Glossary
Plain-language definitions for the strategy, practice, and release terms used throughout Learn Draftout.
- Abandon condition
- A fact decided in advance that tells you when a route is no longer worth continuing.
- Bait goal
- A goal that looks convenient alone but pulls time or travel away from a stronger group of goals.
- Board
- The shared set of goals available in a match. Competitive uses a 5×5 grid; Quick Play uses a 4×4 grid.
- Context
- Information from the actual seed and match state: nearby structures, terrain, resources, and opponent claims.
- Goal
- One task on the shared board. Once claimed, it cannot also score for the opponent in lockout play.
- Lockout
- A format where completing a goal removes it from the other player's available score.
- Overlap
- Work that helps more than one goal: shared travel, tools, ingredients, structures, or information.
- Pivot
- A deliberate change from the current route after new information changes what is efficient.
- Practice datapack
- A zip placed in a world's datapacks folder to add a focused trainer or utility.
- Practice world
- A complete Minecraft save built around repeated drills and fast resets.
- Route
- A group of goals that become cheaper together because they share part of the work.
- Route family
- A broad sorting bucket such as village, cave, surface, or Nether used to find overlap quickly.
- Search pattern
- The short recipe-book query used to surface a target craft. In this reference, an underscore represents Space.
- Verified
- A release label meaning the downloadable artifact was checked in the Minecraft version named on its page.
Release labels
- Verified
- Tested in the Minecraft version named on the page.
- Utility
- A small helper rather than a complete practice world; its scope is listed explicitly.
- Validation pending
- A current build exists, but fresh checks for that exact output are not complete.
- Packaging pending
- Validated locally, but the clean public archive is not ready yet.
- Version note
- Behavior or installation details may differ in another Minecraft or Draftout release.