Getting Started in Pavia

This page is to assist new and established players to get started in the Empire of Pavia. For detailed information on the nation, please see here. To avoid duplication of information, this page assumes that you have read the information on that page.

Looking east at the Pavian Townhall from Main Street

Brief overview

Christmas '22 in Pavia

Pavia is a maritime nation located in the Lyrean Sea. It has a dynamic and ever-changing government, beginning as an elective monarchy headed by the Crown Prince it has slowly migrated into a democracy under the Prime Minister. Founded on the first day of the server, it was comprised in the early days of a large number of players from the former Free Republic of Gabon, a nation that existed on a earlier civ-server called CivClassic. Since it's foundation, the nation has since expanded to include many more players and is always looking for new players to join and help the nation grow.

The Northern Viaduct in Pavia, part of Pavia's extensive rail network, designed to connect to nations around the map.

This page is designed to assist new players in learning how to play, join in and get involved with Pavia, although may prove to be a useful resource to established players who are considering making Pavia their home.

The countryside outside Pavia city

Important Links

The Estella River in Pavia

Pavia's Discord - Main source for all things Pavian. This is where you can find/hear about all decrees made by the incumbent Crown Prince, read about Pavian news, keep in touch with citizens and the broader Pavian community and find jobs to do.

CivMC Discord - This is server-wide discord channel where you can find administrator announcements and speak to the entire Civ community.

World Map - The world map, maintained by players. This is where you can see all internationally recognised claims, see OneDest rail destinations and find your way around the map.

Magna Pavia - This is the Pavian founding document and the most important document outlining the function of government in Pavia. While an important document for the nation of Pavia, it has limited influence on the modern state.

Governance and Laws

Pavia's government is dynamic and frequently changes significantly, please read the main Pavia for details on the current state of government, and to read about the history of the state if you are interested.

New players should know that there are a general set of rules that while not explicitly listed anywhere are enforced by the Pavian Coastguard (the Pavian military).

• Do not grief or break 'reinforced' blocks (blocks that have health).
• Do not break into the homes of others
• Do not build anywhere other than a designated free-build zone unless you receive explicit permission from the Bureau of Architecture
• Do not damage the natural environment of Pavia (i.e; gather sand from from places other than the beaches of Pavia, chop trees at designated tree farm)
• Do not mine under developed areas of Pavia.
• Do not trespass into areas that are closed off (namely Terminus; the large black obsidian structure [a Vault] located beside the train station)

You will find these rules are common across many nations on the map, so as a citizen of Pavia it is expected that you will not raid or grief other nations on the map.

The tutorial building

Pavia has constructed a entirely player made tutorial for the major plugins on the server. This is a great place for players who are brand new to the server to get their first hands on look at some of the server's major plugins such as Realistic Biomes and block protection plugin Citadel. You can access this tutorial from the main chamber of the Pavian townhall at +800, -3065.

Setting your spawn

If you die on this server without having set your spawn (your spawn point can be set by sleeping in a bed), you will spawn in a new random place on the map. So the first thing that should be done when you arrive into Pavia is to set your spawn. A publicly accessible bed is available at The Loud Mule Inn and Stable (Coordinates: 1140x, -2883z) . The Loud Mule Inn and Stable can be found on the Kingsroad in the Duchy of Bedford, a Duchy administered under the Duke of Bedford, BritishWanderer.

Pavian Land Registry - The Loud Mule and Stable is located in the Duchy of Bedford. The Duchy in the south of the Pavian landmass.Note this Land Registry is not the most up-to date version, please look at the Pavia discord if you are interested.

Quick fact: The Kingsroad is a major thoroughfare located along the south coast of Pavia. This road is built by Pavia and continues into the neighbouring countries of Mery and Lambat. Locating this road can be an easy way to find your way back to the City of Pavia. The road is supplemented by the Princes Road which is a matching road that runs along the north coast of the nation.

Join the Discord

To join the discord, click here.

When you join the discord, you will be placed inside the #town-gates until you are given a role by a Duke of Pavia.

