Tute

Tute for Minecraft

Play real Spanish Tute — the classic 4-player, fixed-partnership
trick-taking game — right inside Minecraft. Craft a table, sit down with
friends or bots, and play full hands with trumps, marriages, and the
instant-win Tute call, all with server-authoritative rules so nobody can
peek at hands they shouldn’t see.

How to play in the mod

• Craft a Baraja Española (Spanish deck): 3 paper + red dye + yellow
  dye, shapeless — same recipe as the other mods in this collection.
• Craft a Mesa de Tute (Tute Table) with the deck in the center,
  planks on the sides, and sticks in the bottom corners, around 2 blocks
  of the table’s signature blue cloth.
• Right-click the table to sit down. Up to 4 players, always in fixed
  partnerships: the two players across from each other (seats 0+2) play
  as a team against the other two (seats 1+3) — Tute is a partnership
  game, not every-player-for-themselves.
• Empty seats are filled by bots (drawn from the same cast as the other
  mods — Old Joe, Big Rita, Miss Edna, and friends). Anyone can take over
  a bot’s seat mid-game, and if a player leaves or disconnects, a bot
  steps back in automatically.
• When it’s your turn and you don’t have the table open, you’ll get an
  action-bar nudge.
• Right-clicking with the deck in hand draws a random card — a small
  touch shared by every mod in this collection.
• All 10 cards are dealt at once (no draw pile): the last card dealt sets
  the trump suit. From the very first trick you must follow suit, beat
  the card if you can, trump in if you’re void, and overtrump a trump
  already played if you’re able to — the table only lets you click
  legal cards, highlighted in gold.
• The moment you win a trick, you can declare a marriage: "las
  cuarenta" (40 points, King + Knight of trumps) or "las veinte" (20
  points, King + Knight of any other suit). Collect all four Kings or all
  four Knights and you can call ¡Tute! — an instant win that ends the
  hand and the game on the spot.

Rules it implements

Based on pagat.com’s description of Partnership Tute (4 players, two
fixed teams), using the standard 40-card Spanish deck (no 8s or 9s).

• Deal: 10 cards per player, dealt all at once — no draw phase. The last
  card dealt to the dealer fixes the trump suit for the hand.
• Follow/beat/trump/overtrump obligations apply starting from the very
  first trick (this is the partnership variant; the well-known "mandatory
  play only kicks in for the last 10 cards" rule belongs to individual
  Tute, played with a draw pile for 2–3 players, which this mod does not
  implement).
• Card points: Ace 11, Three 10, King 4, Knight (Caballo) 3, Jack (Sota)
  2, everything else 0. Winning the last trick of the hand adds a 10-point
  bonus, tracked separately from card points in the on-screen breakdown.
• Marriages ("cantes"): King + Knight of the same suit, shown the instant
  you win a trick. Trump marriage is worth 40, any other suit is worth
  20 — and a trump marriage must be declared before a non-trump one if a
  player holds both.
• Tute: holding all four Kings or all four Knights can be declared on
  your turn and immediately wins the hand (and, in this implementation,
  the game).
• Simplified from the physical game: no betting/doubling variants, and
  the game only supports the 4-player partnership form — not the 2–3
  player individual version with a draw pile.

Pending / ideas

• No persistent save: games live only in server memory, same as the rest
  of this collection.
• No in-block card rendering on the table yet.
• A shared Spanish-deck library across all four mods (Carta/Baraja/
  Palo + art) is now arguably overdue with four mods sharing it
  verbatim, but deliberately postponed until there’s more perspective on
  what’s actually worth sharing.