Travel & Watching

You can visit other players’ islands. If you have access there – as a member, through your clan or as a friend –, you come as a fellow player with your rights. Otherwise you may look around the island as a spectator if its owner allows it: looking around yes, breaking, building and opening no.

On an island you open it with /sky → Travel or with /sky visit without a name. It has two tabs:

Tab	What’s in it
Open islands	Islands where someone is playing right now and anyone may watch. The fullest are at the top
Friends	The islands of players who have added you as a friend – including ones that are asleep right now. The tab only appears when there’s an island in it

Each entry shows the island’s name, its owner and how many players are there right now. Your own island, the island you’re standing on and clan islands don’t appear in either tab. The list is reloaded every time you open it or turn a page.

The last line of an entry tells you what a click does:

Line	What happens
Click to travel there	You have access there and come as a fellow player
Click to watch	You come as a spectator
Asleep right now. Click to wake it and travel there	You have access there: the click wakes the island and takes you there
Asleep right now – you can watch once someone is playing on it	Spectators don’t wake islands. You can’t click the entry
Members only	The owner doesn’t let anyone watch, and you have no access there. You can’t click the entry

There’s no travel menu in the lobby. There you travel with /sky visit <name>.

Other ways

/sky visit <name> takes you straight to a player’s island – from the lobby too.
In your friends list through a friend’s card → Visit their island.
In your clan’s member list with a left-click, or with /clan visit <name>.

If the island is asleep and you may only watch there, a line tells you that it’s asleep right now. You can watch once someone is playing on it.

Your inventory travels with you – ender chest and levels stay on each island.

Fellow player or spectator?

You come as a fellow player with the rights you have there:

as a member whose Join switch is on,
through the clan access or a call for help from your clan,
as a friend of the owner through their friend access.

If none of that applies, you come as a spectator – if the island allows it. That also goes for a member whose Join switch is off. What the owner can set for this is under Watching.

If you travel to a market through the shop search, you still come as a customer, not as a spectator.

What spectators may do

When you arrive, a line in the chat tells you once that you’re only looking around. You stay in Survival mode.

The world doesn’t grow for you. Otherwise new islands appear when someone comes close to them (see The Island World). As a spectator you don’t make any appear, not even while gliding – you only see what’s already there.

Allowed:

Looking around and walking about, gliding with elytra and firing rockets while you do.
Trading at the sign of a ChestShop – in a closed shop area only if you have a shop on that island yourself.
Talking to residents and Forestlings, buying and using blessings, the Root Bridge too.
Using the crafting table, stonecutter, loom, cartography table, smithing table, grindstone, enchanting table, anvil and ender chest with your own things. The anvil doesn’t wear out.

Not allowed:

Breaking, building, opening chests and other containers.
Using doors, switches and pressure plates, harvesting, using animals and Warpetts, putting Forestlings on a lead, catching mobs with a Mobplate.
Fighting – monsters and players too –, shooting and fishing.
Picking up items, arrows and experience included. You only pick up what belongs to you, for example the rest of a shop purchase.
Dropping items.
Getting into boats and minecarts or riding animals.
Flying with /fly – that needs the Build right.

If you try one of these, the display above the hotbar shows “You cannot do that here as a spectator.”

Trading with residents doesn’t work as a spectator: buying – provisions too –, selling, swapping, tasks, orders and timed orders, swap requests and personal offers. The chat then shows “As a spectator you can’t trade with the residents here.” You can still talk to them, and you still pick up delivery notes – goods a resident has already delivered to you.

Staying safe

No damage: Only a fall into the void is deadly for spectators too.
Monsters don’t attack you. You don’t trigger a raid, and sculk sensors don’t hear you.
No pushing: You don’t push anyone and don’t get pushed.
If you do die, you keep your inventory and levels and lose a little Mana like anyone else – see Dying.
Full inventory: If an item doesn’t fit anymore, for example when you close a menu, it drops to the ground. Only you can pick it up – no other player, no hopper and no animal.

When watching ends

If the owner makes watching stricter so that you may no longer watch, you switch to the lobby right away.
If you log out while watching, you land in the lobby the next time you log in – not back on the island.
With /hub you can go back yourself at any time.

Residents on other islands

The special quest “Find the first resident”, Mala’s introduction and her special quest with the Furnace Golem are only for the island’s own players: the owner, members with Join and, on a clan island, the clan. Everyone else is a guest there – spectators as well as fellow players who come in through clan access, a call for help or friend access, and members whose Join switch is off.

As a guest on another island:

No arrow, beacon or helper spirit shows you the way to the island’s first resident. If a special quest was already running for you there, it disappears. The special quest on your own island isn’t affected.
Mala doesn’t introduce anyone to you – no resident, not even if you click them, and no Forestling.
With other islands’ residents, you only have a short first conversation. The long one, which everyone has only once, only happens on an island you belong to.
You can trade with them if you play there – not as a spectator (see above).
When you come close, only one resident per settlement talks to you on their own. You can talk to all of them – by clicking them or typing their name in chat.

Your own island

Whether and who may watch on your island is set on the island under /sky → Members → Watching: Everyone, Friends only or Members only. At the start it’s set to Everyone.

Members & RightsInvite players to your island, decide what they're allowed to do there, give your clan and your friends access and choose who may watch.