Couriers — Earn Big by Hauling Goods

What Is the Courier System?

Couriers are one of the best ways to earn money on CivSMP. The system pays you for hauling specific goods at specific times of day — visit the courier at spawn, see which contracts are live right now, hand over the goods, and get paid.

There are 132 unique courier contracts in rotation across the day, cycling in and out on a real-time schedule. Speed and timing matter — the rarer the contract, the bigger the payout.

There's no command for this one — you have to make the trip. Find the courier NPC at spawn and right-click them to open the board.

The courier system replaces the old Deliveries plugin and now lives inside your Player Profile, which is why your courier slots are tied to your traits.

The 3 Contract Types

Every contract falls into one of three speed tiers. Each has its own time window — the period during which it's actually available to complete.

Type	Time Window	Reward
🔵 Standard	60 minutes	Modest
🔴 Express	10 minutes	Better
🟡 Lightning	1 minute	Massive

If you see a Lightning contract on the board — drop everything and run it. They're rare, they're fast, and they pay enormously.

Courier Slots

Your courier slots decide how many contracts you can have active at once. Everyone starts with a small number, and you unlock more through traits in your Player Profile.

This makes couriering a genuine progression path rather than a one-off activity: the more you invest in the relevant traits, the more contracts you can juggle in parallel, and the more you earn per hour on the road. Your current slot count is shown on the courier board when you open it.

See the Skills & Stats guide for how traits work.

How the Schedule Works

Contracts don't sit on the board waiting forever. Each one has a time window — a real-world period during which it can be completed. Open the menu and you'll only see what's live right now.

• Standard windows last 1 hour each
• Express windows last 10 minutes
• Lightning windows last just 1 minute

Windows are staggered throughout the day, so the board is constantly refreshing. Check in with the courier NPC regularly — what's available right now will be gone soon.

Cooldowns

After you complete a contract, that specific contract goes on a personal cooldown of about 11 hours for you. You can still run everything else on the board, but you'll need to wait before that exact one comes back around.

This stops anyone from camping a single high-value contract and keeps the whole server moving through the rotation.

Milestone Rewards

Every contract you finish counts toward lifetime milestones that pay out on top of your normal earnings:

Milestone	Reward
10 contracts	$20,000
25 contracts	$50,000
50 contracts	$100,000
100 contracts	$200,000
200 contracts	$500,000
500 contracts	$1,000,000
1,000 contracts	$2,000,000

That's $3,870,000 in total bonus rewards for completing the full milestone track — on top of every individual payout along the way.

Couriering in a LifeSteal World

Here's what makes couriering on CivSMP different from a normal delivery plugin: you have to survive the trip.

Spawn is safe. Everything between your base and spawn is not. You'll be moving with a full inventory of valuable goods, on a clock, along a route other players can predict — and PvP is always on.

How to not lose your cargo:

• Travel light where you can — carry the contract items and little else worth taking
• Vary your approach — don't walk the same road to spawn every single run
• Don't run Lightning contracts through a fight — the payout isn't worth the heart
• Use /backpack to keep cargo organised and fast to hand over
• Bring a guildmate on big hauls — an escort is cheaper than a lost inventory
• Log your stock at the base, not on your back — make one trip with one load

Getting killed on a courier run costs you the goods, the payout, and a heart. Plan the route.

How to Complete a Contract

1. Head to spawn and right-click the courier NPC
2. Browse the contracts currently live
3. Click one to see what items it needs
4. Make sure you have those items in your inventory
5. Click to complete — items are taken automatically
6. Money lands in your account and your counter ticks up

Tips for Maximising Your Earnings

• Check the board often — the rotation in five minutes won't be the one you're looking at now, and you can only see it at spawn
• Stockpile common items — wheat, cobble, iron, basic foods, simple mob drops. The more variety you keep, the more contracts you can fill on demand
• Prioritise Lightning contracts — the best money-per-minute on the server
• Unlock courier slots early — parallel contracts are where the income really scales
• Pair with Jobs — Farmer, Miner, and Lumberjack output feeds straight into the courier board
• Pair with Factories — passive factory output makes excellent contract stock. See the Factories guide
• Bank your payouts — you lose 10% of your carried balance on death, and on a LifeSteal server you will die

Where to Find the Courier

The courier lives at spawn, and that's the only place you can hand goods over. There is no /courier command — if you want to see the board or complete a contract, you make the trip.

That's deliberate. It means every payout involves a journey with a loaded inventory, and it means the road to spawn is one of the busiest hunting grounds on the server. Your stats, slots, and milestone progress are all shown on the board when you open it.

Use /spawn to get back quickly — just remember what you're carrying while you wait out the teleport timer.

Final Thoughts

Couriering rewards the players who plan — who keep a stocked base, watch the clock, and know a safe route to spawn. It's the most reliable income on the server for anyone willing to take the risk of moving goods in a world where everyone's armed.

The next big payday is one contract away. Get to spawn and find the courier.