PvE Information Guide

Server address	pve.nerd.nu / p.nerd.nu
Current map revision	19
Map revision started	11th November, 2016

New Features

Our PvE server is on it's 19th map reset, and with it came a great deal of changes to the server environment. You can find all of the changes in the information post here on the subreddit. A few of these changes require a bit more detail:

Easy Rider

This rev brings Easy Rider, a plugin by Totemo to allow for horses to level up rather than breeding for stats.

• Horses start out at level 1 in each of these three abilities. Horse attributes (health, jump and speed) improve in discrete steps when the level of that ability is increased to the next whole number.
  • Speed: A horse’s speed increases according to the total horizontal distance traveled on the ground by the horse while carrying a rider.
  • Jump Strength: A horse’s speed increases according to the total horizontal distance traveled in the air by the horse while carrying a rider. Fall distance does not count. You can make the horse jump, ride it off a cliff, or just ride it up and down slopes to improve jump strength.
  • Health: A horse’s health increases according to the total mass of gold consumed in the form of golden carrots, regular golden apples and Notch apples. The more gold it takes to craft a food item, the more it improves the horse’s health. Horses eat one food item at a time. You may need to hurt them in order for them to eat golden apples. What does not kill them makes them stronger!
• All types of horses, including donkeys, mules, skeletal and undead horses, have the same maximum level and maximum ability (in this version of the plugin). But other vanilla restrictions remain: only donkeys and mules can carry chests and skeletal or undead horses cannot wear armour.

Command	Description	Usable by
/horse-top <stat>	Shows the rank of all horses on the server. You can specify /horse-top jump, /horse-top speed, or /horse-top health. Output is divided into pages of 10 horses and you can ask for a specific page number, e.g. /horse-top jump 2	All Players
/horse-owned [<page>]	Lists all of the horses owned by you as well as its last known coordinates. You can specify a page using /horse-owned #	All Players
/horse-owned <player> [<page>]	Lists all of the horses owned for a specific player as well as its last known coordinates.	Admin
/horse-upgrades <ability>	allows you to see the maximum level and how much training effort is required to attain each level	All Players
/horse-levels	Shows the levels of the horse you are currently riding, or if not riding the horse you click on	All Players

Hyper Carts

HyperCarts allows players to control the max speed of minecarts.

Command	Description	Usable by
/cart-speed help	Show usage help	All Players
/cart-speed]	Show your current personal max minecart speed.	All Players
/cart-speed <number>	Set a new personal maximum minecart speed. (vanilla is 0.4)	All Players

Chairs

Having guests for supper? Now you’ll be able to sit down in a proper chair (staircase) of your choice! To sit in a chair, you must type /chairs on and right click on the staircase. To disable, type /chairs off

PvE Information Guide

This page contains information pertaining to the p.nerd.nu server. Enjoy!

Arenas

• PvP Arenas
  • Again this rev you may request barrier blocks for your PvP arenas. Please specify in your modreq which blocks you would like replaced with barriers (make them something different so we can replace them correctly).
  • You may also request an open-air arena provided the arena is set to disallow enderpearls and there is a wall that prevents players from entering except at designated entrances.
  • All other PvP arena rules still apply.
  • PvP arenas must be clearly marked, completely enclosed, and access-restricted builds - the area must only be accessible via iron doors that require a button press to enter.
  • These entrances must be marked with signs stating that it is a PvP area, and that players enter at their own risk. The PvP-enabled area may not exceed 100x100 blocks, and may not interact with other PvP areas in any way.
  • Enabling of the PvP flag will be done entirely at the discretion of server admins.
• Spleef Arenas
  • You are allowed to request barrier blocks for spleef arenas - please specify in your modreq which blocks you would like replaced with barriers.

Custom Recipes

• Packed Ice
  • 2x2 grid of ice
• Podzol
  • Grass + Leaves
• Elytra
  • Dragon head + Essence of Flight
    • Dragon Heads can be obtained via padmin doppel
    • Essence of Flight: Monsters in the Any World have a small chance to drop a special “Essence of Flight”. These will drop from any hostile mob, but the End Grinder, Guardian Grinders, Slime Grinders, or Dungeon Grinders will produce less than desirable results. They will only drop from mobs that are killed by players, that is, killing mobs with crushers, drops or lava/fire will not drop EoF. Looting will help.
• Red Sand
  • 1 red dye surrounded by 8 sand = 8 red sand
• Red Sandstone
  • 1 red dye + 1 sandstone = 1 red sandstone

Custom Spawners

Custom spawners must be used within 2 weeks of the initial discovery date; or else the rights will be forfeited.

