PvP and combat
The Refuge is a safe zone: nobody can attack you there. Outside, PvP is open, although a land owner can turn it off inside their land.
Hitting or being hit by another player puts you in combat for 15 seconds, and every new hit resets the count. While it lasts:
- You cannot use , , , , or .
- You cannot use emotes.
- If you disconnect, you die: leaving the game in combat counts as a defeat.
When you respawn you get 5 seconds of protection, lost if you attack or move. Members of the same tribe cannot hurt each other, and neither can allies.
Thirst
Besides hunger you have thirst: 10 drops above the food bar. It drops over time, faster when you sprint, swim or are hot.
To drink:
- Right-click with an empty hand on water that has a bottom within reach, or crouch looking at the water.
- Drink water bottles or milk.
- Eat something with water in it: soups, stews, melon, honey or apples. Dry food takes a little away.
With little water you are thirsty, and with almost none you are dehydrated: negative effects and a warning appear. Thirst never kills.
Fatigue
You also have energy. It drops while you are awake, and faster at night, in the rain, sprinting, mining or fighting. It comes back by sleeping in a bed, and whoever sleeps through the whole night wakes up with full energy.
Tired, you move slower. Exhausted, you also mine slower and hit softer. Like thirst, fatigue never kills. A golden apple and a little honey or cookies give you a boost; rotten flesh and spider eyes take it away.
Food spoils
Raw food goes off: fish lasts about 4 hours and meat about 6, counting only the time the server is running. Its description says whether it is fresh, going off or nearly rotten. When it expires, meat turns into rotten flesh and everything else into bone meal.
What you store in chests, barrels or your ender chest spoils too, and so does what you have in the auction house. Golden food does not spoil.
Animals
Animals have sexes: breeding needs a male and a female. Each animal can breed again after 10 minutes, and a cow gives milk every 5. Get close to one and you see its information.
In cold biomes, where polar bears live, there are also rockhopper penguins, the server's first wild animal of its own.