We got some great feedback from some players over the course of the two weeks of PVP Survival 3, and like always, we wanted to know what you think, because you lot are important, and you’ve got some great ideas. We’re doing a restart of PVPSurvival.

Play has dropped, which we feel (and we’ve been told) is normal for a PVP Survival map. It’s not a bad thing! Some of you were so stacked it was hard for newer players (or players with less gear, like me) to get a decent foothold in the map.

After some great feedback, here’s what we’re going to do. A rotation of different maps, around for a shorter amount of time. In no particular order:

• No enchants
• Nether Only
• No diamonds
• No meats
• Super small 500×500 world
• Map that gets smaller every day

There’s also a few ideas that will need a bit more thought and possibly another plugin:

• Limited biomes, or a single biome
• A kill counter on screen
• Battle Royale – last man standing. This one would also be a registerable event.

The next map will be (funnily enough) PVP Survival 4:

• 1000×1000 map
• same rules as last time, but we’re also adding:
• No enchants at all (items created or found, plus potions). Just bare armour and tools.
• It’ll be around for 2 weeks (may be extended slightly if play is still popular). We’ll play it by ear but if this one is anything to go by, 2 weeks will be fine.
• If you die, you surrender your gear to that player that caused your untimely (or timely) demise.
• No more than 3 members in your team.
• We’ve also completely removed the /tp commands in the world. No more tping to people! It’s a very small map, so you can walk it. Or use a boat. Or a horse.

In terms of when the first map will roll out, we’re hoping to have it out and ready for after school tomorrow! Stay tuned!

That’s right! PVP Survival is back for round 3! Here’s what you need to know.

• There is no sign-up required – just go through the gate on the Warp Ship to get there.
• You’ll enter a Rules lobby. Make sure you read all the signs as you go through.

Rules

• If you want to play on this world, you AGREE to the PVP rules. If you don’t want to be killed by another player while on this world, don’t enter it.
• The world is small – 3000 x 3000 blocks.
• No camping or spawn killing – kill and move on.
• No logout location traps. If you saw someone log out, you aren’t allowed to set a trap for when they come back.
• No claims at all, or dynmap.
• No accepting teleport requests from players on a different world. All players need to go through the Rules Lobby.
• RTP is blocked.
• It’s a separate inventory to regular Survival.
• Graves are turned off. If you die with richeties, you run the risk of losing them.
• No asking for items back. We will not be rolling back inventories.
• Looting from chests is fine, but hide them well.
• No griefing. No destroying bases for the fun of it. You can make a two block hole to get in to someone’s base, but that’s it.
• The world is temporary – Term 2 plus school holidays, then it gets deleted.
• Again, the world is opt in only. If you come to PVP survival, you understand that you could be killed on sight.
• No Nether or End.
• No PVPing in the world’s entry point. It’s the cemetery pictured above.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in game, or in the #pvp-survival-chat in Discord!

Have fun!

While we’ve been nice and busy lately, we’ve not seen a lot of play on the Empires world, so we’ve decided to back it up and then bring it back later in the year. In the mean time, the Empires players have asked to keep the lore going, but we want to offer something else…

We’ve chatted as a mod team and have decided to try PVP Survival again. In the coming week we’ll be getting a small world set up for PVP Survival. We’ve had some fun with it in the past, along with some server side issues, but we believe they’re all sorted, so we’re giving it another go.

Here are the rules we’ll go by, as well as the standard server rules.

RULES

• If you want to play on this world, you AGREE to the PVP rules. If you don’t want to be killed by another player while on this world, don’t enter it.
• The world will be small – 2500 x 2500 blocks.
• No camping or spawn killing – kill and move on.
• No logout location traps. If you saw someone log out, you aren’t allowed to set a trap for when they come back.
• No claims at all, or dynmap.
• It’s a separate inventory to regular Survival.
• Graves will be turned off. If you die with richeties, you run the risk of losing them.
• No asking for items back. We will not be rolling back inventories.
• Looting from chests is fine, but hide them well.
• No griefing. No destroying bases for the fun of it. You can make a two block hole to get in to someone’s base, but that’s it.
• The world will be temporary – Term 2 plus school holidays, then it gets deleted.
• Again, the world is opt in only. If you come to PVP survival, you understand that you could be killed on sight.
• No Nether or End.
• No PVPing in the world’s entry point. It’ll be obvious.

If rules are broken, you will be removed from the world and may face jail time. Please make sure you follow them!

We’ll be spending a bit of time getting a world set up over the next few days, with the aim for it to be ready by the weekend. We’ll also have another channel set up in Discord for it as well.

If you have any questions, please ask us in chat or in Discord!