This is not an installation guide! For a guide on how to install the mods and join the server, visit Installation Guide.
Welcome to the server! There are some brief things you should know about the server before getting started. Firstly, you might want to get familiar with the wiki. It has a lot of great in-depth information about the mods in place. If not, this guide is a good place to start! The most significant content mods are Born in Chaos, L_Ender’s Cataclysm, and Alex’s Caves, and provide some of the biggest challenges content-wise.
You should also get familiar with the Death and PvP Flagging systems. Also, if you want to voice chat with other players, you can use the Discord and/or turn on proximity voice chat by setting up Simple Voice Chat! Just click V and it’ll get you started.
Before playing, you might also want to check your settings. By default, many of the settings are not conflicting; except, notably, if you are using Push to Talk on Simple Voice Chat, you will have to bind it to a different key than V (or change the Simple Voice Chat UI button to something else).
One of the first things you will notice is that there are a LOT of new mobs roaming the world. A major difference between vanilla Minecraft is that a lot of content is simply gated by gear progression. In vanilla, you can defeat many mobs with no armor and a sword. On this server, combat with mobs will be a lot more challenging.
Content Spoiler
Starting from night 3, you may encounter a pair of glowing eyes. This is the Nightmare Stalker and you must attack it to make it visible.
Other important content details you should know:
- This server uses Better Combat/Combat Roll. To disable arms, go to the Mods menu and search up Better Combat. Click the Config and disable arms in first person.
- This means spam-clicking is completely disabled. Weapons also have new animations.
- For more information: Better Combat & Combat Roll
- Day/night cycles have been adjusted to compensate for higher difficulty. Daytime lasts 30 minutes. Night lasts 15 minutes (This is an increase from vanilla, which is a 20 minute cycle).
- Any player can speed up nighttime by sleeping in a bed. This speed-up effect increases when more players are sleeping.
- Boss fights have been scaled to be more difficult (especially due to an overall nerf in weapon damage). It’s a good idea to go fighting mobs with a friend!
- You will probably die a LOT during major boss fights. A bed might be necessary so you can return in the middle of a fight. To keep your home set, you can use Waystones, which cost XP to use.
- Xaero’s Minimap and World Map are enabled by default (with Waystones integration).
To learn more about the mods in the server as you encounter them, you should make heavy usage of JEI. JEI lets you look at how an item is crafted (hover and click R by default) or what it is used for (hover and click U by default).