Get up on your feet and jump around: Players can double jump and take no fall damage. This little tweak has a big impact on how the world is navigated and can be dangerously addictive! When double jumping and crouching in mid-air, you'll perform a ground stomp. Do this on a bed or slime blocks to bounce yourself up at high velocity. It's possible to request an admin to disable double jump for your account if you like the Vanilla behaviour.

When you first join the world, or when using the command /spawn, you'll be teleported to the New World Spawn, at coordinates 0,0.
As a new player you'll initially have some restrictions and will need to venture away from the center to be able to break and place blocks (more on that in Ranks, but be sure to visit the nearby Info Kiosk for some freebies to help you survive the Wilderness.

At the southern edge of New World Spawn is a train station that connects the nearby inhabited area's. Since the city around the spawn area is still under construction, player shops are currently still located in the nearby town of Old Spawn.

The Nether of Shanti Tribe is a place of danger but also a place of experimentation. Around the spawn area you will find the aftermath of the Incendium datapack, which has been dominating our Nether from Minecraft versions 1.16 to 1.18. This provides some medium rare blocks to mine in bulk. This is the place where you don't have to worry about the aesthetics of your builds or the amount of destruction inflicted on the landscape. Go wild!

The Nether roof is also accessible trough the central hub (There is a direct portal in Old Spawn), from where you can fast travel to various useful locations as well as find some excellent farms.

Beware! When the server is updated with newer versions of the game, sometimes we delete a certain radius to keep new worldgen features within a reasonable distance from Spawn. So when you find a nice spot to call your own, keep in mind the current culling distance is a circle with a radius of around 2000-2500 blocks.

Ranks prevent new players from abusing the server by limiting the minimum distance from spawn where building and hunting passive mobs is allowed.

The default rank is Wanderers. This requires newly joined players to venture out into The Wild, which starts at 620 blocks from spawn (You will be notified when entering and exiting rank regions) and survive there until promoted. To skip this rank, splease introduce yourself in the chat and request another player to promote you.

The second rank is Adventurers. From here on up you can build in the Land of Golden Opportunity and Adventure. Here lie preserved the pre-1.18 worldgen, marked by ridiculous ore vines and some mysterious secrets.
You can now build inside the 620 block protection radius around spawn and protect your creations with /claim (see: Claims). Set your nickname with /nick and create Essentials info and trading signs (Check out the EssentialsX wiki)

The third and highest player rank is Settlers. Enjoy extra perks like using any location as a respawn point with /sethome, to which you can return at any time with /home. Ask to be teleported to other players with /tpa or invite them to your location with /tpahere. Settlers also enjoy some facilities exclusive to their rank. In exchange, players with this rank are expected to contribute some builds to the world center so we can make it Really Nice.

Promoting someone can be done using the command: /lp user {playername} promote
Settlers and Adventurers can promote Wanderers to Adventurers , and only admins can grant the Settlers rank.

There are no official requirements for promotion, but trust from within the community is a big plus. So even if you are a new player, feel free to have a meaningful conversation and kindly ask to be promoted. Players can not demote other players, so the only way is up. (self-demotion can be requested in the #support-and-report channel in case you want to go on a more challenging survival adventure)

The well-known plugin MCMMO is used to spice up the gameplay with a range of skills and abilities. No need to learn any commands, although /mcrank and /mctop come in handy if you like to stay competitive. Level up by performing relevant actions and enjoy the perks as they come. For more info about the effects, see the MCMMO wiki at wiki.mcmmo.org (everything is enabled except Acrobatics, because we have no fall damage enabled by default)

Compared to Vanilla, mobs spawn faster and in greater numbers. Mobs also have levels, depending on their distance from the world spawn. Every 500 blocks, the possible maximum level goes up by one, with 10 being the limit. With each level, mobs will get faster and stronger, so be warned when venturing very far into the Wilderness! On the bright side, higher level mobs drop more items and experience orbs, so the risk might just be worth the reward 😀

In case fighting mobs is not your favourite thing: Don't worry, Shanti Tribe has been around for some years and there are many safe areas to explore. If you like to just concentrate on building your masterpiece in a nice spot, there are all kinds of farms where you can /afk to gather materials and trade with some Settlers that stockpile items.
If you do encounter your Nemesis, cry for help and one of the warriors among us might just /tpask to the rescue, or go for the nuclear option and /spawn out of there.

Despite all that, dying is still the nr. 1 cause of death. But don't give up! Fight your way back to where you died and find your grave. Right-click it while crouching to get all your stuff back :)

You are responsible for managing the safety of your own builds, using the claims functionality provided by GriefDefender. Just enter /claim to get started (restrictions apply, see: Ranks). To remove your claim and get your claim blocks back, use /abandon

Per hour of gameplay you receive 80 claim credits (aka claim blocks), so before you can protect larger areas, you will need to save up or collaborate. Use /giveblocks to transfer claim blocks to another player.

To protect public structures or artworks, ask an admin to register it as an administrative claim and allow you and any fellow builders to build inside it. No saved claim credits will be spent for this.

Use /trust or /trustgroup to allow specific players or ranks to interact with blocks, access chests or build inside your claim.
By default, an unmodified claim will allow any player to enter the area, but only the creator of the claim can do actions like pressing buttons, opening doors or accessing chests.

A special feature of Shanti Tribe is its ever-in-the-making custom soundtrack. OpenAudio speakers across the world play custom made music and atmospheric sounds that are exclusive to our server. You won't hear this anywhere else!

Tracks are being added as fast as they can be created, but since producing music takes a lot of time this is a very long term project. If you want music to be made for your scenery, reach out in the #music-masters channel. It's also the place to be if you are a musician or producer and would like to donate some exclusive work to the server.

We recommend you use Optifine or a similar client mod to improve graphics performance, as some areas can be heavy on the GPU and cause framerate drops. Also to use shaders if your machine can handle it. Useful gameplay client mods are also allowed, like a minimap, templates, waypoints, biome finder etc... X-raying is definitely not allowed as it impacts server performance!
To fully enjoy the custom musical experience, you can turn off the default in-game music under 'Music and Sound Options', available from the settings menu.

Notice: We run PaperSpigot with a view distance of 10 chunks and entity processing distance of 6 chunks.

Every Sunday (CET) you will receive double XP!For Free!
Just like that!
This includes MCMMO experience.

Statues. Take a book-and-quill and sign it with the title: Statues
Open the book and it will allow you to edit the closest armor stand. Dress it up and equip it to add some character to your builds.

Collect mob heads from all mobs in the game! Start a trophy room or use them on the armor stand statues for that final touch.

Sometimes you don't feel like going anywhere and you just want to sit down. Now that's entirely possible with GSit! Simply right-click stairs that look like chairs, or carpets that look like... carpets? You can even sit on another player's shoulders. But keep things civilized ;) If the plugin interferes with building (crouch to bypass) too much, you can disable it with /sit toggle. Additional commands are /sit, /lay, /bellyflop, /spin and /crawl

Anything is possible. If you have any ideas or remarks on any part of the gameplay, voice your thoughts around the #campfire and if there is some traction it might be implemented in future updates.