How the Heart works.

01Getting started

New to the server? Connect, grab a Heart, and carve out your first claim before nightfall.

1. Join the network. Add play.myshowbro.net in Minecraft Java 1.21+ and connect. You land in the lobby first — not the survival world yet.
2. Enter Heart Base. From the lobby, click the Heartbase SMP NPC — the heart-headed one to the right of center — or run /server heartbase. That sends you to the actual Heart Base SMP server.
3. Find your spot. The world is bounded by the Pentagon border — everyone fights over the same finite ground, so pick somewhere defensible.
4. Drop your Heart. Place your Heart Anchor to claim the land around it. This is the beating core of your base — protect it.
5. Feed the core. The Heart Anchor survives on Blood Cash — without it, the whole claim decays no matter what else you have stocked.
6. Power your extensions. Kill mobs for regular Blood and feed it into Heart Extensions to raise block HP inside their radius.
7. Earn Blood Cash. Build something great and get it rated, trade with ruin villagers, loot bunkers, or sell through a shop.

02The core loop

Claim, defend, raid, repeat — Blood Cash keeps the core alive, Blood powers the borders.

Each system feeds the next. Blood Cash keeps the Heart Anchor alive; mob Blood keeps your extensions strong; a living claim protects your shops and stored Blood Cash; that wealth funds upkeep and bigger borders; bigger borders make you a target. The loop never stops.

03Heart anchor & claims

A Heart is a placeable block that claims the land around it and powers every protection you own.

Claiming land

Place a Heart Anchor to create a claim centered on it. The claim is a sphere of protected ground — inside it, your blocks gain HP and resist raiders. Add Heart Extensions to grow the radius out toward 100-block spheres.

Why the Heart matters

• It is the source of protection for every block inside the claim.
• The Heart Anchor core must be fed Blood Cash continuously or the whole claim begins to decay — even if your extensions are full of regular Blood.
• Heart Extensions are powered separately by mob Blood, which raises block HP inside each extension's radius.
• Shops, ATMs and safes only function while they sit inside a living claim.

Heart Core GUI

Right-click your Heart Core to open the claim management menu. The owner head at the top shows tier, radius, extension count, members, access code, and upkeep status.

Heart Core

Heart Core fuel

Deposit Blood Cash or Blood Cash bags to keep the core alive.

Heart Extension

Extension fuel

Deposit Jars of Blood to power Heart Extensions.

Tripwire hook

Access code

Set or view the claim's entry code.

Nether star

Upgrade

No separate menu — hover for the BC cost, then click with enough Blood Cash in your inventory. Raises block HP cap and increases daily upkeep.

Name tag

Rename & tag

Change your claim name and 4-letter tab tag. Pick wool to set the color.

Book

Members

Manage who has access to the claim.

Red bed

Disband

Permanently delete the claim.

Gold block

Collect build tax

No separate menu — click the gold block to collect tax owed from employed workers on your claim (based on their nest rank and your tax rate).

Rename & tag

Inside Rename & tag, click one of the two name tags — one updates the claim name, the other updates the 4-letter tag shown in tab and over your name. Click the anvil to confirm, then pick a wool color.

Members

Click the book in the Heart Core GUI to open Add/Remove Player. The Steve headat the top adds a member — it opens an anvil where you type the player name and click the head on the right to confirm. Click a listed member's head to remove them.

Access code

A 4-digit codelets non-members open this Heart Core's GUI. Hover the tripwire hook in the main menu to see the current code — click it to change. On the keypad, ✓ confirms, ✗clears input, and the arrow returns to the Heart Core menu. Hover the enchanted book to see the digits you've entered.

04Block HP & decay

Every block you own has hit points. Two different fuels keep them up — and both matter.

Heart Anchor core — Blood Cash

The Heart Anchor at the center of your claim runs on Blood Cash. Feed it consistently and the claim stays alive. Let it run dry and the entire claim decays — block HP falls, protection weakens, and raiders move in.

Before fueling, the core sits idle. Deposit Blood Cash (or Blood Cash bags) into the Heart Core fuel chest — the heart-with-eyes icon on the left of the GUI — and the core enters its healing area, pumping HP back into blocks inside the claim.

Checking upkeep

Press Tab while inside your claim to see detailed upkeep — how much Blood Cash is stored, your daily burn rate, and time remaining before the core runs dry.