Once you have settled in either the Bedford Common or have purchased a home with citizenship (see Getting your first home), you will be given a citizenship role, giving you access to other channels in the discord.

Channel	Purpose
#information	Provides onboarding information to new citizens and guests of Pavia, providing links to important documents and a general overview of the nation.
#noble-decrees	Contains all decrees made by the incumbent Prime Minister as well as notifications of adjustments to the Pavian land registry and on-going elections for the Prime Minister or Emperor.
#pavian-newsroom	News from the Pavian Government on the happenings in Pavia as well as some major announcements from the political parties of Pavia.
#news-orgs	News from independent news sources such as The Pavian Outpost, and rolling statements from the political parties of Pavia during the election cycle.
#cartography-office	Displays progress maps of Pavia to show progress made on the city and outer regions.
#town-square	The public channel accessible to all Pavian citizens and guests.
#pavian-markets	Contains all business adverts for businesses operating within Pavia.
#dice-day	The channel that hosts the Pavian Dice Day - a National Holiday where the Prime Minister's fate is determined by a dice roll.
#corporate-news	Corporate news from the Monument Group (MG). Includes news, updates and financial reports.
#contact-us	This channel can be used to open a support ticket with the Monument Group to purchase a Pavian property or another service provided by the MG.
#citizen-announcements	Private announcements for the eyes and ears of the Pavian citizenry.
#pavia-citizen	Internal channel for chatting between citizens of Pavia
#job-board	Channel hosting open jobs for Pavian citizens who would like to earn their keep through open jobs such as building schematics, developing land, rails etc.;
#pavian-markets	Open listings for shops and other establishments in Pavia
#bank-management	The entrance channel for Monument Bank where you can open a bank account with a deposit of 0 diamonds.

Joining the NameLayer groups

NameLayer is the plugin used by Civ genre servers to allow for block protection (reinforcements), private shared chats amongst other features. All nations in CivMC will utilise a number of groups that allow selective access to be given to infrastructure that should only be accessible by authorised players.

There are three public NameLayer groups that new citizens need to join. To join the groups, you must ask a Duke of Pavia either in-game or in the Pavian discord channel.

Pavia - This is a general purpose group used for chatting in-game to other Pavians

PaviaCitizens - This group is used to manage access to city's bastions. It is required that you join this group before you are able to build within Pavia.

PaviaFactories - This group permits the player to access the city's factories.

Depending on the location of your home, you may also need to be on the group PaviaBastions.

The Loud Mule Inn and Stable

Getting your first home

There are two methods of obtaining property in Pavia.

• Purchase a property within Pavia from the Monument Group. This is recommended for established players who would like a property within the city and will cost diamonds.
• Build a home in the Bedford Common. This is recommended for new players and is free.

Purchasing a property through the Monument Group

If you are interested in purchasing a property in Pavia, open a ticket using the #contact-us channel in the Pavian discord. Any properties valued and purchased for over 64 diamonds will come with Pavian citizenship.

Location of the Loud Mule in Pavia. Click the image to bring it up to full size.

Building a home in the Bedford Common

The Empire of Pavia enforces a strict building code to maintain standards across the nation. As a consequence of this, citizens of Pavia can not freely build within the nation without the permission of the Bureau of Architecture. Citizens who have demonstrated a good understanding of the Pavian building style and a high standard for building can obtain this permission.

Citizens can however build freely within the Bedford Common, an area designated in the Duchy of Bedford for new players to get established. Open the Pavian Land Registry map on the right hand side of this page to see the location and boundary of the Bedford Common.

Within the Commons, citizens can freely choose any space that is not yet occupied by a building to construct their home, please keep in mind that while the Bureau of Architecture does not enforce a strict build style within this region, it is still expected that players will make an attempt to stick to the style (for example; no tall buildings or modern skyscrapers).

