Welcome to Arathia

what is Arathia?
Arathia is a minecraft, medieval worldbuilding, role-playing minecraft server where players drive the stories. with the abilities to form and towns, mighty nations and alliances, players can create the stories they want to tell. whether they wish to be a simple farmer, a bartender at a local alehouse, a knight, pledged fealty to a king... or the king himself, each player can choose their path. but Arathia is not a kind place. banditry, rebellion, conquest and war lie in wait, to survive here, one must use their heads, the tongue can be as powerful as a blade, to form alliances, trade, or to otherwise further diplomacy can often be the best way to survival in these dangerous lands.

Rules:
1) This is NOT a factions server, while war and banditry are permitted, any player or group of players who are deemed detrimental to the community may be removed. griefing for the sake of griefing will get you banned.

2) You must post in the discord channel War-Dec before your nation or town may declare war on another, your war Dec may be denied at discretion of admins, but primarily this is for RP and record-keeping purposes.

3) Absolutely no exploits, this includes duplicating, xray, cheating, or anything that allows a player or group to gain an unfair advantage. This is up to admin discretion and we have ways of catching cheaters. cheaters will be banned. no exceptions.

4) This is a role playing server, but you may not roleplay as any religions, races, or otherwise group of people that exist in real life. this is to avoid conflict between community members.

5) No land scarring, do your best to keep Arathia beautiful. this means no huge quarries, floating leaves, giant holes....ect

6) All builds must be in the medieval style

7) No excessive redstone machines or farms.

8) No hostile mob farms.

9) Do not ask staff to spawn you in anything.

10) No bases that would be deemed as factions bases, this is to include hidden, underground bases, floating bases...ect

11) See War Rules

12) See Types of Claims

13) no advertising for other communities, discord or minecraft servers...ect

14) keep in pg-16. While we aim at a more mature target audience, this is still a public server. Excessive vulgarity or profanity may result in disciplinary action at the discretion of staff.

How to play: Before you join and spawn town
Before joining the server, you should join the server discord to read the rules, find the IP address, keep up with announcements, and you can also find maps, media, and other important nation info here. at https://discord.gg/4wHGaeYRrA,

when you first join Arathia, you will find yourself in Annawan, the spawn town. while the town continues to grow there are a few basics. an admin shop, where you can sell iron and gold ore to earn money, as well as buy various items, some other shop stalls that players can rent out to sell items at spawn, some player shops, a tavern where events may be held, an auction house where items may be sold, and a ferry to take you to various port towns. once you are done at spawn town you can either walk right out into the wild or you can execute the command /lands wild to be teleported to a random part of the map. you can return to the spawn town at any time be doing /spawn, /warp spawn, or /lands spawn Annawan.

Getting started:
Now that you're out of spawn you may wish to join a town or nation, you can do this either by walking to the town or nation and trying to find someone there, or by contacting them in discord. it is advised you contact towns and nations in discord rather than just walking up on them because that may be slightly dangerous. If you do not wish to join an already existing town/nation, it is possible to create your own town. first, you must find a suitable location, keep in mind just because the land that you are in does not have a physical claim on it does not mean the territory does not belong to a nation, it may be a projected territory. (see the "Claims" section.) so, you have found your location, you have checked that either the land does not belong to anybody, you have obtained permission from the nation to start a town there, or you are simply going to risk upsetting your parent nation by squatting in their territory without permission, regardless of the case, you are ready to start settling. Before you can create your town, you must first gather funds, a town costs 40,000 coins to make. you can obtain coins by mining and smelting Iron and gold, then selling the ingots at spawn or by trading with other players. it is advised you gather a bit more money than the minimum of 40,000 before creating your settlement so that you can expand, pay your taxes, and upkeep. you can see your current account balance by doing /balance

Creating your town:
'''Note: The lands portion of this page may be outdated. We have since switched to Towny instead of lands. There are detailed guides online showing how to create, expand, claim land, and war over land using towny siege war. This section may not be updated as we are hoping to return back to Lands after some more updates to the plugin.'''

Now that you've got your funds, its time to make your town. stand in the area you wish to claim, and execute the command /lands create 

EX. /lands create Annawan would create a town called Annawan. if no name is chosen, your land will default to your name.

40,000 coins should be deducted from your account balance and your town is now created. This command creates a claim on the one chunk that you are currently standing on. You can view your land border by doing /lands view.

Detailed guides on lands can be found at Lands Tutorial.

Expanding your town:
Now that your town is created, you can size it using the claim tool given to you when you spawned in. if you've lost it, don't worry, any golden hoe should work. use the golden hoe and left click in one corner of the land that you wish to claim this will set the position one. now move to the opposite corner of the land you wish to claim (diagonal from the first.) and right click. This will set the position two. now that your land is selected, simply execute the command /lands claim <Town Name. to claim more land costs $450 per chunk claimed.

EX: /lands claim Annawan will claim the selected land for the town of Annawan.

(note, you may need to deposit money into your lands bank account to claim land. to do this do /lands deposit  you can also withdraw money from the towns bank account by doing /lands withdraw  

EX: /lands deposit Annawan 20000 will deposit 20,000 coins into Annawan's bank account, subtracting it from from your personal bank account.

/lands withdraw Annawan 20000 will withdraw 20,000 coins from Annawan's bank account, adding it to you personal bank account.

you can do /lands balance to see the balance of the land you own.

Claims:
See Types of Claims

How to grow your town:
A town that wishes to grow should do three things, first, create a flag/banner, secondly, create a discord for the town, and third post on the nations-recruitment section of the server discord.

war:
See War Rules

I want to brew alcohols!
Arathia uses a custom brewing system that allows players to discover, experiment with, and perfect recipes for different kinds of alcohols and other drinks. While the brewing process will not be explained in depth here, you may find a basics of brewing book for sale at spawn. (These are pretty affordable.) This book will explain the brewing process, and contains a few of the more basic recipes, however, it is recommended that you contact a brewer or a brew master to learn how to brew in order to learn more efficiently. More recipes can also be discovered in the world. These recipes can be sold or kept in house. Some recipes are quite common, while others will only have one copy. other recipes may be split into multiple pages that will need to be assembled to get the full recipe.

Nation drinks

Some nations will have drinks that are specific to their nation, and only brewmasters from that nation who were given the recipe can make. These drinks are typically vastly stronger than the basic drinks that can be brewed by any player, much harder to make and more expensive to make. Because of this, nation drinks can sell at a premium price. Nation drinks can also give special effects, for example, Thelessan Champagne will grant the user levitation for a short period of time, and then slow falling on the way back down. Only nations can be given special drinks. A nation leader must contact an admin to apply for special drinks.

Custom mobs, weapons and armor?!
Arathia has a wide range of custom mobs, weapons and armors in order to make the world feel more alive and...a little bit more dangerous. Some of the more notable mobs include

-Fire Dragon and Lava Dragon whelps (drop dragon scales and molten tools.)

-Naga Myrmidons and Naga Spellsinger (drop Naga scales and water tools.)

-Sea Serpent (drops sea serpent scales and imbued armor, weapons and tools.)

-Molten Spirits (Drop lava stone)

-Lava Jaws (Drop lava stone

-champions including Umbra, Toxus, and Sol (drop burnished weapons and tools.)

-Azgad the Smoldering Shadow (Drops Emblazoned armor, weapons, and tools.)