Welcome to Arathia

#### **what is Arathia?**

Arathia is a challenging Medieval Minecraft roleplay/geopolitical server. The world of Arathia is set on a hand painted world with beautiful forests, mighty mountains, and vast seas. Here you can choose your own path. Do you wish to be a ruler of nations? or simply a farmer? Perhaps a alchemist, or a brewer? No matter your path, you will find Arathia a challenging and rewarding experience.

#### **Rules:**

1) This is NOT a factions server, while war and banditry are permitted, any player or group of players who are deemed detrimental to the community may be removed. griefing for the sake of griefing will get you banned. This includes repetitive, harassment of a player or group of players. If you wish to repeatedly fight a group, war Dec them. Repetitive harassment will be seen as detrimental to the community, which may result in a temporary or permanent ban.

2) Absolutely no exploits, this includes duplicating, xray, cheating, or anything that allows a player or group to gain an unfair advantage. This is up to admin discretion and we have ways of catching cheaters. cheaters will be banned. No exceptions.

3) This is a role playing server, but you may not roleplay as any religions, races, or otherwise group of people that exist in real life. this is to avoid conflict between community members.

4) No land scarring, do your best to keep Arathia beautiful. this means no huge quarries, floating leaves, giant holes....ect

5) no ocean bridges

6) All builds must be in the medieval style

7) No excessive redstone machines or farms. Automated farms of any type are not allowed.

8) No hostile mob farms.

9) Do not ask staff to spawn you in anything.

10) No bases that would be deemed as factions bases, this is to include hidden, underground bases, floating bases...ect

11) No advertising for other communities, discord or minecraft servers...ect

12) Keep it pg-16. While we aim at a more mature target audience, this is still a public server. Excessive vulgarity or profanity may result in disciplinary action at the discretion of staff.

13) Alts (or alternate accounts) are not allowed either in game or in discord. Alts will be banned. Your main account can stay, however the alt account will be banned. If you have a banned alt account and you get kicked or leave the discord, there is a chance that your main account will also be banned due to discord bans being IP based. In this case, message Tyro (The glizzard Wizard)

14) griefing roads even in the wild will be treated harshly. Possibly leading to a ban depending on severity

Failure to abide by any rules may result in disciplinary action at the discretion of staff.

#### **How to play: Before you join and spawn**

Before joining the server, you should join the server discord to read the rules, find the IP address, keep up with announcements, and find maps, media, and other important nation info here. at https://discord.gg/4wHGaeYRrA,

when you first join Arathia, you will find yourself in the spawn world, feel free to take some time to explore the spawn world. Here you will find many admin shops, including shops to sell iron, gold, emeralds, and diamonds (one of the main shops you will use to make money.) but also the Siege engineer, who sells weapons of wars such as trebuchet and catapults, or the shipwright who sells ships down by the harbor. When you are ready to leave the spawn world and join the world of Arathia type the command */lands wild arathia* This will randomly teleport you to a place in the new frontier where you will begin your journey.

#### **Getting started:**

it is **HIGHLY** recommended that new players find a town to join. Arathia is by no means meant to be a solo experience, and solo players will find Arathia to be very challenging on their own, both economically and also in terms of survival. Joining a town can help players learn the ropes, as the high cost to create a town, means that those who have a town, have been around and know the world by now. They can also provide you a safe place to stay and keep your stuff without having to invest vast sums of money to create a town. to begin your journey, whether you join a town or not (as most towns will charge tax to its citizens.) you will need to make some money. whether it be for taxes, or for buying recipes for your trade, or saving up to build your own mighty empire in the future, The simplest way to make money for new players is by mining. you can sell refined ores at spawn. Prices are as follows:

* Redstone 64 pieces for 1 crests
* Gold 1 piece for 2 crests
* Iron: 32 pieces for 2 crests.
* Lapis 64 pieces for 3 crests
* Emerald 1 for 3 crests
* Diamond 1 for 5 crests

*tip: Prioritize fortune enchants!*

Some things **ARE** disabled here:

