チュートリアル/プレイヤー・バーサス・プレイヤー

PvPは,Player対Playerの略で,Minecraftでの戦闘を指します。 それは,マルチプレーヤーで他のプレーヤーと戦うプレーヤーに関係します。 チームでの戦いでも,1対1の戦いでも,これは多くの選手にとって難しい問題である。

このガイドでは,Vanilla の"Minecraft"の PvP について説明していますが,よく知られているサーバ プラグインについて確認できます。

戦う前に,野心的な戦闘員は,Minecraftの統制と,以下を入手し使用する方法に関する知識をしっかりと把握しておく必要があります。

• 剣
• 斧
• 弓
• 防具
• ポーション
• エンチャント

ルールを知ろう

PvPは、それが有効になっている任意のサーバで起こる可能性がある。しかし、管理者は通常、サーバ上のPvPのルールを設定する。

一部のサーバーはビルドとアドベンチャーを協力してサポートしているため、PvP指向のサーバーもありますが、サーバーにはPvPがそのサーバーで許可されているかどうかを決定する規則がある。サーバに参加することで、プレイヤーはルールに同意し、PvPでの行動としてそのルールを受け入れる。

装備

戦闘の装備の内容は、PvPの重要かつ決定的な要素であり、生存能力とキルを増加させます。プレイヤーは、装備を効果的に活用し、敵を倒すために、装備のすべてを詳しく知っておく必要があります。

攻撃

剣

現在、剣はPvPの近接武器の中で最も効果的な武器である。剣の範囲はおよそ2.5ブロックで、近接した敵を攻撃するのに理想的である。ダメージ増加Ⅴのエンチャントをされたダイヤモンドの剣は、エンチャントされていないダイヤモンドの防具のプレイヤーをわずか8撃で殺すことができる(クリティカルヒットは無視するものとする)。斧に比べて攻撃速度が高いため、ダイヤモンドの剣は他の近接武器よりも優れており、高レベルのPvPでは必須である。剣は、スイープ攻撃、テンプレート:エンチャント:ノックバックに加え、最初のヒットの近くで相手にわずかにダメージを与える能力もある。

弓

弓は現在、PvPにとって最も効果的な遠隔武器である。よくエンチャントの付いた弓は高レベルのPvPに推奨され、迅速な射撃や強力な射撃で遠くの相手に圧力をかけるために使用する。多種多様な矢があり、毒など、プレイヤーに悪影響を与えたり、回復のように、仲間を援護することも出来る。高レベルの戦闘では、弓は一般にエンチャントされた装備をした敵に与えるダメージが最小限であるため、水中でのみ使用されます。

火打石と打ち金

火打石と打ち金は、火で敵の気を散らし、戦場を変えるために使用することができる。火炎に包まれた後、多くのプレイヤーは耐火のポーションを飲まなければならない（その場合、脆弱性が残る）。さらに、火炎効果は、プレイヤーの視界を妨害し、矢など、敵にとって脅威であるものを視認しずらくさせることが出来る。

釣竿

釣竿はトリッキーなもので、プレイヤーにはダメージを与えず、軽くノックバックする。 連打すると、数回の剣の打撃で落とせるようなチャンスに繋がるかもしれない。 釣竿は、敵の鎧を壊したり、敵をたたき落として死に至らしめるのに有効な道具になり得る。

斧

斧は、剣よりもわずかにダメージを受け、盾を一時的に無効にすることができるが、剣よりも攻撃速度が大幅に遅く、耐久性が低くなる。斧には特別な粉砕攻撃もある。

守備

防具

防具は、プレイヤーに与えられたダメージを軽減する。防具はPvPにとって不可欠であり、プレイヤーはそれがないと数秒で死ぬだろう。ダメージ軽減は、戦闘目的で作られた装備の理想的なエンチャントだ。しかし、アイテムにエンチャントをする時、覚えておくべきことがある。火炎耐性や、爆発耐性などの特定のエンチャントよりもわずかに劣る。

盾

盾を使用して攻撃をブロックし、近接攻撃からのダメージを無効にし、遠隔攻撃のダメージを無効にすることができます。矢などのブロックが成功すると、ノックバックも無効となる。盾で矢を跳ね返すことが出来る。

食料

常に戦闘中は、空腹度を確認してください！空腹度が18 ( × 9)以下になると、体力が回復されなくなり、6 ()以下になるとダッシュができなくなる。食料はステーキ、焼き豚、焼いた羊肉と焼き魚をお勧めする。可能であれば、一時的に再生と衝撃吸収のステータス効果をもたらす金のリンゴを食べる。

牛乳

牛乳はすべてのステータス効果、バフ、またはデバフを消去する。牛乳はステータス効果（毒、移動速度低下、弱体化など）を取り除くことができるが、金のリンゴなど、プラスの効果も取り除く！

土

ただの昔ながらの土だ! 誰かが後ろにいるときは、すぐ後ろを見て、もう一方の上に2つの土を置きます。 敵を最大1.5秒間混同するかもしれない。 短期間、敵の進路を遮ることもできるが、逃げ出すには絶好の時期だ。

TNT

通常は実用的ではないが、特定のユーティリティのための有用なツールになることがある。TNTを使用してトラップを構築したり、相手の気をそらすこともできる。

戦術

ポーション

ポーションはさまざまな効果を与えることができ、その中で最も有益な効果は自身を強化するために使用され、負の効果は他のプレイヤーに影響を与えるスプラッシュポーションとして投げられることがある。さらに残留ポーションを、より高価（ドラゴンブレスを必要とする）という代償で使用することができる。戦闘に向かう場合、インベントリいっぱい(いっぱいじゃなくても良いがなるべく多く)のポーションを持っていくことが賢明だろう。攻撃力上昇Ⅱ、移動速度上昇Ⅱ、火炎耐性、再生、即時回復Ⅱは熟練ファイターの中で最も人気がある。

エンダーパール

投げると、プレイヤーはエンダーパールの着地点にテレポートする。壁を乗り越えるのに便利だ。ブーツに落下耐性がない限り、エンダーパールを使用するたびにダメージを受ける可能性がある。また、ダメージを与える目的には推奨しないが、相手にダメージを与えることも可能である。敵が逃げている場合、敵に向かって投げることで、すぐに追いつける。しかし、注意してください！ 時には障害物のブロックに挟まり、窒息死してしまうこともある。

水バケツ

水は動きを遅くし、速く逃げることを可能にする。また、適切なタイミングで足の下に置いた場合、落下ダメージを防ぐことが出来、火を消すのにも使える。水や溶岩を含む1部のブロックは、通常、サーバーのスポーン地点に置くことはできないことに注意すること。

溶岩バケツ

溶岩は究極のバリケードである。溶岩は、敵を引き離す時に使える。もしポーションやエンチャントがなければ、大ダメージを与えることが出来る。溶岩は水と異なり、落下ダメージを吸収することは出来ない。水同様に、水や溶岩を含む1部のブロックは、通常、サーバーのスポーン地点に置くことはできないことに注意すること。

雪玉と卵

プレイヤーにダメージを与えることは出来ないが（卵を除く）、高い発射速度を持ち、崖から相手を落とすることができる。これらはサーバーにダメージの能力を与えるプラグインがある場合にのみ、他のプレイヤーにダメージを与える。ほとんどのプレイヤーは、卵が武器として使われることを想定していないため、不意を突くことが出来る。また、ニワトリがスポーンすると、一時的な盾として使うことができる。雪玉、またはスノーゴーレムは装備破壊(特に金の防具のような耐久度の低いもの)が出来るので、大量生産を推奨する。雪玉はアプリ版では2ダメージを与えることができるが、その理由は不明。

ウマ

馬は移動速度を上げることができ、追いかけたり、逃げたり、戦闘に使うことができるが、馬を使うと身動きが取りづらくなることもある。

金のリンゴ

これはPvPで非常に便利である。金のリンゴを食べると、5秒間再生Ⅱを与え、2分間衝撃吸収の効果を与える。

エンチャントされた金のリンゴを食べれば、基本的に無敵になります！

レッドストーン

正しく使えると、レッドストーンは強力な武器になるが、敵を混乱させたり罠に落とたりしかできない。戦略的にいくつかのトラップを構築し、その場所に相手を引き付ければ、戦いに勝つための鍵となるだろう！

戦闘向けエンチャント

攻撃系

火属性とフレイム

• 能力：継続ダメージ、高レベルのものは、より長い間炎上状態にする。
• 最高レベル：火属性 - Ⅱ、フレイム - Ⅰ
• 使用対象：剣（火属性）、弓（フレイム）
• 注意：この効果はすべての種類の装備を貫通するが、必ずしも確実に機能するわけではない。オレンジ色のパーティクル（耐火のポーション）をまとったプレイヤー、または防具を全てエンチャントしている人を攻撃しようとしないこと。彼らは耐火性を持っている可能性がある。

ダメージ増加と射撃ダメージ増加

• 能力：ランダムな量の追加ダメージを与える。高レベルであるほどダメージの最大値が増加する。
• 使用対象：剣（ダメージ増加）、弓（射撃ダメージ増加）
• 最高レベル：V
• 注意：追加のダメージは防具の防御力を無視するので、敵のダイヤモンド装備はあなたのダメージ増加V（5）のダイヤモンド/鉄の剣からそれを守らない。防御されたダメージは一定ではないので、戦闘は誰が最初に攻撃するか、より優れた防具と武器を持っているだけではなく、どれだけのダメージが防御されているかの問題ではない。

棘の鎧

• 能力：装備者は、攻撃された相手にカウンターでダメージを与える。レベルが高いほど、カウンターのダメージが大きくなる。
• 使用対象：すべての装備
• 最高レベル：Ⅲ
• 注意：装備の耐久力の低下には注意すること。棘の鎧と耐性のエンチャントを組み合わせた場合、非常に速く壊れる。

ノックバックとパンチ

• 能力：ターゲットを遠ざける。高レベルであるほど飛距離が増加する。
• 最高レベル：Ⅱ
• 使用対象：剣（ノックバック）、弓（パンチ）
• 注意：これらのエンチャントは、力のポーションを飲んでいるプレイヤー（暗赤色の渦巻き状のパーティクルに囲まれている）に対して使用するのが好ましいだろう。攻撃力上昇の効果は、近接攻撃にしか影響しない為、その効果を発揮出来なくさせることが出来る。一方、あなたがパワーVの弓を持っていて木の剣しか持っていないことを知っていれば、それらを近くに置いておく方が良い戦略になるだろう。

防御系

装備

ダメージ軽減

• 能力：ボイド（奈落）ダメージ以外のすべてに対する防御。高レベルであるほど、防御力が高くなる。
• 使用対象：全ての防具
• 最高レベル：IV
• 注意：これはより良い防具のエンチャントの一つ。殆どのダメージに対して有効だが、例えば炎に対する防御力は、火炎耐性よりも劣る

爆発耐性

• 能力：爆発に対する防御。高レベルであるほど、爆発への耐性がつく。
• 使用対象：全ての防具
• 最高レベル：Ⅳ
• 注意：爆発耐性IVの防具のフルセットは、爆発からあなたを守り、大量破壊兵器（ページの下部を参照）に対抗するのに適している。

火炎耐性

• 能力：溶岩に対するダメージを防御、火の耐性。
• 使用対象：全ての防具
• 最高レベル：Ⅳ
• 注意：2つの火炎耐性IV、ダメージ軽減IVは、最高の防御を可能にする。少なくとも1つの防御IVを持つことは良い考えだ。

飛び道具耐性

• 能力：フレイム、ガストとブレイズの火球に対するダメージ防御（当たった場合のみ）。高レベルであるほど、発射物への耐性がつく。
• 使用対象：全ての防具
• 最高レベル：Ⅳ
• 注意：過去のディスペンサートラップを回収する必要がある場合は、これを使う必要がある。多くのディスペンサートラップには発射物が含まれているので、このエンチャントはそのダメージを防ぐのに有効である。

