Land Claims

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Placing a Keystone block to claim land

The friend list controls access to claimed land.

Game version 7.10 brought the possibility to claim land using Keystone blocks. The protection does not completely prevent others from entering or destroying blocks, but increases block hardness for other players by a certain factor (default: 32x). Players can be added to a friend list to allow them full access to the claim. While the player is not online, the claim effect slowly decays.

Details

The following details were given in update notes 7.11:

• New players are awarded 1 land claim keystone block in their starting inventory if a server is running Survival MP. Supply Crates from air drops have a small chance of containing keystone blocks.
• You can kill players and loot their land claim blocks if they haven’t been placed or mine up a land claim block and steal it for your own so its wise to protect your land claim blocks
• The keystone block is a special looking block that when carried by the player shows a 7×7 or server set protection grid rendered as a transparent green protected grid.
• The keystone block offers durability protection 7×7 all the way vertically
• Keystone blocks can be destroyed by other players removing their durability modifier of the fort
• Only the owner and friends in your group can build blocks in your land claimed areas
• Land claims have a no claim zone outside of their perimeter where only the land claim owner and friends in his group can stake additional neighboring claims. Default could be 30 meters measuring keystone to keystone (This could be an optional owner permission setting)
• Only the owner of a land claim and friends in his group can add new neighboring land claims right next to an existing land claim but not overlapping
• Zombies and owners/friends of the claim owner are not affected by claim durability
• Players must revisit claim once a real-time day to prevent Claim Decay

Server Settings

The exact land claim parameters can be set server-side, including the following options:

• Claim Size – Sets the size of the protected area around a land claim block. Default is 7×7 all the way vertically.
• Claim Deadzone – Sets the distance neighboring non friended players can place their land claims. Default is 30 blocks/meters away.
• Claim Duration – The number of days a player can be offline before their land claims expire. Default is 3 real-time days
• Claim Decay Mode – How a land claim’s hardness modifier decays over time that the claim owner is not on the server. Default is Slow
• Claim Health Online – The hardness modifier applied to land claims for players who are currently online. Default is 32x harder to destroy.
• Claim Health Offline – The hardness modifier applied to land claims for players who are currently offline. Default is 32x harder to destroy.

Keystone

The keystone is a block which can claim an area. New players will be awarded 1 keystone in their inventory if the server run Survival MP.