Appeal using the correct format in the ban appeal section.
Its fairly self explanatory.

@FlashFood
As for the elytra/dragon egg idea, that is meant to be a one-time balance deduction, not something that you are able to get as a reward in a slot machine. I like the idea of getting an egg through that system and for a set amount of votes. I think the elytra would be worth something around 2 or 3 months of votes, with a dragon egg being worth half a year of them in my mind. Since it isn't required to have an egg to re-summon the dragon I don't see something wrong with having a one-of-a-kind item like it available to people after a very long amount of time and dedication (voting) to the server.

I have been wanting the concept of armor recycling in Minecraft since I started playing in 1.4, it just seemed like something that belonged in a game about crafting and gather resources to suit your unique playing style. With the advent of rabbit hide it is very close to becoming a reality. I don't think the ratio should necessarily be something that people are "happy" with, it should be something that gives people the opportunity to salvage armor for their components. Full, unused armor should be able to be traded for something like a ratio of 1/8 of what the component armor was worth in my mind. A chest plate of leather would be worth 8 leather, so 32 rabbit hide. 1/8 of that would be 4 rabbit hide or 2 normal leather. For gold the ratio would have to jump to 1/9 because of its recipe and mineral value, so for a chest plate of 9 gold 9 nuggets would be returned, or 1 ingot. Iron would be the hardest to come up with a ratio for due to the absence of a component material, but imagining a ratio valued a little less than the suggested leather one would be something to consider. Backwards and side crafting is already in the game with the different recipes for diortie, granite, andesite from/to cobblestone, lapis to blue dye, beetroot for red dye, or even coarse dirt to and from normal dirt. I just think the ratio is something that needs to be played with. Being able to convert items around to suit your needs is what I would consider a key component of Minecraft, and the armor conversion would fit it really well.

How does teleporting horses encourage people to be lazy? Wouldn't having a random teleporter to get within 10k outside of spawn be lazy? It equivalent to a type of fast-travel in an open-world game. Something that simplifies a mechanic that comes with an open world game in a way that doesn't break the game. I don't think allowing people to tp their favorite horse that they have named with them is OP, its just a way to make traveling simpler. If anything by giving them a better way to travel it encourages people to travel and collect resources more because of the easier level of mobility.

How would implementing a unique feature to the game using command blocks or NBT tags be anything different than what is done now, or even leave the realm of vanilla play? We have a system in place that teleports people to and from their home, the end, spawn, rooms that teleport you outside of spawn for enchantment and furnace rooms, villagers that some trades not existent in the game, none of these exist in normal vanilla play. Why not branch into custom items? Its something to consider I'd think. Baron has given out items that have enchantments unobtainable on normal items, I have a wood sword from him with max bow enchants called the splinter. It doesn't even have to be anything OP, just something like a "lucky rabbits foot" that applies speed 1 when you hold it. A "bottle of air" that gives you water breathing when you stand still underwater once every so often (I don't think is very feasible or balanced but its a concept). They could even be consumable items that are available for voting a number of times. I think the staff team is more than capable of doing it.

And for non-VIPs they would have a fair way to reset it if they are trying to use the teleport multiple times.

You said it in your very post.
A "one of a kind item".
Its not exactly fair to devalue all the work people put into getting the egg by just making it a reward.

As for eltrya there is an argument since they are useful.
However its kind of unfair to devalue all the effort people put into collecting them.
Its not like theres none left, collect them yourselves.

Minecraft is a resource collecting game.
It sort of defeats the purpose of gathering materials when you can get them back after using them for all they are worth.
Its kinda equivlant to saying we should making crafting recipes cheaper.

The Teleporter is there to prevent spawn getting nuked and to allow new players to get fresh resources without being camped.
Its not there to make the game easier.
We arent here to make the gamer easier for you, its easy enough without us doing that.

People come to craftymynes for a purish vanilla experience.
They dont come here for doing everything that can be done with plugins in vanilla. If they did they would go to a spigot server.
Theres a difference between a useless sword like splinter and something that radically alters gameplay like permant speed 1 making the game even easier for no reason.
It also creates a huge unbalance in PVP.

You haven't actually provided any reason to implement these suggestions beyond that you'd like them because it makes it easier.

@FlashFood
Being able to tp horses named with a nametag (I'm guessing having a predetermined name would make this easier) to tp with you using the book when tping home, to spawn, or to others.

Hold items that when in your off hand give you a buff like speed or regen. Buyable only from spawn? Gainable from parkour? Vote slots?

Vote slot rewards - Dragon Eggs and Elytra? Make them very rare? There was discussion to have them worth a month or more votes minimum (90 votes). Dragon eggs two or more months?

Villagers that trade battered armor for ingots and gold nuggets.

Rip Off Rodney having a very unfair Notch Apple trade after a period long enough that they are all found in the natural loot chests.

Minecraft is a game of collecting resources, i dont think we should be encouraging people to be lazy with teleporting horses.

People come here to play a reasonably minimal vanilla experience, not to have people running arround and killing people with items that bestow effects.

Dragon egg is a once off for a good reason.
As for elytra there may be some discussion about that but we need to factor in players who already have them losing out.

Armour recycling is hardly survival.
Its just making the game unessecarily easy.

The chances of every single notch apple being taken are miniscule.
We have a 400k squared map its not our job to unbalance the economy and encourage laziness.

@iiTzzJojooo @R4iscool1 urr entitled to your own opinion.. in my eyes, I was harassed and ridiculed.

Yes but objectively viewed it isn't.
Nor is it the eyes of any of the staff.
So ultimately it's only your bias.

@iiTzzJojooo As I've said I'm out, but he destroyed my home my things... Isint that ruining my experience if I lose everything? Again I'm not replying anymore @Mabzino > yes dawn you've said but take into consideration what i said as the staff are are suppose to help not "harras" @Blackened_Dawn no intention to disrupt or be arrogant , just this sever is great but people need to learn not to cross the line.

That isn't harassment that's normal vanilla pvp playing.
If you can't deal with that craftymynes isn't the place for you ultimately.

@Oolfa i cant win this war. its me trying to make a point against a biased unit of higher power. even with proof. y'all will find a way. so i guess ill leave this as is. someone lock this thread plz. im out.

How is asking for Proof biased ?
Is the judge biased when they ask for proof that the murderer did it ?

@iiTzzJojooo its not the raiding or killing part its danny's attiude, he's staff and treats reg players like trash

He is allowed to do so.
He is a normal player too.

Jojo that is allowed. Danny can play like a normal player.

Oofla ultimately you have no evidence backing your claims and your observations differ entirely from mine.

Bump time changed.

I will be auctioning off 1-2 sets of elytra's on sunday at 8.00GMT/1.00MST.
Starting price is 10 Diamond Blocks.
Auction will be held on 1.8 server to prevent spamming 1.9 Chat.