落下耐性

• 能力：落下ダメージに対する防御 また、エンダーパールのダメージに対する防御。
• 使用対象：ブーツのみ
• 最高レベル：Ⅳ
• 注意：落下ダメージを完全に吸収しても、ダメージ音が鳴り、周辺の人にあなたの存在を教えることになる。

水中呼吸

• 能力：装備者は水中でより長く呼吸をすることができる。窒息中のダメージ間隔が長くなる。高レベルであるほど、より高性能となる。
• 使用対象：ヘルメットのみ
• 最高レベル：Ⅲ
• 注意：このエンチャントは、偵察にはかなり便利である。あなたはより長い時間敵の堀の中に隠れることが出来る。1.6には、水中での偵察がより容易になる機能が追加された。

武器

無限

• 能力：無限に矢を放てるが、インベントリに最低１本の矢が必要である。
• 使用対象：弓
• 最高レベル：Ⅰ
• 注意：無限は、矢をスパミングするための良いエンチャントであり、射法はない。64本の矢のスタックすべてを無駄にする心配はない。30分以内にすべてのリソースを使用するだけで、さらに多くの矢を得るために、元に戻す必要はありません。しかしながら、弓の耐久性は依然として問題である。

耐久力

• 能力：防具や武器の耐久度の減少を抑える。 高レベルなほどより耐久度の減少が抑えられる。
• 使用対象：すべての防具と武器
• 最高レベル：Ⅲ
• 注意：アイテムに耐久力をつけるために手間はかかるが、その分の価値はある。戦闘での長期的な関与は、あなたのダイヤモンドギアでさえもかなり速く壊れてしまうことを意味する。特に、鎧に棘や防御がある場合は特にそうです。最大限の効果を得るために、できるだけ早くあなたのギアで耐久力を試してみることです。

PvPの場所

PvPでは、戦闘員はカスタムデザインのアリーナ、通常の地形、チャレンジマップなど、いくつかの設定で戦わなければない。

通常の地形

これは、2人のプレイヤーが自然に生成された地形で戦うとき。 この種の戦闘では、プレイヤーは指定されたエリアを決めたり、不意打ちされたりすることがある（例：地下、洞窟、崖の上、砦の中）。

チャレンジPvP

このPvPは、ユニークなエリアやチャレンジマップで行われます。 友人であるプレイヤーは、PvPのチャレンジマップを作成または使用することを決定できる。 プレイヤーは、複数のグループに分かれたり、すべての人が自由に楽しむことができる。

アリーナ

プレーヤーは構造や美しさのためにアリーナを作ることを好むかもしれない。

タイプ:

• スポーン（最も一般的）：多くのサーバーでは、スポーン地点またはその周りにPvP領域がある。しかし、普通はブロックを配置したり、ブロックしたりすることはできないため、注意すること。

• 古代：古代ローマ人にインスパイアされたコロシアムを、動物との戦いや、おそらく床上の血痕（レッドストーン）を造る（歴史的には正確ではない） — 石を使用するか、壁用の石造りのすべての種類のものを使用する。芝生は床（砂もとても素敵です）と木材を装飾し、石や石造りの煉瓦を壊し、歴史感を出す。

• サバイバル/ハンガーゲーム：ドーム内にある巨大なアリーナで、複数のバイオームが組み込まれている。壁は黒曜石、岩盤または障壁でなければならない。サポーターと観客は食べ物や装備などを使ってメッセンジャーに送ることができる。戦闘は2人残ってから最初のスポーンポイントに行き、デスマッチを行う。勝者は良い賞を獲得し、敗者は何もない。

• 迷路：観客は、プレイヤーが次のコーナーのクリーパーを恐れるので、心配することなく怖がって走るのを見ることができるよう、壁と座席を建てる。

• マルチレベル：ランダムな穴があるアリーナの床がいくつかある。両側がガラスであることを確認して、観客が落ちるのを見ることができるようにする。

• ネザーエリア：注意：実際にはネザーにいる必要はない。望みのアリーナエリアの周りに3ブロックのネザーレンガの壁を作り、それを厚い煉瓦の塀で覆う。入口側に感圧板を備えたピストンドアを使用する。そして、片側に煉瓦の階段を使って壁の上に立ち上がる観客ブースを作る。アリーナフロアの真中はネザーラックとグローストーンで、いくつかの溶岩が点在している（プレイヤーに防御を与えて物事をより公平にする）べきである。あなたが望むなら、ネザーラックをいくつか照らすことができる。楽しんで！

• スプリーフツイスト：あなたは汚れ仕事をしなければならないと誰が言いましたか？マップの下に溶岩が（補償金を支払うことを避けるために試合前にプレイヤーに教える）あなたのためにやってみましょう！彼らの足下の床を取り除いている間にあなたは相手を刺して走り回る。

• 空：空にアリーナを建て、ピストントラップを使ってランダムに穴が現れるようにする。重力は今あなたの親友であり、最悪の敵です。

• ギミック：できるだけユニークにあなたのアリーナを作成する— ピストンを床から押して、いくつかのプレイヤーに最高の優位性を与えたり、階段を使って誰かを混乱させるような傾斜部屋を作ったり、水を使ってみんなを減速させたり、可能性は無限大です。

• 溶岩の雨：スタートレバーを引いて戦闘員の入り口を開くと、レッドストーンリピータの遅れが原因で、溶岩が天井から降らなくなる。ピストンを使用して2分遅れて、溶岩を天井から降らし、残っているすべてのプレイヤーを殺す！（または、溶岩の雨滴をかわす必要があるようにすること）（覚えておいてください：可燃性物質（木など）を使用しないこと）

• ドーム：観客が見ることができるようにガラスの巨大な球を作ること。

• 海上戦：ガラスのボウルに水のプールを作り、誰かが死ぬまで、各プレーヤーにボートを渡す。

• TNTフィールド：TNTをランダムに置き、起爆させる。きっとクレーターを作るだろう。クレーターを大きくするために複数のTNTを置く。今度はフェンスをその周りに置き、戦闘を開始させます！

• ナチュラル・ラヴァー・アリーナ：自然に生成された溶岩を見つける。金リンゴや耐火のポーションをたくさん入手する。あなたは戦闘中に燃え尽きるだろう。より多くの興奮と難しさを！

• モブアタック：隠されたモンスタースポーナーでアリーナを埋める。プレイヤーがモンスターと他のプレイヤーに攻撃されるのを見てください！

• スカイブロック：40×40の正方形を作り、50ブロック下に、水がある。次のブロックの間に1ブロックの空気を有する複数の層を作る。したがって、実際には互いに接触しているブロックはない。最初に落ちたプレイヤーが死ぬことはないが、2ブロックの間に複数のレイヤーを作成する。楽しみを追加するには、暗闇の中で目に見えない間にやってみましょう。しかし誰もがチェストプレートを着ていることを確認してください。

• トラップアリーナ：ほとんど観客のためのガラスの窓を持つ石造りのアリーナを作りなさい。それはピストン、溶岩、火、矢、および多くを含むトラップを持つでしょう！最大の失敗のためにトラップの近くにガラス部品を作ることを忘れないでください！また、プレイヤーがガラスが罠である事を告げるという考えを発達させた場合には、ガラスのないトラップを作るようにしなさい。この理由のためにガラスを追加しなさい。プレイヤーはアドベンチャーモードにする必要がある。

戦闘

これはPvPの様々なタイプの概要である。 さらなるセクションでこれをより詳細に説明することができる。

フレンドリーなPvP

フレンドリーなPvPとは、2人以上のプレイヤーがPvPに同意して、フレンドリーな練習とトレーニングのみを行うこと。フレンドリーなPvPはLANでプレイするのに最適である。これはPvPのための最小の敵対的なオプションである：

A) 恨みを避ける。

B) プレイヤーのドロップ品を盗まない。

C) 協力を奨励する。

D) プレイヤーはどんなタイプの武器でも心配することなく使用できる（例：素手、シャベル、斧...）

組織化されたPvP

組織化されたPvPでは、プレイヤーは戦いの状況に同意し、戦う。勝者は何かを受け取ることに同意することがあるかもしれない。

このタイプのPvPは非常に競争が激しいことがあり、プレーヤーはルールを実施するために公平な審判を必要とすることがある。

コンバットタイム！

戦う時間、剣で戦ったり、弓を踊らせたり、薬を飲んだり、鶏のように走り回ったりして、彼らが餓死することを望むことができます。 あなたが何をしても、勝てることを確認してください！

あなたの稲妻のような反応（またはバター指）で攻撃を避け、マウスの左クリックボタンをすばやくクリックして刺す。マウスの右ボタンを使用して、攻撃をブロックし、対戦相手をスプリントし、クリティカルヒットのために落下しながらヒット！（ヒント：あなたの下のブロックに触れておらず、あなたがクモの巣にいる場合は、落下としてカウントし、クリティカルヒットを与えられる！再びこれを行うときに移動するのも難しいので、それはマインドです。スパミングブロックとヒットが同時にヒットしてブロックされるため、ダメージを軽減しつつ、移動を減らしてダメージを処理することができる。あなたが練習、練習、そして練習をするなら、何もあなたと十分に装備されたキャラクターを止めることはありません！

プレイヤーの周りをサークル状に歩けば、彼らは決してあなたを打つことはできません！これはストラッピングと呼ばれている。または、直接アプローチを試みて、左クリックとWを迷うとコンボが作成される。また、壁で彼らは動けなくなるし、それらの周りにストラッピングするのが有利である、彼らは殴り続けられ、空中に吹き上げられ、あなたの下ではなく、同じ高さで誰かをヒットしにくくなる。

ストラッピングがうまく行かない狭い場所にいる場合は、右クリックと左クリックをスパムしようとしなさい。これはダメージが減るが、相手にダメージを与えることができる。

未編成PvP

これは、誰かが驚き、警告なしにあなたを攻撃する場合です。 このために武器を準備しておいてください！

反撃！

あなたが攻撃者よりも優れた装備を持っているなら、それらを殺すことができるだろう。この時点で、あなたのすべてを与える良い時間はありません。あなたの対戦相手を倒すために何もかもを利用ーMinecraftが提供するどのような方法であれ、悪用するべき。（戦闘ログ、ハッキング、その他のアウトオブゲームの方法は受け入れられない）常にエキストラを運ぶ。あなたは武器なしで戦闘に挑むことは決してない。したがって、エンチャント、エクストラ、一貫した補給などの戦闘で装備を容易に交換できるようにするためには、広範な措置を講じる必要がある。

ヒント：ダメージⅡの3種類のスプラッシュ・ポーションを使用して、相手または一般のプレイヤーを直接当てることは例外ではない。しかし、薬の範囲内に入っていると、あなたは自分自身を殺すようになることがあります！

逃げる！

エンダーパールと、うまくいけばスピードポーションを使用して、勝利のチャンスがほとんどない場合は使用する。逃走は本質的な危険を伴うものだが、おそらくその時点での唯一の希望だろう。

あなたの拠点にいる場合は、逃走が良い戦略であるかどうかを検討する。そうすれば、彼らはあなたのベースを襲撃するので、逃げれる可能性が高くなる。 （派閥があなたのサーバーにいない限り）

豚の食べ物に混ぜ...

