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Arcade

Last reviewed 2026-09-26

Arcade

Minigames for when you want a break from survival, or a laugh with friends. Nothing you do in the Arcade touches your survival character: pets, jobs and skills stay put, and your inventory comes back when you leave.

How to play

The Arcade row of people in the Moonfall Castle courtyard: click one and you are in. The one at the end opens every game.
/games opens the Arcade menu from anywhere: every game, and a map picker for SkyWars and Run From The Beast.
/quickplay <game> drops you into the map where people are already waiting, so you are never in a queue on your own. Try /quickplay skywars, /quickplay beast or /quickplay tnttag.
/ba opens BlueArcade's own menu with every arena. /ba party to play with friends, /ba leave to go back to spawn.
While you wait for the countdown you stand on a lobby island. Have a look around!
/ba store for the arcade chat tags, paid in Coins. Kits, zappers and power-ups are never sold: arcade games are won by playing.
Matches pay Coins when they end: 5, 4 and 3 for the podium and 2 for playing, up to 20 Coins a day (about five matches). Rounds pay arcade XP. Achievements pay a few Coins once each, further up a ladder; the early ones are arcade XP.

The games

Game	What it is
Party Games	Eight rounds, a different mini game each time, and everyone votes on what comes next. Your scores add up across the rounds.
SkyWars	Everyone starts on their own floating island. Loot the chests, build across, and be the last one standing.
Run From The Beast	One player is the Beast. Everyone else runs for the armory at the far end of the map, gears up and fights back.
Disco Block Party	The music plays, a colour is called, and you have a few seconds to stand on it before the rest of the floor drops away.
TNT Tag	Someone has the TNT. Pass it on with a hit before it goes off. Six maps to run around.
TNT Run	Every block you step on disappears behind you. Keep moving; the last one up wins. You get a few double jumps to save yourself.
Spleef	Break the floor out from under everyone else. Last one standing wins.
Parkour	Six courses from easy to hard, timed, with checkpoints. Beat your own best or the record.

Party Games

A match is eight rounds, picked by vote from nineteen mini games:

Mini game	What you do
Race	First over the finish line wins.
Spleef	Break the floor under everyone else.
Snowball Fight	Snowballs knock people out. Most hits wins.
All Against All	Everyone fights everyone, with blocks to build cover.
One In The Chamber	A bow and one arrow. Every hit is a kill and gives the arrow back.
Traffic Light	Run on green, freeze on red, reach the goal.
Minefield	Cross the field without stepping on a mine.
Exploding Sheep	Shear the sheep before they go off.
TNT Run	The floor vanishes behind you.
TNT Tag	Pass the TNT before it explodes.
Red Alert	The floor heats up under your feet. Keep off the red.
Knockback	Knock everyone else off the map.
Fast Zone	Dash down a lane at full speed and dodge the walls.
Run From The Beast	A short round of the Beast chase.
Block Party	Find the colour before the floor falls.
Chairs	Musical chairs: when the music stops, find a seat.
Splegg	Spleef with an egg gun. Shoot the floor out from under people.
Water Well	Jump from the top and land in the water.
Bridge Race	Build your bridge to the finish faster than the rest.

SkyWars maps

Twelve maps, everyone for themselves. Chests refill after three minutes, and at five the storm closes in, so keep moving. Vote for the chest loot, your health and the time of day while you wait.

Map	Players
Acacia	up to 16
Base	up to 8
Cabins	up to 8
Capsules	up to 12
Creeper	up to 12
Enchants	up to 12
End	up to 8
Flowers	up to 12
Prismaline	up to 12
Rubik	up to 16
Ruins	up to 12
Village	up to 8

Run From The Beast maps

Ten maps, up to sixteen players each. The Beast waits in its cage for fifteen seconds, so run! The armory chests never run out, and you can set a checkpoint with the nether star and jump back to it with the ender eye.

Adventure, Beast Cave, Damned Tunnels, Florana, Island World, Levels World, Mines, Paint, Sanctuary and Villain.

TNT Tag maps

Six maps, up to sixteen players each. Every round one or more players carry the TNT: hit someone to hand it on before the timer runs out, because whoever still holds it when it goes off is out. Last one standing wins. The TNT Tag NPC, the /games menu and /quickplay tnttag all put you in the busiest map.

Map	What it is
Palace	A round courtyard with a fountain in the middle and a garden in each corner.
Badlands	A dusty crater ringed by red-rock pillars.
Snowy	Snowy hills and pines around a frozen pond.
Sequoia	Giant trees over dark stone and red brick.
Old West	A dusty main street between wooden buildings.
TNT Tag	The Party Games map: a grassy floating island.

Parkour courses

Course	Tier
Lantern Way	Easy
Tier 1 Floral Parkour	Easy
Skyglass Run	Medium
Tier 2 Desert Parkour	Medium
The Old Aqueduct	Hard
Parkour Spiral	Hard

Falling puts you back at your last checkpoint. There are no shortcuts on the generated courses; if you can see a faster line, it does not go anywhere.

Good to know

Games need at least two people except parkour, which you can run alone.
Arcade levels and achievements are their own thing: /ba stats, /ba achievements.
Chat is muted for a few seconds when a game starts so everyone can read the rules.
The Party Games, Block Party, Run From The Beast, SkyWars and TNT Tag maps come from Blueva's official BlueArcade setups. Thank you, Blueva!

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