The opening hunt
How the first player gets the Crown
The one real Crown is released as a protected floating pickup at world spawn. The first player must remove their current helmet and walk into the Crown to claim it; the server then announces the first holder.
The Crown cannot be crafted or discovered in a loot chest. Do not obstruct, trap, hide, duplicate, or exploit the spawn pickup. After the first claim, players take the Crown by defeating the current holder and picking up the protected drop.
One prize, one holder
There is only one real Crown
The Crown is a special golden helmet that recognizes one current holder or one dropped Crown. Old copies cannot be used to create duplicates, and staff can safely recover the real Crown if it becomes stuck or unavailable.
The helmet slot must be empty before claiming it. Once you hold the Crown, attempts to equip another helmet or wearable stuffy are blocked. Use /relic relinquish crown to surrender the Crown safely before changing headwear.
A target, not a loophole
Asymmetric opt-in PvP
The Crown holder is an attackable public target even when their normal PvP preference is off. The holder may attack only players who have opted into PvP. Same-team attacks remain blocked, and a killed player cannot immediately retaliate against the Crown holder during the ten-minute revenge block.
Power with visibility
Holder effects
While holding the Crown, the player receives Health Boost I and normally Glowing. When the holder kills another player, the surge lasts three minutes and changes the effects to Strength II, Speed II, Health Boost I, and invisibility.
Public map features must avoid exposing precise live player locations by default.
Loss and recovery
Death or voluntary surrender
When the holder dies, the Crown drops safely at the death location. Anyone else may claim it immediately, while the former holder must wait five minutes before picking it back up. The dropped Crown cannot be damaged.
A holder who no longer wants the challenge can use /relic relinquish crown. The authoritative Crown drops safely at their current location under the same five-minute former-holder pickup cooldown; anyone else may claim it immediately.
If a holder stays offline for 72 hours, the Crown returns to staff for recovery so the contest does not remain stuck with an inactive player.
Follow the contest
Player commands
/relic locate crownlocates the active holder or dropped Crown./relic relinquish crownsafely surrenders the Crown at your location when you are its holder./relic stats [online-player]shows captures, Crown kills, and hold time./relic leaderboardshows the top Crown statistics.