豚が食べる。

これは混乱を招くかもしれないが、あなたが攻撃されたと言うことです。誰かがあなたの戦いに介入し、敵を攻撃した場合、あなたと新しいプレイヤーで敵を殺すことができる。それが終わったら、あなたは新しい相手と戦うが、おそらく負けるだろう。だからこそ、豚の食べ物と呼ばれている。なぜなら、あなたの嫌いな敵に迷うことなく、介入している人、豚である人に敗れたから。しかし、「豚」があなたを攻撃しない場合、あなたはその人に借りが出来たわけです。これは借金を返済する必要から、「食べる」方法です。 また、あなたは彼/彼女の体力が低いときに、2の間に勝ったプレイヤーを「クリーンアップ」する機会を持つことができる。

諦めない

今これは弱い声明のように聞こえるかもしれないけど、聞いてください。 誰かがあなたを攻撃すると仮定し、あなたの可能な逃げ場がありません。あなたはあなたを殺そうとしている男と、あなたが戦いに十分に精通していないという事実が嫌いです。正直言ってエスケープがなければ、あなたを襲うことになるだろう。ねえ、少なくともあなたは彼にダメージを負わせるよね？

また、雪玉のパワーを過小評価することもありません。

まったくダメージを受けませんが、雪玉はPVPの強力な武器です。体力が低くなった場合や、良い剣を持った別のプレイヤーがあなたの後ろに来た場合は、自分を守るために雪玉を投げてください。崖や溶岩に彼を落とすことができるかもしれません。あなたは容易に殺すために装備を壊すことさえできます。 が、これは1.8+では動作しません。

次は何？

• トーナメント：緒にいくつかのプレイヤーを得る：10人以上が良いです、そして、お互いに対して一度に2を入れる。あなたが勝ったら、別の勝者と戦う：あなたがもう一度勝利すれば、負けるか、勝者が1人しか残らなくなるまで、別の勝者と何度も戦うことになる。あなたは敗者と決して戦うことはない：彼らが負けた場合、おそらく第3位の戦いを除いて出ている。
• フリー・フォー・オールズ/ラスト・マン・スタンディング：10人以上のプレイヤーが同時にアリーナで戦う。たぶん、迷惑をかけたり、あまりにも多くのことを誓う人がいます—誰がそれらを殺そうとしたくないのだろう...？
• チーム：同等のチームで10人以上のプレイヤー。最終的に生き残ったプレイヤーが多いチームが勝利する。
• 非公式のデュエルズ：あなたが本当に嫌いの人がいるが、あなたは彼よりも多くのTNTを持っていますか？彼を呼び出し、イエスがはいったら、戦闘を開始しする。ああ、溶岩を注ぐ（TNTと火打ち石と打ち金の焼き込みのような）多くのファウルが起こるだろうが、これはまだカウントされていないので、非公式のデュエルズと呼ばれている理由である。
• サバイバル：10人以上のプレイヤーで、アリーナで怪物のスポナーを作る。すべてのプレイヤーに木の剣を与えます。クリーパーは駄目です。最後まで生き残った人が勝利。プレイヤーはライバルを攻撃してそれらを殺すか、チームを作り、勝利を分かち合うことができる。

実際の戦術

攻撃関連

• 幸せを誘発する。

練習。それがマルチプレイヤーにあるかどうか。 移動する目標を攻撃する練習する。これはあなたがどれだけうまく殴れ、あなたの反射を鋭くすることができるかを鍛えることができる。

• ラウンドとラウンド

戦いをするとき、通常の反射？チャージ敵、迷惑メールマウス。さて、これはかなり普通ですが、これを行うよりスマートな方法があります。円に入る： w a s d w a s d。シンプルだが、戦術としては効果的だ。これにより、相手に十分なダメージを与えることができながら、かなりの量のダメージを受けずにすむ。

• 雪玉

Equipment saves lives, mostly your own. Keep some snowballs with you to knock enemies back. It MIGHT give the impression they are being attacked. It also knocks them back and gives you more space from him. Most of them will try to use their oh-so-powerful sword and charge you, back off (skirmish). Take note that snowballs will also damage armor, so if you see someone in full Gold Armor for its Enchantibility, don't be afraid to pelt them with Snowballs.

Tip: Snowballs are cheap, easy-to-mass-produce armor killers! Do not pass up this attack! Keep snow golems in your base for this! Unfortunately… it takes a little less than 4 chests of them to destroy diamond armor. The value of this on gold armor, however, is amazing.

• ストラッピング戦術

PvPは、常に剣で誰かを攻撃している間、常に1つの場所に留まっているわけではありません。あなたの敵の周りながら殴っているときは、特にダイヤモンドの武器を持っている場合は、実際にあなたのベーコンを救うことができます。あなたを攻撃しているプレイヤーは、矢を打つ前に遅れがあるので、弓を先に向けなければならないので、それらを混乱させる可能性があり、ヒットを避けることができます。あなたの相手があなたを襲うのをさらに困難にするには、スピードのポーションを使います。しかし、壁のような障害物や溶岩やサボテンのような危険があるときは、できるだけ避けるべきです。ほとんどの人はストリーフをしないので、あなたの利点です。

• デコイを展開する

グループや派閥に所属していて,サーバーで評判になっている場合は,この機能を利用してみてください。 苗木近くに偽のベースを作成します(地上の低いベースや地上の黒曜石のような,説得力のあるものにします)。 このベースには何も格納せず,Piston Pitfall トラップや Button-Activated トラップなどのトラップを作成します。 本拠点を前提に,この拠点に人がやってきます(必ずしもうまくいくとは限りません)。 これは主に派閥のサーバで動作しますが,これらのサーバを十分設計できれば,非 Faction PvP サーバと互換性があります)。 一度わなに陥って死んだら,彼らの品物を取り出すことができる。 これは,コスト,アイテム,および PvP 供給の非常に大きな源です。

• ジャガーノートとして処罰。

Most PvP servers are unruly and free-for-all situations. Now what's the best thing you can get? Victory and Survival! What's the best tool? Juggernaut-like armor (and some brains mixed in)! First, you'll need to find iron or diamonds. Watch out for people, because they'll most likely be on the same track. Second, brew potions such as strength, health, regen, and invisibility. Third, enchant everything. Enchant the armor for maximum Protection. Enchant the sword to maximum Sharpness with Fire Aspect, Knockback, etc. Remember, Sharpness is the only generic damage booster. Smite and Bane of Arthropods V may seem impressive, but in a PvP situation they are useless. A useful PvP only fighter is the Juggernaut Supreme build with a powerful bow and a few arrows.

If you have 15 players on your team you can use roman techniques like the one below. note - represents one player. use this when attacking a base. The reasoning for this technique is that the enemy will believe that the middle is a weakness therefore do an attack towards the middle giving. When they do you can surround them.

Defense Related

• Make a trap!

Redstone is a vital skill to learn. The ability to make unseen and creative traps allows for the killing of enemies whose diamond-plated armor might be otherwise unstoppable. For example, the first thing enemies would normally do is take out the water around the base and replace it with lava. If that happens, and you have a bud to confirm that water is still there, TNT is supposed to be set off under a pile of sand, with water to block out the damage to the environment (be careful using it without water, you'll probably get more damage done than you bargained for) and torches to break the sand. Maybe even not add torches to suffocate the enemies, but the explosion will be reduced. Another use is emergency switches. Set your faction's spawn point in a 2×2 hallway. Put an emergency button to pull in the blocks under you with sticky pistons and the enemy will fall into lava. Note that this is guaranteed to waste the enemy's armor, not to kill him. Use a button, not a lever! Stay around to ensure that the enemy cannot teleport to his faction home.

• Extremely thick walls. For the paranoid. Make walls 20-40 layers deep if you want. This is not a death trap. This is meant to give you enough time to escape. Though, most players will be weakened/don't want to take the trouble after 3-6 blocks, determined people will go somewhere around 10-15, and only madmen will mine through all 20-40 blocks.
• A really neat hybrid defencive and offensive tactic is to coat your inner walls with cascading of lava. The lava not only protects your base from TNT cannons, but also turns anyone who attempts to break in into an instant Korean BBQ.

• Secret switches. Not always will enemies come via broken brick walls. They might just come through the front door. Hide your entrances and fool enemies with fake entrances. Make sure all your team knows of them.

• Spleef o' Death. Dudes in diamond might come and kill you and raid your chests. You are in iron, huh? Shovels are your weapon here. Put snow blocks as the one layer floor block, dig all the way to bedrock, lay TNT everywhere (just make sure it is out of reach from your base), and depending on how strong they are or how much you hate your enemy, put a manual switch or lay tripwire to automatically blow them up. Note that you might not get their loot.

• Gas Chamber. Cram dispensers in the walls of a tight hallway, load them with damage potions, lead a rapid clicker to them, place a switch to restrain it, and then put sticky pistons in the walls to trap people in separate rooms. Nothing, not even Heavy weapon dudes with so much as Protection X (not that that enchantment is available without editing the NBT file) can survive.

• Keep your distance

You can melee other players, but you'll need a fast clicking pace and some conditions to fight. Keep your distance! An enchanted bow is the best against an armored player. Regular bows work as well. The only case where you have no choice but to melee is when you're out of ammunition or if marksmanship isn't your thing. Even at point blank range, a bow could be a better choice, fully charged it sends a critical hit the power of a diamond sword!

• Your money won't save you

Whilst in the middle of a multi-player PVP standing around and checking out the loot from the guy you just killed is just being a burden on your group, having to protect you and in most cases they won't protect you, most likely getting you killed and losing the loot you just got and your original possessions. Although a bit of scenario analysis is also needed (i.e. take this advice with a pinch of salt). Just grab whatever loot there is and continue the fight.

• Tunnel Escape Route Tactics

Although an escape tunnel is a great idea, your enemies might follow you through. To combat this, you should have a lot of dirt at hand. Simply block up the top part of the tunnel. Don't block the bottom, as placing blocks on the bottom lets your enemy shoot arrows. (NOTE: The tunnel must be 1×2 to make it easier.) It usually takes longer to dig through the dirt than placing it. Plus, this can easily frustrate your enemies heavily. An alternative is to have dirt ceilings in the tunnel with sand or gravel on top, so if someone comes, you can break the dirt to drop the gravel or sand, which can be much easier. Using torches to support multiple columns with one block is suggested, as it can take 1 block broken to cause a huge blockade. Alternatively, make a 1-block deep ditch in the ground. When your enemies come, fill the pit with soul sand or water, slowing them. Again, this will create an ENORMOUS amount of rage in your opponents, as they usually will have to get through a long period of block removal before they mobilize. But, this can make your enemies more enraged and chase you harder.

• Block

If someone is pummeling you with arrows and you cannot dodge them, block them by right click holding your sword. This will reduce incoming damage by half. Block in between shots while trying to get closer to them.

• Keep armor and a sword on you at all times

You might have iron armor and a pickaxe mining in a well known mine, but you're not very hard to defeat against someone without armor but a stone sword, which is the first weapon people settle for. Keep a sword on you at all times and hopefully you can retaliate, plus, keep armor, even if it is basic leather or even the fragile gold armor, so if someone does attack you, you can still live to turn around and kill your attempted killer.

• Safety first

When you are using lava or TNT, bring some obsidian and/or a water bucket. This will protect you from explosions and burning.

• Be Vigilant

On a PvP server, you never know where people are. Even if you are far away from spawn someone may be spying on you, stalking you, waiting to attack or worse. Never think you are alone, always assume someone is near you and will attack you. Keep your fingers ready to whip out your sword.

Don't Trust Anyone

Prime rule. Do not trust anyone. If there is an online map, use it to track locations of people. Stay away from other guys. If they offer to let you in their faction just if you do something very simple for them, there may be something underhanded about the deal. They might kick you out or even kill you immediately if they give no notice they want you (on servers with the Factions plugin for Bukkit). Be ready for that just as ready as when attacking. Assume that everyone will stab you in the back. Also on some servers there are teleport commands. On a PvP server, if you get a random teleport request from someone you don't know, never accept it! They only randomly teleport to look for a victim to raid and kill. Also, don't accept it if you think you have better stuff, you may not know what they have in their arsenal and also on some servers there is a /back command. Even if you kill them, they can teleport back and camp there. If someone wants to fight in a 1-versus-1 face-off, be careful if you accept. They may bring someone along to "watch." Take this advice with care, since putting too much trust in even your best combatant might get you in an irreparable situation.

