BlockNation: Guns, raids and factions in Minecraft.

There is no date yet: BlockNation is an upcoming server, still in development. The launch date will be announced in the Discord first, so joining it now is the way to be there on day one.

Yes, if you want to test what is built so far. Ask in the Discord with your exact Minecraft username and an admin adds you to the whitelist. There is no form and no fee.

The address is test.playblocknation.net, the test server, for Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.11; there is no Bedrock version. Until launch you need to be on the whitelist first: ask in the Discord with your exact Minecraft username.

Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.11, with no mods. Everything custom is server-side; the resource pack with the models, textures and sounds is sent to your client automatically when you join.

Twenty plugins written for this server and over a hundred custom items and blocks: 23 firearms with aim-down-sights, recoil and their own sounds; C4 and rockets that crack a wall one rung down with every charge, on a ladder of six stone walls; a crafting bench with blueprints, a recycler, a refinery, a bullet press and a repair bench; factions founded on a Faction Block, with garage doors and door access; minicopters, helicopters, quads, parachutes and SAM sites; hemp and aloe farming; radiation zones and hazmat suits; medkits, bandages and syringes; bandits, a bandit helicopter with elite crates, and an oil rig event with a locked crate. The resource pack installs itself when you join.

Both work. A solo player can farm, craft, raid and run PvE events alone. Factions are founded by placing a Faction Block and add shared door access, allies, faction chat and a faction shop.

Yes. Challenge anyone with /duel <player>. The challenger picks the arena and what is at stake: Loot, where the winner takes the loser's gear, or Practise, where nothing drops and both inventories are put back exactly as they were. Duels have their own leaderboard on the Discord, and it is never reset.

An oak plank wall takes one C4. Stone walls are a ladder of six blocks, a charge more each: Cracked Stone Bricks 1, Stone Bricks 2, Reinforced Stonebrick 3, Iron Plated Stonebrick 4, Steel Plated Stonebrick 5, Titanium Plated Stonebrick 6. Each C4 charge or rocket cracks a wall one rung down until it breaks through. A building hammer climbs it back up a rung a swing, with a blueprint per rung from the stone bricks up. Garage doors open only for their owner, ammo crates spill their rounds when destroyed, and SAM sites shoot down helicopters. Logging out in combat kills you, and the bases of players who stop logging in decay.

Messages, reactions and voice time on the Discord earn XP and levels. Milestone levels (5, 10, 25 and 50) grant in-game rewards, delivered to a mailbox you open in game with /mailbox once your accounts are linked, which opens at launch. Discord also mirrors your in-game stats: kills, deaths, K/D, playtime, blocks placed and the leaderboard.

No. This BlockNation is a new server, and its website is playblocknation.net. Older Minecraft servers that used the name BlockNation, with other addresses, are not connected to it.