The Minecraft Survival wiki

Everything Minecraft survival actually runs on, written plainly: the mechanics, the progression, the economy, the protection rules and the jargon you will meet in chat. From the same people who put together the top 10 Minecraft survival servers.

The basics

• How Minecraft survival servers work Vanilla survival plus claims, an economy and ranks. What each layer adds and which ones matter.
• Your first week on a survival server The order that gets you established without losing the base. Claim first, economy second, build last.

Protection

• Land claims and griefing on survival servers What a claim actually stops, the four ways it leaks, and the inactivity rule that costs returning players their bases.
• Towny on survival servers, explained Mayors, plots, taxes and daily upkeep. Towny gives you a community and one specific way to lose your base.

Economy

• Survival economies: jobs, shops and inflation Money enters every time someone sells to a shop. Find the sinks or the economy is decorative by week three.
• Chest shops, the auction house and player trading How player shops price against the server shop, and why the buy-sell spread decides whether a player economy exists at all.
• Survival crates, keys and server events Crates, keyalls and events are the reward loop between build projects. What to look for and what to ignore.

Server life

• World age, borders and resets on survival servers An old world with a tight border is full, whatever the player count says. How to find out before you join.

Progression

• Skills systems on survival servers: mcMMO and the alternatives Skill trees turn ordinary play into permanent progression. What mcMMO does, and what custom systems do differently.
• Survival server ranks: earned, bought, and the difference Ranks are the main thing survival servers sell. The question is whether the same rank is reachable by playing.

Combat

• PvP, keep-inventory and staying alive on survival servers Whether PvP is global, zoned or off changes how you play entirely. Plus what actually kills people on survival servers.

Reference

• Survival server glossary Every survival server term you will meet in chat, defined in one line.