Wolves are your Friends

Usually you'll die alone from fighting a player with a better advantage than you, but this can be a different story altogether if you have wolves or golems with you. Wolves will follow and protect you, and unless your enemy is smart enough to set up a hidden advantage or just blatantly stupid, will not bother attacking you because most know they will die from a pack of wolves attacking them. Even though a wolf has no armor and only has an attack strength of 4 life points, a pack of them can still pack a punch. Iron golems are a good choice as well as your attacker might accidentally hit the iron golem, in which case it will attack them, and even diamond equipment is second to the strength and health of an Iron Golem. After one of the Golems attacking, the enemy will have to retreat. You do not have to worry about aggravating the iron golem if it is made by you, as Iron golems will never attack their creator. Using snow golems to damage armor excessively also is effective.

Note: Iron golems are neutral mobs and do not attack players unless provoked, and remember to take rotten flesh to heal your wolves.

Other Tactics

Humiliation

If you really hate someone, make a place near their base/main spawn. Then expose yourself. In that place, you need to leave TNT or whatever will kill the enemy. It kills you as well, but it's for your enemy. If you are slightly less suicidal, such as on a hardcore (death-ban / death-temp-ban) server, make the same sort of house, make it plainly visible to them, but design it to kill them and leave you standing. This can be efficiently done by filling the walls, floor, and ceiling with TNT, and making a small room, not very visible, deep inside, make it out of solid obsidian, but leave the entrance clear, put a lever triggering the traps(TNT, preferably some lava, too. wait inside for them to come in, once they do, get in the obsidian room (cost=4×3×3-4=32 blocks of obsidian) then use the remaining 2 in your inventory to patch it closed, it should be wired with a lever to activate the traps, hopefully killing anyone else in the home.

Suggestions for PvP Setup

It is recommended to have the best armor, weapons, and items you can in any fight, in order to maximize chances of victory. However, be sure to be as minimalist as possible; doing so will allow for easier inventory management and weapon changing. Put Unbreaking III on anything you can. This is a good rule of thumb for PvP and Minecraft in general. Make sure your sword has enough durability, or bring a spare. Having your sword break is just downright terrible, especially in a tense match. Put Infinity I on your bow or bring 32-128 arrows. Bring the bow!

Strategic Tactics

In general, don't go charging at someone before you plan every single step you take.

The following factors are of immense strategic value:

• A map. Not only it will help you see the environment around you, but it will also indicate where other players are.
• Fully Functional, Armed, and Finished Base: A base is always a good choice in PvP servers. To make sure that nobody will find your base try and base it in an ocean biome, underground. Or…
• Skybase: A base floating in the air is difficult to access, especially if it is built above an ocean. It will be difficult to locate and difficult to break into, as long as it is fortified with obsidian. Best when used on factions servers especially, but only if you are smart about laying out land. Just make sure you can access it.
• The best equipment possible.

Or live on the run, without a home base or faction. Raid any unoccupied bases you see and never stop, apart from the evenings when therefore you hide out in somebodies' base when you can find it. There is no problem with living on the run as you can never really be targeted as they do not know where the target is (unless they have a map) and you can get free loot from raided chests.

Keep in mind that small tactics like this are quite fruitful!

Switch Tactics

You may be pretty powerful with your not-inconsiderable Protection IV diamond armor and Sharpness V Knockback II and Fire Aspect II sword. However, as diamonds are not exactly impossible to find and more people will attempt diamond swords and enchants, staying with this setup is not recommended. Sooner or later, their sheer number will make your PvP a button mash while surviving in a free-for-all becomes luck-based. Therefore, keep different weapons on you. Here's some ideas:

1. Poison them.
2. Use a fire charge to burn them.
3. Use snowballs or eggs; these are cheap rapid-fire armor breakers.
4. Use Punch II bows to knock them back.
5. Strafing your opponent can turn the tides of battle. Do so by rapidly spamming "A" and "D" while you hit your opponent. Doing so will cause difficulty while trying to hit you!

All this is vital, as the once invincible enchanted diamond armor is now commonplace for any serious PvP player.

Use monsters to your advantage

Let's say you're in a small guerrilla faction. Your members in your faction aren't half bad. However, the only problem is that there are a few people. They don't mine or gather too much, although they are quite skilled. The problem here is that even if they don't die much, they still do. Instead of using people that need supplies, why not make an army that purely just spawns with them? An army of skeletons is best, although zombies work too. If you can, try to get your hands on wither skeletons, that can attack with their stone swords and still give the Wither effect, or better yet, give them bows long forgotten and unneeded so that they can shoot fire arrows and set the enemy on fire, although this may take more time to wait for them to spawn and transporting them is more difficult. Find a skeleton monster spawner, set up a network of water transportation (if you are using wither skeletons, try using lava), bring them to a certain room, with someone in there. Then, when the time comes and somebody comes to raid the base, unleash them. Such an army does not mine diamonds for you, but even so they're useful by the fact that they're easy to find and easily replaceable.

Organized PvP

"Organized PvP" would be a non-free-for-all and small-amount-of-factions PvP. Suppose there are only 2 factions, one is evil and one is good (or they are neither). Below are some tutorials for if there are only about 2-4 factions (recommended for only 2 factions) and is a very organized player versus player. This could be useful if there happens to be a ranking system on the server. I was very creative with this and it is also recommended for lots of players play at once. I would love for you to put your own ideas on here. It would be good to mark the team you're on on your structures so you don't accidentally wander into an enemy's ship and get yourself killed.

Structures

• Standard Base

A base made of cobblestone with several chests and beds for allies.

• Heavy Base

A base made of 3 layers of cobblestone and about 50 beds and over 100-150 chests. Recommended to have a tree farm.

• Hidden base

Very small but easily camouflageable. Do not make this base more than 15 blocks wide, or it will lose its ability to hide. Cave or jungle biomes are your best bet for making this base. To hide its identity more, add leaves and other natural resources around it. You could even add portal entrances to the base, so baddies can not infiltrate inside the base from outside.

• Destroyer

A huge sky base with 200 beds, 200 chests and made of stone bricks with people monitoring the outside with Dispenser turrets and other advanced weaponry. The only way for it to be destroyed fast would be lots of TNT. If you wish to mass-produce these,you really should build a Cobblestone farm.

• Battlecruiser

A medium sized sky base with enough space for 100 troops and lots of storage and requires lots of Cobblestone.

• Turret

A Redstone turret with a Redstone clock and a rapid fire Redstone gun that shoots about 3 arrows/second. Recommended for the guns to be high and blocked off.

• Cobble Farm

Recommended to mass-produce everything above. Creates cobblestone with Lava and Water.

• Local Brewery

Made of about 3 layers of cobble, with creeper and witch farms (or just a lot of chests with these materials in them) and dispenser guns. Make sure to have about 10 brewing stands and people operating them, with about 20-30 beds and chests. Put splash potions of harming, poison, and weakness in the guns, hook up a redstone clock, and watch the fireworks.

• Redstone House

This house is the trap of them all! Make the house look very inviting, iron blocks behind the glass, chests everywhere, and maybe a sign that was "supposed" to be to a friend for a secret entrance. They walk in the door, see the chests, and open them, only the chests are trapped chests! When they are activated, you can have them shoot arrows, lava, or even TNT! Make sure to add a piston that blocks the door when the chest is opened too!

Troops

• Standard

A troop with Iron Armor and a Bow enchanted with Infinity I and Unbreaking and 1 arrow

• Officer

Commands troops with the number depending on the rank you give him

• Commando

Has Enchanted Iron Armor with Protection 2 and Unbreaking 1 and Enchanted Iron Sword with Sharpness 2, Knockback 1 and fire aspect 1, plus Bows with Infinity and Unbreaking with 1 arrow.

• Gunner

Has at least Chain Armor plus his weapon of choice and operates Redstone turrets

• Monitor

Has Iron Armor and watches your Destroyers (see above)

• Pilot

For those experienced with using elytra (1.9 only). Equips full Projectile Protection armor with Feather Falling IV (minus chestplate), elytra, a Punch II bow for boosting oneself in midair, and a fully enchanted bow for dealing damage from above. Try equipping potions if aim is good. A Knockback II sword is also good if your enemy has the same ideas. Pack a lot of steak and arrows (or Infinity).

• Guard

Has Iron Armor enchanted to the max and Diamond Swords. Guards you and prison cells (if you happen to capture your enemies)

Faction Wars

This can be done with a Factions plugin or through other means. This is when a group attempts to irreparably exterminate members on another group and later destroy or loot all property of said group. These can range from a surprise attack to a formal challenge of two armies, and can have up to hundreds of warriors on either side (though this is extremely rare and may cause lag). In some servers you may be asked to pick a team without knowing who is on it.

Sabotage

If you can't hurt them from the outside, hurt them from the inside! If possible, join your enemy faction while you are still able to. If you get into their base as a faction member, wait until the faction moderators are all offline. This is the best time to strike. Take their best valuables, then break the furnaces, chests, and burn the items with a flint & steel. If they have a water mine, block the water. If they have a staircase mine, put a lava or two at the top. Go the "f home' and dig a hole. Put lava in it, from the ceiling and make a wall so as soon as they "f home" they will constantly respawn in lava. If you have spare lava, fill the place with it! Make sure that there aren't any hidden chests, and destroy the farms if no one in the faction catches on. If possible, if they don't know you griefed/raided them, wait until they repair their bases with more food/loot and restart the process! Remember to give loot to your actual team after each raid.

Infiltration

In most, if not all faction servers, there is a plugin that allows factions to claim chunks of land. If you are raiding a base, there is a 99% chance that they have claimed their base. So how do you get in? Here's how.

1. Scout out weaknesses: Occasionally, your enemy may have carelessly built part of their wall in unclaimed territory, allowing you to simply mine away the wall. They could have also left a hole or entrance connection their base to the outside, negating the need for you to make your own entrances. Finally, a wooden base is incredibly flammable and there is a flint and steel you can craft...

2. Use a TNT cannon: Any block except obsidian or bedrock will break down with a couple of well-aimed TNT blasts. Set up your cannon and fire away until the walls comes tumbling down.

Do note that certain servers have plugins that enable obsidian to be destroyed by a sufficient amount of TNT. If that's the case, then set up your TNT cannon and blow up a hole in it. There are bases that have obsidian covered in water, you CAN TNT-cannon in, but before that, either you have to turn that water to cobblestone or you have to fire sand in using the TNT cannon. Then after you've covered the water, fire your TNT in, now you have a hole to enter their base. If these servers do not have these modifications, on servers with the essentials plugin (Basically every factions server), if you sethome in a "dangerous" thing, such as lava and water, it will teleport you to the safest place. Abusing this glitch to get into bases where they have water underneath them or on top of them to prevent from being exploded, you can sethome at the side of the base in the water, walk away and use your command to go to that home, usually you will be teleported inside of the base, but a way to counter this is to layer your base twice, what this means is you put a second layer around your base that can fit a player on all sides, then create a box inside of there, then even if someone glitches in, they are stuck in the outside layer and cannot get to your chests.

3. Ender Pearling: If you throw an ender pearl up at a roof, your head will get stuck in it, and if you throw another ender pearl up while in that state, the ender pearl will go through the roof. A way to combat this is to make your ordinary floor, dig 1 block below each block of your floor, and fill it with lava.

Note : Some servers prevent you from enderpearling right next to a block.

