Server guide
Lands and claims guide
Protect your builds, invite friends, level up your land, form nations and go to war. Open the menu in game with /lands.
- 40 starting chunks
- 20 members per land
- 5 land levels
- $3 upkeep per chunk
How it works
Lands protects your builds. Inside your land, only the players you trust can build, open chests or use your things, and you decide exactly what each of them is allowed to do.
Create your land
Stand where you want to build and type /lands create <name>. The 3 by 3 chunks around you are claimed for free.
Claim more chunks
Walk to the next chunk and type /claim. Claiming is free. New claims must connect to your land.
Trust your friends
Type /lands trust <player> to invite friends. Once they accept, they can build with you.
Keep the bank topped up
Every 7 days your land pays a small upkeep per chunk. Put money in with /lands deposit <amount>.
You can claim land in the main world. The Nether, the End and spawn can't be claimed.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /lands | Opens the land menu. Almost everything can be done from here. |
| /lands create <name> | Creates your land. Names are 5 to 24 characters, no spaces. |
| /claim | Claims the chunk you are standing in for your land. |
| /unclaim | Gives up the chunk you are standing in. |
| /lands trust <player> | Invites a player to your land as a member. |
| /lands untrust <player> | Removes a member from your land. |
| /lands deposit <amount> | Puts money in your land bank, which pays upkeep and counts toward levels. |
| /lands spawn | Teleports you to your land's spawn. |
| /lands map | Shows a map of the claims around you in chat. |
| /nations | Opens the nation menu. |
| /lands help | Lists every command. |
Claiming and limits
Land is claimed in chunks: 16 by 16 block columns that reach from the bottom of the world to the top. Type /lands map to see which chunks around you are free. The chunk border shows as particles when you claim: green is yours, yellow is a land you are trusted in, and red belongs to someone else.
Everyone starts able to claim 40 chunks and earns 1 more for every 3 hours played. That allowance is shared across every land you own or are a member of. Land levels and nations add more on top.
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| Lands you can own | 1 (you can be a member of as many as you like) |
| Chunks you can claim | 40 to start, plus 1 for every 3 hours you play (up to 160 more) |
| Biggest a land can be | 100 chunks, plus 5 for each trusted member |
| Members per land | 20 |
| Separate parts per land | 1 (claims must connect) |
| Sub-areas per land | 20 |
| Allies and enemies | 10 allies, 20 enemies |
| Cost to claim a chunk | Free |
| Rename a land | $10,000 (once a day) |
| Hand your land to another owner | $5,000 |
Members and roles
Every player in your land has a role, and each role has a list of action flags: switches for things like breaking blocks, opening chests, using doors or attacking animals. Change them in /lands under Roles. You can also create your own roles.
| Role | Who it's for | What they can do by default |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | You | Everything. |
| Admin | Players who help run the land | Everything a member can do, plus trust, remove, ban and set the roles of players, and edit land and role settings. |
| Member | Everyone you trust | Build, farm, use chests, doors and redstone, fly, and create and use chest shops. |
| Ally / Nation | Allied lands and your nation | Enter, use doors, buttons and villagers, fight and fly. No building or chests. |
| Untrusted | Everyone else | Enter, pick up items and fight mobs and players. Nothing else. |
Running a shop? Players outside your land can't buy from your chest shops until you turn on Chest Shop Purchases for the Untrusted role. See the player shops guide.
Your land also has land flags that apply to everyone, such as whether monsters and animals spawn, leaves decay, crops grow and snow melts. You'll find them in the land menu too.
Land bank, upkeep and taxes
Every land has its own bank. Members with permission can deposit and withdraw. The bank pays your upkeep and its balance counts toward land levels.
Upkeep
Every 7 days, at 11 pm server time, each land pays $3 per claimed chunk. A 40-chunk land pays $120 a week. Higher land levels raise it by a percentage. New lands don't pay anything for their first 2 days. If the bank runs short, the rest comes from the owner's own balance, and members get a reminder in the 2 days before it's due.
Taxes
Owners can charge members a tax of up to $10 each cycle. It's paid into the land bank. A member who can't pay is removed from the land.
