The guide

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:

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.

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.

Names: golden-apple, breeze-rod, ender-chest, cobweb.

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.

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.
• Each extra block costs 1 durability, and it stops before your tool breaks.
• 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.

Mojang removed the old tripwire string dupe from Minecraft itself, so no server setting can bring it back. We rebuilt it in our plugin instead:

1. A piston breaks a tripwire string → the string drops, like normal.
2. When the piston pulls back, the string block is put back.

So the machine never eats its own string: one piston cycle = one string, forever. Classic piston-clock string farms work again.

Change them on the website (Admin → Settings), live within 30 seconds.