The server launches
Version 1.0 ·
Cairn SMP launched on August 27, 2025, originally serving the Nevermind community. The server was tuned for relaxed, long-term play with enough progression to keep exploration interesting.
The server is now named Cairn SMP and its current address is play.cairnsmp.com.
Economy
Section titled “Economy”The optional economy system lets players earn money with jobs or chest shops, spend it with other players and shops, or buy claim blocks.
/balancechecks your balance./pay <name>pays another player./buyclaimblocks <amount>buys claim blocks at $1 per block.
Job system
Section titled “Job system”Players can take up to three jobs at a time and earn money by playing in the ways they enjoy. Browse the available jobs with /jobs browse.
Chest shops
Section titled “Chest shops”Chest shops are powered by QuickShop-Hikari.
- Buy or sell items using in-game currency.
- To create a shop, place a chest, hold an item in your active hotbar, left-click the chest, and set the price.
- Other players can use your shops while you are offline.
- Search nearby shops with
/qs finditem TO_BUY <item>.
Claims
Section titled “Claims”Land protection is powered by GriefPrevention.
- Earn claim blocks over time or buy them directly.
- Get a golden shovel for creating and editing claims with
/kit claim. - The claim kit has a 10-minute cooldown.
Teleports
Section titled “Teleports”/spawnreturns you to server spawn./hometakes you to your bed or custom home created with/sethome./tpask <name>asks to teleport you to another player./tphere <name>asks another player to teleport to you./tpacceptaccepts a pending teleport request./tprteleports you to a random location 500–4,000 blocks from spawn.
Additional enchants
Section titled “Additional enchants”- ExcellentEnchants added custom enchants. View them with
/ce list. - Custom enchants are integrated with vanilla enchanting, loot chests, and villager trades.
- Anvil fixes removed “Too Expensive” issues while keeping XP meaningful.
- To make XP bottles, hold glass bottles and right-click an enchanting table.
Skill system
Section titled “Skill system”- AuraSkills tracks player skills. View your stats with
/skills. - Skills level up as you play and unlock perks or mana abilities.
- On death, you lose 50% of your progress toward the current level, but never lose a completed level.
- Skill settings were adjusted to reduce grind and make abilities more impactful.
Server tweaks
Section titled “Server tweaks”- Difficulty: Hard. Mobs hit harder and food matters more.
- Mob scaling: Tougher mobs appear farther from spawn.
- Fire: Fire spreads more aggressively. Only you can prevent forest fires.
- Loot chests: Natural chests and barrels refill every few days with new loot. Each player can loot the same chest again after one week. Breaking a chest disables refills.
- Rotten flesh to leather: Smelt rotten flesh in a smoker.
- Pregenerated world: All dimensions were pregenerated to 5,000 blocks.
- Fishing: Maximum wait time was reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Spawners: Spawners can be mined with a special enchant and their mob type changed with spawn eggs.
- Spawn eggs: Naturally spawned mobs can rarely drop spawn eggs when killed with a special weapon enchant.
The spawn welcome center includes some basic geography to help new players choose a direction, explore, and stake a claim in the world.