IllyriaRPG Wiki

Welcome to the official wiki for the IllyriaRPG Minecraft server.

Quick Links

• Joining the Server — How to connect and get started
• Custom Weapons — Greatsword, Halberd, and Longsword
• Enchantments — Custom and tweaked enchantments
• Quality of Life — Sitting, nicknames, XP bottling, and more

About the Server

IllyriaRPG is a vanilla-plus Minecraft survival server with RPG flavor:

• ⚔️ Custom end-game weapons craftable via the smithing table
• ✨ Unique enchantments like Vinemine (vein mining) and Embertread (lava walker)
• 🪑 Quality-of-life features — sit, bottle XP, set nicknames
• 🗺️ Mod support for Xaero’s maps and Fabric/JEI users

Joining the Server

Server Information

How to Join

1. Launch Minecraft Java Edition 26.2
2. Go to Multiplayer → Add Server
3. Enter the server address
4. Join and accept the resource pack prompt

First Steps

Once you’re in, here are some things to check out:

• Read the Server Rules
• Explore custom Weapons and Enchantments
• Try right-clicking a stair to sit down
• Set your nickname with /nick

Server Rules

The server rules are enforced in-game via the Rules command.

1. Be respectful — No harassment, hate speech, or toxicity
2. No griefing — Protected by anti-griefing systems, but respect builds
3. No cheating — No hacked clients, x-ray, or exploits
4. No spam — Keep chat readable
5. Use common sense — If it feels wrong, don’t do it

Check /rules in-game for the authoritative, up-to-date list.

Resource Pack

IllyriaRPG uses a custom resource pack to enhance your experience with custom weapon models, textures, and UI elements.

Automatic Installation

The resource pack is automatically served when you join the server. Simply accept the prompt and it will be applied on every join.

Manual Installation

If you disabled server resource packs, download it manually from the releases page and place it in your resourcepacks folder.

What’s Included

• Custom 3D weapon models (Greatsword, Halberd, Longsword)
• Custom painting variants
• Boss bar icons
• UI and text overrides

Datapacks

IllyriaRPG runs curated datapacks to expand gameplay with new advancements, crops, and world generation.

Installed Datapacks

What They Add

BlazeandCave’s Advancements Pack

Massively expands the advancement system with hundreds of new challenges spanning exploration, building, combat, farming, and more. Check your advancement screen to see all available goals.

Crop and Kettle

Introduces new crops to grow and cooking mechanics for preparing custom food items with unique effects.

Incendium

Completely overhauls the Nether dimension with new biomes, structures, mobs, and loot. The Nether is far more dangerous — and rewarding — than vanilla.

Nullscape

Completely overhauls the End dimension with new biomes and structures that make End exploration far more interesting after defeating the Ender Dragon.

Notes

• All datapacks are server-side only — no client mods required
• All content integrates with vanilla gameplay seamlessly

Custom Weapons

IllyriaRPG adds three powerful end-game weapons, each crafted via the smithing table using a Netherite Upgrade template and a rare material.

Crafting

All weapons are upgraded in a smithing table:

[Netherite Upgrade Template] + [Base Weapon] + [Catalyst] → [Custom Weapon]

Custom models and textures are provided by the server resource pack.

Greatsword

A heavy two-handed blade with devastating damage.

Stats

Crafting

Upgrade a Netherite Sword in a smithing table:

Playstyle

The Greatsword hits the hardest of all custom weapons but swings the slowest. Best for players who prefer heavy, deliberate strikes — pairs well with damage-boosting enchantments.

Halberd

A polearm with extended reach for keeping enemies at bay.

Stats

Crafting

Upgrade a Netherite Spear in a smithing table:

Playstyle

The Halberd’s extended reach (4 blocks instead of 3) lets you hit enemies before they can hit you. Excellent for controlling distance in PvP and safely fighting mobs.

Longsword

A swift, elegant blade that trades raw damage for speed.

Stats

Crafting

Upgrade a Netherite Sword in a smithing table:

Playstyle

The Longsword is the fastest custom weapon. With 1.6 attack speed, you can land more hits per second — ideal for aggressive playstyles and quickly applying on-hit effects like Fire Aspect.

