The guide

Coordinated game release: the website and updated Minecraft plugin now ship together for these features. The plugin includes arena progression, lobby extras, shared panel settings, survival weapon cooldowns, and the string/anvil recipes. Existing saved arena switches and survival tuning are preserved. Installing a plugin update requires a Minecraft restart; ordinary gameplay tuning does not.

Players join directly in the survival world they were last playing in: the Strength World, or the Legendary World (see below). The Hall is optional: use /lobby to visit, then walk through the green STRENGTH WORLD gate or the gold LEGENDARY WORLD gate to return to your saved position in that world. You can also use /party menu in survival to choose an arena, or type /dragon join, /forge join, /atlantis join, or /sky join [solo|duo] directly. The Hall is protected: no damage, hunger, PvP, block changes, item dropping or hostile mob spawning.

• The Strength World gate returns you to your saved Strength World position, or its spawn if no position is saved. The Legendary World gate does the same for the Legendary World. Each world only lets players in while an admin has it open. Both start open. Admins can always get in.
• Atlantis, Forge and Sky only admit players when their website switch is on and their arena game is implemented.
• Emberwing's gate requires the resource pack; the match supplies its own Rift Ray Gun and equipment.
• If the resource pack is declined, survival remains available but custom arenas stay closed for that player.
• Every gate has an Open gate / Seal gate button on the website's Gates page (/admin/arenas): the two survival worlds (strength-world.enabled, legendary-world.enabled) and each arena (arena.<name>.enabled). They're stored in game_settings, and the server picks changes up within 30 seconds without a restart. Sealing a world also blocks /survival or /legendary for players, but never kicks out anyone who is already inside. If you log in while your world is sealed, you're sent to the other world, or stay in the Hall if both are sealed.

The Hall also contains working daily-reward, wardrobe, achievements, museum, training and parkour stations. The daily reward is 3 account Crown Shards, once per shifted UTC day; claiming again cannot duplicate it. The wardrobe equips permanent Forge, Emberwing, Leviathan and Sky Crown unlocks as lobby-only orbit cosmetics, or spends one Colossus Key to permanently unlock Azure Blade. The purchase button previews the price and key balance; clicking it buys the cosmetic. Repeat purchases and insufficient funds change nothing. Choose None to hide your cosmetic. These never replace your survival equipment.

Achievements show first-win and ten-win progress for each mode, the four-realm Crown Restorer, and parkour best time. The museum refreshes actual ranked records every 30 seconds: Atlantis first escape, Forge waves/score, Sky wins, and Emberwing contribution damage, with names and dates. Empty/unavailable data is not displayed as an invented record. Achievements and museum entries exclude idle, non-completed and non-ranked results, using the same eligibility as website rankings. Forge's highest-wave record can come from a contributing defeat; other trophies require victory. The Astral Clock shows configured local time, season, featured adventure, online population and gate/match status.

Training uses empty-hand melee (14 damage, 0.6-second cooldown) or a 16-block practice ray (12 damage, 0.8-second cooldown); it changes no inventory and awards no ranked rewards. The training menu also stops the drill. Azure Ascent has 12 ordered platforms, checkpoints at four/eight, and a timer that continues after a checkpoint retry. Skipping straight to the finish does not count. Flight, gliding, riptide, vehicles, any potion effects and external movement boosts invalidate a run; teleporting or logging out cancels it. Valid personal bests are first saved in player data, with database synchronization retried every 30 seconds and on reconnect.

lobby.daily-reset-hour is a website-editable integer 0–23 UTC (default 0). Clock display strings are in plugin config: lobby.timezone (default UTC), lobby.season (default Season One · Azure Crown), and lobby.featured (default Restore the Azure Crown). Daily/wardrobe accounts require the lobby database migrations.

Rift Incursions are rare, temporary survival-world fights using the existing Coral Knight and Atlantean Mage characters. They are off by default. An owner turns them on in the website panel under Survival & crafting → Rift Incursions.

• Incursions spawn only in the ordinary Overworld, near a survival player who accepted the resource pack. They never spawn in the Hall, any arena, the Nether or the End.
• Raiders can damage and defeat players, but they never break, place, pick up or change blocks. They time out after five minutes and disappear when the feature is switched off.
• A small group appears at a time. Defeat every raider to close the rift. Players who land a finishing blow during that fight receive an Incursion victory for the Survival Hall.
• Owners can tune the live settings: enable/disable, minutes between attempts, total raiders alive, raiders per rift, health and hit damage. The server reads panel changes within 30 seconds; switching the feature off removes active raiders safely.

