Server Spotlight: MineZ Classic!

Hi guys!

Mario here with my review of MineZ, simply because I never did it.

In a nutshell, MineZ is a Minecraft version of the popular DayZ mod for ArmA II. You go around collecting weapons, food, potions, water, medical supplies and armor and eventually head towards the north of the map, where the epic loot is!

There are over 500,000 registered players to this server, and have 2 gamemodes; Classic and Last Man Standing.

In Classic, you spawn on the South Border of the map. There are about 2 different biomes you can spawn in: forest and desert. The forest is rather vast and you may have to walk a bit to find a town, depending where exactly you spawn. The desert is decently big, and consists of cacti, campsites, lighthouses and big Colosseum-type things. Around all the different buildings you can find chests. There will be more chests in a town than there will be in, say, a lighthouse, which only holds 1 chest. They can contain food, armor, medical supplies, weapons, arrows and bottles of liquids.

Here are a few key things you may find in Southern Chests:

• Water Bottles - These restore your Hydration Level, which is shown by your experience NUMBER (not the bar). The highest your Hydration can go is 20, and once it runs out you will begin to die of dehydration, so you must remember to drink
• Health Pots - These will heal 3-7 hearts, depending on the strength of the potion (some were whizzed from the Brewing Table, some were carefully prepared by Minecraftia mages).
• Apples, Melons and Rotten Flesh - Food can be found around in chests as well. As usual, you must eat. The server is on hard mode, so if you DO NOT EAT, YOU WILL DIE!!! I also believe Rotten Flesh has less chance to give you Hunger.
• Basic Armor - You can find Leather Armor in Southern Chests, which you can use to protect yourself or to repair damaged armor. There will also be occasional Chain Armor, but in the South it's quite rare.

As you progress to the North, there will become less water sources. People will want to kill you more as you may have some delicious food or some Water. However, the further north you go, the better loot you get. In the North, Iron Armor and Iron Swords will be available, some even enchanted! Bows and Arrows will be available more often, with more crafting supplies for bread and cookies. Wooden Hoes and Iron Shovels will be found, which can be used to break melon blocks, cobwebs, cacti and pumpkins!

Here's a question: are you a Medic? Do you not want to be out fighting, but instead healing other Zed-slayers? Well, there are lots of supplies a true Medic can collect:

• Paper (Bandage) - Paper can be used to heal teammates. You can toss them a bandage if they begin to bleed.
• Shears (Medi-tool) - The Shears allow you to heal and beef up teammates without having to give them supplies!
• Red Dye (Healing Ointment) - The Red Dye will increase the amount of health regenerated when healing.
• Lime Green Dye (Antibiotics) - The Lime Green Dye will remove any infection that you have received via fighting, eating etc.

However, most of the Medical supplies are rare, especially the healing ointment and antibiotics. Just in case you are bored of playing normal MineZ, I've created some classes with specific rules on what you're allowed to collect.

Warrior

• You may pick up swords and armor
• You may NOT pick up bows or arrows
• You may only have ONE Health Potion in your inventory at a time
• You may have up to TWO Snowballs in your inventory
• You may have as many bandages as you wish, but NO other Medical supplies allowed

Archer

• You may pick up bows and arrows
• You may ONLY pick up Wooden Swords
• You may have as many snowballs/ender pearls as you wish
• You may have as many bandages as you wish, but NO other Medical supplies allowed
• You may have up to THREE Health Potions in your inventory at a time

Defender

• You are allowed to collect Iron Shovels, Wooden Hoes, Ender Pearls and Snowballs and use them normally.
• You may NOT collect an Iron Sword, you may only have Wood or Stone
• You are allowed to collect bows and arrows, but NOT enchanted ones
• You may have as many Medical supplies/Health Potions as you wish
• You may collect any armor you wish

Mage

• You may only collect Wood Swords or any type of sword that is enchanted
• You may only collect enchanted Bows
• You may pick up Gunpowder and make Splash Potions
• You may have as many Health Pots, Medical supplies and Golden Apples as you wish

Medic

• You may collect as many Health Pots, Medical supplies and Golden Apples as you wish
• You may NOT collect Stone or Iron Swords, only Wooden
• You may ONLY collect Leather Armor, never Chain nor Iron
• You must use a Sugar/Ender Pearl/Snowball as soon as you see a zombie
• You may only eat Apples, Cookies, Melons and Golden Apples (you can drink any potion or water)

Hunter/Huntress

• You may collect any supplies, like normal, but there's a twist...
• As soon as you see a zombie, you must go towards it
• As soon as a Giant begins to attack you, you cannot flee at ANY POINT; you must fight

Well, just so you know, this server is still AWESOME! I only just started playing on it again and it is EPIC!

-Mariobros980

Obsidian Miner