Escapecraft

These are the blocks you have available to build with. To gain blocks you must either mine them from the landscape or craft them from raw materials.
With mining there is a sliding scale of Tool Quality to Mineable Blocks that is a good idea to keep in mine.

Wooden Picks: can mine; Stone, Cobble and Coal
Stone Picks: can mine; all above and Iron Ore
Iron Picks: can mine; all above and Diamond ore, Redstone ore, Lapis Lazuli, Gold ore
Diamond Picks: can mine; all above and Obsidian
Gold Picks: can mine; the same as wooden Picks
The tools also work faster the higher quality materials you use.
For example Stone mines a block much faster than Wood and Iron mines faster than Stone and so on.

The speed rule applies to all tool types including Axes, Hoes, Spades and Swords( Swords doing more damage to Mobs the higher the durability)

There is also another tool rule you should know the Durability Rule. Tools of higher quality last longer. Gold is the exception which lasts as long as Wood.

Now the very basics are done here are some useful items:
Planks: 4 are made by crafting 1 wooden log
Sticks: 4 are made by crafting 2 planks one above the other.
Torches. 4 are made by putting 1 coal above 1 stick

Mobs are the various types of creatures and monsters found in Minecraft.
There are 14 separate Mobs in the game. Some of which are friendly, some are hostile and some which are neutral until you attack them.
The Mobs are:
FRIENDLY:these mobs wander aimlessly and will never attack a player
Cows

Cows main use is as a source of Leather and Milk

Chickens

Chickens main use is as a source of Feathers and Eggs

Sheep

Sheep drop wool when punched with or without an item. The sheep may be dyed before punching which drops 1-3 dyed wool.

Pigs

Pigs drop Raw Pork which is a good healing item. Pigs that die from burning drop Cooked Pork which is better

Squid

Squid appear underwater and drop Ink Sacks (Black Dye)

Tame Wolves

Tame Wolves Follow the player and attack any mob which is punched by them.

NEUTRAL: these mobs wander aimlessly until a player attacks them which turns them hostile

Spiders (in daylight only)

Spiders wander aimlessly in daylight until a player attacks them which turns them hostile

Zombie Pigmen

Z’ Pigmen spawn in the nether and drop Cooked Pork when killed. They turn hostile if a player attacks them or holds a porkchop near them. If 1 pigman turns hostile all pigmen nearby also turn hostile with him

Wild Wolves

Wild Wolves hunt passive mobs until a player finds them where either the player can punch them which turns them hostile or feed them bones to turn them passive

HOSTILE: these mobs actively seek out and hurt the player

Creepers

The most famous mob. Creepers spawn at night and seek out the player. When they get within a certain range the creeper hiss’s and explodes destroying the area round them and hurting the player

Zombies

Zombies are the most common mob. They run at the player and deal damage when they get within a certain range

Skeletons

Skeletons try to stay within a certain distance of the player and fire arrows to hurt them

Spiders

Spiders run at the player to deal damage but can also climb walls to do so and are faster than zombies

Slimes

Slimes slowly hop towards the player and deal damage on contact. When a slime is killed it splits into smaller slimes.

Spider Jockey’s

It’s a Skeleton riding a Spider. What more do you need to know?

Ghast

Ghasts spawn in the nether and fly about shooting fireballs at the player. These explode on contact and can destroy weak materials like Netherrack

Giants

Giants are basicly huge zombies. Only Admins can spawn them and they only do so for special events.

To play on the server simply type in the IP address we have on the main site into the corresponding bar in the Multiplayer tab of your Minecraft Menu.

When you enter you will have to pass the tutorial. No spoilers but please read the signs provided.

One you finish the tutorial you will enter the Hub. Going down a corridor will take you to the corresponding Map.

Once in feel free to ask players and mods for more specific help

FAQ’s:
where is everyone?:
the maps are very big so were almost all over the place on our stuff.

Why cant I take the stuff at Spawn?:
we protect the spawn areas to keep the map looking nice. To build head out about 200 blocks and find an unbuilt on area.
(more coming soon)

We use a Pluggin called Falsebook. Please read up on it.

When Night Falls unless you have food armour and weapons it’s a good idea to hide.
You can either box yourself up or dig a small bunker (my personal favorite) and wait till day.

Lava makes an excellent light source and defensive mechanism. However BE CAREFULL.

If your on fire either:
/spawn and die then when you respawn collect your stuff
Take down the cords with a quick /getpos and walk back
Vips can /home back to where the have their /home set OR can /home set where their about to die and /home back there.

If a Mod is drunk don’t antagonize them you may end up without a home...

All light sources except Pumpkins melt Ice.

Slimes may be invincible to your arrows. in this case use a sword

Slimes spawn below a certain depth even in lit areas.

Slimes do not split if you hit them with a Diamond Sword.l

Brad Excuse: the BE is when a player breaks the rules and blames it on someone else using their account. This is frowned upon by the community and Mods and is named after the first recorded use by Dagger92: “Brad Did It”

CakeTown:
During one of the downtimes when the server shifted to a test map some enterprising players built a beautiful town. Naming it CakeTown they installed a repeating 4beat note clock. After refusing to disable it a mod went in and shut it off. It was repaired. The mods removed the entire clock. They rebuilt it again. THEN Blackadder went in and blew it up. Unfortunately he took 2/3rds of the town with it and left a huge crater in the ground. This was promptly paved over and a sign was placed saying:

“Welcome to CakeTown.
Please don’t dig down”

This has expanded to “there is no caketown” and other sayings.

Blackadder fixing things:

When black trys to fix something it usually ends up with a large explosion, fire everywhere or total erasure from reality.

Therefore don’t ask black to fix anything.

Impossibru.

Started by Sneaky when something is impossible it is IMPOSSIBRU.
Has been expanded to Invisibru meaning someone has glitched invisible (not mod invisibility)

Ponies:
Many people on the server enjoy My Little Pony: Friendship Is magic. Expect related memes and art popping up on threads.

Crimsey:
Flux04 (previous account: Wiseybud) sometimes spasm friendly mobs or eggs in an area. It is traditional to Caps yell CRIIIIMMMSSSEEEYYY!!!! When this occurs.

French Brothers:
Sneaky was drunk one night and insulted Tehbeard by calling him French.

He apologised in a long rambling forum post in which he named Beard his “French Brother”.

Obviously Hacked:
used to describe a building of such grandoise aweseome that it can only have been hacked. first used by "cant remember the damn name" in describing Mydrox's House in Solake2.0

/me no pants:
Blackadder51 hates pants. wearing pants when he is online is a kickable offense. /me no pants.