Claiming Guide

## What is Claiming?

When you claim a section of land, other players will be unable to place or break blocks, kill animals, take crops, or open chests unless you manually trust them! You can create as many claims as you want, however, you must have enough "claim blocks" available to back up what you want to claim!

1. New players that join the server start with an allowance of 120 claim blocks. You can get a bonus 1,000 claim blocks from filling out our greylist!
2. Claiming is required to prevent other players from stealing from you or claiming your land as their own!

### How can I get claim blocks?

1. Purchase pearls from the store. 10,000 claim blocks is 100 pearls. You can buy 100 pearls for $10, 600 for $50, and 1200 for $100.
2. Actively playing on the server will give you some claim blocks. Check /playerinfo for hourly rates.
3. Voting on the server will give you Vote Keys which can be used to open the Vote Crate at /warp crates, which have chances to get tons of free claim blocks.
4. Purchase Claim block Vouchers from other players.
	1. Create a discord post in #player-market.
	2. Check in-game /shop.
	3. Ask around!

## How To Claim

### Check for Nearby Claims

1. Claims should be at least 100 blocks away from other player's claims, unless both parties discuss otherwise. Be sure to read up on our rules!
2. Right-click with a stick to visualize\* all nearby claims. \**Claims are visualized using dotted lines of gold blocks (corner points are marked with glowstone)!*
3. Shift+right-click with a stick to detect any nearby claims.

### Create your Claim

A claim doesn't go down all the way; it'll keep expanding down as you place blocks lower and lower in the claim (it may reset when you change the claim size, trust, subclaim, etc.). If you want to make sure your claim stays extended all the way down, make one of the initial corners at bedrock level. Remember to not claim further down than you need to. *This is an intended feature to not disrupt players who are strip-mining.*

To claim land, you will need some basic items:

* A golden shovel (or use /claim):
	+ toggles you into basic claiming mode.
	+ used for creating and resizing claims.
* A stick (or use /inspect):
	+ visualizes nearby claims.
	+ used for viewing claim information and showing nearby claims

### Trusting Others to your Claim

You can add other players to your protected area with various levels of access.

* /trustall <player> {type} trusts that player to all of your currently created claims.
* /trust <player> {type} use while standing in a claim to trust that player to the one you're standing in. {type}'s below:
	+ Accessor: Grants players use of your beds, levers, doors, etc.
	+ Container: Grants a player access to your claim's containers.
	+ Builder: Grants a player access to all of the above including build permissions.
	+ Manager: Grants a player access to all of the above including claim settings.

## How to Manage your Claims

### Resizing your existing Claims

*You can make your claim bigger or smaller any time by using a golden shovel. To make things easier, start by right clicking within the claim with a stick. This will show the border of the claim so you can see where the corners are. To resize a claim, right click a corner you would like to move. Then, right click again wherever you would like to move that corner to.*

Or use these handy commands!

* /expandclaim <amount> <direction> - Expands your claim by x amount in specified direction.
* /contractclaim <amount> <direction> - Reduces your claim by x amount in specified direction.

### Subdividing your Claims

Subdividing claims allows you to give players access to specific parts of your claim. This is the best way to manage a town or shop, or different areas inside your house!

#### What's a sub claim?

You are creating mini claims within your main claim so that you can trust people to certain areas, but not the entire claim.

* Use /subdivideclaims to enter the subdivision mode. Right click the two corners you want to make into a subclaim!
* Subdivisions will be outlined with a white dotted line when using /inspect or a stick.
* Use /modebasic to leave subdivision mode.
* To trust someone in the sub claim or edit the subclaims flags, make sure you're standing in the sub claim when you use the /trust or /cf commands!
* To make changes to the main claim (trust access or claim flags), make sure you're standing outside of any subclaims!

### Editing Flags inside your Claims

There are dozens of different flags you can set inside of your own claims from leaves decaying to setting it up anyone can use your crafting tables or open your doors. You can even toggle PVP inside of your claim to create fighting arenas! Open up the flags menu with /claimflag (/cf)! Read each flag to see if it's true or false and click to toggle it on or off accordingly.

## Automatic Claim Removal

When a player has been inactive for 90 consecutive days, all of their claims will be abandoned automatically.

1. If you are planning to be gone this long, all you need to do is join for a couple of minutes within those 90 days to reset the timer.
2. Unclaimed land is fair game to loot, so make sure your claims are active and properly sized!

## Claim Command List

Visit this page to view the most up-to-date list of commands.