New player guide
This page is a work in progress.
Collect info from guides:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LzYYy8xjeUFNYKRBfzu9oLh6asoJqscSM2LzxKF7wyQ/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ceYNmfp_8VaTEKLbAOVO5O0nKGu2gfAAqN-luM9urGg/edit https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/6hpxld/psa_security_tips_for_new_friends/
Link to resources:
Discovering Civ-style Minecraft
- TODO Short general overview of the mechanics, playerbase, and play styles
- Main subreddit r/CivClassics
- Server rules
- This is not vanilla and you're in for a long learning curve
Starting off
- Start your journey in an existing nation because:
- You can find people to teach you the civ mechanics
- You get to use all the expensive infrastructure
- Making contacts is very important, not just politically
- It's more fun to play with like-minded people
- List of Nations taking in new players
- To get around, use boat or rail. here's a map to find boat routes: Web map
- Respect existing nations: don't grief/raid them, they will get you back since they know the mechanics and their transport, production, and military infrastructures are more advanced than you might expect
- Install basic mods
- Minimap: set waypoints for your hidden things and other people's places, find travel routes
- Gammabright: see in the dark
- Civradar: see not just mobs and players but also items, minecarts, boats, and hear a sound when someone comes nearby
- Spend your time mining diamonds and buy the stuff you need, it's cheaper this way since established players can produce things way cheaper than you on your own
Building up
- Install advanced mods:
- Skynet: know when someone logs on/off
- ReplayMod: keep always running to have undeniable proof for surprises, or just go back in time/space
- SnitchMaster: visualize Snitches' detection fields, manage large Snitch groups
- Macromod: hotkeys, automation, botting
- Set up your own Exp production, obby farm
- Learn building secure structures
Oldfriend coming back
- Install the mods
- Get updated on the game mechanics
- Use the new GUIs:
/fm
to open a graphical overview of all factories and recipes/nl
to open a graphical overview of your Namelayer groups (used for chat and reinforcements)/ja
while standing inside the field of a Snitch to take a quick look through the logs of that snitch/rein
to see the available reinforcements and their strengths