Tutorial: Playful Duel

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. If you want to test your friends' skills, or have a friendly competition, you can use the Playful Duel system that released in the Friends and Foes update. This page's purpose is to give you an idea of how the playful duel system works.

Setting a Stage
If you are going to have a playful duel, you might as well have it in an interesting battlefield. Maybe a volcano with thin platforms to brawl on? Or maybe a battlefield with monster dispensers to make it hard? The choice is yours.

Gear Choice
If you want to make duels extra hard, you could set the setting to give the duelers wooden swords with diamond armor. If you want to make things extra easy, you could set the setting to give the duelers enchanted diamond swords and leather armor. If you want to keep things fair, creating a set of armor fit for playful dueling is a good idea, as well as weapons that are good but don't make it too easy to win a fight, such as the Highland Axe or the Nameless Blade.

You can also enter multiple armor and weapon settings. This randomly gives a dueler one of the listed weapons. For instance, if three players are dueling, and you enter Sheer Daggers, Freezing Foil, and Firebrand in the melee settings, one dueler will get the Sheer Daggers, one dueler will get the Freezing Foil, and one will get the Firebrand.

Prize
You can put a prize into the settings, so long as you have the prize in a chest. Right click the chest with something called the Dueling Trophy to activate the prize mechanism. This is an optional setting, unlike the setting and gear choice. The winner of a duel will obtain the contents of the chest. For instance, if there are three netherite ingots and two flame crystals, the winner of the next duel will obtain three netherite ingots and two flame crystals.

The Duel
The goal of a playful duel is to kill the other duelers and be the last one standing. Because this is a friendly competition, death during a duel won't turn the player into a soul - instead, it will teleport them to an area decided by the setting chooser if there is two or more players still in the duel, or it will teleport them to where they were before the duel if you were one of two duelers left. If a prize was put into the duel settings, the winner will obtain that prize.