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Sieges & war

How war works on Meridian. Full guides: Sieges and Combat & PvP.

• Siege spawnsDefending mayors, attacking nation leaders and generals can set a spawn point for their side with /siegetp setspawn <town>. Everyone on that side (or allied to it) can then use /siegetp tp <town>: stand still for 5 seconds, and you arrive with 10 seconds of protection. You can't attack during that time.
• Happy Ghast squadsRiding a Happy Ghast? /siegetp ghasttp <town> flies you and your whole crew to your side's spawn, and /siegetp ghasthome takes you back to your town. Everyone on board must be on the same side.
• Military ranksNations have ranks from private up to general. Generals can start and run sieges, set siege spawns and promote soldiers.
• HonorWar ranks have to be earned: you gain a point of honor for every day you play while in the same nation, and need 3 before you can hold any military rank. Leaving the nation resets it. Check yours with /honor. See Sieges.
• Bystanders stay outIf you're on neither side of a siege, you can't place TNT in the siege zone. During battle sessions you also can't fight, shoot bows or throw splash potions there.
• No escape tricksIn a siege zone, Totems of Undying don't work, chorus fruit won't teleport you, and teleport commands like /home and /tpa are blocked.
• Keep your gear in battleWhile a battle session is running, you keep your inventory when you die.
• No town hoppingWhile your nation is under siege, you can't leave your town to join a different town in the same nation.
• World TensionEvery siege raises World Tension by 5% for 14 days. At 50%, capitals can't be peaceful; at 75%, no town can. Check it with /msiege worldtension.
• War hornA war horn sounds for everyone in a siege zone the moment a battle session starts.
• Siege statsEvery kill, death, banner capture and more is recorded for each siege. See yours with /siegestats profile, or browse every war on the stats website.
• Peaceful townsMembers of peaceful towns can't hold military ranks. Peaceful towns that go bankrupt, or whose residents have all been away for 14 days, lose their peaceful status.
• ReportersStaff-approved reporters can use /reportermode to cover sieges safely: they glow, can't fight and can visit either side.

Staying alive

• New player protectionFor your first hour of play, mobs can't hurt you. The timer only counts while you're online.
• Spawn protectionAfter /t spawn, /n spawn or respawning, you keep your items if you die before travelling 8 chunks. Hide the countdown with /protection hide.
• Border protectionDie in the wilderness within 4 chunks of a town (outside siege zones) and you keep your items. Camping town borders doesn't pay.
• Combat tagHitting or being hit by a player tags you for 45 seconds. While tagged, logging out kills you, town claims won't protect you, and most commands are blocked.
• Fair fightsPearls, golden apples and knockback have cooldowns, shields stay disabled for 8 seconds when broken, end crystals and maces can't be crafted, and flaming arrows defuse TNT minecarts. See Combat & PvP.
• No pearl stasisEnder pearls can't be parked in stasis chambers for later teleports.
• ProtectionMore on staying safe: Staying safe.
• Loot lockValuable drops (tools, weapons, armour, gold, netherite, shulker boxes) belong to one player for 2 seconds after they hit the ground: what you mine and what you drop yourself is yours, and a killed player's drops belong to their killer. No more loot snipers. Turn it off for your own drops in /prefs.

Getting around

• Full guidePorts, spawns, rails, flight and maps: Getting around.
• PortsTowns can open a port with /t set port spawn and set a fee with /t set port price. Travel with /t port <town>. See all ports with /t port list. Fees default to 10 gold. There's a 10-second warm-up, a 60-second cooldown, and enemies can't use your port.
• Fast railsPut a powered rail on top of a redstone block and minecarts travel at 4× speed.
• Real-world coordinates/getlocation tells you where you are on the real Earth (with a Google Maps link). /coordinate <latitude> <longitude> finds any real place in game, e.g. /coordinate 48.85 2.35 for Paris.
• Instant carts and boatsStanding on a rail? /cart puts you straight into a minecart. On water or ice, /boat does the same with a boat. It disappears when you get out, so there's nothing to pick up. A supporter perk.
• Town flight/tfly lets you fly inside your own town. It costs gold for every minute you're in the air, taken from your inventory; if you run out, you float gently down. Flight turns off when you leave your town's land, get into a fight, or enter a siege zone. A supporter perk.
• Town spawn/t spawn takes you to your town's spawn point for 1 gold (paid to your town). You can also spawn to other towns in your nation for 3 gold. There's a short cooldown, and it doesn't work while you're in combat.
• How far?/distance <town> shows how far a town is from you, and /distance <town> <town> the distance between two towns, in blocks, chunks and real-life kilometres.
• The NetherThe Nether is 8× smaller than the overworld and its border lines up with the map, so every portal leads somewhere on Earth. Beds don't explode there (you just can't sleep), and blaze spawners can't be broken.

Money & towns

• Gold is moneyThe currency is gold: ingots count as 1 and blocks as 9. Check yours with /bal.
• Chest shopsSell or buy anything with chest shops. See the shop guide.
• Town vaults/tv opens shared storage for your whole town. The mayor can unlock more vaults and extra rows, paid from the town bank.
• BountiesPut a price on someone's head with /bounty set (8 to 4,096 gold). Whoever kills them claims it. See Bounties.
• CratesReward crates from events and voting. Open one to spin for a prize.
• Trade warNations can embargo other nations, sanction players and towns, and put tariffs on shop trades. See Trade war.
• CompaniesFound a company, sell shares and pay dividends. See Companies.
• Villager tradingVillagers have limited stock and personal limits. See Villager trading.
• CampsNo town yet? Crouch and place a campfire to protect a chunk for a week. See Towns & camps.
• ApartmentsMayors can rent out rooms and apartments inside a single plot. See Towns & camps.
• Town sizesTowns grow from Settlement to Metropolis as they gain players. See Towns & camps.
• Mayor successionIf a mayor is away for 30 days, the town passes to an active assistant, or failing that the longest-standing active resident.
• NationsAllies, enemies, ranks and nation levels: Nations & diplomacy.
• Inactive townsA town where nobody has played for 30 days falls into ruin if it's small, or goes up for sale if it's bigger. See Towns & camps.
• Town resourcesSurvey your town's land to discover what it produces, then collect it every day. See Town resources.
• Discord links/t set discord <invite> and /n set discord <invite> put a clickable Discord invite on your town or nation screen.

