Welcome to EverKin

A cozy survival world where you pick a kin, find the ground that suits it, and build a town worth living in. No pay-to-win, no forced PvP — just land, trade and a world that reacts to who you are.

Join the server

Your first ten minutes

1. Run /startA guided walkthrough opens as a menu. Every page below is in it, so you can always come back.
2. Pick your kin with /kinFive kin, each with its own strengths, weakness and way of getting around. You start as a plain Human until you choose — see The five kin.
3. Leave spawn with /rtpThe single most important command on your first day. Spawn is not for building. This drops you somewhere random and far out, where land is still free.
4. Find ground that suits your kinYour weakness lifts in the right biomes. Wandering until you find them is half the game — see Home & hostile ground.
5. Claim it or join a townFound your own town, or ask an existing mayor for a plot. Both are covered in Towns & land.
6. Set your home with /sethomeThen /home brings you back from anywhere.

Playing on Bedrock

Phones, tablets, consoles and Windows Edition all work. A few differences to expect:

• Your name shows with a dot in front of it — that is normal and how the server tells the two editions apart.
• The sidebar scoreboard refreshes more slowly than on Java.
• /hat is Java-only. Everything else works on both.

The five kin

Every kin carries one gift, one burden, and one way of moving through the world. The burden lifts on ground that suits you — which is why kin tend to cluster, and why two towns rarely want the same valley.

Human — the starting state

You begin as a Human, not as a kin. It is deliberately the worst option: two hearts fewer, permanently weakened, no home ground, no abilities. Nothing stops you staying Human forever, but there is no reason to.

Run /kin whenever you like to open the selector and choose. It is not a one-time decision — you can change kin later, though your home ground will change with it.

Home & hostile ground

EverKin's world is not neutral. Every biome is friendly, hostile or indifferent to your kin, and the game tells you which as you cross the line.

How it works

• Each kin carries a mild burden — a small penalty that follows you around.
• Standing on your kin's home ground removes the burden and adds a bonus on top.
• Standing on hostile ground is where the burden bites hardest.
• Everywhere else is neutral: the burden applies, quietly, and nothing else happens.

Nothing here is deadly. The penalties are deliberately mild — this is a nudge to settle somewhere that suits you, not a punishment for exploring.

Reading the messages

You get a short message above your hotbar only when you cross a real boundary — walking into home ground, or leaving it for hostile ground. It will not nag you every few seconds while you travel.

Vampires and Fae also get a line at dawn and dusk, since the sun changes what they can safely do.

The five regions

These are not fixed continents on a map. They are patterns in a naturally generated world, so finding a good stretch of your own ground is genuine exploration. Use /rtp generously.

Carrying your ground with you

Each kin has one piece of regalia — a rare worn item that cancels your burden no matter where you stand. Wearing it, hostile ground stops mattering and you get a different message telling you you're protected. See Regalia & charms.

Towns & land

Nothing outside a town is protected. Towns are how you keep what you build, how you get a private teleport home, and how the server's land economy works. This page covers all of it.

The basics in one minute

• The map is divided into chunks — 16×16 squares. A claimed chunk is called a townblock.
• A town owns townblocks. Only its residents can build in them.
• Every townblock costs money to claim and money to keep. That bill is upkeep, and it comes out of the town bank daily.
• A town that cannot pay its upkeep starts losing land, and eventually falls apart.
• Anything you build outside a claim is fair game for anyone.

Press F3+G on Java to see chunk borders. You will also get a message across your screen every time you cross into or out of a claim.

Two ways in

Joining a town

1. Find one/town list shows every town on the server, largest first. /town online shows who is on right now.
2. Look it over/town <name> shows its mayor, residents, claim count and tax rate before you commit.
3. Get invitedAsk the mayor in chat or on Discord. They run /town add <you>, and you accept with /accept.
4. Or walk inSome towns are open. If so, /town join <name> works with no invite needed.
5. Get a plotStand in a plot marked for sale and run /plot claim. That plot is now yours to build in, and nobody else in town can touch it.

