[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":196},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog:the-private-server":3},[4,12,17,21,31,36,40,44,48,53,57,61,65,69,74,78,82,86,91,100,126,140,149,154,158,163,167,171,176,185,187],{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":7,"spans":8},"heading",2,"right-this-one-s-free",[9],{"kind":10,"text":11},"text","Right, this one's free",{"kind":13,"spans":14},"paragraph",[15],{"kind":10,"text":16},"Phantom has its own Animal Jam Classic server now, and you can play on it for nothing. I know, I'm as surprised as you are.",{"kind":13,"spans":18},[19],{"kind":10,"text":20},"Properly free, as well. There's no trial, nothing switches off after a week, and nobody's going to pop up halfway across Jamaa Township asking for your card details.",{"kind":13,"spans":22},[23,25,29],{"kind":10,"text":24},"All you need is a free Phantom account. You don't need an Animal Jam account, and Phantom will never ask for your Animal Jam password. Grab Phantom from the ",{"kind":26,"text":27,"href":28},"link","download page","\u002Fprivate-server#get",{"kind":10,"text":30},", sign in, press Play free, and off you pop.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":32,"spans":33},"hang-on-what-actually-is-it",[34],{"kind":10,"text":35},"Hang on, what actually is it",{"kind":13,"spans":37},[38],{"kind":10,"text":39},"It's Animal Jam's own game, the real one, fetched from Animal Jam every time you play. The only difference is that it talks to our server instead of theirs. So it looks right and it feels right, because it's the same game with a different landlord.",{"kind":13,"spans":41},[42],{"kind":10,"text":43},"The world, the players and the rules are ours. Animal Jam and WildWorks have nothing to do with it, so please don't go and moan at them when your pet does something odd. Moan at me.",{"kind":13,"spans":45},[46],{"kind":10,"text":47},"It's a fresh world, so nothing from your Animal Jam account comes with you. Everyone starts in the same empty den and makes their first animal in the game's own creator. Very fair. Very bare walls.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":49,"spans":50},"what-works",[51],{"kind":10,"text":52},"What works",{"kind":13,"spans":54},[55],{"kind":10,"text":56},"Truth be told, this has been in the works for a good while. Most of it was sat in a folder doing nothing, because I never got round to putting it in Phantom. Then I got the bug again, so here we are, and there's a fair bit of it.",{"kind":13,"spans":58},[59],{"kind":10,"text":60},"You can walk round every room, chat, dance and emote at people. You can make animals, dress them up, colour them in and swap between them. Dens work, so you can decorate, shove the furniture about and open a den shop to flog things to other players. The shops are open for gems and diamonds, and buddies work too, so you can see who's on and pop round theirs.",{"kind":13,"spans":62},[63],{"kind":10,"text":64},"Pets are in. Adopt one, give it a name, and it'll follow you about like it owes you money. You can take one out on land or in the ocean, buy one off someone's den shop, or get an egg and wait three days for it to hatch, which is roughly how long it takes me to answer a message.",{"kind":13,"spans":66},[67],{"kind":10,"text":68},"The party button does something now as well. There's a schedule of parties through the day, and if you're a member you can host your own for a diamond, in the room you like with the music you like. Rooms get done up for the time of year too, so expect Jamaalidays tinsel come December.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":70,"spans":71},"the-mod-menu-yes-you-get-one",[72],{"kind":10,"text":73},"The mod menu (yes, you get one)",{"kind":13,"spans":75},[76],{"kind":10,"text":77},"This is my favourite bit. Go to Settings, then Phantom private server, and there's a mod menu. Not a staff one. Yours. Everyone on the server gets it.",{"kind":13,"spans":79},[80],{"kind":10,"text":81},"You can spawn any clothing, den item or pet in the game, in whatever colour takes your fancy, and each one has a picture, so you're not trying to work out what a \"Rare Glove\" looks like from the name alone. You can set your own gems and diamonds, turn membership on and off, add animals, and jump straight to any room without all that tedious walking.",{"kind":13,"spans":83},[84],{"kind":10,"text":85},"Before anyone gets ideas, it only ever changes your own account on the private server. It can't touch anyone else's, and it goes nowhere near Animal Jam's actual servers.