Islands

What an island is

An island is a private piece of land floating in the void. Every island has its own world, so no other islands are visible on the horizon.

• A player can own one island. A second island can only be created after the first one is deleted.
• The island is named "<nick>'s Island", e.g. Steve's Island. The name cannot be changed.
• Survival mode applies on the island. In the lobby and everywhere else the player is in adventure mode and cannot build.
• The owner can accept other players into the team (see Team).
• Besides player islands, there are society islands, shared by the whole guild (see Society island).

Starting values

Creating an island

1. A player without an island types /island create anywhere.
2. If they already have an island, they get "You already have an island! Use /island home to go there."
3. Otherwise the island is put in a queue: "Creating your island...". Typing the command again meanwhile gives "Your island is being created right now!".
4. The player stays where they are. When the island is ready, they get the message "Your island is ready!".
5. If creation fails, the player sees "Island creation failed - retrying...", and the island goes back to the queue.
6. Only /island or /island home moves the player to the island.

The re-creation lock lasts 10 minutes at most. An island that was started but not finished for longer than 60 minutes (e.g. after a server crash) is set aside and does not count as the player's island.

The island is not created automatically on the first visit to the island server. A player without an island sees "Welcome to the island server!" there, along with a hint to use /island create.

Starter island

Every new island is created from the Classic Island template: a 7 x 7 column of earth, 16 blocks high, with a tree, a chest and a sign. Below it is the void.

Starter chest

The chest contains 22 stacks. Two lava buckets and two blocks of ice are enough for the first cobblestone generator (melted ice gives water).

Island types

The configuration describes three island types. However, the player has no selection window: every island, including the society island, is Classic.

The template's biome is not applied to the terrain. The island always looks like the void with the default sky.

Entering the island

1. The player types /island, clicks the "My Island" Nether star in the lobby, or "My Island" in the quick menu.
2. A player without an island gets "You do not have an island yet! Use /island create to create your island."
3. A player with an island sees "Preparing your island...". The server loads the island and waits for it for 60 s at most.
4. When the island is ready: "Moving you to your island...". If it is not ready in time: "Failed to prepare the island - try again."
5. While loading, the player is in spectator mode. After loading, they stand at the island's spawn point in survival mode.

The Classic island's spawn point is next to the chest, facing the tree. If there is air under the spawn point, the player lands on the highest block at that spot.

After logging in on the island server, a player with an island goes straight to it.

During the combat tag (30 s after a player-vs-player hit in the lobby) the commands /island, /is and /wyspa are blocked: "You are in combat - wait N s.".

Island world and borders

• The island stands in the middle of its own world. The world has no wall or border, beyond it is empty space.
• Only a 272 x 272 block square around the island center is saved (17 x 17 chunks, from -128 to +143 on the X and Z axes). Blocks placed farther out are lost the next time the island is loaded.
• The 128 x 128 build area is only information. The game does not block building outside it.
• There is no fall damage, fire damage, lava damage or drowning in the island world.

Falling into the void

The player sees "You fell off the island - returning you to the island spawn.". A guest returns to the spawn point of the visited island, not their own. Fall speed and fall distance are reset to zero.

After dying on an island, the player respawns at that island's spawn point.

Showing the border

/island border (without an argument it toggles show/hide) draws the world border for the player for 10 s. Only they can see it.

/island border info lists the parameters of the current border. The border disappears after 10 s or after /island border hide.

Level and points

Every island has a level and points. Points have five sources, and the level results from their sum.

Block valuation draft

A prepared valuation of blocks into island points. A block not on the list is worth 0.

Upgrades and boosters

The island main menu (/island menu on the island server) has the buttons Upgrades, Boosters and Statistics. The windows open, but nothing in them works: prices and effects are item descriptions, and clicking buys nothing. Statistics show sample numbers, not the island's data.

Upgrades in the menu

Boosters in the menu

The "crystals" currency does not exist in the game. The remaining main menu buttons (teleport, creation, visits, ranking, team, settings, bank, quests, mini-games) only print an "Opening ..." message and open nothing.

