The Moon

The Moon is a separate world: dusty, hostile, low-gravity, with no breathable air, no rain, custom ores, special villages, meteorite strikes and dangerous terrain. Reaching it and surviving it is the core of AvalonEarth's late game.

How to get there

To launch normally from Earth, you need:

• A Tier 1 Rocket.
• A placed Launch Pad.
• Fuel piped into the pad from a connected Fuel Storage.
• Clear weather.
• Open space above you.
• The Launch Pad must be idle, with no supply pod on it.

Stand on the Launch Pad, hold the Tier 1 Rocket and right-click. The rocket is placed on the pad and the item is consumed. Then:

• Right-click the placed rocket to board. The countdown starts, you ride it during the countdown, and it launches you to a random Moon landing point.
• Left-click (attack) the placed rocket to pick it back up as an item — useful if you change your mind or set up on the wrong pad.

Rideable rockets must have fuel piped into the launch pad. Run a Fluid Pipe carrying fuel from a Fuel Storage to the pad's centre block — a Tier 1 Rocket needs roughly 1000 fuel (a Tier 2 Rocket about 2500). On launch the fuel is drained and the connected pipes break away.

The boarding check verifies all the same conditions as placement: the pad must be idle, the weather must be clear, the column above must be free, and enough fuel must be piped in.

Returning

• Moon return is controlled by staff/admin systems.
• If no public return method is available, ask staff.

Surviving the atmosphere

There is no breathable air on the Moon. If your head is not covered by a working Astronaut Helmet or Lunarite Helmet, you take suffocation damage every couple of seconds — unless you are inside the bubble of an active Oxygen Distributor.

While on the Moon you also get Slow Falling, Jump Boost III, and no normal fall-damage pressure compared with Earth movement.

Your helmet is the critical piece. If it runs out of durability, the atmosphere starts killing you again. An Oxygen Distributor lets you take the helmet off (or work indoors) while it has oxygen in its tanks.

Astronaut Suit

The Astronaut Suit is your starter Moon survival set. Each piece has custom durability that drains while you're on the Moon — even standing still.

Lunarite Armor

Lunarite Armor is the stronger Moon armor. Each piece has armor, armor toughness and knockback resistance, plus a large custom durability pool that drains far slower than the Astronaut Suit — the preferred set for long expeditions.

Repairing

• Repaired in an anvil using Lunarite Ingots.
• Each ingot restores 40 durability.
• The anvil cost is paid in player XP levels.
• Only Lunarite Ingots work — nothing else produces a result.

Mining and Lunarite

The Moon has its own ores:

• Iron Ore — normal resource ore.
• Lunarite Ore — unique Moon resource.

Mining Lunarite Ore drops Lunarite Nuggets. Combine 9 nuggets in a crafting grid to get 1 Lunarite Ingot. Ingots are used for almost every tier-1 and tier-2 build:

• Lunarite Armor
• Lunarite Laser Crossbow
• Trade Servers
• Command Stations
• Oxygenator / Oxygen Tank / Oxygen Distributor
• Power machines (CPU, Power Cells, Anti-Missile System, market machines)
• Tier 2 rocket parts
• Supply Pod missions (9 ingots are the pod cargo itself)

Player-placed iron ore is tracked separately, so mining your own placed blocks will not drop the custom Moon iron variants.

Mobs, the Giant Zombie and the Laser Crossbow

Hostile mobs — creepers, zombies and skeletons — spawn around Moon players on a timer, even in daylight. Spawns are capped per player. Bring a weapon and armor.

The Lunarite Laser Crossbow is a custom crossbow that fires laser projectiles — no arrows needed. Crafted with Lunarite Ingots, a Crossbow and Redstone (see Recipes).

Meteorite impacts (on the Moon)

Meteorites can fall near Moon players in four sizes:

When one impacts:

• It explodes and carves a crater.
• The crater can contain lava, magma and netherrack.
• A Blackstone core can contain coal, iron, gold, diamond and rare full blocks.
• The crater cools over time: lava → magma → netherrack → moonstone.

There is also a non-explosive "head meteorite" variant that lands near you and drops a textured head and, sometimes, a Meteorite Rock item (the same item you mine in the Meteorite Shower world).

Meteorites avoid repeatedly hitting the same chunk too quickly, and skip AFK players based on movement checks. These on-Moon impacts are separate from the Meteorite Shower destination world.

Terrain features and radiation

Moon terrain can include:

• Small and large craters.
• Moon rock clusters.
• Frozen lunar ice lakes and liquid water lakes.
• Lunar crystal (amethyst) fields.
• Deep cracks and canyons, sometimes with caves below.
• Sparse pale-wood trees.

Moon villages

Moon villages generate as glass dome settlements connected by glass tunnels. They use deterministic world-seed placement, so the same seed places villages in the same regions.

Layout:

• A central plaza dome.
• 1 to 4 directional chains of extra domes.
• Dome sizes and interiors vary.

Dome themes: bedroom, library, kitchen, workshop, storage, observatory, lab, farm.

Every village is guaranteed at least one farm. Farms use cauldrons because there is no Moon rain. Moon villagers can be killed unless staff/config makes them invulnerable.

Loot

• Many domes contain chests and barrels with mixed loot — ores, ingots, moonstone, tools and the occasional Lunarite Nugget/Ingot.
• Very rarely, a container also holds a missile blueprint. Higher tiers are rarer than lower ones, and a missile is crafted from 9 identical blueprints, so finding a full set this way is a long-term grind.

Per-tier blueprint drop chances are configurable under moon.village.blueprint-drop in config.yml (set a tier to 0 to disable it).

What you can't do on the Moon

Most teleport-style or claim-style commands are blocked on the Moon.

Blocked examples: /tp, /tpa, /tphere, /tpahere, /tpaccept, /home, /warp, /back, /claim, /gp, /towny, /res.