* boats: minecraft boats are uncraftable, opting instead to use our custom boats which you can purchase at spawn by the harbor, simply follow the signs to the harbor. The basic starter boat (The Catamaran) will cost you 250 Crests.
* Nether and End: There are no other dimensions accessible, there is a lore reason for this, (see article) but we won't delve into that here, for now, you just need to know you can't go to these dimensions. Nether Ores can be mined in the overworld (reetextured) and many nether blocks can be purchased at the exotic trader at spawn.
* Ender Chests: Ender chests are not craftable, this is to add some kind of risk to losing territory, If you successfully conquer a town, you should be able to loot all the stuff, and not have all the good stuff hidden away in inaccessible enderchests.
* Potion Brewing: default potion brewing will not work (you can not obtain nether wart) potion brewing is a custom system, that is more in depth and engaging than default Minecraft brewing (tutorial will be linked here when available)
* regeneration: natural regeneration is not necessarily disabled, but significant changes have been made in how players regenerate. You will regenerate significantly slower, and your regeneration speed is based on your experience level. To quickly regen, Players must use potions.
* regeneration stew: regeneration stew crafting recipe has been completely disabled as it breaks our intended regeneration mechanics.
* riptide/elytra: riptide has been placed on a large cooldown, for lag purposes, and it can also break intended movement mechanics. Elytra will not be obtainable.
* Villager trading. You will not be able to trade with villagers
* Raids: you will not be able to trigger pillager raids.
* minecarts and rails: You will not be able to craft minecarts or rails as they break intended movement mechanics.
* golden apples: golden apples are not disabled completely, but the recipe has changed to be more expensive using 4 gold blocks instead of 9 gold ingots.
* wither fights: you will not be able to obtain soul sand to summon a wither. Instead, we have our own custom wither mechanics ;)

#### **Creating your town:**

creating a town will cost 3,000 crests.

upkeep will cost you 0.3 crests per chunk per day

each chunk claim will cost 4 crests, with each subsequent chunk costing 2% more than the previous.

Now that you've got your funds, if you choose to create your own town, stand in the area you wish to claim, and execute the command **/lands create <Land name>**

EX. /lands create Annawan would create a town called Annawan. if no name is chosen, your land will default to your name.

3,000 crests should be deducted from your account balance and your town is now created. This command creates a claim on the one chunk that you are currently standing on. and all surrounding chunks. You can view your land border by doing **/lands view**.

Detailed guides on lands can be found at Lands Tutorial.

#### **Expanding your town:**

Now that your town is created, you can size it using the claim tool given to you when you spawned in. if you've lost it, don't worry, any golden hoe should work. use the golden hoe and left click in one corner of the land that you wish to claim this will set the position one. now move to the opposite corner of the land you wish to claim (diagonal from the first.) and right click. This will set the position two. now that your land is selected, simply execute the command **/lands claim <Town Name>**. to claim more land costs **$4 per chunk claimed +2% for each subsequent chunk**.

you can also just stand in a chunk and type the claim command to claim that one chunk that you are standing in.

you can do **/lands balance** to see the balance of the land you own.

#### **How to grow your town:**

A town that wishes to grow should keep in mind several factors.

1. Why would players WANT to join your town? Do you have a rich history or lore? or perhaps your town is full of stellar builders and just looks beautiful.
2. Do you provide anything that they need?
3. is your town established?
4. Create a wiki page for your town to give it more credibility. Invest some time and effort into this page, as this can make or break your credibility. You will also need a well-developed wiki page to post your town in the towns and nations ads channel
5. Once you have the above things figured out, post your town or nation in the towns and nations advertisements channel of the discord. remember to look at the pinned message within that channel to see channel rules.

#### **war:**

see the following document for an in depth guide on how war works, war rules how to declare and how to participate in wars.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H738zhMcviPKMXOrnT4Orsvtbczfo2nvs\_SHDu614yg/edit?usp=drivesdk

#### **I want to brew potions or alcohols!**

Arathia uses a custom brewing system that allows players to make potions and alcohols. it is important to note that their are essentially two different jobs within brewing.

Brewer: Makes alcoholic drinks. some of these drinks will affect task related performance such as helping players mine faster.

Alchemist: Makes Nonalcoholic potions, which grant the user buffs such as resistance or strength. The Alchemist can also make brews with negative effects such as poisons.

**Nation drinks**

Some nations will have drinks that are specific to their nation, and only brewmasters from that nation who were given the recipe can make. These drinks are typically vastly stronger than the basic drinks that can be brewed by any player, much harder to make and more expensive to make. Because of this, nation drinks can sell at a premium price. Nation drinks can also give special effects. ONLY NATIONS CAN GET NATION DRINK RECIPES MADE. Not every nation will have a drink, but nations will need to donate to the server to get a drink recipe made for them.

#### **Custom mobs, weapons and armor?!**

Arathia has a wide range of custom mobs, weapons and armors in order to make the world feel more alive and...a little bit more dangerous. Some of the more notable mobs include

-Lava Dragon (drop dragon scales, imbued and burnished shards)

-Naga Myrmidons and Naga Spellsinger (drop Naga scales, imbued shards and imbued dust)

-Sea Serpent (drops sea serpent scales, imbued shards, burnished shards)

-Molten Spirits (magma cream and blaze rods)

-Lava Jaws (Drop Magm cream and blaze rods)