Survival server

Getting Started

A lot of features we use on our servers are triggered by ‘commands.’ This basically involves typing a specific instruction after a ’/’ to tell the game what to do. For example, if you typed the command ‘/spawn’ the game would transport you to spawn.

In game, there are commands you can type to get different pieces of information:

/rules - see the Minecraft Server rules

/tutorial - be taken to this website

The Survival world resets every 12 months. When this happens, you are able to spectate the old world on our server, or you can download a copy of the old world so you can play it privately if you would like to! You can download all past worlds here: https://info.spectrumgaming.fun/worlds

The current survival world has these features:

(more in depth info further down the page!)

Players will keep their inventory on death by default, but if you choose to live more dangerously you can switch it 'off.' This will mean graves are spawned in for 15 minutes where you die that contain all your items. The command to switch it off is /keepinventory off and the command to switch it back on again is /keepinventory on

When spawning in for the first time players are given a ‘starter kit’ with some basic tools, weapons, armour and food. There will also be some NPCs around spawn that will offer items as you begin if you interact with them.

You can teleport back to spawn, the nether hub, the End portal and the shopping district with the commands /spawn /nether /warp end and /sd (there is a 10 second delay between using warp commands)

You can request to teleport to another player, or send a request for someone to teleport you to them. The commands are /tpa and /tpahere

Players have access to the command /wild once a day, allowing you to teleport to a completely random place on the server (ideal for finding space for a new base or looking for rare resources)

You can use posing commands! Simply type in any of the following commands to make your avatar pose: /sit /crawl /spin /bellyflop

After killing the Ender Dragon there is a 5% chance it will drop the Ender Dragon Egg (i.e. a 1 in 20 chance)

You can set your “home” meaning you can do the command /sethome [name] and then teleport back to your home with the command /home [name] - you can have up to 5 'homes'.

The server difficulty is set to 'Normal' most days of the week, but will change to 'Hard' difficulty on Saturdays. When the server is set to ‘Hard’ difficulty hostile mobs will deal more damage, there is a higher chance of mobs spawning with armour, your hunger bar goes down quicker, zombies have a 100% chance of converting villagers, zombies break down doors and can spawn in reinforcements, you are more likely to encounter pillagers, and spiders can spawn with a status effect (E.g. strength or regeneration etc.).

There is a 'pvp toggle' which you can turn on and off depending on if you would like to be able to fight with other players (commands are listed below)

Handy coordinates to know:

Spawn: X: 110 Y: 154 Z: 222

Shopping District: X: 1203 Y: 75 Z: 138

Features Menu:

The Shopping District

Chest Protection

Land/Area Claiming

The Grave/Inventory System

Warps

The Nether Hub

PVP Toggle

Quests

Voice Chat Mod

Trading

The Shopping District

General Info:

The Shopping District has 3 distinct areas for shops; market stalls, medium plots and large plots.

Every player is allowed one market stall and one medium plot OR one large plot.

More rules about the Shopping District can be found on our >rules page<

If you want to know how to set up a shop to trade with others, click on the 'selling' tab to read more.

How to set up a shop:

We use a 'plugin' on the server in order to let players create shops to trade easily with others and the info below tells you how to set up your shop. If you get stuck try asking an adult to help you first, and if you are still stuck you can make a support ticket to chat to staff.

1) To begin, use the command /shop create and then right click on the chest or container you would like to become the 'shop'.

2) For players to be able to trade with your shop you must unprotect it with the command /unlock then right click the chest or container.

3) Once shop chest or container has been made, it will display 'invalid' because you need to set your "product and price". To do this firstly, make sure you have the items you want the product and price to be in your inventory along with the amount of said item.

Then right click on the chest or container which will open the shop menu and hover over the barrier items, the first barrier item will ask you to set the product, to do this you need to left click on "set product" and then left click on the item in your inventory that you want the product to be.

4) The same goes for the "set price". In this case the product = the item you are trading, and the price = the item you will receive, which brings us to the next configuration option:

5) The "Type" option. This allows you to switch from "buying" and "selling" which basically switches the product and the price. If you are selling 1 diamond for 1 emerald and then you hover over the Blue block in the shop menu labeled "Change type", you can change the type to buying by left clicking it which would mean you are now wanting to buy 1 diamond for 1 emerald (or selling 1 emerald for 1 diamond).

6) To stock your shop in the shop menu hover over to the white block labeled "Open storage" and left click it, this opens the chest allowing you to stock your chest, make sure to leave enough slots free for when players trade in items otherwise players wont be able to trade.

To destroy a shop you can either left click the red block in the shop menu or type /shop destroy and right click on the chest or container you wish to destroy.

Each player can make a maximum of 15 shop chests or containers.

The Shop Menu

Buying:

Buying from a shop is super easy, just right click on the chest or container in the shop. The item that is labelled as 'selling' is the thing you are buying. The item labelled as 'buying' is what you're paying with.

