Survival offers an authentic 1.21 SMP experience with no raiding or griefing in claimed regions, but be sure to read and follow all ManaCube Rules to avoid any penalties.
¶ Season Information
Survival Season 9, the current season, was released on July 25, 2024. Players can only join if they are playing on version 1.20 or above, but 1.21 is preferred.
¶ Announcement Threads
- Thread #1: https://manacube.com/threads/survival-season-9-part-1.93812/
- Thread #2: https://manacube.com/threads/part-2.94130/
¶ Spawn
When you join the Survival realm, you will start at spawn, which features various areas, holograms, shops and other NPCs to assist you in your adventure.
¶ Teleport
Running the /teleport command will bring you to an interface that lists all of the different areas you can teleport to in Survival. There is a dedicated section for Spawn-specific areas in this interface, and you can use it to teleport to the following spawn locations:
- PvP Arena
- Shops
- Forge
- Kilton
- Crates
- Mana Pond
- Enchanter
- Huey's Fishing Shop
¶ Non-shop NPCs
These NPCs are scattered around spawn and do not include shops:
- Cash Cow: Clicking this NPC (or using
/cow) takes you to the "Rewards" interface, where you can manage and claim your daily and monthly rewards. - Guide: This NPC runs the
/helpcommand when clicked, displaying an assortment of commands in chat categorised under "Playing", "Economy", "Progression" and "Fun." You can hover over these commands in the chat embed to see what they do. - King Benny (Crates): Clicking the King Benny NPC at
/warp cratesruns the/patroncommand, displaying an interface that shows you the perks of the Patron ranks. Furthermore, a hologram to the left of King Benny displays information about the Patrons feature. - Duel Master (PvP Arena): Clicking this NPC at
/warp pvpruns the/duelcommand, displaying an interface that allows you to challenge and compete with other players in duels. - Arena Master (PvP Arena): Clicking this NPC at
/warp pvpintroduces you to the PvP Arena's bounty system.
¶ Shop NPCs
These NPCs include shops and features unique to them:
- Shopkeeper (Shops): Clicking this NPC runs the
/shopcommand, displaying an interface where you can buy and sell items or access other shops. - Auction House (Shops): This NPC takes you to the auction house (
/ah) when clicked, where you can buy items from other players or list items for sale. - Furniture (Shops): This NPC opens the
/furnitureinterface when clicked, allowing you to manage and purchase furniture. - Kilton's Monster Shop (Kilton): The Kilton NPC opens the
/kiltoninterface when clicked. Here, you can trade mob heads for Souls, which you can then use to purchase various items from Kilton. - Huey's Fishing Shop: The Huey NPC opens the
/fishinterface, where you can sell fish for Fishpoints and money or use Fishpoints to purchase items from the/fishshop. - Forge: The Forgemaster NPC opens the
/forgeinterface when clicked, which is where you can buy armour and tools, repair shattered items and enhance Mana Items. - Enchanter: Clicking the Enchanter NPC opens the
/enchanter(or/e) interface, where you can trade vanilla XP for custom enchantments, access the Tinkerer, Alchemist and Enchantment Codex, and learn about White and Black Scrolls. - Magic Star Shop: Clicking this NPC will open the
/starshopinterface, where you can use Magic Stars to purchase exclusive cosmetics and items.
¶ Additional Areas and Features
These areas and features are available at Spawn and are not directly tied to shops:
- Jobs Centre: Located behind
/spawn, the Jobs Centre houses the Fishing, Farming, Hunting, and Mining Master NPCs. Click on any of these NPCs to open their respective Job interfaces. You will also find Summonstones for the major Mana World bosses here. - Crates Area: The Crates area can be accessed with
/warp crates. Here, you will find the Ancient, Legendary, Promotional, Mythical and Elite Crates. You will also find the Season Vault here, which stores Season Vault Access items and can be opened by VIP ranked players and above. - Mana Pond: The Mana Pond (
/warp pond) is where the Mana Pond realm event takes place. To see how long is left until the next Mana Pond event, type/eventsand hover your cursor over the fishing rod icon. - Champion Hall: The Champion Hall houses a variety of leaderboards for players who excel in certain gameplay areas.
- Recipe Unlocker: Left-click this crafting table hologram at
/spawnto unlock all recipes in your crafting book. - Item Enhancer: Located to the right of
/spawn, this enchanting table labelled "Item Enhancer" allows you to combine four Mana Items into one enhanced version of that item. Right-click the table to open the Item Enhancer interface.
¶ Creating Your Party
In Survival, your party is your team. Many features, like claiming land, completing quests and playing with friends, require you to be in a party. To create your own party, use the command /p create <party name>. Alternatively, other players may invite you to join their party, so feel free to ask if anyone is looking for new members.
