Beginners guide to Manacube

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Greetings Manacube, this guide was created to inform.

Manacube is a Minecraft Network with a variety of game modes. These game modes consist of: Parkour, Skyblock, Creative, Survival, Islands, Skywars, And Kitpvp.

Click on the game mode name to get more info about it.

Suggestions and feedback would be appreciated. I only have parkour nearly finished at the moment, I'm posting it so I don't lose progress.

Parkour is just as it sounds like, a game mode for parkour.

[HOW TO GET TO PARKOUR]
To get you parkour, click on your course inspector and click on the gold boots. https://gyazo.com/754479cf3ece5db2d79da781050d8bdb
Or type /parkour in your chat.

[GOAL]
In parkour your goal is to reach the rank of Champion.

[RANKING UP/GEMS]
In order to rank up, you have to obtain gems. In order to get gems, you must complete parkour courses.
Once you get enough gems to rank up, type /rankup or right click the emerald in your hotbar, which then opens this up https://gyazo.com/458b3463e9e4015473b5fbae8b95134f
From there click the nether star to get to the rankup menu.
Ranks are cosmetic, except for that Skilled unlocks expert and insane courses, and Beast unlocks the lounge at spawn.

[COURSES]
Courses will be your main way of getting gems, as stated above. To get to the courses you can type any of the following. /Easy /Medium /Hard /Expert /Insane. Keep in mind that you must be above the [SKILLED] rank in order to warp to the Expert and Insane difficulty maps.

[VOTING]
To vote, type /vote and click on the link. Once you have voted, you will receive a voting crate key. To use it go to /warp crates and right click the vote crate. You will either receive a random banner, or a random amount of gems.

[LAGGING BACK]
In order to reduce lagging back/rubber-banding make sure that you are in version 1.8 - 1.8.9 of Minecraft.

[DONATOR RANKS]
If you wish to buy a donor rank, type /buy.

On parkour, Donator ranks give a variety of thing.

VIP:
Access to all speeds
Access to the donator courses
Access to the donator kit, which contains Speed, Invisibility, and Experience potions
Access to /nick.
Access to 19 /arrowtrails (To get a bow, type /buy. *Costs 500 gems*)
Access to 18 /emotes
Access to 25 /trails
Green [VIP] prefix in chat and tab

VIP+:
*Has all VIP perks*
Access to 14 /pets
Access to 20 /disguises
Access to 150+ rain cloud /trails
Access to 343+ particle wing /trails
Can use colors in the /nick nickname
Can rename items using /rename and /lore
Access to /kittycannon and /fireball
Blue [VIP+] prefix in chat and tab

MVP:
*Has all VIP and VIP+ perks*
Has a 1.5x gem multiplier for all courses
Access to the MVP vault at spawn. You may access it with /playervault or /pv
Obtains a full protection I gold armor set upon purchase.
Access to 8 block /trails
Orange [MVP] prefix in chat and tab

[INGAME SHOP]
Here you may purchase ranks, trails, pets, hats, and costumes.

[DROPPER]
To access the dropper maps, click on your hopper, then select a map. Completing these will give gems.

[MAP MAKER WORLD]
In the map maker world, you are given access to plots. With these plots you can create maps that you can submit on the map submission section of the forums: http://forums.manacube.com/forums/parkour-submissions/
Make sure to read the format! : http://forums.manacube.com/threads/must-read-map-submission-information-format.649/

[HOW TO GET ARMOR]
*Warning, pricey!*

To get armor, you must purchase diamond ore hats from the shop, as well as bookshelves to smelt these diamonds ores. If you wish to save money, you can smelt 1 diamond ore with your noteblock. After using the note block, relog and another will appear. In order to smelt, you must find a furnace. I personally use the furnace at the easy map Villager. To get there, goto the course guide, then goto easy 8. Then turn around and goto the first course on the right, Villager. After smelting, you can use the crafting table at spawn. Buy the diamond helmet from the hat shop, its cheaper than buying 5 ores.

