Shardvale

🏰 About Shardvale

Shardvale is an English-focused Java and Bedrock survival world that blends open-world building with structured objectives. The server emphasizes steady, meaningful play through quests and a player-driven market while keeping social features optional and unobtrusive.

🎮 Gameplay

Players can follow short quest chains when they want direction or ignore them to build and explore at their own pace. Ordinary survival activities—mining, farming, fishing, exploring, and combat—are supported by periodic community objectives so solo play still contributes to the shared world. The experience aims to preserve survival tension (deaths remain meaningful) while smoothing recovery and progression.

⚔️ Game Modes

🪓 Survival

A shared, persistent survival world with progression-aware shops and player commerce. The server encourages economy-driven interaction without paid shortcuts or purchasable in-game advantages.

✨ Features

• Meaningful quest/contract system for short- and medium-length objectives.
• Player-run auction and searchable market for item trading.
• In-game shop catalogue for common survival supplies.
• Optional proximity-style voice (private browser link) — use when you want local voice chat.
• Graves on death to help recover inventory while keeping death significant.
• Invitation reward system that encourages bringing a real friend and staying engaged.

💰 Economy and Progression

Shardvale uses a virtual Dollar balance earned through play; Dollars cannot be bought. The server exposes /shop for catalogue browsing and a protected /auction system where players set prices and trade directly. Prices are described as progression-aware, and the economy is intended to be driven by player supply and demand rather than purchases from a store.

🧭 Who Should Play Here

• Players who enjoy classic survival with light RPG-style objectives.
• Builders and explorers who appreciate a persistent world that evolves with community effort.
• Players who like player-driven markets and trading mechanics.
• Java and Bedrock friends who want to play together without requiring external voice software.

🔌 Connection Notes

• Java and Bedrock crossplay is supported; Bedrock connects through the same server host (site notes Bedrock uses its usual port).
• First join requires accepting a small resource pack and creating a unique in-game password.
• Voice is optional and started with an in-game command that opens a short-lived private browser link.

🤙 Friend Tip

Use the in-game /invite system to bring a real friend — the server rewards both players after they complete the starter requirements together.

⚙️ Commands