ChickenKingdom Player Handbook

Character cards

/card opens your character card. /card <player> opens another player's card. It shows allegiance, kingdom or outlaw rank, settlement or hideout, profession, selected title, backstory and combat record.

Chat and voice

Sitting

Right-click the lower half of a stair or a bottom slab with an empty main hand to sit. Sneaking keeps the normal block interaction. Dismount with the usual vehicle key.

Points of interest

Spawn, towns, taverns and other public sites are marked as red points of interest on the live map. These are protected service areas where NPC conversations, quest steps, shops and registered Tavern Strongboxes remain usable. Combat and fall damage are disabled, hunger is restored, and the surroundings stay unchanged.

Quests and NPCs

Interact with quest NPCs in the world to begin and continue stories. /nquests opens the quest journal; use it to review available and active quests, inspect progress, preview a quest or abandon one. Quest points are shown in the same menu.

Shops and money

NPC merchants use a familiar trading screen. Check the item, quantity and price before confirming a trade. Your normal balance is used for shops, player payments, bounties, kingdom costs, duel wagers and strongbox fees.

Bounties

A bounty must be at least 100 coins. Placing one adds a 5% fee and opens a confirmation screen before money is taken. Bounties expire after 30 days; bounties of at least 1,000 coins are broadcast publicly. The bounty menu shows targets, values and rankings.

Fishing

Fishing gives ordinary catches and normal fishing experience. Enchanted fishing treasure is replaced with cod to keep enchanted gear tied to the server's progression.

A kingdom begins as a landless political group. It recruits members, claims a capital, governs settlements, funds public contracts and takes part in diplomacy. Use /kingdom for the main kingdom menu; it only shows actions available to your current role.

Join or create

Kingdom ranks

Realm travel

The Monarch sets the kingdom spawn inside the capital. /kingdom spawn begins a 60-second preparation period; movement, damage or combat interrupts it. The capital requirement guarantees every established kingdom has one consistent return point.

Claim progression

1. Form the realm. A new kingdom exists without land.
2. Reach 20 members. This unlocks the first claim, which must become the capital.
3. Grow the population. Every additional 10 members unlocks one more region claim.
4. Choose useful land. Later claims become villages or resource regions.

Claims use predefined regions rather than individual chunks. Stand inside an available region and use the kingdom region menu. The menu shows eligibility, the exact price, upkeep and the required treasury reserve before confirmation.

Region types

Local roles

Global kingdom rank and local settlement role are separate. A Citizen may be a Resident in one village, a Guest in another and a Worker in a resource region.

Village laws

Mayors choose a law profile that controls building, storage, interactions, animals, contracts and local management. Standard villages give Residents normal home access and Guests basic interaction. Strict villages reserve more actions for local leadership. The region menu shows the active law and the minimum local role for every action.

Treasury and taxes

Kingdom costs are paid from the kingdom treasury. Members can deposit money; only the Monarch can withdraw it, with a 5,000 coin limit per player and across the kingdom during a rolling 24-hour period. Leadership sets dues by rank. Default dues are 25 for Citizens, 50 for Barons and 75 for Chancellors; Recruits and Monarchs default to 0. A quarter of an assigned resident's dues goes to that settlement's local treasury.

Weekly upkeep

Upkeep is processed every Saturday at 14:00 Europe/Amsterdam. Time spent with the server offline still counts, so a missed cycle is collected after the server returns. More land increases total upkeep. If the treasury cannot pay, the kingdom enters debt and cannot claim. Continued failure forfeits one region, choosing resource land first and the capital last.

Claim and upkeep scaling

• Capital costs and upkeep are higher than ordinary village land.
• Resource regions cost slightly more than villages.
• Each region already owned raises the next claim price by 35% and increases total upkeep pressure.
• A claim is approved only if the treasury can still hold one full upkeep cycle afterward.

Supply contracts and depots

Contracts let leadership buy building materials from players. A contract reserves its full reward from the treasury. Deliver the requested plain material at the correct local, realm or allied board; payment goes directly to you and the items enter the selected depot. Named, enchanted or damaged materials stay in your inventory. Leadership can withdraw approved depot materials for public projects.

Prestige

A Monarch may submit the capital and a Baron may submit their village for staff review. Build quality earns Established, Grand or Legendary prestige. These tiers reduce upkeep by 20%, 40% or 60% and multiply depot capacity by 2, 4 or 8. A region can be submitted once every seven days, and the prestige menu tracks requests and results.

