Ranks & Commands
How to rank up
There are 8 ranks in-game; You rank up in-game naturally by just playing in-game through playtime, travelling, collecting XP and breaking/placing blocks.
You can check your status at any point with /rankup.
#1 Deckhand Rank
Deckhand is the first rank that you start off as a new player. These players have a white username and no badge.
Deckhand Features & Commands
Make sure to read the getting started guide and check out the commands list at the bottom of this page!
- Build, Steal & Sail two ship types straight away! use /ships to find out how! Or read the ships guide.
- Place & Break blocks no whitelist, just leave spawn!
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Protect Land & Builds with claims using Grief Prevention find out more on our Claims Guide.
- The chest you start with will automatically place your first claim! Then you use Golden shovel to adjust or make new protected claims!
- You can lock chests by putting a block over a chest in a claim.
- You gain 60 claim blocks every hour of playtime!
- You spawn with some basic tools and food, there are some very basic /kits available if you find yourself in a pinch!
- Learn to make money with /coinage, /vote is the quickest way to make money to start!
- Use /sethome to set a teleport location to your base with /home
- /spawn will teleport you back to spawn.
- Use /warps to travel around the /map and /wild to randomly teleport!
- /donate in-game to contribute to the server also use /warp donate to see extra information in-game.
- /msg can be used to send messages to other players in-game, quick reply using /r
- /mail to send an offline message to a player.
- /help List all in-game commands and /helpop requests help from online staff.
- /rules View the rules to playing on PirateCraft.
- /bal Shows in-game currency, /pay pays a player from your balance.
- /stats Displays some of your basic recorded in-game statistics.
- Create and use basic Cannons
- Other useful commands /afk Away from Keyboard, /list Online Players, /motd Message of the day, /compass Displays your current bearing in the world, /depth Displays your current block depth in relation to sea-level, /getpos Displays your current coordinate.
- Use the Lumberjack at /warp cove
- Immune from being sieged by players
Deckhand Kits
Deckhand has access to these /kits
First spawn kit
One off kit for the first time you join on PirateCraft.
- Set of Wooden tools & Fishing Rod
- Set of Leather armour
- 1 x Wooden Boat
- Copy of the Pirate Code Bible
- Treasure Chest that will claim 7x block radius of land after placing for a starting claim
- 32 Cooked Fish
- 1x Torch
- 1x Golden shovel for claiming land
- 1x Golden hoe (Manoeuvre Tool for controlling ships)
/kit bible
Quick start guidebook, can be used every 2 hours
- Copy of the Pirate Code Bible
/kit deckhand
Set of wooden tools, redeemable every 3.5 hours
- Set of Wooden tools
/kit claim
Set of claiming tools, redeemable every 3.5 hours
- 1x Golden shovel & Stick
/kit stick
A wooden stick for right clicking for claimed land, redeemable every 1 hour
- 1x Stick
/kit ship
Set of claiming tools, redeemable every 3.5 hours
- 20x Oak Logs
- 60x Wood Planks
- 50x White Wool
- 1x Golden Hoe
- 3x Signs
Username in-game
White username with white badge
Deckhand »
#2 Cadet Rank
This first rank update which unlocks Cannon Features, Siegeing Claims, More ships, making shops and making crew allies and rivals!
Requirements to rankup to Cadet
- 5 hours playtime
- 5000 blocks broken
- Travel 5000 in a normal Minecraft boat!
Result
- Cadet Rank
- One time /kit cadet_rankup
- 1.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 5 mins
Cadet Features & Commands
This is the first rank update which unlocks Cannon Features, Siegeing Claims, More ships, making shops and making crew allies and rivals!
- Inherits Deckhand permissions & kits
- Aqua Badge * next to username
- Pull players with the grappling hook!
- Build Carronade Cannon & use 5 cannons at once!
- Build and Sail Raft ship type
- Gain lots more permissions to use shop signs at /warp shop
- Use /kit cadet /kit ship /kit parrot
- /siege other players claims!
- /crew leader permissions to Ally and Rival
- 2 plot's on Creative
Cadet Kits
Cadet inherits Deckhand kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit cadet
Cooked lunch, redeemable every 3.5 hours
- 1x Cooked Fish
/kit parrot
One use only, a little flappy friend!
- 1x Parrot Egg
Username in-game
White username with aqua badge
Cadet »
#3 Sailor Rank
The Shipmaster! The third rank that unlocks sending teleport requests, Ships, Cannons.
Requirements to rankup to Sailor
- 10 hours playtime
- 10000 blocks broken
- Travel 10000 in a normal Minecraft boat!
