Complex Factions
A thread on how to get started on Complex Factions.
A thread on how to get started on Complex Factions.
Factions is a competitive fast paced, pvp gamemode where players can fight to their heart's content and bring explosions to all who oppose them. Build farms and place spawners, surround them with walls as high as the build limit. Kill mobs to raise your mob tier and get higher valued spawners to dominate the ftop leaderboard.
Keep other factions from blowing into your base and stealing your hard earned valuables, or play more subtle and make a hidden base to not be found by your enemies. Make cannons and use custom creeper eggs to wreak havoc on anyone faction, compete in 2 month long maps where it's all out chaos and destruction.
Learn more about factions with this guide and team up with your friends to conquer Complex Gaming Factions.
Getting Started
Creating a Faction and navigating the basics.
Creating a Faction and navigating the basics.
Creating a Faction
- To create a faction, begin by typing the command /f create <name>. Once you have done that, a confirmation message should appear in chat, notifying you the faction has been created. You are able to begin inviting other players to your faction, using the command /f invite <player>.
Navigating Basic Commands
- Once you have created your faction, you will now have the ability to customize many different aspects of your faction. Type /f, for a list of commands you can run inside your faction.
- /f claim <radius>, Once you have found a spot you would like to build your base it is recommended that you claim the land surrounding. This will stop other factions from being able to access your land, To customize other factions permissions in your land you can use /f perms.
- /f unclaim, This will unclaim the chunk you are standing in.
- /f baseclaim, Once you have claimed your land you can turn this land into a base claim! This will stop the claims for being unclaimed after 6 hours.
- /f autoclaim, will toggle automatic claiming. This means that wherever you walk/fly it will claim those areas.
- /f chat, this command will allow you to switch between Faction, and Public chats, To be more specific you can choose the certain chat you would like to type in. /f c f (Faction), and /f c p (Public).
- /f who <player name / faction name>, will allow you to check who is in each faction, there are two ways you can use this command. Firstly, by typing the player's name to see which faction they are in along with all their teammates. Secondly, by typing the faction's name, you can also see all of the members. This command will allow you to see general information about the chosen faction. This includes: Leader, Allied, Truces, Enemies, Power / Land, Online Players and Offline Players.
- /f promote, promotes a player in your faction to a higher rank within the faction.
- /f demote, demotes a player in your faction to a higher rank within the faction.
- /f leader, transfers leadership to a member of your faction (Leader Only)
- /f sethome, allows you to set your factions home.
- /f home, allows you to teleport to your factions home. This home is accessible by members you allow permissions to use this command.
- /f setwarp, allows you to set a warp in your factions claims. Warps accessible by members allowed with the set permission.
- /f warp, allows you to warp to an existing location, set in your faction's claims.
- /f permissions allows you to give certain permissions to faction members and ally members. This can be things such as breaking blocks in certain claims, usage of chunk busting.
- /f upgrades is a list of faction upgrades that you can purchase via in-game money. These upgrades include things such as: Damage increase in claimed land, No Fall Damage in claimed land, EXP Drop rates increase, Increased faction member slots, and much more.
- Claiming land can be done by using /f claim and /f baseclaim. A regular faction claim will last 12 hrs, whilst /f baseclaim is used for a permanent claim. Base shells can only be a max of 10x10. (chunks)
- /f map is used for finding other factions around the map to raid. Using /f map on will constantly bring up your map until you turn it off using /f map off.
Base Defence and Raiding
Understanding Base Building and Raiding.
Understanding Base Building and Raiding.
Base Building is a key aspect of our factions server. A base will protect your items / spawners from being taken or even blown up! There are two ways you can defend your base.
Firstly, you can build your base underground. Building your base is risky, as they can be easier to break into, but harder to find. Another option is to build your base above the ground, Chunk Busters are a great way to remove all blocks down to bedrock so you can have lots of room to build your base!
Protecting your base is vital, different walls/defense serve a different purpose when it comes to protection. Cobble and Sand walls are cheap and efficient, but are easy for someone who is experienced at raiding to get through. Obsidian walls are a great way to strengthen your base, these are very expensive but ensure you are well protected (This is due to obsidian having 3x the amount of durability as cobblestone).
