The Plunder Update: every heart has a price.

Lifesteal hearts. A lawless island. Duels with real stakes. The bay just got dangerous: here's how to survive it. Server address: play.shulkerbay.com (Java & Bedrock, 1.21+).

Yer heart is the treasure now

Every sailor starts with 10 hearts and can climb to 20. Strike down a rival in fair combat and ye take a heart off them, but the sea keeps her ledger fair: the rich bleed gold and the poor bleed little. Stolen hearts wash away with the tide: a common heart lasts a day, a Corsair heart a month, and the fabled Heart o' Gold beats forever. Run out entirely and Davy Jones takes ye, locked out of the bay for a spell, unless a crewmate pays yer ransom with /hearts revive.

The Land of Thieves

Beyond the bay lies the Pit, an island with no law and no mercy. Entry costs $150 and the toll bell rings for the whole server when ye step ashore. Full loot: everything ye carry can be taken. The island cannot be broken, but its chests restock with the tide, and twice a day (16:00 & 19:30 Europe/Berlin) the treasure tide buries three chests of real plunder.

Settle it at the Parley

/duel <name> calls a parley. Slide the gear toggle from SAFE to LOOT, stake Doubloons up to $2500 each, and the terms climb from Friendly Bout to Purse Duel to Blood & Loot to the full Broadside. Any change of terms un-readies both captains. The harbormaster escrows the gold and burns a 10% cut. Gear duels allow one golden apple and one pearl, no totems. Five minutes without a winner is a draw with a full refund. Fleeing forfeits everything.

The bay is open

Connect on Java or Bedrock at play.shulkerbay.com (Bedrock port 19132). Accept the Shulkerbay UI pack prompt on login for the pirate interface.

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The Plunder Update is live. Lifesteal hearts. A lawless island. Duels with real stakes. The bay just got dangerous: here's how to survive it.

Hearts · the lifesteal ledger

Yer heart is the treasure now

Every sailor starts with 10 hearts and can climb to 20. Strike down a rival in fair combat and ye take a heart off them, but the sea keeps her ledger fair: the rich bleed gold and the poor bleed little. Beat a captain sitting on 16 hearts and yer prize is grand; kick a sailor who's already down to 3 and ye get nothing but a bad reputation. That's on purpose: at Shulkerbay, bullying the small simply doesn't pay.

Stolen hearts wash away with the tide, so spend them or lose them. Run out entirely and Davy Jones takes ye: locked out of the bay for a spell, and repeat guests of the Locker wait longer each time. The way back is yer crew: anyone can pay yer ransom with /hearts revive.

Common Heart

The everyday loot of a fair fight.

lasts a day

Corsair Heart

A rarer prize off a hardened rival.

lasts a month

Heart o' Gold

The fabled one. Very rarely found.

beats forever
  • 10 base · 20 max
  • hearts expire: keep hunting
  • 0 hearts = Davy Jones' Locker
  • crew up with /crew

The Pit · full loot

The Land of Thieves

Beyond the bay lies an island with no law and no mercy. Entry costs $150, and the toll bell rings for the whole server when ye step ashore, so the wolves know fresh meat has landed. Everything ye carry can be taken; everything they carry can be yers.

The island itself cannot be broken, but its chests can be emptied. Every chest and barrel restocks with the tide, roughly every ten hours: iron and provisions mostly, and for the lucky, diamonds, golden apples… or a crate of TNT. Twice a day the treasure tide buries three chests of real plunder somewhere on the island, and finds count on the treasure leaderboard.

  • $150 toll
  • full loot: win it or lose it
  • chests restock with the tide
  • Treasure tides 16:00 & 19:30 · Berlin time
The Pit: a jungle island with a carved stone skull cave, the toll dock and its golden bell in the foreground
A recon sketch of the Pit, drawn from a safe distance: the toll dock, the bell that betrays ye, and the skull cave glowing at the island's heart.

The Duel Dock · wager duels

Settle it at the Parley

Got a score to settle? /duel <name> calls a parley. Face yer rival across the negotiation board: slide the gear toggle from SAFE to LOOT, stack Doubloons on the stake plank, up to $2500 each in hundred or five-hundred steps, and watch the terms climb the ladder. Any change of terms un-readies both captains: nobody gets tricked at Shulkerbay's table.

Friendly Bout

Stakes off. Honor only, bragging rights forever.

Purse Duel

Doubloons on the plank, winner takes the pot.

Blood & Loot

The toggle slides to LOOT: yer gear rides too.

Full Broadside

Everything on the table. No mercy, no take-backs.

Both ready? Sign the Final Articles and the harbormaster escrows the gold. The winner takes the pot minus his 10% cut, burned to keep the bay's economy honest. Gear duels hand each fighter one golden apple and one pearl: no totems, no second chances. Five minutes without a winner means a draw and a full refund. And fleeing the fight? That forfeits everything, coward.

  • stake up to $2500
  • 10% to the harbormaster
  • 1 gapple · 1 pearl · no totems
  • fleeing forfeits all
Top-down chart of the jungle duel arena
The jungle ring, charted from the crow's nest.
The Parley board in Full Broadside state: LOOT toggle thrown, $2500 staked, one captain ready
The full Broadside: LOOT toggle thrown, $2500 on the plank, one captain already ready.
The Parley board in Friendly Bout state: stakes off, the plank reads HONOR
Friendly Bout: stakes off, the plank reads honor.
The Parley board in Purse Duel state: $500 staked, both captains unready
Purse Duel: $500 a side on the table.
The Final Articles signing screen: sign or decline, fleeing forfeits all
The Final Articles: sign, or walk away.

The bay is open.

Java & Bedrock, version 1.21 and up. Copy the address, draw yer cutlass, and mind yer hearts.

Vote for scrolls o' loot The Bay's Finest

/hearts/crew/pit/duel/spawn

When ye first join, say yes to the Shulkerbay UI pack prompt: it's the pirate interface in the screenshots above, free for every sailor.