Introduction
Dark Gaming has one of the PvP arenas of all time.
Jokes aside, DG’s main arena is actually quite polished, with its various sections providing interesting areas to navigate around, for randoms and veterans alike.
DG’s main arena is pretty good, but did you know that there are actually several other arenas made for dueling? 7 in total, to be exact. Most of them are used in the Duel gamemode.
In this guide, I will go over the main DG arena by each of its sections, and then I will summarize each of the 7 duel arenas.
The Main Arena
Warps: /spawn, /warp leftspawn, /warp rightspawn, /warp ffaspectate
This is the main FFA arena. Like I mentioned, the design is quite solid, with a lot of areas to work with. Both ends of the arena have their own bed areas with spawn protection, which can be accessed with /warp leftspawn and /warp rightspawn.
The middle top area has an outhouse hanging from the ceiling. Entering the outhouse grants regenerative buffs, so the area is intended to be a regen spot, like a honey pool.
Speaking of honey pools, there are a total of four honey pools spread out in each of the sections of the arena. One in the top left corner, one just left of spawn, a tiny pool right of the house below spawn, and one on the bottom right corner.
Each section of the arena is used, which may seem surprising considering how big it is. All of the sections aren’t created equal, however.
The Middle
This is usually where a majority of the fighting between random players takes place. It is basically one big open area, which is ideal for those fights.
The house at the bottom is the prime camping area, but unlike the previous version of the arena, the house is much more spacious and there’s no trees surrounding it.
The Top Left
This area is the Fight Club of the DG arena. It’s where a majority of flights between novice, intermediate and veteran PvPers take place. It has everything a PvPer could ask for, that being islands to navigate around, large open areas, a decent amount of hookable rails, a honey pond a bed area, and a thin corridor for easy escapes (pictured on the bottom left).
Also included is /warp ffaspectate, a small area inside the island above the windmill island, where pvp is disabled. It’s intended to be an area where you can spectate the area where most fights happen.
You know that this is where shit goes down when you see the Bat Hook Shrine.
The Bottom Left
This area is the camper’s paradise. It’s isolated from the rest of the arena, but close enough to the top left to be a good hiding spot. There are also a lot of thin corridors and hard to get around structures.
The Top Right
In the newest iteration of the arena, there has been a lot more islands added around the bar. The honey pool is also no longer present in this area, being moved to the bottom right.
Unlike the previous version of the arena, the new top right is a lot better for fighting since since there’s a lot more areas to navigate around. There is even a thin corridor which is perfect for escapes, this time picutred on the top left.
While hard to notice, the shadowy area in the miniature cave in the top left actually has a tiny set of cart-dashable rails.
The Bottom Middle/Right
The bottom right area is the least used area in the arena. It’s not near any popular areas, and while there are cart-dashable rails and two honey pools, there isn’t much else structurally. It’s mostly used as a hiding area due to the lack of light and being far away from more populated areas.
The Top
The uppermost parts of the arena are split into two snowy areas. The one on the left is where the regeneration outhouse is, alongside a set of cart-dashable rails and asphalt. These features of the area make it great for escaping, as well as getting back into fights on the left side.
You’d think that getting from the cart-dashable rail to the left side wouldn’t work because of the rail being in the way, but whenever you land on it, you don’t get stopped by the wall, you simply slide under it, keeping most of your speed.
Old FFA
Warp: /warp oldffa
Old FFA is an old version of the FFA arena, accessible through /warp oldffa. At some unspecified time which I do not know, this FFA arena was completely reworked into the early versions of the current arena.
There are a lot of similarities between this arena and the current FFA, like the placement of the honey pools, the house below spawn and the cave below it, and the bar island at the top left corner.
Reverse
Warp: /warp reverse
Reverse is a version of the old FFA arena from before early 2023, but flipped horizontally.
Aside from the flipped arena, there isn’t much different from this than the current FFA arena, aside from cart-dashable rails, a different looking top-middle area and a smaller cave area.
Unique to this arena is that there’s actually a pvp region on it, so you don’t have to manually enable pvp.
The Duel Arenas
Duel Arena 1: Autumn
Warps: /warp duel, /warp autumn
Additional Warp: /warp duelspectate, /warp ds (Warps you inside the box in the middle)
Autumn is a very typical dueling arena with an autumn theming. It’s moderately sized, with a large open area in the middle, and some thinner corridors around the edges of the arena. All but one set of rails are cart-dashable, that being the small corridor on the left side of the giant tree.