Heart Extensions — mob Blood

Regular Blood from killing mobs is fed into Heart Extensions via the extension fuel chest (heart-without-eyes icon on the right of the GUI). That blood drives block HP upwardinside each extension's radius — the more you feed, the tougher your walls become against raiders.

Stop feeding extensions and their zones weaken. Stop feeding the core and everything weakens regardless.

Block HP in practice

Once the core is healing, blocks inside the claim regain HP. Right-click any block in your claim to inspect it — a level-0 core heals blocks up to 300 / 300 HP. Higher core tiers raise that cap when you click the Nether star in the Heart Core GUI (cost shown on hover).

If the core runs out of Blood Cash, block HP drains away slowly — it takes a long time to fall from max all the way to zero. Same base below: fully fed on the left, long-term starvation on the right.

05The Blood economy

Two resources, two jobs: Blood powers extensions, Blood Cash keeps the core alive and fuels the economy.

Blood

Extension fuel

Earned by killing mobs. Fed into Heart Extensions to raise block HP inside their radius. Craft 9 Blood into a Blood block to fuel helicopters. Does not keep the Heart Anchor core alive on its own.

Blood Cash

Core & currency

The server currency. Fed into the Heart Anchor to stop decay. Also spent at shops, on upkeep, and with custom villagers.

Where Blood Cash comes from

• Rated builds — a great rating pays out Blood Cash (see Build rating).
• Shop sales — when players buy from your chests, the money lands in your safe.
• Ruin villagers — find custom villagers in overworld ruins and sell to them for Blood Cash.
• Custom bunkers — clear vaults inside tiered bunkers; mobs drop keycards and the last vault holds the jackpot (see Custom bunkers).
• Raiding— take it directly from other players' safes and bodies.

Balance HUD

Your personal Blood Cash balance lives in the top-right corner — player name plus a red $ and green amount. Toggle it with /balance off and /balance on (aliases /bal, /hud).

Crafting recipes

Some items are crafted from mob drops or found in bunkers:

Blood Cash and Blood Cash bags can be deposited directly into the Heart Core fuel chest — bags are just a compact way to store larger amounts of Blood Cash.

06Build rating

An algorithm scores your build automatically — no human judges. Place a nest, mark out a zone, and the math does the rest.

Building well is a real income stream. You set up a nest and define its employment zone around your build. When the zone is scanned, the algorithm analyses every placed block inside it and produces a rank. Higher ranks pay out more, and the best builds climb the Top Builds leaderboard.

The nest zone

Place a nest block inside your claim and open it to manage your build zone. Right-click the nest and the zone outline appears in-world — bright particles mark every edge of the box. Use the Eye of Ender button to flash the borders again for 90 seconds while you resize.

Nest GUI

Right-click your nest block to open the Employment: Nest menu:

Emerald block

Calculate rank

Scans every block inside the zone and assigns a rank. Any affiliated player can trigger this. Results appear in chat and on the floating label above the nest.

Player head

Employees

Hire workers, let claim members self-employ, or remove employees from the nest.

Blood Cash

Collect income

Collect employment income owed to the nest from rated workers.

Gold block

Tax rate

No menu — right-click raises tax by 5%, left-click lowers by 5% (max 70%). Claim owners/managers only.

Structure void

Resize zone

Adjust each face of the employment box. Managers only.

Eye of ender

Show zone

Particle outline in-world for 90 seconds.

Book & quill

Rename

Rename the nest. Managers only.

Resize zone

Click the structure void to open Resize: Nest. Stained glass marks each axis — red = X, green = Y, blue = Z. From left to right, the lime dye and gray dye pairs are +X, −X, +Y, −Y, +Z, −Z — lime grows that face, gray shrinks it.

Employees

Click the player head to open Employees: Nest. Online claim members appear as heads — hover your own to employ yourself, or click someone else's head to send a work invite. If they accept, they're employed on this nest.

Calculate rank

A freshly placed nest shows Unranked above the block until someone opens the nest GUI and clicks the emerald block to scan the zone. After the scan, chat prints the score breakdown and the hologram updates with your rank.

What the algorithm looks at

The score isn't about opinion — it's measured from the blocks in your zone. The biggest signals are:

• Detail — the strongest signal. Stairs, slabs, trapdoors and fine blockwork read as real craft.
• Depth & displacement — varied, non-flat surfaces beat a single wall plane.
• Symmetry— measured from the nest center or the build's centroid, whichever scores better.
• Roof craft, verticality & enclosure — a real multi-level structure with a crafted roof.
• Material balance & value — a mix of block families, not one block spammed everywhere.
• Size — bigger builds can score higher, but only if the craft holds up.