Survival Hall

rageslayr.com/survival is a separate public board for the persistent world. It never mixes survival activity with arena results. It tracks survival-only playtime, mobs defeated, player kills, deaths, blocks mined, distance travelled, Incursion kills and Incursion victories. Current boards let players compare Rift victories, mob hunting, building, exploration or PvP.

A second survival world next to the Strength World, with its own Overworld, Nether and End. Here Strength SMP and the random weapon abilities are switched off. Instead, players hunt for legendary weapons. Only one of each exists on the whole server.

Getting there: walk through the gold LEGENDARY WORLD gate in the Hall (opposite the Strength World gate), or type /legendary. Go back with /survival or the Hall's STRENGTH WORLD gate. You always come back to the spot where you left. The world starts open; an admin can seal it on the website's Gates page.

Your stuff stays in its own world. The Legendary World has its own inventory, ender chest, XP, health and bed. The first time you go there, you start with nothing, like a new player. Your Strength World things wait safely until you go back, and legendaries can't be carried into the Strength World. Nether and End portals in the Legendary World lead to the Legendary Nether and Legendary End.

After a PvP hit you have to wait 15 seconds before /legendary, /survival or the Hall's world gates take you to the other world, so nobody can escape a fight. Logging out and back in doesn't reset the wait.

Legendary weapons

Legendaries don't have the enchanted shimmer and aren't enchanted (the Pale Cannon's fast reload is built in). Each legendary is forged at its own altar in the Legendary World. Right-click the altar to open it: the recipe shows in the middle like a crafting table (the altar only counts the totals, so how the stacks are split doesn't matter). If you're carrying everything, a green pane lights up on the left and the legendary appears on the right: click either to forge it. If something is missing, a red pane on the right lists what you still need. Every recipe is also on the website's Recipes page (/recipes), drawn on the same crafting grid. Once someone forges it, that altar is closed. If the legendary is ever lost for good (for example, it falls into the void), the altar opens again. A dropped legendary never despawns and can't be burned or blown up.

Hold the legendary in your main hand and press:

• F (swap hands) = first ability
• Sneak + F = second ability

The bar above your hotbar shows when each one is ready. Legendaries only have powers in the Legendary World. Dashes, leaps and teleports never give you fall damage. Legendaries are unbreakable.

Swords and blades

Heavy weapons

Crossbows

Tricks

Copper gear (each piece is its own legendary; works while worn)

Every copper piece is as strong as netherite: the armor protects exactly like the matching netherite piece (armor, toughness and knockback resistance), and the pickaxe mines like a netherite pickaxe. They're unbreakable.

Bloodlust and Knightfall count player kills made while holding them; the count is shown on the item. For now the kill requirements are switched off, so everything is unlocked from the start. An admin turns them on or off with /legendaries killunlocks on|off (or Kill unlocks on the website, Legendary World). When they're on, everyone has to earn the kills, admins included. Legendaries don't get the survival spear/mace hit cooldowns.

Admin commands

Admins can walk into the Legendary World even while it's sealed, to place altars before opening it. Cooldowns, damage and on/off switches are on the website under Legendary World; recipes are in config.yml.

Altars start out closed: they say FORGING OPENS SOON. Right-clicking one still shows its recipe (so players can start collecting), but nobody can forge yet. Turn forging on with /altar forging on in the game, or Altars can forge on the website (Legendary World section). The same section has Hall of Altars spacing, the number of blocks between altars the next time /altar spawnall builds the hall.

In survival, use /party menu to choose an arena without visiting the Hall. If you prefer the Hall, use its Party, Ready and Queue pedestals near the entrance. Right-click Party or Queue to open the player menu: choose a player to invite or manage, answer an invitation, ready up, and queue for Atlantis, Forge, Sky Crown or Emberwing. Right-click Ready to toggle your own readiness. The menu's Refresh button updates member status. Commands work as a fallback:

• Solo players are ready automatically. Every party member must explicitly ready up after membership or leadership changes.
• The leader chooses the arena. Every member needs to be online, eligible and have the pack; the whole group must fit.
• A player cannot hold two arena queue reservations. Any member leaving the queue, disconnecting during countdown, or changing readiness cancels that group's reservation. During active co-op matches, disconnect grace still applies.
• Parties stay together across lobby/survival travel and reconnects during this server session. Restart clears parties and invitations; it does not erase inventory recovery or completed match records.
• Party rosters cannot be edited while a member is queued or playing. A departing leader promotes the next member.
• All four modes use the same reservation system. Sky defaults to solo for a lone player and duos for a two-person party.

