Base Building

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Top-down view of Killerz faction base from Void Map #2. Black box is the base while the surrounding gridlines are watered walls for defense (i.e., buffers). Image is checkerboarded to distinguish chunks.

This article is about setting up a faction territory. For basebuilding rules, see Category:Rules.

A base is the main territory of a faction and constitutes all of their tangible assets (i.e., spawners, custom blocks, and loot). Bases are often protected by multiple layers of watered walls to lengthen or even prevent certain forms of raiding.

Claiming Land

A top-down view of faction claims rendered by /f map, showing the core claim (yellow), base claims (light green), and raid claims (dark green) of a faction.

For more information, see Factions Overview § Faction Power.

A claim is a 16×256×16 piece of land aligned to chunk coordinates. The terms chunk, claim, and land are often used interchangeably. A faction member can claim land for their faction by running /f claim, and using /f map to analyze nearby claims. Power determines the amount of chunks a faction can claim (run /f info to view power of your faction). It is possible for a faction to be in a state where they have more land than power. In this state, the faction remains vulnerable to overclaiming—a scenario where any outsider can seize land from the faction.

Land Types

Land claims are of four types—core, base, raid, and premium. A core claim is the first piece of land claimed by the faction, and determines location of the base. A core claim cannot be unclaimed without unclaiming all claims (i.e., by running /f unclaimall). Base claims are land that is connected to the core claim or other base claims. Raid claims are land disconnected from the base claim, and appear dark-green in /f map to distinguish them from base claims (which appear light-green). A raid claim is automatically unclaimed after 8 hours. This is unlike core and base claims which are persistent.

Premium claims are land claimed within a distance of ≤ 3 chunks from the warzones in overworld or the nether. Unlike other kinds of claims, premium claims are a weekly rental and are priced relative to their distance from the warzone. Failure to pay timely rent will automatically unclaim the land, immediately leaving the claim unprotected and up for grab by any outside faction. Run /f showpremiumclaims to view due rent.

Rental Prices of Premium Claims

Distance	Price
1 chunk (i.e., connected to warzone)	$1,500,000 + ($500,000 weekly increment)
2 chunks	$1,125,000 + ($375,000 weekly increment)
3 chunks	$750,000 + ($250,000 weekly increment)

Claim Transformation

The type of a claim is largely determined by its connectivity (except for a core claim). When a base claim disconnects from its core claim, it is immediately transformed into a raid claim. This can happen from unclaiming land (i.e., by running /f unclaim). Likewise, a raid claim turns into a base claim upon being connected to another base claim. This makes raid and base claims volatile. On the contrary, core and premium claims remain non-transformable.

Timeline

2025-01-23	Faction: Upon death, players cannot teleport back to raid claims for 15 seconds Pressure Plate: Mechanism is now disabled in raid claims
2025-01-19	Gen Bucket: Increased speed of sand gen buckets when used in raid claims
2024-12-12	Faction: base claims will combat-tag players for 30s instead of 15s Faction: claims >35 chunks away from core will automatically be considered a raid claim (previously all claims connected to core were considered base claim) Faction: raid claims appear dark-green in /f map (previously green colored) Faction: raid claims expire after 8 hours (previously 24 hours)
2024-10-24	Reverse Layers are limited to 10 per base. Sand walls need to be limited to one per chunk. A total of 20 in max buffer!
2021-10-04	/f claim can be used to establish raid claims regardless of distance from other factions' core chunks. The 20-chunk limitation will still exist but will only apply to core-core claims.
2021-07-24	Excluding premium claims, land can no longer be /f claim-ed 17 chunks within any other faction's core claim. Factions will still be able to over-claim other faction claims within 17 chunk radius from other faction's core claim. Over-claimed land in the 17 chunk radius cannot be re-claimed by any faction other than the faction owning the core claim.
2020-07-31	Base Size Limit: A maximum base size limitation has been implemented in to the rules. The max base size for all factions will be limited to 15×15 chunks from this point onwards. With that said, typical buffer defenses will not be permitted within the faction base. Buffer Size Limit: A maximum buffer size limitation has been implemented in to the rules. The max buffer size for all faction bases is 20 chunks. This is 320 blocks in each direction and is measured from the exterior wall of the base and does not include the base itself.