The Camper's Guide

What is Campbound?

Campbound is a cozy Minecraft adventure and community server. You build and upgrade your own camp, explore the wilderness, fish, forage, cook, collect things, fill in your Camp Journal and grow at your own pace.

There's no need to rush. Take the scenic route.

Joining Campbound

Campbound is built for Minecraft Java Edition, versions 26.2 and lower.

1. Open Minecraft Java Edition.
2. Go to Multiplayer, then choose Add Server.
3. Paste the server address: play.campgroundmc.netCOPY
4. Save, then join. Welcome to camp!

Your first few minutes

Here's a gentle route to get you going. It's only a suggestion, not a quest you have to follow in order.

1. Get settled. Have a wander around the starting area and get a feel for Campbound.
2. Open your Camp Journal. It's one of the main ways you'll keep track of your discoveries and progress.
3. Create your camp. Every camper can have their own private patch of forest to turn into home. See Your Camp.
4. Explore. Head out to fish, forage, spot wildlife and critters, gather ingredients and find things for your Journal.
5. Come home. Back at camp you can build, cook, work on your collections and slowly make your camp your own.

Your Camp Journal

Open it any time with /journal. Your Journal records your discoveries and collections across Campbound, with sections like Fish, Bugs and Wildlife. New entries unlock as you come across them.

Acorns

Acorns are Campbound's main gameplay currency. You earn them by playing around Campbound and spend them on progression and purchases, including upgrades for your camp.

Things you'll discover later

No need to learn it all today. When you're curious, these chapters have the details:

• Your CampBuild your own 120×120 patch of forest and improve its special areas.
• FishingCatch fish at your camp and out in the wilderness.
• Foraging & CookingGather wild ingredients, learn recipes and cook what you discover.
• Camp JournalRecord the things you've found.
• BadgesEarn achievements for different parts of camp life.
• Camp PassProgress along the permanent Free Trail, with an optional Premium Trail.

Faces around camp

Campbound has a few friendly regulars who live around camp. Here's who you'll bump into, and where.

• JoeFISHERMANUsually around the fishing areas

  Campbound's resident fisherman and Mireya's other half. If Joe isn't with Mireya, there's a good chance he's somewhere near the water with a fishing rod.

• MireyaSOCIAL BUTTERFLYWandering around camp, making friends

  Campbound's resident social butterfly and Joe's other half. Mireya seems to know everyone around camp, and if she doesn't know you yet, she probably will soon.

• KamonCAMPFIRE COOKAt the Campfire

  Campbound's campfire cook, always ready for another Cookout and something warm by the fire.

• AnjaliANIMAL LOVERAt the Pet Lodge

  A devoted animal lover who helps campers meet, befriend and care for their woodland companions.

• GarettSALESMANWandering around Campbound

  A slightly sketchy salesman who somehow always has the best prices around camp, especially on seeds. Best not to ask where he gets his stock.

• TaliaTOUR GUIDEGiving tours around Campbound

  Campbound's cheerful tour guide, always ready to show new campers around and point out places worth exploring.

• KyrieCAMP STOREAt the Camp Store

  The friendly face behind the Camp Store, keeping the shelves stocked with all sorts of camper goodies.

Camp rules

Please give the server rules a read. You'll find them in-game with /rules.

Every camper gets a personal camp: a 120×120 space to turn into your own campsite. Most of it is yours to shape however you like, with cabins, tents, gardens, paths, treehouses or anything else you can dream up.

The three special areas

Every camp also has three permanent feature areas:

• Campfire, the heart of your camp
• Fishing Spot, your own private place to fish (see Fishing)
• Pet Lodge, a home base for camp companions (see Pets)

Each one has 4 levels and is upgraded on its own, so upgrading your Campfire doesn't change your Fishing Spot or Pet Lodge. When you upgrade, Campbound rebuilds that area for you.

Because Campbound looks after these areas, their blocks are protected. You can't break or place blocks inside them, but you can still use them as normal.

Camp Levels

Earning Camp XP moves your camp up through five Camp Levels. The Camp XP you earn goes to your Contributing Camp, the camp you're currently helping to grow. Each new Camp Level gives your camp more member slots.

The camp owner doesn't count towards the member limit.

Camp Levels are their own progression. Your Campfire, Fishing Spot and Pet Lodge are upgraded separately through their own Levels 1–4, and they aren't unlocked by Camp Level.

Managing your camp

/camp is where you manage everything about your camp. It's organised into:

• Visit
• Upgrades
• Progress
• Members
• Explore
• Customize
• Settings
• Invitations
• Guide
• My Camps

Camp owners manage their members, invitations and camp permissions from here.

Upgrades are paid for with Acorns, Campbound's main currency.

Camp Themes

Every camp starts with Classic Camp, the free default theme. Six theme packs can be added on top:

• Mushroom Camp
• Wildflower Camp
• Moonlit Camp
• Autumn Camp
• Honeybee Camp
• Teddy Camp

Campbound is made for wandering. Leave camp and head into the wilderness to find ingredients, fish, bugs and wildlife, and all sorts of discoveries for your Journal. Everything you find helps your progress at camp.

Wild or at camp?

• Out in the wild: wild plants to forage and the wilderness fish River Trout, Fresh Salmon and Freshwater Crayfish.
• At your camp: your Fishing Spot and its camp fish, plus everything you build, grow and cook at home.

Camp Supplies

Handy items to take on your adventures:

• Campfire Cocoa
• Trail Mix
• Lucky Pinecone
• Forager's Guide
• Fishing Permit
• Golden Hour Pass
• Camper's Toolkit
• First Aid Kit
• Shortcut Map
• Emergency Flare
• Packed Lunch
• Care Package

Details on where to find each one and exactly what it does are on the way.

