Official Servers

Are you interested in joining our official servers? Or maybe you're just feeling a bit lonely in singleplayer? You've come to the right page. This page contains all the information you’ll need: how to apply, the server rules, and what to expect once you’re on the servers. If the official servers aren't for you, there are Public Servers to share the GTNH experience with other players.

There are five official servers; Delta, Epsilon, Eta, Iota and Zeta. The first three run on the latest stable build of GTNH and are updated only when a new stable release comes out. Iota is the daily build server. Despite its name, it does not update daily but every couple of weeks with the latest batch of new builds. Zeta also updates every few weeks but with the latest experimental builds. Players on both Iota and Zeta are part of the quality control process and help identify multiplayer issues before they are released to the general public.

Before being whitelisted on the official servers, you'll have to apply for it. It is nothing complicated, you'll just need to follow those steps:

1. Send a message to the Official Server Whitelisting Bot on Discord. It should be a bot user with a purple name. Any random message so the bot triggers.
2. Follow the instructions of the bot. Make sure what you enter is correct, especially your Minecraft name, as it will be the one whitelisted. Also, the bot has a timeout to avoid waiting answers forever, so if you take too long, you might have to restart again.
3. Once the application is made, it is sent in a specific channel to the whole team. From there, you have to wait AT LEAST 24H before asking an update on your application (the time is written on the applications so we know when it was done). If you ask for an update within the first 24h, that increases your chances to be put on the bottom of the pile.
4. Once it's processed, you either receive an answer from boubou_21 saying you were whitelisted, or saying you were rejected with the reason why. If you are rejected, don't panic, just make a new one with the appropriate corrections and send it again.

Note: If you are done with your application but you see a mistake in it, just send a message to any server operator directly on discord saying you made a mistake in it, no need to wait 24h.

Note 2: It is very rare, but it can happen that despite being whitelisted, you cannot join the server. This is because the server managed to reboot at the same time as your application got approved or there was an issue when the server retrieved your UUID. In that case, contact a server operator or open a post in #official-servers-support on discord to fix this.

While you're on the server you'll be expected to follow the server's rules. These rules can also be found on our Discord server (https://discord.gg/EXshrPV).

Official server rules (Delta, Epsilon, Eta, Iota and Zeta):

1. Do not steal/grief, even if unclaimed. Do not take stuff you don't own without the consent of the owner, even if it looks abandoned or unclaimed. Breaking this rule will get you a permaban. Note: Please ask the official servers operators before terraforming areas larger than 8x8 chunks, as it may be considered landscape griefing. Since we don't reset the Overworld, we aim to keep it clean for future players.
2. Be nice to others. Staff reserves the right to punish this on a case by case basis given the subjective nature of such a rule. Due to repeated player incivility, if a staff member catches you intentionally leaving items on the ground, you will be temporarily banned for 7 days on all official servers. Items on the ground are laggy, if you want to get rid of it, use lava, fire or trash, or any way to destruct items instead of throwing them on the ground.
3. Do not lag the server on purpose! If you think yours or someone else's base is laggy, ask a staff member to audit it. If a staff member asks you to modify or remove your setup, you must comply, or the staff reserves the right to remove the laggy setup WITHOUT REFUND. In extreme cases bases may be altered without warning but we will leave a sign notifying the user of what happened. We also strongly advise you to migrate your base in a personal dim as soon as you get the quest for it, as it helps tracking down lag. @Official Servers Operators reserve the right to ask you to migrate in a personal dimension when needed. Note: to keep a good experience for everyone, we give a budget of 15ms of load per base in endgame. If you start reaching this level of lag, contact an official server operator.
4. PvP without consent is forbidden. unless you have the consent of the others, you cannot fight someone else. This includes Witchery abuse (cursing, giving vampirism or lycanthropy, etc).
5. No hacked clients. No external mods that give you an advantage over other players (This includes x-ray). If you wish to cheat, go to singleplayer.
6. No duping/tier-skipping. Cheating, including duping, disrupts the server economy and is typically punished with an instant ban. Helping others is encouraged, don’t be afraid to team up or share resources. However, if assistance becomes heavily asymmetrical or leads to excessive tier skipping, staff may take action. Please ask if you are uncertain.
7. Things to avoid (This is subject to change as more items are discovered):
   • Trying to bypass stargates by trading, borrowing, or exchanging a rocket is considered cheating and is therefore a bannable offense
   • Do not play with an unclaimed base/base with explosion flag set to false. No rollback if your base blow up in that case.
   • Empty your backpack from the "Backpack" mod before upgrading it. You are responsible for the loss of your items.
   • Encase your nuclear reactor properly, no rollbacks will be provided for user ignorance.
   • Avoid the usage of rockets to reach the planets, as this can cause issues. Use the stargate at spawn instead.
   • Do not try to force load a chunk. This causes other players experiences to be degraded and is heavily punished. List of stuff that works as admin anchor:
     • Chunkloader upgrade (from opencomputers)
     • Ender Quarry (it's usage is tolerated as long as you don't unpower it on purpose to force the chunkloading of an area)
   • Do not place anchors in other users bases in order to load their base when they are not online. This is considered bypassing the intended functionality of passive anchors and is greatly unfair to other users.
   • Avoid leaving items on the ground by any means, as it can lag the server hard. A temporary ban awaits you if you are repeatedly caught doing this.
   • Try to claim your base as soon as possible, this avoids mobs getting stuck in caves and causing lag (if you need a mob farm you can use /mytown plot to designate an area).
   • Cows/pigs/horses/chickens/sheep/pets are limited to 5 of each per base, villagers are limited to 10 per base to avoid lag (AI for the mobs can be CPU intensive).
   • Do not use the charm of Keeping, it's bugged, use the Soulbound I enchantment instead.
   • Do not place a motion sensor from OpenComputer in the world, it will crash the server.
   • Do not use the teleposer to telepose anything that is not a normal block, as it can crash the servers and corrupt the machines you telepose.
   • DO NOT use storage buses on external storage (except on super/quantum chests), it's very laggy and staff reserves the right to dismantle the faulty storage buses (with some punishment if reoccurence).
   • DO NOT spam the search of ross128b's abandoned structures, it creates needless overly large maps. A temp ban of one week will await offending players. No refunds will be given for the above list.
8. The official language of Delta, Epsilon, Eta, Iota and Zeta is english. To enable moderators to effectively do their job we ask players to please keep global chat in English. Players are free to use other languages in private DMs or voice channels. This rule also serves to prevent certain players feeling excluded from chat because of the language in use.