Survival

• Full guideEvery survival tweak in one place: Survival changes, and for builders Building & decoration.
• Starter kitThe first time you join you get stone tools, leather armour, bread, torches and a bed.
• SkillsYou level up skills like Mining, Woodcutting and Fishing just by playing. See Skills.
• BrewingBrew beer, wine, whiskey and more in cauldrons and age them in barrels. See Brewing.
• Bottled XPHold empty glass bottles and right-click an enchanting table to bottle 10 XP per bottle. Crouch to fill as many as you can. Throwing one gives the XP back, exactly.
• Quick concreteRight-click a water cauldron with concrete powder to turn the whole stack into concrete. It uses one level of water.
• Copper and goldFortune gives a lot more Raw Copper than normal, but much less extra Raw Gold, because gold is money. See Loot changes.
• Silk Touch spawnersMine a spawner with a Silk Touch pickaxe and there's a 50% chance you get it (otherwise it shatters). A spawner you've placed yourself can always be picked up again. Nether spawners can't be picked up, and blaze spawners can't be broken at all.
• Cheaper carpetsOne wool block makes 3 carpets (normally it takes 2 wool). See Changed recipes.
• No respawn anchorsRespawn anchors can't be crafted, placed or charged. See Disabled items.
• Farm limitsEach chunk holds up to 24 of one animal (32 chickens, 30 villagers, 6 iron golems). Past that, breeding and spawning stop and extra animals are cleared away. Villagers, and named, tamed, leashed or ridden animals, are never removed.
• RedstoneRedstone runs on a faster engine to keep the server smooth. Almost everything works as normal; a few contraptions that depend on exact update order may behave differently.

Community

• Full guideEvents, live stats, reports and more: Community & events.
• ChatChannels for your town, nation and allies, private messages, mail for offline players, /ignore, /seen and badges. See Chat.
• Show off itemsType [i] in a message to show the item in your hand. Everyone can hover over it to see its enchantments and lore. /show, /head, /torso, /legs, /boots and /offhand show a whole message about it.
• Help in game/help sends you a link to this wiki. You'll also get a one-time tip the first time you do certain things; /tips off hides them.
• Events calendar/calendar opens a calendar of upcoming events, including siege Fridays and battle weekends. Click a day to see what's on.
• Ping/ping shows your connection speed (green is good, red is bad). /ping <player> checks someone else's.
• FlagsHang a banner on the side of a block and it flies as a flag. Crouch while placing it for a tall hanging banner instead. Right-click a flag with another banner to make it bigger, up to 10 times its size. Want a normal banner? Place it from your off hand.
• Map artMade a map painting? Lock it with /mapart lock (75 gold) so nobody else can copy it, and your name shows under it in item frames. Only the owner can unlock it again (/mapart unlock, 30 gold). /mapart name <name> and /mapart credit <name> name the painting and its artist, /mapart verify checks whose it is, and /mapart menu opens the settings. Nobody else can break an item frame holding a locked map.
• Voice chatTalk to players near you. Install the Simple Voice Chat mod (Fabric, Forge, NeoForge or Quilt) and it connects by itself. Press V for its settings and groups.
• Live statsPlayers, towns, nations, sieges, the market and leaderboards, live on stats.meridianmc.xyz. It also tracks how much gold exists (Gold supply) and lists every ban and mute (Bans).
• Report a player/report <player> <reason> alerts online staff and records where it happened. /my-reports shows what's happened to your reports. For something that isn't about one player, use /reportissue <reason>.
• Tab list and sidebarThe player list shows everyone's rank and town, and the sidebar shows your town, nation, gold, the number of players online and your ping. /sidebar hides or shows the sidebar.
• No VPNsYou can't join through a VPN, proxy or hosting provider. If you're blocked by mistake, ask staff on Discord.
• Join queueWhen the Earth server is full or restarting, choosing it in the lobby puts you in a queue. Your place shows above your hotbar and you're sent in automatically when there's room.

Culture & lore

• Passports/passport opens a passport book that gets a new stamp the first time you visit each nation.
• ReligionChoose your faith with /res set religion <religion>, or found your own as a town leader. See Religion.
• CultureMayors and assistants can give their town a culture with /t set culture <name> (up to 20 letters). It shows on the town screen and in its nation.
• The Meridian calendarThe world keeps its own calendar. Every Minecraft day is a day on it. Check the world's age with /worldage.
• Items with historyTools, weapons and armour you craft are stamped with who made them, the date and the town and nation they came from.
• Custom loreWrite your own line of lore on a sword or axe with /setlore <text> (needs a lore token).
• Bookshelf readingHold a spyglass and left-click a chiseled bookshelf to read the books inside without taking them out.

Settings

• Notifications/prefs turns bounty and passport announcements, and the loot lock on your own drops, on or off. /tips off hides the one-time tips. /sidebar hides the sidebar.
• Chat channels/channel leave <channel> hides general, local or trade chat; /channel join <channel> brings it back.
• CraftingSome recipes are different, and a few items can't be crafted at all. See Changed recipes and Disabled items.