Minecraft Dungeon Server Guide: Tiers, Bosses, Perks and Loot (2026)

Short answer: Dungeons are randomly built co-op runs on Complex Prison, Skyblock and Survival (hub.mc-complex.com). Type /dungeon, pick the Overworld, Nether or End dungeon, and fight through rooms of custom mobs, traps and puzzles to a boss, solo or in a party of up to 5. You earn Dungeon Coins, Dungeon XP and boss chest loot, then spend coins in the Dungeon Shop on boosts, cosmetics, crate keys and gamemode items. Each gamemode has its own dungeon progress.

How to start a dungeon​

• Type /dungeon or click the DUNGEONS NPC at spawn to open the Dungeon Selector, then click a tier.
• Solo: your first solo run is a short tutorial dungeon that gives 250 Dungeon XP. Skip it with /dungeon skiptutorial.
• Party: only the party leader can start. Everyone gets a "Ready to enter?" prompt and has 30 seconds to answer with /yes or /no. The run starts with whoever said yes.
• Open Queue: right-click a tier, or use the OPEN QUEUE NPC, to team up with other players. It starts right away with 5 players, or after 3 minutes with 2 or more. Leave with /dungeon leavequeue.
• Party Finder: use /partyfinder or the PARTY FINDER NPC to make or join a party listing.

You can't start a dungeon from a PvE area (like the Tomb, Skull Island or the Dojo), or in the last 60 seconds before a reboot. Leave a run any time with /dungeon leave or /spawn.
Dungeon Coins, levels, upgrades and mastery are separate for Prison, Skyblock and Survival, and they reset each season. Prison dungeons are tougher, with stronger mobs and harder-hitting abilities.

Dungeon tiers and Weekly Passes​

• Buy a Weekly Pass by left-clicking the Nether or End icon in the Dungeon Selector, or with /dungeon pass buy nether or /dungeon pass buy end. A pass lasts 7 days, and buying again adds 7 more. Check yours with /dungeon pass status.
• Every member of your party needs their own pass.

How a dungeon run works​

1. Pick perks. You start in the spawn room. Click the SELECT PERKS NPC and choose your perks within 30 seconds. In a party, the leader clicks START DUNGEON once everyone is ready.
2. Clear rooms. Right-click doors to open them. A room's doors stay locked until you finish its objective.
3. Find the boss portal. It appears on a door once 60% of the rooms have been built. Walking in takes the whole party to the boss room, revives dead teammates and repairs everyone's items.
4. Kill the boss, claim your boss chest and leave through the EXIT portal.

Room objectives: kill every mob, find a hidden button, answer a riddle in chat, hold all the pressure plates at once, find matching pairs, repeat a memory sequence, flip levers in order, cross an ice path or finish a parkour room.
Traps: Overworld rooms have spike, poison, poison rain, slowness, vine and boulder traps. You need a Trap Disarmer to remove one.
Powerups: every mob kill has a 4% chance to drop a powerup orb that gives the whole party 30 seconds of Speed Boost, Strength Boost (+30% damage), Regeneration, Resistance, Double Coins or Infinite Arrows.
Room rewards: clearing a room gives everyone coins and a random item, like a booster, Insta Heal, Arrow Bundle, Mob Scanner, Trap Reveler or Repair Kit. Barrels, Treasure Barrels and Gold Piles hold more items and coins, and some rooms spawn a Dungeon Shop NPC.
Dungeon events: rarely, a run offers you an opt-in event with extra risk: Glass Cannon (+50% damage dealt and taken), or Treasure Rain, Reaper's Toll and Cursed Halls, which pay big coin rewards. You have 20 seconds to accept.
There's no time limit, but faster runs climb the Speed Run leaderboard. /dungeon settings lets you hide non-party chat, door holograms and hints.

Dungeon mobs and bosses​

Every mob's nameplate shows its tier, and its health bar turns from green to yellow to red as it drops.
Kill healers first: the Soul Vampire, Void Priest, Nether Priest, Warped Druid, Crimson Cultist, Chorus Priest and Crystal Priest all heal themselves or their allies. Mobs and bosses get more health in bigger parties. Browse every mob, its stats and your kill count in /dungeon under Dungeon Info, Dungeon Mobs.
Each run picks one boss at random from its tier. Most bosses fight in several phases, and every End boss has a shield you have to break, like shattering crystals or destroying soul orbs, before it takes full damage.

Dying, reviving and failing​

• Death tax: when you die, you drop part of the coins you've earned that run (15%, 25% or 50% by tier) as a glowing pile only you can pick back up. The Coin Keeper upgrade lowers it.
• Reviving: you become a spectator next to your corpse. A teammate can revive you by clicking your corpse and staying within 6 blocks for 12 seconds, or instantly with a Revive Token.
• Failing: if every party member is dead, the run fails. You keep 25% of the run's XP but lose 75% of the run's coins. Leaving mid-run also costs 75% of the run's coins.
• Once the boss is dead, dying can't fail the run.

