🏛️claims

Quick Guide

So you've got your first house started- but how can you protect it from thieves? Dormcraft includes a land claiming system in order to do just that. When your build is within a land claim, the server protects it from mobs, crop trampling, your roommate, and more!

To stake a claim, grab a golden shovel (you can get a new one with /claimtool) and select opposite corners of a rectangle by right-clicking. The server will respond in chat when you use a golden shovel, to remind you how it works. If you need to start again, stow the shovel for a few seconds.

The 2-dimensional area of each claim is its cost in claimblocks. Active Players earn 200 claimblocks per hour, and begin the game with 2500. When a claim is deleted, all of the claimblocks used to reserve it are refunded to its owner. Gold, diamonds, and emeralds can be exchanged for extra claimblocks at spawn.

If you want to see the borders of a claim, its area in claimblocks, or find out who owns it, right click it with a stick in hand to display claim information.

Claims can be resized just as easily by right clicking a corner glowstone block with a golden shovel. This "selects" the corner, and right clicking again elsewhere resizes the claim. The corner diagonally opposite the selection is kept in place.

Core commands

Claimblock exchange

By playing the game, you will earn 200 claimblocks each hour until you have at least 50000 total claimblocks. If you want more land, the claimblock exchange found in the throne room at /spawn can be used to swap your valuables for extra claimblocks. Gold, diamonds, and emeralds can be converted by right clicking the corresponding sign. Gold ingots are worth 3 claimblocks each. Emeralds are worth 8 claimblocks each. Diamonds are worth 16 claimblocks each.

Advanced Guide

⤷ Sharing permission with friends

⤷ Claim creation & expiry

Land claims must be a minimum width of 5 blocks, and have a minimum area of 25 blocks. Claims extend to the full world height vertically, and there is no maximum number of claims. When a claim is deleted (i.e. when it is unclaimed by the owner), all of the blocks used to purchase it are refunded to the owner. When a claim expires, no blocks are refunded to the player.

For new players, a claim is automatically created when a chest is placed. Claims of this type expire after the owner is offline for 14 days.

Unused (unchanged after the claim is made) claims expire after 14 days.

Normal claims expire after the owner is offline for 60 days.

⤷ Piston movement

Pistons can be used everywhere. Instead of checking every block moved, the zone surrounding all moved blocks is checked. As long as no part of the zone overlaps a claim with a different owner, pistons are allowed to move freely. This prevents claim destruction using flying machines or other redstone.​

⤷ Claim parameters

    Prevent theft: true
    Prevent lava dumping near other players: false
    Prevent flint and steel near other players: false
    Prevent explosions: true (blast mining still works)
    Prevent surface creeper explosions: true
    Prevent surface other explosions: true

    Protect creatures: true
    Protect buttons & switches: true
    Protect players from PvP in land claims: true
    Protect pets outside land claims: false
    Protect items dropped on death: false
    Protect horses: true
    Protect donkeys: true
    Protect llamas: true 

    Lock wooden doors: false
    Lock trap doors: true
    Lock fence gates: true
    Endermen move blocks: false
    Silverfish break blocks: false
    Creatures trample crops: false
    Rabbits eat crops: true
    Hard mode zombies break doors: false 

    Enderpearls require Accesstrust: true
    Raid triggers require Buildtrust: true
    Villager trading requires permission: true
    Commands requiring Accesstrust: /sethome, /playerwarp set
    Ravagers break blocks: false
    Fire spreads in claims: false
    Fire damages in claims: false
    Lectern reading requires Accesstrust: true

⤷ PvP combat

    Protect new players: true
    Punish combat logout: true 
    Combat cooldown seconds: 10
    Allow combat item drop: true
    Block teleport commands in PvP: true