Pitforge

How Pitforge works

Everything you need to know before your first fight.

Discordโ€” online
Legacy guide Phoenix guide ยท soon Join play.pitforge.games, then /server fac-1

Pitforge is an RPG factions server: you level up skills, hunt for rare custom gear, and build a faction base that other factions can raid. The Legacy world never resets, so your progress, gear and bases carry on permanently.

The core loop

  1. PvP, mobs, events, miningFight and grindPvP, mobs, events and mining earn XP, money and crystals.
  2. Spend skill points on statsLevel upXP raises your level, and each level gives skill points to spend on stats.
  3. Crystals, levelled itemsGear upCrystals and drops give custom items. Combine duplicates to level them, and insure the ones you can't lose.
  4. Bank, spawners, baseBuild the factionMoney and loot go into the faction bank, spawners and the base.
  5. Spend energy, take lootRaid and defendBases earn raid energy over time. Spend it to raid rivals and take their loot.
  6. Elo, spawners, itemsClimb Faction TopElo from fights, spawner value and submitted items rank your faction against every other.

Each step feeds the next: better stats and gear win more fights, more fights fund the base, and a stronger base climbs the rankings.

Skills & stats

Level 1โ€“66

Every player has a level from 1 to 66. Levelling gives skill points, and where you spend them decides your build: a melee bruiser, an archer, or a tank. XP comes from PvP kills, mobs, events, bounties and XP bottles. Each level costs about 15% more XP than the last, so the climb from 40 to 66 is the real endgame grind.

StatWhat it doesAt high investment
StrengthIncreases melee damageAbout 3ร— melee damage at 50 points
ArcheryIncreases bow damage; a fully drawn bow hits hardestThe strongest ranged builds
DefenseIncreases the armor your gear givesLegendary armor goes from light to near-tank level by 25 points
HealthAdds 0.8 hearts of max health per point, on top of 1030 hearts at 25 points
Attack SpeedFaster swingsBonus walk speed at 25 points
  • Any hit can crit for 1.5ร— damage, and there's a 1% chance of a super crit.
  • Made a build you don't like? A skill reset item refunds your points so you can respec.

Custom items

Gear is custom: about 130 weapons, armor pieces and tools, each with its own stats and look, sorted into rarities. Finding the right piece and levelling it up is the main long-term goal for most players.

RarityItemsMax levelWhere it comes from
Common317Common crystals, early drops
Rare407Rare crystals, votes, events
Epic247Epic crystals, airdrops, bosses
Legendary257Legendary crystals, airdrops, top events
Event115Limited-time events only

Crystals

The main loot currency. Each one has a rarity, and spinning it rolls a random item of that rarity, with a chance at bonus money or XP. Earn them from voting, daily rewards, airdrops, events and competitions.

Levelling items

Combine duplicate copies of the same item to raise its level, up to 7. Each level needs more copies than the last, so a max-level Legendary is a serious achievement.

Salvager & Tradeup

The Salvager breaks unwanted items into materials (open Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays). Tradeup turns several lower-rarity items into a chance at a higher rarity.

Insurance

Dying in PvP normally drops your gear. Insured items stay with you. The cost scales with rarity (Legendary costs 8ร— a Common), and removing insurance costs $1,000,000, so insure carefully.

Enchants

Custom enchants add special effects on top of an item's stats. Most trigger on a chance each hit, and the chance and power grow with the enchant's level: a typical proc is 6% at level 1, rising 3% per level.

Life StealHeals you for part of the damage you deal
Heavy HandA crushing hit that deals bonus damage
BleedDeals damage over a few seconds
PierceBonus damage that cuts through armor
GreatnessA burst of bonus damage
ExplosiveDamages everything near the target
PickpocketSteals a small share of the target's money
Self DestructExplodes when you die
Wolf PackSummons wolves to fight with you
ReinforcedRaises your max health by 10% per level

Enchants stack with skills and gear, so the strongest players combine a high stat, a levelled item and the right enchant for their build.

Factions & bases

Up to 10 players

A faction is a team of up to 10 players that shares a base, a bank and a ranking. Going solo is possible, but every big reward is built around factions.

Base plot

Each faction gets its own plot on the faction world grid to build, store loot and place spawners. /f home takes you there.

Bank

Members deposit money into a shared faction bank. Ranks and permissions control who can withdraw.

Ranks and permissions

Leaders decide what each rank can do, from building to managing the bank.

Energy

A faction earns 1 energy every hour while at least one member is online. Energy is spent to start raids.

Elo

Every faction starts at 1,000 Elo. Winning fights and wars raises it; losing lowers it.

