Run or Die

How to Play

Click the green “Click here to begin!” sign to open the settings menu. Choose a 1-, 5-, 10-, or 30-minute round and customize the modifiers.

The countdown appears at the top of the screen. After the race, results appear in chat, and the sidebar tracks each player’s Wins and Loses. Winners receive a victory title, colorful fireworks, and a celebration sound. Losing players receive their own title and sound.

Game Modifiers

PVP: ON allows players to fight; OFF prevents normal player combat.

Random Items: Gives every participant a random Minecraft item every 10 seconds.

Artifacts: Enables six craftable artifacts and their appearance in structure chests.

Show Distance: Displays participant names and their distances above the hotbar.

Six Powerful Artifacts

Each successful activation consumes the artifact. Usage limits are shared by everyone for the entire round.

Artifact

Ability

Uses per Round

Teleport

Sends all other participants 75 blocks toward the current center.

6

Freeze

Freezes all other participants for 20 seconds, preventing movement, attacks, item use, and building.

5

Run

Grants the user Speed XX for 15 seconds.

4

Spawn

Returns every participant to the surface at the current center.

3

Hi

Teleports the user to the participant furthest from the current center.

2

Kill

Kills one random other participant.

2

Every artifact has its own particles and sound. Artifacts can be crafted, while village chests, shipwrecks, and mineshafts can also contain them.

Latest Features

Distant new starts: After each round, the next starting point is at least 10,000 blocks from the previous start, and its distance from the original starting point increases by at least 10,000 blocks.

Moving lobby: The start sign, all online players, and their respawn points move to the new location.

Persistent terrain: Builds, placed blocks, mined areas, and container contents remain in the old area. There is no terrain rollback or world regeneration.

Immediate round starts: Terrain saving and cleanup pauses have been removed.

Nether restrictions: Nether portals cannot take players into the Nether during a round. The previous portal setting returns afterward.

Fixed respawn points: Beds and respawn anchors cannot replace the current lobby respawn point.

Vanilla red boots: Run Artifact uses real red-dyed leather boots without requiring a resource pack. The boots activate with right-click and cannot be equipped.

Corrected PVP controls: PVP ON means combat is enabled.

Accurate results: Distance is measured horizontally from the current center with centimeter precision. Tied leaders share the victory.

Participant inventories are cleared between rounds, but the world itself keeps its history. Every new race takes you further into the world!