Founding a town

1. Get far from spawnUse /rtp. There is a minimum distance between towns, so you cannot found one on another town's doorstep.
2. Pick your groundLook for your kin's home biome. Check for water, trees and stone nearby — you will be here a long time.
3. Save up firstFounding costs money, every claim after that costs money, and upkeep starts immediately. Do not spend your last coin on the founding fee.
4. Found itStand on the exact chunk you want as your centre and run /town new <name>. That chunk becomes your home block — the heart of the town, and the only chunk that can never be unclaimed while the town lives.
5. Set your spawnStand where you want people to arrive and run /town set spawn. It must be inside a claim.
6. Claim outward/town claim takes the chunk you are standing in. New claims must touch existing ones.
7. Bank it/town deposit <amount>. Upkeep comes out of the town bank, not your pocket — an empty bank is how towns die.

Claiming land

Your town's block limit grows with its population — more residents, more land. /town shows how many you have used and how many you have left.

Outposts

An outpost is a claim that is nowhere near your town — a distant mine, a farm in the right biome, a lookout, or a portal you want to own. It is the only way to claim land that does not touch your existing claims.

How to make one

1. Travel outGet well clear of your town and of anyone else's claims. Outposts have their own minimum distance rules.
2. Stand on the chunkWhatever chunk you are standing in becomes the outpost.
3. Run /town claim outpostIt costs more than a normal claim and still uses one of your townblocks.
4. Expand from itOnce the outpost exists, normal /town claim works on chunks touching it — so an outpost can grow into a proper second settlement.

Getting back to one

• /town outpost list — numbered list of all your outposts
• /town outpost <number> — teleport straight to it

Owning a nether portal

Claim the chunk containing a nether portal as an outpost and that portal is yours — players from outside your town cannot use it or step through it. Good portals near spawn are genuinely contested, so if you find one, claim it before someone else does.

Spawns & getting around

Town spawns have a warmup and a cooldown, and moving or taking damage cancels the teleport. Making your town public is the single best thing you can do to get visitors and shop customers.

Plots

A plot is one claimed chunk inside a town. Mayors sell them; residents own them. Owning a plot means only you (and anyone you trust) can build there — not even other residents can.

Permissions — who can touch what

Every plot has four permission types, each set separately for four groups of people.

Set them with /plot set perm <group> <action> <on|off> — for example /plot set perm outsider switch on lets visitors open your shop door. /town set perm does the same for the whole town at once.

Money, taxes & upkeep

EverKin's land rules are deliberately tighter than default. Free claims are limited and upkeep scales with how much land you hold. A sprawling empty town bankrupts itself, which is what makes being a mayor a real job.

A mayor's checklist

• Set a resident tax on day one. Free towns run out of money.
• Sell plots rather than giving them away — that is your main income.
• Keep several days of upkeep in the bank as a buffer.
• Unclaim land you are not using before the next charge.
• Recruit. More residents means more tax income and a bigger claim allowance.

Running a town

Your own standing

Reading the land

Nations

Several towns can band together into a nation — a shared identity, shared allies and a shared bank. Nations are for established towns, not day-one projects, and founding one is expensive.

Common questions

Someone broke my stuff — can it be rolled back?

Only if it happened inside a claim. Take screenshots and coordinates and report it on Discord. Losses in unclaimed wilderness are not restored, ever.

Why can't I build here?

You are standing in someone else's claim, or in a plot inside your own town that another resident owns. The border message tells you whose land it is.

I got removed from my town

Almost always unpaid tax. Top up your balance and ask the mayor to re-add you. Your plot may have been resold.

My town lost land overnight

The bank could not cover upkeep. Deposit money, unclaim what you don't need, and raise taxes before the next charge.

Can I move my town?

Not directly. Claim outward to the new site, move /town set homeblock and /town set spawn, then unclaim the old chunks.

How close can I be to another town?

There is a minimum gap, and the server will refuse the claim if you are too close. If /town new or /town claim is rejected, walk further out.

Does my kin affect claiming?

No — any kin can claim any biome. Your kin only changes how you feel standing there. Most players still settle on their home ground, which is exactly the point.

Money & trade

Almost everything on EverKin is bought from other players. The server sells a few things, badly on purpose, so the player economy has room to breathe.

Where money comes from

The auction house

/ah opens the server-wide auction house — the fastest way to sell anything rare and the first place to look when you need something specific. There is a physical auction house built at spawn too: /warp ah.