Raiding

If you intend to explore the full tactical armory of PvP, then a helpful one and likely the first is the raid.

Simply put, a raid is the theft of materials from the property of another player and killing enemy team members. Raids have a pro and a con.

• It drains the resources that can be used against you and increases your own resources.
• It increases your priority on their hit list.

There are three different types of faction raids:

1: TNT raid. Most of the time, nobody in a faction is online. In this case, simply bash the walls with TNT and then steal everything from the chests. This is very difficult on underground and obsidian bases though, which is why usually you will do a…

2: Claim raid. This means that you will simply kill players in the opposing faction when they are online and claim their land. This is the only way to raid factions with huge obsidian walls.

3: Stealth raid. Though it is possible, but really hard, your faction can send a few of your faction members to attempt to raid the base without being seen. This is especially useful, if the enemy's base isn't tightly secured, but stealth is most likely playing russian roulette.

Generally, raids are worth the risk. There are two objects that are absolutely necessary if you want the raid to be effective and efficient.

• Lots of food.
• An Efficiency IV diamond pickaxe.(as of 1.4+, you can combine two Efficiency IV enchanted books in an anvil or put one of the Efficiency IV enchanted books on the Efficiency IV pick to get an Efficiency V Pick)

The first is always needed since this may take some time. However, you may wonder why the list contains an enchanted diamond pick. It's because you can break almost anything fast. Without a powerful pick like this, the odds are that the owner will have mowed you down before you could even get inside their base! Therefore, you must be fast.

Choosing a base is easy, and really, an unmanned base is a dead base. When a minimal amount of people are manning the base, then you can strike. Steal all goods. Remember that your point is sabotage, and so you should dispose of all you didn't steal. If you really want to damage them, clog all entry points. Don't stay around too long, though. Take a minute longer and they might be online and hunting you down, in the end you're just wasting your time.

Some tips:

1. If it's reinforced with obsidian, even so it's likely they'd leave a door or something for ease of access. Enter there if necessary.
2. If you just want the enemy's equipment, then do it when nobody's around the base.
3. Creepers will be easier to control than TNT since you can lure them to the enemy's walls. Just be sure to wear some armor.
4. To find some bases, you can just randomly teleport to some people in the server, if there is a teleport trap where you cannot get out, usually you can sethome in that place as you are dying, come back with new gear and go try to kill them as they open it up to get the items, if it is a hole trap where they just hit you try to enderpearl out, people mostly idiotically make these smack dab in their base, so now you can get all of their items, setting home in a base is a very effective way to raid, as you can raid while they are offline, if it is an enemys territory, it is not known commonly that you can do /esethome and you can sethome in an enemy base.
5. If you know the base coordinates, go into the Nether. Walk/teleport to your enemy's coordinates divided by eight. Build a portal, and when you go back to the Overworld, you will be in the enemy's base.

Tactical Planning

Keep in mind that faction wars are not always about combat. It's about preparations and knowledge in order to turn the tide exponentially in your favor, such as how you can slay a guy in diamond armor with only iron armor and win a battle before going out to war. You can't rush into an attack, you need to plan it.

First of all, PvP is clearly about fighting and killing your enemy before he kills you. Here's the lowdown on your armor.

If someone has Protection III diamond armor, it takes without them healing…

• 172 hearts (344 health) from bow or sword damage
• 34 hearts from fire or falling
• 10 hearts from potions, drowning or suffocation
• Tossing them in the Void somehow is a certain death.

Now say a new enemy has come and he has Protection IV armor, with a Sharpness V sword, and an obsidian base. Attacking him would be suicidal in a fair fight (unless you have better equipment). First, send someone to scout his base while you prepare a full assault. TNT his base and ruin the defenses.This allows you to eliminate his source of power. Then, send someone to cause a diversion to distract him. He'll be chased all the way until he comes back and finds the smoldering ruin that was his home. Lead him to a terrain useful to you,such as a cliff where the wall is shaved clean for at least 64 blocks with a diamond block next to the edge. By the time he realizes you were invisible behind him with a Punch II bow, it's too late. A plan like this might be hard to follow, but brains beats brawn. You may also fake running away and at the last second, strafe around and hit him with a knockback II sword, its usually certain death if you can find the right cliff.

Always make sure every fight is strongly in your favor. Go to reasonable lengths to ensure you can attack but he cannot retaliate, or sacrifice to gain power, such as you losing 5 hearts though snowballing him but in the process breaking his diamond armor.

Behind Enemy Lines

As stated earlier, faction wars are not always about fighting. Although the point of a Faction War is to demolish, a clear assessment about the other side is very helpful in doing so. Let's go into another scenario. Another faction is the strongest faction but is secretive, stealthy, mean, and very rich. Your faction has never liked them, and in fact, hated them. But in terms of pure force, your faction is outclassed. They need you. Now, they equip you with invisibility potions, a diamond sword, a bucket of milk to wear off the effects of a splash potion of poison and 3 of harming, a bow with 128 arrows, and 32 pieces of pork. Throw in some Fireworks for distractions, and you're ready to go. The whole faction depends on you!

Now, as a spy, don't ever alert them to your position, because even if they don't know who you are, you are someone sneaking around their base, and they will pursue. To do that, you must follow some steps.

1. Leave an object to hold Shift to sneak and make it so that nobody sees your nametag. You don't have to sneak if you are invisible, but you will leave particles if you run. Don't run ever.
2. Make no noise, under any circumstances. To recap: no noise ever!
3. If they catch you, they will certainly declare war. Kill yourself with permission from the faction leaders unless in hardcore to escape discovery if they are closing in. Be warned that you must use fire or risk your item drops being seen. Alternatively, if the server allows it, teleport out using /tpa <player>. You may also use the command /espawn if you are in enemy territory.
4. Even if you know you aren't in reach of one, setting off a trap gives you away! Even if you are safe from it, setting it off may also alert whoever is in the control room. Take alternate routes. The only reason to try to defuse a trap is if there is no other way. Or if there is no other way because of people blocking you, you can set off the trap on purpose to direct attention to hide and kill anyone who comes to check the trap out.
5. Always have an escape route. (ex. Ender Pearls, /spawn or /tpa, etc.…) If enemies have set their particles to "all" in the options, they CAN see potion particles emanating from your invisible character and you need a way to avoid being discovered.

Make note of everything. Don't write on a book and quill, write it on pen and paper to avoid being exposed, but write it on an in-game book later. This intelligence is most important, and can get you one step closer to victory. Do not forget that secrecy is required. Report back to your base once you think you have more than enough information on the enemy and that is when you can declare war. Another trick is to (if in a faction server) station your teammates nearby. (Say, a mountain bunker in the distance) That way, if you are caught and running for your life, you can send a distress signal signal or flares (The most obvious thing would be fireworks).

One other trick is to pay attention to what you hear. Say you are in the base, and you hear someone munching on food. Avoid them as quick as you can. If you hear a nether portal, then your team may be able to build a corresponding portal in the Nether and invade through the enemy's portal.

Base Building

Building a base to protect yourself from the diamond swords and the arrows? Good work! Here are some tips to help you make your base even more efficient: (Note that the marvelous Multiplayer PvP Bases guide is also useful.)

1: Size: Bigger may not be better, as a visible structure gains visibility the larger it is, and leaves more space unguarded. On the flip side, big bases are very good for large amounts of people that are working on something together, and can hold more munitions. A small base is also dangerous, because it will be very easily demolished.

2: Type: One effective type of base is a base that is deep underground. Here enemies will take days to hunt you down, while you survive on a farm and branch mine for diamonds.

Another base, meant for continuous habitation, is far above the world. Therefore enemies will be required to build up to it. Unless a prohibitively expensive defensive structure is used to get up, they can be easily pummeled with arrows, a single one of which could send them falling to their death or at least making them restart. For sky fortress builders, the most important rule is to not have any spots that is out of the fortresses' archers' line-of sight. Try building the bottom floor in a "multiple ring" shape to do this.

Also make a disabled nether portal that will upon activation become an escape (disable it to ensure that it cannot accidentally link up to another portal). Bases in mid-air are effective during a raid, when manned, as entry is all but impossible. Again, this base type is best for continuous habitation, but it is only slightly more protected than a house on the ground if nobody is manning it. Also make sure to put cobwebs all over the bottom to stop ender pearl glitching.

3: Defenses: Every good base needs traps and defenses! First of all, we have the wall. A good wall should contain at least one obsidian or water layer to shield explosive force, and require at least one minute to mine through with an unenchanted diamond pickaxe. To further prolong base penetration, chessboard wood and cobble to force players to slowly break wood or switch from axe to pick. Traps are great defenses to surprise enemies that make it through the wall, but are generally not infallible.

Note that self building walls can be useful during an attack to repair severe damage (aka the TNT equivalent of a bunker missile). However, remember that a trespasser will not simply pound at the wall forever (unless they are monotonously dedicated to it). Eventually,they will most likely climb it with blocks, or disable it by destroying the mechanism.

4: Allies This is one of the great secrets to PvP mastery! Trustworthy allies can be useful in many tasks, from grunt work to being the safe keeper of your gold. Be careful whom you choose for an ally, as treachery or lack of skill can easily hamper or destroy your attempts to thrive in PvP. Haste in that aspect is generally a waste.

5: Tough Base with a Factions Plugin If the server you're playing on has the Factions plugin, you can create an impenetrable base with water and cheap walls. To do this, dig a hole along the border of claimed land (INSIDE your faction land, otherwise it can be blocked up or destroyed) all the way to bedrock. Next, cover your base with water, including the sides and roof, and let it flow down to bedrock. Make sure TNT cannot land anywhere in the base. There should be no blocks connecting your base to the wilderness. The water acts as a shield, making your base invulnerable to TNT, and impassable by enemies. The only way to counter this is make a sand/gravel cannon (a TNT cannon that shoots the falling gravel/sand instead).This can also be countered by a team of people using Wither.

Skybase

Gather enough dirt to build to the build limit (about 3 stacks). Then pillar jump with all of it, or until you reach the build limit. Then dig 17 blocks down. Place 1 obsidian by pillar jumping with it, mark that corner, then build a 12×12 obsidian platform. (Set home to platform if /home is enabled!) Then find the corner you marked, dig down, (you should see dirt, and not fall), dig 2 more dirt down, replace the obsidian, and coat the bottom with lava. (Fire Resistance is highly recommended) Enderpearl down, dig the bottom block of dirt, and dig a 12×12×2 trench where the lava lands. Then teleport up, either with an enderpearl (may take multiple tries) or /home. You can now add necessary items to your new base as needed. And finally, add redstone blocks around the edge, and build rings around the platform at a lower level for archers and potion lobbers to walk on.

Security

Building a base? Smart. However, check that your seemingly secure base is not vulnerable. Time to troubleshoot!

• Problem: Enemies can easily blow up walls and tunnel through them.

Solution: Reinforce the walls with rings of obsidian embedded in it to break TNT impact and deter speedy tunneling, and coat with water. To prevent glitching in, create two layers, the first layer is one that someone can teleport into with the teleport glitch (explained earlier) with a place on every side that a player can get into, then create a box in the middle, the second layer so that the person who glitched in cannot get to your chests, put two coats of obsidian on this layer so that the person cannot block glitch into your chests.

• Problem: An air based attack gets you quite often.

Solution: Build tall ladder shafts around the perimeter so that you can climb them and shoot off the enemy.

• Problem: Enemies eventually get through your walls.

Solution: Put lava falls to help deter them and have archers constantly patrolling the walls.

• Problem: Don't have any lava.

Solution: The Nether is there for open use.

• Problem: Enemies tunnel under your base.

Solution: Dig a long 1 block wide trench all around your base beyond the walls all the way to bedrock. Occasionally look down it, and if you spot any gaps in the "canyon" in the form of tunnels, ladder down and attack.

