So I would start the tutorial at the shipwreck with a sign or some direction to head to the beach:

1) Beach: [This is a PvP Server].  Armor stand with Enchanted Diamond Armor [Fear Me].  Heads littered around.  A sign that says [Read the /rules]

2) Path from the beach through a break in the cliffs up to the land above.  Along the path signs with info on each rank: Deckhand, Cadet, Sailor, Carpenter, Gunner, Boatswain, Firstmate, Quartermaster, Lieutenant, Commander, Captain, Privateer, Craftsman, Housewright, Commodore, SeaArtist, RearAdmiral, ViceAdmiral, Admiral.

3) At the top of the cliff a ruined wooden house.  [Claim Your Build] /claim, /expandclaim, /unclaim, /sellclaimblocks, /buyclaimblocks, gold shovel.

4) Short path to the next ruined wooden building, maybe a small settlement of them [Even claimed builds can be Sieged]  Examples of soft blocks that can be broken in siege.  Examples of other items that not protected: wood buttons (arrows), pressure plates, wood doors, chests, furnaces, brew stands.  Examples of things that can be done if someone wins a siege against your build: Buttons, levers, gates, wood trap doors, end pearls, chorus fruit.

5) Short path to sturdy and safe build, like a small fort or manor house.  Examples of hard blocks that can’t be broken in siege.  Examples of items that cant be used (unless defeated in siege) stone buttons, wood trap doors, gates.

6) Short path to a ruined square behind the fort/house.  Remnants of market stalls.  One stall is more put together, the path leads here.  [Buy], [iBuy], [Sell], [iSell], [Device], etc tutorial. Direction to /warp shops.

7) Past the square the path leads to a dock.  Maybe we can clear out that island in that pond, or loop back around to the sea.  Leading up the the dock: Signs instructing on tp travel, /tpa /tpahere, /warp, other means of moving about the map. /map and the dynmap.  At the docks we have a ship or 3.  One of the ships contains a tutorial on ship building: block types and ratios, signs: [{type: Dhow etc}], [[helm]], [Cruse: Off], etc.  One of the ships has tutorial on sailing: using the signs, gold hoe.  One of the ships has cannon tutorial.

At the end of the dock a sign: [This camp is ruined/Venture Out/Plunder the World]

Anything missing?

Perhaps a dense jungle opposite the shipwreck, with the remains of a small colonial town just out of sight. The path through the jungle to the town has signs with general information about the server, discord, teamspeak, etc, as well as a bit of snazzy backstory. When the pirate gets to the colonial settlement, all of which is built around a small dirt square, it is clear it has been there long before the pirates were marooned but it is completely wrecked, with most of the houses missing walls and roofs and ivy growing everywhere. In the buildings there are signs of hammocks and temporary living quarters put up by the marooned pirates, and signs that the pirates have tried to loot said houses. Then perhaps the inside of the ruined public house could explain brewing, the inside of the small church siegeproof and non siegeproof blocks, and so on. It would be cool to have a load of pikes outside the town displaying the heads of redcoat soldiers who came to a sticky end at the hands of the pirates, with the server rules on signs scattered around the pikes, and a gallows in the centre of the town with a skeleton still strung up. It might also be cool to have a graveyard with the names of famous inactive/banned players, such as Adzybaba, on them.

“Simple! Not over the top! Keep it simple!”

As the quote above says, my recommendation is simple. Have a sign before the overhang/cliff saying “read the rules” and then past that sign, we would have simple tutorials on claiming (soft and hard blocks), ships, cannons, and gates/bridges. At the end, there can be a simple explanation of the ranking system and how to rank up. Players don’t want to come to a server and have to read all these complicated rules and tutorials, they will skip it if it’s too complicated. Normally, players are attracted to this server because of the ships and cannons, so it should be the “spotlight on the stage.” We can say that there is an eco and /warp shops, I just don’t think deckhands starting out need to know all of these facts about the sell signs/buy signs. Also, we can mention we have Discord/TeamSpeak/Forums, and tell them the commands if they are interested. For @Cysteen , I don’t think deckhands need to really know how to post screenshots (It would be helpful to the staff) but too complicated for a simple tutorial.

The theme would obviously be a ruined town, with the cannons, gates, and bridges area being a broken down tower.

The imgur: https://imgur.com/a/OveEw

Thanks, River <3

Would it be possible to have a redstone powered cannon that fills itself/is self replenishing at this new tutorial? You want to keep deckies interested, staring at some motionless blocks wondering what they do isn’t that intriguing. Imagine having cannon fire in the distance the moment you spawn in, you walk over, and find yourself in the midst of a ‘ship battle’. Now that would be sick.