Getting Started

Server IP: soar.bigscarygames.com

Server discord: https://discord.gg/zTBStsj

## Overview

Soar MC is a free to play Minecraft server, where there are four main worlds. The Island World, The Wilderness, The Nether, and The End. The Island World is a safe area populated by player generated and built islands. You can not die nor take damage here. While The Wilderness is an ever-changing world where resources are harvested from, and brought back to The Island World.

## Spawning In

Upon loading into the server, the player will spawn on the island simply known as "Spawn" and standing on the end of a dock. A nether portal will be in front of the player, and once the player enters the portal, they will be teleported onto their personal island, while a message saying "Please welcome [*The Player's Username*] to the server! :)" will be broadcasted in global chat. As is custom, a few players will send a greeting to the new player.

The spawn island can be accessed at any time the player is able to teleport, by using the command **/vi spawn**. The player will warp back to the dock and can further explore the island. Branching off of the main island are 4 subsections, including a campfire area, a building advertising pets and animal heads, a tavern representing the custom potions, and a market stall advertising the marketplace.

For a further tutorial, there are 6 lecterns with books on them, explaining trading, animals and taming, Hard Mode, and player interaction. The Player can also use **/help** to receive a book titled Island Life that will explain the basics of using island commands. Other islands can be visited by using the command **/vi [island name]** and a list of a few public islands can be found on Island List

An overview of server mechanics and further information can be found in The Book Of Steve.

## The Wilderness

The Wilderness is a constantly changing world beneath the Island World. Every week (4am CST on Monday) the world will reset to a brand new seed and all changes made during the previous week will reset. The Wilderness can be accessed by jumping off of any island, but depending on which island is jumped off of will change the drop point into the world. If two players jump off of the same island, they will land at the same point in the wilderness. The island drop points change every day (4am CST) however the world itself is the same. Using coordinates or by simply exploring, The Player may return to their previous jump point or any previous builds they may have constructed.

## The Island World

Once The Player steps through the portal, they will be teleported to their personal, private island in the Island World. This island can be accessed with **/home** at any time The Player is able to teleport. The Player is also able to use **/nameisland [island name]** to allow other players to visit them, and access their island with **/vi [island name].** The island is safe from monsters, griefing, hunger, and is where players are encouraged to place their builds. Your island can also be **/regen** (or **/biome**) as many times as you want.

The player can have more than one island by donating at the tebex website. Further information about islands can be found at Island World.

## The End

You can get to the end on our server the same way you do in vanilla, find the portal in the resource world. A slight difference is going through the end portal in the resource world will take you to a portal in the island world. The End is reset every day so at the beginning of the day, there is a fresh dragon. A dragon will also spawn for anyone that enters the portal and hasn't earned the advancement for killing the dragon.

## The Nether

The nether is reached the same way as in vanilla, build a portal and there you go. You can build portals on your islands, in fact there are a large number of islands posted on various droplists in discord daily that contain portals along with the biomes.

## How to get Elytra

There are 4 possible ways to get an elytra in Soar.

1. Kill enderdragon, you get an elytra, dragon egg, and dragon head as reward
2. Build or fly out a thousand or so blocks from center island and look for end cities with end ships
3. Buy from players
4. Buy from /donate

## Common Player Abbreviations

* DB - diamond block
* EB - emerald block
* IB - iron block
* GB - gold block

## Mods Used at Soar

See the list of plugins you are most likely interest in at Soar Plugins

## Fabric Modded Experience

If you are interested in modding your Minecraft experience while playing Soar, most of us encourage using Fabric mod launcher. See Setting Up Fabric for how to use Fabric and our favorite mods!

## Custom Soar Commands

* autosort - takes a parameter for chests or inventory, used to disable/enable automatic sorting of inventory
* backdoor (requires purchased perk) - allows you to set an arrival location that applies to you only, this cant be cleared but you can change it the same location as others if you change your mind
* [biome|regen] [biome] - issued without a biome will display list of available biomes, with the biome will regenerate the island you are on that you own to the selected biome
* [cancelbiome|cancelregen] - this will cancel an existing regeneration in progress on the island you own and are standing on
* claimisland - uses a claim ticket to claim an unowned island as your own
* cleararrivallocation (requires purchased perk) - removes a preset arrival location on the island you own and are standing on
* cutter - shortcut to stonecutter UI without being at a stonecutter
* da - this command matches your inventory to chests within a 3x3 chunk surrounding the chunk you are standing in and deposits it in the chest
* discord - gives the link to join the Soar Discord
* dragon - tells you if the daily dragon spawn has been killed yet or not
* eject - removes a player from the island you own and are standing on until server reset, this does NOT prevent flight to an island, just /vi
* [enderchest|ec] - opens your enderchest from anywhere, only available after you have crafted your first enderchest
* f - press 'F' to pay respects (careful spamming this command)
* [gohome|home] [1-infinity] - without a number, takes you to your designated home island, with a number it takes you to that number of island you own, with an invalid number it tells you how many islands you own
* hard - takes you to Hard Mode
* help - gives you a helpful book for Soar, although this wiki is probably more helpful
* islandinfo - gives you some ownership information on the island you are standing on
* islandlock - locks an island you own and are standing on from receiving visitors, people can still fly to the island, this just prevents /vi
* [join|tpa] - with a diamond block in hand, lets you join your friends in the resource world
* joinmessage [message] (requires the free donation perk) - lets you set your join message. if you don't put your username in the join message, it will be prepended
* leavemessage [message] (requires the free donation perk) - lets you set your leave message. if you don't put your username in the join message, it will be prepended
* [lowerisland|raiseisland] (requires purchased perk) - sets island height next time you regen
* [masterbuilder|mb] (requires purchased perk) - toggles your masterbuilder perk
* monsters (requires purchased perk) - toggles your monster repellent perk
* nameisland [islandname] - lets you name an island you own and are standing on so others can /vi
* perks - lists what perks you have purchased from /donate
* [pl|bukkit:plugins] - shows what Bukkit mods are on the server
* setarrivallocation (requires purchased perk) - allows you to set an arrival location instead of landing zone on an island you own and are standing on
* sethome - sets the island you own and are standing on are on to your primary /home
* setlandingzone - sets the spot that people land when doing /vi on an island you own and are standing on
* swapisland - gives up ownership of the island you are on and instead gives you a claim ticket for the same size island
* tour - takes you to the current tour island, this island changes every 5 minutes
* treesfall - if you dont like the trees being affected by gravity, you can disable it
* trust - Gives another player permission to edit in your claim
	+ accesstrust - Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, and beds
	+ containertrust - Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, beds, crafting gear, containers, and animals
	+ untrust - remove trust from a player
	+ trustlist - shows trust given to players
* unnameisland - removes the name of the island you own and are standing on so people can't /vi
* vines - toggles vine growth on the island you own and are standing on
* [visit|vi] [islandname] - takes you to the specified island name
* [workbench|wb] - opens the workbench UI without being at a workbench