> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://wiki.pokeclash.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://wiki.pokeclash.com/features/teams.md). # Teams Teams let players band together under a shared name, tag, and bank. Build up a shared war record, buy team upgrades and store items with team currency, and manage who can do what with a full rank and permission system. ### Creating a Team 1. Choose a name (3–24 characters, letters/numbers/underscores only, must contain at least one letter) and a tag (2–6 characters, shown alongside your name). 2. Pay the creation cost. It's intentionally steep: teams are meant to represent a real time investment, not something thrown together in an afternoon. Grouping up with a few other players to cover the cost together is common and expected. 3. You're automatically placed as the team's Leader with full control. Team creation has a per-player cooldown, and names/tags can't reuse one still active on another team. ### Joining an Existing Team Browse active teams, check their member count and MOTD, and apply directly from the list — or get invited by a member. If accepted, an entry fee is charged when your join request is approved — each team sets its own fee. Leaving a team you lead requires handing off leadership first unless you're the only member, in which case leaving auto-disbands the team. ### The Team Menu * **Overview** – your team's summary: name, tag, status, and member count. * **Members** – view and manage who's on the team; invite online players directly. * **Ranks** – view, edit, and create ranks and their permissions. * **Settings** – Team Icon, MOTD, Rename Team, Application Questions, Team Color, and a Team Chat Toggle. * **Bank** – the team's shared MONEY treasury; deposit, withdraw, and view recent activity (deposits, withdrawals, entry fees, taxes). * **Store** – spend team POINTS or MONEY on items; purchases are delivered straight to your own inventory. * **Upgrades** – spend team currency to raise team limits, such as the member cap. * **Warps** – set, manage, and teleport to team warp points. * **War** – queue or challenge for a war, check your war status, and view your Team Record and the Leaderboard. * **Applications** – review pending join requests. * **Browse** – search and sort through active public teams. ### Ranks & Permissions Every team starts with four ranks. Leaders can go well beyond that default set — creating custom ranks and adjusting exactly what each one can do — from the Ranks menu. The table below is the default starting point, not a hard limit. | Rank | Priority | Can do | | ------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Leader | Highest | Everything — including transferring leadership and disbanding the team | | Officer | High | Invite/kick/promote members, edit the MOTD, review applications, manage the bank and warps, queue and accept wars | | Member | Standard | Deposit to the bank, use warps | | Recruit | Starting rank | Use warps | The Leader rank and whichever rank new members join into can't be deleted. ### Team Bank The Bank holds a shared MONEY treasury. Deposit and withdraw funds, and check Recent Activity for a running log of deposits, withdrawals, entry fees collected from new members, and any taxes applied. Teams that fall behind on taxes can end up **tax-defaulted / frozen** — making a deposit automatically clears that state, so keeping some balance in the treasury matters beyond just spending power. Each team also sets its own join entry fee rather than it being a fixed server-wide amount. ### Team Store Spend team POINTS or MONEY on a rotating range of items — everything from useful battle items to high-value materials — delivered directly to your inventory the moment you buy. ### Team Upgrades Spend team currency to unlock team-wide upgrades, including raising your member cap tier by tier as your team grows. ### Wars Fight another team either by directly challenging them or by queueing for matchmaking — wars are fought out as Pokémon battles. Any online member can volunteer to battle for their team each round; a team doesn't need a minimum number of players online to fight, and larger teams can split battles across more members. Before a team can queue or challenge, it needs a **war arena set** — three position slots (two player spots and a spectator spot) all have to be saved first. * Winning a war earns your team **12 points**; losing costs **3 points** — a loss stings a lot less than a win pays off. * Forfeiting a war part-way through applies a penalty rather than just walking away clean. * Teams can fight up to **5 wars per day**, with a **4-hour cooldown** before facing the same opponent again — enough room for active teams to stay busy without it turning into a farmable grind. * Track your record (and any individual player's) under This Week and Lifetime win/loss and war-points totals, and see how your team stacks up on the Leaderboard. ### Guild Missions A rotating board of team-wide objectives that tracks itself automatically — no unlocking or activating, just play and watch the progress fill in. Check your board with `/teams missions`. * Up to 3 daily missions and 2 weekly missions can be live at once, each with its own Team Point reward — current missions are **Daily Catch** and **Battle Ready** (daily), plus **Evolution Rush** and **Shiny Hunters** (weekly). * Missions reset automatically on their own daily/weekly schedule. Missions live outside the `/teams` menu for now too — `/teams missions` is the way to check them. ### Contracts Contracts are big, one-off objectives your whole team works toward together — a large-scale Pokémon-catching drive, a run of battle wins, or an evolution push — that pay out a solid chunk of Team Points once completed. * Open your team's contract board with `/teams contracts unlock` (500 Team Points). * Activate a contract with `/teams contracts activate ` — current contracts are `bulk_capture` (Population Drive), `battle_gauntlet` (War Games), and `evolution_program` (Evolution Program). * Check your board and progress anytime with `/teams contracts`. Contracts are command-only right now — there's no Contracts tab in the `/teams` menu yet. ### Warps Every team gets one team HQ (set with `/teams sethome`, everyone with warp access can return to it with `/teams home`), plus any number of additional named warps your team sets up, renames, or removes as needed. ### Team Settings From here, Leaders (or anyone with the right permission) can set a custom Team Icon, write an MOTD, rename the team, customize the questions asked of applicants, pick your team's chat-tag color, and toggle whether their own regular chat routes to team chat by default. **Team Color** – Choose the color of your team's \[TAG] prefix in chat from a palette of 26 colors (the 16 standard Minecraft colors plus 10 brand colors). Pick it either by clicking through the palette in Settings → Team Color, or with `/teams color ` / `/teams color clear` to reset back to the default aqua. Like the rest of Team Settings, this is limited to Leaders (or anyone with the right permission). ### Commands Most team actions can be done from the Team Menu GUI, but here are the commands you'll use most: * `/teams` – open the Team Menu * `/teams help [page]` – open the in-game help book for the full command list * `/teams create ` – found a new team * `/teams invite ` / `/teams accept` / `/teams decline` – invite a player and respond to invites * `/teams apply ` – apply to join a team * `/teams leave` – leave your current team * `/teams kick ` – remove a member * `/teams list` – browse active teams * `/teams bank deposit ` / `/teams bank withdraw ` – manage the team bank * `/teams points` – check your team's points balance * `/teams shop` – open the Team Store * `/teams home` / `/teams warp ` – teleport to your team's HQ or a saved warp * `/teams war queue` / `/teams war challenge ` – start a war * `/teams war fight` – battle when it's your turn * `/teams war status` – check your team's current war state * `/teams chat` – toggle team chat on/off * `/teams color ` / `/teams color clear` – set or reset your team's \[TAG] color * `/teams missions` – view your team's guild missions board * `/teams contracts` – view your team's contract board * `/teams contracts unlock` – open the contract board (500 Team Points) * `/teams contracts activate ` – activate a contract Need something not listed here? Run `/teams help` in-game for the complete reference.