This release connects native floating islands, movement equipment, warned hazards, party admission, inventory recovery and durable results/rewards. Real-client balance/visual acceptance remains pending. The gate is open by default; admins can seal it (arena.sky.enabled) on the website's Gates page (/admin/arenas).

The implemented rules target 2–10 players, with solo opponents or teams of at most two (duos need at least four players). Two players play shorter rounds, first to two wins; larger groups play one round.

• Standard phases: Scatter 90 seconds, Fracture 210 seconds, Crown 150 seconds, Final Collapse at most 120 seconds. Duel phases are 30/60/60/60 seconds, with a ten-second round intermission.
• Before Final Collapse, a fall drops carried energy and respawns after five seconds, with three seconds of protection. Starting protection is ten seconds. Respawns move inward as the map breaks.
• Islands signal cracked for ten seconds, then debris for five, before their blocks may disappear. The center stays intact. A separate fifteen-second warning announces the end of respawns.
• Carry up to 30 energy. Nodes provide up to eight and recharge after thirty active seconds. Fallen energy can be reclaimed, including partial pickups when a player is nearly full.
• Charge the open Crown while standing in its area: one energy per player per second, at most two for a team. Opponents contest the area; actual damage pauses the injured player's charging for three seconds. Friendly fire is disabled. A full charge requires 60 energy, or 30 in a duel.
• Final Collapse makes falls and disconnects permanent for that round, including pending respawns. Completing the Crown or being the last surviving team wins. Simultaneous eliminations or a time limit can produce a draw; drawn duel rounds replay, with a five-attempt cap to prevent endless sessions. No arbitrary winner is assigned.
• Pre-final reconnect grace is three minutes. Everyone being offline pauses gameplay but not that grace. Quitting permanently forfeits the slot; losing all opposition ends the session by forfeit.
• Duos display your named ally and colored team labels. Reconnecting normally preserves health and a safe position; it cannot be used for a free heal. A delayed native death-screen return receives fresh respawn protection.

The compact and full maps use authored island landmarks with real native-block bridges and collision. Starting loadout: Gale Edge (left-click damage/knockback), grappling hook (three charges), wind charge (three), void pearl (two), temporary bridge wand (two), Azure Shield and Feather Boots. Right-click tools to use them. Energy pickups replenish one movement-tool charge, up to four hook/wind or three pearl/wand charges. Hooks need a solid target within 20 blocks; pearls need a safe visible landing within 12. Failed targets preserve charges. Bridge wands span a reachable gap for 12 seconds; sparks warn for the last three. Azure Shield lasts two seconds with an eight-second cooldown and only blocks frontal player attacks. Feather Boots allow one midair correction per landing.

Lightning, wind, falling swords, gravity runes and a rotating native-block bridge give a three-second warning before activating. Later phases increase pressure. Pending hazard warnings are discarded while everyone is offline. Automated checks are not proof of real-client rendering or a balanced two-/ten-player session.

A cooperative adventure for 2–10 players, with a 25-minute limit. This release connects the complete scenario, party queue and lobby gate; real-client balance/visual checks are still pending. The gate is open by default. Admins can seal it at /admin/arenas.

Equipment and air: Survival equipment is saved before entry. The match supplies an Atlantean Trident (melee), Tide Blaster (right-click), iron armor and two emergency flasks. Weapons are signed for that match and cannot fire through terrain. Right-click labeled objects to interact. Begin in the air dome and follow the city map and signs.

• Start with 60 oxygen. AIR pockets refill it; a flask has a 30-second cooldown. At zero, suffocation deals half a heart every two active seconds. Downed players stop losing oxygen.
• The Tide relic grants two additional flasks, once. The Heart relic grants the Pearl of Breath, raising capacity to 90. The Storm relic grants a Water-Dash Charm, right-click to dash, with an eight-second cooldown.
• Lethal damage downs you for 20 seconds. A standing teammate can right-click within three blocks and hold still for three seconds to revive you. Movement or damage interrupts the revive. Expired downed players spectate.
• Rejoin within three minutes to keep your slot. Your party's match pauses when everyone is offline; pending enemy and Leviathan attacks are discarded so reconnecting players receive a fresh warning.

