Guide for new Players

This is a guide for newer players on the SMP.
=== Getting Started ===
When you join the SniffSMP, you will be surrounded by a garden. Before you there will be signs highlighting the rules of the server. Around the spawn there is a region that may already have been claimed by some players who have created different factions. Your first choice after leaving spawn will be if you become a member of a pre-existing faction or if you create your own.
==== Joining a Faction ====
There are many factions on the server that are open to join. Here is a list of all factions on the server: Faction List. Beware that the list may not be up-to-date and may include factions that don’t accept new players. Many of the factions are also located far to the south and you would have to walk hundreds of blocks to get to their territory. 
You can ask members of factions if you can join or (in some factions) you could build your house in their territory and become a member automatically. It is easiest to contact the members of factions on the Discord server.
==== Creating a Faction ====
If you want to play alone or create a faction of your own that houses multiple players, you first need to find unclaimed territory. There you can settle and possibly invite others to join you. 
=== Your Time on the Server ===
You can now build, explore, fight other players (with their permission) and make redstone creations. If your story is important to you or you’ve created your own faction, you can add it to the wiki yourself. It is not guaranteed that someone else will do this as the wiki is a community project and is not run by the admins of the SMP. To join the wiki you will need to create a fandom account, that is thankfully very easy to create. 
==== Fighting in Wars ====
If you are a member of a faction, you can become a soldier and fight in wars for your faction. In the case that you are the leader of a faction or you are authorised you can declare war on another faction. The other faction needs to accept your declaration, otherwise you cannot fight. For an explanation of the way wars work on SniffSMP you should read the War System.