There is one honey pool included in the arena, one which is deep enough to be used as a hiding spot. There is also a home-y box inside one of the islands, which can be used as a spectator’s bench of sorts.
Duel Arena 2: Forest
Warps: /warp duel2, /warp forest
Additional Warps: /warp duel2spectate, /warp d2s (Warps you inside the box in the middle)
Forest is very similar to Autumn. The honey pool, beds, and spectator box are in the same areas. The main difference is the structure.
The islands are placed more evenly across the arena, which means there aren’t any large open areas, and there’s more condensed areas. This arena also doesn’t have the one cart-dashable rail that Autumn has.
Duel Arena 3: Ataraxia
Warps: /warp duel3
Additional Warps: /warp duel3spectate, /warp d3s (Warps you inside the right island in the 2 islands close to eachother)
Duel 3 is a simplified arena, meaning there’s no decoration and all blocks are shadow painted.
Prior to its rework, Duel3 was a desert themed arena. Like Autumn and Forest, the general shape of the arena is similar, but there are slight differences, most notably, the large island in the middle which normally contains a honey pool on Autumn and Forest is instead split in half.
Duel Arena 4: FFA Top Right
Warps: /warp duel4
Note: Duel4 was reworked (it used to be a copy-paste of the entire FFA arena) at the same time all the other arenas were given simplified versions, so the only version of Duel4 that exists is the simplified version.
Duel4 is a carbon copy of the entire left side of the current FFA arena. It exists purely for people who are accustomed to the FFA arena and they struggle to adapt to the different layout of the other duel arenas.
Duel Arena 5: Chains
Warps: /warp duel5, /warp chains
Note: The current version of chains is the simplified decoration version.
This arena is named the way it is because of the giant chains, go figure.
This arena is only really interesting structurally. It’s quite tall height-wise, but it’s also thinner than the other arenas. Aside from that, it’s rather typical. The 2 honey pools are in corners of the map, similar to the main arena, and one of them has cartdashable rails next to them.
Duel Arena 6: Volcano
Currently has no warps.
This arena is a very gimmicky arena, made obvious by the giant volcano in the center with multiple entrances, including one in the water.
It’s arguable whether the gimmick behind this arena is good or not, considering how easy it is to camp inside the volcano, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Duel Arena 7: Water Arena
Warps: /warp duel7
This is another gimmick arena, this time the gimmick is that it’s half submerged. Unlike Volcano, I am 100% certain this gimmick sucks, considering the limited movement and inability to access your Slime Mount while in the water.
The water is also quite dark, which can make it hard to spot people and easy to hide from people. I’m pretty sure this arena isn’t included in the duel gamemode.
At least some of the decorations are neat.
Duel Arena 8: Box Arena
Warps: /warp duel8, /warp box
The Box Arena is a recently added arena. The gimmick is that it’s a Penguin Games PvP arena.
It’s an extremely simple arena, being a giant rectangle with 2 hookable rail sets. This incredibly simple layout works best for cage-match type battles, where there’s nowhere to run or hide. This does remove all the skill involved in navigating arenas, but that’s an expected drawback.
Duel Arena 9: Nugget
Warps: /warp duel9
Fans of Penguin’s Server might recognize this. It’s an (albeit simplified) copy of the FFA arena for the Penguin Games Server, but named Nugget for obvious reasons.
It is wildly different from most other arenas in terms of structure. All islands are circular, there’s a lot more of them and they’re a lot smaller, there’s only one honey pool and it’s a floating square in the center, and there’s an abundance of cart-dashable rails.
Duel Arena 10: Prison
Warps: /warp duel10, /warp prison
Prison is another recently added arena with a simplistic design. It’s entire design is rectangular, from the “islands”, to the rails, to the entire shape of the arena.
The intention for the arena was for practicing melee rushes and vertical/horizontal hook movements.
Simple Duel Arenas
Warps: /warp duelsimple, /warp duelsimplespectate, /warp duel2simple, /warp duel2simplespectate
There exists versions of Autumn and Forest (and Duel3 & Duel4) that have simplified versions. What this implies is that there is no decoration, it’s only shadow-painted blocks and there’s no background walls. These simplified version exists in order for players to duel with zero distractions.
For an example of what a simplified arena looks like, see Duel3 or Duel4.
Conclusion
Honestly, this guide really isn’t that useful, I just wanted to showcase what goes down in the ffa arena and the lesser known duel arenas. Dueling is a good way to improve, so it’s definitely a good thing to know about these arenas.
Also, if I missed any accessible arenas or warps or whether an arena was in the duel gamemode, feel free to inform me about them.