Land levels
Lands level up automatically when they meet every requirement for the next level. Each level adds bonus claims and member slots, but also raises your upkeep. Level bonuses don't apply while your land is in a nation, since the nation's level applies instead.
| Level | Requirements | Bonus | Upkeep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | None, this is where you start | - | Normal |
| Village |
| +1 claims, +1 member slots | +5% |
| Town |
| +2 claims, +2 member slots | +10% |
| Province |
| +4 claims, +3 member slots | +25% |
| Land |
| +8 claims, +4 member slots | +30% |
Get upgradeable farms with /farm get, hoppers with /hopper get and spawners with /spawner get. A land that stops meeting the requirements drops back down a level.
Nations
A nation is a group of lands that work together. Players from its lands get the Nation role in each other's lands, and the lands can fight wars side by side.
- Creating one costs $20,000, and your land must be at the top land level (Land) first. Your land becomes the capital.
- Up to 10 lands can join a nation.
- Upkeep: the nation pays $3 per chunk across all its lands each cycle, instead of each land paying on its own. If it can't pay, the nation is disbanded, but its lands are kept.
- Taxes: the nation can tax its lands up to $5 per chunk. A land that can't pay is removed from the nation.
Nations level up like lands. Higher levels give every member land extra claims and unlock potion effects the nation can switch on inside its lands.
| Level | Requirements | Bonus | Upkeep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federation | None, this is where you start | - | Normal |
| Nation |
| +20 claims for every land. Nation effects: switch on 1 of Jump Boost, Speed, Haste or Dolphin's Grace | +20% |
| Empire |
| +35 claims for every land. Nation effects: switch on 3 of stronger Jump Boost, Speed, Haste or Dolphin's Grace, Absorption, Night Vision, Luck, Strength or Health Boost | +35% |
Wars
Lands and nations can declare war on each other. Wars are optional, and you can only be attacked by someone who declares war on you.
Declare
Declare war from the land or nation menu and choose a goal. Your land bank needs at least $5,000. Lands with a war shield can't be attacked, and new lands get a 1-day shield.
Prepare
The defenders get 1 day to prepare before the war starts.
Fight
Score points: 1 per kill and 5 per captured flag. Attackers can only act in a land while at least one defender is online.
Win
The first side to reach the points target wins. The target is 5 points per player on the smaller team, and at least 100. If nobody reaches it in 36 hours, the side with more points wins.
Capture flags
Craft a capture flag with a red stained glass pane on top, a beacon in the middle and three iron blocks along the bottom. Place it in an enemy chunk between Y 30 and Y 127 and hold it for 10 minutes to capture the chunk. Defenders standing at the flag push the progress back. Each team can have 3 flags placed at once, and a captured chunk is unclaimed.
War goals
| Goal | What the winner gets |
|---|---|
| Skirmish | 75% of the loser's land bank (40% if they surrender). No land changes hands. Both sides get a 7-day war shield. |
| Raid | For 1 hour after the war, the winner's members can open the loser's chests and doors and break common building blocks (wood, stone, dirt and similar) to get in. |
| Annex | Every losing land in the war loses all its claims. The loser gets a 3-day war shield. |
| Vassal | Nations only. The loser's lands join the winner's nation as vassals and pay it taxes. |
| Independence | A vassal fights to leave its overlord's nation. |
During a war, enemies in your land can pick up items, fight and break or place only ladders, vines and scaffolding.
More features
- Flying: you can fly inside your own land if your role allows it.
- Sub-areas and renting: split your land into up to 20 areas with their own roles, and rent or sell them to other players.
- Camps: a small temporary claim that protects your things while you're out exploring. It disappears after 1 day.
- Relations: mark other lands as allies or enemies from the land menu.
- Combat tag: after a fight you can't teleport away for 10 seconds.
Tips
Claim before you build, and claim a little extra around your base so nobody builds right up against it. Keep a few weeks of upkeep in the land bank, and give new members the Member role, not Admin, until you trust them.
Questions?
Ask in the support channel on our Discord. Prices, rewards and timers can change as the server develops.
Wick SMP uses the Lands plugin for claims.
Wick SMP is not an official Minecraft product and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.