etc.

Strikes-
First offense: 1 strike
Second offense: 2 strikes
Third offense: 3 strikes
Fourth offense: 4 strikes

Economy Script ->
Using any form of modification (which does not apply to automatic mob farms) to automatically grind resources for the island. Includes alt accounts.

Strikes-
First offense: 4 strikes + a cheating ban for the involved user
Second offense: 6 strikes + a cheating ban for the involved user

Island-wide Cheating->
Having 3 or more players from your island banned for cheating-related offenses, screen share bans, ban evasions of cheating-related bans, or ban evasions of screen share bans. Kicking the players and cheating on alts are also included.

Strikes-
First offense: 5 strikes
Second offense: 6 strikes

Server Abuse->
Crashing, exploiting bugs, duping, and similar. Even if one person from your island does it, the entire island may get affected. This will lead to the abuser getting banned and your island getting struck and possibly disqualified (depending on the severity of the offense). It also includes using tracker bots(these bots are automated to track vanished staff).

Strikes-
First offense: 4 strikes
Second offense: 8 strikes

Sharing Value/Boosting->
Boosting other islands or getting boosted by other islands with spawners, money, or other currencies for them to achieve an Island Top place or similar. Includes trading money/spawners for Buycraft and similar. Having accounts on multiple islands also falls under this rule
Buying spawners/money from disqualified island is strictly disallowed, buying ores from disqualified island is allowed only for an appropriate price as per the current economy and average sell prices, and only for money (Gold/Rank/Other Gshop items are not allowed)

Strikes-
First offense: 10 strikes

All these rules can also be viewed in-game using /is warns

If you have any questions, please contact a member of Team SkyBlock.
Current Team Skyblock members- @_iGhostly @Stormidity @Florinyo @zNqtix @Cyb0rgMan

Changelogs

• 16/02/2025-Selling (Excessive)Spawners or money for Gkit/Rank/Pika Gold/Pika Giftcard will now require confirmation about prices from team skyblock members before trading failing to do so will result in disqualification.
• 16/02/2025-Selling gkits/ranks for Pika gold or gift cards no longer requires any confirmation from Team Skyblock, however, it still applies.
• 22/02/2025-Made clarification in Boosting/Sharing value explanation about buying money/spawners/ore from disqualified islands.
• 30/03/2025-Complete revamp of the page