Claiming

Claiming is how you make land yours. Inside your claim, nobody else can break or place blocks, open your chests, use your doors or buttons, or hurt your animals — it is full protection, enforced by the server, at zero cost in money. Claims run on claim blocks, which you earn simply by playing.

Your First Claim

Place your first chest and the server automatically claims a small area around it for you (a 9×9 footprint). That starter claim is just to keep you safe on day one — build anything real and you'll want a proper claim.

Two tools drive everything, and both are ordinary items:

Creating a Claim

The fastest way: stand in the middle of your base and run /claim <radius> — this claims a square that many blocks around you.

The precise way: equip a Golden Shovel and right-click one corner of the area you want, then right-click the opposite corner. Gold blocks and glowstone appear to mark the boundary. To resize, right-click a corner with the shovel and then right-click where the corner should move to.

Rules a claim must satisfy:

• At least 5 blocks wide on each side, and at least 100 blocks of total area.
• Claims protect the full vertical column — from the sky all the way down to bedrock. You never need to claim extra depth for your mines.
• There is no limit on how many separate claims you can own — only on how many claim blocks you have to spend.

Claim Blocks

Every block of a claim's footprint costs 1 claim block (height is free).

Check your balance and every claim you own with /claimlist.

Letting Friends In

Trust is per-claim and comes in four levels — stand in the claim and grant exactly as much as you mean to:

Manage it with /untrust <player> (or /untrust all), and audit with /trustlist. Granting trust to public opens that permission to everyone — useful for shop claims.

Two details worth knowing: throwing an ender pearl into someone's claim needs access trust, and /sethome inside a claim needs access trust too.

Losing a Claim

• Your automatic first chest claim expires after 7 days without you.
• Regular claims expire after 60 days of not logging in — unless you've reached 10,000 earned claim blocks, which marks you as an established player and exempts your claims.
• /abandonclaim (standing inside it) or /abandonallclaims gives claims up voluntarily, refunding their blocks in full.

Living Near Others

Claims cannot overlap. If griefing happens outside claims, staff can roll it back — but the intended play is simple: claim it before you build it. In the Wild, you can also stop hostile mobs from spawning on your claimed land, and Cities offer a bigger, shared version of land protection with its own upgrades.

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