Animal Charms

Animal Charms are one-use items. The Ranger's Chest has a rare chance of giving you a random one (see Crates & Keys).

• Squirrel Charm
• Frog Charm
• Bee Charm
• Fox Charm
• Bear Charm
• Raccoon Charm

Collectibles

• Wooden Nickels, a collectible you'll want to hang on to.
• Tufts of Stuffing, a collectible you can trade with other players.
• Plushies, cuddly collectibles, with a Plushie Store planned for them.

Where to next

• Cooking & Recipes for what you can forage and cook.
• Fishing for camp fish and wilderness fish.
• Camp Journal for keeping track of what you've found.

Learning recipes

Recipes are learned, not known from the start. Get hold of a recipe book or page and use it to learn its recipe. Once a recipe is learned, you can make it through the normal Minecraft crafting system.

Recipe categories

• Camper's
• Forager's Notes
• Ranger's
• Creekside
• Campfire Sweets
• Camp Drinks
• Lost Recipes

Foraging

Wild plants grow out in the wilderness (see Exploring). Here's what each one gives you:

Some plants also give you something to plant: Strawberry, Blueberry, Herb, Mint, Onion and Garlic planting materials, and Button Mushroom Spores.

The wilderness fish River Trout, Fresh Salmon and Freshwater Crayfish are cooking ingredients too (see Fishing).

There are two places to fish: your camp's Fishing Spot and the wilderness. Fishing uses a fishing minigame, with gear such as rods, bait and lures.

Camp fish

Nine fish live at camp Fishing Spots:

• Trout
• Tetra
• Sardine
• Rainbow Fish
• Piranha
• Koi
• Catfish
• Betta
• Angler

Fishing Spot levels

Your Fishing Spot's level decides which camp fish can bite. Upgrade it from Your Camp.

Wilderness fish

Out in the wild you can catch River Trout, Fresh Salmon and Freshwater Crayfish. These are wilderness fish, not Fishing Spot unlocks, and all three are used in cooking.

Gear

Better rods, bait and other gear make fishing smoother, but only within the fish your Fishing Spot already allows. No gear lets you skip a Fishing Spot level.

Your Fish Journal

The first time you catch a species, it's discovered in your Camp Journal. There are 12 to find: the 9 camp fish and the 3 wilderness fish.

Open your Camp Journal any time with /journal. It's your record of discoveries and collection progress across Campbound, and it slowly fills up as you play.

Discovery areas

• Fish
• Bugs
• Wildlife

An entry unlocks when you actually find or catch the real thing out in the world.

The Fish Journal

12 species, one card each. Betta and Koi count once each, with no separate colour variants.

• Sardine
• Tetra
• Trout
• Rainbow Fish
• Betta
• Catfish
• Koi
• Piranha
• Angler
• River Trout
• Fresh Salmon
• Freshwater Crayfish

See Fishing for where each one lives.

Your camp's Pet Lodge is one of its three special areas, with Levels 1–4 like the Campfire and Fishing Spot (see Your Camp). You'll find Anjali there, ready to help you meet and care for woodland companions.

What you'll do

• Discover creatures and work your way from first sighting to befriending them.
• Choose a pet, give it a name and grow your Bond by caring for it.
• Keep some pets active while others rest, and work towards Forever Friend.
• Dress them up with the Pet Wardrobe.
• Keep track of everything in the Field Guide.

Activities at the Lodge

• Lodge Sessions
• Snack & Sniff
• Trail & Seek
• Where'd It Go?
• Camp Course
• Ranger Requests
• Shy Visitors
• Critter Picnic

The companions

• Raccoon
• Chameleon
• Snake
• Red Panda
• Owl
• Gray Wolf
• Reindeer
• Hedgehog
• Squirrel
• Capybara
• Fennec Fox
• Frog

The Camp Pass is permanent. It's not a seasonal pass, so your progress is never wiped or reset on a schedule.

• Free Trail: rewards for everyone as you progress.
• Premium Trail: an optional, permanent upgrade for $35 with extra rewards.
• Somewhere along the Premium Trail you'll find 1 month of the Frog rank (see Ranks & Perks).

Badges are collectible achievements earned by taking part in different parts of Campbound, from fishing and cooking to helping other campers.

Badges to collect

• Journal Keeper
• Merchant
• Big Spender
• Farmhand
• Bug Enthusiast
• Gone Fishing
• Helping Hand
• Explorer
• Prospector
• Camp Cook
• Animal Friend
• Seasoned Camper
• Lucky Scout
• Plushie Collector
• Daily Reward Collector

These are supporter ranks: optional purchases that help keep the campfire burning. They aren't part of Campbound's gameplay progression, and you don't earn them by playing.

Permanent ranks

Monthly rank

Frog is $15 per month and sits separately from the permanent ranks. It's also a Premium Trail reward in the Camp Pass.

What ranks include

• Perks grow from Hedgehog to Squirrel to Capybara to Fox.
• Capybara includes /fly.
• Fox adds custom join features and tags.
• Every rank has its own cosmetic hat, and rank armor is leather dyed for that rank.
• Rank kits are filled with Campbound goodies, such as themed tools, a Camp Journal, Tufts of Stuffing and Wooden Nickels.

Buying a rank

The five crates

Daily Rewards

Keys from the Store

Keyrings

Commands

Player commands you can use:

Planned for later, and not confirmed live yet:

Questions campers ask