Result
- Sailor Rank
- One time /kit sailor_rankup
- 1.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 10 mins
Sailor Features & Commands
- Inherits Cadet permissions & kits
- Light grey username
- Send /tpa request to teleport to another player
- Have up to 3 big /doors and relocate the powerblock for doors!
- Gain access to building the Coal cannon
- Build and use 10 consecutive cannons at once
- Use of /kit sailor /kit claim
- Create
[balance]signs to quickly check balance. - Access to build the barge ship type!
- Access to build the schooner ship type!
- Access to build submarine class ship type barracuda
- Create shop
slot,toggle,deviceanddeviceitemsigns -
Lots of crew leader permissions:
- Manage crew bank
- Verify your crew into a permanent crew
- Set /crew description
- Set crew home teleport location
- Setup crew ranks
- Clear crew bb board
- Set Crew banner
- Set Crew map Icon
- Let your crew go to war!
- Get 3 plots on Creative
- Set Creative plots as invisible
Sailor Kits
Sailor inherits Cadet kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit sailor
Cooked lunch, redeemable every 3.5 hours
- 1x Oak Boat
- 1x Fishing Rod
- 1x Leather Tunic
Username in-game
Gray username with blue badge
Sailor »
#4 Carpenter Rank
The Crew Leader!
Requirements to rankup to Carpenter
- 72 hours playtime (3 Days)
- 10000 blocks placed
- Break 500 of Block Dark Oak or Acacia Logs
- Break 700 of Oak Logs
- 60 Exp Levels on you!
Result
- Carpenter Rank
- One time /kit carpenter_rankup
- 1.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 20 mins
Carpenter Features & Commands
- Inherits Sailor permissions & kits
- Grey username with Bronze Badge
- 2 homes with /sethome
- Send /tpahere request to teleport to another player to yourself
- Have up to 4 big /doors
- /crew leader permissions to add permissions to your crew ranks
- Adjust your cannons
- Build and use 12 consecutive cannons at once
- Use of /kit carpenter
- Use /me
- Access to build the brig ship type!
- Get 4 plots on Creative
Carpenter Kits
Carpenter inherits Sailor kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit carpenter
Navigation and protection!
- 1x Empty Map
- 1x Chainmail Helmer
- 1x Leather Boots
Username in-game
Gray username with gold badge
Carpenter »
#5 Gunner Rank
Professional cannon master!
Requirements to rankup to Gunner
- 168 hours playtime (7 days)
- 30000 blocks broken
- 30000 blocks placed
- 80 Exp Levels on you!
Result
- Gunner Rank
- One time /kit gunner_rankup
- 1.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 45 mins
Gunner Features & Commands
- Inherits Carpenter permissions & kits
- Grey username with Gold Badge
- Have up to 5 big /doors
- Gain access to building the Iron cannon
- Build and use 15 consecutive cannons at once
- List & rename your cannons
- Use cannons through redstone
- Use Cannon Tracking, Thermometer and observing
- Gain access to special projectiles to be fired from cannons
- Use of /kit gunner
- Access to build the frigate ship type!
- Get 5 plots on Creative
Gunner Kits
Gunner inherits Carpenter kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit gunner
The demolition man!
- 1x Bow
- 20x Arrows
- 1x Iron Leggings
Username in-game
Gray username with yellow badge
Gunner »
#6 Boatswain Rank
Multiple Bases!
Requirements to rankup to Boatswain
- 360 hours playtime (15 days)
- 100000 blocks broken
- 100000 blocks placed
- 100 Exp Levels on you!
- Travel 100000 on foot!
Result
- Boatswain Rank
- One time /kit boatswain_rankup
- 2.0x XP Boost for everyone online for 2 hours
Boatswain Features & Commands
- Inherits Gunner permissions & kits
- Grey username with Pink Badge
- Access to /rec to show the collected damage from the last 30 seconds that happened to you
- Have up to 6 big /doors
- Use of /kit boatswain
- 3 homes with /sethome
- Access to build the galleon ship type!
- Build and use 17 consecutive cannons at once
- Get 6 plots on Creative
Boatswain Kits
Boatswain inherits Gunner kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit boatswain
The transporter!
- 2x Ender Pearls
- 1x Pumpkin Pie
- 1x Lead
- 1x Iron Helmet
- 2x Fireworks
Username in-game
Gray username with light purple badge
Boatswain »
#7 Firstmate Rank
The Tradesman!
Requirements to rankup to Firstmate
- 720 hours playtime (30 Days)
- 300000 blocks broken
- 300000 blocks placed
- 125 Exp Levels on you!
- Travel 500000 on foot!
Result
- Firstmate Rank
- One time /kit firstmate_rankup
- 2.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 5 hours
Firstmate Features & Commands
- Inherits Boatswain permissions & kits
- Grey username with Aqua Badge
- Gain access to building the Bronze cannon
- Gain access to using the potion projectile in cannons!
