Survival

Survival (formerly called Sandbox), is a gamemode where you spawn randomly on generated terrain in a server. You have to gather resources to build bases or make supplies such as Healing kits, Shield Potions, and upgrade weapons and tools. You can also dig mines to find emeralds, iron and sulfur to upgrade your tools (or potions). If you're feeling adventurous, you can search for Dungeons, which contain Golden Chests, and get **Legendary** to **Mythic** weapons with some other loot.

If you get killed or die in any way, you will respawn after 8 seconds.

You can access the leaderboard by pressing the tab key, it will show you your kills, deaths and assists next to your player name, just like In Battle Royale and Capture the Gems. You can access the map by pressing the M key, and 0 for the debug panel.

Most players tend to team on Survival. You can change your loadout when spawned, and before moving or shooting. You need to be at least Level 5 to be able to join a Survival server.

## Limits of the World

*See Main Article:* Limits of the World

Survival Mode ranges from -20 chunks to 20 chunks in x and z, 0 to 3 chunks in the y.

## Server

There are various servers, and without user intervention they reset automatically every 24 hours. Players can delay the server with the /delay command for 15 minutes or shorten its time with the /hurry command for 30 minutes. These commands have a cooldown of 1 hour, which cannot be circumvented by refreshing the game, for it is server dependent.

## Tactics

*See: Open-ended motivations*

Edge Mining - One of the best ways to find emeralds and iron is to look down the edge of the world. In order to safely edge mine, you will have to hold 'c' (or the key you have set for crouching) as if you are in a 2 block high space but aren't crouched you can fall off the edge.

Boulder Mining - Another way to get emeralds and iron if you are far from the edge of the map

Use stone bricks - The fact that stone bricks takes longer to mine and that when crafted gives you 9 stone bricks from one rock meaning a stack (255) of rocks equals nine stacks of stone bricks (2295).

## Points System

*See Main Article: Points System*

There are 4 ways in which you can win points in Survival: mining, killing other players, placing blocks, and actively playing.

* Killing players gives you 10 points with an additional bonus equivalent to other modes.
* Breaking a block of emerald, iron, and sulfur ore give 20, 10, and 5 points respectively.
* Placing 3 blocks gives you 1 point.
* Actively playing for 10 minutes can earn you 250 points and experience points.

## Trivia

* When teaming in Survival, many players choose to team in a corner (tl, tr, bl, br).
* You might see bases on trees. These tree-bases are similar to towers, as you can shoot other unsuspecting players.
* Since you can attack anyone in Survival, there have been many cases of accidentally hitting a teammate with a shovel, and damaging them.
* It is possible to be 1st on the scoreboard without any kills or assists.
* Custom Game maps are identical to Survival maps.
* Some players make bases underground, though they are not common, and are often found at bedrock level.
* A game/battle tactic that TVU\_Shooting and other soldiers have created/implemented is called Tree Parkour. This is similar to tree-bases, but you jump from tree to tree. You can use this to have the high ground, but it can also double as a fun parkour game.