Communities

Release of Communities

Communities are a feature that was released to Mineplex on December 23rd, 2016. Communities are like a permanent party/group and can be created by anyone who is Eternal or above by using the command /com create <name>.

Communities have many features such as its own global chat system and the ability to create an MCS server (an MPS for a community).

Players are only able to create one community, but they can join as many as they like.

Roles

Role	Description	Permissions
Member	The default role to anyone joining or being invited to a community	Access to use the global chat system and ability to join the MCS if open.
Co-Leader	Co-Leader allows management of the community with some limitations	Ability to invite/kick members, create an MCS server Automatically Co-Host on the MCS server. Can change Community Description. Can modify community settings within the community GUI.
Leader	Automatically given to whoever created the community. Users can be promoted to this role but they must be Eternal Rank.	Everything Co-Leader has & is able to rename the community, can promote other users to Co-Leader & Leader. Can also disband the community.

Commands

Command	Role/Rank	Description
/com	Anyone	The root command for Communities - /com will open up the main GUI for communities. You can also do /com <community> to get taken directly to the correct page for that community.
/com join	Anyone	Used to join a community that is either public or one that you've been invited to.
/com create	Eternal+	Used to create a new community.
/com chat	Member	Used to choose what community chat you'd like to talk in. Following this command typing !<message> will allow you to send a message into the community chat
/com invite	Co-Leader	Used to invite someone to a community.
/com uninvite	Co-Leader	Removes a pending invite to another user.
/com description	Co-Leader	Allows you to set/change the description of a community.
/com mcs	Co-Leader	Allows you to create the MCS server for a community.
/com rename	Leader	Changes the name of a community.
/com disband	Leader	Disbands/Deletes your community.
/com colead	Leader	Promotes a player to co-leader.
/com ban	Co-Leader	Bans a player from a community you manage.
/com unban	Co-Leader	Revokes a player's ban from a community you manage.
/com kick	Co-Leader	Kicks a player from a community you manage.
/com deposit	Anyone	Deposits gems into the bank of a community.
/com request	Anyone	Request to join a community.

The GUI

Settings

Mineplex Community Settings

The Feather (Top Left Centre) is your option to select your communities' favorite game. In this case, it is Skywars. The item will look different depending on what game you have chosen. Usually, it will be the same item as in the /stats. For example, if the set game is Bridges, the icon will be an Iron Pickaxe

The Door represents your communities' Privacy Setting. There are 3 different settings, Closed, Open to Join, and Accepting Join Requests. If your community is closed then all users will have to manually be invited to the community in order to join. Open to Join means anyone can just join it whenever they like and Accepting Join Requests means you'll have to manually accept people who want to join.

The Book and Quill toggles whether you can see the community chat or not - this can be used by anyone in the community.

The Paper changes the delay on how quickly people can send messages through the community chat. The values that can be applied are 1, 3 & 5 seconds.

The coloured wool represents the colour formatting of your communities' chat. The wool blocks change the color of parts of the community chat in this order: <community name> <username> <message>. You can change the colour of each of these variables within the chat.

Members Page

Mineplex Community Members

The member's page allows you to change user roles & kick members from the community.

To change a user role you can either LMB them to promote to Co-Leader or Shift + LMB to promote them to Leader. RMB will demote a Co-Leader back to Member and Shift + RMB will kick the user from the community.

The Paper allows you to view pending join requests if your privacy setting is set to Accepting Join Requests.

Communities Page

Mineplex Communities GUI

The Communities Page shows you what communities you're in, which ones are open to join and which ones you've been invited to.

The Emerald will show you your current communities that you are in

The Compass will show you which communities are open to join/accepting join requests.

The Paper will show you which communities you've currently been invited to.

The arrows allow you to browse through pages.

Mineplex Community Server (MCS)

MCS Lobby

An MCS can be created by a Co-Leader or the Leader of a community via doing /com mcs <community name>

Anyone within the community can then do /server COM-<community name>-1 to join the MCS.

The set game of the MCS will automatically default to your communities favourite game. An MCS server functions exactly the same as an MPS server, however, there can only be a max player count of 20 and only members of your community can join it.

Co-Leaders of a community are automatically given Co-Host which cannot be removed unless their Co-Leader role is removed.

Community Gem Bank

The community gem bank gui.

The community gem bank is a way to compile your communities extra and donated gems towards unlockable themes and perks. Players can donate by typing /com deposit or /com name and clicking on the golden block.

Once there are enough funds in the bank, it is possible to purchase community perks by clicking on the nether star in the /com menu. The perks include:

• New Hub themes
• Free play (unlock all kits for games - 500000 gems)
• More MCS player spots (15000 gems to increase to 80)

Community hub themes

There are now several community themes that can be unlocked with gems. They are:

• Medieval (default theme)
• Wild West (50000 gems)
• Candy Land (100000 gems)

History

March 1st, 2019 - Group Up with Me Update

• [Added] Community gem bank
• [Added] Community upgrades: unlock all kits on MCS, increase MCS slots
• [Added] Community unlocks: Wild West MCS Theme, Candyland MCS Theme
• [Added] Community kick command
• [Added] Community banning and unbanning
• [Changed] Staff ranks display in community chat
• [Changed] Inform players when trying to chat to a community they have disabled reading chat from
• [Added] Toggle visibility in communities GUI
• [Fixed] Many bugfixes

December 23rd, 2016

• [Added] Communities officially released on Mineplex, along with Eternal Rank and Taunts.

Trivia

StaffRequest

Staff Request is a closed community that players can join by requesting via /com join StaffRequest (after which you will have to wait for a leader or co-leader to accept your request).

Staff Request can be used to report rule breakers like Hackers, or ask minor questions. As the community is overseen and monitored by most staff members, this is often the quickest way of contacting staff.