If you choose to create your own party, it is advised that you read the Party Manager article so you can take full advantage of the features at your disposal as a party leader.
¶ Playing with Friends
If you would like to play with others, you can invite them to your party with /p invite <username>. The invited player can accept your invite with /p accept <your username>.
To learn about the different Party Roles and how you can assign permissions to your party members, refer to the Party Manager article.
¶ Wilderness and Claiming Land
After creating a party, you gain the ability to claim land. Most players build their bases in the Overworld (accessed by clicking the grass block in the /rtp interface), but claiming is also enabled in The End's wilderness, so the choice is yours. You can use the Golden Shovel or the /p claim command to claim land by the chunk.
The ManaCube Survival claiming system uses chunks. A chunk is a 16x16 block area that extends from bedrock to the maximum height limit of 256 blocks. If you want to see chunk borders in real time, press the F3 + G keys on your keyboard. You can also use the /p border command to toggle the visibility of borders around your party's territory.
Each chunk is equivalent to one party claim, and every party has a limit on the number of chunks it can claim. To view your party's limit, type /party (or /p) and hover your cursor over the Nether Portal icon at the top of the interface. Fortunately, you can increase this limit by completing your Party Quests (/pquests), obtaining a donor rank through either /ranks or the /webstore, and adding new members to your party (+5 chunks per member).
After settling down and claiming your first chunks, it is recommended that you set a home at that location with /sethome <home name> so you do not lose it. You can use /homes to view all of your set homes, and /home <home name> to teleport to a specific one.
TIP: If you forgot to set a home, try using the
/p homecommand to return to your claimed chunks. If this doesn't work, Survival Mods can often locate your base for you. Please use/helpop <message>, contact Survival Staff directly (in-game, on Discord or through a Forums conversation), or seek alternative ways of getting help if you find yourself in this situation.
¶ Losing Party Claims
Parties will lose their bonus claims from additional members if those members are either kicked or removed from the party due to inactivity.
WARNING: When someone leaves the party or is kicked due to inactivity, its party claim limit will decrease, potentially causing you to "overclaim" land. Please manage your claims to ensure the amount of chunks your party owns is below your maximum limit. If you overclaim, staff will ask your party to unclaim land.
¶ Obtaining Spawners
Having spawners in Survival is beneficial because you can sell their drops or use them to complete Jobs, Party Quests and farm experience, both vanilla and for your McMMO skills.
Spawners can be crafted at any crafting table by surrounding a Spawner Core with 8 Spawner Fragments. Spawner Cores are available for the following mobs:
- Zombie
- Pig
- Spider
- Skeleton
- Chicken
- Sheep
- Creeper
- Enderman
- Cow
- Blaze
- Iron Golem
Just as there are many different types of Spawner Cores, there are also numerous ways to obtain them. For example, you can purchase Spawner Cores from the "Mob Spawners" section of the /shop, win them from the Golden Crate, get them as drops from bosses, Mana Monsters and regular mobs, or buy them from other players through /ah or /trade <username>.
In addition to being winnable from the Golden Crate, Spawner Fragments can be obtained as drops from bosses, Mana Monsters and regular mobs. You can also purchase them from the /adamantforge or from other players through /ah or /trade <username>.
TIP: For more information on where you can obtain Spawner Cores and Fragments, refer to the Items article.
¶ Diminishing Returns
With this season of Survival, stacked spawners now have diminishing returns. This means the more stacked spawners you have, the less amount of additional mobs will spawn at one time. The dropdown shows an example of the amount of spawns that may occur.
Any example number with a decimal has a chance of spawning a higher number than originally intended. For example if you had 7 spawners (13.6 Mobs), there is a 60% that 14 mobs will spawn instead of 13 mobs.