Making sure to apply liquids to your walls also has a great advantage when it comes to stopping an attack, this is because creeper eggs cannot damage walls when they blow up in water/lava. This forces the enemy to build a TNT cannon to try get into your base, ultimately slowing down their attack! Once you have built a satisfactory base be sure to check your walls, being aware that a raid is happening increases your chances of stopping the attack drastically. A great way to check your walls for an active attack is by checking your sand walls, once a sand wall has been blown up it will drop to the bottom. Leaving a visible hole in sand walls at the top of your base.
Affective Defenses
- Regen wall
- A regen wall is arguably the strongest defense but very time consuming. There is a large variety of regen wall layouts that you can build. Here is a video on how to make a very basic regen wall, the water will need to be flowing and the lava will need to be source lava.
- Filters
- Filters are pillars that are placed every second block (horizontally and/or vertically). These are great to slow down fly machines.
- Raiding a base has a lot of positives, you can take other players spawners and/or items for yourself! The tricky part is getting into the base. Players use raiding tactics such as cannons and fly machines or a mixture of both. The server offers ready to shoot cannons that automatically build themselves located in page #2 of /shop 2.
- Once inside a base you can PvP players inside, loot chests and even blow things up! Complex offers custom creeper eggs which each have their own unique ability that come at a cost.
- Creeper eggs - Spawn regular creepers that blow up when close to players as well as when hit with a flint and steel.
- Silent Creeper eggs - Make no noise upon blowing up
- Throwable Creeper eggs - Can be right clicked to be thrown in the direction you are looking, these are a great way to blow things up that are suspended in the air
- Throwable Charged Creeper eggs - Can be thrown into the air as well as have a much larger blast radius
Sandbots
- Sandbots are used to automatically place sand, gravel, red sand and concrete powder underneath the respected blocks you place next to the sandbot.
- Sandstone - Sand
- Andesite - Gravel
- Red Sandstone - Red Sand
- Concrete - Concrete Powder
- By right clicking the sandbot once placed you will be able to fill up the sandbot using money to begin printing the blocks, You can also disable the sandbot from printing whenever you'd like. Once your done using the sandbot you can right click it to despawn in and take back the remaining money it has not used.
Cannoning Server (/cannon)
- The cannoning world is a great way to easily test your cannon technology using the same cannoning jar our factions server uses. At hero rank and above, you will be given access to your own /cannon plot.
- Key features:
- Protections blocks: We have three different explosion protection blocks that all act in a different way. Emerald blocks will protect all blocks above, below and the emerald itself. Coal blocks will protect all blocks above it as well as the block itself. Diamond Blocks will only protect the Diamond block itself (Great for worm platforms)
- Firing: /fire and /lever are new ways to fire your cannons. Once you right click a lever or a button on your plot, next time you attempt to use these items you can instead simply type /lever and/or /fire to automatically fire your cannon without having to click them continuously.
- Sand stack remover: Upon arrival to your cannoning plot, you will be given a Sand stack remover. Simply left a stack of sand to remove all sand above the spot you clicked. To respawn this item simply type /sandstackremover.
Raiding Outpost (/rpost)
- Raiding Outpost, the Raiding Outpost will be a server wide raiding/pvp event where all factions compete to be the first to pull off a succesful raid on the automatically generated base. After you and your faction have successfully claimed the raiding outpost you will need to protect it from other factions if you want to keep the perks/benefits controlling it comes with! Each week after the Raiding Outpost opens it will be completely unclaimed and available for every faction to attempt without anyone actively defending it, be sure to stay aware as other factions may attempt to stop your raid to take it for themselves. Once you claim the raiding outpost you will be given a 5% Shop bonus (+5% Per Rpost level). You will also gain access to the Golden Merchant inside the rpost. By interacting with this npc you have the ability to trade Golden Shards for awesome rewards.
Basics
Basic stuff you can do to make money.
Basic stuff you can do to make money.
Farming
- Making an efficient farm is mandatory to start building your faction. You will need money and resources to begin producing defenses and offenses, such as walls and raiding materials. The best option when it comes to farms is automated cactus / sugarcane farms. Here are some examples of what these may look like:
Spawners
- Once you have established your cactus and/or sugarcane farm, spawners will be the next step in advancing your progress. This will be most beneficial, when you have unlocked all 10 mob tiers listed below. Stray/Husk & Evoker Spawners will be the most important for gaining EXP. Creeper, Iron Golem, & Evoker spawners will be the most important for collecting the mob drops to sell via /shop for money. (Gun Powder, Iron, and Emeralds.)
