HOW IT WORKS

Claim a plot

1. Buy a claim marker from The Realtor ($400).
2. Left-click one corner, right-click the opposite corner. As big as you like, but the tax grows with it.
3. While you hold the marker the edges light up: green means free, red means too big or already taken. The bar above your hotbar shows the size and the tax.
4. Phone → Land → Register a claim, then type a name in chat.

A claim runs from bedrock to the sky, so a cave base under your plot is yours as well. /claim show lights up the edges of the claim you stand on, and the bar tells you whose land you walk onto.

Want it bigger or smaller later? Use /claim resize or Phone → Land → My claims, from anywhere and without a marker: push any side out or pull it in, $0.80 per new block of land. The new edges light up before you pay. Land you shouldn't touch stays safe too: buckets, doors, buttons, animals, item frames and explosions are all locked on someone else's claim.

Keys

• Only people with a key for your claim can open things on it.
• The Locksmith cuts keys for friends, but only if you own the land.
• He can also put someone else on the deed ($1,000): switch the key menu to co-owner mode and click their head. A co-owner builds, opens everything and can place a mailbox or a safe, but cannot sell the land or hand out shares. You keep paying the tax.
• He also sells a safe ($1,500). Put it on your own land, give it a four-digit code, and keep money and 27 slots of gear in it. One per owner per claim, so a co-owner brings room for one more, and three per player.
• Better doors from the safe menu: $2,500 or $6,000. They make a lockpick take two or three minutes instead of one.
• The bank sells safe insurance ($750 for seven days): if someone takes money out of your safe, you get 70% of it back, up to $20,000. Items are not covered.
• A safe is not the bank: someone with a lockpick and a minute of patience can open it. You get a warning, and they leave something behind.
• Key went missing? Fit a new lock ($500). Every old copy stops working.
• With land you can buy a mailbox ($200) and order from the shop by phone. You can also mail your own items home from your phone ($10 a stack).

Hit −$450 and you go down

1. You're taken to the prison mine. Your valuables are sold off to cover the debt.
2. What's left gets +25% on top.
3. Mine until it's paid. Then the debt is gone and you get your unsellable stuff back. Money you still had stays yours.

No teleporting out. Nobody's coming. Well, unless…

Bail

• Anyone can pay your way out with /bail.
• Then you owe them. Pay them back with /payback.
• You have 2 days. After that, they're allowed to come and collect. Their way.
• /debts shows who owes who.

Next one starts Sunday 20:00

1. At 19:45 a message shows up in chat. Click it, or type /games join.
2. You go to the lobby. Your inventory, XP and spot are saved and you get it all back after.
3. One round of every game, in random order (a few need enough players). Win rounds, get points: 10 / 7 / 5 / 2.

Leave or disconnect and your points are gone. /games leave if you have to.

The pot gets split

Only two players? 80 / 20. Tied? You share.

Build it together

1. /skyblock makes your island the first time you go. /is opens the island menu.
2. /is team invite <player> puts someone on your island. Up to 8 of you on one rock.
3. /is sethome and /is go to move around. Three homes per island.
4. /is level scores your island, /is top ranks everyone.

Your island has its own nether and its own end.

A clean start

• Skyblock has its own inventory. Your normal gear stays behind, and what you build up over there stays over there.
• No shop, no buyer, no money. The only thing that counts is what you make out of that one chest.
• Ender chests are off in skyblock, and /kit, /home and the phone stay in the old world.
• Nobody gets on your island but the people you invite.

The house

• Coin flip — call heads or tails, pays 1.9x.
• The reels — three diamonds pays 40x, three of anything 8x, two alike 1.5x.
• Roulette — one zero and thirty-six numbers. Straight up pays 35 to 1.
• Blackjack — beat her hand without going over. She stands on seventeen, blackjack pays six to five, and you can double down on your first two cards.
• Dice — under or over seven pays 2.3x, seven or doubles 5.7x, snake eyes and boxcars 34x.
• Mines — twenty-five tiles with three, five or ten mines under them. Every clean tile pays more and you can cash out whenever you like. Close the board and you cash out automatically.

The pit

• Dog fights, after dark only, in the pit at spawn. Nothing happens there in daylight.
• Two dogs, then ninety seconds to get your money down.
• The bookie takes the bets, and he does not leave the ring. Stand next to him and use /dogs, or just right-click him. Watching from home does not count.
• Every dog carries a record, and the odds follow it. Backing the favourite pays less.
• Your stake is gone the moment you place it. Lose and it goes to the pot.
• Dogs that keep losing get carried out and replaced.

Supply drops

• Most evenings a crate comes down somewhere out in the world. Cash from the pot, and some good gear. While it's down, the live map shows a circle where it landed.
• Chat and Discord tell you roughly where, to the nearest hundred blocks.
• Hold your phone. Within 150 blocks it picks up the signal and tells you which way to go: ahead, left, right or behind you.
• Get close and you will see fireworks going up over it.
• First one to open it keeps it. Nobody finds it within half an hour, and it is gone.

The bounty board

• A wall of faces at spawn. Right-click one to see what they are worth.
• Three or more marks on the sheriff's list puts a price on your head, paid by the pot.
• Anyone can put their own money on someone's head. Nobody finds out who.
• Take the contract for $150: one hour, and a compass that finds them every thirty seconds. They get told someone is coming. You both drop off the map until it is over.
• Kill them out in the world, not at spawn, and the money is yours. Their name comes off the sheriff's list.
• Once somebody has collected on you, nobody can take a contract on you for a day.

The lottery

• $100 a ticket, up to ten a week. Buy them from your phone or with /lotto.
• Drawn every Saturday at 9 PM, Dutch time. One winner takes it all.
• The prize is 80% of the ticket money plus a bonus from the pot, up to $10,000.
• Fewer than three players in, and there is no draw. Everybody gets their money back.

On the menu

• Beer $15 — strength for three minutes.
• Whiskey $40 — resistance for three minutes. Hits twice as hard as a beer.
• Coffee $10 — speed and haste for three minutes. Sobers you up a little.
• The house special $100 — nobody knows what is in it. Usually something good.
• Milk $5 — washes everything off, good and bad.

Drinking

• Every drink adds up, and you sober up a bit every two minutes.
• Three drinks in, the room starts to sway and your chat starts to slur.
• Four, and you walk slower and stumble now and then.
• Five, and you hit the floor.
• Buy a round: $10 a head, everyone in the bar gets a beer, and the whole server hears about it.