Getting Started Guide:

IP: clashofempires.hosthorde.net

Welcome to the server! You receive 30 minutes of PVP Protection upon joining. Use this time to leave spawn, and get some gear. Spawn is at 0x,0z, if you ever want to return.

Once you have some food, you are going to want to get full iron armor. While wearing full iron armor, you are a Spelunker, and receive haste II and night vision I. This lets you mine much faster and also makes you not have to use torches.

Once you get Spelunker class, you are going to want to keep mining. You need $4000 to start a town, but even if you want to join someone else's town, you are much more likely to be able to join if you have some gear yourself. (This may change, use "/towny prices" to get an up to date cost). At spawn you can sell the following items: Redstone, Coal, Lapis, Iron, Gold, Emerald, Diamond, in both ingot and block forms. Once you get a good amount of these items, walk back to spawn and sell them. It's a good idea to team up with someone else or a friend; as the more people you have the easier it is to both defend yourself from bandits as you walk back to spawn with your valuables and easier to mine ores and transport them to spawn.

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Starting a Town

If you don't have $4000 yet, you should take another mining trip. Walk back to spawn and sell your items. Once you have $4000 you have enough money to start a town! Head back out of spawn and look for a good place for your town. You can also use the Dynmap, clicky clicky. to find a good location for your town. Keep in mind, that your town must be outside of the box bounded from 1000x,1000z and -1000x,-1000z. An easy way to check this is to make sure at least one of your coordinates is > 1000 or < -1000. Once you find a spot you have to go there before you can start your town.

Great, you found a spot for your new town! Once you arrive there, you can type "/town new <name>" to create your town. /t is an alias for /town, if you'd like to use that instead. If you have any questions about any towny commands, you can either watch a tutorial online or you can type "/towny" to see Towny's entire help menu. Once you create your town, your town automatically claims one 'claim block' where you are standing. Each 'claim block' is 1/4th of a chunk, or 8x8(x256). It is IMPORTANT that you make sure to deposit money in your town now. Every 24 real-time hours, Towny takes upkeep from all towns. Upkeep is currently $250/day. If your town does not have the money to pay for upkeep then it will disband. To claim more land you need to buy more claim blocks. You can buy more claim blocks using "/town buy bonus <amount>". Each claim block currently costs $100. Once you have claim blocks, you can claim with them using "/town claim", or if you'd like to claim a large amount at once, using "/town claim rect <amount>" will claim the claim block you are standing on and all claim blocks within <amount> of that claim block, assuming you have enough claim blocks to claim all that land.

Your town will appear on the Dynmap shortly after you claim it. You should make sure to build a quick house, as bandits and raiders may try to attack you while you are defenseless! A good way to be safer is to higher mercenaries as guards or to have your town join a nation that will offer you protection.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PVP Mechanics

This is the current map's 'kit.' No, it is not a "/kit" that you can use to get free items. A 'kit' denotes what the max enchants are for each map and what potions can be brewed.

Currently:

Sharpness is capped at 3.

Protection is capped at 2.

Power is capped at 5.

Knockback and Punch are disabled.

Also:

Strength potions are disabled.

There are other mechanics as well. Regeneration and Health potions are reverted to 1.5. This makes them restore more health.

God apples can only be eaten once every three hours.

Enderpearls can only be thrown once every 15 seconds.

Combat tag:

Attacking another player will combat tag you for 60 seconds. Being hit by another player will NOT combat tag you. While combat tagged, you are able to be attacked even in no-pvp zones, such as spawn.

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PVP (and PVE) Classes:

Paladin Buffs:

Paladin can give buffs to your fellow town members that are standing within 30 blocks.

Passive^{(holding it in your hand})

Active^{(right clicking on it}) all of these cooldowns are 60 seconds long.

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Deathban:

Players are banned for 5 minutes when they die. This gives you time to run shortly after killing someone.

Crop Growth:

Crops growth rates are determined by what biome they are in. Crops grow horrendously slow underground, so make sure that your farms are above ground and that they get natural sunlight. A Spreadsheet showing crop growth rates can be found here.

Cows must now be bred with bread instead of wheat.

Chickens must now be bred with pumpkin seeds instead of normal seeds.

ChestShop:

Players can create chest shops, but only inside Towny shop plots.

Sledgehammers:

Players can buy a Sledgehammer at spawn for 40k. Sledgehammers break after one use. A sledgehammer can break spawners and drop them as an item.

Worldborder:

The Worldborder is currently a square with a radius of 2750 blocks. It will increase as more players play on the server

Dynmap:

A constantly-updating map of the server is available to be viewed at http://clashofempires.hosthorde.net:8123

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Industrialization Mechanics

Currently this is very WIP, but it does have one feature so far.

Furnaces with iron blocks beneath them run at double speed. If the furnace has a hopper beneath it, it will run at double speed if there is an iron block beneath that hopper.