Getting Started on Survival

Survival is Netherite's long-term building world. You gather resources, claim land, build a base, trade with other players and team up in towns. The main worlds never reset, so what you build stays.

This page walks through your first hour. The in-game version of it is /guide, the Survival Progression Guide.

1. Join Survival#

Choose Survival in the server selector from the hub. See Getting Started on Netherite and Server Selector if you have not joined the network yet.

2. Your first-join rewards#

The first time you join you automatically receive:

• $25,000 in money.
• Your starter kit (/kit default).
• The Starter Guide book. Right-click it, or use /guide, whenever you want the guide again.

What is in the starter kit#

The kit can be claimed again every 14 days. Ranks have their own daily kits, see Donor Ranks.

3. Find a place to build#

Run /rtp (or /rtpmenu) and choose Overworld. You are teleported to a random safe spot. The overworld is permanent: pick it for your base. Do not build in a resource world, it resets every Sunday. See Survival Worlds and Homes and Teleports.

If you do not like the spot, run /rtp again after the 10 second cooldown.

4. Claim your land#

Stand where you want your base and right-click with the Claim Item, or run /claim. Repeat within 10 seconds to confirm. A claim is one chunk (16 x 16 blocks), so claim every chunk your base touches. Land outside claims is unprotected. See Claiming Land.

You earn more claim slots over time: +1 chunk every 12 hours online, faster with a rank. See Claim Limits.

Add friends with /claim trust <player>. See Trust and Guests.

5. Set a home#

Run /sethome <name> inside your claim. Every player can set at least one home, and ranks raise the limit (4 with Axolotl, up to 99 with Strider). Teleport back with /home <name>. See Homes and Teleports.

6. Make money#

• Gather and farm, then sell in the /shop or with /sell hand for the item in your hand. /sell all sells your whole inventory and comes with the Glare rank and up. Run /spawn to get to spawn. See Shop.
• Fill item requests from other players in /orders (see Orders), and trade with players in the auction house /ah (see Auction House).
• Open a chest shop to sell to other players. See Chest Shops on Survival.
• Vote every day for free rewards with /vote. See Voting.

7. Progress#

• Quests give goals and rewards: /quests. See Quests.
• Skills level up as you play: /skills. See Skills.
• Mob Points and spawners: killing mobs earns Mob Points (/mobpoints) that you spend on spawners. Spawners can only be placed in a claim, and claim upgrades raise how many fit in a chunk. See Spawners and Claim Upgrades.
• Crates: every vote gives a Vote Key for the Vote Crate, and higher quest tiers pay Vote Keys too. See Crates.

8. Find a community#

Create or join a town to share land, a home, warps and a vault, and to compete on the weekly leaderboard. Run /town create <name> (free), or ask a friend to /town invite <player> you. See Towns.

First hour checklist#

1. Claim your first chunk.
2. Set a home inside it.
3. Build a basic shelter, a farm and storage.
4. Sell your first haul at spawn.
5. Join or found a town.

Useful commands#

The full list is in Survival Commands. Common questions are in Survival FAQ.

See also#

• Survival Worlds for the worlds
• Live Survival Map for the live map
• Survival FAQ for answers to common questions