Getting Started

Assumptions

The 3D Printing Challenge assumes a basic familiarity with Minecraft. If you are new to the game, we suggest same Vanilla experimentation in your own private world before the timer starts on Polycraft Island. If you are new to the Polycraft World mod, there are several open servers to learn about advanced petrochemistry, electrical engineering and college level chemistry and materials science, now or in preparation for next year's challenge.

Overview of Refugee/Villager Game Mechanics

Refugees will arrive on the shores of Polycraft Island every Minecraft day at 10:00am (every 20 minutes real time). Refugees (now your Villagers) will work throughout the day to help you advance your mission by mining resources from Polycraft Island, creating equipment in the Workshop, and synthesizing chemicals in the starting laboratory. Every Minecraft evening at 10:00pm (every 20 minutes real time, 10 minutes offset from arrival) refugees will put the materials they have mined, harvested, crafted, machined, smelted, milled, distilled, cracked, refined or otherwise processed into Community Chests within your thriving village, which you can then collect to expand your settlement even more!

Pro Tips

1) 3D Printing enables rapid scale: While your Minecraft skills are not in question... a burgeoning city is made up of A LOT of blocks. The modern marvels that are 3D Printers can make the impossible possible by empowering you to build a large city in record time. Special Power Tools] also can help with rapid demolition. Do you have what it takes to master this new exciting world of making and breaking.

2) Your refugees are eager to help you, if you let them: Your refugees are just as invested in your Village as you are...it is their Home too after all! They are working diligently every day to gather useful materials and make useful items. But they can only work so fast... They will produce materials per day based on their House Technology Level and Happiness of an amount scaled by the average size of your active team of BEST Engineers logged on during the Current Age.

• A single team member will get 5X less stuff than a team of 5 Engineers, but will be able to play for 5x as many days before the 50-hour timer expires.
• The Average logged in metric is tracked separately for each age that is the Current Age.