Looking for something in particular? You can search shops that are buying or selling something specific using the command: /shop catalog [buying/selling] [ITEM NAME] (but type it in without the < and the <s!) and you be able to see the coordinates of the shop that is selling what you are after and the price. If you click on the chest a tracker will appear, guiding you to the shop (Make sure you have your particles switched on in the settings menu otherwise you won't be able to see it).

Chest Protection

Basic Info:

You can easily unlock and lock objects by typing the command /lock or /unlock and then clicking on the object.

Once an object is locked you can hold shift and left click on the object OR type /protect and left click which will bring up the settings menu for that object!

You can lock a variety of items, including up to 10 pets if you would like to keep them safe.

There is a lot of customisation for the chest protection system, so check out the other tabs for more info :)

More info about locking and unlocking objects:

How to add someone to an object?

Using the protection system, you can give individual players access to an object.

In the menu, go into the “Members” section and then click on the green skull that says “Trust player” you can then type in the username you would like to add. From here you can remove member permission or promote them to 'admin', meaning they can also trust other players to this item. Another way to do this is by typing /trust [player] then clicking on the object

How to add a group to an object?

You are able to create groups which you can then add users to. Once that group is added to an object that will give all the users in the group access to use the object.

If you go to the 'groups' section of the menu you can create a group and give it a name. Then all you have to do is simply left click on the group you would like to add and that will add everyone inside that group to the object.

To remove the group from the object you can hover over the “Edit Group” section in the main object menu and just press the “Q” Key.

Items that can be locked/unlocked:

Chest
Trapped chest
Furnace
Smoker
Blast furnace
Hopper
Barrel
Brewing stand
Dropper
Lectern
All shulker boxes
Anvil
Gates
Trapped doors
Buttons
Levers
Doors
Dispenser
Armor stands

Shelves

There is a lot of customisation for the chest protection system. You can get more in depth information here: The protection system in detail

Land/Area Claiming

General info about Land Claiming:

Land claiming uses similar menus to our chest protection menus if you have used those before. Lands can be a bit confusing at first, but becomes quite easy to understand!

When you join the server you will not be able to create your Land or claim Land until you have played on the server for 6 hours.

Once you have played for 6 hours you will be able to create your Land.

At first, you will be able to claim up to 6 chunks of land, but every hour you play on the server you will be given an extra chunk which you can claim, you will be able to claim a maximum of 150 chunks!

You can create up to 35 ‘Areas’ within your Land. The main Land is counted as the “default” Area. You cannot delete this area.

If you have land within 1,000 blocks of spawn or the shopping district you are not allowed to ban players from your land. This is due to it causing issues with players using elytra's to fly to spawn/traveling to spawn and being teleported back due to being banned.

Creating your Land:

After you have played on the server for 6 hours you can create your land by typing the command /land create (your land name)
You can claim chunks for your land by typing /claim
You can manage your land via the land menu or via commands - you can do /land help to see all land commands and you can type /land to open the land menu.

View Command:

/view - this is a very useful command as it will show you where other members and your own Lands are by displaying a green (if it is your Land) or a red (if it is someone else's Land) particle line around the claimed chunks! - you can also use /view help to see more view commands with descriptions for each command such as:
/view stay - keeps the border at the height you ran the command at (meaning when you move to a different Y level the border wont follow up with you.
/view here - Does the opposite of /view stay, the border will move up and down with you (this is the default option when you do /view)
/view disable - this disables the borders.

This can be used to help understand how big your Land is, which area belongs to you and which area belongs to others. If you are standing inside someone else’s Land it will display some information about the Land. This tool is also a very useful feature when setting your “Areas”; more information in the 'Area Claiming' tab.

Commands:

(these commands can be controlled via the /land menu as well (it's recommended to use the menus for easier navigation):

/lands list - This command brings up a menu that lists all the Lands that have been made

/lands invites - This commands opens a menu that displays all the lands you have been invited to join, You can join up to 5 lands (6 including your own land)

/land trust [player name] - This will add a player to your Land, - to add a player to a certain Area, add the Area’s name after the members name (/lands trust LewisB1 Area1)

/land setrole [player name] default [role name] - This will set a player inside of your land or certain area to a specific role, you can create up to 10 roles in your land. - to set a members role inside a certain area change the "default" to the areas name.

The video above is old and may be incorrect.

Area Claiming:

Areas are like mini Lands (or plots) inside of your Land. You can create up to 35 Areas (the main Land counts as an Area, so you can create 34 extra Areas) in your Land.

You can add certain players to each Area and you can create or add from your land roles (which will include all the members who currently have that land role) you can create or add up to 10 roles per Area.

In each Area you can customize your own settings for Player management, Roles, Natural flags, and Miscellaneous flags, all these basically work the same way stated above in the Land menus.

