Getting started
New to Eternal Realms? Here's everything you need for your first days on the server.
1 Join the server
You'll need Minecraft: Java Edition (version 1.21+).
- In Minecraft, go to Multiplayer → Add Server.
- Paste the address:
play.eternalrealms.io - Join, say hi in chat, and you're in!
Optional mods the server plays nice with: Xaero's Minimap / World Map (waypoints sync automatically) and Simple Voice Chat (proximity voice — talk to players near you).
2 Protect your base
Before you build anything fancy, claim your land so nothing can be broken or stolen. Craft a Protection Stone (8 stone around a coal block — see the crafting guide) and place it at your base. It protects an 11×11 area; better center blocks protect much more, up to 64×64 with an emerald block.
3 Learn the handy commands
/help | The Eternal Realms command guide: every command you can use, clickable. /help all lists the lot. |
/back | Teleport back to where you died — no more lost items panic. |
/sit | Sit down! Also works by right-clicking stairs and slabs. |
/coords | Share your current location in chat with one click. |
/hud | Toggle a coordinates + compass + clock HUD on your action bar. |
/sethome & /home | Set your home and teleport back to it. |
/tpa | Ask to teleport to a friend (they accept with /tpaccept). |
/skills | Your AuraSkills menu — level up everything you already do. |
/setwarp & /warp | Save up to 3 personal warp points and teleport to them. |
/cinema | Movie theaters: /cinema list shows the films, /cinema play <movie> starts one on the nearest screen. |
/nick | Set a nickname, colors allowed. |
/trash | Opens a disposal bin for junk you don't want. |
/phantoms | Toggle phantom spawning for yourself if you hate sleeping. |
/playtime & /playtop | See your playtime and the server leaderboard. |
/mapview | Adjust how many chunks the map reveals around you. |
/map3d | 3D models from framed maps — off/on for your own, hide/show for everyone's, rebuild to re-scan the terrain. |
/balance & /pay | Check your coins, pay friends, and climb /baltop. |
/market | The Eternal Exchange — browse player listings, or /market sell <price> to list what you're holding. |
/shop | The server shop — buy prices move with demand, sell payouts stay fixed. |
/withdraw | Turn coins into a physical banknote you can trade or stash. |
/treasury | Your town's shared funds — deposit and withdraw together. |
/bloodmoon | When does the next blood moon rise? Check before it's too late. |
/season | Current season and incoming weather. |
/bible | Open the Holy Bible or get your own copy. |
/portalfix | Nether portals remember where you came from — /portalfix list shows where yours lead. |
4 Get around fast
Waystones are the server's fast-travel network. Craft one (8 stone bricks around an ender pearl), place it, and name it. Click any waystone you find in the world once to discover it — after that you can teleport between all the waystones you know. Check the live map to find towns and waystones near you.
5 Join or found a town
Towns are how we build together. Use /town to found your own town, invite your
friends as citizens, and set a town spawn everyone can visit. Your town's territory shows up
on the live map, and you'll see "Entering ..." messages when players cross into town land.
6 Have fun with the extras
- Movie theaters — build a cinema with a projector, a wall-sized screen, surround speakers, recliners and a working concession stand. See Movie Theaters.
- Fishing derbies — timed contests with trophies and prizes. Start one with
/derby. - Backpacks — craftable portable storage for your travels.
- Vanilla+ tweaks — custom-shaped nether portals, posable armor stands, chest locks with trial keys, throwable fireballs, pet-calling goat horns, silk-touch paintings & spawners, and more little upgrades everywhere.
- Portal memory — walk back into the nether portal you arrived through and you come out of the exact portal you left from, even when several bases share one Nether portal. How it works.
- Pokeballs — capture and carry mobs. Great for moving your animals.
- Ships — build a boat from blocks, add a Ship's Helm, and actually sail it. Mind the wind: run with it and you fly, point within 45° of it and your sails slack (
/ship wind). Add cannons if you're feeling spicy. Your ship can even be your home:/ship tpboards her wherever she is. - Storage networks — Tom's Simple Storage: an Inventory Connector on your chests plus a Storage Terminal gives you one searchable screen for the whole base. How it works.
- 3D map models — hang a filled map in an item frame and a scale model of that terrain rises out of it, built from miniature blocks. A grid of maps becomes one continuous landscape, players show up as their own heads walking around on it, town borders are outlined in amber, and the model keeps itself up to date as people build. How it works.
- Custom music discs — craft our custom songs and play them in jukeboxes.
- Death chests — if you die, your items wait safely in a chest at the spot (and /back takes you right there).
- Mob & player heads — mobs sometimes drop their heads. Collect them all!
- Piranhas — hostile schools in rivers, swamps and jungle waters. They circle before they strike, and blood in the water starts a frenzy. Boats are safe.
- Blood moons — once a week the moon turns red: the night crawls with extra mobs, but every kill pays a coin bounty (doubled all night).
- Seasons & weather — the world follows real seasons with a living sky: fog, hail, downpours, sandstorms, auroras, meteor showers, rainbows — and yes, hurricanes. Weather-proof claims keep your base safe.
- The Holy Bible — the complete King James Bible, craftable and readable in game.
/bibleto get yours. - Skills — AuraSkills progression: mining, fighting, farming and more all level up.
/skillsto see yours. - Brewing — BreweryX lets you ferment, distill and age real drinks. Quality matters; hangovers are real.
- 28 datapacks — a reworked Nether (Incendium), a brutal End (Stellarity), revamped villages, ancient artifacts, working trains and much more. The full roster.
All the recipes are in the crafting guide.
7 Stuck? Say something!
Read the rules (they're short), and if you hit a problem or have a question, post in Help & Support on the forum — someone will help you out.