Kingdom ranking

The leaderboard rewards both territory and development: capitals are worth 500 points, villages 250 and resource regions 100. Established, Grand and Legendary prestige add 150, 350 or 700 points for each reviewed settlement. Open the kingdom leaderboard to see the full score breakdown.

A village Baron can attempt to turn the village into the capital of a new kingdom. The Baron chooses the proposed name and color and pays 100,000 coins from their personal balance. The list of eligible village residents is frozen when the vote begins.

On success, the village becomes the new kingdom's capital. Supporting residents join the new kingdom; residents who opposed or skipped the vote remain with the former kingdom and become Refugees until reassigned. If the vote fails, supporters remain recorded as rebels and can be removed by the old kingdom's leadership.

/ckdiplomacy opens the diplomacy board. Every player can inspect relations, active wars, truces, alliance calls, current fronts and occupied territories. Chancellors and Monarchs receive the actions their office can perform.

Relations

Authority

Chancellors and Monarchs can manage alliances and treaty proposals. Proposals expire after 48 hours. Only a Monarch declares war or accepts surrender-level decisions; Chancellors can schedule fronts and negotiate ordinary peace. Alliance leaders decide whether their realm joins a support call, so allies are not enrolled automatically.

From declaration to battle

1. Declaration. The Monarch declares war from the diplomacy board. This creates the hostile relation, not an immediate siege.
2. Target. Leadership chooses an eligible enemy region. Frontline villages and resource regions come first; a capital becomes eligible after the other target land is gone.
3. Objective. Defending leadership places the one-chunk war objective at a defensible point fully inside the target region.
4. Schedule. A Chancellor or Monarch chooses a listed battle window at least 18 hours in advance.
5. Roster. Fighters and committed allies are frozen when the siege is scheduled.

Battle windows

Roster rules

• A player must have joined the kingdom at least 24 hours before scheduling.
• Recruits and Refugees are not eligible fighters.
• The exact roster is frozen at scheduling; later promotions or recruits do not enter that battle.
• Allied kingdoms and hired outlaw bands count only after their support is formally committed.
• Only one open front can be scheduled at a time, with at least six hours between sieges.

Staging

During the final hour before a siege, attackers already inside the target receive a five-minute warning and are moved outside. New attacker entry is held at the border until battle begins. At the start, the frozen defenders remain inside and the frozen attackers enter from outside; outsiders cannot enter the active battlefield.

Winning the objective

Siege progress begins in the middle. Exclusive attacker control pushes it toward capture; exclusive defender control pushes it back. Additional attackers provide a modest capture bonus and fighter kills move the score, but repeated kills against the same opponent only count once every ten minutes. After reaching full capture progress, attackers must hold the objective uncontested for a final 90 seconds.

Defenders can win by resetting progress to zero before attackers cross the halfway mark. Once attackers have crossed halfway, defenders can stop and reverse progress but cannot reset it below that line. If the attacking side abandons the battlefield, it receives a warning after three minutes and loses after five.

Building and storage during battle

• Each side shares a 10-second block-breaking cooldown.
• Attackers can place ladders and scaffolding for access.
• Doors and gates remain usable by registered fighters.
• Attackers cannot open defender containers. Broken blocks drop no loot and all recorded siege damage is restored afterward.
• During a reconquest, settlement containers are locked for both sides until the battle ends.

After the result

A defender victory keeps the region and closes that front. An attacker victory starts an occupation; the region, residents and stored materials do not transfer immediately. A recently conquered region receives 12 hours of protection before another front can target it.

Peace and surrender

Mutual peace ends the war by agreement. Surrender is a Monarch's unilateral decision and pays 2,500 coins plus 10% of the surrendering treasury, capped at 25,000, then creates a truce. An active occupation must first be resolved by reconquest, negotiated return or annexation.

Occupation is the period between a successful siege and final ownership. The defeated kingdom remains the legal owner: its residents, Mayor, local records and stockpile stay in place. The occupier can use doors and gates for access but does not gain building, storage or settlement-governance rights during this period.

The deadline is the end of the following week's final Saturday battle window, giving the legal owner a complete weekend of reconquest options. A kingdom can administer only one unresolved occupation, so it must settle that region before scheduling another offensive siege.

Three ways an occupation ends

Reconquest rules

A Chancellor or Monarch of the legal owner schedules the single reconquest with at least one hour of notice, using an available weekend battle window before the annexation deadline. The roster freezes when scheduled. The same final-hour clearing and border entry rules apply, with the former owner entering as the attacking side. If reconquest fails, negotiation remains available until annexation.