Gathering materials and general amenities

Quick fact: A staple of the civ-genre is the inclusion of the Realistic Biomes plugin. This plugin changes the growth rates for crops, saplings and other growable blocks based on the biome in which they have been planted. While playing on CivMC, you will notice some crops including saplings may a day or longer to grow to maturity, or may not grow at all in the given biome. You can find the growth time of a crop by left-clicking while holding the crop, or by entering the command /rb into chat.

Factories allow the creation of materials at a cheaper cost than traditional crafting or smelting, and are used as the only method of producing experience (XP) or high-tier civ items such as bastions.

Factories have varying costs to create and as a result, some factories are kept away from the public for security.

Citizens of Pavia can access all common factories on the southern side of the Pavian townhall. More expensive factories are not available but can be accessed by proxy through the Pavian Ore Exchange. XP may be purchased from the MG Trading Hall, and tools can be purchased from Monument Group or G&W.

Click here for detailed information on FactoryMod.

Food and agricultural infrastructure in Pavia

Pavia is primarily settled on flower forest and plains biomes, and as a result has little access to valuable crops as part of the Realistic Biomes plugin.

The primary food crops grown in Pavia are carrots and wheat. Farms for these crops, accessible to citizens can be found alongside the Kingsroad. The state primarily relies on imported baked potatoes for food security and sells these in the Grand Exchange to citizens. Various shops located within the City of Pavia sell other more valuable food items such as cooked chicken, steak and pork.

A citizen accessible carrot farm is at 1183, -2984, and wheat can be found at 1170, -3013. On CivMC, you can hold right-click to harvest.

Wood

Kingsroad Tree farms

The birch farm can be located on the Kingsroad just past the Duchy of Lugano at 1738, -2896.

Oak logs can be found nearby at 1670, -2846.

Dark oak logs can be harvested just to the north at 1726, -2964.

Spruce and other logs do not grow at Pavia but can be brought in volume from the Grand Exchange in town.

Please replant after you gather logs, trees take 48 hours to regrow after planted.

Mining

Mining is vastly different on CivMC in comparison to vanilla Minecraft, and takes time and experience to truly become lucrative. There are two important Civ plugins to be aware of in relation to mining. Hidden Ore; this plugin changes ore generation to make ores generate as you break blocks or as you walk through unexplored caves, rather than ores generating and being present in the world from the beginning, and Orebfuscator which changes blocks not visible to the user to other blocks to prevent x-ray.

Mining for general blocks such as cobblestone, andesite, granite etc; can be done in any location outside of the City of Pavia. It is recommended that players use the city quarry for this sort of digging. the quarry can be found at 1440 -3045. Players may enter the cave and dig as needed.

Mining for valuable ores is best done as far from player settlement as possible. If you are able to find a cave that has not been explored; large numbers of diamonds can be found easily. As Pavia is a highly populated and dense region of the map, it is recommended that players go outside of the nation to isolated areas to mine for the best chances to find valuables goods.

If you are interested in mining - always ensure that you are using a Fortune pick on iron ore and Silk Pick on all other ores as soon as possible to be able to make sure of the Pavian Ore Exchange, which offers considerably better rates than would be available via. smelting or traditional mining.

These enchanted picks are available for purchase at Monument Goods at 1 Main Street Pavia.

The Pavian Ore Exchange

The Pavian Ore Exchange allows players to access the exchanges available in the Ore Smelter factory without having direct access to the factory itself. This exchange can be found at the Monument Goods store at 1 Main Street. This can be an extremely effective way new players can jumpstart their wealth by first mining raw iron, exchanging the raw iron for iron ingots using the Ore Exchange, and then exchanging the iron ingots for diamonds using the Iron/Diamond exchange available in the same building. You may also sell gold here, and purchase XP for enchanting new tools.

The Trading Hall containing the Ore Exchange and Iron/Diamond exchange can be found at 732, -2988.

The Grand Exchange

The Grand Exchange is a cornerstone of the Pavian lifestyle. This exchange is operated by the Bureau of Architecture and is hosted just to the south of the Pavian townhall.