Chest shops

A chest shop is a chest that trades on your behalf, day and night, whether or not you are online. They are the backbone of every town economy here — a well-stocked shop on a busy road earns more than any job.

Making one

1. Place a chestIt has to be on land you are allowed to build on — your own plot, or somewhere your town lets you build. Leave the block above it clear for the sign.
2. Hold the item you want to sellOne of the actual item goes in your hand. The shop copies exactly what you're holding, enchantments and all.
3. Hit the chest with itLeft-click the chest while holding the item. A prompt appears asking for a price.
4. Type the price in chatJust the number. That is the price for one of the item.
5. Stock itOpen the chest and fill it. A selling shop can only sell what is inside it.

A sign appears above the chest showing the item, the price and how many are left. Customers right-click the sign to buy.

Buying shops

A shop can also buy from players — you pay them, they hand items over, and the items collect in your chest. Look at the shop and run /qs buy to switch it over, or /qs sell to switch back. A buying shop pays out of your balance, so keep money in the bank or it will stall.

Managing shops

Player warps

/pw lists every player-run warp on the server — shops, farms, malls, markets. If you have built somewhere worth visiting, set your own warp and put your shops beside it.

Direct trading

/trade <player> opens a secure two-sided trade window. Both parties confirm before anything moves. Use it for anything expensive — handing items over and trusting the other person is how people get robbed.

The server shop

/shop sells building blocks and wood, and only those. Prices are deliberately high. It exists so that a builder who needs 3,000 white concrete at 2am can get it, and so that money leaves the economy — not to compete with you.

If you want a good price on blocks, buy from another player.

Jobs & quests

Two different rhythms of income: jobs pay you constantly for ordinary work, quests pay you in lumps for going out of your way.

Jobs

Pick a job and you start getting paid for actions that fit it — a miner earns per ore, a farmer per harvest, a builder per placed block. You keep levelling the job as you work, and the pay improves with it.

Choose a job that matches how you actually play. Taking miner and then spending all week building will not pay.

Quests

Quests range from small errands to long chains, and they pay cash. Some are one-off, some repeat.

• /quests — open your quest journal, see what is available and what is in progress
• /warp quests — the quest hub at spawn, where the quest villager stands

Quests are the best early-game income if you have not settled anywhere yet — they need no land, tools or investment.

Crates & voting

Voting is free, takes a minute, and is the only way to start climbing the crate ladder. It is also how new players find the server.

Voting

Vote on the server listing sites and you get a Vote Key per site, per day — roughly three keys a day if you vote everywhere. Vote links are on everkin.live.

Bedrock players vote with the same name they use in game, dot and all.

The crate ladder

Three crates, and each one's rarest prize is a key to the next. You cannot buy your way up — you climb it.

Crates are physical — find them at /warp crates.

Regalia & charms

Twenty kin items — five regalia and fifteen charms, three per kin. They are the deepest progression on the server and none of them can be bought with money.

The rules

• Kin-locked. A charm only works for the kin it belongs to. Anyone can hold or trade one, but hold the wrong kin's charm and it tells you so and does nothing.
• Two ways to get them. Craft them, or pull them from crates where they are very rare.
• Recipes are hidden. They will not appear in your recipe book. Run /recipes in game for the full browser — it shows every recipe laid out in a grid and ticks off the ingredients you already have.
• Difficulty scales. Weaker charms are early-game craftable. Strong charms and all five regalia are deliberately late-game.

Regalia — one per kin

Regalia are worn, not held. Each one cancels its kin's burden entirely, wherever you are. A Vampire in regalia can walk in daylight; a Merfolk in regalia can cross a desert. They are the rarest items on the server.

Charms

Three per kin: something to cast, something to throw, and something that simply happens to you.

Where each tier drops

Kin tools

Three crafted tools that do the tedious part of survival for you. They are not tied to any kin — anyone can make and use them.

The rules they all follow

• They respect claims. Every kin tool stops dead at land you are not allowed to break. They cannot be used to grief a town, and they cannot reach through a claim border.
• They cost durability per block. A big swing is a lot of wear. Bring a spare, or keep one mending-enchanted.
• Recipes are hidden. They will not appear in your recipe book. Run /recipes in game for the full browser, which ticks off ingredients you already have.
• They are craft-only. No crate, quest or store gives them out.