The three districts can be completed in any order, and every puzzle works with one explorer:

1. Tide Compass: Find three market symbols. Follow their matching colored current sequence in the gardens, activate the Tide Shrine and defeat its Drowned Soldiers. Wrong currents restart that sequence, not the market clues.
2. Storm Fork: Defeat the Ancient Key's guards in the prison side cell, collect the key, unlock the wing and release the rear mechanism. Defeat the Coral Knights arriving from both cell corridors.
3. Heart Seal: Read the temple inscription, then activate the three shrines in its order. Wrong inputs summon enemies but preserve correct activations. Defeat the Guardian Construct to recover the seal.

Flood and Leviathan: Place all three relics in the palace. Follow the opened tunnel through the Atlantean Mages. Flood pressure doubles exterior oxygen consumption; the market, gardens, prison, temple and dome air stations shut down in sequence. The last standing teammate through can close the rear gate to prevent an additional wave. Crossing into the throne chamber activates the final checkpoint.

The Leviathan telegraphs a charge line and tail-sweep ring. Move clear, then activate all three boss sockets to expose its forehead for 10 seconds. Aim the Tide Blaster or right-click the forehead with the supplied trident to thrust at close range. At 70% and 35% health it summons mages and disables another chamber air pocket. Repeat the sockets when the core closes.

Escape: Defeating the boss starts a 90-second collapse countdown, not an instant victory. Right-click the trophy portal at the throne to collect it and escape. Rescued players become protected spectators until the result. At least one escape secures the basic team win; rescuing everyone earns an additional challenge reward. Records include first escape time, full-team escape time, downed count and teammates rescued.

A cooperative wave-defense game for 2–10 players. It uses a separate protected arena and the RageSlayr resource pack. The Forge's gate is open by default; an admin can seal it at /admin/arenas.

How the siege works:

• Defend the central Azure Flame through six regular waves, then an Iron Colossus boss stage: Knights; Crawlers; Clockwork Ravens; Armor and Golems; an interior smelting breach; then all regular enemies together.
• Defeated enemies add shared salvage to the team wallet.
• Start with 20 shared salvage and 20 seconds of preparation. Buy defenses at labeled sockets. Between waves, sneak-right-click a damaged defense to repair 30 durability for 5 salvage; when fully repaired, that action upgrades it up to level III. Upgrade cost is the base build cost multiplied by the new level.
• Right-click with the Warden's Hammer within 8 blocks of the Flame between waves to spend 5 salvage and repair 10 Flame health. It has a 5-second cooldown.
• Aim toward a visible enemy and right-click the ballista: a shot costs 3 salvage, deals 22/28/34 damage by level, and reloads in 4.5/4/3.5 seconds. Against furnace armor it breaks a lock instead of dealing normal damage.
• The supplied loadout includes an Azuresteel Sword, Warden's Hammer, Molten Shield, Raven Hunter's Bow, 64 arrows and iron body/leg/foot armor. Equipment wears down; the repair anvil restores the loadout and arrows for 8/6/4 salvage by level between waves. It will not charge for a complete, undamaged kit. Survival items never enter the match.
• Enemy core attacks have a 2-second warning (3 seconds for the Colossus). Kill or push them away before impact.
• Break the Colossus's three furnace locks with melee hammer strikes, right-click its exposed lock markers with your hammer, or fire ballista bolts. The opened core takes normal damage for 10 seconds. Ravens can repair the locks, so shoot them. Each marker is a distinct lock; clicking an already broken one does not break another. Hammer lock-breaking has a 1-second cooldown.
• Golems and the Colossus mark a slam area for 3 seconds. Move out, or block with your Molten Shield to protect yourself and nearby teammates within 4 blocks. Colossus slams leave damaging molten patches for 6 seconds.
• Below 25% health, the Colossus stays vulnerable and heads directly for the Flame. It does not vanish on reaching it; it keeps attacking until defeated or the Flame falls. Defeating it ends the siege immediately.
• The team wins by defeating the Iron Colossus while the Flame remains alive. Ranked defenders who complete the siege earn 24 Crown Shards, one Colossus Key, and a permanent Colossus helmet unlock on their first victory. Rewards go to the account, including eligible disconnected defenders; use /rewards after returning.
• The arena scales enemy count and health for the group. It has no PvP, no building, no item dropping and no mob griefing.
• Disconnecting keeps a player's match slot for three minutes. Reconnecting during the siege returns them to the arena; stopping or restarting safely restores saved inventory and return state.
• /lobby cannot bypass an active siege; use /forge leave so restoration is completed first.
• Match snapshots are saved before equipping the loadout, including armor, offhand, potion effects, experience, health, hunger and flight. A cancelled return or unavailable return world keeps the original snapshot for recovery.
• While a snapshot is pending, inventory transfers and unrelated commands are blocked. Use your mode's leave or status command, or /arena recover after the match has ended.
• Forge has a 20-minute limit. Enemy health scaling stays fixed at match start.
• The portal label shows queue size, countdown or the active wave. Sealing the gate cancels pending queues; a match already running is allowed to finish. If entry fails for any selected player, the whole start is cancelled safely.
• Lethal damage downs a defender for 20 seconds. Right-click a downed teammate and stand still within three blocks for three uninterrupted seconds to revive them with five hearts and brief protection. Damage or movement interrupts. An expired revive window puts that defender into spectating; if no online defender is standing, the siege is lost.
• Survival Strength bonuses, weapon abilities and their sidebar are disabled in the lobby and all arena worlds. Arena player kills do not change survival Strength or eliminate a survival player.
• The Forge sidebar shows stage, core health, salvage, enemies, preparation/time limit and the Colossus's armor state.
• The protected district uses the existing foundry, courtyard, workshops, bridge, smelting chamber, clock tower, lower furnace and museum modules. Lanes are widened for enemy navigation; liquids cannot spread into them.
• Completed Forge matches record kills, damage, revives, repairs, cleared waves and remaining core health. Leaving early or exceeding the disconnect grace marks that player as not completing the match. Demo matches are unranked. Forge points are 5 per kill, 25 per revive, 10 per repair, 10 per cleared wave, and 100 for victory; leaving early, expiring the reconnect window or an aborted match grants no ranking points.