Staff members reserve the right to modify the rules at any time without notice. In addition, Staff members can deal with any situation at their own discretion, if you have an issue with the application of the rules please take it up with another staff member on the discord server in DMs. Otherwise have a good time!

• If you encounter regular timeout disconnections on the official servers (bad internet, a heavy base being loaded on the server, twilight forest worldgen, etc.), please add this Java parameter before launching your pack: -Dfml.readTimeout=60. This parameter doubles the default 30s of timeout. When set server-side, it waits 60s before disconnecting a player who stops sending data to the server—this typically happens when a player is having a very bad connection (the parameter is already set on the official servers). When set client-side, it works the other way around: the client will wait 60s before closing the connection to the server, which usually happens when a heavy base is being loaded into memory, for exemple.
• If you notice unusual lag but the TPS is good, please check https://status.hetzner.com/. If there is an ongoing issue, staff cannot do anything about that. If you still experience lag and both Hetzner and the server are good, you can investigate it by following this.

The official servers feature ranks that you can earn, granting you access to special commands. Here is a list of all the commands you start with, and all the commands/abilities you can earn through ranks:

• /bq_user help
• /bq_user refresh
• /help
• /tell
• /chant (witchery)
• /afk
• /back
• /bal (see your money)
• /balancetop (shows the richest people on the server, takes time to process)
• /compass
• /plugins
• /depth
• /ec
• /ext
• /getpos
• /helpop
• /ignore (stop receiving /msg from someone)
• /info (bind some debugger on the item you have on hand, then you right-click to get data from blocks)
• /kits
  • newbie
  • stamps 1n
  • stamps 20n
  • stamps 2n

• /list (list the online players with their rank)
• /mail (mail system in-game through commands)
• /motd (print the message of the day)
• /msg
• /home
• /warp
• /pay
• /ping (answers pong as soon as received by the server)
• /playertime (changes your client-side in-game time to a predefined value or specified tick)
• /powertool (command used to bind commands to an item)
  • append (stack the commands on one item)
  • toggle

• /realname (see the name of a nicknamed player)

• Custom essentials sign uses:
  • can break custom essential signs about:
    • balance
    • disposal
    • mail
    • protection
  • can create custom essential signs about:
    • balance
    • disposal
    • mail
    • protection
  • can use custom essential signs about:
    • balance
    • buy
    • disposal
    • free
    • info
    • kit
    • mail
    • protection
    • sell
    • spawnmob
    • trade
    • warp

• /time
• /tpa, tpaccept, tpahere
• /tptoggle (enable/disable rejecting tp/tpa targeting, staff can still /tpo to tp to them)
• /craft (open a crafting table)
• Chunkloader coin T1 available in /jobs shops
• /gchelp (link to the gc wiki)
• /joinrace (gc command)
• /ssinvite (gc command)
• /ssuninvite (gc command)
• /mvcoord (multiverse commands)
• /mvlist
• /mvspawn
• /mvp list
• /iskamiunlocked (thaumic tinkerer)
• /rankup (to rank up in the ranks)
• /vote yes and /vote no for the server votes
• /rg info (tells info about the worldguard region you are currently in)
• /ext (short for extinguish, stop the current fire on you)

