Gameplay

01Farming

54 crops. Every one is picky.

Each crop wants its own climate, soil and light. Seeds are prepared before they go in the ground, and neighbours can cross into varieties nobody else has.

54

Overworld crops

13

Nether and End crops

12

Hybrid varieties

• Read the land

  Climate, soil, water, light, height, season and neighbours all count. Open /farm to see what each crop needs where you stand.

• Prepare the seed

  Raw seed is dried, threshed, soaked, chilled or cut before planting. Seven stations stand in for the steps.

• Cross them

  A ripe crop beside a different variety can set a hybrid seed. A beehive nearby makes it likelier.

• Past the Overworld

  Seven Nether crops and six End crops grow only in their own dimension, and each needs something close by: lava, soul fire or the void.

• Wasabi
• Strawberry
• Grape
• Vanilla
• Tea
• Coffee
• Saffron
• Lavender
• Taro
• Ember Pepper
• Enderberry
• Void Kelp

02Kitchen

Cook it. Stir it. Name it.

Stoves, pots and ovens are furniture. Stir at the right moment for a better dish, or mix what you have and see what the kitchen calls it.

135

Recipes

10

Kitchen stations

5

Quality stars

• Stir at the right time

  When the pot starts to bubble, right-click it with a Ladle. A well-timed stir raises its quality. Leave a loaf in the oven too long and it burns.

• Invent a dish

  Add something the recipe does not call for and you get an invented dish with a name of its own.

• Share a feast

  Set a big dish on a table and everyone can eat from it. Meal effects pause while you are in combat.

• Sell it on

  The Nexus buys seeds, produce, dishes and drinks under Trade, Farm & Kitchen.

• Sushi Platter
• Strawberry Cake
• Pizza
• Hot Pot
• Borscht
• Apple Pie
• Miso Soup
• Ladle

03Brewing

Wine gets better while you sleep.

Press it, ferment it, then roll it into a barrel. Aging runs on the real clock, and it keeps running while you are offline.

11

Brews

120 min

Equals one year of age

• Barrels remember

  The longer a drink sits, the better it gets. A barrel in a dark cellar below Y 50 ages faster and can gain a star.

• Wood matters

  Some brews want a particular barrel: oak, spruce, dark oak or cherry.

• Eleven brews

  Red Wine, Barley Ale, Rice Wine, Honey Mead, Golden Sake, Berry Wine, Rye Whiskey, Sorghum Baijiu, Dark Rum, Ash Ale and Chorus Plum Wine.

• Red Wine
• Golden Sake
• Honey Mead
• Dark Rum
• Rye Whiskey
• Barley Ale

4

Kinds of livestock, bees included

20 min

Between care checks

• A daily routine

  Food, water, shelter, space, a mild climate and a brush. Care raises affection, and affection sets the stars on what they give.

• No cruelty, no cheating

  Skip a day and output pauses. Animals never get sick and never die from neglect.

• Milk to cheese

  Milk, butter, cheese, wool, yarn, eggs in three colours, flavoured honey and beeswax, each with its own station.

• Pens at animal scale

  Feed troughs, water troughs, straw bedding and nest boxes.

• Fresh Milk
• Butter
• Cheddar
• Yarn
• White Egg
• Brown Egg
• Blue Egg
• Honey
• Ranch Tag

05Fishing

Every bite is a fight.

Set the hook, reel when it tires, hold on when it runs. Then take the catch to the cutting board.

62

Fish

7

Legendary

9

Kinds of water

• The fight

  Right-click on the bite to set the hook, right-click to reel while it tires, and hold sneak when it runs or the line snaps.

• Where and when

  Ocean, river, swamp, cave and more. Some fish only bite at night, in a storm, in one season, at depth or under a full moon. Keep a journal with /fish.

• Sashimi and more

  Cut a catch on the board and the slice is drawn in the fish’s own colour. Nigiri, maki, tempura, ochazuke and unadon follow.

• The curing rack

  Hang ham, jerky and fish to dry. Light a campfire beside it and the food smokes faster and comes out a star better.

• Dragon Gate Carp
• Moonscale Koi
• Mire Monarch
• Blue Marlin
• Frostjaw Pike
• Abyssal Anglerfish
• Amethyst Cavefish
• Sashimi
• Nigiri
• Smoked Fish
• Beef Jerky
• Cured Ham

06Furniture

Sit down. Put the lamps out.

Chairs you can sit in, lamps you can switch off and tables that hold lamps. Almost every room is yours to fill.

152

Pieces

31

You can sit on

11

Categories

• Buy it or build it

  Pay for a piece, or craft it at the Carpenter’s Bench or Tailor’s Table. Your maker’s mark stays on the item.

• Turn it with a Wrench

  Right-click to turn a piece a step. Sneak and right-click to turn it back.

• It is a raid server

  Anyone can break furniture. Build with that in mind.

• The Training Dummy

  An invisible figure that takes real damage and shows your DPS, hits, crits and best round, and how fast you would kill 20 HP.

5

Relics

1 to 5

Stars, rolled at forging

• 

  Stormcaller’s FangSword

  Land enough hits on monsters and it calls lightning down on the rest.

• 

  Tidewall MantleChestplate

  Turns a heavy blow from a monster into absorption.

• 

  Galewing QuillHeld

  Lift off or glide. Held in hand, it softens a fall.