Enchantments

IllyriaRPG adds four custom enchantments obtainable through the enchanting table, anvils, and villager trading — just like vanilla enchantments.

Custom Enchantments

Vanilla Tweaks

Adjusted behavior for Feather Falling, Fortune, and Silk Touch.

Embertread

Walk across lava without harm.

Effect

Grants immunity to lava and magma damage, allowing you to walk safely across molten surfaces.

Nimbus

Enhanced air mobility.

Effect

Grants cloud-like movement abilities while worn.

Tether

Keep entities close at hand.

Effect

Allows you to tether entities to items, extending your interaction possibilities. Pairs with Vinemine — when both enchantments are on a tool, vein-mined drops are automatically collected.

Vinemine

Break entire ore veins in one swing.

Effect

Breaking an ore block also breaks connected ore blocks of the same type.

Max Blocks per Level

Notes

• Only works on ore blocks
• Does not work in Creative mode
• When combined with the Tether enchantment, drops are automatically collected
• Durability is consumed per block broken

Vanilla Enchantment Tweaks

IllyriaRPG adjusts the behavior of several vanilla enchantments.

Fortune — Auto-Replant

When breaking a fully-grown crop with a hoe enchanted with Fortune II or higher, the crop is automatically replanted.

Feather Falling

Adjusted fall protection behavior.

Silk Touch

Extended silk touch capabilities for additional block types.

Quality of Life

Small features that make everyday play more comfortable.

Sitting

Take a load off — sit on stairs and slabs.

How to Sit

Right-click any stair or bottom slab to sit on it. You’ll stay seated until you move or the block is broken.

Notes

• Only one player can occupy a block at a time
• You automatically stand when the block is destroyed
• Dismounting returns you to your standing position

Nicknames

Change your in-game display name with MiniMessage formatting support.

Usage

Run /nick (alias for /nickname) to open the nickname dialog. Enter your desired name and confirm.

MiniMessage Formatting

Nicknames support full MiniMessage syntax — colors, gradients, bold, and more.

Examples

RGB Gradients Made Easy

Use birdflop.com/resources/rgb to generate gradient text:

1. Type your name on the site
2. Set output format to MiniMessage
3. Copy the output and paste it into the nickname dialog

See the MiniMessage docs for the full formatting syntax.

Notes

• Nicknames are persistent across sessions
• The nickname shows in the tab list
• All players can use /nick by default

Ender Chest

Quick access to your ender chest anywhere.

Usage

Hold an Ender Chest in your hand and right-click in the air to open your ender chest remotely.

Notes

• Only works when clicking air — not blocks
• Survival mode only

XP Management

Store your experience points in bottles for safekeeping.

Bottling XP

Right-click an enchanting table with an empty glass bottle to convert your XP into an Experience Bottle.

Why Bottle XP?

• Protect your levels — bottled XP survives death
• Trading — hand XP to other players as bottles
• Storage — save XP for later enchanting sessions

Anvil Improvements

Significant quality-of-life changes to anvils, including disenchanting and cost improvements.

Key Features

Removed Cost Limit

The vanilla 40-level anvil cap (“Too Expensive!”) is removed. You can always combine and repair items regardless of cost — as long as you have the levels.

Operations that would normally cost 40+ levels are allowed and will deduct the full level cost.

Enchantment Level Cap Bypass

The vanilla limit on enchantment levels is bypassed on anvils, allowing you to combine enchantments beyond their normal maximum levels where the game otherwise permits it.

Disenchanting

Extract enchantments from an item back onto an enchanted book.

How to Disenchant

1. Place the enchanted item (or Enchanted Book) in the first anvil slot
2. Place a regular Book in the second slot
3. The result slot will show an Enchanted Book with the extracted enchantments
4. Take the result to complete the disenchantment

Rules

• The item must have 2 or more non-curse enchantments (single-enchantment items cannot be disenchanted)
• Curses (Binding, Vanishing) are never extracted
• When disenchanting an Enchanted Book with multiple enchantments, only one enchantment is split off per book
• Extracted enchantments are removed from the source item
• The book is consumed

XP Cost

The level cost scales with the number and level of enchantments extracted. Higher levels cost more.

MiniMessage Renaming

When renaming items in an anvil, you can use MiniMessage formatting syntax for styled item names.

