Capture the Flag server

Capture the Flag server

Developer(s)	Mojang Studios
Edition(s)	Bedrock Edition
Release date	July 1, 2025
Closing date	July 4, 2025

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Capture the Flag server was a minigame event server hosted by Mojang Studios in the featured servers list. It featured a traditional capture the flag minigame, where players were able to compete with a team, capture the opposing team's flag, and defend their own. Players could also get the Flag Runner Headband redeemed for 250 gems; an in game currency that was earned by winning a game or killing a player.

Gameplay

Playing field

When players join a match, they're randomly assigned to the red or blue team. Each player starts at their team's spawn point, equipped with a bow and arrow, and have three hearts. Their main objective is to capture the opposing team's flag while defending their own, and winning the game by reaching the highest captured flag score for their team.

Players can deal one heart of damage to other opponents by shooting them with the bow. Upon killing one, they are rewarded with 5 gems. They are able to hit each other by melee attack, but doesn't deal any damage.

The hotbar is noticeably gone, but players can still select other items using the mouse scroll wheel. The player's current statistic is shown on the top right of the screen, with the icons from top to bottom showing their earned gems, kills, deaths, and captured flag score. The player's current hearts is shown above the usual hotbar placement; other players' current hearts are also shown above their usernames.

Each team's flag is located near its own spawn point. When a player captures a flag, they must return it to their own team's flag to score a point for their team. A noticeable speed decrease is applied while moving with a captured flag.

Post game

The game tracks the scores for each team after capturing a flag in the scoreboard, and displayed on the sidebar. The first team to reach the maximum score wins the match, with the winning team's players receive the highest gems reward, while the losing team gets fewer. The numbers of maximum score and gems rewarded varies depending on the map:

• Arena has 3 captured flag and 50 gems reward for the winning team, while the losing team gets 25 gems.
• Castle has 20 captured flag and 100 gems reward for the winning team, while the losing team gets 50 gems.

A post game screen is displayed, showing the player's match statistics, such as their kills, deaths, K/D ratio (kill/death ratio), flag captures, and gems earned. Players can play a new match or return to the hub from the screen.

Places

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Central Tower

Players spawn inside of a large, blackstone castle within the Crimson Ruins. Behind the spawn area is a curious installment made up of chiseled stone, crying obsidian, and froglights, with a blue parrot dancing inside. Walking down a stairway of stone brick slabs, the player can pass by large tapestries and boilers of lava, exiting out either a giant door under a stained glass window or two detours lined with nether brick floors and lanterns. Outside the castle is an NPC, the Macaw Guardian, with two written books on lecterns which tell the story of a conflict happening in the game world. When interacting with the NPC, they are able to choose from two maps: Arena and Castle.

Behind all that is a small drawbridge made of chiseled nether bricks, blackstone, and resin bricks, where a view can be seen of the towers. On a few spots of the bridge are magma blocks which can kill the player. Right of this area and left of the gate is a series of red nether brick slabs, serving as a parkour challenge. Climbing up these will lead the player up to a balcony above the spawn area, underneath the window, before leading to a narrow strip of slabs ending on a ladder.

Arena

An small map consists of the two blue and red sides opposing each other. Each side has a castle where the team's flag and spawn point are located. Players can climb on top of the castle to see the entire arena. On the front, there are pillars on each side which players can climb through the vines. The playing field has a tall tower on the center of the map. There are hallways in the edges around the playing field; they can be accessed from each team's castle, or entrances between the tall tower.

Castle

A massive map with a prominent dark stone castle stands at the map's center, with the inside hides the Volcano Heart, what it looks like leaking out lava fluids to the ground floor made out of deepslate materials. The top of the heart features slime blocks (covered by carpets) which players can bounce off from the rooftop of the dark castle. The outside walls of the dark castle being mixed of deepslate and stone bricks.

There are four Elemental Towers built around the dark castle:^{[note 1]}

• Ice tower which features cold and snowy environment, with multiple tall, slender towers and spires and a tower with a large, arched doorway. It is built with snow blocks, light concretes, prismarines, and other blocks with various shades of light blue, white, and a greenish-teal, giving it a very cool and pristine appearance. It is used as the blue team's spawn point, as well the team's flag.
• Nether tower which features hell-like environment, with numerous tall, huge crimson fungus that are scattered across the landscape. The primary entrance to the tower is framed by nether bricks and has glowing shroomlights, leading into the base with invasive warped and crimson fungus. It is used as the red team's spawn point, as well the team's flag.
• Desert tower which features sandy terrain, with multiple cactus and dry grasses spreading the landscape. There is a savanna area with a pond which resembles an oasis. The tower primarily made of sandstones and many of its variants. A dried ghast can be seen near the dark castle, which shows the harsh environment of the desert.
• Bamboo tower which features green and lush environment, with variation of oak and jungle trees on the terrain. The tower looks overgrown with vines and other vegetation, with the base building primarily made of out bamboo blocks and the outside pathway to the dark castle with mud bricks.

Each of them have a bridge connecting to the fortified open-air bastion of the dark castle.

Reward

Players that earned 250 gems from playing CTF can redeem them at the Macaw Guardian to gain the Flag Runner Headband as a Character Creator item.

Name	Image		Type	Rarity
	Icon	Render
Flag Runner Headband			Headwear	Rare

Book pages

There are written books on lectern near Macaw Guardian which tell the story of "Hanging Island Tournament":

Server listing

Description

The featured servers listed Capture the Flag server with the following description:

	“	Mojang Studios needs your help! Join this Capture the Flag server and help us test our server tech. Compete with a team and be the first to capture the opposing team's flag while defending your own!	„
		— Mojang Studios on the server's description

Activities

The Flag Runner Headband was listed as the reward in the server's activities:

	“	Unlock the Flag Runner Headband Test a feature and earn a reward! Play Capture the Flag and earn gems to unlock the Character Creator item Flag Runner Headband	„
		— Mojang Studios on the server's activity

Trivia

• The "Flag Runner Headband" was originally called "Faster than Lightning" before being renamed.
• The spawn hub uses the same map as Castle being in the nighttime; the Central Tower where the player spawn can be seen on the background behind the ice tower.
  • There is text word on the sky written "MADE WITH EDITOR", which suggests the map is made with Bedrock Editor.
  • Players can go out of bound from the Crimson Ruins by jumping at the top right corner of the bridge near the Macaw Guardian. This makes the entire Castle map accessible in the nighttime.

Gallery

Central Tower

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  Text word on the nighttime sky written "MADE WITH EDITOR"
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  A player using emote on the bridge
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  Players going out of bound
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  A Mojang employee wearing the Mojang Studios cape
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  The Crimson Ruins hallway
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  Macaw Guardian NPC

Arena

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  Arena map
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  Steve holding the red team's Flag

Castle

Dark castle

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  A light brimming from the top of the dark castle
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  Inside the dark castle
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  The Volcano Heart inside the dark castle

Ice tower

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  The ice tower captured from the desert tower with the Central Tower seen on the background.
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  A player capturing a flag.
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  The dark castle's entrance from the ice tower.
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  The blue team's flag position in the ice tower ground floor.
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  Ice castle arched doorway.

Nether tower

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  Nether tower
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  A bridge connecting to the nether tower
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  Inside the nether tower on the ground floor
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  The crimson fungus scattered outside the nether tower.

Desert tower

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  The pillars holding the bridge connecting the desert tower to the dark castle.
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  Dried ghast near the dark castle and outside the desert environment.

Bamboo tower

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  Outside of the bamboo tower.
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  Bridge leading to the bamboo tower
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  A bridge connecting between ice and bamboo towers.

Notes

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