Leather, Chainmail, and Iron armor are no longer obtainable. You may find some people trading them though.
Gold armor is given to MVPs upon purchase.

[HOW TO ENCHANT ARMOR]
*Exp is obtainable two ways. One: /kit donator, and Two: Smelting things*

You can also enchant your course guide if you want to save money. This means you don't have to buy a million sets of armor. When you relog you will receive the normal course guide again while keeping the enchanted.

To enchant your armor, you must find an enchantment table. I personally use Ice mountain, and Cave.
The cave one is a higher level enchant table.

Tutorial for Ice Mountain:
How to get to Ice Mountain - For an easy time, goto the practice world hard section. Click the iron boots under hard in the course guide. Then look at the left side and goto the 2nd map. It should look like a big.. ice mountain.

Next, fly up to about here: https://gyazo.com/6db0f3e2174d826c7c7cdc4d0456e968
See this gold? Fly to there: https://gyazo.com/fd0e251a320deefa71718f3fe6d212e5
Now fly in this hole(https://gyazo.com/bf52c9b6b7229395ac824ec8a925a67d), and fly through the tunnel. Find the big room then take a right, you should find the enchantment tables: https://gyazo.com/1a860843b0bb82f5aea5838a992cc1de
In sky block you start on a floating island. On this floating island you will find many ways to make money, level up your island, and make lots of friends, unless you with to be alone.

[HOW TO GET TO SKYBLOCK]
To get to skyblock, click on the sapling on your server selector, or type /skyblock

[STARTING AN ISLAND]
To start an island, type /is

[CHALLENGES]
Once on your island, try and complete some challenges via /challenges for some loot!

[GOAL]
Your goal on skyblock is to either get as much money as possible or as much island level.

[ISLAND LEVEL]
In order to get island level, place blocks. Refer to this forum page for help on values of each block: http://forums.manacube.com/threads/leveling-up-your-skyblock-island.4207/ Thanks Purpz!

[MCMMO]
MCMMO is a skill leveling plugin. Info on it can be found here: http://mcmmo.wikia.com/wiki/McMMO_Wiki

[WARZONE]
The war zone is a pvp zone where you fight to your hearts extent. This is where envoys happen.
Speed and disguises are NOT allowed here.
To get to the war zone walk out from spawn, or go to one of the following
/warp north
/warp east
/warp south
/warp west

[ENVOYS]
Envoys happen every 250 votes, or when an envoy flare is used(bought in the store or won from vote crates). In envoys chests will spawn around the warzone. When opened you will get one of a variety of things. Cash, loot, spawners, etc.

[CASINO]
The casino is just what it sounds like. A place of luck and chance to either get rich or go broke.
To use the casino type /casino. All info about the casino is there as well.

[VOTING]
To vote, type /vote and click on the link. When you vote, you will receive a vote key. To use it go to /spawn and find the vote crate, then right click it. For more information on rewards, go here: http://forums.manacube.com/threads/voting-update-staffs-of-the-month.16750/

[SPAWNERS/MOBS]
Spawners and mobs are stacked, meaning that if you place two spawners close to each other, one will turn into a 2x spawner. Mobs that are close will do the same.

[HOPPERS]
Hoppers can sync to other chests. They can also be leveled up to go quicker and sync farther.
For more info go here: http://forums.manacube.com/threads/skyblock-5-0-impending-reset.16328/

[INFORMATION]
Here is some copied information from one of Dacon's post on the sky block revamp.

Ore Generators

Cobblestone Generators now have a % to spawn a certain type of ore. Islands with a higher total level get better ore probabilities!