The "Areas" feature is really useful for lands that want to have villages with different members building houses. We also use the area system for the shopping district, each shopping district plot = 1 area.

Create an Area:

Creating an Area is actually quite easy. First off you need to go into your Land menu using the /land command and then navigate to the Areas section. Then click on the ‘Create Area’ button where you will then be asked to send the name of your area in the chat. (Type the name as a message, not a command.).

You then need to do the command /selection which will then give you a golden hoe (if you take the hoe out of your hand then the selection will cancel and you will have to redo the command!).

Once you have the golden hoe you can select an area you would like to claim by left-clicking in one corner and right-clicking in the opposite corner. This then creates a "box" which you can then claim by typing /land assign [area name] (Areas are done by blocks, not chunks meaning 1 corner would need to be at the bottom, and the other corner would need to be at the top in the air like a world edit/world guard region).

The video above is old and may be incorrect.

The Grave/ Inventory System

Graves

By default 'keep inventory' is enabled on the survival server. If you would prefer to keep it off you can use the command /keepinventory off to enable it. If you then want to turn it on again, you can use /keepinventory on. If you have this enabled then you will not loose your stuff when you die.

If you do not have 'keep inventory' turned on then you will have to find your 'grave' on the server to get your stuff back. When you die on the server you will get a death message which shows the coordinates where you died. You can load this up again at any time by typing /grave.

You have 15 minutes to get to your grave once you die, which is 10 minutes longer than the usually time on Minecraft. If you take longer than 15 minutes, the loot will drop and anyone is able to pick it up (if people know this is yours and you are trying to get this, they must give it back though)

When you get to your grave, you can click on it to open it and get all of your items back. If you die to a 'glitch' or error which means you cannot get to your grave then you need to prove this to staff in order to get your stuff back. More info is in our Getting Support section.

Warps

warps

You can teleport back to spawn, stalls, the nether hub, and the shopping district with the commands /spawn /stalls /nether or /sd (when running the commands you will have to stay completely still for a few seconds before being teleported) there is also a 10 second delay between using /spawn, /sd and /home

You can set your “home” meaning you can do the command /sethome and then teleport back to your home with the command /home (the delays listed above apply to this command as well). Players can set up to 5 homes. These can be created with the /sethome command followed by a name of their choice. For example, to create a first teleport point named ‘One’ the player would type /sethome one to create it. To return to this point later on they would type /home one to warp back

You can also use the /wild command which will teleport you somewhere completely random - you can only use /wild once per day though.

Nether Hub

nether

When you go through the nether portal at spawn you will spawn in the "nether hub". This area is a safe space in the nether with tunnels in 4 directions to allow quick movement around the nether region. Select the NPC at the tunnel entrance to get a free boat to fast travel down the tunnel on the ice.

PVP Toggle

Commands

/pvp on - enables pvp
/pvp off - disables pvp
/pvp block (player) - blocks a certain player from being able to PVP with you
/pvp unblock (player) - unblocks the player you just blocked

Useful information

You can't turn off PVP if you have been hit within the last 10 seconds,
If you die, you cannot be hit and cannot hit others for 20 seconds (Giving you time to disable PVP if you want to),
If you leave the server and re-join, the PVP is disabled.

Remember to have 'keep inventory' switched on and to set your spawn point nearby if you don't want to respawn miles away!

If you notice any bugs with PVP, you can let us know with this form: https://www.spectrumgaming.net/mc-bug

Quests

Each month, we will be releasing challenges for you to complete. Each individual challenge unlocks a prize but if you complete all challenges that month, you will unlock a special tag you can use in front of your username.

To access these challenges use the command /quests. This will bring up a menu which outlines what you need to do.

Simple Voice Chat Mod

Voice Chat

This season we have also added simple voice chat to the server. To add this to your game, you will also need to download the mod on your computer too (Please note: this is only available for Minecraft java users). For instructions about how to add and use the mod, >see this document here<

Trading

To easily trade with other players, without worrying about them walking off with your items, type in this command /trade [PLAYER NAME] to send a trade request (You must be close to a player to do this). If they accept, a shared trading inventory will open where both players can add items. Once you're both happy with the trade, simply click the red block to confirm, and the trade will complete.

It's probably best to use this for all trades in the game as it makes things much easier. It's impossible for items to be stolen.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have space in your inventory for the trade to take place, otherwise items drop on the floor.

Survival server

Spawn: X: 110 Y: 154 Z: 222

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Shopping District: X: 1203 Y: 75 Z: 138​

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The Shopping District

Chest Protection

Land/Area Claiming

The Grave/ Inventory System

Warps

Nether Hub

PVP Toggle

Commands

Useful information​

Quests

Simple Voice Chat Mod

Trading

Shopping District: X: 1203 Y: 75 Z: 138

The Nether Hub

Useful information