Doppelgangers

The Doppelganger plugin, written by totemo, will be active again and gives players the ability to obtain player heads as well as provide an extremely difficult mob boss to fight.

• Standard Doppels
  • Simply name a pumpkin on an anvil to the name of the player whose head you wish to obtain (note that this is case sensitive; “Notch” will give the proper Notch head while “notch” will give something else).
  • Place this pumpkin on top of two vertically stacked diamond blocks. Lightning will strike as your stack of blocks transforms into a powerful diamondclad monster, wearing the player head you seek!
  • The head can be found in the monster’s remains once you’ve bested it in combat.
• Padmin Doppels
  • Create a T shape with diamond blocks, and place a pumpkin named after a current padmin on top - this will spawn doppels of all padmins and will drop a dragon head as well as the padmin head.

Word of warning: they’re deadly. As with other forms of indirect unwanted PvP, do not spawn these intentionally to murder players.

Land Claims

Land claims are returning this rev. As a reminder, land claims are not protected; they are meant to be an indicator of future building.

• How to create a valid claim;
  • Area must be fully enclosed in a solid wall of fence/cobble wall (not blocks) with access points at reasonable intervals (gates, carpet, something) to allow players to escape if they are trapped.
  • Claims are only valid from top layer of terrain upwards. These claims are intended to identify areas where there will be building not to reserve resources or prevent others from making rail tunnels or mining.
  • You are not required to keep the land claim fence up for the entire rev. You may remove them once your build is finalized to keep the land easy to traverse.
  • Ocean Claims - claims are valid to the ocean floor, regardless of where the fence is placed.
  • Nether/End Claims - Claims in the nether and end follow the same rules as the overworld
• Buffers: There are no buffers to a land claim - where you place the fence is where other players can build. If buffers are deemed too large admins reserve the right to remove/replace claim borders as needed
• Players must place signs at reasonable intervals displaying username / date (and town name if applicable - ideally something like: Trooprm32 / Polis / May 27, 2016) so others know who to contact should there be any issues.

Claims will EXPIRE if they are not used. **Players may /modreq an expired claim, at which point admins will make an effort to determine if the area will be used or not. This does not mean you can take over someone’s claim, it is so that claims do not sit unused through the rev.**

• Expirations are:
  • [250,250] - [-250,-250] = no land claiming allowed
  • [1000,1000] - [-1000,-1000] = land claims are valid for 2 weeks
  • Anything outside [1000,1000] - [-1000,-1000] is valid for 4 weeks.
  • Unauthorized builds within a claimed area may be removed by admins at the request of the claim owner.
• Admins reserve the right to invalidate any claim for (but not limited to) the following reasons: being too large (larger than you will reasonably use), claiming with multiple users to bypass any size guidelines, removing/changing claims that were not placed by you, claiming an area solely for access to resource mining, encircling another claim in an effort to take over, or violating any other build rules currently in place.

Map World

To Access the map world you will need to use the designated portal at spawn. YOUR INVENTORY MUST BE EMPTY TO USE THIS PORTAL.

• Currently there is a limit of 5 plots per person - please be reasonable and only claim what you will use.
  • Additional plots can be requested via modreq and will be granted at admin discretion.
• There will be 168 plots available at the start of the revision, and we now use the NerdPlot plugin, meaning you can claim your plots without a modreq!
  • Stand in an empty plot and type '/nerdplot claim
  • Use /nerdplot for more info.

To get a map from the MapWorld to the Overworld

• Place an item frame with a blank map at your location in the overworld
• Stand at your item frame and /modreq please give map #____
  • map numbers can be found here - this map is #137
• Staff will replace your blank map with the map you've requested

Remember: all nerd.nu rules apply in the mapworld, including those regarding nsfw builds

Mob Grinders

All mob grinders; guardian, iron golem, custom and vanilla must be open to the public. In drop grinders such as the creeper, guardian, and iron golem, at least 50% of the drops must be available, either in a public chest, or available for players to pick up at a killing floor. All experience grinders must be open for anyone to take advantage of.

Mob Limiting

PvE runs a plugin called MobLimiter that limits the number of mobs (livestock and pets) that may stay in a chunk when it is unloaded - this is to prevent excessively large numbers of mobs when they are not needed. This means that, while you can breed animals up to high numbers, once everyone leaves that area the numbers will be reduced back down to at least a breeding pair.

