Your Shatter Totem
Your totem is the one thing on BSP you cannot replace. Here is how to use it, and how to keep it.
Carry it or place it
Your Shatter Totem does different things depending on where it is.
| Where it is | What it does |
|---|---|
| In your offhand | Gives you its Carried powers: damage, resistance, speed, extra hearts and more. |
| Placed in the world | Projects its Base powers in a cube around it: tougher walls, an alarm, healing, no hostile mobs and more. |
Most players build their base around the placed totem and pick it up only when they need its Carried powers. The totem panel's AURAS switch shows or hides the cube its powers cover, so you can build right up to the edge.
Upgrading it
Right-click your placed totem, or right-click with it in your hand, to open its upgrade tree.
- Five tiers, I to V. Each tier has its own Shatter Coin: Copper, Gold, Diamond, Netherite and Illyrium.
- Raising a tier costs coins of the tier you are leaving, plus XP levels. Each new tier opens new upgrades and two more levels on the ones you have.
- Powers sit on paths. The next power on a path opens when the one before it reaches level 2.
- Carried powers are paid in XP. Base and Raid powers are paid in Shatter Coins.
Upgrades belong to the totem, not to you. If it is stolen, the thief gets every upgrade on it. Every power is listed in Powers.
Where to keep it
NOTHING MAKES A TOTEM SAFE Anyone who reaches your placed totem can stand beside it for five minutes (by default) and walk off with it. No block, power or trick stops that. What you can do is make it slow, painful and loud to get there.
- Hide it deep and wall it in. The longer a raider spends digging, the longer you have to get there.
- It cannot go in storage. Put it in a chest, a backpack or a storage system and it comes straight back out.
- Log out at home. When you log out carrying your totem, it is placed where you stand (on a server where totems cannot be placed, it goes back to your last spot on one that allows them). If it is still there, untouched, when you log back in on that server, it comes back to you. So log out inside your base, not in the open.
- Dying to another player while you carry it places it where you fell. A totem dropped on the ground places itself after a short while.
When someone tries to steal it
The moment anyone starts a steal, you are warned, wherever you are on the network. With the Herald power your totem also messages you on Discord, even when you are offline: see Discord warnings. The thief has to stay close to the totem until the timer runs out. The steal is cancelled if the thief is killed, or strays too far for too long.
So get there and fight. The Recall power (Tier V) offers to bring you back beside your totem while it is being stolen. Other teleports cannot land you within 150 blocks of it (by default), so nobody can flood a raid with a quick /home.
Letting friends in
Your placed totem's ACCESS tab lets up to eight online friends pass your Alarm and Ward, use your machines, or buy upgrades for you. They still cannot pick the totem up. If you play together a lot, a team is easier: teammates get all of that automatically.
Describes BSP-Core 1.6.2, Teleport 0.2.5, RankUp 0.4.0 and Region Guard 0.6.0. Numbers are the defaults; the server's settings may differ.