Leaderboards

Open /leaderboard (aliases /lb, /top, /baltop) and pick a category:

• Top Builds — highest-rated creations.
• Money, Deaths, Playtime, Blocks placed / broken / walked, Mobs killed, and Players killed.

07Shops & the Store

Run a player shop from inside your claim — stock chests, set prices, and let buyers pay in Blood Cash.

Browsing with /shop

Open /shop to buy from player stores anywhere on the server. You can browse two ways:

• Choose Item — scroll the full item catalog and find who is selling what.
• Stores— browse by shop name and see each player's storefront.

Buying from a shop

From Stores, open a shop and pick a listing. Hover to see stock and price — click to choose how many to buy. Your Blood Cash is taken and the item is delivered a few seconds later (see Dupe-safe transactions below).

Get the starter kit

Run /shop kit once per day to receive a shop zone block, an ATM, and a safe. You need 3 free inventory slots — if you don't have room, the kit isn't consumed and you can try again right away.

1. Place the shop zone block inside your living claim. This marks the area your shop covers.
2. Place a safe inside that same zone — this is where sale money lands. No safe, no sales.
3. Stock a chest and list an item with a price. Any chest you place inside the shop zone becomes an empty listing slot automatically — right-click it to set what you sell and for how much. Buyers browse it in /shop and in-world.
4. Get paid. Each purchase credits your safe in Blood Cash; collect it whenever you like.

Shop zone block

Right-click your placed shop zone block to open the zone manager. Everything about your storefront — name, color, logo, and zone size — lives here.

Chest

Store name

Hover to see your shop name on the zone block.

Paper

Zone size

Shows the current X / Y / Z dimensions of the shop zone.

Name tag

Rename brand

Opens an anvil to set your shop name (see below).

Glowstone

Show border

Particle outline of the zone for 90 seconds.

Lime dye

Grow zone

Expands the shop zone by 1 block.

Gray dye

Shrink zone

Shrinks the shop zone by 1 block.

White wool

Name color

Pick the wool color used for your floating shop name.

Painting

Change logo

Scroll every Minecraft item and pick your shop icon. Also via /shop logo.

List a chest

Place a chest inside your shop zone, then right-click it while it's still an empty listing:

1. Drop the item you want to sell into the listing slots (e.g. diamonds).
2. Confirm with the green block — or cancel with the barrier.
3. Set the price in the anvil GUI — type the BC amount and click the green block to list it on /shop.

A live shop in action

Below is a working setup — Emerald Oasis with a custom logo and name on the shop zone block, one active chest listing (184 diamonds @ 32 BC), one empty listing slot, a safe with 256 BC ready to collect, and an ATM with 23 BC on its floating label.

Dupe-safe transactions

Purchases are atomic and queued. The moment you buy, your money and the shop's stock are reserved, and the item is delivered a few seconds later under protection. You can spam-buy freely — nothing can be duplicated by timing breaks or rapid clicks.

08ATMs & safes

Your ATM holds your personal balance; a shop's safe collects its sales. Both only work inside a claim.

ATM

Personal

Your own Blood Cash balance. Right-click to open the deposit GUI — drop coins or bags into the top slots. Balance also shows on the HUD and as a floating label above the block (see live shop example).

Safe

Shop

Where customer payments land. No menu — the floating label above shows how much is ready; right-click to collect shop earnings into your inventory. Break it and any stored Blood Cash drops as items.

Withdrawing

From the deposit screen, use the buttons on the bottom row:

• Gold block — withdraw your full ATM balance (smart-packed into your inventory).
• Gold nugget — open the amount picker for a specific withdrawal.

In the amount picker:

Gold nugget

1 BC

Gold ingot

9 BC

Gold block

64 BC

Emerald

128 BC

Chest

Fill inventory

Withdraw as much as fits — largest denominations first.

Book & quill

Custom amount

Type the exact BC amount in chat.

09Raiding & hunting

You spawn with a compass. Right-click it to open the Compass Tracker and hunt anything worth taking.

The compass is your main raiding tool. Pick a target type and the needle points you there — some categories also let you teleport straight to the tracked location.

What you can track

From left to right in the tracker menu:

Bunker

Custom bunkers

Track server bunkers. Teleport available— jump straight to the one you're tracking. Clear mobs inside for vault keycards.

