Before you start reading, make sure to take a look at the Minecraft Server rules.
Currently, we have three different player categories: Guests, Builders, and (long-term) Members
Guests can:
- explore the map
- place and destroy blocks in the wilderness
- join towns or residences of other players
they cannot:
- create residences/towns
- place TNT, use flint and steel
- use lava buckets
- kill villagers, horses and some other animals
- create trade signs
A new player joining the server will always be first placed in the guest group. If the player shows up for at least five hours over a period of three days, he can be promoted to a regular Member by an admin.
Builder can:
- build in all unprotected regions of the map
- kill everything in sight (not other players, though)
Member have certain privileges over normal members. Users who play on the server for more than six months can be promoted to this rank on request.
Members can:
- can create their own protected areas
- limits: a total volume of 110000000 blocks, the number of protections is limited to 5
- change special flags within their areas (mob spawning, access restrictions)
- change their in-game nick
- have access to the creative world
- auto afk after two minutes of idling
- repair tools and armour in the Spawn Town
0. The World
In addition to the usual main world, the corresponding Nether, and The End, the server has two additional maps: the old main world and a small creative world. Both worlds can be accessed via warp signs, located in the warp house directly next to the spawn house. The warp sign for the old world will transport you to the spawn point of the old world and can be used by everyone.
The creative world can be used to test buildings for the real world and is accessible only by Members. It is not meant for permanent buildings, though. The world size is limited to 400x400 blocks and will be non-periodically cleaned when necessary. Within the creative world, players have access to the /time set and /clear, /clean commands.
You can get an overview of the world by using our dynmap. The dynmap is a real-time representation of the server and the players on it. You can access the dynmap via:
http://ldg-gaming.eu:8123/index.html
1. The Spawn Town
Around the spawn point we created a small town where every Members and Builders is invited to build their own house. Please contact an admin when you want to claim a (unclaimed) plot. In addition to the normal house plots, you can also build a smaller shop plot where you can sell or buy items from other players. Please contact an admin if you're interested. Information on how to set up trade signs are given in Sect. 3 (Economy).
The Spawn Town also hosts the LDG bank and the official LDG shop. The shop sells rare blocks which you can normally only obtain by destroying special structures on the map. This includes, for example, chiselled stone bricks, mossy and cracked bricks, podzol, red sand, clay, or glowstone. The prices of these blocks have been chosen low enough to encourage players to buy these blocks in the shop rather than to destroy all jungle temples or mega taiga and mesa biomes on the map, for example.
In addition to these blocks, the shop also sells items which cannot be normally obtained by a player. This includes e.g. mob heads (excluding the wither skeleton heads) and spawn eggs. The spawn eggs can be used to introduce animals in an area (e.g. an island) where they haven't spawned naturally. However, the price for the spawn eggs is very high. You currently have to pay the equivalence of 8 diamonds for an animal spawn egg and 30 diamonds for a villager. This means, it is still much cheaper to just catch the animals in the wild, rather than buying these eggs.
The LDG bank buys and sells diamonds and lapis. Just like any central bank, the LDG bank has an unlimited amount of diamonds, lapis, and money. That means, you can't outsell nor outbuy the bank.
There are also other special buildings in the town, such as Moe's Tavern, a farm, or Automatix the blacksmith. Automatix can repair tools and armour. He is the best blacksmith in the entire LDG world and can repair items which cannot be repaired on an anvil anymore - even heavily enchanted weapons or armour. Automatix, however, is a very picky salesman: he only deals with Members and his prices are very high.
Accommodations for your horse are available right next to the farm, if required.
2. Protections
Everybody is allowed to own protected areas for buildings or farms/mines. With the introduction of the new map, the rules of protecting your land have changed. The basic rule now is: You alone are responsible for protecting your area, buildings, and chests. You can still build in the wilderness but you should be aware that unprotected buildings and chests are invitations for griefers. You can protect your stuff and land areas now without the need of an admin to set up a protection for you. This is achieved via two different plugins: Lockette, [and Worldguard.
The one you already know is Lockette which protects your chests and your doors. For a description on what you can do with Lockette, please have a look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcU_ZPgF0E
The other plugin dealing with protected areas is Worldguard. Information on how to use it can be found here: http://ldg-gaming.eu/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2955
3. Economy
The server now features a simple economy plugin. The main purpose of this plugin is the trade between players. Claiming land and protections will remain free of charge. The money is a purely ingame currency, i.e. you cannot increase your balance by donations of real money. When you become a regular member of the server, you'll automatically receive a start balance of $500.
You can always check your own balance by using the /balance command. You can also visit the LDG bank in the Spawn Town and click on the balance sign. The LDG bank will also buy diamonds and lapis (yes, they're useful for something now) at fixed rates.
Throughout the town you will find several "BUY" signs where you can buy stuff from the server (e.g. in Moe's Tavern or the LDG shop). For inter-player trading there are two ways. One way is the /pay <player> <amount> command which transfers $amount of money to a player. Another way (which also works if the selling player is offline) are TRADE signs. With TRADE signs, you can both, sell to or buy from other players. To set up TRADE signs, please follow the instructions available at: http://ess.khhq.net/wiki/Sign_Tutorial#Trade_Sign
You can either trade money for items (and vice versa) or a certain number of items for others (e.g. 10 wool for 5 stone).
The /itemdb command to find out short names and IDs of the things you want to buy/sell is also available to all players.
An obvious place to place such signs would, of course, be in your own personal shop in the Spawn Town
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Whether you use this plugin or not is entirely up to you. You can still trade in the old fashioned ways if you desire to do so!
4. Useful commands:
/afk toggles the afk mode. While afk, mobs can't harm you.
/mail simple mail environment to sent messages to offline players
/recipe <name> displays the crafting recipe of item <name>
/itemdb database of item IDs and names
/balance checks your balance
/pay <player> <amount> transfers $amount of money to <player>
Members only
/nick <name> change your in-game name
/ignore <name> ignores chat messages of person <name>
within the creative world only:
/time set <x> change the time to x
/time day/night change the time to day or night
/clean or /clear clears the inventory
5. Useful links
The Minecraft portal, Dynmap, and voting pages can be reached through these easy-to-remember links:
ldg-gaming.eu/minecraft
ldg-gaming.eu/vote
ldg-gaming.eu/map