Guide

Add play.pvpmines.net to your server list, Java edition, any version from 1.8. When you join you'll get asked to accept a resource pack. Say yes, otherwise rank plates, holograms and half the menus look broken.

You spawn at spawn. The portal takes you to your mine. It's yours, nobody else mines in it, and it starts small. Hold left click and the rest of this page starts to make sense.

Tokens drop from every block. They pay for pickaxe enchants and most upgrades. Gems are rarer, also from mining, and go on the expensive stuff like pickaxe prestiges. Both can be paid to other players.

Credits are the store currency. You get them from the webstore or occasionally from the Credit Finder enchant. They buy ranks, keys, crates and the battle pass in /store. See the store page for prices.

Every block you mine gives rank XP. Fill the bar, rank up. There are 1000 ranks. Your mine grows every 20 ranks and the blocks in it get better as you go. Rank ups also drop rank boxes with enchant books in them, and higher ranks unlock better books.

Rank XP boosts from store ranks and ascension stack with this, which is why people with Astral fly through the early ranks.

One pickaxe, you never replace it. It levels up as you mine and you spend tokens on enchants. There are 50: Token Miner, Gem Miner and Speed early, then Jackhammer, Explosive, Tidal Wave, and much later things like Nuke, Supernova and Singularity that clear chunks of the mine at once.

Skill tree: every 15,000 pickaxe XP gives a skill point. Spend them in the skill tree menu on permanent bonuses. You get two free resets.

Prestige: when the pickaxe is maxed you can prestige it, up to five times. Costs tokens, gems and ascension points. Each prestige adds 5% to tokens, gems, rank XP and pickaxe XP and raises the level cap by 200.

Attachments come from attachment boxes (T1 to T3) and slot onto the pickaxe for extra effects. Momentum is the bar that fills while you keep mining and empties when you stop, so don't stop.

Ascension is the long game. Once you're deep in the ranks you start earning ascension XP, which moves you through tiers and levels. Every tier gives ascension points, every level gives a lot more, and points are spent in the ascension shop. Each level also adds a permanent multiplier to tokens, gems, rank XP and pickaxe XP.

There are 1000 ascension levels. Good luck.

Robots generate resources every minute while you're online. Upgrade them with tokens, up to level 100, and they scale with your pickaxe. Store ranks let them keep working while you're offline.

The AFK mine is a platform next to your mine. Stand on it and blocks get mined for you, slowly. Upgrade it five times, and store ranks add to the rate.

Making a gang costs tokens and starts you with three member slots. Upgrade the gang for more slots and perks, claim a gang cell to build in, and your gang's combined progress counts in the gang competitions. Gang chat is its own channel so you can plan without the whole server reading it.

Seasons last six weeks. The battle pass has 100 tiers, 100 XP each. Mining gives pass XP (1 per 1000 blocks), three daily quests give 45 each and the weekly gives 85. Free rewards on every other tier, premium gets all of them for 1,500 credits.

/daily once a day for a reward that gets better the more days in a row you claim it. Voting on the server lists gives vote keys when it's enabled, and store ranks multiply vote rewards.

The Wandering Miner visits spawn and trades tokens for reputation. Fossils dig out of your mine and give pickaxe, token or rankup bonuses. Pets come from pet eggs, common up to mythical. Lucky blocks and the Mine Overlord boss spawn in your mine. There are crates at /warp crates, an auction house, player vaults, and parkour and minigames at spawn when you need a break.

Stuck? Ask in chat, people are usually decent, or open a ticket on Discord.