• Problem: You have bricked yourself in.

Solution: Find a way to put an inactive nether portal to another dimension in your base so you can portal away, or build your base around an end portal, or build tunnels.

Self-Destruct and Escape!

If the base is being raided, and your hand is forced, activate the self-destruct on your base. It is very important to keep one on hand at all times and also have an escape. The self-destruct must be designed to overwhelmingly destroy all life inside the base and the base itself but also be well-hidden. This is hard and so you should experiment. In times of need, start the lethal countdown and escape. Ender chests are good for these kinds of bases, as they don't drop their content and it can be accessed anywhere as long as you have another one.

Escape pods are essential for above-ground bases as they will drop you deep underground into a water spot, where you can dig (possibly minecart) yourself up to the ground and escape with your friends (if you have more than just one pod) to far away from the base. You can lock the escape pods with pistons to prevent enemies follow you when attempting to escape.

Keep In Touch

Not all of your faction skirmishes in the PvP world will be set up beforehand. Organize raids with your faction. Find some server to host a voice chat box with your teammates. This will allow you to coordinate your attacks on hostile bases and their creations. The more connected you are with your fellow faction members, the more likely you are to emerge victorious. Keep in touch with them and increase your odds of success.

Keep Your Own Bases

Let's say that you have just moved in with your awesome new faction. They have diamonds, dozens of anvils, and general awesomeness. Now, a faction war has started, and you have no base, no food, nothing except what the faction gave you. This is dangerous. In the event the faction fails you are defenseless. Trust nobody and keep a secret base all to yourself. Put a home there and be safe from pursuers and spawncampers. Be ready! If you need to and fear that the faction is about to fall, steal some items and leave the faction when necessary.

Don't be Afraid to be a Rōnin

Rōnin were Japanese Samurai who went rogue after their master was killed. If your group's/faction's leader has been killed, or you just feel like it, don't be afraid to go rogue. In order to do so successfully, you need to follow certain rules. First, you need to either decide whether you want to be a wandering rogue, or a bandit-style rogue. Wandering rogue life is relatively simple. You wander around, and occasionally raid abandoned or unguarded bases, and avoiding other players at all costs. If you decide on this, you can refer to the nomadic experience tutorial to help you get started. If you want to be a bandit-style rogue, however, then you need a top secret base of operations, and lots of equipment. Only engage people if you are 100% sure you can win, and escape as quickly as possible. Trust no one, let no one see you. Although the life of a rogue may not be as action-packed as being in a faction, it is certainly profitable, and once you have enough stuff, you might be able to join a new faction, either to settle down or backstab them, get their stuff, and move on to the next gullible faction.

Mass Battle

PvP in large factions can include multiple scenarios, from individual murders or attempts to murder, to entire factions battling it out with lines of defense, barricades, and tunnels.

Open-Field Battle

To make it brief, an open field battle is the combat of multiple factions in an open area. This can cause chaos and may lead to a slaughter in the right conditions. Be sure to be well-stocked for this.

First of all, the open field battle playstyle is to have minimal life lost on your side no matter what, even above the victory itself. Why? Because of damage distribution and momentum.

Think about it like this. With lots of people on one side, as well as regeneration from a full hunger bar slowly healing each player (and health potions), the whole army in general is almost continuously regaining health. (If your army's hunger bar isn't full, you shouldn't be in a battle!) Since all the opponent's damage is not placed in a concentrated area, every person alive is in a sense helping heal others. When someone dies, their regeneration and health is lost. So is their ability to fight, and the formation they were in is weakened, so momentum in terms of a steady advance is lost. Therefore minimal life loss is the goal throughout the battle.

There are three major melee builds, which will be discussed more in depth later. They are:

• The juggernaut. These are heavily enchanted soldiers. Highly costly to make!
• The infantry. These are normally armored soldiers without enchantments. They are cheap on everything but Iron.
• The exotic. These are users of exotic weapons with varying armor levels. They are not very difficult but suicidal hard in certain cases. Not very costly, but takes time to make.

It is tempting in an organized battle to do one of two things:

1. Charge the enemy.
2. Run from the main areas of combat to camp the areas nobody goes to.

Charging the enemy is a waste of time and durability due to damage distribution. It is also near suicidal due to the large number of weapons present. Running wastes time as well and is both cowardly and counterproductive, as then damage distribution will be far less useful.

Instead, have all your soldiers in a group and have a continuously switching front line.

The first situation is if the enemy has large numbers of archers. Send a wave of soldiers charging in, with moderate armor, a few Instant Damage II potions, and some skill.

If they don't have archers, they will run or charge. If they run, have archers retreat to the back lines and then have the whole army sprint, bunching Juggernauts close to the front line while staying together, for maximum impact.

If they charge, stop their forward momentum with arrows, shooting when they are 10–15 meters away. Then the infantry should then fight for a bit, while juggernauts and potion lobbers move in at sprinting speed to surge into enemy lines and later replace the infantry and slaughter anyone that was engaging the infantry. Make sure that the juggernauts and potion lobbers do this carefully, as the enemy infantry may have lethal potions.

However, in general the enemy can do little versus Juggernauts and potion lobbers coming in from a flank as well as a defensive row of Exotics to stop enemy Juggernauts from advancing effectively.

However, if you are on the attack, there are some threats to your advance you must take into account.

• A massed force of archers or snipers (These can really break a big section of the front line off. Terminate them as soon as possible.)
• A hardened, continually blocking front line (These are really hard to fight by, but you can bait them just by having a player sprint near them and run away.)

Then charge with infantry, followed immediately by exotics. The juggernauts among you should flank around and smash the enemy infantry after a few seconds of fighting. The Exotics should only engage juggernauts in combat, and only with superior numbers. In this situation, have archers aim for infantry advancing toward the fight, NOT the enemy front line, where you could shoot one of your own men.

Never have everyone charge at once. They will lose momentum and a solid position, while also becoming less cohesive which causes less damage distribution. Retreat, while also dangerous, is far safer.

If possible, lure a charged creeper at him to blow him up and inflict very high damage. Best to do on hard. Use the wither to distract him and retreat quickly or the wither will kill you to.

An suggested tactic for mass-team retreat: have one or more people providing cover with bows to prevent too much damage being dealt to your team. the reason is to cause as much knock back rather than damage to the enemy team so you have a chance.

PvP better

Many people think Minecraft PvP is "just clicking with a sword", yet it is so much more than that. Learning how to PvP may seem simple, but takes days, weeks, even months to completely master PvP.

Getting killed? With this guide and some practice, you will be killing diamond people with iron! First off. Swords are everything. Kill your enemy, and he won't hurt you anymore. Unless you are a tank and have some kind of lucky-level-30-enchanted sword, always remember that swords will save your life any day.

Leather armor The weakest armor, full leather armor will shield you for 28% of damage taken. If anyone has full leather armor, the thing that they will likely be able to get(and because risk of death is high), is an iron sword because leather is just about as easy to farm as iron is to find . If you ambush them with an iron/stone sword, you should be able to get about 2 or 3 critical hits in most cases. Each critical hit should be able to do 6 to 7 damage (♥♥♥-3.5 hearts.) Please note that they will likely start running. The best thing to do is to cut corners, meaning if he's waiting to see a wall to turn, turn right when he turns, that way you will get to him because you're both at the same place and he has traveled the most. Jump whilst sprinting to get to your enemy if you have the hunger to spare.

Gold armor Many people don't use this armor, and it shields for 44% of damage, if fully worn. A diamond sword critical hit will do ♥♥♥ hearts on it.

Chain armor This is the least used armor because it is so hard to get. Protecting for 48% of all damage, it is about as effective as gold armor.

Iron armor The second best armor and one of the most effective sets of armor (due to iron being easy to find) iron armor seems fairly weak to be the second best armor. It protects for 60% of damage taken. A stone sword will do 1 full heart of damage against it with no buffs. A critical hit with a diamond sword will do 1.5-♥♥ hearts of damage, and if that is Sharpness I then it will do ♥♥ to 2.5 hearts of damage.

Diamond armor The strongest armor. It withstands a lot of punishment. Even a Sharpness V (5) sword will only do ♥ to 1.5 hearts of damage. It protects against 80% of damage taken. If fully enchanted with Protection IV (4) then a Sharpness V sword will only do 0.5-♥ hearts of damage.

Now that we have described all armor, we will now give you a guide on how to PvP. our If you see a strong enemy heading for you, if you have one, drink a Potion of Strength II. As of Minecraft 1.6.1, they increase your damage by a whopping 260%! Even if they have full Protection IV and you have Sharpness III, you still stand a chance because you do ♥ to ♥♥ damage every hit! Note that ♥♥ can only be obtained by critically hitting. If the server has a plugin that shows the health of the enemy, even better!

Practice all the time with a sword against other players, if they allow you, or do it on LAN. Bows are not as useful at close range, depending on the skill of the player, medium-long is usually best. Jumping while shooting while fighting other archers will decrease the chance of getting hit, but only do this if your skill in aiming is good.

Always keep splash potions of Speed II in your hotbar. If you get a hit on your opponent, best with a knockback sword, you can throw the potion (make sure your enemy(s) get as little or none of the potion at all), and start running for your life. This can also be used against someone that loves to run. Remember! You should never jump while sprinting if you have Speed 2! (Jumping too much will cause you to not be able to take advantage of the Speed potion".

If you are in water, always go under your opponent! Be sure not to drown, though. This also applies when you're trying to hit someone and they're up on a mountain! That way, unless they are cheating, you will easily be able to knock them up on the mountain, plus your hits will make them unable to sprint, due to the fact that they are hit against a block. In water fights, you should always keep lily pads and jump off one while looking down and holding right click, so the lily pad will be placed right when you are about to hit the water, and so you will basically be able to walk on water. This works if you want to run, or if your opponent is running, because in water your speed is so low and the knockback is so high that you will only be able to get 2-4 hits on them before they are 10 blocks away. Note that ping affects this.

If you are somewhere where strafing is impossible and you are not in water or hitting someone up a mountain, then jump, hit, and block at the same time. Spam the right and left click buttons at the same time. This will make you take a lot less damage while still dealing good damage to your opponent. If you are on a mountain and someone is repeatedly hitting you, you should jump over them, and then they will be at a higher elevation, so the fight will be turned in your favor.

If you are in water and someone is under you, wait until you get knocked back, when you do you have time to go down in the water, and then you will be at a lower elevation and the fight is turned in your favor. Be sure not to drown though!

On flat ground, you should always sprint after one second of getting hit, if possible. This will eliminate the possibility of the sprint glitch. Note that since 1.7, you can press CTRL to sprint. When sprinting, you will do major knockback, and this will allow you to get free hits on your enemy.

The preceding part is incomplete, please complete: "PvP Better"

How to snipe

Sniping and using a bow can be difficult for some but for others it's their natural talent. Some people have many styles of shooting such as jumping and shooting, aiming upwards and strafing to the right/left or by simply hammering people with spam shots.

Some basics

In order for you to support your team as an archer/sniper you need:

• as many arrows as you think you need unless you have Infinity on your bow
• armor, unless suicide mission
• food (doesn't have to have high saturation foods since you should be far away from getting hit)

Also it is recommended that you strafe from left to right when shooting and you should also know when the right time it is to shoot another person. A good scenario is that your in battle with another person, and he's a good few blocks away cocking his bow up and you just started cocking your up, what do you do? Well, first of all you release it halfway there then strafe so that when he shoots, you have the advantage of shooting back at him dealing more damage to the enemy. To hit moving enemies, lead the arrow ahead of them some blocks depending on their distance.

Sniping

Sniping is attempting to hit targets at long range with a bow. Done well, sniping can deplete an enemy's health or knock them off a cliff before they even notice you, or at least before they're upon you.

