This page is a short introduction to the server. For a full in-depth guide, we encourage you to go and use our Fandom Wiki where you will find more tutorials, guides and info.
Claiming
How do I claim?
PVC uses a very simple claiming system: there are many types of Claim Blocks, they are the following:
- Lapis Ore (11 x 11)
- Coal Ore (33 x 33)
- Redstone Ore (65 x 65)
- Diamond Ore (129 x 129)
- Nether Gold Ore (25 x 25)
The last one is only usable in the Nether.
To claim an area all you need to do is place the ore down. For a more insightful look into the system read these pages:
How do I get a Claim Block?
Usually the only way to get claim blocks is by buying them in the Spawn Shop however, new players can get 3 Coal Ore claims for free, one after 30 minutes of (in-game) /playtime
and 2 more after 9 hours.
I died and lost my Claim Block! What now?
If you have less than 24 hours of (in game) /playtime
you can #open-a-ticket in the Discord and get it back, but if your playtime is greater than 24 hours, your claim block will only be given back if the cause of death was a glitch, flew into a barrier block (not 100% guaranteed) or anything of the like.
If you don’t understand the Ticket system yet, it is explained lower down in the FAQs.
Travelling
Where is everyone?
Short answer: all over the map.
Long answer: the map as of writing (outdated) is roughly 38000 x 38000 (from -19000 to +19000) which means its quite a big map and the space between each player can be huge. Though there are many hotspots, they are either Towns, Union hubs or Shopping areas. Most of them are here on the wiki, check this page for more.
How do I get around the map?
The server has a few ways of easy public Transportation that can be used by anyone, whether they are made by admins or players, but the Nether is by far the best, and somewhat essential, form of travelling. If you can’t make a portal yet, using a public one is the best option you have.
The main point of reference is the Nether Hub, located at 0, 0. Around it are 4 hubs of different colors: Blue, Green, Yellow and Pink, from these 4 places you can get pretty much anywhere in the server, including Moonland, the Spawn, many of the public Farms and Union Hubs.
How do I tp?
You can’t.
Peaceful Vanilla Club does not have /tp, /tpa, /warp, /spawn, /home or /back commands. The only way to get somewhere is walking there using the nether or public transportation.
How do I get back to Spawn?
Same answer, you need to walk there using the transportation available.
If you want to go back to the spawn room to be able to /rtp
then you’re gonna need to die without a spawn point. Using the /suicide
command is recommended for this.
Can I Join a Town or City?
Yes, you can join any towns that are willing to let you in. As for how many or where they are… it’s hard to tell, as there isn’t a list with all of them anywhere, so just asking around more is the way to go.
The End
How do I get to The End?
The End is periodically opened as an event and closed 2 months after.
Just remember that you must be ready, prepared and capable of killing the dragon, otherwise you’ll trap other players in the end, forcing intervention of the Staff.
The End Portal is located inside the Mysterious Pillar
When does The End open?
The End is periodically opened as an event and closed 2 months after.
Voting
How do I vote?
To vote you need to go to the official PVC voting page.
From there, select any of the sites.
In any of the sites, simply add your in-game name (Bedrock players must add a * before your name and you can only vote in websites that starts with a *! eg: *iamaplayer121), complete the Captcha and vote!
Why am I not receiving my vote rewards?
Some sites just don’t work, no matter how much you vote on it, you might just not get rewards.
If you are a bedrock player, you need to add the * in your name too! And even if you do, most sites still won’t work, only sites that PVC tagged with a * in front of their name could. There is nothing that can be done to change this, sorry to all bedrock peeps ;(
Special Items
What are Special Items?
In general they are items exclusive from this server! Here is a brief explanation of the most important ones:
- Passive: gotten from playtime
- Playtime Certificates — Certificates that you have played 8 hours in the server
- Trading: only acquired from trading in admin shops
- Claim Blocks — Blocks used to protect an area
- Vote Tools — Items acquired from trading Vote Diamonds in the admin shop in spawn
- Earned: either from service to the community or from an event
- Wiki Writer Quills — Reward given for contributing in the PVC Wiki
- Event Coins — Items acquired from in game events
- Nepero – Item that must be used to get the Diamond Claim Block. It’s value links both time and matter. Can be bought in the bank.
