Starter Work and your first earnings
Your first paid deliveries can help you get established. Check that you have unlocked the work and bring the full amount of plain materials.
Visual overview
Diagram of reported mechanics. The text retains the full conditions and settings.
Unlock and deliver
Starter Work opens after 20 verified play minutes at a Trade Counter or Job Board. Choose a task and deliver its full unit of plain materials; delivered goods are consumed. Each unit pays 25 by default, subject to funding, permissions and the shared public pay caps.
| Delivery | One unit consumes | Default pay |
|---|---|---|
| Stone delivery | 16 Cobblestone (accepted variants) | 25 |
| Timber delivery | 8 Burnable logs (accepted variants) | 25 |
| Fuel delivery | 4 Coal | 25 |
| Copper delivery | 4 copper ingots (accepted variants) | 25 |
Defaults permit 3 units per task, 2 units per hour and 300 lifetime starter pay. The work permanently closes on reaching the lifetime pay cap, 24 play hours, or 30 wall-clock days since first join, whichever closes access first. These are three separate clocks/limits.
Check a refused delivery
Confirm the unlock time, remaining task units, hour limit, lifetime total and plain matching materials. Then check shared public funding: starter earnings consume the same indexed 100/hour and 500/24 civic uptime hours public-pay allowance as market sales. An empty purse in the applicable non-minting mode can refuse pay even when the task still has units.
Starter pay is excluded from the separate server earnings-tax base. It does not bypass public-pay caps. Check your wallet and items after completing a unit; ordinary delivery is not a promise of unlimited early money.
Continue after newcomer work
Sell eligible goods at the market or take posted jobs. Use the beginner path to choose a camp or town before paying for expansion. Administrator changes are listed under starter.* in the configuration reference.
Admin & server owner reference
Exact identifiers, original fields and source locators are preserved below. These records describe the documented mod version; they are not commands to run or proof of a new gameplay test.
| Task ID | One unit consumes | Default pay |
|---|---|---|
road_stone | 16 #c:cobblestones | 25 |
timber | 8 #minecraft:logs_that_burn | 25 |
fuel | 4 minecraft:coal | 25 |
workshop_metal | 4 copper ingots in #c:ingots/copper | 25 |
Registry IDs
civic_frontier:trade_countercivic_frontier:job_board
Sources & verification
Evidence: pdf-derived. Feature status: implemented-static. Article coverage: ready.
PDF pages 6, 9-10, 57 · 05 Starter work · E09, E19-E21
Civic Frontier report, reviewed October 23, 2026. Implementation and historical tests are reported findings unless a direct catalog inspection is separately identified. Pack overrides unknown.
The wiki has not independently playtested report-derived instructions. Your server or modpack settings may change them.