When using a bow at short range, there is no need to aim significantly up.

At 1 degree upward, a bow will hit anyone within 25 meters with over a 90% probability of hit.

At further ranges, the level of precision needed to have a good hit rate increases. It is still possible to achieve hit rates close to 90% out to 60 meters, with a pitch of around 10 degrees. However, it is necessary to accurately estimate the range of the target. For example, an 8-degree pitch shot will hit a target between about 47 and 52 meters out with 90% accuracy, or about 46 to 54 with 50% accuracy. This means that judging distance accurately should be a reflexive habit for anyone who wants to learn sniping archery. Being able to, in a split second, figure out the range of a target, the height, and the approximate angle needed to hit (hint: F3 menu helps) will allow you to make shots at truly vast distances, with a 37-degree angle putting shots to around 120 meters.

If you want a mathematical formula as a guideline that will work fairly well under 80 meters.

Aim 1 degree up for every 4 blocks away your target is over 18 on level ground, compensating for movement appropriately. So for example, to hit a target 50 meters away, aim up by 8 degrees. 62 meters away, aim up by 11 degrees. 74 meters away, 14 degrees.

So

Pitch = (distance - 18)/4.

Another good thing to do is keep in mind the target's horizontal angle. This allows you to make shots confident that the target is horizontally at the right position. Further, learning to judge distance is valuable. As a rule of thumb, a block at 60 meters away is 1 degree tall. A player at 60 meters away is about 1.8 degrees tall.

So for ex, let's say you see a player you want dead and they're at your altitude: the procedure a good sniper will go through is as follows.

1. Check the distance to the player by measuring their height in degrees. 1.4 degrees tall means 77 meters away.
2. If they're stationary, check the horizontal heading and note it.
3. Pull up by the appropriate amount. So in our example, it's 59/4=14.75 degrees. 14.7 for simplicity.
4. Make final lead adjustments based on player movement.
5. Fire. Don't just fire once unless you know you'll hit AND kill. Best to fire off shot after shot unless absolute stealth is a priority. This serves two purposes. For one thing, a bow can't hit with 100% reliability at 77 meters (My tests vs. armor stands indicate 60% accuracy, vs. 80% at 60 meters), no matter how good your aim, and unless you have a very powerful bow vs. an injured or lightly armored foe or one above a hazard like a cliff or lava, it is very likely your first hit will not be instantly lethal. If the enemy is walking toward or away from you, compensate by 1 degree per second. If the enemy is sprinting, up it to 1.3 degrees per second. If they are sprint-jumping, by 1.6 degrees per second, and also and additional amount due to them being higher up on average.

If a player is higher than you, a simple way of compensating is to look them in the face and set that as your zero. This works for relatively flat shots that aren't at enormous range. For example, let's say we look at a player 9 degrees above us who's 1.8 degrees tall? They appear to be 60 meters away based on their height. 60-18=42. 42/4=10.5. 19.5 degrees pitch is a good approximation of where to aim. I wouldn't try this method for targets more than about 30 degrees off of level, and not for very long range shots, but for under 70 meters and 30 degrees it works quite reasonably.

Obviously, you don't need to do a bunch of math every time you fire a bow, but these rules of thumb can help you aim at long range.

Shooting styles

Many people who shoot have developed their own style of shooting such as:

Strafing

People who strafe just simply move in one direction while shooting the target and occasionally take cover when getting pinned down. So when shooting you have to aim slightly above your target's head before shooting for a larger hit rate.

Spam shooting

Spam shooting is being very close to a charging target and lightly cocking the bow and shooting the target. This is a risky style you can do but the risk fades if you shoot the target off a high place like a cliff. Note that when encountering another spam shooter, you have to strafe to avoid getting hit by it. Another easy way to kill a spam shooter is to sprint, then jump, this takes advantage of the fact that you can't be hit while your character turns red, and are immune to damage in that short time. This will be more than enough time to spam-click the person to death (however, this is ineffective and it was proven on actual PVP servers).

This concludes the How to shoot from far away.

Server War

This is a rather rare type of PvP. It is not friendly at all. It is just like a real war. Two parties fight for power or resources on a server.

Server Wars happen when one party, typically griefers, organize into an army and invade or attack a certain area or group of people on a server.

This attacking party is typically very organized and very well armed. They launch an attack big enough to cause a disturbance on the server. Another party, typically admins, retaliate against this attack. If the retaliating party is composed of admins, it will typically resort to Intel and the power to ban players. However, admins will counterattack with weapons in the process of banning the attacking players. Unless they allow griefing of course.

In an all out server war,you have two choices: you can either fight for one of the two parties, or you can flee to safety and let the admins sort it out.

Most players decide to fight for their server, however, players who have a lot of resources like diamond, might feel the need to protect their precious resources and flee to safety. If you decide to join the party that is defending the server, you don't really need to worry about firepower since you will probably be armed by fellow soldiers.

If you join the attacking party, you should equip enchanted weapons with high damage. It is also good to equip weapons of mass destruction such as TNT, fire charges, lava buckets, etc. You should do everything in your power to keep your nametag hidden if you don't want to be banned. Being banned means you are out of the server, and out of the war. You can no longer fight alongside your comrades.

When you are fighting with the attacking party, you typically want to destroy as much as possible and invade as much of the server as you can.

Remember, the retaliating party doesn't always win even though they seem like the "underdogs". Server wars are won with great soldiers, and most importantly, great leaders. You don't have to be a "grizzled" war veteran to be a great general, a great general is someone who is smart and fights alongside his/her soldiers. Remember, great generals take point, they don't watch from a safe distance and bark orders while watching their fellow players get slaughtered.

Also, if the server has mods equipped, especially mods like "flans mod", "flintlock weapons mod", or "Mo' explosives mod", use that to your advantage!

Because of the nature and the danger of these wars, I feel the need to explain the mechanics of these "groups" of people that are attempting to overthrow the server.

Generally, the group may know each-other personally. If three friends chose to do this, and each friend tells two of their friends, then we already have nine people ready to attack. Doing this makes it easier to create order and hierarchy. This is also done to deter any traitors or turn coats in the group. Some of these groups go into faction servers, claim land, and make a legitimate faction. They will probably use the faction as a temporary "bank" for what they steal and make. They will build a secondary base, and will use this when they attack. They are highly armed, and are equipped with heavy enchants, potions, lava buckets, redstone, TNT, and whatever the Modifications on the server make available. They disband the faction, and move to the other base and create a new faction, (if they make one at all) and begin their attack.

As I said, there is a hierarchy involving the status and rank of the players usually, there are generals of the troops that go to battle. They are on the battlefield. And they command the players to attack. But these generals get their orders from one player. This player is the equivalent to the "god father". He is never seen, and is in the game, but never comes out of his "hideaway" the godfather is confined in a room that usually made of obsidian. And is hidden either under the ground, or in the sea. IT IS NEVER BUILT IN THE SKY. You can never expect to find it 10,000 blocks from spawn. (Unless the leader is an absolute idiot) usually it is built 15,000 blocks from spawn. Sometimes even farther. The leader stays in his box and commands the army and never leaves because he can't afford to be seen, or banned. There is no door, and it is only accessible to the leader and a select few. The location or coordinates are usually corrupted.

Several of these groups have primarily PvP champs, but some of them have hackers, x-rayers, cheat mods, and whatever they chose. Most times the hacker is the godfather. And if he isn't, he is very close to the top. They also have spies and intel groups. This is not the most usual case, but there are exceptions.

Some of them have strategies that they commonly use. Some are griefing, personal raids, and singling out a player. For example, if they know that a player has valuables (diamonds,enchanted books, etc.) and they don't know where it is hidden, they may grief and threaten the player.

PvP Behind The Scenes

Player-against-player combat is far more advanced than it may look. With it said, it's best to know what people can encounter in a so-called "behind the scenes" stage.

Politics

Be Popular and Revered

If you want griefers or spawnkillers on your side, be really nice to them. Most of them are notoriously good at PvP from practice, and giving them a reason to be on your side through making sure they never have to worry about starving or being hunted by others is a good way to avoid alienating them. Ironically, this may be the most effective way to make allies with random people, giving them full access to all of your resources and your considerable efforts to be hospitable will generally remove any want to take your items. (As always, this may backfire).

Know The Surroundings

If a server has an online dynamic map or if the Rei's Minimap mod is allowed (most likely), USE THEM. Rei's Minimap helps you understand what structures are ahead of you, and Online maps show everything and also show locations of players. Forgo any advantage you can get your hands on.

Participate in Server Events

Whether it'd be a Drop Party or an organized PvP match, participate in server events and you'll be known by most members in the server. This means people will have second thoughts of attempting to kill you.

Be Nice To Your Troops

This one is obvious. Make sure to be friendly and caring with your members. Give items randomly to the squadron. Make an Army, navy, and Air Force if you must, but let them mingle. Give crate keys to your teammates if the server has a crate system. And make sure to not act stuck up. Listen to their opinions. If you want a Mega-Uber Skull Laser Chainsaw Castle of Death™, and your friend wants a smaller base, compromise.

Defending Your Base

Let's say you're on a faction server and you have many enemies. Your base has not been found until now. Two guys each holding a Sharpness V, Fire Aspect II, Knockback II sword and wearing Protection IV armor are directly outside your base setting up a TNT cannon.

You should always have defenses that are innately active, such as obsidian and water to negate explosions and if available, a spawner that can funnel out mobs on command (go exploring for spawners) to distract and dangerously deter, or snow golems to break armor.

If you have these, don't jump down and PvP. Wait for the spawning mobs to break their armor, or call for your faction members and allies to assist in defeating the enemy.

In these cases, booby traps are good, so set up booby traps everywhere where the enemy can't find them. In fact, make some that are meant to make the enemy know about the traps but it itself is a trap. These work as warnings and signals. Use tripwires and wool under them to use as signals for example.

Hate the Spawn

If you're building a massive fortress near the spawn, a griefer or simply a plain idiot might run behind you and kill you, disassemble your fortress and run off with your materials. Well, the easiest method to prevent this is to build your house away from spawn and try to survive a good distance away from spawn. It is usually a good idea to use the /sethome command around this area where you wish to live, as if it is a long way away from spawn and you die, it's a long walk, or mad chase if there are spawnkillers with diamond armor and enchanted diamond swords. Using the /home command if you used /sethome cuts the time getting to your safe zone drastically, usually having the spawnkillers and griefers be dazzled in confusion.

What about my valuables?

The best way to keep your most precious valuables is put them in an ender chest. Then put a chest in your house with basic invaluable items in it (with a few valuables mixed in to help fool them), and bury a chest with 8 obsidian, an eye of Ender, a crafting table, and other less semi-valued objects in it a short way away from your house.

Even if your entire house is a crater and the ender chest you placed is destroyed, the chest you buried will still be safe, and your can craft an Ender chest with what is in it to access all your valuable items and loot in there, as well as the loot in your actual chest.

Basic PvP supply setup

The following is a step-by-step tutorial on how to survive while being new to a PvP server. Follow in this order:

• Go solo for now. If the server you play on has Factions, make one to protect your stuff. Be sure to walk at least 5500 blocks. Using a boat is a good idea as you do not need food and can travel at night.
• Go in the opposite direction people are moving toward. This prevents you from being noticed.
• Make sure it is far away from anything. There's nothing more horrifying than your mortal enemies being your next-door neighbors.
• Make a small, undetectable base. Underground is the least noticeable around layer 10 is ideal, putting you near good materials and hiding your nameplate on the surface.
• Cheating is something that undermines every setup. Step carefully!

