Byzanthium - Start

How to start in Byzanthium?

• Do the tutorial path at our home base (/f home)

Rules

1. Don't grief anybody or anything in the faction
2. Don't steal anything from anybody
   1. You can ask to get support from the members
3. Be friendly and you will have a calm home

How to get a living place?

1. You have to choose a tier
2. Talk to a mod of the faction and tell him which tier you have chosen
3. Get your starter-kit from the tutorial path
4. Talk again to a mod to get your place for living
   • Stay in the Inn (Gathering)/Temple (Religion)/Fortress (Military)

How to get your own house?

1. You have to be in your chosen tier at rank 3
2. You have to be in our faction for more than one week
   • And you have to play often/frequently
3. You have to be loyal and friendly to the citizens
4. You have to create a profile about your character on this wiki
5. You have to accept the rules/laws of Byzanthium/Senate/Augustus

Communication

• there are several way to communicate on this server
• @playername = direct = {reaches only one player}
• w: = whisper = {5 blocks reach}
• s: = speak = {20 blocks reach}
• y: = yell = {200 blocks reach}
• f: = Faction = {reaches all faction members}
• a: = Allied = {reaches all allieds}
• world: = World = {The world you are in}
• g: = Global = {reaches all players}
• example of usage
  • f: hi all members
  • @chapston i will be right back
• If you want to stay in a communication way, send only the command without anything
  • Example: a:
• If you don't want to get spammed by the channels global/allies/.. you can leave or join channels or ignor players
  • To leave i.e. global: /ch leave g
  • To join i.e. allied: /ch join a
    • You can't leave yell
  • To ignor player in focused channel: /ch ignor chickencutter

Vampires

• Vampires are very strong creatures (jump 6 times higher, run 2 times faster, no fall- or suffocation-damage)
  • Nearly overpowered, BUT they have weaknesses
    • Wood of all kind - a wooden sword does 3 TIMES more damage to a vampire as a diamond sword
    • Holy water = Sparkling Potion
      • Ingredients: 1 Water Bottle and 1 Lapis Lazuli Dye
      • Hold the water bottle and right-click an altar of light
• You can cure your disease at an altar of light
  • One you can find in the The Farmlands or Temple of Byzanthium
• You can get infected by a vampire or by clicking an altar of darkness
  • One you can find in The Outskirts or Temple of Byzanthium
• If you want to use the vampire abilities you HAVE TO USE SpoutCraft
  • To use the abilities only press the letter 'v' at your keybord
• For further information visit: MassiveCraft - Vampires

Factions

• Everybody can create a faction (75 silver needed)
• There are three states factions can have with eachother
  • In truce with (you can't hurt them in their territory)
  • Allied (you can't get attacked or attack them)
  • Enemy (you can get attacked everywhere and attack everyone)
    • In the disctricts of Silver Edge and in safe zones nobody can attack
• There are three values of a faction:
  • Land (= claimed land of the faction [1 player = 10 land = 10 chunks = 160x160 blocks])
  • Manpower (= based on the amount of players in the faction [10 manpower = 1 player])
  • Power (= based on the deaths of the faction players)
    • It takes 5 min for 1 power to be restored while online
    • For further information read the example at the end of the topic "Relations, Territory and War"
• Every faction has a bank where players can spend money to
• In a faction there are different rights for the players
  • Moderators (= can invite/ban/kick players, claim land, choose about war/peace/truce)
  • Members (= can build on claimed land, can use (unlocked) chests on claimed land)
• For more detailed information about faction system visit: MassiveCraft - Factions

General commands

• /f (= faction information)
• /home (= teleporting to your last used bed)
• /help (= shows help about user based commands)
• /money (= shows your money)
• /warp (= lists up all warp positions of massivecraft)
• /he tool (= enables/disables the griefing tool)
  • If it's enabled you can left-click to get information about placed blocks/chests
    • The he tools doesn't show you the entire chest-log of a double chest
      • To get the entire information left-click both sdes
  • If it's enabled you can right-click (places a dirt block) and get information about the block stood there before
    • If you want to check a block which was hanging in air you can build a dirt pillar up to the griefed block and then use the right-click of the he tool
• /v (lists up all vampire commands)
• /g (information page about gate building [only premium users])
• /p (the premium information page)
• /list (shows all avaible players of the server)

• if you type only the general command you get an information page
  • example: /v
  • result: [Help for command "v" 1/1]

/v ?,h,help [page=1]

.....

Often used commands (brief)

• /f home (teleport to the faction home)
• /home (teleporting to your last used bed)
• /warp silveredge (telports you to central district of silver edge)
• /warp nether (teleports you to the nether)
• /money (shows your money)
• /he tool (enables/disables the griefing tool)
• /he page 2 (shows the secound information page of an activated block)
• /f show (shows the status of your current faction [land/manpower/power/faction states/players])
• /f show <allyname> (show the status of the typed in faction)
• /f show <playername> (= shows you the faction the player is in)
• /help 2 (= shows the secound help page ...)
• /money pay <playername> 1.2 (= transfers 1 silver and 2 chopper to the typed in player)
• /f help 2 (= lists the secound information page of faction commands)
• /money help (= shows the help page of money)
• /mail (= show the information page of the mail-system)
• /mcstats (= shows your current player skills)
• /seen <playername> (= shows you the online/offline time of a player)

Skill-System

• this server is running a skill system for a lot of abilities
  • mining (pickaxe), herbalism (hoes), acrobatics (fall damage), ...
  • you can activate a super ability for example while mining

• • • while you are for example mining stone/iron/gold/.. with pickaxe do 1 time right-click, still holding left mousebutton
• for further information about the skills and their effects visit: MCMMO Skills Guide

Locking-System

• the server allowes you to lock chests/door/dispenser/traps/(blocks)
  • you only need a sign and place the sign
  • if you want to lock a chest click with the sign at the chest, the system will save it for you
  • if you want to save a door/trap place the sign in front of the door (don't click the door)
    • or you place a sign above the door
  • to save an object the sign has to look like that:
    • [private]
    • Lachrymlogy
    • Gwendyn
  • there are some groups you can use for the signs:
    • [everybody]
    • [timer:55]
      • (= open for everyone for 55 seconds)
    • the system isn't connected to the faction system, means you can't use groups like that:
      • [Vampires]
      • [<partyname>]
  • if you want to edit the permissions of the signs, then hit the signs and type i.e.:
    • /lockette 3 Skylord_ZIM
      • that means, the activated sign will refresh line 3 with the user Skylord_ZIM who now has access to the locked object
      • to remove the access leave the playername blank

Server specialities

• in a different way from the "normal" minecraft you are allowed to craft some blocks you normaly have to find:
  • Mossy Cobble Stone = Cobble Stone + Seed
  • 4 Netherrack = 1 Netherbrick
  • Holy Water = 1 Water Bottle and 1 Lapis Lazuli Dye (right-click an altar of light with water bottle)
  • Mossy Stone Brick = (A placed) Stone Brick + Seed (right-click the block with seed in hand)
    • the chance to convect the Stone Brick into a mossy one depends on your herbalism skill
      • herbalism = 100 = 10% chance to have success
      • ...
      • herbalism >= 1000 = 100% chance to have success
• the server allows you to repair your stuff in another way as the normal one
  • place an ironblock and right-click i.e. with your broken cobblestone axe the ironblock
    • if you have cobblestone in your inventory you will repair the axe
    • (= means you need the ressource which the object is made of)
  • you can repair in this way weapons/armor/tools