Defense sockets:

Defense labels show level, durability, owner, cooldown and sabotage status. Clockwork Ravens disable nearby defenses for 6 seconds and damage their durability. Destroyed defenses must be rebuilt between waves. All match defenses, projectiles, lock markers and molten hazards are cleaned up after the siege.

Use /rewards outside a match to view your own Crown Shards, Colossus Keys and cosmetic unlocks. The command is read-only; it cannot inspect another account, grant items or spend currency.

• Forge awards 2 Crown Shards per cleared stage, including the boss, plus 10 extra for victory (24 total). A completed defeat still awards shards for stages already cleared. A ranked victory also awards one Colossus Key.
• The first ranked Forge victory permanently unlocks the Colossus helmet. Repeated wins award more shards and keys, but never duplicate the permanent unlock.
• A ranked Emberwing victory awards 20 Crown Shards and a permanent Emberwing Trophy unlock to each completed defender who damaged the boss or revived a teammate. The final shot has no exclusive reward. Idle observers, defeated teams and unranked tests do not receive Emberwing rewards.
• Atlantis awards contributing completed winners 10 Crown Shards for their first ranked clear, plus one shard per teammate rescued, two for no downs, and two if the entire starting roster escapes. The challenge rewards can be earned again on later wins; the first-clear bonus cannot. Winners unlock the permanent Leviathan Trophy.
• Sky awards completed players one shard per five energy charged, rounded up, capped at six, including losing contributors. A qualifying winner gets 12 more shards and a permanent Sky Crown Trophy. Damage, kills or charged energy qualify; a genuine last-standing win after at least ten active seconds also qualifies. Idle forfeit wins do not award the bonus. The maximum is 18 shards per match.
• Unranked demos, aborted matches, early departures and expired disconnect grace earn no rewards. An eligible defender disconnected within the reconnect window can still receive the finished team's reward.
• Shards and keys are account balances, not dropped survival items. They cannot disappear into a full inventory or be duplicated by reconnecting. This replaces the old online-only physical shard reward for new Forge matches. Existing physical souvenirs are left untouched; historical records are not automatically rewarded again.
• Results and reward policy are saved in the local match journal. The database applies each match's receipts, balances and cosmetic unlocks together. Retrying an upload cannot credit the same reward twice.
• If the database is unavailable, rewards wait for automatic synchronization—even while you are offline. /rewards reports unavailability rather than showing a false zero. A pending-sync notice means a recent result has not yet been fully acknowledged. Accounts require the server database to be configured.
• Equip your unlocked lobby cosmetic, or redeem a Colossus Key for Azure Blade, at /lobby wardrobe. /rewards itself is read-only and never materializes loose trophies or spends a key.

