Getting started

Smart play & tips

Beginner tips

Never skip the daily reward. Missing a day resets your streak to 1. Day 30+ pays 350 Shards instead of 60, and every 7th day gives a random cosmetic.
Vote on all 8 sites in one sitting. Votes within 12 h of each other keep your vote streak; the next round 12–36 h later raises it. Wait longer than 36 h and it resets.
Your cash is safe when you die, your items are not. Keep valuables in a chest inside a city.
Only cities are protected. Build your base inside a city claim – yours or a friend’s.
Set a bed or respawn anchor. Otherwise you respawn at your city spawn.
Play in groups. 2 players within 64 blocks: +15%, 3: +25%, 4–6: +40% on money and XP rewards.
Look at the region state (/region). Decaying regions and ruins give less ore and have stronger monsters – go somewhere flourishing.

Sell smart, not just much. Your sell price is base price × market factor × your sell multiplier. The multiplier starts at 0.92 and rises by +0.02 per Economy star, +0.05 for the Trader path, +0.05 with a Trader in your group nearby and +0.05 inside a Trade zone region – capped at 0.98. A Trader with 1 Economy star selling in a Trade zone already hits the cap.
Sell into demand. Prices go up to 4× base when goods are scarce and down to 0.25× when flooded. Big orders move the price against you – sell in chunks and watch the trend arrow. During a Trade caravan event all prices are −20% (bad for selling, great for buying).
Build an Ore Crusher early (grindstone on an iron block, available from the first era): raw iron, gold and copper give 1.5× ingots. Iron ingots sell for ~12 NC, gold ~25 NC.
Do the dungeon every 20 minutes. The Underground route pays +1,000 NC, a netherite ingot, 6 diamonds and a Totem of Undying; Emergency power with a successful hack +500 NC plus 4 diamonds and netherite scrap.
Jump on world events. Helping to fix a Blackout pays +600 NC per helper plus 15 NC per copper ingot you deliver. Meteor craters contain diamond ore and ancient debris.
Let your money work. 1% per day on up to 250,000 NC in the bank = up to 2,500 NC per day while you sleep.
Fill contracts. Players post /contract delivery contracts with escrowed money – you get paid per piece, plus Economy XP and +2 reputation on completion.

Tech donations (/tech donate) pay only 0.5 NC per research point – donate for Technology XP, reputation and the community, not for profit.

You like…	Path	Why
Trading, getting rich	Trader	+1,000 NC start, +5% sell price, +50% Economy XP (lower buy prices, higher credit limit). Gives your group +5% market prices.
Fighting, warzone, dungeon	Fighter	Iron sword, shield, chainmail. +50% Combat XP → +5%/+10% damage and regeneration after kills. Group gets Resistance I.
Building, cities	Builder	64 logs, 64 stone bricks, 32 glass. +50% Building XP → 10% cheaper city claims and Haste I/II. Group gets Haste I.
Exploring, events	Explorer	Compass, spyglass, 3 maps, boat. +50% Exploration XP → less fall damage and permanent Speed I. Group gets Speed I.

You can change your path every 24 hours with /path – the kit is only given at the start.

A full vote round (8 votes) at vote streak 20+ gives 8 × 650 = 5,200 Shards and 1,600 Pass XP.
Simply being online gives 10 Pass XP per minute on any server = 600 XP per hour. One tier needs 1,000 XP.
Weekly quests are worth 1,500–2,000 XP each – check /quests on Monday.
Cheap early achievements: First Steps, Settling In (1 h), Gift Taker, Supporter, Connected, Bed Rookie, Light Feet (lobby parkour).

Your first diamonds: Elven Forge I (2) or Reinforced Armor I (2), then Sharpened Swords (4).
Cover your bed with end stone (fireball-proof) and blast-proof glass (TNT-proof).
Kills give you all the enemy’s iron, gold, diamonds and emeralds – fight carriers.
At 25:00 all beds are destroyed – be ready with armor and gear.