BedWars

• Goal: defend your bed, destroy the other beds and be the last team left.
• Sizes: Solo, Doubles, 4v4v4v4 and 4v4 – 8 to 16 players per game.
• Length: usually 15 to 30 minutes; after 46 minutes at the latest it is over.
• How to join: in the lobby via the navigator or with /play, then pick BedWars and a size.
• After a game: /nochmal takes you straight into the next game of the same size.

In Solo, Doubles and 4v4 the shop is cheaper than in the classic – see the shop section below.

• Waiting lobby: the countdown takes 45 to 90 seconds and gets shorter the fuller the game is. Bots fill any free slots.
• Map choice: from VIP upwards you choose the map in the waiting lobby – with the button on the far left of your hotbar. The last choice applies immediately.
• Start: every team spawns on its island. There you find your bed, the iron and gold generator, the item shop and the team upgrade shop.
• Early game: collect iron, buy wool, cover your bed and lay your first bridges.
• Mid game: fetch diamonds from the diamond islands (for team upgrades), emeralds from the middle (for the strongest items) and attack enemy beds.
• Late game: after 30 minutes all beds disappear, after 36 minutes the Ender Dragons arrive. The last team with players alive wins.

• If you die while your bed still stands, you are back on your island after 5 seconds.
• Once your bed is destroyed, every death is final – a final kill. You then watch as a spectator.
• Whoever kills you gets all your iron, gold, diamonds and emeralds. If someone knocks you into the void, the kill still counts for them for 10 seconds after their last hit.
• What you keep: bought armor, your pickaxe and axe at their tier (they do not get worse when you die) and your shears. On top of that you get a wooden sword and leather armor in your team color every time.
• What you lose: bought swords, blocks, bows, potions and everything else in your inventory.
• You destroy an enemy bed by breaking it. You cannot break your own bed.

• Teammates standing within 2.5 blocks of your generator get the resources directly – two of you collect just as fast.
• The Forge team upgrade makes your base generator faster; from the Emerald Forge on it even drops emeralds.
• A full generator stops producing until someone collects. Don't leave diamonds and emeralds lying around for long.

What comes next and when is always shown on the scoreboard on the right. Below it you see every team: ✔ means the bed still stands; a number means the bed is gone and that many players are still alive; ✘ means the team is out.

Open the shop at the shopkeeper on your island. The first page holds the most important items for quick buying, behind it everything is sorted by category. The prices below apply to the classic 4v4v4v4 – in the other sizes it is cheaper:

Prices are rounded to whole pieces and nothing costs less than 1. The shop shows the discount right next to the price.

Blocks

Melee

Armor (permanent)

You keep bought armor after dying. Helmet and chestplate stay leather in your team color.

Tools (permanent)

You buy pickaxe and axe tier by tier in the same slot. You keep them at their tier when you die.

Ranged

Potions

Utility

Buy upgrades at the second shopkeeper on your island. You pay with diamonds, and every upgrade applies to the whole team until the end of the game.

Traps are also bought at the upgrade shopkeeper. They go off as soon as an enemy enters your base – but only while your bed still stands. Up to three traps wait in a queue and go off one after the other, at least 30 seconds apart. The first trap in the queue costs 1 diamond, the second 2, the third 4.

When a trap goes off, you see a big "TRAP TRIGGERED!". Enemies who drank Magic Milk don't trigger traps for 30 seconds.

• You can only break blocks that players placed – the map itself stays intact.
• You can't place anything around the spawn points (6 blocks), the base generators (4 blocks) or the diamond and emerald generators (5 blocks).
• There is a build height limit upwards and downwards, depending on the map. Beyond it you see "You can't place blocks here".
• Explosions from TNT, fireballs and dragons only destroy placed blocks. Blast-proof glass and beds survive every explosion.
• TNT and fireballs launch players – you can use that on purpose to get far ahead.

What you type normally is read only by your team. With /shout <text> or a ! in front of your message you write to everyone – at most once every 30 seconds.

• Right after the start: buy wool and cover your bed all around. Upgrade later with end stone or wood, and with obsidian in the late game.
• Buy shears and a pickaxe early – with tools you get through any bed defense quickly.
• Put your first diamonds into Sharpness or armor. A team with upgrades wins almost every fight in the middle.
• Spend your resources before you attack: whoever kills you gets everything you carry.
• Don't build your bridges too thin. An enemy with a stick or a fireball will knock you into the void with a single hit.
• Keep an eye on the scoreboard: it shows which beds are still standing and when the next event comes.
• In teams, one player stays near the bed as long as other teams still have theirs.
• Don't stand still after destroying a bed: those players are out on their next death – now every kill counts.

Every game earns you experience for your network level and coins for the lobby and the shop – even when you lose.

In BedWars every experience point turns into 0.6 coins, credited in the lobby. A coin booster doubles that, and ranks add a bonus. At the end of every game you see your numbers in chat. Your stats – wins, kills, final kills, deaths and beds, split by size – are shown by /stats bw anywhere on the network, plus the leaderboard on the website. Bots earn experience but never appear on a leaderboard.

Questions, tactics or feedback? Post them below.