The Exchange allows citizens to trade essence, iron, diamonds and occasionally other in-demand goods such as clay and other building blocks into Pavian Crowns. Pavian Crowns are a currency which can be used within the Exchange to purchase a large selection of goods from building blocks, stone, tools, food, minecarts and more.

New players are encouraged to make use of the exchange to purchase difficult to maintain building blocks such as white concrete and bricks when building in the Bedford Commons.

The Grand Exchange can be found at 800, -2942.

Shopping in Pavia

There are a large number of shops within Pavia where a huge number of goods can be purchased ranging from food and blocks to XP and enchanted tools. Shops are primarily positioned along the Main Road in the centre of the City of Pavia. Detailed information on all shops as well as a method of contacting the shop owner can be found in the #pavian-markets channel

Finding something to do

A distinct feature of civ-genre servers is the lack of interaction between server administrators and the community, and the lack of 'forced' gameplay elements. This leaves the player often needing to find their own purpose in the world akin to how a player would play survival Minecraft. The plugins that are available within civ server facilitate and support the creation of nations and communities who can work together to build as well as providing them with the tools required to enforce their own claims and distribute justice when required.

The benefit of such a server model is that there is a vast number of things that a player can do, and players are not forced to commit to any one particular playstyle.

Become an Architect

Pavia is well-known throughout the map for it's commitment to building a single style city, and the creation of large and detailed builds. Players are not able to build outside of a Commons without express permission from the Pavian Bureau of Architecture. To obtain the permission to build within Pavian Crownland and the City of Pavia, players must first demonstrate their building ability on a creative server hosted by Pavia.

If you believe you are a good builder, or are interested in becoming a better builder - becoming an Architect of Pavia might be a good goal for you. To become an architect, contact Gobblin on discord or in-game to gain access to the creative where you can demonstrate your building ability. Once approved, you will be able to assist in designing the city and other locations around Pavia.

Complete Build Contracts

Some builds in Pavia are first designed in creative before being built in-game by other builds, and players are offered payment in return for constructing these builds in-game. This is an extremely lucrative business within the state with schematics often paying out between 20 and 30 diamonds for completion, with all blocks provided by the Pavian Grand Exchange for free.

However, build contracts are in great demand and are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

To obtain a build contract - keep an eye on the #job-board channel to accept a build contract when one becomes available.

Non-citizens can gain access to the #pavia-schematics channel and Pavian build contracts by contacting Gobblin.

In order to accept a contract - it is important that the you have installed the Litematica mod, which will allow you to place and build the design as a blueprint. Lessons on how to use Litematica are offered by asking Gobblin.

Become a Merchant

Pavia boasts one of the largest markets available on the server, located on the Main Road in the City of Pavia. This makes it a great place to sell any goods ranging from food and blocks all the way to books and map art.

If you are interested in opening a shop in Pavia - first identify what you will sell and begin stockpiling your product.

Once you are ready to open a shop, contact the Monument Group using the #contact-us channel in the Pavia discord to purchase a property within the city centre

Next, open your shop using the Item Exchange plugin.

Keep your shop open and expand your product range.

Learn to PvP and join the Coast Guard

War occasionally takes place on CivMC when diplomacy fails, and PvPers may be required to defend Pavia from it's adversaries. The defence of the state is managed by the Pavian Coast Guard, established early in the history of CivMC during the reign of BritishWanderer I. If you are interested in joining the Coast Guard and learning to fight - contact the Duke of Braemar and First Lord of the Admiralty, Cissonius.

Build in the Undercity

The City of Pavia allows freebuilding in the deepslate layer under the city, there are multiple 'gates' from which you may access the undercity, one is located in Shifty Avenue near 537, -3002.

The only requirement in the undercity is that you do not disturb existing builds, you do not build any bunkers and you remain deep enough below the basements and existing infrastructure above (stick to the deepslate layer).

Make map art

A lucrative business for those who are interested is to develop map art for the server, you can see some examples in shops along the Main Street. If you are interested in this, it's suggested that you build these map arts outside of Pavia's sovereign borders and then open a shop in the Main Street to sell your goods when you're ready.