The public /rankings dashboard uses real, completed ranked results from all four modes. Choose a mode, all-time, last 30 days or last seven days, and a frozen starting-roster size from two to ten. Wins rank first, points break ties, and equal totals share a place. The top 100 includes player search and a spotlight with contributions and recent runs.

Aborted matches, demos, early departures, expired disconnects and idle participation are excluded. Sky last-standing team winners count after ten active seconds even when they won by survival rather than dealing damage. Records include actual Atlantis escape times, Forge core/waves, Sky charge/recoveries and Emberwing team damage/revives. The page refreshes every 30 seconds while visible; pause and manual refresh are available. Failed refreshes are marked as stale, never silently presented as live. Records appear after the game server uploads the completed match.

Requires the RageSlayr adventure resource pack offered automatically when a player joins. Players may decline it and continue playing survival, but custom arenas remain closed for them. A cooperative match supports 2–10 players, starts after a 15-second ready queue, and supplies all equipment. You do not need to craft a survival gun first.

Optional survival recipe (not required for minigame entry):

[Ancient Alloy][Alien Crystal][Ancient Alloy]
[Iron Ingot   ][Power Core   ][Iron Ingot   ]
[empty        ][Iron Ingot   ][empty        ]

• Alien Crystal: 12% drop from Endermen killed by players.
• Power Core: 10% drop from Blazes killed by players.
• Ancient Alloy: 35% chance when loot first generates in dungeon, ancient-city, end-city treasure, or bastion treasure chests. Already-opened chests are unchanged. Two alloys are needed.
• Authentic components are required; renamed ordinary items do not work.
• Hold the gun in your main hand and right-click. Each shot consumes one redstone dust from your main inventory, with a 0.6-second cooldown. The first gun damages only this adventure's dragon.
• Match loadout: a signed Rift Ray Gun, 256 shots, and iron chestplate, leggings and boots. Original inventory, effects, experience, health/hunger and return location are saved before entry. Survival weapons cannot hurt this match's dragon.
• Right-click the Energy Well near arrival from within five blocks to refill to 256 shots, with a 10-second cooldown. It never replaces the gun or drops ammunition into the world. Hunger does not drain during the match.
• Emberwing: base 1200 health for two players, multiplied by 1 + 0.65 × (players − 2) for larger groups (7440 at ten). Health scaling is fixed at admission; each default ray-gun hit deals 12. Its phases are Circling, Firestorm at 70% health, and Last Stand at 35%. Later phases move faster and attack more often with wider fire cones.
• Fire locks onto where the target was when charging began. Charge warnings last 1.75/2.25/2.75 seconds by phase; a shot crossing a phase threshold does not widen an already-charging attack. Move aside or hide behind a pillar. Terrain blocks both flame damage and ray-gun shots; fire does not destroy blocks or place spreading fire.
• Only the match's signed ray gun can damage the boss. Every completed defender who deals boss damage or revives a teammate shares the ranked victory: 20 account shards and the permanent trophy unlock, not a final-hit-only item drop.
• Lethal hits cause a 20-second downed window. Right-click a teammate within three blocks and hold still for three seconds to revive them with five hearts and brief protection. Moving or taking damage interrupts the channel. Expired downed players spectate; if no online defender is standing, the team loses.
• A disconnect holds the slot for three minutes. Rejoining resumes the encounter without a free loadout refill. Expired departures retain saved survival state for recovery. /arena recover retries a failed return after the match.
• Matches have a 15-minute active limit. The encounter pauses while the entire group is disconnected and cancels after grace expires. Reconnecting does not resume an almost-finished fire attack without a fresh warning.
• Victory/defeat shows results for eight seconds, then returns players and resets the arena. No PvP, building, dropped match equipment, or survival Strength gains apply. Admin stops and restarts restore saved state or retain it for recovery.
• Emberwing records bounded boss damage, revives, completion, elapsed time and boss phase/health. Contributing completed players score 1 per 5 damage (rounded down), 25 per revive, 10 per objective and 100 for victory. Leaving or expiring grace earns no points.
• Defaults live under dragon in the plugin config; numerical overrides use matching game_settings keys such as dragon.health and dragon.ray-damage. Admins can open or seal its lobby gate from /admin/arenas. Existing installations retain their saved config/database overrides. When upgrading from the 240-HP prototype, set dragon.health to 1200 explicitly for the new baseline; changing the value does not rescale a running encounter.

