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Quote from Ultra_Miner_101

Hello! It's Ultra_Miner_101 here with a guide to factions! What is a faction you ask? It's a group of people with whom you can fight, raid, survive, and do much more with! First off if you own a server you can learn more about the plugin here:

Http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/factions/

Ok, now if your just a player try looking for some servers with the faction plugin. Once you join the server you can go ahead and do /f create (in here put the name of the faction your creating)
Some servers have this hooked to the economy, for instance it could cost 100 in game dollars to create one, and 20 to claim land, and so on and so forth.
Now that you have a faction (this is optional) you can do /f desc (description of your faction)
If anyone wants to join your faction, you can go ahead and do /f invite (name of the player) to invite them to join the faction fun!
Now the main part of factions is raiding, so this is a biggie. You can do /f ally (name of another faction) to send them a request to become allies. You can also to /f enemy (name of faction) this doesn't send a request, it just enemies. Also, once a faction is one of these two (ally or enemy) you can do /f neutral (faction name) this doesn't send a request either, to put your standing back to default. It's important to know that you cannot hurt your allies, only neutral and enemy. (neutrals cannot hurt you while in your own territory)
You can do /f kick (name) to kick a player from your faction. You can also do /f leave (to leave) or /f disband (to remove the faction) You can do /f claim to claim land for your faction. Once inside claimed land you can do /f sethome to set a faction home.

Steps to factions:
Create a faction.
Get players to join.
Find land to settle on.
Get supplies.
Get allies.
Now you can raid/enemy.



I hope this was helpful! -The_Last_Miner_1

Quote from Lichisky

PvP Tips - 26 tips for surviving PvP fights and dangers.

Good tactics and unexpected srategies can easily make you own your opponent.

1. Never use diamond armor unless you really need it, as people can outnymber you and take it. Yes, makes you almost invincible but id recommend iron as it is strong and easier to get than diamond.

2. If you "feel like hacker" or "hawk eye" have the X-ray mod installed. Not only to search for ores, you can easily spot enemies (crouching) or simply hiding in your base. Very useful to me. If the server has anti-xray, use the Redstone finder (press r) to also see them. NEVER tell ANYONE about it or they will ban you. I take no responsibility, use at own risk. Most 1.5 servers dont have anti-xray yet, use as advantage.

3. If you dont feel like cheating... dont cheat

4. If you get killed, and lose your valuable items, bribe stronger guys to get it back. Try not to nag them or them off as they could go against you.

5. Always booby-trap your base with mines, tripwires, dispensers, lava, pitholes, etc. They can't accuse you for PvP traps if you only use them as defensive traps. To lay mines, dig 2 holes down, place TNT with grass/sand ontop, and put pressure plate. Always test traps at singleplayer creative worlds.

6. Never accept /tpa requests from people you don't trust, as they come, they see, n they kick your ass! Only maybe

7. Try to befriend or bribe stronger guys for protection.

8. If enemies prefer to grief their way in to the base instead of knocking on the door, accuse them for griefing. They might get 24 hours ban for it, enough to move your base and prepare defenses.

9. Never have noobs in your faction, as they grief ender chests, enchanting tables, ore blocks, anvils, crafting tables, etc. They also use to accept /tpa requests from stronger guys who hunts for blood.

10. Always hide your base, as far away as possible from spawn to prevent unwanted visitors.

11. Always /lock your chests, furnaces or doors to prevent grief stealing. Also, when finished enchanting, leave your enchant table and anvils back in your chests to prevent stealing. Never share chests with others as one day those diamonds of yours shine so pretty that they cant resist.

12. Try to join strong factions for free materials and protection. If you only demand items, without giving back something or not fight for them, they will most likely kick you, kill you and then rob you.

13. Use all your xp on enchanting, even if theyre weak enchantments, because if you die you lose it.

14. Use looted stuff, even if weaker, give it back for high prices or give them to your friends. If its weaker don't let it just hang around using up your chests.

15. Always jump and left-right click while fighting to prevent crits and xtra damage. Try to trap them and then kill them from a place they cant attack you. Always put your door facing outwards, there is a glitch which allows you to attack through while others cannot.

16. Crouch while sneaking to hide your player name from your preys.

17. Try not to attack people in their bases as you can get outnumbered by faction members or friends.

18. Try to PvP inside your faction's territory as people can't attack you and enemies get -30% attack damage, so avoid other faction bases!

19. Avoid PvP arenas as its easier to fight in the wilderness as you can escape if youre bout to lose and you can dig pitholes or climb treees to get away.

20. If chased, dont look back. If youre on plain areas, you could always press F5 to check.

21. Sneak behind your enemies to find their base without them noticing you. You could booby trap the way/base and ambush them later.

22. Make small shelters here and there with chests so that when you get chased, you can hide there and leave your stuff and later pick it up.

23. As of 1.5, use hoppers to collect items in traps, especially pitholes. Dig them down to layer 15 and make a collect room under the "hit-floor" with hoppers connected to chests.

24. Dont always use your diamond armor unless you really need it as for if someone kills you its gone and they will never give it back nomatter what. Use iron armor, its cheaper than diamond and has average strength.

25. And for gods sake, try not to fall for random pressure plants placed on the ground. If they are connected to traps, you can take the TNT, redstone or the pistons for yourself.

26. Don't waste potions on weak players, save it for stronger fights.

Otherwise you should know how to get the materials and survive for yourself. I've learned this by PvP'ing at PvP and faction server, mc.mycreeper.com

*BROFIST*

Quote from tppytel

Hardcore, 3rd attempt, the Nether. I had already explored it once, failing to find any Fortresses in the immediate vicinity. Returning for another attempt, I left my Nether base and moved along a ledge I had walked several times before, Sneaking as usual when anywhere close to an edge.

I fell off into the lava.

And died.

I swear I was Sneaking. I've built many a cobblestone bridge over lava lakes in the Nether before. But this time I fell off. And died. Is there any kind of edge case or bug allowing me to fall off that I can avoid in the future? Or was I just being fat-fingered and not actually pressing the Shift key? This was a ledge with a sheer drop into the lava pool, not an edge at the same level (it was a pretty nasty portal location). There were no mobs at all in the vicinity. No pigmen, no ghasts or even any ghast noises or burning fires. Totally peaceful. As best as I can tell, there was nothing at all different than what I had navigated hundreds of times before.

I had over half a stack of diamonds. And a Fortune III pickaxe. And stylish diamond gear. And a nice farm.

I'm heartbroken.