- Vote Diamonds – Reward given after voting for the server 50 times.
Can I Trade Them?
No! Here is a detailed list of what you cannot trade with other players.
This is better explained in the rules!
Ore Generation
Emeralds are common and Diamonds are rarer!
The server uses a real-time ore generation mostly to avoid X-Ray, but thanks to it it’s possible to customize the frequency of all the ores. Emeralds are extremely common and Diamonds are even more rare than normal, the same applies to Ancient Debris.
While X-Raying I can see ores despawning
Report this to a staff member or owner
Why are Diamonds spawning above level 11?
On PVC Diamonds are rarer to find than vanilla. This caused a situation where all the existing caves have already been explored, and the underground of older parts of the map is literally drilled by thousands of 1×2 level-11 tunnels. If Diamonds are rarer, you need to mine longer tunnels, and long tunnels usually cross already explored (or Claimed) areas.
We therefore tweaked the ore generation system to make so that Diamonds will be able to generate at any height.
This change greatly benefits the old Quarry mining system.
What is Quarry mining?
Old Minecraft players might remember Quarries for their efficiency in finding minerals during the old days. Nowadays they are a very inefficient method for finding ores. The change we made to ore generation brought Quarries back to life. You will find Diamonds at any height. Since quarries are vertical, they will have much less issues with overlapping Claimed areas, and they will make finding ores in older regions of the map far easier.
Economy and Currency
What is the server’s currency and economy?
Emeralds (commonly referred to as ems), Diamonds (dias) and Netherite Ingots (ingots) are the main currency of the server.
The main mistake most new players make is use the diamonds they found to make tools, do not do that. You can buy diamond tools and armor for very low emerald prices in player shops or with villagers.
- Emeralds can be easily obtained by mining voting or trading.
- Diamonds can be gotten either by mining or buying from other players. Usually used for trading rare items, such as totems and sponges.
- Ingots are obtained the same way as dias. Only used for extremely rare items, such as elytras.
At the time of writing this page, the overall price of 1 Diamond is 14-20 Emerald Blocks (emb) and of 1 Ingot is 5-8 Diamond Blocks (diab).
How do I get Emeralds?
- Mining
- Voting
Mining and Voting are the two best ways to obtain a lot of Emeralds. Our ore generation system spawns as much Emeralds as Coal or Iron Ore.
In case Mining and Voting isn’t enough for you, you can trade with villagers. Please try to avoid building huge farms, they make the server lag.
What are Coins (or Virtuacoins)?
You can deposit/withdraw your ores into your bank account to obtain (from the bank) or give back (to the bank) a virtual currency called Virtuacoins.
Virtuacoins are simply known as Coins.
Virtuacoins are essentially pegged to the value of ores. There can’t be more Virtuacoins than the total amount of deposited ores.
How do I get Virtuacoins?
Deposit some ores in the bank, and the bank will give you some Virtuacoins.
How do I get my ores back?
Give your Virtuacoins back to the bank, and the bank will give you back your ores.
What can I do with my Virtuacoins?
- Remotely
/pay
players - Rent spawn stalls
- Rent a plot
- Buy
/heads
- Probably other stuff too!
The bank doesn’t want to give me back my ores!
Read this carefully:
- When you deposited your ores in the bank, the bank gave you some Virtuacoins.
- Now, to get your ores back, the bank is asking you the same amount of Virtuacoins!
This means that: you can’t get your ores back if you don’t give them their Virtuacoins.
This implies that: you probably spent some Virtuacoins, and now the ores are locked inside the bank.
So… until you earn some Virtuacoins, you won’t be able to take the ores back.
How do I earn Virtuacoins?
- Get some player to
/pay
you - Bank interests
If you own Virtuacoins, you will periodically earn more thanks to bank interests. There is a cap on this, though.
Unions
What’s a Union?
