Getting Started on Lifesteal

Lifesteal is a survival PvP server where your health is your lives. You start with 10 hearts. Killing another player gives you a Heart item worth one more heart, and dying costs you one. Run out and you are banned from Lifesteal for a while. This guide walks you through your first hour.

What you get when you join#

The first time you join, you receive:

• $25,000 in money.
• The Starter kit: iron armour, sword, pickaxe, shovel and axe, 4 ender pearls and 64 cooked beef, plus a guide book.
• A Netherite pickaxe with Efficiency V and Fortune III.
• The in-game progression guide, which opens automatically. Reopen it any time with /guide.

You can claim the Starter kit again every 3 hours with /kits. Other kits come with ranks and have their own cooldowns. See Essentials.

Your first 30 minutes#

The in-game guide gives this route:

1. Claim your kits. Open /kits and take the free kit, and check back for the daily and weekly kits.
2. Find a spot and hide your base. Run /rtpmenu and teleport into the Overworld. Build somewhere out of the way and set a home with /sethome. Other players can raid bases, because there are no land claims. See Random Teleport.
3. Follow the quests. Open /quests for objectives and rewards. See Quests.
4. Make money. Sell gathered resources in /shop and trade valuable drops through /ah. See Shop and Lifesteal Economy.
5. Earn gems without paying. Fill requests from other players in /orders or list items for gems in /ah, and vote daily for free rewards. See Voting.
6. Join a clan before you risk your hearts. Create one with /clan create <name> and invite players with /clan invite. See Clans.

Hearts in one minute#

The heart count shows on your scoreboard as Lives. Details: Hearts.

• Redeem or withdraw hearts with care. /lives withdraw turns one of your hearts into an item (you must have more than 10). See Withdrawing Hearts.
• Trade 15 hearts for a permanent extra heart slot with /prestige. See Prestige.
• Paid ranks shorten the ban from 1 day down to 30 minutes. See Elimination and Donor Ranks.

Staying alive#

• Combat tag. Hit or get hit by a player and you are tagged for 30 seconds: you cannot use commands, enter safe zones or log out safely. See Combat Tag.
• Do not log out in a fight. A combat logger takes your place and can be killed for your items and a heart.
• Gear and food. The Starter kit is basic. Upgrade your gear with custom enchants from /enchantshop. See Lifesteal Enchants.
• Know your cooldowns. Ender pearls 20 seconds, golden apples 3 seconds, enchanted golden apples 30 seconds. See PvP Cooldowns and Restrictions.
• Watch for events. KOTH 15 minutes after the last one ends, Envoys every 30 minutes, the Outpost always, and Admin Abuse on Saturdays. See Combat.

Where to go next#

See also#

• Hearts
• Combat
• Lifesteal FAQ
• Network getting started