News & Changelog

The End is locked for the first week. The portal's findable, but it stays sealed until Saturday October 24 at 5 PM Arizona, when it opens on its own.

To get ready:make sure your CurseForge profile is on 26.3 (see the last post if you haven't moved it over yet). The countdown's on the home page.

Money.You start with $300. Daily login rewards run $80 on day 1 up to $400 at a 14-day streak, and they pay out after your first 10 minutes of play that day. Raid Key runs pay 0.35× and only your first 2 clears a day pay money.

Land costs money now.Starting a land costs $500, which covers your first 3×3, and each chunk after that is $25. Every land then pays $5 per chunk per day out of its own land bank, collected at 9 PM Arizona. A 9-chunk base costs $315 a week. Put money in with /lands bank deposit <amount> and check what you owe with /upkeep. New lands get 2 days before the first payment, and owners get a warning 20 hours before a collection the bank can't cover. If the bank can't pay and you're still playing, the land goes into debt instead: it keeps every chunk, can't claim more until the debt is paid, and deposits go to the debt first (/upkeep debt shows it). Only abandoned lands shrink. A land nobody has played in 14 days, or one that owes more than 14 days of upkeep, loses its newest chunks, and anything on them is unprotected, which means lootable and griefable. The owner can take them back free within 30 days with /upkeep reclaim if nobody else claimed them first. Your own balance is never touched.

PvP is opt-in, for real this time.Last season some people teleported to others and killed them point blank, and a few geared players made it miserable to leave your land. That's not the server we want. Other players can't hit or shoot you unless you've typed /pvp on (except in the colosseum ring), for 5 seconds after any teleport you can't hit or be hit, and other players can't attack you within 100 blocks of spawn. If you want a fight, opt in or head to the colosseum.

Outlaws.Any robbery puts you on the wanted board. Outlaws can be attacked inside claims, their own included. Combat-logging leaves your body behind for 5 minutes with everything you were carrying, free for anyone to loot. Bounties are cash: anyone but an Outlaw can put money on a wanted player with /bounty place <player> <amount> ($250 minimum), and whoever brings them in takes the total. The reputation page has all of it.

Colosseum Night.Every night at 8 PM Arizona, starting launch night, the colosseum runs a PvP event, with the mode rotating from night to night. Everyone fights in the same Knight kit and gets their own gear back after. The winner takes a chest: $500, 4 diamonds, 8 XP bottles and a jackpot roll. The ring is also a PvP zone any time there's no event: step in and PvP is on for you, whether or not you've typed /pvp on (walking in asks you to confirm). Kills in the ring never affect anyone's rep, but outside events a death there drops your items on the ring floor for the taking, with no grave.

Spawn is protected.You spawn in a huge Dappled Forest, and it's there for everyone to use. Meet people, trade, hang out. Nobody can claim land at spawn and fire doesn't spread or burn there. The market is part of spawn too, with player stalls (more in the Oct 4 post).

Flying and walking through land.Elytra flight works over every land for everyone. Walking into someone's land is always allowed and owners can't turn it off. Land wars are disabled this season, so your claims are safe from capture. Your chests, doors and builds are still locked to your trusted players.

Talk to people.We'd love this season to have more roleplay, like running a trading post, playing sheriff, or feuding with the next town over. None of it is required, and nobody gets punished for keeping to themselves. Instead we're adding reasons to talk, all live from day one: Simple Voice Chat built into the server and both modpacks (press V to set up your mic), a Sunday shoutout in Discord and in-game for the most-commended players (so /commend the people who made your week), lawman and outlaw titles next to your name in chat and Tab, up to 30% off land upkeep for towns with more active members, and the spawn market. The biggest moments get written up in the Frontier Gazette, which starts posting to Discord at launch. The home page has the full list.

The one rule is still the one rule: don't cheat. Everything above is the server doing the enforcing so staff doesn't have to. Saturday October 17, 5 PM Arizona.

Want it harder?Raids run at a Pit level (1–5): mobs hit harder and have way more health, but payouts and loot chances climb with it. Clear a raid and everyone rolls loot — common, rare on a lucky roll, and a shot at an epic (top-3 scorers get better odds): named armor and weapons, Fortune and Silk Touch picks, even a fishing rod if the right boss falls. Run it at Pit 1 or higher and won epics come back PITFORGED: enchants past the vanilla cap, found nowhere else in the game. One rule: it's clear or nothing — wipe the raid and there's no payout and no loot.

PvP is live too:Team Deathmatch and Free-For-All with kits, fort barricades you can build and enemies can siege, kill payouts, win pools, and an MVP bonus. Anyone can spectate a running event with /event spectate.

Every event runs in a gear mode:[KIT] (green — gear provided, your inventory is vaulted and fully restored, zero risk), [BYOG] (gold — bring your own gear, but deaths never drop it), or [HARDCORE] (red — the real-stakes mode: die and your inventory drops where you fell, free for anyone to grab). Own-gear events make you click through a warning before joining, so nobody gets surprised. Arena fights never touch your reputation — no murders, no bounties, no knockouts from event kills.

The catch:starting a run costs money ($150 at Pit 0, climbing with the Pit), win or lose — and if you wipe a run at your key's level, the key DEPLETES a Pit until you win one back a level down. You get 3 starts a day. Joining someone else's run? Always free, unlimited. Watch chat for the ⚷ broadcast when someone opens a run.

Key runs pay out a bit less than admin events — and like any raid, a wipe pays nothing — but they're yours to start whenever the arena's open. Bring a party.

Dying drops your stuff into a grave with your head on it — graves never despawn, and your XP comes back when you open yours. PvP kills can drop the victim's head. There's offline mail (/mail, /mailbox), item delivery (/senditem), and scam-proof trading (/trade).

The world border starts small and grows with combined playtime — the more we play, the more world we get. Land claims (/lands), mcMMO skills, proximity voice chat, and the live map round it out. The End is locked until we take the dragon together.