First Day

What to know to stay alive once you are born:

  • Check your inherited elemental profile with /alkatraz stats. Any element that you have negative resistance in, be very careful until you can defend against it.
  • Check the current moon phase: the closer to full moon, the more stronger the mobs become, but the shorter the day/night cycle gets.
  • Gear up properly, and have a safe and spawnproof place before taking any risks. It's not worth losing any hearts early.
  • When in doubt, fish and trade. Remember, variety and timing are the keys to success.

Hardcore

Value Amount
At birth 17 to 23 hearts, more if your parents are unrelated. Founders get 20
Lost per death 3
Regained 1 for every 2 births from your codes.
Maximum 30

Death

When you die you lose 3 hearts, and all your money goes into your head, placed where you died.

  • Anyone can eat it and take the money.
  • Heads can be picked up, carried and placed again.
  • Keep your wealth in fish or items if you do not want to carry it.

Losing your soul

Upon your final death, your soul goes into your head where you died, and you respawn soulless. It is advised to collect this head promptly.

  • You have at most 3 hearts, and you lose no more hearts when you die.
  • You cannot use magic at all. Wands do nothing and Alkatraz commands are blocked.
  • You have no genes, or star chart.
  • You cannot give birth codes.
  • You keep full use of the market and the shop.

You can return if you are reunited with a soul, but this can't be done alone.

Magic & mobs

Mobs are far more dangerous than vanilla. Almost every hostile mob casts spells. Killing them is the only way to learn those spells and grow in magic. See Magic and Mobs for exactly who casts what.

  • /spells Spell options, custom cast codes, and your cast hotbar.
  • /alkatraz stats Your stats. Check your affinities at birth. Higher numbers mean more damage and resistance in that element. Negative numbers are weaknesses: you deal less and take more.

Lunar cycle

The server follows the real moon. At full moon the nights are short and violent: mobs hit 25% harder, spawn with up to 50% more health, and often carry armor. Spellbook drops and Arcane Knowledge are nearly doubled.

At new moon one day and night lasts about a real day. At full moon it lasts about two hours.

A Moon Dial from /shop (999) shows the phase and the hours until sunrise. See Astronomy.

Fishing

Every custom fish has its own price and chart in /fishmarket. Fishing is the only way to earn money. Sell your catch, or buy and sell with the market's movements.

See Fishing and Money.

Commands you need today

Command Function
/birth <code1> <code2> Be born
/invite Generate a code for somebody else
/spells Spells and casting hotbar
/fishmarket The fish market
/sell Sell held fish; /sell all for everything
/shop Spend money
/lc and /gc Local and global chat

The full list is on Commands.

Then read

Check out the full wiki for more.