Write books

Civ servers have an extensive history and book catalogue that has developed over many years. There are librarian associations around the server including the most well-known, the Maester's Alliance. You can read local Pavian literature at the Pavian library located at 876, -2918, and some government documents are located throughout the Pavian townhall.

If you write a good book, the Pavian government will be willing to purchase and display your book in the library, or you can sell it in town. (The FactoryMod plugin allows you to create printing plates so that others cannot steal your book).

Attend Public Events

Pavia holds frequent events, especially located around major holidays throughout the year such as Christmas and the anniversary of the server. Any events that are upcoming will be announced ahead of time in the Pavia discord.

Help with Public Projects

Pavia will on occasional endeavour on large scale public works that require a large amount of labour, if labour is required this will likely be published to the #job-board or announced in #citizens-announcements where you may come in and join.

Role-play

A large portion of Pavia is dedicated to world-building and some very light role-play elements. Get involved by founding your own church, opening your own pub, making your own school or any other thing you can think of to help make the city a more interesting place to explore and be a part of.

Moving up in the world

Pavia does not have a closed government. In some nations, there is little to no ability for new players to ascend the ladder to the very top. But in Pavia, hardworking and committed players can progress to the very top of the ladder. The first step is to become a noble.

Becoming a Noble

A noble is a player who has been recognised for their contribution to the state by a Duke of Pavia. Nobles are granted the right to vote for the incoming Prime Minister and Emperor.

To become a noble of Pavia, it is suggested that you get involved in the discord, engage in-game through participating in public works or showing that you have good independence through doing things such as starting a business and inducting new players.

Getting landed

A Duke may elect to make a Noble 'landed' by granting them a portion of their own Ducal territory for the Noble to watch over and administer.

Joining the government cabinet

The incumbent Prime Minister may appoint any players they see fit to their government cabinet to assist in the administration of the state. Cabinet members generally take on a particular focus of the government such as the administration of the state's rail systems or induction of new players.

Becoming a Duke

A Duke is a player who has the right to found and run a political party, administers some territory within the state and has the right to appoint their own nobles. Dukes have increased responsibility such as assisting with the defence of Pavia and general day-to-day administration of the state through their involvement in Pavian bureaus and/or the government cabinet.

To become a Duke of Pavia, a noble must be recognised as being ready to ascend to the title of Duke and the Prime Minister must call an election of the Dukes to appoint a new Duke. if the majority of Dukes agree to the appointment, the noble can ascend to the title of Duke.

Becoming the Prime Minister

To become the Prime Minister of Pavia, a Duke must found a political party and campaign for the vote of the nobles.

After the incumbent Prime Minister 'dies' through a dice day, a vote is held where nobles may choose their new preferred political party.

Once elected, you may appoint a cabinet and run the state until you 'die' at a dice day (See the main Pavia discord for more information on this).

Travel

It is always suggested that new players should travel the world to understand the scale of Civ servers.

Everything seen in-game is entirely player made and driven, and exists in a world where any player has the ability to grief or raid.

You may travel to see the world through the Pavian International Station located at 986, -3034. From here you may travel to a number of destinations including. but not limited to:

• Icenia
• Baile
• Volterra
• the Imperial Federation
• Griffin
• Deepslate Isles
• Vinland

Our place in the world

Pavia is a founding state of the Lyrean Commonwealth, a super-state located in the Lyrea region of CivMC including the nations of Griffin, Amboise and Pavia as well as Pavia's protectorates - the Deepslate Isles, Moloka and Lambat.

Pavia's region is heavily focused on world-building, trade and is generally committed to a peaceful existence.

Recommended client-side mods

See Mods/1.20. At Pavia we suggest the use of:

Litematica,

CivModern,

Xaero's Minimap (turn cave mode ff)

Xaero's Worldmap

Bobby (increased render distance)

any FPS improvement mods as required such as Optifine, Lithium and Sodium.

For those with powerful computers, getting Iris and a shader's pack will allow you to play with shaders.