- Have up to 7 big /doors
- Use of /kit firstmate
- Display items in chat by using [i] placeholder
- Get 7 plots on Creative
Firstmate Kits
Firstmate inherits Boatswain kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit firstmate
The water worker!
- 1x Mushroom Stew
- 1x Compass
- 1x Depth Strider Chainmail Boots
Username in-game
Gray username with aqua badge
Firstmate »
#8 Quartermaster Rank
The Veteran
Requirements to rankup to Quartermaster
- 1440 hours playtime (60 Days)
- 1,000,000 blocks broken
- 1,000,000 blocks placed
- 150 Exp Levels on you!
- Travel 2,000,000 blocks by foot!
Result
- Quartermaster Rank
- One time /kit quartermaster_rankup
- 2.5x XP Boost for everyone online for 12 hours
Quartermaster Features & Commands
- Inherits Firstmate permissions & kits
- Grey username with Dark Red Badge
- Have up to 8 big /doors
- Get 8 plots on Creative
- Use of /kit quartermaster
Quartermaster Kits
Quartermaster inherits Firstmate kits and gains access to these /kits
/kit quartermaster
The water worker!
- 1x Book & Quill
- 1x Speed potion
Username in-game
Gray username with dark red badge
Quartermaster »
Contributor Ranks
There are 3 Contributor Ranks that offer a range of features.
You can obtain these by purchasing from the Store or use /donate in-game.
#1 Lieutenant Rank
Lieutenant rank is a contributor rank, you can obtain this by visiting the store.
Lieutenant Features & Commands
- Inherits Quartermaster permissions & kits
- Full list of features, kits & perks listed on the store page.
Username in-game
Green username with white badge
Lieutenant »
#2 Commander Rank
Commander rank is a contributor rank, you can obtain this by visiting the store.
Commander Features & Commands
- Inherits Lieutenant permissions & kits
- Full list of features, kits & perks listed on the store page.
Username in-game
Green username with gold badge
Commander »
#3 Captain Rank
Captain rank is a contributor rank thats the highest possible rank to obtain as a player, you can obtain this by visiting the store.
Captain Features & Commands
- Inherits Commander permissions & kits
- Full list of features, kits & perks listed on the store page.
Username in-game
Green username with light purple badge
Captain »
Staff Team Ranks
The PirateCraft Team consists of a lot of talented people that require specific roles.
You can contact the PirateCraft Team by creating a support ticket.
You apply for staff by filling out the staff application.
Please select each role to see which each one is for.
Privateer Rank
Privateer is a chat moderation role, most often called Helper
Communicate with the players & moderation team with any concerns
Privateer's Role
- Moderate chat behavior
- Ability to temp mute
- Ability to temp jail
- Ability to temp warn
- Ability to add/read notes
- Receives /h (helpop) messages from players asking for help
- Bypass being ignored in mails
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
- Can update item(s) /worth using /setworth
- Special /kit staff land claim & inspection tool
- Can use some color and formatting in chat
Username in-game
Dark Aqua username with grey badge
Privateer »
Sea Artist Rank
Graphic Designer or Videographer
Sea Artist Role
- Build of the Month Contest Blog posts
- Render distance gets boosted to 12
- Artwork for website
- Artwork for Resource Pack
- Videos for YouTube
- Trailers
- Server Update Videos
- Tutorials
- Player build video showcase
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Username in-game
Aqua username with gold badge
Sea Artist »
Gardener Rank
Temporary Land Regnerator
Gardener Role
This is a temporary role used for clean-up sessions around the world to restore parts of the world back to fresh land & ores.
Its temporary as it allows re-generating ores on survival!
- Regenerate land & ores back into clean brand new land.
- Access to /fly
- Render distance gets boosted to 12
- WorldEdit tools to generate Forests, Pumpkin Patches & Flora
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Username in-game
Dark Aqua username with green tree ☘ badge
Gardener ☘
Craftsman Rank
Craftsman is a builder role!
Craftsmans Role
The Craftsmans role is to build PirateCraft events, warps, buyable ships, marketplace shops & spawn!
To be proactive in keeping areas fresh & updated.
Craftsman Features
Survival, Creative & Discord
- Use colored signs on Survival & Creative
- Show up in staff /list
- Discord role & access to staff channels
- Have 20 big doors on Survival
- Gains access to building/breaking at public warps on survival
- Can build & break at /warp shop around the markets & roads, but not in rented shops.
- Can build & break at aqueduct from /spawn to /warp cove to add connections to bases.
Creative
- Gains access to worlds on Creative
- Use /mvlist to list the worlds and /mvtp to access them.
