Resources & Farming
Your starting island has neither a cave nor ore. You get resources on the islands that appear as you explore – and with farms on your own island.
Every main island has around 330 ore blocks, including about 11 diamonds and 90 iron ore – iron is as common as coal. They sit in small clusters all through the rock and individually on the cave walls – the deeper, the more. Around 200 of them are right there on the cave walls, the rest is hidden in the rock. Side islands only have around 16, the starting island has none.
Need more? Keep exploring: every new main island brings new ores.
Mana ore
Section titled “Mana ore”| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Appearance | Stone with glowing pink veins |
| Occurrence | 4–14 per main island, in the caves |
| Mining | Pickaxe only |
| Yield | 3–5 Mana orbs, up to 20 with Fortune III, plus some XP |
| Daily limit | 200 Mana from Mana ore |
You deposit the orbs into your account at a Furnace Golem. You can read more about Mana orbs under Mana & Ruby.
Mana Geode
Section titled “Mana Geode”On the floor of some caves, most likely in an amethyst geode, lies a Budding Mana Amethyst – at most two per main island. A mana crystal grows on it in about 40 minutes while the island is loaded. Full-grown, it gives a Mana Shard, which a Furnace Golem turns into 1 Mana. Don’t mine the Budding Mana Amethyst itself – it drops nothing.
Cobblestone generator
Section titled “Cobblestone generator”If your starting island has no water and no lava of its own, it gets both on a stone pedestal – enough for a classic cobblestone generator.
Animals
Section titled “Animals”- Every island has animals that match its biome.
- Animals come back: Islands near you fill up again after a few minutes.
- Breeding, taming and shearing give Mana with a bit of luck and count for quests.
Monsters
Section titled “Monsters”Monsters spawn in the dark as usual, but at most 15 at a time per player – far fewer than in normal Minecraft.
Spawners
Section titled “Spawners”With the Feather of Softness – coming soon – you mine normal spawners and get spawner fragments. Eight of them around a filled Mobplate make your own spawner, for example for cows, sheep, zombies or spiders. It spawns much more slowly than a normal spawner, and an island holds at most 8.
Chests, barrels, pots and shelves in structures are filled once, when they’re first opened. A chest you place yourself stays empty. With a brush, you uncover suspicious sand and gravel. With a bit of luck, there’s a Warpett egg inside.
Trading
Section titled “Trading”- Villagers in villages trade as usual.
- AI residents buy and sell goods for Ruby – see AI residents.
Farms and automation
Section titled “Farms and automation”MegaBuild doesn’t have any special rules of its own for farms, hoppers and redstone. The server rules apply.
When it comes to Mana and quests, only this applies:
- Blocks you placed yourself – such as ores, logs, melons or pumpkins – don’t give Mana and don’t count for mining quests.
- Sugar cane, bamboo and cacti don’t give Mana when you harvest them, but they do count for harvesting quests.
- AFK fishing doesn’t give Mana and doesn’t count.