No fall damage when you land (protection lasts 30 seconds after launching).

Players can't use this - it's an admin tool, so nobody gets free movement in a fight.

No command — it works with clicks:

Spawning a villager (admins)

/villager <job> <trade> [level] [price] spawns a villager right where you stand, with that job and one of the trades that job can really have in survival (at Minecraft's usual price, unless you add your own at the end):

Press Tab after the job to see all of that job's trades: things it sells are plain item names, and things it buys from you end in -for-emerald. A job can only get its own trades (a farmer can't sell a diamond sword), but librarians can sell any enchanted book - even ones you can't normally get from villagers, like Soul Speed, Swift Sneak and Wind Burst.

It's a master-level villager, so it keeps that one trade and never adds random ones. It can be switched off on the website (Survival & crafting → Spawn villagers).

Skip trades (everyone): open a villager that nobody has traded with yet and a green [⟳ Skip trades] button appears in chat. Click it and the villager rolls brand-new trades right away (the trading window reopens) - no need to break and replace its job block. Once someone trades with it, its trades are locked in and the button stops appearing.

No command — it just works. Every villager and wandering trader:

Villagers still level up (Novice → Master) and still unlock new trades as they level. Admins can switch this off in server/plugins/OurServer/config.yml with infinite-trades: false, then restart.

The #minecraft channel in our Discord and the game are connected, both ways.

Typing @everyone in game does not ping anyone in Discord — the bot strips pings out.

Slash commands

These are answered by the website, not the game server, so they still work when the machine is powered off.

Admins: the bot's token lives in aws/secrets.env on the Mac (never in git). Change it and run aws/push-server.sh secrets. Leave discord-token empty to turn the bridge off. After changing the command list in web/lib/discord/definitions.ts, run npm run discord:register in web/.

Only a limited number of crafted maces can exist at once. Density and Breach levels are capped.

Rules:

• Maces must be crafted one at a time (no shift-click). Crafters (the block) can't make maces.
• A mace lost in lava/fire/cactus/explosion, the void, despawning, or breaking frees its slot automatically.
• Density/Breach are lowered when enchanting, using an anvil, picking up, switching to the mace, hitting, or logging in.
• Maces from /give or creative mode aren't counted.

Enchantment limits: the highest Protection is III and the highest Sharpness is IV (vanilla goes to IV and V). Higher levels are lowered the same way as Density and Breach, and enchanted books are capped too, so a Protection IV book becomes Protection III. Admins change the limits on the website under Combat → Enchantment limits (max-protection, max-sharpness; 0 removes the enchantment completely).

With the updated plugin, the panel and /macelimit use the same database settings: mace-limit, max-density, and max-breach. Lower enchantment caps take effect at the next supported item interaction; raising a cap does not restore levels already removed.

Kill players to get stronger; get killed to get weaker.

Rules:

• Killed by a player: the killer gets +1, you lose 1. Other deaths (lava, mobs, falling) don't change strength.
• Each point of strength = +1 attack damage.
• Strength does not apply while holding a mace.
• Killed while already at the minimum (−2) = eliminated: you become a spectator until someone revives you. Revived players come back at −1, next to whoever revived them.
• Killing someone while you're at the maximum (+5) drops a Strength Token instead.
• Strength Token: right-click to get +1 strength.

Recipes

Strength Token                Revive Heart
[Diamond Block][Blaze Rod    ][Diamond Block]    [Diamond Block][Gold Block       ][Diamond Block]
[Blaze Rod    ][Netherite Ing][Blaze Rod    ]    [Gold Block   ][Totem of Undying ][Gold Block   ]
[Diamond Block][Blaze Rod    ][Diamond Block]    [Diamond Block][Gold Block       ][Diamond Block]

Both recipes appear in the recipe book.

Everyone gets ONE random ability — you don't choose it. It's rolled the first time you join, announced on screen and in chat, and it grows with your Strength.

Your side board (right of the screen) shows your Strength, your ability, and whether the passive and ultimate are unlocked. Only you can see it.

Combos: "in a row" means hits with the same weapon. A combo resets if you switch weapons or wait more than 6 seconds. Your progress shows in the action bar, e.g. Axe ▰▰▱▱ 2/4.

Abilities work on mobs too, so you can practise alone. Abilities only work with your picked ability's weapon - other weapons behave normally.