Team: invitations and members

Invitation

1. The owner types /island invite <player>. The invited player must have been on the server at some point. You cannot invite yourself or a current member.
2. The invitation is valid for 3 minutes. One player can have at most one invitation to a given island at a time. Invitations from different islands can be pending at the same time.
3. The invited player gets a message on every server: who is inviting, the island name, "The invitation expires in 3 minutes!" and the accept and decline commands.
4. /island accept without a nick shows the list of invitations. /island accept <inviter nick> accepts the invitation, /island deny <nick> declines it.
5. After accepting, the player is a member with the Member role. From then on their /island home leads to the team's island.

Only the owner can invite, kick, ban and delete the island. The number of members has no limit.

Kicking and leaving

• /island kick <player>: the owner removes a member. A kicked player on the same server gets "You were removed from the island team of player ...".
• /island leave: the member gets a question and a warning, then /island leave confirm ends the membership. The owner cannot leave their own island, they can only delete it.
• A kicked or leaving player is not moved. They stay where they stand.

What a member can do

Bans

• /island ban <player> [reason]: the owner bans a player. Default reason: "No reason given". You cannot ban the owner or yourself.
• A banned member is dropped from the team ("The player was also removed from the island team.").
• A banned player who is on that island gets "You were banned on the island of player ..." and "You were moved outside the island.".
• /island unban <player> lifts the ban: "You can now visit this island again.".
• A ban is permanent and there is no ban list to view.

A ban only blocks entry from the public island list. /island visit <nick> does not check the ban (see To be decided).

Visits

Access modes

Every island is Private and the player cannot change it, because the settings window changes nothing. The whitelist has no commands either.

Visiting by nick

1. /island visit <player>: "Teleporting to the island of player ...".
2. The player is moved to the server where that island is running. If the island is not loaded, the server loads it, even when the owner is offline.
3. The guest stands at the island's spawn point.

This command checks neither the access mode nor the ban. In practice anyone can enter any island by the owner's nick. On the island, a guest cannot build, break or use blocks (see Protection).

Public island list

/island visit without a nick opens the "Visit an Island" window with public islands: up to 100 islands, 28 per page, sorted by level. Clicking checks access and ban, then teleports. Since no island is public, the list is empty. The "Search a Player" and "My Visits" buttons do not work.

Entering and leaving an island

Assumption: on entry the guest sees "Welcome to the island ...!" or the owner's welcome message, on leaving "You are leaving the island ...", and every guest entry increases the visit counter (at most one per 3 s). A guest without access returns to the lobby with the message "You don't have access to this island!". These messages and the counter may not appear, because the player enters the island by teleport.

The visit counter and the average rating do not appear in the island info. Ratings cannot be given.

Info about another player's island

/island info <player> shows data only for a public island. For a private one it replies "The island of player ... is private!". Only the owner can see the island's location.

Island settings

/island settings opens the "Island Settings" window with a single info item: name, level, points, owner and island number. Nothing in it can be changed.

A fuller settings draft is prepared, currently unavailable to players:

Protection

Protection works in the whole island world, not only in the build area.

• On a society island the same actions are checked against society ranks, plus animals and flight (see Society island).
• Fire spread, bed and anchor explosions, and mob spawning are not restricted by island protection.

Mini-games on the island

There are no mini-games on islands. The "Mini-Games" button in the main menu only prints a message.

The draft provides for mini-games played on the island with a 10 s countdown before the start, 30 s cleanup after the end and rewards for the top three: Parkour Challenge, Mob Arena, Building Contest, Treasure Hunt, Speed Mining, Fishing Tournament, Puzzle Solver, Race Track, Survival Challenge, Creative Build. There are no scoring or reward rules.

Deleting an island

1. The player types /island delete. They see "Are you sure you want to delete your island?", "This action is irreversible!" and "Type /island delete confirm to confirm.".
2. They have 30 s to type /island delete confirm. After that: "The island deletion request expired.".
3. After confirmation: "Your island is being deleted...". The island disappears together with its blocks, items in chests, the team, invitations and bans.
4. Then the player can immediately create a new island with /island create. The new island is Classic again, at level 1.

Deletion cannot be undone with a player command.

Society island

A society (guild) gets a shared island automatically right after it is founded, at no extra cost. Society rules: Society and party.

• The society island is Classic, like a player's island. If its creation fails, the server retries every 5 minutes.
• /society island moves a member to the society island. While the island is still being created: "The society island is being prepared. Try again shortly.".
• Only society members can enter. A player who lost membership is sent back to the lobby: "You no longer have access to this society island.".
• A kicked or leaving member is moved from the society island to the lobby.
• The leader changes rank permissions with /society permissions. The leader always has all of them.
• A frozen society (leader without the VIP rank) loses all permissions, the leader too. Members can enter, but can do nothing.
• After the society is disbanded, everyone is sent to the lobby and the island is deleted.
• The protection bypass for administration does not work on the society island.