• 3 homes

• Additional custom essential sign perms:
  • can use and create custom "trade" essentials signs
  • can use custom essentials signs with "heal"
• Can use /mytownweb verify (to link your account to the mtw<server>.gtnewhorizons.com, a website to see stuff about your towns)

• /mytown (allows the claiming of chunks)
• /foodlist (command to see the progression with unique food eaten)
• /vote night, /vote day and /vote rain are now available

• /vote restart (starts a vote to restart the server, however, always ask an admin to trackdown lag before rebooting the server, as it will hide the issue instead of fixing it)
• Chunkloader coin T2
• 5 homes

• 7 homes

• 9 homes
• Veto on votes (/vote veto)
• Chunkloader coin T3

• 12 homes

• 16 homes

• Chunkloader coin T4
• No more delay between a teleport command and the actual teleport

• Can place a stargate in the world
• /back without monthly goal
• /me
• /nick (with color and format)
• Is not counted in the sleep count
• Can join the full server
• Can use color and format in chat
• Chunkloader coin T5

On the servers, we have votes to ease the life of the players. Each vote will only affect those who participate, so keep an eye on the chat for upcoming votes. Also, newbie rank can participate in votes, but cannot trigger one.

• /vote restart. It has a cooldown of 30 minutes, and will be successful only if there are >= 75% of yes. This is not a magical way to fix lag, only to hide it. Ask an Operator if the server is consistently lagging after a reboot. Vote only available for resident rank and higher.
• /vote night. It sets the time to 13000, it has a cooldown of 10 minutes, and will be successful only if there are >= 60% of yes. Vote only available for nomad rank and higher.
• /vote day. It sets the time to 0, it had a cooldown of 10 minutes, and will be successful only if there are >= 60% of yes. Vote only available for nomad rank and higher.
• /vote rain. It sets the rain, it has a cooldown of 10 minutes, and will be successful only if there are >= 60% of yes. Vote only available for nomad rank and higher.

Most of this section can be seen via /vote list, a command to see available votes, as well as their description.

In order to rank up, set homes, and claim town chunks, you're going to need to make money, and the best way to do that is getting a job. You can browse the job list with the command: "/jobs browse". You may have up to 3 professions, with the most common mix being Digger, Miner, and Woodcutter. As you work, you will earn xp for the relevant profession which will increase the daily salary cap as well as unlock unique job related kits at level 20. As you progress in the pack and get better tools it will become easier to make money.

One of the biggest advantages to play on the official servers is the ability to protect your stuff by incorporating it into a town. To access the town commands, type "/mytown help" or "/mytown help <command>" in the chat. You need to be at least Nomad rank to use mytown commands. "/town" can be used instead of "/mytown" for convenience. /t won't work as it intersects with other commands.

Town creation flow

• /town new <name> to create town.
• /town bank deposit <amount> to add money for claims.
• /town claim to add chunks to town. An optional range in chunks can be appended to claim multiple chunks. The total limit per town is 625 chunks including 2 far away spots.

Here is a list of the flags you can use to modify the permissions of players inside your town:

• enter (default: true) It is a boolean. Allows outsiders to enter.
• access (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows right-clicking of blocks.
• pickup (default: true) It is a boolean. Allows item pickup.
• pvp (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows pvp - player vs. player.
• mobs (default: false) It is a boolean. Controls whether mobs can exist here.
• entities (default: true) It is a boolean. Controls whether entities can exist here.
• pve (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows interacting with entities.
• usage (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows usage of items (eggs, buckets etc.).
• activate (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows right-clicking of doors, etc.
• fakers (default: true) It is a boolean. Allows fake players to bypass (ex:TCGolems).
• modify (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows modifying land.
• explosions (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows explosions. Some explosions aren't stopped, such as IC² reactor explosions.
• restrictions (default: false) It is a boolean. Gives permission outside player's plots.
• nearby (default: false) It is a boolean. Allows towns to be made near this town.
• maxwarp (default: 30) It is an integer. The maximum allowed warp for outsiders to enter.

You can invite friends in a town by typing "/mytown invite <Player>", however, the targeted player must be at least nomad rank, or he won't be able to join.

You can give your friend the control of your town by promoting them to the assistant rank inside the town: "/mytown promote <Player> Assistant"

You can change your town permissions locally by creating a plot, but don't forget to add your friends to the plot if you want them to change the flags inside the plot.

Troubleshooting

If you get Internal Error Occurred then your command syntax isn't correct. Read /town help <command>

If you try to modify a town but it does not work, please check this before asking for help:

• Make sure you have the town you want to modify selected with "/mytown select <Town name>"
• Make sure you have the Assistant or Mayor rank in the town
• Make sure you have enough money in the town's bank before claiming

You use a teleport command near a GT pump or miner, but after the 5s delay, nothing happens.

• These are two simple solutions that might help you:
  • Use a block placer to place the machine controller. You can place the rest of the multiblock normally.
  • Grind the ranks until you reach Elite to get the 5s delay removed.