🏰 Mine-Play: Lands & Nations System

Welcome to the official guide for the Lands plugin on Mine-Play! This page explains how land claiming, upkeep, taxes, teleportation, and PvP systems work on our server — tailored for our unique gameplay rules.

🌍 Land Creation & Management

🔨 Creating a Land

• Cost: $1000
• Must be created before you can claim land.
• The first land creation automatically claims the chunk you are standing in.

📛 Land Naming Rules

• No spaces: Spaces will be replaced with _.
• Max Length: 24 characters.
• Formatting: Chat colors, formatting codes, and numbers are allowed.
• Renaming a Land: Costs $2000, and can only be done once every 24 hours.
• Transferring Ownership: Costs $5000.

🌐 Buffer Zone

• Lands and Nations both have a buffer zone of 3 chunks Euclidean around them.

📘 Euclidean means the distance is calculated as a straight line (“as the crow flies”), not just along the X or Z axis. Diagonal chunks count toward this radius.

📍 Claiming Chunks

• Lands can claim non-contiguous chunks (they do not have to touch existing claims).
• First Chunk Cost: $100
• Incremental Increase: Each subsequent chunk costs 10% more than the last, capped at $300.
• Refund on Unclaiming: 50% of the chunk's original cost is returned to the land bank.

🏕️ Camps

• Temporary 1-chunk claim called a Camp.
• Cost: $300
• Expires: After 24 hours.

💵 Economy: Upkeep & Taxes

🏛️ Upkeep System

• Upkeep Cycle: Every 7 days.
• Cost: $3 per claimed chunk
• If a land can't afford the full upkeep, the most recently claimed chunks are unclaimed first.
• Grace Period: Lands are exempt from upkeep if it comes due within 2 days of creation.
• Land Bank Fallback: If the land bank lacks funds, the owner's personal balance is used.

💸 Taxes

• Paid by land members every 7 days.
• Minimum: $0
• Maximum: $500 per area
• If a member cannot pay, they are automatically removed from the land.

⚠️ Payment Warnings

• The server will issue a warning 2 days before upkeep or taxes are due if the bank is underfunded.

🚀 Teleportation & Movement

🧭 Land Spawn

• First use of /lands setspawn is free.
• Changing spawn after that costs $150 per change.

📦 Teleport to Land

• Cost: $150 (goes to land's bank).
• Delay: 3 seconds of no damage.
• Who Pays: Only untrusted players are charged.

🌲 Wilderness Teleport

• Use /lands wild to teleport to a random location.
• Cost: $200
• Cooldown: Once every 10 minutes.

🔐 Trust & Membership

• Players must be invited before they can be trusted.
• You cannot directly trust a player without inviting them first.

🛡️ PvP & Combat

• If you're attacked by another player, you become PvP-tagged for 30 seconds.
• While tagged, you can be damaged or killed even in safe lands.
• Combat Logging: Logging out while tagged results in death.
• This system prevents abuse of land protections during combat.

⌛ Inactivity & Land Expiry

Lands will be transferred or deleted based on the owner's playtime and offline duration:

• Once the owner surpasses the threshold, the land is transferred to the next most active member.
• If no members remain, the land is deleted automatically.

🧠 Admin Notice

• Admins can see land chat. Avoid using it to share sensitive information (e.g. passwords, personal data).