Claiming Land


 * The information provided below is solely in relation to soft claiming, aka claiming without the use of plugins. To learn about claiming WITH plugins, go to the pstone page here ***

On the Hometown Survival server, the process of claiming land is quite simple. All a player has to do to claim land, is build on it. Its as easy as that... well, nearly that easy. There are some rules to claiming land. First, a player can not claim land that is within 100 blocks of someone else's build/land. This is not enforced by a plugin, but it is the rule of the server. This means that breaking this rule will result in punishment by staff. If, on the other hand, someone builds within 100 block radius of a player's build, that player can contact the staff to have the other persons build rolled back and potentially have that person banned. The staff can check to make sure that what a player is saying is truthful using the Coreprotect plugin to check the block placement logs and establish a timeline. This process only applies to the Primary HT survival world, the rules are a bit different on the creative and resource worlds. In the creative worlds, players are discouraged from building within 100 blocks of another person's creative build, BUT this rule is not as heavily enforced as in the survival world. This is due to the rapid rate of abandonment of creative builds and the speed at which new builds are added. Simply put, if the 100 block rule were enforced, the creative world would quickly run out of build able space. On the resource world, there is no 100 block rule but it is proper etiquette to not build right on top of someone elses build and griefing/theft rules still apply. The reason for there not being a 100 block rule is that the resource world is periodically reset and as such players are told not to build permanent structures in that world.

*** NOTE - the hundred block rule applies to underground too, if a player builds an above ground structure that is just outside of the 100 block radius of someone else, and then builds a basement that extends into the hundred block radius, said player has broken the rule and are subject to punishment and potential rollback unless some agreement is come to.