Claim

Heart claims

Track active Heart Anchor claims on the map. Find bases worth raiding.

Safezone

Safe zones

Track safe zones. Teleport available — use the compass to jump to the tracked safezone.

Valuables

Hidden loot

Track stashes and valuables scattered around the world.

Bed

Player beds

Track a bed and teleport to it — useful for catching someone at their respawn point.

Ruins

Overworld & Nether

Track ruins in either dimension. Teleport only works for overworld ruins— when you're in the Nether tracking Nether ruins, you get a bearing only.

Builds

Rated nests

Track high-ranked builds from the Build Rating system.

Players

Rich targets

Track players carrying a lot of Blood Cash on them — the juiciest PvP targets on the server.

Safe zones

Fortified towns on the map where you can regroup safely. Track one on your compass and teleport straight there. Each safe zone has a row of category merchants — one NPC per shop type, covering the bulk buys that ruin villagers never offered.

Unlike ruin villagers, safe-zone merchants have no level and no lifespan. Every trade is unlocked from the start, stock never runs out, and they only accept Blood Cash bags(1 bag = 9 Blood Cash). Prices are deliberately premium — you're paying for convenience inside a protected town on a raiding server.

Safe-zone merchants

Right-click any merchant to open their full catalog. Each one owns a single category:

Raiding in practice

• Break through decaying claims where the owner stopped feeding their Heart.
• Crack safes to spill the Blood Cash inside.
• Hunt logged-off heads (see Death & logout) for full inventories.
• Use the live map alongside the compass to spot bases, ruins, and player positions.

10Death & logout

Log off at your peril, and choose your respawn carefully.

Logout heads

Disconnect and you leave a head behind in the world — trackable, killable, and holding everything you were carrying. Log out deep inside a fortified claim… or don't log out at all.

Choose your respawn

When you die, a respawn menu opens. Pick where you come back:

Bed

Your bed

Respawn at the bed you set — if your base still stands.

Heart

Your claim

Respawn at your Heart Anchor claim.

Door

Your nest

Respawn at your Build Rating nest.

Grass

Random overworld

Drop at a random safe overworld spawn to regroup.

Nether

Waste Heart I ruin

Random respawn at a Waste Heart I Nether ruin — high risk, high reward.

11The world

A finite arena with hard edges, ruins to loot, and a custom trade economy.

The Pentagon border

Five hard edges you cannot cross. The entire server fights over the same finite ground — there is no running off to an empty frontier. The live map shows the full pentagon with player positions, claims, and ruins in real time.

Ruins & progression

Nether and overworld ruins each drop different rewards that push your progression forward. Track them with your compass. Overworld ruins can spawn custom villagers — sell to them for Blood Cash.

Ruins are designed as open-world sites, not dungeons with interiors. Right-click the ruin to start the event — like Forge II in the overworld or Warped Portal III in the Nether.

Custom bunkers

Scattered across the map are custom bunkers — tiered dungeons you clear by fighting mobs, collecting vault keycards, and opening vault doors one by one. The last vault holds the jackpot. Track and teleport to bunkers from the Compass Tracker.

How bunker progression works

1. Find a green overworld bunker. The first tier — recognizable by its lime-green beacon beam. This is where the progression chain starts.
2. Enter and clear mobs. Kill enemies inside until you collect all the vault keys for that run. Keys drop from mobs — keep fighting until you have a full set for every vault door.
3. Open vault doors. Each bunker has custom rolling vault doors. Right-click your vault key onto the door to unlock it and reach the loot inside.
4. Progress through vaults. Work through every vault in order. Vault loot includes the green keycard (found in any overworld bunker) and higher-tier keycards needed for the next bunker tier.
5. Hit the jackpot. The final vault in each bunker is where the best loot lives — push all the way through.
6. Climb to higher tiers. Use keycards from vault rewards to access higher-tier bunkers. Each tier is harder and pays better — you can't skip ahead without the keycard from the tier below.

Helicopter

Helicopters let you fly across the map. Craft one from heli parts found in bunkers, then fuel it with Blood blocks (9 Jars of Blood each). Right-click the iron block on the helicopter to open the Minicopter fuel GUI — drop a Blood block into the slot below the nametag.

Custom villagers

A custom villager economy tuned for the server — not the vanilla trades you already know. Find librarians and other villagers in overworld ruins and trade loot for Blood Cash items you can feed into your Heart.

12Command reference

The everyday commands you'll actually use.