Saturday, April 29, 2023

Server Name: Insanity Craft                                    Server Address: play.insanitycraft.net

Insanity Craft has a survival server full of interesting features including some that help someone get started in the game. First, there is a class system. You get to choose one class and that class gives you certain perks as you rank up. Here are the four classes and their associated perks:

  • Magician - jump boost, night vision, luck, water breathing
  • Sonic - running and mining speeds
  • Healer - extra hearts of health
  • Assassin - strength effects
To rank up in the classes, you must spend your XP. This is easy at first, but the higher you rank up, the number of XP needed to rank up again grows significantly. (Note: I have found that mining quartz in the Nether gives XP the fastest.)

Second, you start off the game with a set of iron armor (Protection II), tools (Efficiency II), and a sword (Sharpness II), as well as 32 apples ("Starter Bites"). Then you can access two free kits. The first free kit has 8 pork and 8 experience bottles and the cool down is one hour. The second free kit has a cool down of one day, and it has 32 pork and 32 experience bottles plus another set of iron armor (Protection II, Unbreaking I), iron tools (Efficiency II, Unbreaking I), and a sword (Sharpness II, Unbreaking I). In addition to all of that, there are also free items you can get from the store:
  • Oak Logs
  • Oak Planks
  • Cobblestone
  • Stone
  • Smooth Stone
  • Grass Blocks
  • Dirt
  • Sand
  • Glass
  • Stone Bricks
Third, the server has quests that do not have to be activated, so you can work to earn all of them at once. You receive rewards when you complete a quest, such as money, objects, spawners, and XP. (Make sure to have room in your inventory!)

About the only downside of this server is that the monster spawn rate is pretty low. You can, however, access grinders (/warps grinders).

Quick Facts

  • Bedrock? YES
  • Version 19? YES on the new version option (i.e. blue)
  • Resource world? YES type /resource
  • Easy Access to Nether and End? YES at spawn
  • /back functionality? YES
  • Special vote perks? YES five minutes of flying for every vote

Quirk

  • Most servers have /shop as the in-game store but this server uses /store instead. (The /shop is used for the IRL outside the game store.)

Saturday, April 22, 2023


Server Name: OPBlocks                                          Server Address: play.opblocks.com

OPBlocks has some interesting elements, including cool rewards from the vote crate. These rewards, including diamonds, are very important, as the monster difficulty is set to hard. You can also get good rewards from the achievements mod - all you have to do is mine, fish, kill mobs, and increase your playtime to get these rewards. Additionally, you randomly (I think it's random) get these well coins which you take to the wishing well and get rewards like crate keys. 

OPBlocks has two worlds where you can claim land. One world is a vanilla world with typical biomes. The other world is custom with unique land types and trees. From the RTP menu, you can select either of these worlds or the resource world or if you have a paid rank, you can select a certain biome. 

Other Facts:
  • Supports Bedrock? 
    • YES but... I couldn't get my E key to work on the server...
  • Given Starter Kit? 
    • YES (iron armor, iron sword, iron pickaxe, 64 cooked beef)
  • Quests? /quests
    • YES but... they are really difficult and require advanced skills. You go around spawn and interact with the NPCs to start them. 
  • Achievements? /achievements
    • YES and they have really excellent rewards, including money, crate keys, credits, and XP
  • Resource world?
    • YES
Quirk:
  • You can only use the /rtp command from spawn


Server Name: Insanity Craft                                             Server Address:  play.insanitycraft.net Insanity Craft has a surviva...