• Start gathering immediately. Do them in this order;
• -Get wood.
• -Make a bed to set your new spawn point (unless your server is customized).
• -Make chests and protect them.
• -Build a farm.
• -Find coal and iron.
• -Look for diamond. Layer 12 eye position is the best, but look for caves especially.
• -Mine obsidian and reinforce the walls of your base.
• -Make a portal to the Nether in order to find blazes and nether wart.
• -Once you have a blaze rod or two, start hunting for Endermen.
• -Make an ender chest.
• -Start brewing potions.
• -Find leather and sugar canes.
• -Make an enchantment table if you have the tools to and keep it well concealed.
• -Make an anvil to combine enchantments.
• -Enchant your diamond armor and sword.
• -Tip: Enchant Some leather armor with Protection IV if possible and a stone or wooden sword with extreme enchantments. This will trick players into thinking "That guy is terrible and doesn't even have good armor". Then sneak and follow them (use an invisibility potion if you have one), and they may end up revealing a base or hidden valuables. If you know you can beat them then go for it. Big tip: use potions always!

Tip: You must have fallback in your base in the case of hard times. This means:

• A renewable source of food,
• A renewable source of wood, and
• A set of stone tools to restart the gathering of supplies.

• To make raids against you rare, it is recommended to live in the Nether (but not the End since it's highly coveted) where people normally don't go. It's dangerous, but not as dangerous as living in the overworld. Keep in mind, if you have a mining base, that too must be defended as since raiders can get there via the portal.

• Make a faction and start recruiting.

-Note to do this when only a few people are online to make sure that nobody else is there to make you enemy (if you're lucky). (Factions is a Bukkit plugin and is not part of a vanilla server.)

That's it! Not too long ahead, you should become good enough to last through most attacks... eventually.

Getting Loot Quickly

A lot of times in single player survival minecraft you are going to need something. In factions you are going to need it a lot more because you are competing with other people for it. I have found some ways to get it faster

• selling- in many faction servers you can sell, auction, and buy stuff. Check and see what you can sell. Most Faction servers allow you to sell cobblestone and dirt, quick ways of getting money.

• Teleport killing- In the chat bar you see a new guy and you want to take his stuff. He doesn't have any faction, so you tell him "Teleport to me and you can join my faction" as soon as he arrives mercilessly slaughter him. (Note that this can create a bad image for you on the server and could potentially get you banned, so only do this on servers that this is allowed or you don't value).

PvP Itself-The Foreground

Lag creates opportunities

Despite lag making people randomly visually act, cause injury because of damage just showing up, and crash the server, it may still be useful instead of a nuisance if you know how to control it to your advantage. Whenever you hit someone under the effects of a lag spike, there is a chance that they won't be hurt and can escape. You can use this time to run when a lag spike comes, therefore you may escape if necessary. Keep in mind, lag also delays redstone machinery, meaning if there's a staircase that only activates when you're on a pressure plate, you can get up easier.

Mistakes

Ambushing someone is good. It's even better when he/she turns around to attack you with the wrong item! (e.g. a cooked chicken) This makes an easy kill. Take this advantage. And try to make sure this does not happen to you. If it does, it can cost you everything you have on hand!

Weapon training

• Be a grenadier!

Always carry potions of damage and poison on you. You'll never know whether you're fighting a guy with a stone sword in gold armor with minimal enchantments or if you're face to face with a full armed juggernaut carrying what people consider as "God Equipment." This is the most efficient way of disposing of anybody.

• Train yourself with weaponry.

You may be a fast clicker with a powerful sword and you may have a large chest's worth of damage potions, but without training these aren't of any use. Train yourself to arch with a regular and enchanted bow so that you are so good at it that people accuse you of having an aimbot (don't shoot people constantly or you might get banned mistakenly). Get it in your mind to strafe around the enemy and jump to get critical hits and get an edge over your opponent. Train to throw potions so well that you don't wound yourself and get direct hits for maximum effectiveness.

• Rapid fire!

You see some guy mining some diamonds, and the only weapon he has is a bow. You decide to kill him. It seems like a great idea, especially when you have armor, until you get close to him and he starts rapidly shooting arrows. Some players have an uncanny ability to shoot arrows very fast at low charge. They may only deal 1/2 heart of damage, but they will knock you back, and enough of them will kill you. If someone starts using this tactic on you, do not rush them! It will most likely lead to your death. Fall back behind some cover, and if you have a bow, start shooting back at them. Stay far away, because while they are amazing at close range, they usually aren't very good at hitting those far shots (there are exceptions). Finally, Almost no amount of spam shots can stop a sprint-jump attack, Ender pearl charge or splash potion, so if ranged combat is not your strong suit either, hit them with a critical attack or potion, this will usually cause them to run, then be slaughtered by your melee strikes. Remember though; you could do this as a tactic too!

• Creative Tactics and Weapons

Who says you need normal weapons to beat a strong enemy? Nobody, that's who! The truth is, using weapons that your enemy doesn't even think about will make you more probable to beat your enemy. If you know how to use them, that is. For instance, if you are fighting a juggernaut, there are few weapons usable against him;

1. Potions (most effective)
2. Snowballs and eggs (to knock him back)

Potions harm and distort the enemy, making them the most effective against especially such people with Protection IV armor. Snowballs and eggs will knock the enemy back. You can project him into lava or a pit, and as part of a bug in the game it damages armor as well because it technically harms the player pummeled by it. Always try to find a way around normality!

Good Philosophy for Fights

• "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

There is that one case of being Left for Green. This means that your squad disbanded, you are out, all alone with maybe a few enemies a kilometer or two behind you looking for you, and you're starving. Be independent. What if nobody is there to help you? What if your leader takes all the valuables and leaves his troops out to die? You must gather resources, get help of any kind, whether it be a lone man just with a stone toolkit or a juggernaut in Protection IV armor, and you must be careful and start your own faction. Tip: Since anyone can be bought…eventually, keep your own secret, hidden, well guarded bases. Never tell anyone about it. It is for you and only you.

• Watch videos and tutorials on how to build traps, and be smart with what you learned. Many people know how to make traps. That is good on one hand, but on another they might not know how to use their knowledge to their advantage. Combine traps and improvise offline.

• Don't overkill yourself. Think first before charging ahead to do something. Think first of the necessities, which are supplies, and deal with the secondary needs after.

• Don't be scared to act like a coward. If you stand no chance, save what you can save and run! If you're nearly killed, and have no hope of victory? Run! And don't let yourself be lured into 1-on-1 PvP unless you can win this: use your mind over your in-game muscles! Preferably, use both! Most important is: use your environment wisely. For example: if you're in a jungle biome, run into the trees and attack your foes! or maybe: if your in a big NPC-village with iron golems: make your foe hit the Iron Golem, then run of and snipe the foe! if your on a small island in an ocean biome: run into the ocean with a boat, sail a little away, and use your bow to take down that diamond-armor juggernaut! It will all be yours if you succeed! Your sword might be a strong weapon, but your bow is even stronger if you use your mind. Also, don't be scared to use potions: they can give you a great advantage over your non-potion using foes.

• Evaluate your position. In other words, take into account all your advantages, all their advantages, and weigh the options. Sometimes, you need to guess and check. The most important ones are your advantages or disadvantages in:

1. Armor and armor enchants
2. Swords and sword Enchants
3. Bows and bow Enchants
4. Ender pearl or portal availability
5. Potions, skill, and hunger

The most iffy is skill. Some people are so good with their timing that they can calmly mine and take their diamond ore, then swing around and shoot just as soon as you are within a block of them!

In fact, who says you need better equipment to win? Let's say that your base is in the sky with a public chest containing some equipment. Then, all of a sudden, you come down with one teammate and realize that the base is being raided! In the chest, you find some string and cobblestone. The enemies are in iron armor, but enchantments are unknown due to this being before the 1.3 update. Now, if the raider's armor was not enchanted, then you're in luck. A stone sword against iron armor with no buffs deals a full heart of damage. A fully charged bow does about as much damage as a diamond sword. Even if you have no armor, you still somewhat stand a chance against those two since it's you and your teammate fighting them. You do not need to be the same size as long as you can beat them. (Fun fact: This was a true story and the contributor who wrote this probably would have repelled the raiders if he had known this earlier!) If you and your team mate are strategic, let's say they stick together, and your enemy doesn't, then you are almost guaranteed to kill them, that is if both of you have at least stone swords and he is alone with an iron sword and full iron armor. If you got lucky enough to mine a diamond sword, bring that out too: if you can, enchant with even just Sharpness I, which will do about 1.5-2.5 hearts every hit. If you somehow have gotten a Strength II potion, maybe by buying it on a server, then DRINK IT! It will multiply your damage by 3.6, so that 2.5 hearts, if you make that a critical hit (by falling when attacking) (will do 3.0-3.5 hearts) WITH Strength II, then you just might have killed your opponent in one or two hits.

• Get to your senses.

You may be thinking that people who have lost so much that their anger is uncontrollable are going to go psycho to win and when people come with supreme equipment you should be scared out of your wits, since that "causes" adrenaline. No! Anger and fear are both factors to defeat. When either happens, whether it be an attempt to kill a guy who has diamond armor with your fists or combat logging just because you are so scared that you have to go to the bathroom of fear of peeing in your pants, you will most likely forget all the tips you have learned until you get back to your senses. Avoid that. Now, you must stay calm. Run for cover, and don't stop to watch the deaths of your teammates. If you have one, drink a Potion of Swiftness (second tier is highly recommended), and keep running. Do not turn back, do not look back, do think of what's back there, and do not stop. Just keep running until you reach safety, whether it be allied or peaceful territory, or a secret place. Don't stop. Stay sharp. (If you can, bring a fat friend along with you and hope the lethal enemies kill him and not you.)

• Peace, dude.

Remember what's been said about not trusting anyone? Your turn to chip in to taking a stab at backstabbing. Create peaceful factions for your team. Their only purpose is to earn supplies while being impossible to touch.

• Diamonds aren't the key to victory.

If two guys in diamond with enchantments come and raid your base, and you're 4 people in iron, and only you have a full set of diamond equipment, do not bring it out! It is obvious you don't stand much chance as you are overpowered. You do, however, need to keep potions. They should consist of the following:

Poison+Damage+Speed+Health+Invisibility

Also, keep flint and steel, along with fire aspect swords and bows, along with you. And if you find generation errors that create gateways to the Void, use them. Don't forget to keep your dispensers loaded and ready to fire with arrows, damage splash potions, and fire charges. The reason why this equipment and these traps can beat people in diamond is because they go right through their armor. Nothing, not even diamond armor, can resist their effects (except for arrows. Fire, potion effects and Void damage are the only lethal things unaffected no matter what kind of armor.). Also, a potion of invisibility will mean no one will know where you are attacking from!

Also, remember the gift of decoys. Say you have nothing at all and you were just a guy that started in a faction war faction. Use your expendable condition. Say there is a hall of traps designed by a redstone scientist. Throw yourself at the traps, run like a madman, break those hidden redstone clocks, and just kill your player on those lethal traps so your faction can zip in and break a hole in their obsidian shield. To victory!

Trick the enemy

It being said above regarding running in traps (refer to "Diamonds aren't the key to victory") being a tactic that will fool the enemy, this makes it a rather effective attack. Always use psychology as a weapon! When running into a row of tripwires, the enemy might find it as a suicide attempt and not as a double trap, although not very likely since most people will tend to just chase you. However, if you have a circuit that makes it so that the first time somebody runs through it, there is a chance your enemy may think that it's a dud or just a scare for the raiders. Once they step over it, though, the trap activates. This makes it useful since it can make the enemy think you are intending to run away when you're instead luring them into a death trap. If you have any type of invisibility potion or maybe you are just very good at not being noticed, you can easily lure the enemy away from your actual position, then jump-attack them when they are least expecting it. This can be the key to a neck-and-neck battle, where your enemy's equipment is as good as yours.