Getting started

If you only remember one thing, remember the order below. The rest of the page explains why.

In order, here is what to do

1. Accept the texture pack the game offers when you arrive. Without it, you cannot see the server's custom items.
2. Follow the path shown on the right of your screen. Its five steps give you 50,000$ in total (that is fifty thousand), 50 gems and an Epic Key. They ask you to head out on an adventure, to sell, to visit the Combat Zone, to take out a player, and to collect your daily reward.
3. Type /quete and pick up your objectives before you go off to play. They will count what you gather.
4. Type /rtp, choose the random teleport to get away from spawn, then /sethome wherever you settle.
5. Harvest what grows back, wheat and wood, rather than mining at random.
6. Type /worth to see what sells high right now, then /sell when your pockets are full.
7. Type /team and join a team: a shared base, a shared chest, and people to help you out.

Choose your first spot carefully

Go far from spawn: open /rtp and choose the random teleport. The menu also offers a fight against a randomly drawn player, so look before you click. The further out you are, the harder you are to find. Set your home with /sethome as soon as you have chosen, and give your coordinates to nobody, not even someone friendly. You get two: the Settling in page explains how to set the second.

Do not mine blindly, produce

Common ore pays very little. What pays is what grows back: wheat, wood, anything you can redo in a loop without risk. Wheat sells for far more than coal, and you can make more of it forever.

Check the prices before you sell

Prices move on their own depending on what players are selling. Type /worth to see what is climbing right now, and sell that first.

Sell often, except just before a Happy Hour

You lose everything when you die, but your money stays. Sell with /sell as soon as your pockets are full, rather than piling things up in a chest. One exception: at 4pm, 8.30pm and 11.45pm, a randomly drawn resource sells for 50% more for fifteen minutes. That is the Happy Hour, announced in chat. If it is a resource you have stocked up, that is the moment.

Always head out light

Never take gear into a fight that you cannot afford to buy back. The best players die too, the difference is that they expect it.

Why quests are free money

/quete never asks you to go out of your way: they are objectives you complete by playing as usual. It is extra money for exactly what you were going to do anyway.

Do not stay on your own

Type /team. You do not need to know anyone: the menu shows a "Join a team" button with the number of teams currently recruiting. Together you share a base and a chest, and people come to avenge you. You can absolutely play alone, but everything is easier with someone.

Do not die stupidly on your first evening

The difficulty is set to hard: your food bar drops fast and monsters come out at night. Take something to eat, and dig yourself a hole for the first night rather than spending it outside.

Vote every day

/vote takes thirty seconds and gives you a crate key. A crate is a server chest: you open it with a key and draw a random reward. Thirty seconds, one key.

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