Mob Tier
- On Factions, we have a Mob Tier leveling system in order to purchase spawners. When you first begin you will only be able to purchase endermite and chicken spawners from /shop. To unlock the other spawners and allow purchasing, you need to complete each Mob Tier below.
- Mob Tier 1
- Chicken / Endermite
- Unlocked by default
- Mob Tier 2
- Pig & Cow
- Requires 10,000 Chicken/Endermite kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 3
- Rabbit & Slime
- Requires 20,000 Pig/Cow kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 4
- Skeleton / Zombie
- Requires 30,000 Rabbit/Slime kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 5
- Stray & Husk
- Requires 40,000 Skeleton/Zombie kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 6
- Magma Cube / Zoglin
- Requires 50,000 Stray/Husk kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 7
- Creeper & Spider
- Requires 65,000 Magma Cube/Zoglin kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 8
- Iron Golem & Polar Bear
- Requires 80,000 Creeper/Spider kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 9
- Piglin & Enderman
- Requires 105,000 Iron Golem/Polar Bear kills to unlock
- Mob Tier 10
- Evoker & Wither Skeleton
- Requires 150,000 Piglin/Enderman kills to unlock
Coinflips
- Coin Flips are a game of luck where each participating player has a 50% chance of winning both players' wager. You can host your own coin flip by typing /cf <amount>, if you only want a specific player to be able to join your coin flip, type /cf <amount> [PlayerName]. A 5% tax is automatically deducted from the winnings of a coin flip. To see all active coin flips, type /cf.
- Darkzone is an area where you can fight monsters for high level loot such as Runes, Gold Shards, Diamonds and more. Darkzone also has its own Outpost just like the Warzone Outpost but has a different bonus when captured. Be careful, Enemy players can come into the Darkzone world and kill you to steal your loot and take ownership of the world. To enter Darkzone, you will need to search through warzone for portals with the name Darkzone Entrence, Once you right click the portal you will be teleported straight to Darkzone and ready to start grinding the mobs!
- Lightzone is an alternate area where you can fight mobs for Runes, Spawners, Items and more! Unlike Darkzone, Lightzone does not have an Outpost but it does have different types of gear obtainable through killing mobs! This zone is specifically PvE, meaning you will not have to worry about other users attempting to combat you and steal your gear! To enter Lightzone, you can use the Lightzone NPC located at /spawn or run /lightzone! Once you click the emerald block, you will be teleported straight to Lightzone to begin your adventure!
Value and Placements
How to get Faction Value and secure Faction Top / PVP Top.
How to get Faction Value and secure Faction Top / PVP Top.
Faction Value
- Faction Value is determined by how many spawners in total a faction has. This can be looked at via /ftop & /f who. Placed spawners mature their value over a period of time until they reach 100% maturity. Value will fluctuate over this time period. In game, /shop 7 will show all spawners/prices. Spawners are a huge incentive when it comes to raiding other enemy factions.
Faction Top
- Faction Top is a great way to earn Store Credit for being a Top Faction with the most Value. Every 2 Months, Factions will reset and the Top 6 Factions who had the most value will receive Store Gift Cards. Current Top Faction Values can be viewed by doing /f top or by visiting /warp ftop. At the end of the season, the top factions will receive the following payouts:
PvP Top (/pvptop)
- PvP top is a great new way to receive end of season rewards for your faction. PvP top is just like Faction top but points are gained from different accomplishments within pvp areas. Killing players in netherite during Outpost and Darkzone outposts will gain you points towards your factions total. Capturing the two outposts will also gain you a lot of points. Be careful, dying in these areas will result in a reduction of points.
Warzone, Duels, and Envoys
All you need to know about PVP on Factions.
Warzone
- If you're looking for a place to test your PVP skills and battle other players, the warzone is the place for that. When in the warzone, PVP is enabled so ensure you are prepared to fight. If you were to die, you would lose all your items in your inventory. You will be sent to spawn when you die but can return by entering the drop zone.
- Duels are more of a fun/personal way to pvp on factions if you don’t want to lose your valuables. Duels even come with money wagers up to $10,000 & personalized custom maps along with a variety of kits to choose from.
- /duels
- /duel (player)
- Envoys are loot chests that drop in the warzone every hour. When an Envoy is dropping, you will be alerted in chat. Once the Envoy has landed, it will take 5 Minutes to unlock. During this time, players will attempt to kill you in order to open the Envoy and obtain the loot. Various items can be gotten from an Envoy including spawners, spawn eggs, mob tier pouches, and more. To view all rewards available do /envoys.
