How to claim land

Land is divided into claims. One claim is exactly 16x16 blocks and perfectly lines up with Minecraft chunks.

Claiming a chunk costs 16 gold. To claim a chunk:

1. Join or create a town.
2. Have a town rank which is able to claim land, such as mayor (default rank for town founder). More on town ranks here.
3. Deposit 16 or more gold via /t deposit <amount> to your town bank. All town expenses are paid through the town bank.
4. Stand in a chunk you want to claim adjacent to a chunk the town already owns.
5. Run command /t claim.

You successfully claim the chunk!

tip

Press F3+G keys to view chunk borders in-game.

Claim limits

Your town can at first only claim 8 chunks. You can increase this number by 8 for every resident who joins. Your maximum amount of chunks can also increase through a nation bonus. This is an amount of max claimable chunks added to every town in a nation. It ranges from 10 extra chunks all the way to 140. It scales based on total residents in a nation. 10 chunks are from simply being in a nation. 140 is from having 50 residents in your whole nation.

You can see how many chunks a town can claim by running /t <name>. This command will show general town information. Look for "Town Size", this shows a ratio between chunks a town already has claimed and the max amount of claims the town can claim to. For example, "Town size: 90/152" means that the given town has claimed 90 out of 152 chunks.

Overclaiming

Sometimes you will notice that a town has more chunks claimed than it's able to claim, for example "Town size: 90/60". This can happen if residents leave after the town has claimed certain amount of land. Towns with more claims than their limit can be overclaimed using /t takeoverclaim until the number of claims are equal or below the claim limit, for example “Town size: 60/60”. Read the blog post for further information as to why this change was introduced

Overclaim limits

There are several limits to overclaiming in order to balance gameplay:

• Only towns larger than 8 chunks are affected.
• A town's homeblock (where the /t spawn is set) is protected from being overclaimed
• Towns must be older than 30 days to be able to overclaim other towns.
• Towns can only /t takeoverclaim 8 times a day.

Overclaim shield

It’s possible to protect claims from being overclaimed with a plot shield. It costs 1 gold every 24 hours per 8 claims over the limit. The town with "Town size: 90/60" from above would therefore pay 3 gold (30 claims over the limit / 8 = 3,75) every 24 hours in order to protect the excess 30 chunks. Expenses are withdrawn from town bank.