Your First Day

You're standing in the protected zone — no PvP, no mobs, no griefing. Your inventory has the welcome kit. Your screen flashed the brand title. Now what.

1. Look at the spawn signage (1 min)

Floating signs around spawn point at the major sub-systems:

• Wiki — /wiki opens the in-game knowledge base
• House Rules — /rules for the short version
• Travel — how to get around (runes, sign teleporters, lapis elevators, ender pearls, Nether portals — all in-world)
• Right Now — live online count

Read the welcome book in your inventory while you walk around. It's a signpost, not a manual.

2. Claim your starter pack (already done)

The kit landed automatically: bread, oak planks, cobble, a wooden pickaxe and axe, torches, plus the welcome book. That's enough to walk out, find some food, and start a base.

3. Walk past the spawn perimeter (5 min)

Spawn is a protected zone. Anywhere outside the perimeter is fair game — claim land by community convention (first-found, first-builds-on it). There's no auto-claim system; the etiquette is "build it, sign it, it's yours." See Building & claiming for full conventions.

Bring a stack of cobble. The world deliberately doesn't have free fast-travel for new players — see Travel — so picking your first base location matters. A 200–500 block walk is normal; aiming farther tends to pay off (less competition, better worldgen).

4. Set your bearings

For your first day before you hit Member rank:

• Place a Strange Block at your home location (see Runes) so you have a return-to-base after long trips
• Press F3 (Java) or check your map (Bedrock) to track coordinates
• Drop a torch trail if you're going far — the world is large

For long trips: ignite a Strange Rune at your destination, build it into a Strange Block back at base, click the block to return. Build out a wall of Strange Blocks for every spot you visit often.

5. Start earning coins

Coins drop while you play, weighted to how rare or valuable each action is. Diamond ore reliably pays. Mining a stack of stone barely whispers. Killing mobs pays in steady drips. Sleeping, fishing, leveling up, even chatting all roll for a small payout. The XP-orb pickup sound is your cue.

You don't grind for coins — they accumulate while you do whatever you'd be doing anyway. Full breakdown: How it pays.

/balance shows your wallet. /baltop shows the leaderboard.

6. Try one brewing run (optional, 10 min)

The tavern system has 60+ recipes. Easiest first brew:

1. Place a cauldron over a campfire or open fire
2. Fill it with water (right-click a water bucket on it)
3. Drop 3 wheat in (right-click)
4. Wait until the cauldron's contents reach the right cook time (it's tracked in the recipe)
5. Right-click an empty bottle to fill — you've got a beer

That's the basic loop. Add distilling and barrel-aging for stronger and signature drinks. Full guide: The Tavern.

7. Check your stats

/profile opens your card — rank, hours played, balance, kills, deaths, fishing count, more. Updates live. /top shows where you stand against everyone else.

8. Read the rules properly

/rules is the short version. Rules is the full version. The short short: be decent, no grief, no exploits, no impersonation, 18+ chat is fine but slurs aren't.

Useful first-day commands

See also

• Welcome kit & book — what's in the kit, what the book says
• Ranks → Progression — what unlocks at each tier
• Travel — how to get around
• Economy — full earning + spending guide
• Commands — full reference