Island Team Chat
Enter a chat channel that only members of your island can talk in. Type /is tc

New Challenges
Most of the challenges have been updated with new rewards & objectives

New PvP Arena
A new, bigger PvP arena has been made. Type /warp pvp

Full Reset + Namechange support
Since Skyblock has finally reset, we are now able to support name changing on it, meaning you can change your name without losing any of your data.
This also means you will need to claim your donator rank back. Claim it for free at http://store.minevast.com/category/688884
New /shop GUI + new items & price changes
You can now access the server shop from your island by typing /shop (Similar to /sell)
MISCELLANEOUS UPDATES
  • Invincibility added when visiting other players islands
  • New scoreboard
  • Monster & Animal limit per chunk increased
  • Villager limit 10x per player (Team of 4 can have 40 villagers)
  • Islands now have limits on some entities
    Banner: 100 max
    Item Frame: 200 Max
    Hopper: 800 Max
    Painting: 50 Max
    Armor Stand: 50 Max
    Beacon: 25 Max
  • Restarting your island no longer resets your inventory
  • Can now change all the visitor settings on your island /is settings
    (This allows you to change what visitors can and cannot do on your island)
Creative is just like the gamemode itself, you have the ability to build whatever you like.

[HOW TO GET TO CREATIVE]
To get to creative, click the grass block on the server selector, or type /creative

[PLOTS]
To get a plot, type /plot auto. You can buy additional plots in /gemshop for 50 gems a plot.

If you wish to get a bigger plot, claim two or more plots that are next to each other and type /plot merge while you are on one of the plots and looking at the other.

[GRADES]
Manacube's grading system is from D - A+, with D being the lowest grade, and A+ being the highest grade

Copied from IIChristianII's guide.

[D] -> ->Minimal terrain/no terrain -> basic structures with little amounts of depth(but still some slabs/stairs present, not just a flat wall)

[D+] -> Minimum terraforming ->Minimum variety in structures (may still be blocky) ->Simple theme

[C] ->Moderate terraforming ->decent theme->variety and overall style in structures -> logic behind placement(For example you would not have a pine forest in the middle of a desert)->must go above and beyond D+ (Add heads,paths,etc)->handmade trees

[C+] -> Moderate to advanced terraforming ->theme must make sense as a whole -> builds must have a clear variety -> logic behind placement->extra details that go above and beyond C range (multi-level terrain, etc)->handmade trees

[B] ->Advanced terraforming->must have an advanced theme-> builds have to have a certain amount of depth and layering->handmade trees

[B+]-> Advanced terrain-> Advanced theme -> builds must have a certain amount of depth and layering -> must go above and beyond with the details of the plot (for example in a summer plot would add sunflowers, bees, etc)->handmade trees

[A]->Must be at least a 2x2 plot-> Extremely advanced terrain-> extremely detailed builds-> go above and beyond with the details of the plot->complex and thought out theme -> advanced theme->handmade trees

[A+] ->Must be at least a 2x2 plot-> Extremely advanced terrain-> extremely detailed builds->complex and thought out theme ->above and beyond to make the theme overall believable->handmade trees

For a more indepth guide on grading refer to @IIChristianII 's guide on grading here http://forums.manacube.com/threads/creative-plot-grade-rules-tips.9066/

[WORLD EDIT]
WorldEdit : Worldedit, or shortened to we, is a plugin designed to make building easier.

You can do /warp worldedit whilst on creative to be teleported to an area in which you can learn basics of world edit
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really great guide and this can help many people who are new to this server. great job deli
 

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Oh my. This guide is really well-made. Amazing job, Delphia! This will certainly help a lot of players. I wish you luck in getting the remaining info for your guide. If you need any info for Survival, feel free to ask me. ;)
 

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Oh my. This guide is really well-made. Amazing job, Delphia! This will certainly help a lot of players. I wish you luck in getting the remaining info for your guide. If you need any info for Survival, feel free to ask me. ;)
Thank you speed! I probably will need help on survival, so I'll make sure to ask you when I get to it. :)
 

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Thank you speed! I probably will need help on survival, so I'll make sure to ask you when I get to it. :)
Hmu on Discord if you need to ask, as I probably won't always be in-game for you to ask me there. :p
 

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This is a amazing guide for players. It's very helpful and goes into great detail for how to do things. Also, I love how you included a tutorial for a parkour map as well :)