# Timed Flight

**🪽 FLIGHT IS BORROWED TIME** Timed flight lets eligible survivors leave the ground while their stored flight balance lasts. The sky is temporarily negotiable. Gravity is not.

Use `/tempfly`, `/tfly`, or `/tf`. All three names open the same feature. --- ## Quick start 1. Check your remaining balance with `/tf time`. 2. Stand somewhere that will remain survivable if flight stops. 3. Run `/tf` to enable flight. 4. Run `/tf` again to disable it, or use `/tf on` and `/tf off` explicitly. 5. Land before the meter reaches zero. The ground has no grace period.

**Do not activate flight as an emergency afterthought.** No balance, a combat tag, a restricted area, or the height limit can prevent it from starting.

--- ## Player commands
CommandWhat it does
`/tf`Toggles timed flight on or off.
`/tf on`Enables timed flight when you have time and no active restriction.
`/tf off`Disables timed flight without spending the remaining balance.
`/tf time`Shows your stored flight time.
`/tf help`Shows the commands currently available to your role.
`/tf pay Transfers flight time when your role has transfer permission.
`/tf trails`Opens particle-trail selection when your rank includes it.
Transfer amounts accept time units such as seconds, minutes, hours, and days. Access is permission-dependent; if `/tf pay` is unavailable, the command is not part of your current role. --- ## When the meter runs Your balance counts down during active timed flight. Under the current server settings: - Time **does not drain while you are standing on the ground**, even if flight remains enabled. - Time **does not drain while you are idle**. The idle threshold is five minutes. - Going idle in the air does not deliberately drop you, but remaining suspended is still a poor substitute for logging out safely. - Stored flight time does not decay while you are offline. - There is currently no global maximum stored balance. The action bar displays the live flight meter. Warning titles appear with **30 seconds**, **15 seconds**, and **5 seconds** remaining.

**At zero, flight ends and fall damage is enabled.** The timer is a countdown, not an estimate and certainly not a parachute.

--- ## Height, regions, and automatic return Timed flight has a maximum altitude of **Y 275**. Reaching the ceiling disables flight. Descend well before the limit rather than arriving there with momentum and theological questions. World or WorldGuard restrictions can also suspend flight. When a temporary restriction clears, the system is configured to restore enabled flight automatically when possible. Do not rely on that restoration to catch a fall; carry a mundane backup plan. --- ## Combat restrictions Timed flight is disabled when you: - Attack another player. - Are attacked by another player. The PvP flight lock lasts **10 seconds**. Fall damage remains active when combat disables flight. Ordinary attacks involving mobs do not currently trigger the TempFly combat lock, although the mob may have its own views on aviation.

**Flight is not a combat escape.** PvP still requires consent, and combat-tagged flight shutdown is intentionally capable of making altitude somebody else's problem—briefly, before it becomes yours.

--- ## Receiving and keeping flight time Flight time is stored on your player account. Receiving additional time while your balance is empty does **not** automatically launch you; enable it with `/tf` when you are ready. New players receive a small first-join flight allowance. Other grants depend on current ranks, rewards, events, or staff actions. Use `/tf time` rather than assuming an advertised or historical reward is still active. ### Particle trails Ranks with trail access can use `/tf trails` to choose from their permitted particles. Trails are cosmetic and identify active flight; they do not change speed, balance use, or the severity of the landing. --- ## Troubleshooting ### “You have no more flight time” Your stored balance is empty. Confirm with `/tf time`. Flight cannot be enabled until more time is added. ### “You are currently combat tagged” Wait at least 10 seconds after the last player attack. Find solid ground first; the combat lock is not interested in how architecturally inconvenient this is. ### “Flight is disabled in this region/world” Leave the restricted area safely. Flight may restore automatically after the restriction clears if it was still enabled. ### “Y 275 is the maximum altitude” Descend below the ceiling. Flight is disabled at the configured maximum height. ### The timer is not decreasing If you are grounded or considered idle, this is expected. The meter drains during active airborne use. ### The command says I lack permission Your rank may allow basic flight but not transfers, trails, speed controls, or other subcommands. Use `/tf help` to see the useful surface available to you. > ☣ **Final flight check:** watch the meter, respect Y 275, avoid combat, and keep blocks, rockets, slow falling, water, or a landing route available. The server lends you the sky one second at a time and repossesses it without sentiment.