- Inherits Captain rank
- 100 plots
- Gm3/noclip
- Full VoxelSniper Access
- Full WorldEdit Access
- Coreprotect lookups for who placed what blocks
- All game modes
- Set fly/walk speed
- Create custom named items/lore
- Private Weather/Time settings
- Clear Inventory
- Enderchest Command
- Chat color and formatting
- Gets Dark Aqua username
- Instant TP to anyone
- Teleport anyone to themselves
- Send others to warps
- Add, Edit and Remove warps
- Bypass hidden plots
- Teleport to other peoples plots
- Bypass chat rules
Creative Username in-game
Dark Aqua username with white badge
Craftsman »
Housewright Rank
Build Team Leader
Housewright Role
The Housewright role is a project manager to server build projects.
Managing a team of builders on various server projects.
- Project Manager
- Find new Builders & Promote at will
- Collaborate with mods & admins on planning projects
- Assign Builders tasks and manage their time
- Improve warps for improved player retention & navigation
- Inherits Craftsman & Captain ranks
- Has admin permissions to manage creative plots
- Personal time and weather on Survival
- Access in-game Staff chat
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Username in-game
Aqua username with grey badge
Housewright »
Portmaster Rank
Community Manager
Portmaster Role
The Portmaster Role is a Community Manager
Hospitality is the relationship between players and the moderation, media, building and technical teams.
Monitors feedback and engagement from the community to bridge with staff & players, taking empathy on players but using judgement and server knowledge, rules, history and philosophy of PirateCraft to give instant feedback to staff or players!
- Middleman for players to communicate with the rest of the team
- Can promote players to privateer
- Monitor staff aplications for suitable privateers
- Inherits, Sea Artist, Housewright, Captain
- Can unlink Discord accounts in-game
- Check server performance
- Admin permissions to manage play server arenas
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Website / Discord
- Moderate Discord
- Moderate Forums
- Moderate Wiki
Username in-game
Aqua username with light purple badge
Portmaster »
Shipwright Rank
Plugin Developer
Shipwright Role
The Shipwright is a plugin Developer Role.
For developers that have created custom plugins for PirateCraft or developers plugins we use that play on PirateCraft.
- Develop plugins
- Inherits Captain
- Access various custom plugin permissions
- Access in-game Staff chat
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Username in-game
Aqua username with dark red badge
Shipwright »
Commodore Rank
Commodore is a Moderator role
Commodore Role
The Commodore is a moderator role, with a plethora of tools available to help moderate bad behavior & cheating.
Heres a rough overview of moderator abilities & roles.
- Inherits Captain, Privateer, Housewright
- Access in-game Staff chat
- Access to full set of moderation tools & punishments
- Access to staff warps
- Check server performance
- Can promote/demote people to privateer
- Can't be pulled by grappling hook
- Manage players drunkness from brewing
- Access any event worlds during development
- Teleport to any region
- Whitelist the server
- Mute the global chat
- Moderate crews
- Access to all /parrots
- Access to /wild
- Show up in staff /list
- Access to /duty busy mode
- Discord role & access to staff channels
Username in-game
Blue username with grey badge
Commodore »
Rear Admiral Rank
Rear Admiral is a Admin role
Rear Admiral Role
Rear Admiral is an Lead Admin, training & management of the PirateCraft Team.
Admins are the force behind large server projects such as events.
- Inherits Commodore
- Can promote/demote people to Commodore
- Can promote/demote people to Sea Artist
- Access to a large suite of administrator tools
- Access to update specific plugin configs
- Access to plugin settings in-game
- Access Analytics
- Manage Server Warps
- Manage Inventories & Enderchests
- Manage Player homes & Location
- Manage all aspects of teleporting
- Manage Claims & Admin Claims
- Manage Crews
- Manage Admin Regions
- Manage Market Shops
- Manage Players Ranking
- Land Regeneration
- Full creative plot admin
- Brewing Admin
Username in-game
Gold username with grey badge
Rear Admiral »
Admiral Rank
Admiral is the PirateCraft Founder, GodsDead.
Admiral Role
Admiral is a super admin role for the PirateCraft founder GodsDead.
- Plugin Development, configuration and maintenance
- DevOPs & System Administrator
- Management of PirateCraft Team
- Vision & Branding for PirateCraft
- Bespoke website design & development
- Marketing, Advertising & Social Media
- Running ecommerce store
- Graphic Design
- Videography
- Copywriter & Technical writer
- Support Agent
- Terrain builder
- Pay the bills
Username in-game
Red username with grey badge
Admiral »
All Commands
Searchable, sortable command list. Use the search box to find commands based on category or rank, it searches all columns.