Envoy Flares
- Envoy Flares allow you to summon an Envoy into the warzone at any given time as long as another Envoy is not active. Envoy Flares can be obtained from crates or by purchasing from the auction house. When an Envoy Flare is used, an announcement will be made in chat that a player called in an Envoy. These Envoys will also take 5 Minutes to unlock with anyone being able to unlock them so be careful of surrounding players.
Daily Rewards
Daily things you can do to get money easily.
Daily things you can do to get money easily.
Voting
- A quick and easy way to get money is by voting. If you type /vote in the game, a link will pop up in chat which will direct you to all 8 vanilla voting links when clicked on. Each of those sites will give out rewards to you when voting for the Complex Network. Once the vote comes through on the server you receive 1 Vote Key, $500, 5 Mystery Dust, and 5 Minutes of Flight Time per vote link. Voting can be done once every 24 hours.
- Vote Parties are an easy way of getting crate keys if you aren't wanting to spend money on our /store. Every 150 votes, a vote party will begin. You will be alerted with a message in chat that a vote party will start in 1 Minute. To check the status of vote parties, run the command /voteparty. When the vote party happens, you will be given 3 Vote Keys and 12 Blocks of TNT. You will also have a chance to get any other crate key available on Factions, with the exception of Limited Time Crates. In order to be eligible to receive rewards from a vote party, you need to have voted at least once within the past 24 hours. To check if you have voted in the past 24 hours, run the command /haveivotedtoday.
- Another way to get daily rewards is by typing /dailies in the chat. Doing this will open a GUI where you can collect your daily rewards. If you want more rewards each day, that is possible by purchasing a rank on the store (use /store to get the link for the store). As a member you will only have the following reward which you can collect every 18 hours:
Extras
Special things available to you on Factions.
Special things available to you on Factions.
Infuser/Runes
- Here on Complex, we have a rune system which is our take on custom enchants. You can acquire runes through our infuser by doing /warp infuser. This merchant will bring up a GUI showing which runes you can buy. There are 4 tiers available to you for purchase:
- Common - Cost: 5 000 XP
- Rare - Cost: 20 000 XP
- Legendary - Cost: 50 000 XP
- Mythical - Cost: 100 000 XP
- Below that, you will find our crate exclusive runes. Here, you will find all available enchants that were available for a limited time from exclusive crates (These runes are not available for purchase). Below, that is the magnifying glass symbol. Here, you can identify the type, level, and chance of unidentified runes that you have found from the Rune Detector enchant. This enchant has a chance to drop unidentified runes when mining ores, with higher tier runes dropping from higher Rune Detector levels. Next to the Rune Identifier is the clover symbol. This is where you can purchase Lucky Gems to increase the chance of your rune applying to your gear/tools. Each rune has a Success, Fail, and Critical Fail percentage. The more lucky gems you apply, the higher your Success percentage will be. You can read more about Success, Fail, and Critical Fail percentages by hovering over the book with a question mark on it. Next to that book, is where you can incinerate runes. Here you can destroy any unwanted rune and convert it into its XP value. Lastly, are cleansing wands. Cleansing wands allow you to remove a single unwanted rune/enchant from any gear/tool. Cleansing wands will be consumed on usage.
Leaderboards
- Leaderboards are a great way to earn Store Credit for purchasing ranks, crate keys, boosters, tools & more! Leaderboard Points can be earned by being in the Top 10 for any leaderboard category. At the end of the week, the Top 5 players with the most Points are rewarded with Store Credit.
Auction House
- Another vital part of the game is the Auction House, in the Auction House you can buy/sell items that aren’t able to be sold or bought in the regular /shop like Tags, Runes, XP, Pouches, and more. Selling through the Auction House is an important way to earn extra income from rare/exclusive items players cannot get through the shop. The Auction House can be accessed by doing /ah while in game.
We hope this can get you started on your journey to becoming a great Factions player! If you have any further questions make sure to ask the staff members that are online at the time, or the helpful community as they will be able to answer most of your questions!
Be sure to check out our other guides down below!
Chest Shop Guide
[Skyblock] Pharaoh's Tomb Guide
Prison Guide
Factions Guide
Survival Guide
[Global] Runes Guide
[Global] Tag Guide
Kind regards,
The entire Complex Staff Team!
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