Getting Started

Getting Started

This page covers what you need for your first hour on an mcRPG server.

Skills level up as you play

There's nothing to unlock. Mining ore trains Mining, fighting with a sword trains Swords, catching fish trains Fishing, and so on for all 19 skills. Each level makes the skill's abilities a little stronger, and some levels unlock new abilities. Messages above your hotbar tell you when you earn XP, level up, or unlock something.

Levels go from 0 to 100 for almost everything. A few skills keep improving past 100 (see Leveling and XP).

Step 1: choose your Specializations

Every player picks two skill categories:

• Primary Specialization: every skill in it earns 1.25× XP.
• Secondary Specialization: every skill in it earns 1.0× XP.
• Everything else earns 0.35× XP. It still levels, just slowly.

Until you choose, every skill earns 0.35×, so it pays to choose early. You'll get a reminder each time you log in until both are picked. Click it, or type:

/specialization

(/csp for short.) The menu has one row per category. Left-click a category to make it your Primary, right-click to make it your Secondary, then confirm.

Choose carefully. The only way to change a Specialization is to abandon it, and every skill in an abandoned category keeps just 10% of its XP. Progress you made before choosing is kept, so if you've been fishing all week, choosing Survivalism keeps your Fishing level.

Not sure what to pick? The Specializations page has advice and example builds.

Step 2: see your progress

Command	What it shows
/skills	A menu of every skill, grouped by category, with your level, XP, current XP rate and how to earn XP. Click a skill to see its abilities and guide.
/rpgstats	Your levels and XP in chat, grouped by category, with your Specializations marked
/<skill> (e.g. /mining)	Detailed stats for one skill: your chances, bonuses and next unlocks. Add ? (e.g. /mining ?) to read its guide.
/rpgtop	Leaderboards: overall Power Level, or /rpgtop mining for one skill
/rpgrank	Your rank in every skill
/rpgpower	Your Power Level (all your skill levels added up)

Step 3: use super abilities

Seven skills have a super ability, a short burst of power with a cooldown:

Skill	Super ability	Hold	Then
Mining	Super Breaker	Pickaxe	Mine
Woodcutting	Tree Feller	Axe	Chop a log
Excavation	Giga Drill Breaker	Shovel	Dig
Herbalism	Green Terra	Hoe	Harvest
Swords	Serrated Strikes	Sword	Attack
Axes	Skull Splitter	Axe	Attack
Unarmed	Berserk	Nothing	Punch

Right-click with the item to ready it, then do the action within a few seconds. Super abilities unlock at level 5, last 2 seconds plus 1 second for every 5 levels (22 seconds at level 100), and have a 4-minute cooldown. Check cooldowns with /rpgcooldowns. If right-clicking readies abilities when you don't want it to, turn readying off with /rpgability.

Handy settings

Command	What it does
/rpgxpbar	Change how the XP bar shows up
/rpgnotify	Turn ability messages on or off
/rpglevelupsound	Turn the level-up sound on or off
/rpgscoreboard	Manage the sidebar scoreboard (if the server uses it)

Good to know

• Placed blocks give no XP. Mining, Woodcutting, Herbalism and Excavation only pay for blocks that generated naturally, so placing and breaking the same block does nothing.
• Mobs from spawners, spawn eggs and nether portals give no combat XP. Naturally spawned and bred mobs do.
• Combat XP counts the damage you deal. A mob already weakened by something else gives less. See Leveling and XP.
• There are no XP boosts or XP events. The only thing that changes your XP rate is your Specializations.
• No parties or chat channels. mcRPG keeps the focus on skills.