Beginner's Guide to Destinos:Vega
Welcome to Destinos:Vega (and other worlds)!
We welcome all walks of life, and experience levels. We are going to focus on things specific to our game below, assuming you have some experience playing Minecraft. If you are completely new to the game - Welcome! We suggest you have a look at the Official Minecraft tutorials and guides to get started. Specifically, here's a tutorial about getting in the game, and a Glossary_of_Minecraft_Terms
Our Worlds
We currently have 2 worlds and 4 underworlds available. They are:
- Destinos:Vega - Survival Mode - You'll first log in here. This is the "standard" gameplay experience. There is also Destinos:Vega Nether (Hell) and Destinos:Vega The End.
- Destinos:Quarantine - Creative Mode - This is a secondary world, with it's own versions of the Nether and the End. You can travel to and from this world to D:Vega using portal hubs.
Server Connection
The first step in playing with the Madminers is to join our Facebook Page.
Next, we'll need to add your Minecraft username to the "whitelist". Our server is not open to the public and is invite-only. Only players on the whitelist can log in to our server. When you've been approved on Facebook, we'll send you a message about your username.
You connect to our game server using the address:
game.madminers.com .
If this doesn't work for you, hit "refresh" at the bottom of your server screen. If it still does not turn green, send us a message on Facebook and we'll reply with an alternative address.
Things You Should Know Before Logging In
Our game server has plugins that change how our world works compared with regular Minecraft. This basically involves new things you can build.
Find out all about what you can do in our Guides section.
We also have a few rules you must follow.
Mods for Your Game
You can download the approved common mods for your game at http://downloads.madminers.com - Remember, any cheating mods or mods that give you an advantage over other players that don't use mods are strictly forbidden.
Join us on Discord
A great place to chat and ask for help is our discord server. You can join us at http://discord.madminers.com
The Discord "chatroom" is synchronized with the in-game chat.
Where You Begin
You'll begin by spawning into our "starting area" in Destinos:Vega. This is a survivial world. Know that if you leave the confines of the fortress walls there, you'll be wandering into dangerous territory. Make sure you have a weapon ready.
Finding your Way Around
We have a "Google Map" style map which can be found by going to http://map.madminers.com - When logged in you can see yourself and other players on it. It is not exactly real-time when showing your building and could take up to an hour to show anything you build.
There is a help guide about using the map here.
We also recommend the in-game map mod called "voxelMap" you can download that from our official mod download repository at http://downloads.madminers.com
Glossary of Terms & Basic Info
Click a link to read more about that specific item/term. This is just the beginning of Minecraft. We recommend exploring the Official Mincraft Wiki for more items, blocks, monsters, recipes and more.
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Admin/Operator | A player who is listed on the OP (operator) list, having access to most or all of the commands on a server. |
| Bedrock | A material at the bottom-most level of the world. It cannot be broken and is not craftable in the game (except in creative worlds) |
| AFK | Away From Keyboard: when a player is away from their computer. |
| Agro | Short for "Aggravated" - A verb meaning you have aggravated an enemy and they now want to fight. |
| Biome | An area in the game that is themed to a certain climate or geographic style. Like "Plains" or "Forest" or "Mesa". Each biome has its own style, materials, weather and sometimes monsters. |
| Beef | Meat from a cow consumed as food. Also it could be "cooked" but that's usually called "Steak". |
| Block | Either a block of material, like stone or wood, or to obstruct something; or to block with the sword or shield. |
| Buff | A special positive ability, like status effects. Debuff refers to a negative effect. |
| Butter | Jargon or a joke term for gold ore. It is called like that because of the appearance in-game. Now, rarely used. |
| Brewing | You can brew potions in the game. |
| Creative | aka "Creative Mode" a mode of gameplay not normal to our world. It gives the player unlimited materials and no game challenge allowing you to build whatever you want. Some worlds may be creative worlds, but the main world is Survival. |
| Cheater/Hacker | The toxic part of the community; sometimes typed differently to avoid chat censoring (eg. Haxor), it describes someone using modified clients to gain unfair advantages. Most servers forbid the use of those clients, and their use is not moral as well. However, some servers also forbid accusing players of being hackers on chat and whisper, but do provide an alternative method of reporting to staff like forums or dedicated in-game commands. |
| Chunk | A small square of the world geography. The game loads geography in "chunks". |
| Cobble | A shortening for cobblestone. |
| Craft/Crafting | Following a recipe to make something out of other materials. For example, you could use wood and iron to make a pickaxe. |
| Creeper | A monster in the world that sneaks up behind you and explodes. |
| Defend | Sometimes a miscalling for blocking rather than defending something. |
| Diamond | A precious material in-game. |
| Enchanting | You can enchant an item from the game so that it has magical powers. This is done on the Enchanting table. |
| Emerald | A precious material in game |
| Enderman | A neutral monster, until you look him in the eyes. He can teleport and water kills him. |
| The End | One of the two "underworlds" of the game - Contains a dragon that if you defeat, you "win" the game. |
| FnS | Flint and Steel |
| FPS | Frames Per Second - A term used to describe how fast the video of your game runs. On less powerful computers, the FPS value will be lower and the game may look laggy or slow. |
| Fully automatic farm | May mean a traditional place where you grow crops, but also can mean a mechanism built by a player that performs in-game tasks without any player intervention. |
| Full Diamond/Iron/Chain/Gold/Leather | Full set of armor made of one material. |
| Gapple | Golden Apple; may refer to the enchanted one too, however, a term for those is also Notch Apple (official until 1.12, as seen on achievements), God Apple, or Enchanted Golden Apple (Now official, as seen by its in game item name). |
