Beginner's guide

Welcome to **Outercraft**! This **Beginner's guide** will take you through the first steps of joining the Outercraft SMP. Here you will learn how to survive the first day and some basic commands and features.

Outercraft is in hard mode, keep inventory is on.

## Overview

Outercraft is a vanilla+ SMP, the main goal is similar to any other game of Minecraft but with a bit of extra fun. You get to build and survive, you can go solo or team up. You may choose to open a shop, selling valuable items to other players for  ancient coins, or build and play minigames with friends to pass the time or build farms for the whole community to take advantage of. Adventure into the world, discover new items, weapons and more. Ultimately what you do in Outercraft is up to you, but here's some tips for getting started.

### First day

When you first join you will be washed up in Stillwich harbour, drenched and confused. Stillwich is safe though. The monsters keep away at night and there are plenty of beds to sleep in. If you find a house you want to sleep and return to temporarily, use `/home <name>` to save one of your home teleports to that location. You can always remove it later.

Before heading out you can also take a look at the Stillwich Market and some other npc shops around town. Not sure where to go? Take a look at the live map to see the entire village and it's different areas.

When you are finally ready to leave and find a place to call your own, note you cannot break or place blocks anywhere within 850 blocks from the center of Stillwich. This means you must either walk that far on foot until you are far enough out (a message will tell you when you can build and break), or you can use `/tpr` to teleport to a random location somewhere in the world. From there you can begin your Outercraft journey. Gather resources, explore the world, and find a place to call home.

### Claiming first land

Main article: GriefPrevention
Once you have found the place you want to build your first base at you can claim it, this ensures only you, and those you personally choose, can interact with your base in any way. You can build outside of your claim but anyone else can interact with it also. All you need to start is a chest and a stick. Place the chest to immediately claim a 9x9 area around the chest. Hold the stick to see your claim borders. Later, when you get a golden shovel you will be able to expand your claim, and the longer you play on the server the more claim blocks you have to expand with.

Now is a good time to set your`/home`. Even if you don't have a bed and die you can use this to get right back to your new base. Each player gets to set 2 home teleports and a third will set to your last used bed. You can get rid of one you don't need with `/delhome <name>`.

You can also break the chest and your claim will remain.

### Basic needs

Your character has the same basic needs as a regular hard mode survival game so make sure to take care by building a shelter, getting food, and making sure to have a bed and light. If you plan on building a bigger base you will want to make a point of getting a golden shovel.

If you're still not sure how to start after this, there are plenty of other tutorials available from the Minecraft wiki on what to do in a survival game.

## See also

* GriefPrevention
* Commands