It’s a Group of players who share similar interests or work on projects together. Joining unions is completely optional, no player is ever forced to join one. If there is any union(s) or player(s) constantly harassing new players to join their union report them to staff as this is not allowed.
It is recommended that brand new players do not join one right away. Wait until after getting /playtime
respectively), get used to the server’s mechanics and the community. It’s far too common for a new player to join a union and leave the server shortly after
How Do I Join A Union?
You need to get in contact with the Leader or Co-leader of the union. Just keep in mind some unions are invite only and/or may have minimum requirements to join (such as minimum playtime, a certain skill, so on…)
Before trying to join them, read their wiki page first!
How Do I Make A Union?
Please read the full rules for a more insightful explanation as this is incredibly lacking in important details
TLDR: this is what you need
- 5 active and verified members on the Discord, including the leader and co-leader
- A big base that has already been built
- A banner and a color scheme
After all of this is done, open a Help and Questions ticket on the discord and send the following information:
- All members, the leader and co-leader
- Name of the union
- Location of the base (screenshots appreciated)
And after the union is created, you need to make the Wiki page for it!
Again, this is lacking important information that you must know before making one. The full explanation is here.
Other Qestions
The Server is Always Full!
No, the server is not always full. You can check the graph in this site to see the best time to join for you.
A queue system has been introduced! It may take a while for your turn to join comes, but you will have a guaranteed spot. Just do not leave or take too long to go through the portal when it’s your turn, you will be punished!
Raise the Player Cap!
We are often asked to increase the maximum player cap, so here is our official answer to this topic!
Let’s explain this once for all, step by step.
We can’t increase the slot count for various reasons. Let’s start from the technical ones:
- No CPU in the world can handle lots of Minecraft players doing every kind of stuff.
- Choose: restrictions & limitations and high player cap or low player cap and freedom? We choose the latter.
- Our staff isn’t paid to look after you 24/7. Just imagine looking at even more of you people!
Hosts are pricey and we are currently running on one of the most performing CPUs ever made by the mankind. We have to pay monthly fees for some of our security systems, buy new plugins, pay our developers (KingNeme develops only some of our plugins), invest in advertising, and finally pay for the host itself. Plus, we love to keep a security deposit to pay for the host if donations stop coming.
The fact is that those aren’t the only reasons that make us determined to stick to the 30 players cap. There is an ethical reason too, tied to the identity of Peaceful Vanilla Club itself. Let me explain:
Peaceful Vanilla Club is born to be a small/medium-sized community. Friendly, warm, like a virtual family. We think that increasing the slot count would be the beginning of an end, the end of what Peaceful Vanilla Club is meant to be. Raising the cap to 50 players wouldn’t be a great solution, since it would be temporary. It would be only a matter of time: 50 will become the new 30, players would start arguing again about the maximum player cap, and force us to raise it again. And again. And again. You see the point now? Peaceful Vanilla Club will stick to 30 maximum players.
Indefinitely.
The queue is too long...
- If you really care about Peaceful Vanilla Club you can consider donating 5€ to skip the queue for a month.
- If you really care about Peaceful Vanilla Club but you can’t afford a donation you can consider voting on all the lists every day to get in the top voters leaderboard and have a chance to win a skip-the-queue ticket.
- If you aren’t lucky enough to win a skip-the-queue ticket, just keep voting and hold your Vote Certificates to buy a skip-the-line ticket.
Read “Raise the Player Cap!”
I Found an Abandoned Base, Can I Take its Items?
No, unless you ask for permission from a Staff member
Raiding and stealing in anyway is forbidden, but you can ask for a Staff member (if they are online) to check if you are allowed to take the items in it.
If you find Claim Blocks or Playtime Certificates in unclaimed bases, you are not allowed to keep them.
How do I Open a Ticket on Discord?
First go to the #open-a-ticket channel, there you will see a few categories. Just click on the small Envelope under the category you need support with. After that you will be tagged on a channel below all the other channels, in this chat just describe your problem /question / report / suggestion.
Abusing this system will lead to a ticket ban and, consequentially, unable to get support by Staff via Discord.