To compensate for this, mobs spend considerably less time as babies (15 seconds, down from 20 minutes), the cooldown for breeding is similarly reduced (down to 15 seconds from 5 minutes), and mob drops of livestock are plumped. For this and more information, type /moblimiter in-game.

As a rule of thumb, the server starts to lag noticeably if a few hundred mobs are bred in a confined space. Please keep this in mind if you are engaged in mass mob drop harvesting operations.

Nether Portals

Nether portals will be placed by admins before the rev launches.

• To claim a portal
  • You must locate the pre-placed bedrock block and claim sign.
  • Click the sign to claim the portal
  • Build a square or rectangular portal frame anywhere within 100 blocks of the bedrock but at ground-level ONLY.
  • You may then modreq for the portal to be lit.

• Portal Guidlines:
  • Portals must be placed within 100 blocks of the bedrock marker
  • Portals must be placed at ground level
  • The inside of the portal may not exceed 25 blocks
  • If a portal has not been placed within two weeks, we will place a default (2x3) portal at the bedrock location (no exceptions).

Places

Places are points of interest on the server that are held to be great examples of the great builders we have on P. Builds that can qualify, at admin discretion, include:

• Community builds, such as towns, with three or more members;
• Builds of significance, such as special mob grinders and other public utilities;
• Nether and End portals;
• Other points at admin discretion.

Players can request a /place by making a modreq where they want it placed. It will be evaluated by server admins and granted at their discretion.

Protections

• Mark the top and bottom corners of your build, and stand at the site. Then type /modreq please protect my build
• Protections are only to prevent grief and other unauthorized edits.
• Protections are not used for "claiming land". Mods will only protect builds (houses, rail, farms, etc.) and clearly established large projects, such as cities
• Requests to protect empty land or to protect a very large buffer around a structure will be denied.
• Land that has been significantly improved through road/plot making or terraforming can be protected at staff discretion
• Hastily made structures that serve no purpose other than to lay claim to an area will not be protected.
• Modreqs asking for the protection of land that has had no or minimal edits made to it will be denied.
• Protections generally will cover the entire area above a structure (to sky limit) and about 10 blocks below the lowest floor.
  • We will not protect to bedrock unless your entire structure extends down that far. Underground resources are considered to be public property. Mines, drop shafts, etc. will not be protected.

Region Greetings

You may /modreq for a region greeting to be placed using the following guidelines:

• One greeting per settlement, whether it be a town or city or yourself out in the wilderness. (Citizens of a town are considered part of the town for this purpose.). Greetings for non-settlement regions (eg. rails) are not eligible.
• You may request ONE color for your region greeting.
• The region which the greeting is placed must be a parent (it cannot itself be a child of any other region)
• Only the region owners may request a greeting.
• The greeting content must adhere to chat rules and additionally cannot reference any settlement or region or player other than your own. (For example, if you are a mayor of <town A>, you may request as a greeting “Welcome to <town A>!” but not “<town B> is not welcome here!”)
• Staff reserve the right to deny frequent greeting changes. Pick your greeting carefully!

StandMaster

Standmaster allows players to pose armor stands. More information can be found on the StandMaster github page.

• Data Types
  • BOOLEAN: Either true or false. Any input other than true in a boolean field will default to false. Examples: true, false
  • INT: An integer. Examples: 0, 123, -456
  • FLOAT: A floating-point (decimal) value. Examples: 0, 3.14159, -0.0833
  • STRING A string of characters, or normal text. Examples: "Dumbo52", "StandMaster9000", "Hello world!" (without the quotes)
  • ROTATION A group of three floats, representing rotations (in degrees) around the X, Y, and Z axes respectively.

Command	Description
/stand reload	Reloads the plugin's configuration
/stand persist <BOOLEAN>	Prevents your modifier list from clearing
/stand preset <name>	Loads a modifier preset
/stand preset add <name>	Adds a personal modifier preset
/stand preset remove <name>	Removes a personal modifier preset
/stand preset addglobal <name>	Adds a global modifier preset
/stand preset removeglobal <name>	Removes a global modifier preset
/stand list	Shows your current stand modifier list
/stand clear	Clears your current stand modifier list
/stand name <STRING>	Gives the stand a visible nametag
/stand invisible <BOOLEAN>	Makes the stand invisible
/stand nobaseplate <BOOLEAN>	Removes the stand's baseplate
/stand nogravity <BOOLEAN>	Prevents the stand from falling
/stand pose body <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's body rotation
/stand pose leftarm <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's left arm rotation
/stand pose rightarm <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's right arm rotation
/stand pose leftleg <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's left leg rotation
/stand pose rightleg <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's right leg rotation
/stand pose head <ROTATION>	Sets the stand's head rotation
/stand showarms <BOOLEAN>	Shows arms on the stand
/stand small <BOOLEAN>	Makes the stand smaller

Villagers

Villagers have always been a fickle part of the server; keep them hidden away or out and available to the public? Well, hopefully that problem is now solved! Thanks to Redwall, villagers can now only be damaged by region members in the region they are in, and their trades are now logged. If one happens to be griefed and you don’t have a region, or if a region member themselves have griefed one, they can now be replaced!