Default rank permissions

Warps, settings and the island bank do not exist, so their permissions unlock nothing today. Nobody except administration can place incubators on the society island.

What works only on islands

Pets, bank, skills and crafting work the same everywhere. A pet follows the player from the lobby to the island.

Saving the island and offline time

• The island is saved when the owner leaves the game, and again after 5 minutes.
• The island stays loaded as long as someone is on it. An empty island is put away after 10 minutes with nobody on it. So guests can keep an island loaded after the owner leaves.
• On every save the previous version goes to history. The server keeps the 3 latest versions.

What happens when the island is not loaded

Commands

All commands take the form /island ..., /is ... or /wyspa .... home, visit and border move the player to the island server, the others work wherever the player is.

The /island help output also lists /island upgrades and /island schematics, but these commands do not exist: "Unknown subcommand".

To be decided

• Island level and points. The level formula and five point sources exist, but nothing adds points. To decide: which actions give points, whether the block valuation from this page applies, how to count the team, helpers and blueprints. The block valuation draft has a different level formula: floor(sqrt(points / 1000)) without +1, i.e. starting at level 0. The professions plan assumes the Builder profession gives more island points for structures.
• Team member rights. A member cannot build, open chests or use minions. To decide: roles and permissions on a player's island. A ready role draft: Owner, Co-owner, Moderator, Member, Trusted, Visitor.
• Member limit. The configuration says 4, the upgrade menu 5 -> 7, the upgrade configuration 5 / 10 / 15. The game has no limit at all.
• Membership and bans are not persistent. The member list and ban list disappear an hour after the last change. Persistent storage is needed.
• Accepting an invitation by a player with their own island. The game does not block this. After accepting, /island home leads to the team's island, and the player can neither visit their own island via home nor create a new one.
• Deletion by a member. /island delete does not check whether the player is the owner. A member can delete the team's island.
• Visits bypass privacy and bans. /island visit <nick> moves to any island. To decide: checking the access mode and ban before moving.
• Kicking a banned player. "Moving outside the island" puts the player under the island, in the void, from where the fall rescue sends them back to that island's spawn point.
• Entry messages and visit counter. To check in game whether the welcome, farewell and counter work when entering by teleport.
• Island settings. There is no way to change the name, access mode, welcome message or whitelist. Because of this the public island list is always empty.
• Public island list. After the data loads, the window clears and does not accept clicks. There is no player search or visit history.
• Island types. Three are described (classic, desert, jungle), but the player has no choice. The book in the lobby announces a choice of Classic, Desert, Jungle. There is no Nether or End island, although templates exist.
• Build area. The info says 128 x 128, the save covers 272 x 272, and you can build anywhere. Blocks outside 272 x 272 are lost without warning. To decide: the building limit and island expansion.
• Island border. /island border reliably works for only one island at a time per server. The test option shows a 50-block border that hide does not remove.
• Upgrades and boosters. The menu shows different prices than the configuration, prices in nonexistent "crystals", and purchasing does not work. Clicking in these windows is not blocked. Needed: currency, prices, effects, persistence.
• Island statistics. The window shows fixed sample numbers (e.g. level 15, rank #23). To decide: remove it or connect real data.
• Limit info. /island info shows "Minions: 1" and "Pets: 1", while the actual minion limit is 5-12 and the island does not limit pets.
• Main menu. In the lobby /island menu replies "The menu will be available soon!". On the island server most buttons only print a message.
• Mini-games, quests, island bank, warps, island shop, level rewards, ranking, ratings. They exist only as a draft with no values.
• Offline progress. Crops, furnaces and spawners do not catch up on offline time.
• Aliases. "go" is an alias of both home and visit (works as visit), and "remove" is an alias of both delete and kick (works as kick).
• Invitation list. For each invitation the role is displayed as "null", and the expiry date has no time.
• Biome. The saved Plains biome is not applied to the terrain.
• Society island. Permissions for warps, settings and the bank are in the permissions window, but nothing checks them. Incubators cannot be placed on the society island.