Spawners

Spawners generate mob drops and count toward your faction's value, from pig spawners up to rare Iron Golem and Villager spawners.

The base is your faction's bank vault, farm and trophy room, and the target every rival wants to raid.

Raids

7 energy ยท 2 hours

Raiding is how factions take loot from each other. A raid costs 7 energy and gives the attackers 2 hours to break into the target's base and take what they can.

  1. Save energy. Energy builds at 1 per hour while a member is online, so a raid takes about 7 hours of online time to fund.
  2. Pick a target. Choose a rival base worth hitting.
  3. Start the raid. The defenders and their allies are alerted, so expect a fight.
  4. Break in. You have 2 hours to get through the defences and loot the base.
  5. Restore. When the raid ends, the defender's base is restored from a snapshot, so a raid costs them loot, not their whole build.
  • After a raid, the defending faction gets immunity that grows the more often it has been raided, so no faction can be farmed over and over.
  • Defending: build layered walls, keep members online during your peak hours, and lean on allies, who are alerted when you're raided.

Events

Scheduled events run all day, so there's almost always something to fight over. Most are free-for-all, and the best loot in the game comes from them.

Every 4 hours

KOTH

Hold the capture zone longer than anyone else to win.

Every 4 hours

Boss

A custom boss spawns. Deal damage and survive to earn its drops.

Every 8 hours

Airdrop

A supply drop lands full of high-rarity gear and crystals. First to claim it wins.

Daily

FFA

Everyone in one arena. Last player standing wins.

Queue-based

Faction Wars

Factions queue up and fight head-to-head. Winners gain Elo.

Always on

Outposts

Capture points that give your faction buffs and rewards while you hold them.

Between events there are loot chests to raid around the map and mining regions for resources. Server-wide boosters for XP and chest loot run from time to time.

Economy & rewards

Money buys gear, insurance, spawners and base upgrades, and funds your faction bank. You earn it from fighting, events, voting and trading with other players.

Ways to earnWhat you get
Daily rewards /dailyA 31-day login calendar of money, crystals and items, with bigger rewards on milestone days.
Voting /vote$2,000 and a random crystal per vote.
BountiesPlayers put bounties on each other. Kill the target to collect the money, XP and points.
EventsCrystals, gear and money from KOTH, bosses, airdrops, FFA and wars.
TradingSell items to other players through the auction house or trades.

Ways to spend

  • Shop and potion shop for supplies and base materials
  • Auction house to buy and sell with other players
  • Insurance to keep your best gear on death
  • CoinFlip to gamble money against another player (minimum $1,000)
  • Spawners and base building for your faction

Extras

  • Kits with cooldowns, unlocked by rank
  • Player vaults for extra storage
  • Tags and prefixes to show off in chat
  • Reward inbox (/claim) holds rewards you earned while offline

Faction Top & competitions

Faction Top ranks every faction on the server. Your place comes from three rankings added together, so the top faction has to be strong in all three, not just one.

Elo

Win fights and Faction Wars. Every faction starts at 1,000.

Spawner value

Place spawners in your base. Rarer spawners are worth far more: a Villager spawner is worth about 245 pig spawners.

Item value

Submit gear with /fsubmit. Submitted items are gone for good, but count toward your score by rarity: Common 1ร—, Rare 2ร—, Epic 4ร—, Legendary 8ร—.

Weekly competitions

Each week the top competitors are rewarded with in-game money and crate keys.

#1$1,000,000 + crate keys#2$750k#3$500k#4$250k#5$100k

Commands

/f homeTeleport to your faction base
/f deposit ยท /f withdrawMove money in and out of the faction bank
/fsubmitSubmit items to Faction Top
/dailyClaim today's login reward
/voteVote links for money and crystals
/claimOpen your reward inbox
/coinflipStart or join a coin flip

Glossary

CrystalA loot token of a set rarity; spin it for a random item
EnergyFaction resource earned while members are online; spent on raids
EloFaction combat rating, starting at 1,000
ftopFaction Top, the server-wide faction ranking
InsuranceProtection that keeps an item when you die
KOTHKing of the Hill, a zone-capture event
ProcWhen an enchant's chance effect triggers
RespecResetting skill points to rebuild your stats
Super critA rare 1% critical hit on top of normal crits

Numbers are the current live values and may be tuned in balance updates.

Ready to try it?

Join play.pitforge.games and type /server fac-1. New players are welcome: ask in Discord and someone will help you find a faction.

IP copied! Open Minecraft โ†’ Multiplayer โ†’ Add Server โ†’ paste