Dungeon Coins, XP and boss chests​

Dungeon Coins drop from every mob kill, and each party member gets their own drop. Coins also come from room clears, barrels, gold piles and the boss chest.

• Coin bonuses: the Treasure Hunter upgrade and perk, Plus rank (1.2x on mob, barrel and gold pile coins), the Double Coins powerup and your backpack (+1% per backpack tier; on Prison, skull backpacks only).
• Seasonal item tax: each seasonal rune item you carry over the limit (4 Overworld, 5 Nether, 6 End, shulkers included) cuts coin pickups by 5%. The ready prompt warns you.
• Completion Bonus: beating the boss pays extra coins based on how many rooms you cleared: at 70%, 80% and 94%, Overworld pays 188 / 375 / 563, Nether 375 / 750 / 1,125 and End 563 / 1,125 / 1,688.

Boss chests: every player gets their own private copy of the boss chest, with coins and items: Overworld coin drops of 263 to 788, Nether 368 to 1,103 and End 647 to 1,936 each, plus boosters, Insta Heals, XP Boosts, Arrow Bundles, Mob Scanners, Revive Tokens and Repair Kits. Bigger parties mean more drops for everyone, and there's a 20% chance the chest holds a Wayfinder. On Prison, boss chests also pay 2,400 to 10,800 Tokens and can hold a Mana Refill voucher.
Dungeon XP: you earn XP for every room cleared and every mob you kill, times the tier's XP multiplier. Your Dungeon Level unlocks perks, shop items and cosmetics. /sunday gives +50% dungeon XP on Sundays (Plus players get Saturdays too), and a full Hoppy Days set raises it to +60%.

Dungeon perks​

At the start of every run you pick perks: 1 in the Overworld, 2 in the Nether and 3 in the End, plus more from the Extra Perks upgrade. Each pick offers 3 random perks at a random level you've unlocked. Reopen the menu with /openperk.
Higher perk levels unlock as your Dungeon Level rises. If you click Finish Selection with picks left, you're asked to confirm before you give them up.

Dungeon upgrades​

Upgrades are permanent and bought with Dungeon Coins in /dungeon upgrades.
Lucky Rolls (updated): the odds now compound, so each perk level up is more likely than the one below it. At max level 15, with 5 levels unlocked, the top level shows up about 53% of the time. Your arrows are stored in the Dungeon Quiver (/dungeon quiver, outside dungeon servers).

Dungeon mastery​

Claim mastery rewards in /dungeon mastery.

• Completion mastery: 13 milestones per tier for finishing dungeons (from 1 to 1,000 Overworld, 800 Nether or 600 End clears). The top milestones pay up to 1,500,000, 2,250,000 and 3,000,000 coins plus the same amount of XP and items.
• Mob mastery: 9 milestones for each mob group in each tier (Minions, Mobs, Elites, Mini-Bosses and Bosses), paying coins, XP and items. Nether rewards are 1.5x and End rewards are 2x.
• New: boss kills count for every member of the party, and mastery rewards were raised. If you claimed milestones before the raise, /dungeon gives you a one-time top-up.

Dungeon items​

Inside a dungeon you can still use chat and messages, /binds, /filter, /market and the auction house, but most other commands are blocked.

The Dungeon Shop​

Open it with /dungeon shop or a Dungeon Shop NPC. For the first 14 days of a season, only Boosts and Utility are for sale.

• Skyblock extras: Gold Shards (64 / 128 / 256 for 7,000 / 12,000 / 17,000), minion essences (25,000), implants, clue scrolls, Mending Glyph, Angelic pieces, Piglin, Turtle and Villager Spawners, a 30 Day Plus Rank (750,000) and a Reset Vault Voucher (500,000).
• Prison extras: Mana Refill Vouchers (6,000 to 12,500), Max Mana +5 (100,000), Gold Shards (1,000 / 2,000 / 3,000), Mana Regen Boosters, Skull Island Treasure Keys, Angelic Backpacks (Tier 1 to 10), Angelic pieces, a 30 Day Plus Rank (850,000) and a Reset Vault Voucher (500,000).
• Survival extras: Ronin, Daimyo and Emperor Clue Scrolls, Angelic pieces, Envoy Flares and Spawner Frames.
• Random Crate Key: opens anywhere into a random key: Vote, Horus, Ra or Anubis on Skyblock, Vote, Shogun or Samurai on Survival, and Vote on Prison.

Many items and cosmetics need a minimum Dungeon Level, shown in the shop.

Dungeon leaderboards​

/dungeon lb has Solo and Team boards for Speed Run, Mobs Killed, Rooms Cleared, Dungeons Finished and Coins Earned. The top 10 in each category earn points (10 down to 1), and total points decide the overall ranking. Boards reset every Saturday at 7pm ET.
Claim rewards in the Dungeon Leaderboards menu. Claiming opens 2 weeks after each season starts.

Dungeons FAQ​

Which Complex servers have Dungeons?​

Can you play Dungeons solo?​

How do you unlock the Nether and End dungeons?​

What happens if you die in a dungeon?​

Does dungeon progress reset?​

What is the Wayfinder?​