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Contract scrolls

There is a lectern at spawn with a label over it: Contract Board. Right-click it and a sealed scroll lands in your hand with another player's name on it. Walk it to them and you get paid. They open it, find a task inside, do the task, get a reward — and get the next sealed scroll to carry to someone else. That is the whole game. Nobody has to play, and saying no costs nothing.

Carrying a scroll

1. Pick one up. Right-click the board. Hover over the scroll: it shows who it is for, the meeting spot, your pay and how long you have. The meeting spot is where that player was standing when the scroll was made — they have been told you are coming.
2. Walk there. Your compass points at the spot, and a bar above your hotbar tells you how far and which way: ➜ 340 blocks north-east · Mia · 1 h 20 min. No /tpa, /home, /warp, /spawn or /back while you carry it — the trip is the point. Boats, horses, minecarts, portals, ender pearls and gliding are all fine.
3. Hand it over. When you are within 16 blocks the bar says You're here! and chimes. Right-click the player. You are paid on the spot: 3 to 12 levels and 5 to 20 Chronicle XP depending on how far you walked, with extra for crossing into another dimension.
4. Nobody there? Right-click the ground at the spot to leave the scroll for them. You are still paid in full. They have 24 hours to stand there and run /contracts collect.

You have two hours to deliver, plus an hour for every 2,000 blocks. Don't leave the scroll in a chest or on the ground for more than ten minutes — it goes back to the board and you are not paid. If you die, it goes to your death chest like everything else, and the same ten minutes apply.

Getting a scroll

1. Someone hands you a sealed scroll and it opens. Hover over it to read the task and the exact reward.
2. Right-click to sign it. Don't want it? Right-click the board with it instead and it goes back into the pool.
3. Do the task. The scroll's name counts up as you go: Contract: Fish 12 cod (7/12). You have days, not minutes.
4. Hand in. When the scroll says Done!, right-click it. You get the reward, and a new sealed scroll for someone else lands in your hand. Off you go.

Seal colours

The wax on the seal tells you how hard the task inside is — the task itself stays hidden until it is delivered.

• Grey — easy. 3 levels and 10 Chronicle XP, plus iron, gold, bottles o' enchanting or a Simple enchant book.
• Green — medium. 6 levels and 20 Chronicle XP, plus shulker shells, netherite or a Unique enchant book.
• Purple — hard. 10 levels and 40 Chronicle XP, plus echo shards, totems or an Ultimate book.
• Gold — weekly. 20 levels and 100 Chronicle XP, plus enchanted golden apples, a beacon, a shulker box of shells or a Legendary book.

Your first two hours on the server are all grey seals. Green shows up after that, purple after a full day of playtime, gold later still. Complete at least one contract a day for seven days in a row and you get 8 shulker shells on top.

Commands

/contracts shows what you are holding and where to meet. /contracts help repeats the rules in six lines. /contracts board tells you where the board is (no teleport — couriers walk). /contracts collect picks up a scroll left for you, standing at its meeting spot.

Same notes on the player wiki: wiki.architectmc.club/contracts.