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":87,"spans":88},"typing-things-with-a-in-front",[89],{"kind":10,"text":90},"Typing things with a ! in front",{"kind":13,"spans":92},[93,95,98],{"kind":10,"text":94},"There are chat commands as well. Put a ",{"kind":96,"text":97},"code","!",{"kind":10,"text":99}," at the start and the server does things for you.",{"kind":13,"spans":101},[102,104,106,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124],{"kind":96,"text":103},"!go sarepia",{"kind":10,"text":105}," gets you to Sarepia Woods without the walk, and ",{"kind":96,"text":107},"!go list",{"kind":10,"text":109}," tells you where else you can go. ",{"kind":96,"text":111},"!outfit save beach",{"kind":10,"text":113}," remembers what you've got on, and ",{"kind":96,"text":115},"!outfit wear beach",{"kind":10,"text":117}," puts it all back once you've changed your mind for the fourth time. ",{"kind":96,"text":119},"!den save cosy",{"kind":10,"text":121}," and ",{"kind":96,"text":123},"!den load cosy",{"kind":10,"text":125}," do the same for your whole den, which is lovely right up until you realise you've saved over the good one.",{"kind":13,"spans":127},[128,130,132,134,136,138],{"kind":96,"text":129},"!online",{"kind":10,"text":131}," shows which buddies are about, and ",{"kind":96,"text":133},"!w",{"kind":10,"text":135}," lets you whisper to one. Then there's ",{"kind":96,"text":137},"!become liza",{"kind":10,"text":139},", which turns you into Liza's panda for a bit. Your own name stays on top, mind, so nobody's going to believe the real Liza has started hanging round the Diamond Shop.",{"kind":13,"spans":141},[142,144,147],{"kind":10,"text":143},"Nobody else sees you type a command, and the answer only comes back to you. The full list is on the ",{"kind":26,"text":145,"href":146},"commands page","\u002Fprivate-server\u002Fcommands",{"kind":10,"text":148},".",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":150,"spans":151},"phantom-s-bits-come-along-too",[152],{"kind":10,"text":153},"Phantom's bits come along too",{"kind":13,"spans":155},[156],{"kind":10,"text":157},"Phantom HD and the smooth camera are free on the private server, so it all looks nice and crisp. Most of Phantom's built in features work there too, like teleporting, the room browser and tidier chat. The Phantom Lobby and picking several things to trade at once still come with a plan, as does everything Phantom does on Animal Jam's own servers. A man's got to eat.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":159,"spans":160},"the-serious-bit",[161],{"kind":10,"text":162},"The serious bit",{"kind":13,"spans":164},[165],{"kind":10,"text":166},"Most people who play Animal Jam are kids, so I've taken this part properly seriously.",{"kind":13,"spans":168},[169],{"kind":10,"text":170},"Chat is typed freely, like the real game's open chat, and every line gets logged for moderation. There's a filter that stops phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, links and invites to other apps before anyone else sees them, and it couldn't care less how creatively you spell them. Anyone can report or block another player from inside the game, and when someone's reported, the last 30 lines said in that room go along with it. Our staff can mute, kick and ban across every server at once, and everything they do gets written down.",{"kind":5,"level":6,"id":172,"spans":173},"what-s-next",[174],{"kind":10,"text":175},"What's next",{"kind":13,"spans":177},[178,180,183],{"kind":10,"text":179},"Trading, minigames and adventures are the big ones still to do. I'll shout about them here when they're ready, and the ",{"kind":26,"text":181,"href":182},"private server page","\u002Fprivate-server",{"kind":10,"text":184}," always says what works right now.",{"kind":186},"rule",{"kind":13,"spans":188},[189,191,194],{"kind":10,"text":190},"Something will be broken. Something is always broken. When you find it, come and tell me in the ",{"kind":26,"text":192,"href":193},"Discord","https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.gg\u002Frvu5wjuxvt",{"kind":10,"text":195}," and I'll pretend I knew all along. See you in Jamaa.",1793064271136]