Java Edition
Open Multiplayer, choose Add Server and enter play.codexcraft.com.
The Traveller's Guide
Getting Started
Arrive by wagon at Codexia, the walled capital, in a world of medieval cities and villages that grow from the land itself. Follow the Crown's story, earn Crowns by your own hand, buy a house in town, and one day rule a town of your own.
Join the Server
Pass through the gates
Server address
play.codexcraft.com
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Bedrock Edition
Add a server with the same address and port 19132.
Your First Steps
From traveller to landowner
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Ride the Last Wagon
Your tale opens on a wagon on the King's Road at dusk, with the dead on the road. See the wagon safely to the gate, then find Herald Aldric in the castle's great hall for a starter kit and your first task.
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Walk the Crown's Road
Herald Aldric sends you along the Crown's Road: clear the roads, carry the Crown's letter to Reeve Maren in the Crown's keep and settle in a town. The road pays 1,000 Crowns on top of the 250 you start with.
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Earn your Crowns
Take contracts from the notice boards, level your skills, and sell your goods to the market traders and villagers, who all deal in Crowns.
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Buy your home
Find a town with
/city listand join it with/town join <name>. Then stand on a lot and type/lot buy, or buy one from your browser on the Land Registry.
The Realm
Cities built for living in
Dozens of cities and villages are generated with the world, built from medieval cottages, workshops, inns, chapels, manors and cathedrals, with streets that follow the hills, villagers at work and market squares at their hearts.
Codexia, the Capital
Every journey begins in Codexia, a great walled city at the world spawn. Behind its gatehouses stand a castle with a great hall and throne, and a market square of eight stalls, each with a trader. The realm's officers keep their offices in its Market Hall, Barracks, Guildhall and Cartographer House.
A Story to Follow
After the Crown's Road, the tale goes on into Whispers on the Road and The Barrow King, a boss you can face with friends for the Hollow Crown and the Crownguard Blade.
Contracts & Standing
Every town's notice board posts contracts: supplies and crafted goods, bounties, hunts for named foes, parcels to carry and far places to explore, some past the edge of the known world for extra pay. Hand them to the officers in the town's own buildings. Work for a town earns standing there: lot rebates, better prices and, at the top, the title of Thane.
A Home of Your Own
Every city and village is a town you can join, run by an NPC mayor, with lots for sale that follow the buildings on them. Buy a house or an open plot, and trust your friends to build on it. Lots near the square are shop lots, where you can open a shop.
Towns, Charters & Sieges
Joining a town makes you a Freeman; finishing the Crown's Road makes you a Burgher, free to found a town of your own. Or own enough lots in a server-run city to buy its charter and replace its NPC mayor. Server towns stay at peace, while player towns join the politics of nations and can be besieged.
Finding Your Way
Type /quests to see your story missions and contracts and track one of each, with a bar pointing the way. On Java Edition, accept the server's resource pack for a round minimap that marks your quests. The whole realm is also on the World Map in your browser.
The Economy
Paid in Crowns, earned by playing
The currency of the realm is the Crown (♔). Every price is set against what an hour of honest play earns, so a village house costs an evening's work and a manor in Codexia takes a fortune.
No microtransactions. Ever.
Nothing on CodexCraft is sold for real money. There are no ranks, keys, kits or Crowns for sale. Every lot, title and town is earned in game, and the Land Registry only takes Crowns.
Property
| Village house | 1,000 ♔ |
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| Small city lot | 1,500 – 3,900 ♔ |
| Large lot in Codexia | ≈ 17,000 – 22,000 ♔ |
| Prime estate in Codexia | ≈ 43,000 – 65,000 ♔ |
| Lot tax (per chunk, daily) | 10 ♔, shops 20 ♔ |
Towns & Nations
| Found a new town | 10,000 ♔ |
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| City charter | 15,000 ♔ |
| Village charter | 7,500 ♔ |
| Found a nation | 25,000 ♔ |
Earning
| Starting purse | 250 ♔ |
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| The Crown's Road | 1,000 ♔ |
| Later story chapters | 2,250 ♔ |
| New player, per hour | 150 – 250 ♔ |
| Established, per hour | 400 – 700 ♔ |
| Market sales, daily cap | 1,000 ♔ |
Handy Commands
The traveller's phrasebook
/questsYour story missions and contracts/contractsOpen the notice board of the town you're in/city listThe nearest cities and villages/town join <name>Become a resident of a town/lot infoDetails and price of the lot underfoot/lot buyBuy the lot you're standing on/lot trust <player>Let a friend build on your lot/minimap on|offShow or hide your minimap (Java)/web linkLink your Minecraft account to the websiteQuestions the guide doesn't answer? Ask on the Forum.