Found a town, grow it into a nation and fight for real territory on a 1:300 scale map of the Earth, in Minecraft.
One block is 300 metres. Terrain comes from real elevation and ocean-floor data, biomes and trees follow real climate zones, and ores are richer where the real Earth has deposits. Settle wherever you like, trade with your neighbours, and defend what you build.
Claim land, invite residents, set taxes and plot rules, then join towns together into nations, and nations into federations of allies. Your borders are wherever you can hold them.
Nations go to war through sieges: capture banners, win battle sessions and take over towns. Money is real gold, so every ingot is mined, traded or won.
Every custom recipe, disabled item and loot change is on the wiki.
Join our Discord server to meet other players, find a town to settle in and hear about updates and changelogs first.
Link your Minecraft account and you can talk to the server straight from Discord, with your own town and nation channels. Share your builds, recruit for your nation, or ask staff for help.
Answers to the questions that come up most in chat. In game, type /faq.
Connect to play.meridianmc.xyz on Java Edition. 1.21.11 is best, but older and newer versions work too. In the lobby, click the Earth villager or type /join earth.
No. Meridian is Java Edition only, and you need a real Minecraft account.
In the Netherlands, so ping is lowest from Europe. Players from everywhere are welcome.
New players can't be hurt by anything for their first hour of play, and can't hurt other players either. /immunity shows how long you have left. /immunity off then /immunity confirm ends it early, for good.
Yes. /rtp lets you pick one of eight regions of the world and drops you on a random spot there, away from towns. /spawn takes you back to Eden, the spawn town.
Yes: map.meridianmc.xyz shows every town, who's online and every chest shop. The world is the real Earth at 1:300, so one block is 300 metres.
No, you drop your items when you die. Two exceptions: you keep them if you die within 8 chunks of where you spawned or teleported in, and during siege battle sessions.
/t list shows the towns. Ask a mayor or assistant to invite you, then type /t join <town>. Open towns can be joined without an invite.
A town costs 64 gold, carried in your inventory: stand where you want it and type /t new <name>. A nation costs 512 gold: /n new <name>.
/t claim claims the chunk you're standing in; it has to touch your town. A town can own 16 chunks per resident, plus 34 (so a new town can claim 50), and more in a nation; mayors can buy 10 more per resident with /t buy bonus, from 8 gold each rising to 16. Claims are paid from the town bank: 4 gold, plus 0.35% for every chunk the town already owns (about 6 gold at 100 chunks, 11 at 300), and never more than 24.
Yes. Ocean, coast and river chunks can be claimed like any other land.
From Friday 23 October, towns pay a small daily upkeep from their bank at 12:00 UK, based on residents: under 6 residents: free; 6–9: 1 gold; 10–13: 2; 14–19: 3; 20–23: 5; 24 or more: 10 gold. A town that can't pay goes bankrupt (no claiming, recruiting or building until it pays off the debt) but is never deleted. Nations pay nothing.
/t spawn takes you to your town, and /t spawn <town> visits another town that's open to you, both for free. Both make you stand still for a moment first, and have a cooldown.
/t rank add <player> assistant makes them an assistant, who can do almost everything the mayor can. /t rank remove <player> <rank> takes it away.
/tc switches to town chat and /nc to nation chat. /g goes back to global chat, and also gets you out of local chat.
A mayor or assistant founds one with /t religion create <name>, and it becomes the town's religion. Anyone can follow a religion with /res set religion <religion>. /religions lists them all.
Sieges are started on Fridays only (UK time), so every siege ends the same weekend, and 90-minute battle sessions are fought every 3 hours from Friday 17:30 to Sunday night UK time. The wiki's Sieges page has the full timetable in your own time zone.
Gold is the money. Ingots count as 1 and gold blocks as 9. It pays for towns, nations, land, teleports, shops, town perks and trading with other players. /bal shows yours and /baltop the richest players.
Mine it, sell things to other players in chest shops, and vote: every vote gives a Vote Crate.
Barely, because gold is money: Fortune I and II give no extra gold, and Fortune III gives only what Fortune I normally does (about a third more). Fortune gives a lot more raw copper instead.
On a shop plot in a town (/plot set shop), put down a chest, hold the item you're selling, left-click the chest and type the price in chat. Buyers left-click the sign. The wiki has the full guide.
Type /vote or go to meridianmc.xyz/vote. Every vote gives a Vote Crate: right-click it to open it. Votes also give points to spend in /voteshop.
No. Every 250 votes start a Vote Party, and the crates go to everyone online on the Earth server who has voted recently.
Supporter ranks with cosmetic perks and small conveniences. Nothing in the store helps you win a fight. See store.meridianmc.xyz.
Hostile mobs don't spawn on their own in the overworld. They come only from dungeon and trial chamber spawners. Animals and fish spawn as normal, and so does everything in the Nether.
Yes, the normal day and night cycle. With no hostile mobs spawning in the dark, nights are safe.
Mining, smelting, breeding animals, fishing, trading with villagers and mob spawners. Towns can buy an XP boost with /t perks.
Mine one with a Silk Touch pickaxe for a 50% chance to keep it (otherwise it breaks). A spawner you placed yourself can always be picked up again. Nether spawners can't be taken.
The Nether is open. It's 8 times smaller than the overworld and lines up with the map, so it's the fastest way across a continent. The End is closed.
The Earth map has no villages. Villager spawn eggs come from Vote Crates and /voteshop.
Breaking grass sometimes drops fruit seeds. Plant them on grass or dirt, let them grow, and pick the fruit. Fruit is used in brewing.
Craft it like an axe from 3 gold blocks and 2 sticks. Chop 3 logs of one of the map's trees and the whole tree comes down.
Accept the resource pack when you join. Said no? /texturepack offers it again.
/mctop for all skills, or /mctop <skill> for one.
Anything that doesn't give you an advantage over a vanilla player, like performance mods and fair-play minimaps. Hacked clients, x-ray, freecam, macros and minimaps that show players or caves are not. Not sure? Ask a staff member first.
No. If you log in on an alt by mistake, or need to switch accounts, open a ticket on Discord.
No. Insiding is against the rules: joining a town to steal from it or grief it and then leaving. See the rules.
No. Claiming large areas just for the sake of it (hollow claiming) isn't allowed. Land you claim must have a use.
discord.meridianmc.xyz. Type /discord link in game and send the code to the bot to link your account: then you can talk to your town and nation from Discord too.
Open a ticket on Discord, with screenshots or other proof.
The wiki has every command, recipe and feature.
