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Economy and Trading

Money, the server shop, the auction house, chest shops, trading, coinflip, spawners, collectors, flight and vaults.

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HeroSMP has two currencies. Money ($) is the everyday currency you earn by playing. Bolts are the premium currency, covered in Bolts and the Bolt Shop.

Money

You start with $1,000.

CommandWhat it does
See your money
The richest players
Send someone money

Ways to earn money:

  • Sell items to the server shop
  • Sell the farm and mob drops your chunk collectors catch
  • Sell to other players with chest shops, the auction house and trades
  • Vote ($1,000 per vote) and stand in the AFK Zone
  • Win it from crates and coinflips

Server shop

Type to buy and sell everyday items. The shop has seven sections: Blocks, Colored Blocks, Farming, Food, Minerals, Mob Loot and Decorations.

ClickWhat it does
Left clickBuy
Right clickSell
Shift + right clickSell all of that item

Selling shortcuts:

CommandWhat it does
Sell the item you are holding
Sell everything sellable in your inventory
Open a menu, drop items in, close it to sell them

Auction house

The auction house lets you buy and sell with every player, for money or Bolts.

CommandWhat it does
Open the auction house
List the item you are holding
Search the listings
See a player's listings
Collect expired items and your earnings
Your purchases and sales
  • Listings last 48 hours. Anything that doesn't sell goes to your collection bin.
  • You can have up to 7 listings at once.
  • A 5% tax is taken from the seller when an item sells.

Chest shops

Run your own shop from a chest.

  1. Place a chest and fill it with the item you want to sell.
  2. Hold one of that item and hit (left click) the chest.
  3. Type your price in chat. Your shop is made.

You can also look at a chest and type .

  • Making a shop costs $10, and changing its price later costs $50.
  • There is no sales tax on chest shops.
  • Everyone can own 10 shops. Ranks raise this to between 35 and 200.
  • To find any item for sale, type . It can teleport you straight to a shop that sells it.
  • Look at your shop and use to let a friend help run it, or to stop someone trading there.

Trading

Trade safely with another player face to face.

  • Type , or sneak and right click them.
  • Both of you put items, money, Bolts or experience into the trade window.
  • When you both accept, a 5 second countdown runs before the trade goes through.
  • Requests expire after 60 seconds. You can turn trade requests off in Settings.

Coinflip

Flip a coin against another player, or against the house. Type to open the coinflip menu.

CommandWhat it does
Start a coinflip for others to join
Flip against the house
Cancel your coinflip and get your stake back
See your coinflip stats
MoneyBolts
Smallest bet$1,00010 Bolts
Biggest bet$50,000,00010,000 Bolts
  • Against a player, the winner takes the pot minus a 5% tax. Infinity members pay no tax.
  • Against the house, you have a 40% chance to win. A win pays double your bet with no tax.

Spawners

  • Mine a spawner with a Silk Touch pickaxe and it goes straight into your inventory.
  • Add more spawners of the same mob to a spawner to stack them. Bigger stacks spawn more mobs, up to 9,999 in one stack.
  • Only one stack of each mob type fits in a chunk.
  • Sneak while placing to put a whole handful of spawners down as one stack.
  • Spawners can't be held in your off hand.

You can win spawners from the Vote, Spawner, Thunder, Villain and Spider-Man crates. See Crates and Keys.

Chunk collectors

A chunk collector catches the farm and mob drops in its chunk and stores them for you.

  • Place one in a chunk and open it to sell what it collected, take items out, filter what it keeps, or turn on auto sell.
  • Only one collector works in each chunk.
  • Collectors come in 1x, 1.5x and 2x. A higher multiplier sells your drops for more.
  • They never take items a player threw, items dropped when someone dies, or renamed and custom items.

Buy collectors in the Bolt Shop or win them from crates.

Flight

Temporary flight is time you spend flying. It only counts down while you are in the air.

CommandWhat it does
Turn your flight on or off
See how much flight you have
Send some of your flight time to someone
Buy flight with money
Flight shop (money)Price
30 minutes$180,000
1 hour$300,000
3 hours$800,000
6 hours$1,600,000
12 hours$3,000,000

You can also get flight time from the Bolt Shop, crates and the AFK Zone. The Champion and Avenger ranks can fly with without using any flight time (see Ranks). Nobody can fly while in combat.

Player warps

Share your shops, farms and builds with everyone.

CommandWhat it does
Browse player warps
Teleport to a warp
Set a warp where you stand (free)
Delete your warp
Describe it
Use the item in your hand as its icon
File it under Shops, Builds, Farms and more
Rate a warp you have visited
Find warps by name or owner

Everyone can set 1 warp, and ranks raise this. You can also pay Bolts to show your warp in the sponsored row at the top of : the first slot costs 1,000 Bolts for 7 days, down to the seventh slot at 100 Bolts for 1 day.

Vaults

Vaults are private storage you can open anywhere. Type to see yours, or to open one. You can also click the Storage Vault at spawn.

Everyone gets 1 vault with 3 rows. Ranks give more vaults, each with 6 rows. See Ranks.