Diminishing return
| Spawner Amount |
Mob Spawn rate Multiplier |
Increase % |
Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Spawner | 100% | 0% (base) |
4 Mobs (Base) |
| 2 Spawners | 150% | +50 | 6 Mobs |
| 3 Spawners | 200% | +50 | 8 Mobs |
| 4 Spawners | 240% | +40 | 9.6 Mobs |
| 5 Spawners | 280% | +40 | 11.2 Mobs |
| 6 Spawners | 310% | +30 | 12.4 Mobs |
| 7 Spawners | 340% | +30 | 13.6 Mobs |
| 8 Spawners | 360% | +20 | 14.4 Mobs |
| 9 Spawners | 380% | +20 | 15.2 Mobs |
| 10 Spawners | 390% | +10 | 15.6 Mobs |
| 11 Spawners | 400% | +10 | 16 Mobs |
| 12 Spawners | 405% | +5 | 16.2 Mobs |
| 13 Spawners | 410% | +5 | 16.4 Mobs |
| 14 Spawners | 415% | +5 | 16.6 Mobs |
| 15 Spawners | 420% | +5 | 16.8 Mobs |
| Continues with 5% per spawner until you reach spawner stack size limit. | |||
| 64 Spawners | 665% | +5 | 26.6 Mobs |
¶ Making Money
As you may be able to tell, Survival is a vast realm with a wide variety of features. Thankfully, this means you can make money in many different ways, such as:
- Completing Jobs (
/jobs). - Selling items to the shop (through
/shopor/sell). - Selling Mana Resources to the World Prospectors (selling
/isleresources to Prospector NPCs at the Mana Worlds' spawn areas). - Selling fish to Huey (through
/fish). - Selling items, currencies or services to other players (through
/ah,/trade <username>and chest shops). - Redeeming daily rewards (
/cow). - Participating in realm events (
/events). - Vendor NPCs (Pot Of Gold from
/kilton). - The PvP Arena's bounty system (
/warp pvp). - Coinflips (
/cf). - Winning money from crates (Golden Crate, Elite Crate, etc.).
While there are many ways to make money, some methods are more profitable than others. Completing Jobs, selling items to the shop, selling Mana Resources to the World Prospectors and selling items or currencies to other players offer superior monetary gain compared to other methods.
¶ Completing Jobs
One of Survival's core features is its Jobs mechanic, which allows players to select and complete a variety of Jobs from the Farming, Mining, Hunting and Fishing industries. To access and interact with the Jobs interface, use the /jobs command.
Depending on the industry, Jobs will require you to hand in a specific amount of an item (including fish) or slay a certain number of mobs to be completed. Once a Job is finished, the payout is significantly higher than selling those items to Huey or the shop. As a result, Jobs are considered the best money-making method in Survival, especially for new players.
After completing 5 Jobs, you will receive a Golden Key, which you can use to open the Golden Crate through /jobs. This crate can reward you with Money Pouches, providing another source of income.
TIP: For more information on Jobs, including examples, types, tiers and everything alike, refer to the Quests article.
¶ Selling Items to the Shop
ManaCube Survival features a unique multiplier-based selling system where you make more money the more you sell. Use /sell or click the "Sell Items" button in the /shop interface to access the selling interface. Here, you can manually insert items into the sell window or click the chest icon at the bottom right to automatically place all sellable items in the window. Once you exit the interface, everything in the window will be sold.
The four icons at the bottom of the selling interface represent different selling categories. Items can only be sold if they fall under one of the following categories:
Crops, Food & Nature
Ores, Earth & Rocks
Mob Loot
Fish
Each category has a sell multiplier that increases incrementally as you sell items within it, up to a maximum of 2.5%. To see your progress toward the next multiplier in a specific category, hover your cursor over its icon in the /sell interface. You can also click on a category's icon to view your overall multiplier progress in that category.
TIP: Use
/sell handwhile holding an item to automatically open the/sellinterface and place all instances of that item from your inventory into the sell window. For example, if you have 4 stacks of steak, hold one stack and type/sell handto put all of them in the sell window. From there, all you need to do is press the escape key to sell everything.
¶ Selling Mana Resources
In addition to the End, Nether, and Resource worlds accessible through /wild, Survival also features special Mana Worlds. There are six Mana Worlds in total, each with its own unique identity. You can view information about these worlds, including their skill level requirements and loot logs, using the /manaworld command.
Mana Worlds offer a wealth of unique resources, challenging bosses, special monsters and NPCs to fight and interact with. Early in the game, you can make good money by harvesting Mana Resources from these worlds and selling them to the Prospector NPCs found at their spawn areas.
TIP: For more information on the Mana Worlds, visit the Isles article.
¶ Selling to Players
Another way to earn money is by selling items and currencies to other players through the auction house (/ah) and /trade <username>. To list an item for sale in the auction house for money, hold the item and type /ah sell <price>. To list an item for Cubits, hold it and type /ah sell <price> cubits.
Players often buy currencies such as Cubits, Mana and Souls from others for money. The /trade <username> command is ideal for these transactions, as it provides dedicated tools for trading currencies.
¶ Featherboard
The featherboard is the section located on the right-hand side of your screen. While it contains useful information, some players prefer to remove this display. You can toggle its visibility using the /sb command.
| Money - This will keep track of your money balance (/bal).
|
| Souls - This displays the amount of Souls you have. | |
| Mana - This will keep track of your Mana balance. | |
| Cubits - This displays the amount of Cubits you have. | |
Skills - This displays your total combined McMMO skill level. Use /skills for more information on the McMMO skills feature. |