How to Play

## **GETTING STARTED**

Everyone has trouble in the first few days, but if you follow this guide it should be an easier beginning.

### FIND A PLACE YOU LIKE

First thing on your mind should be to get out of spawn, and you can do that by typing /tpr in the chat. That will spawn you in a random place somewhere on the map. From there you can travel to find a place suitable for you to live in. Alternatively you already found a nation to join on our discord and you travel to their location.

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Rest of this guide is for those who wander off on their own and didn't join a nation immediately. Those who join a nation can be taught by its members and they split into roles.

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### MAKE SHELTER

One of the most important things is that you have a place to call home where you can store most important belongings you found on your travels. With a wide variety of blocks you can make a really good looking build you will be proud of. This will server as you main base of operations. Don't forget to claim your builds because you don't want random people coming in and stealing your precious metals.

### START A FARM

Food! I can't stress this enough, you need **A LOT** of food to survive on this server. Spice of life mod makes it you need to eat different foods to fill up your hunger bar, because with every bite of the same food the return you get on it gets smaller and smaller to the point you can't even eat it anymore. Starting a farm is one of the easiest things in the world. Grab a hoe and find some water. But beware, certain crops grow only in certain seasons. Each season lasts one IRL week, making the whole year last one IRL month. You need to be careful when you plant which crop, and make your storage full of them before winter, because winter destroys everything. You will need to get used to staying in the kitchen for some time if you plan on living alone. Joining up with a group of people who do different things is highly advised and will up your chances of surviving.

### MAKE YOURSELF SOME GEAR

Diamond just won't cut it forever. Yes, they are shiny and valuable, but you will have to get rid of those basic tools and start on something cooler, Tinkers' Construct. This mod is not for everyone, there is a lot of grind involved in being a forger, but the award you get in the end is amazing. First you will need to make a forge, a link to the video will be on the bottom of the page. Once you have set up your massive furnace, you will need to gather materials to use. Firstly you will need gold to make casts, and you will need to make some Tinkers' special crafting tables. Finding ores can be a pain, but keep at it and think of the reward in the end. I can't go in much detail about Tinkers' here because I would need a whole separate page to explain it properly. Most I can say to you is to play around and experiment with different combinations and materials. It is really fun once you get the hang of it.

### MEET DIFFERENT PEOPLE

You will need other peoples help to survive, nobody can do it all alone. Meeting other people is a useful way to get information on what is happening and how to do certain things better, but also you can engage into a trade with them and make yourself an alliance. Being nice and greeting everyone with respect will benefit you a lot, so stay away from toxicity.

### HAVE FUN

That would be it for this guide. I hope you have learned something valuable and that your first days won't be too hard. You can always ask the staff team what you don't know or anything that bothers you. At /spawn you can find the admin shop where some basic goodies are sold. Go out there and have some fun role playing with everyone!

## **SERVER MECHANICS**

These are some of the basic works of the server you will need to know when playing on it.

### TOWNY

Towns are a place where a group of people decided to make a settlement and live together. They should be the place where you can find various things to do and make your nation look even cooler. Towns are a very important part in worldbuilding as they are essentially landmarks of your nations. You should make them look good as you are representing yourselves and your nations.

To create a town you to /town new [name]. To look at your towns screen you just do /town.

To look at the the list of the commands for Towny click here. To look at an in-depth description of Towny click here.

### CROPS & NUTRITION

This is one of the more complicated mechanics of this server. So let me start with the crops. Seasons are a thing on this server and crops can't grow anytime you would like them to. You would need to make yourself a Season Clock to know when to plant each crop. When you hover over it you will see that it says in which season it will grow. Along with the seasons to make things even harder there are climates. Some crops don't like certain climates so they won't grow there. You will need to find out where you are on the map to make sure the crops you are planting will grow.

After you successfully planted and harvested your crops it is time to put them to good use. To the kitchen! You will need to have various plants and meat types to make different kinds of foods. Introducing the nutrition mod Spice of life! It makes you eat a variety of food because if you don't, the return you get will get smaller each time you eat the same thing until it gets to zero. That encourages people to be dedicated farmers and cooks for their group.

### NATIONS

Nations are a large group of people connected through their land and leader/s. If you want to join a nation go look at #nation-adverts channel in our discord. There you will find lots of unique nations to join and one is surely perfect for you. If you would like to create your own nation however you can always go into the said discord and advertise it. But remember, don't make meme nations or religions because they will be removed. Doing /nation new [name] will make a nation on the actual server and you will be able to invite towns to join it. Claiming territory as a nation is currently TBD. To look at the list of commands for a nation click here.