The three tools

Using them well

• Each tool only triggers on the thing it is for. The Kin Axe will not vein-mine, and the Kin Vein will not fell trees.
• Everything the tool breaks drops normally, so Fortune and Silk Touch both work as you would expect.
• Clear your inventory before a big job. If it fills up, the drops land on the floor.
• If a tool suddenly stops mid-swing, you have either run low on durability or hit the edge of a claim.

All commands

Everything you can type, in one place. Use the search box at the top to jump straight to one.

Getting around

Your kin

Money & trade

Town

Comfort

Server rules

EverKin is a cozy server. These rules exist so it stays that way. Playing here means you accept them, and "I didn't read the rules" has never worked as a defence anywhere.

1 · Respect & conduct

• 1.1 — No harassment, bullying, or targeting a player who has asked you to stop.
• 1.2 — No slurs or hate speech of any kind. Race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality — none of it, not as a joke, not "ironically", not censored with symbols.
• 1.3 — No sexual content, and no sexual talk toward anyone. This server has minors on it.
• 1.4 — No threats of violence, real-world or otherwise, and no wishing harm on anyone.
• 1.5 — Keep swearing mild and not aimed at a person. Casual language is fine; abuse is not.
• 1.6 — Don't share anyone's personal information, including your own. No real names, addresses, schools, workplaces, phone numbers or photos.
• 1.7 — Don't impersonate staff or another player, in your name, nickname or chat.
• 1.8 — Respect pronouns. Set your own with /pronouns, and use other people's. Deliberately ignoring someone's is harassment.

2 · Chat

• 2.1 — No spam. That includes repeating messages, flooding, walls of caps and mass-pinging.
• 2.2 — No advertising other servers, Discords, channels or services. This includes DMs to our players.
• 2.3 — No begging for items, money, ranks or staff positions. Asking once is fine; nagging is not.
• 2.4 — Keep heavy arguments out of public chat. Politics, religion and drama belong somewhere else.
• 2.5 — English in main chat so staff can moderate it. Any language you like in DMs, town chat or Discord voice.
• 2.6 — Don't post links to anything unsafe, pirated, or that you wouldn't show a stranger.

3 · Griefing & theft

• 3.1 — Do not break, burn, flood, blow up or deface anything you did not build.
• 3.2 — Do not take items from chests, shulkers, furnaces, or item frames that are not yours.
• 3.3 — Unclaimed land is unprotected, but taking or wrecking someone's work there is still griefing and still gets you banned. "It wasn't claimed" is not a defence.
• 3.4 — Do not lava-cast, fire-spread or flood near anyone's build, even accidentally-on-purpose.
• 3.5 — Do not kill someone's tamed animals, villagers or pets.
• 3.6 — Do not build directly against someone's border to block their view, light, or expansion out of spite.
• 3.7 — Rollbacks are only possible inside claims. Build in the wild at your own risk.

4 · Cheating & unfair play

• 4.1 — No hacked clients, cheat mods or modified clients that give an advantage. X-ray, kill aura, fly, reach, auto-clickers, auto-fishing, aimbots, tracers — all bannable.
• 4.2 — No macros or scripts that play for you, including AFK farming setups designed to trick the AFK check.
• 4.3 — Allowed client mods: minimaps without entity or cave radar, performance mods, shaders, and quality-of-life mods that show only what you could already see.
• 4.4 — No abusing bugs, duplication glitches or exploits. If you find one, report it — you will be thanked and often rewarded. Using one quietly gets you banned and rolled back.
• 4.5 — Do not build machines designed to lag the server: giant mob farms without kill chambers, mass entity stacks, huge redstone clocks left running. Staff may remove them without warning.
• 4.6 — Do not evade a punishment. Coming back on a new account or a VPN turns a temporary ban into a permanent one.

5 · Accounts

• 5.1 — One account per person. Alternate accounts may not be used to farm votes, crates, quests, jobs or town claims.
• 5.2 — You are responsible for whatever happens on your account. "My little brother did it" is not an appeal.
• 5.3 — Do not share or sell accounts.
• 5.4 — Java and Bedrock accounts belonging to the same person count as one player, not two.