Examples

See the MiniMessage docs for the full formatting syntax.

Gameplay Changes

World and gameplay modifications that set IllyriaRPG apart.

Tree Mechanics

Vanilla trees are replaced with custom tree structures for a more natural, varied look when growing saplings.

How It Works

Planting and growing a sapling (or using bone meal) spawns a hand-crafted custom tree structure instead of the default vanilla tree. Each tree type has multiple structure variants chosen at random, so no two trees look exactly alike.

Supported Tree Types

Notes

• Sapling growth behaves like vanilla — custom trees do not overwrite existing blocks such as stone or player-built structures
• Fungi and huge mushrooms also grow as custom variants
• Pale Oak is currently excluded due to an upstream Paper bug

Openable Blocks

Extended behavior for doors and other openable blocks.

Features

Double Door Sync

Right-clicking one door of a double door pair automatically opens or closes the adjacent door in sync. No more manually clicking both doors.

Notes

• Only works when right-clicking a door normally (not while sneaking)
• The adjacent door must mirror the clicked door (hinge on the opposite side)

Door Knocking

Announce your arrival by knocking on a door!

How to Knock

1. Empty your hand (hold nothing)
2. Sneak (hold Shift)
3. Left-click any door, trapdoor, or fence gate

A knocking sound plays to all players within 10 blocks.

Works in Survival and Adventure modes on doors, trapdoors, and fence gates — anything openable.

Chiseled Bookshelf Storage

Peek inside chiseled bookshelves without opening the inventory.

How It Works

Left-click the front face of a chiseled bookshelf to see what’s stored in the slot you’re looking at. The contents appear as an action bar message.

What You See

Details

• Uses ray casting to detect exactly which slot (out of 6) you’re pointing at
• Shows the sprite icon of the stored item
• Works in Survival and Adventure modes
• Only works when clicking the front face of the bookshelf

Anti-Griefing

IllyriaRPG has built-in protection against common griefing methods so your builds stay safe.

Protections

• Controlled block breaking/placing in sensitive areas
• TNT and explosion restrictions where configured

Best Practices

• Report suspicious activity to staff via in-game chat
• When in doubt, build within protected regions

Entity Tweaks

Quality-of-life adjustments to mobs and ambient entities.

Recipes

IllyriaRPG adds convenient vanilla-style recipes for common QoL needs.

All Recipes

Notes

• Chainmail Armor uses vanilla armor crafting patterns with Iron Bars
• Diamond Recycling accepts any diamond tool, weapon, or armor piece (including horse armor)
• Rotten Flesh can be smelted in a furnace, smoker, or campfire
• Wood to Log converts wood blocks (e.g. Oak Wood) back to 4 logs of the same type
• Custom Paintings are cut via the stonecutter

Weapon Recipes

For the custom RPG weapons, see the Weapons section.

Client Mod Support

IllyriaRPG works with all vanilla clients, but enhances the experience for players using certain mods.

Supported Mods

Requirements

Playing with no mods at all is completely fine — these are optional enhancements.

Xaero’s Maps

The server officially supports Xaero’s World Map and Xaero’s Minimap.

Features

• Persistent World ID — Waypoints and map data are tied to the server’s world, so they stay consistent across sessions and client restarts
• World Sync — Map data syncs automatically when you switch dimensions/worlds

Setup

1. Install Xaero’s Minimap and/or World Map on your client
2. Join the server — the mod is automatically detected
3. Your waypoints and explored map areas are synced with the server

Downloads

• Xaero’s Minimap on CurseForge
• Xaero’s World Map on CurseForge

Fabric & JEI

If you’re playing on a Fabric or NeoForge client with JEI installed, the server automatically syncs custom recipes to your recipe book.

Features

• See custom weapon recipes (Greatsword, Halberd, Longsword) directly in JEI
• Browse all custom vanilla-style recipes (chainmail, wool-to-string, etc.)

Setup

1. Install Fabric Loader (or NeoForge)
2. Install JEI (Just Enough Items)
3. Join the server — Fabric/NeoForge clients are detected automatically on join

Notes

• Vanilla clients are completely unaffected
• Synced recipes only appear for Fabric/NeoForge + JEI players
• Recipe sync happens automatically on every join