Tutorial: Allies and Enemies

VentureCraft is a great server if you're with your friends, especially with all of the mechanics, mobs, enchantments, and tools that cannot be obtained in vanilla Minecraft. However, you might notice that some people cannot attack a specific person, and some armor only works on others. This is known as the Allies and Enemies system, and it was released in the Friends and Foes update. This page's purpose is to give you an idea of how the Allies and Enemies system works.

Setting Your Friends as Allies
Whether you're playing with some real life friends, or if you met someone through the server that you know you can trust, setting your friends as allies is very helpful. Listed below are the benefits of listing a friend as an ally:


 * Players cannot attack their allies, unless they're in a playful duel. When it comes to a mining session or combat, there are going to be some incidents where you accidentally attack your friend if you don't set them as an ally.
 * If you set a friend as an ally, wolves will recognize them as a friend. Therefore, if your friend gets attacked, any tamed wolves you have will attack the provoker, similarly to if something attacks you. Tamed wolves also cannot attack allies unless they are removed from the allies list. Allies cannot sit your dog down, luckily.
 * You can teleport to an ally. This is especially good if you and your friend just spawned in the server, as there is a good chance there will be a lot of distance between the two of you. It might be best for the one with the worse situation to teleport to the one with the better situation.
 * You can also set mobs as allies, as shown when Megabone reveals she rules an entire kingdom of skeletons, which would normally attack you. Getting an enchanted mob on your side, especially one with protection/cowardice and regeneration, can give your team a huge advantage. If you list a mob as an ally, they won't attack other allies, seeing them as a friend.
 * There is an automatic door in the server that keeps enemies and hostile mobs(Except those that are in your allies list) out while letting allies come and go as they please. If your friends are in the allies list, and they get lost in a cave and are forced to dig a reverse staircase, they can enter the door without getting trapped anywhere.

To set a player as an ally, you must open the Allies and Enemies menu, select the allies option, and type your friend's gamertag. When you press confirm, the player listed becomes an ally, or nothing happens if no one with the entered gamertag is in the server.

Setting Your Nemeses as Enemies
If there is a griefer in the server who just won't leave you alone, or if someone wants you dead, you can list them as an enemy. Listed below are the benefits of listing a nemesis as an enemy:


 * If you set a player as an enemy, hostile mob allies and tamed wolves will become aggressive towards the player. If you have a ton of tamed wolves and hostile mob allies, the player will definitely leave you alone at some point, knowing they're underpowered.
 * There is an automatic door in the server that keeps enemies and hostile mobs(Except those thar are in your allies list.) out, while letting allies come and go as they please. You can block a raider from entering your base to steal all of your goodies this way.

The process of setting a player as an enemy is the same as setting a player as an ally, but select the enemies option instead of the allies option.