Build Sites

Build sites refer to the regions marked through use of /city plan or /plan. They are spaces allocated for community projects and as such allow multiple builders to be added and resources to be contributed from outside the build.

They can also be transferred to creative building mode, where the terrain is copied into another world where you can build in creative. Whatever is built is then used to generate a materials list, and contributing those resources will assemble the build as designed.

## Starting a Build

As of LotusCraft 4.0, build sites can be made anywhere. Depending on where will change what external approval is needed.

Special Build names are protected and must be progressed to in the city build tree before they can be planned. When completing those builds, you will unlock that functionality for the city. Note, certain community builds need specific elements in order to be approved.

1. Use /plan to get a Key to the City.
2. Left click a block to mark one corner of the build
3. Right click a block to mark the other corner of the build.
4. Type /plan <buildname> to request approval. E.G. /plan lighthouse
	1. You can also provide a reason, such as /plan lighthouse I want to build a lighthouse to protect the ships from rocks on this coast. This will then appear on the discord post if approval is needed.

### Approval Guide

 Build site in a city you do not own or outpost you are not part of
 Special build site in your city or outpost you are part of
 Normal build site in your city or outpost you are part of

## Building in the Build Site

There is a build chest in the corner of the build site - anyone can put items in here and they will be added to the build inventory. This is infinite storage - when the build is finished though, all items will be dropped out of it: have some spare chests ready!

### Creative

To build in creative, you need to convert the build to be creative. Do that with /city usecreative. This will then show a loading bar while a limited y segment of the build is copied over to the creative world. **If you are building underground or in the air** make sure you put the y value of the middle of the build in the command - /city usecreative <y>. Otherwise, the command will use the surface ground level y value, and you may be missing terrain you need to build off, or be building at the wrong height. Please do not leave the server until the copying has completed. If you mess up your creative site, you may contact a moderator to remake it. Bare in mind, all existing build designs will not be easily kept.

Once the copying has completed, use /cic to enter the creative world. You will be at the exact position you were in the survival world in the build - so you can use this to line up locations if not fully visible in the creative region.

Terraforming is not currently permitted in the creative world as it is quite powerful. You can mine blocks in creative, but they will still exist in survival and you cannot place blocks in their place until they have been removed. Line up where you need to be to remove them, and use /cic to transfer back to survival. Blocks that don't exist in creative that are still in survival will be highlighted around you.

When you're happy with your build, use /cic to transfer back to survival. This will populate the discord post with the many items you might need. They are approximately categorised into what you need to do to get them to make it easier to visualise. Additionally, the count is broken down into chests/stacks/single items in order to more easily count how much you have.

Put the items in the build chest and they will be added to the build in the correct locations. To stop this process happening automatically, use /city building. This will pause it, and use the same to resume - upon which any new contribution will start the process with any available materials in the build site. If a contribution takes longer than 30 seconds, you will be alerted when all the automatic blocks have been placed in order to only alert a staff member or in your own city to finish it at that point, or the automatic build will be broken.

### Survival

In survival mode, you can enter a build site easily. If you are already a builder you will be able to place any blocks you have as normal. Non-builders will not be able to, and if you want them to you can add them as a builder with /city builder <name>. You can remove a builder with /city removebuilder <name>.

Anywhere in the build site, you can access the build inventory with /city inventory. There could be multiple pages to the inventory, and you can access those with /city inventory <pagenumber> e.g. /city inventory 1. When you have an inventory page open, you have taken all those items out of the build inventory, so closing it will put them back. It means multiple people cannot access items simultaneously.

If you need particular items, you can use /city request <BLOCK> <amount>. This will put it on the discord post, and when those items are added to the inventory the request will be cleared. As a contributor, if you are gathering that item, use /city gather <block> <amount> to mark it so others know not to get that item.