Your First Day

You've joined Sunday Market. Start with your tools and food, find a place to build, and learn how the server protects other players' work. If you haven't connected yet, follow Getting Started.

1. Check your kit and the rules

Your first-join kit contains a stone sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel, 16 cooked beef and a Leather Pack. It arrives automatically. Type /help for in-game topics and /rules for the house rules; the starter kit page lists every item.

The spawn square is protected. The market beside it allows everyone to build and open a stall, even where the two areas overlap. For a private base, head farther out. You do not need to unlock a rank first. See Region protection for both areas.

2. Find room for a base

Walk out or type /wild for a random wilderness destination at least 1,000 blocks from spawn. The command checks terrain hazards before landing, but it does not promise empty or unclaimed land. The first 10 completed /wild trips have no cooldown; after that, completed trips are limited to one every 24 hours. A failed search does not use a trip. Look around before building. See Wilderness trips for details.

For the first 12 hours of real time after your first join, a newcomer safeguard applies near established builds. You can look around, but you cannot break a neighbor's blocks, open their containers, or make similar changes there. If you try, the server says a build is close by and shows how much time remains. Build on open land away from others' structures. The safeguard expires automatically; it does not stop you from exploring the wider world.

3. Earn your first coins

Coins arrive from ordinary play, including mining, fighting mobs, and fishing. /balance shows your wallet; /baltop shows the leaderboard. How it pays explains the rates and limits. Use /pay <player> <amount> to send coins, or /trade <player> for a trade window with another player, from any world.

4. Protect what you build

Once you have earned enough coins and chosen a site, use /ward shop to buy a ward block, place it, and manage the people you trust. You can also lock a chest or door by right-clicking it with a sign. A ward is the clearer way to protect a whole build; see Building & claiming for prices, sizes, and member permissions.

Set a bed at your base for a respawn point. Keep the coordinates, or use /getpos. Later, Astral runes and other travel tools can link the places you revisit.

5. Learn one more system

Try whichever suits your first build: storage for a pack and linked chests, gardening for a home plot, or the tavern for brewing. Each guide starts with what you need and what the system actually does.

Useful first-day commands

See also

• Starter kit — exact first-join items
• Travel — the ways to get around
• Commands — player command reference
• Rules — the longer explanations