Changing the numbers (admins)

Where the numbers come from, in order:

1. the website's database (game_settings table) — re-read every 30 seconds, so a change reaches the game on its own
2. config.yml on the server — the fallback when the database has no value (or is down)
3. the built-in default in the code

That means the settings survive the server being rebuilt or moved, and the website's admin page can change them later.

Easy versions of things that are normally hard to get. They're extra recipes — the vanilla ones still work.

They all show up in the recipe book.

String in a crafter keeps going: a crafter with 1 string in its grid (lock the other 8 slots so a hopper can only fill that one) keeps crafting for as long as it's powered: flip a lever on and it runs, 5 crafts a second; flip it off and it stops. Normal crafters only craft once each time their power turns on. The string goes into a chest in front of the crafter (the side with the opening), or drops out if there's no chest. A hopper pointing into the crafter keeps feeding it string while it runs (normally a powered hopper stops, but this pulls the string out for it). Admins can switch this off or change the speed on the website under String crafters keep going.

Names: golden-apple, breeze-rod, ender-chest, cobweb, string, anvil. The anvil recipe requires the updated game plugin. Its settings are recipes.anvil.enabled and recipes.anvil.output.

Switches are saved in the database (recipes.<name>.enabled), so they survive restarts and can be changed from the website later.

Hold sneak while breaking an ore and the whole vein comes out. Do it to a log and the whole tree falls, leaves and all.

Rules:

• Ores need a pickaxe, wood needs an axe. Wrong tool = normal Minecraft.
• Works on all ores (coal, iron, copper, gold, redstone, lapis, emerald, diamond, nether gold, nether quartz, ancient debris) and all wood types, including stripped logs, wood/hyphae blocks and bamboo.
• Stone and deepslate versions of an ore count as the same vein.
• A whole vein or tree costs just 1 durability, the same as one block. (If an admin turns on /veinminer durability, every extra block costs 1 instead, and it stops before your tool breaks.)
• Chopping a tree breaks its leaves too, with their normal drops (saplings, sticks, apples). Only the leaves that would rot away anyway: leaves still touching another tree, and leaves a player placed, stay.
• Fortune, Silk Touch and XP all work normally, because each block is broken as if you mined it.
• Survival mode only.

Settings are saved in the database (veinminer.*) and reach the game within 30 seconds.

Requires the updated game plugin. A successful spear hit starts a 5-second cooldown; a successful mace hit starts a 15-second cooldown. While waiting, further hits with that weapon family are blocked and an action-bar message shows the seconds remaining. Misses, fully blocked hits and protection-cancelled damage do not start a timer. Native spear charge damage and mace smash damage are included. This does not add a separate cooldown to movement-only lunges, tridents or other weapon abilities.

All spear tiers share one timer; maces have a separate timer. Switching items or reconnecting does not reset it. These are survival rules, including the Nether and End; the lobby and managed arenas are excluded. Global string and recipe settings retain their existing scope.

Admins can tune combat.spear-cooldown-seconds (default 5) and combat.mace-cooldown-seconds (default 15) on the website, from 0–300 seconds. Zero disables the rule. New values are read within 30 seconds; a running timer keeps its original expiry unless that rule is disabled. No server restart is needed to tune an installed version.

Furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers run 100× faster, as if the game's tick speed were turned up just for them: a furnace smelts an item every 0.1 seconds instead of every 10 (a blast furnace or smoker every 0.05 seconds). Fuel burns just as much faster, so a coal still smelts 8 items and a lava bucket 100. A hopper can only feed a furnace about 2.5 items a second, so hopper-fed furnaces are limited by the hopper. No commands; admins change the speed (1-200×) or switch it off on the website under Fast smelting.

Minecraft removed the old tripwire string dupe in 1.21.2, and no server setting brings it back. Our plugin does it instead:

Shear a tripwire string (left-click it with shears) and the string stays while dropping 1-3 string. Keep clicking, keep getting string.

Build it like the old dupers: two tripwire hooks facing each other with string between them, then shear the string.

Bonus: when a piston breaks a string, the block is put back once the piston pulls away, so automatic piston-clock farms keep running.

Shearing still wears out your shears, one point per dupe.

Change these on the website (Admin → Settings) — live within 30 seconds.

The server runs Simple Voice Chat: you hear people who are near you in the world, and it gets quieter the further away they are.

To use it you need the Simple Voice Chat mod in your own game (Fabric or NeoForge, matching your Minecraft version). Without it everything else still works — you just won't hear anyone.