Water Flow

Region owners can flow their own water. Simply place the water as normal, type /flow, and punch the water with an empty hand. The /flow command will toggle flow on/off, so keep an eye on your screen.

• If you do not turn off the flow (by running /flow again) after 5 minutes it will toggle off automatically.
• If you break someone’s build or redstone with flowing water, this will still be considered grief, so be careful and take steps to ensure you don’t flood someone’s basement!

Likewise, if you break your own build with water, we will not fix it for you. You break it, you fix it.

Waypoints

Waypoints are similar to having your own personal /place, which you can then share with others to point them to your location of choice!

• To create a waypiont type /setwp <name> [unlisted|public|private]
• To delete a waypoint type /delwp <name>
• To list your (or another users) waypoints type /listwps [username]
• To access a waypoint type /wp [playername] <waypoint>

Additional Commands for Users

Below are commands that you can you use on PvE to help make things more fun!

Requesting Help

• /list - displays a list of all players on the server, with staff noted
• /list-all - displays a list of all players on all servers, with staff noted
• /modlist - displays a list of all staff currently online
• /modreq <message> - submits a mod request for staff to respond to
• /check - shows the status of your open modreq
• /done #### - allows you to close your open modreq if you wish

Communications

• /msg <username> or /m <username> - sends a private message to a user
• /r - responds to the last private message sent
• /clanchat - displays the list of all clanchat commands
  • /c #<channel> - sets your default clanchat channel
  • /c <message> - sends a message to your default clanchat channel
  • /cq #<channel> <message> - sends a message to any channel without changing your default

Miscellaneous Commands

• /stand - displays options for the STANDMASTER9000 plugin (used for custom armor stands)
• /ccorral - displays options for the Cobra Corral plugin (used for horse management)
• /who - shows who is in the overworld, nether, end, and mapworlds
• /wp death - shows the automatic waypoint of your last death
• /place - displays a list of admin-placed places
• /map - displays a list of URLs to the nerd.nu livemaps
• /help - displays a help file for PvE containing submenus with additional information
• /nextrestart - displays minutes until the next restart
• moblimiter - displays information about the current moblimiter configuration
• /lwc - displays additional commands for the LWC plugin used for chest access
• Chat Programs - provides connection information for our out-of-game chat programs
  • /irc
  • /mumble
  • /discord

FAQ

Why wont my water flow?

Our server uses a plugin called SafeBuckets to prevent liquids from flowing as a grief prevention measure. To make your water/lava flow place the static block and then type /modreq please flow this liquid. If you are the owner of your region you can flow liquids within your region by typing /flow and then clicking the static block.

Can I make a PvP arena?

PvP arenas must be clearly marked, completely enclosed, and access-restricted builds - the area must only be accessible via iron doors that require a button press to enter. These entrances must be marked with signs stating that it is a PvP area, and that players enter at their own risk. The PvP-enabled area may not exceed 100x100 blocks, and may not interact with other PvP areas in any way. Enabling of the PvP flag will be done entirely at the discretion of server admins.

Can I use someone else’s farm?

You can use any farm (crop or mob) built by players as long as you replant (crops) or leave their original mobs when you leave.

How close can i build to my neighbor?

Do not build very close to other players without their permission - buildings that violate this rule may be moved to a new location without warning. If you have a large project such as a city or megabuild, expand in directions that do not come into conflict with other players. Exhaust all available unopposed routes before expanding near already established players. If you must expand in the vicinity of other players, speak with them first and see if they are willing to participate in your project. Leave signs, /mail send, or /msg them in chat. If you are unable to come to an agreement, contact a moderator for assistance.

Can I use potions?

non-harmful potions are allowed on pve. harmful potions will have no effect (except during designated events).

Why can’t I make a portal?

Portals are restricted on our servers to prevent inadvertent grief due to them automatically generating inside someone’s build. See Nether Portals

Are there any blocks I can’t place?

Any block you can place in single player survival you can place on PvE.