A bounty is a reward given for killing someone. Nations uses a custom plugin that allows players to set cash bounties awarded for killing a certain player or destroying one of their Movecraft vehicles.
¶ Setting Bounties
Before creating a bounty, you need to decide on the following:
- Who to set the bounty on (the target)
- The target cannot be a friendly player.
- How much the bounty should pay out (the reward)
- The minimum bounty is $1,000.
- 5% of the bounty reward is taken as tax.
- Who is allowed to collect the bounty reward (the availability level). This can be:
- a specific player (
player) - residents of a specific town (
town) - residents of a specific nation (
nation) - residents of a specific nation and all of its allies (
nation_and_allies) - For exploit prevention reasons, you cannot create bounties available to everyone.
- a specific player (
- The bounty type
pvp- the bounty is awarded if the target is killedmovecraft- the bounty is awarded if a Movecraft vehicle controlled by the target is sunk
- Whether the bounty is public or private
- If a bounty is public, everybody can see it.
- If a bounty is private, only its creator and the people it is available to can see it.
Once you have decided, type:
/bounty place <target name> <reward> <availability level> <the name of the player, town or nation>
A menu will then open prompting you to finish setting up the bounty.
¶ Deleting Bounties
You can delete a bounty using /bounty delete <name of target>. The reward money, after being taxed, will be refunded to you.
¶ Raising Bounties
You can increase the reward of your bounties using /bounty raise <name of target> <amount to raise reward by>.
¶ Bounty Expiry
Bounties expire naturally if either the bounty creator or target do not login for 90 days. They also expire if they are only available to a specific town or nation which is then deleted. Expired bounties return their reward money to their creator.
¶ Viewing Bounties
Bounties can be seen through the /bounty list GUI.
Bounties in the GUI will be coloured according to their relation with you:
- Blue bounties are bounties that you have placed
- Green bounties are bounties available to you
- Red bounties are bounties placed on you!
- Bounties represented by a barrier block are not available to you
¶ Total Bounty Value
You can see the total value of the bounties placed on someone using /bounty total <player name>.
¶ Collecting Bounties
You can collect any bounty that is available to you (/bounty list available_to_me).
- PvP bounties are collected by simply killing the target while they are not inside a siege zone.
- Movecraft bounties are collected by sinking a craft piloted by the target. You need to land the killing shot for it to count.
As well as receiving the bounty reward money, a Bounty Trophy — a special player head — will also drop for you. The Trophy has the target's skin and lists the details of the bounty.
¶ Target Tracking
You can track players who have more than $10,000 in bounties available to you. Tracking displays your approximate distance from a target.
1. To begin tracking, you need to craft a Bounty Tracking Compass. Like a normal compass, the Bounty Tracking Compass can be used to hide from the map.
- Note: The echo shards required to craft the recovery compass can drop from wardens.
2. After crafting the compass, hold it in your hand and type /bounty track <target>.
- The Bounty Tracking Compass is reusable. You can use this command again to change the target.
3. Your compass will now track the target. Right-click the compass to see the target's distance and direction relative to your position. This has a cooldown of one minute.
- The distance is rounded to the nearest 500 blocks.
- When successfully right-clicked, the compass will also points towards the target.
- But be aware the compass direction will reset if you log out or die.