• 

  Horn of the Green YearHeld

  Grows crops, feeds and heals everyone in earshot.

• 

  Echo of the Deep DarkHeld

  Leave an echo behind, then call yourself back to it.

• Forge under the right sky

  A real thunderstorm, the deep ocean, the far End, a full-moon dawn or the Deep Dark all improve the odds of a high roll.

• Built for monsters

  Powers act on monsters or on you. None of them works within 15 seconds of fighting another player.

08Weather

Weather that travels.

Six kinds of front drift across the Overworld. Vanilla weather stays as it is. A front is a layer on top that you see and feel while you are inside it.

6

Kinds of front

• Storm, heatwave, cold snap

  Plus fog, sandstorm and aurora. A cold snap chills and a heatwave drains hunger, and neither deals damage. A roof, a fire or the right food keeps it off.

• The Weather Station

  A furniture piece. Right-click for the weather here and a rough forecast. /forecast does the same from anywhere.

• It touches everything

  Rare bites rise in storms and fog. Crops grow differently. Caravans slow down in a storm.

3

Genes per bird

6

Birds per loft

• Breed the best

  Speed, stamina and homing are all inherited. Plumage follows the genes. Ratings run Common, Fine, Strong and Champion.

• Letter and parcel

  Attach one or two stacks to a letter with /post. Postage grows with distance and is paid to nobody.

• Arrows count

  An arrow can bring a bird down. Shoot a green player’s pigeon and the theft goes on your name.

• Not everything flies

  Shulker boxes, caravan crates, Nexus items and relics will not go by pigeon.

• Letter
• Pigeon Basket
• Feed

• Green

  The peacekeeper.

  Standing 0 to 29

  • Loses the least. A quarter of your backpack goes to Lost & Found after a monster kills you.
  • Farm, build and trade in peace.
  • Wardens are paid to hunt the other two colours.

• Yellow

  Blood has been drawn.

  Standing 30 to 79

  • Forty percent of the backpack goes to Lost & Found, and costs more to buy back.
  • Takes a bigger share of a stolen caravan crate: 55%.
  • Can find the Smuggler’s Den.

• Red

  A habit, not an accident.

  Standing 80 and up

  • Loses the whole backpack and half the hotbar, on the ground, with nothing to buy back.
  • Takes the biggest share of a stolen crate: 65%.
  • Gets a Wanted poster, and smoke for when it all goes wrong.

Death costs shown are for dying to monsters. Dying to another player costs more at every colour.

11The Hearth

When you die, you wake up by a fire.

Everyone respawns at The Hearth, a small inn with a fire going. What you dropped out there is kept for you, and you can buy it back before you leave.

60 min

Lost & Found holds your things

3

Ways out

• The only way in is to die

  No PvP, no building, and the other guests are hidden from you. The innkeeper, Lost & Found, quest guide, Nexus guide, notice board and a standing mirror are all there.

• Three doors

  Your bed, the wild spawn, or the nearest Nexus node for a fee.

• Lost & Found

  Up to three packages wait for an hour. Pay to redeem them. Red players lose theirs for good.

• The Smuggler’s Den

  Find a Smuggler’s Mark in pillager outpost chests and use it near an outpost. The Den is a separate world, and you can stay up to three minutes. Its keeper is called The Fence.

• Infamy and titles

  A robbery earns Infamy. Smuggler, Corsair and Dread Captain follow, and Most Wanted at four stars.

• Smoke bombs

  Smuggler’s wares include a smoke bomb. It hides every player in a small radius for eight seconds.

• The Wardens

  Kill three outlaws who have been red for an hour or more and you earn the Warden title. Killing a red player costs you no standing.

• Wanted postersRed players earn stars for time spent outlawed, robberies and unprovoked kills. Players pool bounties on them. Hand yourself in to buy a day of pardon. Open /contracts wanted.
• Player ordersPost what you need: item, minimum stars, delivery node and price. The payment is held in escrow and released per item delivered. Open /contracts orders.
• Season chronicleThe Nexus records the first caravan, the biggest robbery, the longest manhunt and more. At season’s end it is bound into a book. Open /nexus chronicle.
• TitlesEarn a title and wear it before your name. Wear up to two at once. Titles are cosmetic. Sixty-five of them, from Trailblazer and Last Stone to season winners. Open /prefix.

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Quests

14

Chapters

4

Either-or forks

12

Party quests

• 01 Getting started
• 02 Homestead
• 03 Mining & gear
• 04 Farming
• 05 Furniture & crafting
• 06 Kitchen
• 07 Ranching
• 08 Nexus
• 09 Caravans
• 10 Sieges
• 11 Market & trade
• 12 Contracts & companies
• 13 Exploration & the End
• 14 Mastery

Quests open up as you play, chapter by chapter. Open the book with /quests. Creative mode never counts.

Watch it again with /cinematic watch. Skip it with /cinematic skip, or hold sneak.

+30%

Base premium

+10%

Per 1,000 blocks

+150%

Premium cap

• Rush route

  One route a day pays more and gives half the time.

• Escort or convoy

  Hire an escort, or travel with another group for a bonus.

• Ransom

  The owner of a stolen crate can buy it back if they reach the carrier.

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• Only our own text

  Player chat, commands, names, numbers and prices are never touched. Nexus, The Hearth and Pillage keep their English names.

• Appears in a moment

  A line shows in English first, then swaps in place when the translation arrives. Report a bad line with /translate report.