Capital occupation and Crown in Exile

Capitals follow the same occupation and reconquest rules. While its capital is occupied, a kingdom is marked Crown in Exile. Membership, diplomacy, taxes and upkeep continue, while new land claims and moving the kingdom spawn are suspended until the capital's occupation is resolved. The existing capital spawn remains the realm's return point.

An outlaw band is a compact organization built around a hidden base, supply contracts, raids and mercenary work. Open /ckoutlaw to create, join or manage one. Creating a band costs 5,000 coins; a band can hold up to 20 members. Invites last 24 hours.

Band ranks

Hideout and upkeep

A band needs five members before it can claim one hideout. The hideout has a core chunk used during purges and a shared stash for up to 4,096 plain material items. Named, enchanted and damaged items stay in normal storage. Hideout upkeep is processed hourly from the band balance, including elapsed offline time. Three unpaid cycles forfeit the hideout.

Outlaw contracts

Lieutenants post material requests and reserve the reward. Runners deliver matching plain materials to the band; the delivery screen shows the amount and reward split before confirmation. Contracts supply building, raid and mercenary preparations without exposing custom equipment to material-storage rules.

Kingdom raids

Outlaw Lieutenants can launch a 20-minute raid during the Wednesday 19:00-22:00 Europe/Amsterdam window. At least two eligible attackers and two eligible defenders must be online. Raiders breach with a side-wide 10-second block cooldown and may loot containers, while defenders retain normal door and switch access. Unique kills against at least 25%, 50% or 75% of the eligible defender roster unlock 2%, 5% or 10% treasury plunder.

Hideout purges

A kingdom Chancellor can launch a purge against an outlaw hideout. Kingdom fighters must take and hold the hideout's core chunk until the purge score reaches 160. Until the hideout falls, attackers cannot use its containers, doors or switches. A successful purge removes the hideout claim.

Mercenary contracts

Kingdom Chancellors can offer a war contract to an outlaw band. A Lieutenant accepts or declines before the siege. The offer may contain an upfront payment of up to 50,000 and a success payment of up to 100,000, held safely in escrow. The minimum total offer is 100. The hired band joins the frozen siege side; earning the success payment requires at least 120 seconds of band presence during the battle.

Raid cooldowns are 12 hours for the attacking band and 24 hours for the target. Current availability, requirements and payment terms are shown in the outlaw and diplomacy menus.

Official taverns contain registered barrel strongboxes identified by a floating Tavern Strongbox label. Right-click a registered barrel to open five private stack slots shared across every official tavern. Goods placed in one tavern can be collected from another.

Using the strongbox

1. Right-click the labelled barrel and buy or renew your charter if required.
2. Shift-click one inventory stack to place it into an open strongbox slot.
3. Click a stored stack to collect it. The menu shows whether a courier fee applies.

Named, enchanted, damaged, lore-bearing and ChickenKingdom items keep all of their data. Bundles, shulker boxes, backpacks and other portable or nested storage items cannot be stored. Each action is recorded before the inventory changes, protecting goods and payments if the server stops during a transaction.

/duel opens the challenge menu. The opponent must be within 12 blocks and both players must be near an available arena within 18 blocks. Neither player may be recently in combat. A challenge expires after 60 seconds.

Wagers and equipment

Choose a wager from 0 to 100,000 coins. Both players pay the same amount when the challenge is accepted; the winner receives both payments. A draw or cancelled start refunds both sides. Duelists use their own inventory and equipment, keep all items and levels on death, and return to their previous outside-arena locations after the result.

Match rules

• A 10-second countdown begins after both players are placed in the arena.
• A duel lasts at most six minutes; a timeout is a draw.
• Death, logout or /duel leave gives the opponent the win.
• Only the two duelists can damage each other. Arena blocks, containers, item drops and item pickups are protected.
• Travel commands and leaving the arena are blocked until the match resolves.

Records

/duel stats, /duel top and /duel history show results. To keep rankings competitive, the first three wins against the same opponent each week give full leaderboard points, wins four through ten give 25%, and further repeat wins give none. Match results and wager payouts are unchanged.

Use the live Dynmap to plan routes, find services and understand political borders. Toggle layers to reduce clutter, then click an area for its name and current details.

The in-game scoreboard uses registered display names for the region you are standing in. It also surfaces important realm states such as an occupation or Crown in Exile, while action bars and titles provide countdowns during travel, raids and sieges.

Menus are the primary interface. These player commands open the correct board or perform a common action; detailed leadership actions are presented inside those menus.

Main systems

Kingdom shortcuts

Communication and economy