| Gear | Armor and weapons. Geared means "having armor equipped". |
| GG | Good Game. Goes with EZ too, as GG EZ (Good game, it was easy). |
| Mod/Modded | Changing your game software with mods. You can download our official mods at http://downloads.madminers.com . |
| Mob | Usually a monster or other animal in the game that could be combative. |
| Mojang ("Moe-yang") | Mojang is the company that created Minecraft. It's now owned by Microsoft. |
| Nether | One of the two "underworlds" in the game. The Nether is a vast dangerous world similar to the typical "hell". |
| Obsidian | A hard material found in-game, deep in the lowest depths of the world. It also can be made with lava and water. |
| OP | Depending on context: operator (admin) most of the time, over-powered:too powerful (equipment only, a term used mostly on modded servers and in other games), original poster (forums and sites, not necessary Minecraft related) or end-game equipment and gear. |
| Pick noun | Pickaxe |
| Pillar jumping/Pillaring/ Nerd Pole |
When a player repeatedly jumps followed by quickly placing a block beneath. This is very helpful when getting high off the ground in a short amount of time, and it can be done by just looking down and holding jump and use with a proper block selected. |
| Portal, Portal_Hub | Portals are gateways that teleport you to ther places portals can take you to another world, or to an underworld like The Nether or The End. A collection of portals is called a portal hub. Learn more about Nether Portals |
| Pumpkin vision | The effect of wearing a Pumpkin on your head. |
| Quad (jump) | When a player has to sprint-jump over a 4-block gap horizontally, which is the furthest a player can jump while sprinting without any (de)buffs. This term is often used when playing on parkour maps. |
| Raiding | While similar to the destructive form of griefing, the most notable difference is that raiding is done with the purpose of gaining material assets (i.e. items) or strategic advantages towards an enemy and in most cases, it is on a relatively large scale. This term is mostly used on Factions servers. |
| Redstone | A material in the game that allows you to create "wires" and "circuits" and complicated electronic machinery. |
| Skin | A customization to your character akin to a costume or outfit. You can customize your skin on the Minecraft website. |
| Slimestone | Slime based flying technologies. |
| Splash | Splash Potion, or now more commonly, splash text (also known as Splash Screen). |
| Sprint-jumping | Sprinting and (continuously) jumping. It is the fastest way a player can run without the use of potion effects, Spectator Mode, or client modification. One can run faster by manually spamming or holding the jump key, but this is effective only in spaces 2 blocks tall. |
| Staff | Players that were granted additional commands to use compared to regular players, in order to help administrate the server. Staff members aren't necessarily Admins as they might not have even nearly full access to all of the commands, just like the real-life meaning of the term, where a staff member might not be on top of the hierarchy. |
| Steve | Steve is the basic character in the game that you start with before customizing your skin. |
| Troll | A player who messes with people, stealing minor items such as cobblestone, iron, etc. is not as bad as a griefer. |
| Vanilla | Minecraft without mods (including hacks). This term can be used for any piece of software. |
| Survival | The normal mode of gameplay, where you have to find your own materials, craft your own tools and monsters are mean. |
| XP, Experience Points | XP or Experience Points are little green orbs you pick up when you do things like kill monsters or some crafting tasks in the game. They fill up the green bar at the bottom of your screen and each time it fills up you gain a "level" indicated by the number. You can even bottle XP to save them for later. (You lose XP when you die.) |
Commands Players Can Use
The following are commands that any player may use on the server, by typing them in the chat window. This is a reference page and is updated whenever new commands are enabled. You can use the commands in the "Aliases" column to do the same thing. They're like shortcuts.
Chat Commands
| Name | Command | Aliases | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOTD | /motd | None | Displays the Message of the Day. |
| Private Message | /whisper <playername> | /tell /msg /t /w /m | Sends a private message to a player. |
| Reply | /reply | /r | Replies to the last private message you received. No player name required. |
| Ignore | /ignore <playername> | /ign | Ignores a player in chat. |
| Disable Private Messaging | /togglepm | /ignorepm /ignpm /nopm | Disables private messaging completely |
| Change Nickname | /nick <nickname> | None | Changes your display name in chat. Use "/nick off" to restore your username. Can use global text formatting rules. |
| Whois | /whois <nickname> | None | Find out the actual player behind a nickname. |
| Emoji Catalog | /emojichat list | None | Displays a catalog of all the available emoji and their codes. |
| Send Mail | /mail send <Playername> <Message> | None | Sends the message to a player even if they're offline. (Essentials) |
| Read Mail | /mail read | None | Displays mail in your mailbox. (Essentials) |
| AFK | /afk | None | Sets you as "Away From Keyboard" in the game. Your name will be gray and flagged. Repeat command or move for 3 seconds to unflag. |
| Emote | /me | None | Allows you to role play an emotion or action. "/me is dancing crazy" will display as "Joe is dancing crazy" in the chat. |
| View time info | /vt info | None | Shows you the time settings on the world. |
| Check $Shiney Balance | /balance | None | Shows the balance of your bank account. |
| Pay others | /pay <playername> <amount> | None | Pays another player an amount of $hineys from your account The other player must be online. Example "/pay JoeDingbat 1.02 " will pay JoeDingbat $1.02 in $hineys |
Global Text Formatting
You can use the following codes to style your text in many features, including nicknames, mail and chat.
Simply include the code directly BEFORE the word or words you want to style. And you can stack them.
Usage Example: "This party is &lSo Awesome&r, I could just &nDie.&r" would appear like this: "This party is So Awesome, I could just Die."
| Style | Code | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bold | &l | (That's a lower case L) | |
| Italic | &o | ||
| Underline | &n | ||
| Strikethrough | &m | ||
| Reset | &r | This "ends" the formatting and returns the following text to standard style. |
