Amalthea Economy

Amalthea is a trading-focused survival server where we encourage cooperation without forcing you into a group. Trade items through player-built trading chests, gather and craft in a tougher-than-vanilla world with scarcer materials, or set out on your own. Land claims are available, but keep in mind that griefing is discouraged rather than prohibited.

We’ve reworked PvP to make distance from a player’s base a bigger factor than combat skill, so encounters don’t follow the usual click-fast-to-win formula. Our custom mechanics also make block breaking and crafting occasionally fail. Practice helps reduce those failures. Offer materials at shrines to curse rivals or seek blessings, and use treasure maps to check how far away their treasure is.

Amalthea runs around a dozen custom plugins, but beyond land claims, we keep the command burden light and explain mechanics and rules through in-game chat tips. Mending has a trade-off here: it resets an item’s repair cost but can randomly lower another enchantment by one level. Our automatic lag controls can reduce mob spawns, freeze mob AI, cull large herds, and break redstone mechanisms to help keep the server running smoothly. We prohibit cheating, exploiting, botting, harassment, and other listed rule violations. PvP and griefing are not unrestricted in every respect.