Getting Started
How to play
Install the matching pack, join an announced server session, then use the in-game Call of Block menu to enter a mode.
- Install the official modpack.Use its CurseForge or Modrinth launcher profile for Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge so every required mod stays on the matching version.
- Check the current session.Join Discord for the server address, whitelist or access instructions, announcements, rules, and scheduled playtest time.
- Open the game menu.Bind
Open Call of Block Menuunder Minecraft Controls, or type/cob menu, then choose a player or spectator queue.
Drop, loot, survive.
- Choose solo or team play from the Call of Block menu. You can create a team before joining the queue.
- Ride the fly-by over Shmar, choose your drop, then search chests for weapons, attachments, healing, utility, explosives, and possible vehicles.
- Keep moving with the closing zone and survive until one player or team remains. A reconnect grace period protects brief disconnects.
- Full combat destruction is enabled by default. General map damage can persist until an administrator performs the manual Shmar maintenance reset.
- Configured respawns return as air drops. The experimental Lights Out variant changes visibility when it is selected for testing.
Vote, kit up, score.
- Join Team Deathmatch with
/cob dm queue tdm join, choose Team 1, Team 2, or random, or use/cob dm queue ffa joinfor Free For All. - Vote while queued with
/cob dm vote map <id>or/cob dm vote random. - Choose a kit during the active round. You respawn after dying and return with your selected kit.
- After the five-second preparation, help your team reach its target or, in FFA, finish as the first player to the configured score.
Prepare, fight, reset.
- Duel requires exactly two teams and supports 1v1, 1v2, 2v1, and 2v2 on configured maps.
- Select a kit during each frozen preparation phase, then fight when every player unlocks together.
- A death lasts for the rest of that round. Dead fighters spectate a living teammate where available, and the first team to the configured round-win target takes the match.
Scavenge, move, endure.
- Zombie Survival is experimental. Players receive no combat kit or infinite ammunition and must loot equipment.
- Each seeded run activates about half of Shmar's full Battle Royale chest and vehicle spawn locations. Ordinary chests do not refill, and rare golden apples provide cure opportunities for the planned infection system.
- Solo, one-team co-op, and multiple teams are valid. Friendly fire is blocked by default, while enemy-team PvP remains enabled.
- A player with a living teammate can be downed and revived. Solo players and the final living teammate are eliminated immediately.
- Threats spawn near living participants and scale through bounded phases. The Hordes infection and Mob Control climbing/access behavior are not production-ready on the current server build.
After the match
Completed rounds are published to the website for leaderboards, profiles, weapons, maps, and match history. To connect those stats to your website account, run /linkminecraft in Discord's #minecraft-verification channel and then /cob discord link <code> in Minecraft while the bot and server are online.