Storms
Every 25 to 40 minutes a storm rolls over the map. The sky turns black, red columns mark lightning strikes on your position, and evacuation shuts down. When it passes, the whole instance resets: fresh loot, ore, creatures and plants.
Checking the drop zone…
Drop in.
Loot.
Get out alive.
CycleBlocktier is an extraction shooter built inside Minecraft. Board a drop pod to the alien planet Bright Sands, loot crashed stations, mine rare ore, hunt creatures and other prospectors, and make it to an evac ship before the storm or another player takes everything you're carrying.
Server address
play.cycleblocktier.org
Minecraft Java Edition 26.3. No mods, no launcher: the resource pack installs itself.
26guns, from pistols to the KOMRAD launcher
5live instances of Bright Sands
90quests and faction jobs
30minutes per run, if you survive
The loop
Every run is a gamble
What you bring down, you can lose. What you bring back, you keep.
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Gear up on Prospect Station
Your orbital home base: shops, faction contacts, the Printer (the Forge) to craft gear, the Upgrade Station, your stash and your personal quarters.
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Drop into Bright Sands
Step onto the Launch Bay pad. Matchmaking picks one of five live instances and a drop point away from other prospectors.
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Loot, mine, fight
Crack open containers, break Veltecite and Titan ore, gather rare plants, open keycard rooms, and fight Striders, Rattlers and Marauders. Or other players.
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Call the evac ship
Reach an evac station, call the shuttle and hold out until it lands. Die, and your gear stays in your corpse for anyone to take. Only your safe pocket comes home, plus whatever you insured.
Bright Sands
A hostile world that fights back
Creatures
Striders in the open, acid-spitting Rattlers that keep their distance, armoured Marauders you can only hurt when they open their jaws, and Blast Ticks that charge and explode. Aim for the weak spots.
Keycard rooms and the vault
Find a keycard, open a sealed room at the Water Facility, Abandoned Mine, Base Camp or Power Plant, and take its cache. At the Science Campus, carry power cores to the sockets before the timer runs out to open the vault.
Radio Buffers
Upgrade Data Drives at a Radio Buffer. It's loud: everyone nearby hears it, and the Comms Tower buffer burns anyone who camps beside it.
Five instances, one map
Each copy of Bright Sands runs its own storm, loot and creatures. Die or extract, and that instance stays closed to you until its storm passes, so you drop somewhere new.
Meteors and gathering
Meteors crash with rare ore. Brightcaps grow in the jungle, Pale Ivy hides in the undergrowth, Waterweed lines the shore, and glowing Brightcaps only bloom mid-storm.
Arsenal
26 weapons. Real recoil. Real ammo.
Pistols, SMGs, assault rifles, shotguns, DMRs, sniper rifles and the Legendary KARMA-1, KOMRAD and Zeus Beam. Each one uses its own ammo type, penetration and headshot damage, and every model is custom.
Factions
Work for the corporations. Get paid.
Three factions run the operation on Fortuna III. Take their quests and rotating jobs, earn reputation, and unlock better gear in their shops.
Korolev
Heavy industry
Miners and engineers who want ore by the ton and claims cleared of anything that bites. Brutal, reliable gear.
ICA
Security and intelligence
ICA trades in data, classified logs and stations held at any cost. Precise, high-tech weapons.
Osiris
Research
Scientists cataloguing Fortuna's flora and fauna, with field botany, specimen hunts and prototype energy weapons.
Cosmetics store
Make your loadout yours
Skins for every weapon and for your mining tool, from Uncommon to Mythic. Three new skins rotate into the store every 48 hours. Skins change how your gear looks, never how it shoots.
Mythic Stormcutter: a plasma katana forged from Veltecite, with a glowing cyan edge and a crimson-wrapped grip.
How to join
On the surface in under a minute
- Open Minecraft (Java Edition 26.3) and choose Multiplayer.
- Click Add Server and enter
play.cycleblocktier.org. - Join, and accept the resource pack: it adds the guns, creatures and HUD.
- Talk to the people on Prospect Station, grab your first quest, and step onto the Launch Bay pad.
FAQ
Questions before the drop
Is it free to play?
Yes. Joining and playing are free, and everything you use in a run is earned in game.
Do I lose my gear when I die?
On Bright Sands, yes: your gear drops in your corpse and anyone can loot it. Your safe pocket always comes home with you, and items you insured on the station before the drop are paid out or returned. Prospect Station is a safe zone.
Do I need mods or a special launcher?
No. Use the normal Minecraft Java Edition launcher. The server sends its own resource pack when you join.
Can I play solo?
Yes. Many runs are solo, and matchmaking spreads drop points away from other prospectors. Bring friends if you want backup.
Which Minecraft version?
Java Edition 26.3, with an official Microsoft account.