Combat & Jailing

Avatarverse has unique combat mechanics, which are integral to understanding wars and personal safety on the server.

Combat tag

If you are attacked or you attack someone, you will be placed in a 15-second combat tag. During that time you will be unable to use certain commands that might aid you to escape.

Any attempt to leave the game while will combat tagged automatically knocks you out when you rejoin.

Knockouts

Under normal circumstances, if your health reaches zero, you are knocked out. This means you are forced to lie down on the ground (if possible) and cannot move, move items in your inventory, attack people, or get attacked. This state lasts 60 seconds.

You are also vulnerable to a number of threats:

People can sneak & right-click on your body to open your inventory and take any item out of it.
People can shift-click you to drag you until you are no longer knocked out.
You can also be handcuffed, shackled, or gagged.

If you leave the game while knocked out, you will be knocked out again when you rejoin the server and have to endure another 60 seconds.

Being knocked out also prevents you from using certain commands:

OOC Messaging: /message, /tell, etc.
IC Messaging: /bird
Teleport: /home
Map: /dynmap
Inventory: /hat

Duels

Duels are a way one can avoid being knocked out when the health bar reaches zero. They are designed for quick, friendly spars so you don't have to wait for the knockout to end when someone loses the duel.

To duel someone, send a duel request with /duel <character>. They will have the opportunity of accepting it with the same command (with your character name instead of theirs), or denying it just by ignoring it.

Message received when someone requests a duel — Message received when someone requests to duel with you

Duel To The Death

Duels to the Death (DttDs) are a special type of duel. When you get knocked out in a DttD, the winner of the duel will have the option to land the final blow, ultimately killing your character, or wait out the knockout period to spare you from death.

You can duel to the death with someone by requesting and accepting with /duel <character> death.

Message received when someone requests a duel to the death

Restraining People

Certain craftable items can be used on someone who is knocked out in order to limit their movement and bending once they are awake to make them easier to control.

There are three different types of restraining items:

Handcuffs which go on people's chest slots.
Shackles which go on people's feet slots
Gags which go on people's heat slots

Handcuffs have the following effects on people:

Inability to punch other entities
Limited interactions with hands
Ability to be dragged to another location by anyone

Shackles have the following effects on people:

Slowness II
Inability to use bending abilities that require sneaking

Gags have the following effects on people:

All messages on chat will appear as: *muffled*, preventing from speaking.
Inability to use Breath abilities (ex: AirBreath, Frostbreath, FlameBreath...)

Additionally all the commands blocked during knock-out are also blocked when handcuffed or shackled.

Dragging a Handcuffed Person

To drag a handcuffed person, tap sneak while looking at them to start dragging them. They will be teleported wherever you go. Do to stop dragging someone, tap sneak while looking at them again. Dragging is interrupted if you take damage.

Unlocking Handcuffs and Shackles

Shackles and Handcuffs can be unlocked with the use of a key item that is generated when shackles or handcuffs are placed on someone. They key will only work for the specific shackle/handcuff it was generated for. Right click on a shackled/handcuffed person with the right key to unlock it.

Removing a gag

You can remove someone's gag by right-clicking on them with an empty hand.

Escaping Restrain

There are ways to escape shackles, but most require a lot of work:

Any handcuff and shackle can take a little bit of damage if you repeatedly left-click, as if you're hitting them against an object. This won't work for every punch and will damage you as well.
Any handcuff will take damage from holding sneak with HeatControl (burning/melting the Handcuffed)
Wooden handcuffs and shackles will take damage if you hold sneak with FrostBreath
Iron handcuffs and shackles are escapable when holding sneak with any metalbending move

Crafting Recipes