6 · Land & towns

• 6.1 — Do not claim land specifically to box someone in, block a road, or stop a neighbour expanding.
• 6.2 — Do not claim right up against another town's border to provoke them.
• 6.3 — Mayors: do not invite someone, take their money for a plot, then kick them. That is theft.
• 6.4 — Do not build offensive structures, symbols or words. This applies to builds, signs, banners, books, maps and town names.
• 6.5 — Abandoned towns may be removed by staff after a long period of total inactivity. Ask on Discord if you are going away for a while.
• 6.6 — Do not build within sight of spawn without permission. Move out, that's what /rtp is for.

7 · Trading & the economy

• 7.1 — No scamming. Deliver what you promised, at the price you agreed.
• 7.2 — Use /trade for anything valuable. Deals made by throwing items on the ground are not protected, and staff will not recover them.
• 7.3 — Do not deliberately mis-price a chest shop sign to trick buyers, or use misleading shop names.
• 7.4 — No real-money trading. Do not buy or sell in-game items, money or accounts for real currency, and do not trade EverKin items for goods on other servers.
• 7.5 — Do not manipulate the auction house with fake bids or wash trading between accounts.
• 7.6 — Duplicated or exploited items will be removed from the economy whenever they are found, including from people who bought them innocently.

8 · PvP

• 8.1 — EverKin is not a PvP server. PvP is off in most towns and expected to stay that way.
• 8.2 — Do not spawn-kill, camp someone's home, or repeatedly attack a player who is not fighting back.
• 8.3 — Do not lure players into hostile ground, lava or void as a "joke".
• 8.4 — Traps that kill unsuspecting players are not allowed. Traps inside a marked arena plot are.
• 8.5 — If a fight is agreed by both sides, keep it agreed. The moment one person wants out, it's over.

9 · Staff

• 9.1 — Follow staff instructions. If you think a call was wrong, appeal it on Discord rather than arguing in chat.
• 9.2 — Do not ask staff for items, money, ranks, teleports or a staff position.
• 9.3 — Do not file false reports or waste staff time.
• 9.4 — Staff do not settle private disputes over deals made outside /trade.
• 9.5 — Staff decisions apply to everyone, including staff. Report a staff member the same way you would report anyone else.

10 · Enforcement

Punishments scale with what happened and whether you have done it before. Roughly:

Staff may act outside this table where something obviously falls short of the spirit of the server. These rules are not a list of loopholes — if you are hunting for the technicality that makes your plan allowed, it isn't.

11 · Appeals & changes

• 11.1 — Appeal any punishment on Discord at dc.everkin.live. Be honest and be brief; denying something staff have logs of ends the appeal.
• 11.2 — One appeal per punishment. Reposting it does not speed it up.
• 11.3 — Purchases are not refunded on ban. Buying a rank does not exempt anyone from any rule on this page.
• 11.4 — These rules can change. Meaningful changes are announced in game and on Discord, and this page is always the current version.

Help & links

Stuck, griefed, or just want to suggest something? Here is where to go.

Getting help

Reporting a player

1. Screenshot firstBefore you touch anything. Capture the damage, the chat, or whatever you saw.
2. Note the coordinatesPress F3 on Java, or turn on coordinates in Bedrock settings. Griefing reports without coordinates are very hard to act on.
3. Note the timeRoughly when it happened, and the player's exact name.
4. Post it on DiscordIn the report channel. Do not name-and-shame in public chat.
5. Don't retaliateHitting back makes you part of the incident instead of the victim of it.

Reporting a bug

Bugs and exploits go straight to Discord. If you have found something that duplicates items or breaks protection, report it privately to staff rather than posting it publicly — you will be thanked for it. Quietly using one is a permanent ban.

Common fixes

I can't connect

Check you are on Minecraft 26.1 or newer, and that Bedrock is using port 25565. If everyone else is on and you are not, restart your client before assuming the server is down.

My commands do nothing

The server restarts once every 24 hours with a countdown. If you were mid-command during one, log back in a minute later.

My scoreboard is frozen (Bedrock)

Bedrock refreshes more slowly than Java by design. Values catch up within a minute.

I lost an item to a bug

Report it on Discord with a screenshot and the time. Items lost to lava, void, despawns or your own mistakes are not replaced.

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