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

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 5,000 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 5,000 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:

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.

5000 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.

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 right 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:

there are two kinds of claims:

Physical claims: physical claims are town claims that are in game. when you enter one of these towns, the name will appear on your screen and you may be limited in permissions, such as opening doors, placing and breaking blocks or opening chests. these permissions are configurable by the lands owner by executing the /lands menu command. this brings up the GUI where the owner can trust players, set permissions, and create areas inside of their claims.

Projected claims: Projected claims are an area of the map claimed by a nation. these differ from physical claims as they are not in game and offer no real protection. a nation may make a projected claim over a region of land, and govern this land as they see fit. Projected claims are made by drawing boundaries on a map and posting the claim in the Arathia-Maps section of the discord server. this land then belongs to the nation that has claimed it, or if trying to claim another nations territory, the dispute must be handled either by money, diplomacy...or war. towns may not make projected 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.