Getting Started

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Welcome, new player! This guide will hopefully put you a step in the right direction in regards to actually surviving in Hazardcraft.

## The environment

If you weren't already aware, everything is out to kill you - **and I mean everything.** The biggest things you need to worry about on your first day are the sky and the animals.

In this server, the sun is a deadly laser, which means that during the day, you will burn if the sun touches you. In addition, rain is acid rain, which you cannot protect yourself from.

And then there's the animals. All the animals are out for your blood - the sheep, the horses, even the chickens (but not the rabbits because they don't exist)! If they see you, they will chase after you, so be prepared to run when you're outside!

## The health system

Hazardcraft uses a unique health system that punishes you more for dying and makes every combat encounter life-or-death. You start with a max health of 8 hearts, and lose one every time you die (your max health can't go lower than 4). You regain hearts by using medkits.

In addition, there is an injury system! Right now it only includes bleeding, but it will also include broken bones, too! Bleeding can be caused by sharp attacks (and chickens), and only goes away when you use a bandage. Bandages are relatively easy to craft, only requiring 3 paper and a stick (you need a crafting table to craft them though!)

## Stamina

Hazardcraft also uses a stamina system (known in-game as fatigue). Mining, combat and sprinting increase fatigue, and more fatigue will slow your mining and walking. You can see your fatigue level with `/fatigue`. You get mining fatigue 1 when over 45, mining fatigue 2 and slowness 1 when over 75, and mining fatigue 3 + slowness 2 when over 105.

## Communication

Hazardcraft uses a proximity chat system, which makes it so people can't hear you if you're too far away from them (don't worry, there's radios so you don't have to worry about this). When you send a message, anyone within a 12-block radius will hear you. If you whisper by adding a comma to the start of your message, people can only hear within a 2-block radius. And with a radio, anyone who also has a radio can hear you.

## Your Computronic Palmtop

The Computronic Palmtop is one of the most useful items in the server. It's a portable version of the Computronic Console, which allows you to run applications on data disks, such as radios! When you first join, you get a free palmtop and a CompTech Radio Disk. To put your disk in your palmtop, hold the palmtop in your hand and right-click the data disk in your inventory. Once you've done that, now you can use the data disk!

Every data disk has a different way of using it, but for the radio disk, you can simply hold the palmtop in your hand and send a message with ; at the beginning to send a radio message. You only have to have the palmtop in your inventory to receive messages.

## Preparing to leave

Right now you're in the Vault, the safest place in the server, but eventually you do have to leave if you want to survive. You've spawned with 8 opals that you can use to buy stuff at the shops (leave the teleporter thing you're in, go down the hall, go past the staircase and to the left to find them). The Opal General has sun-shielding helmets for 6 opals, the Medical Store has bandages for 2 opals, and the tech shop has nothing of use to you as of right now.

## Leaving the vault

If you plan on leaving the vault, don't leave if it's raining, and unless you have a protective helmet, don't go outside during the day, either. Your best option without a helmet is at night (even though there's tons of creepers, spiders, regular mobs, and the Mimic).

You have two options for leaving: leave the obvious way by going up the stairs to the surface, or use the /wild command to teleport to a random location away from spawn. /wild should teleport you to a biome with enough trees and/or water to not burn to death immediately + give you temporary resistance and fire resistance effects just in case. If it doesn't, **use the /retry command within 15 seconds** to avoid dying. When you first leave, you should just start like any other Minecraft Survival server - mine a tree, get a crafting table, get basic wood and stone tools, build your first base, etc.