Land
Land is bought, never given. Nobody starts with any, and the money you pay is burned: it leaves the economy for good.
Buying land
- Take a golden shovel in your hand.
- Right-click two opposite corners of the area you want.
- The state names a price in chat, with how many columns you're buying and which biomes they contain.
- Click
[Buy for …], or type/land buy, within one minute. The land is yours.
If someone bought land in the meantime and prices rose, you are never charged more than you were shown: the server gives you a fresh price instead.
What you get
A claim owns its whole column, from bedrock to the sky, caves included. A 16 × 16 claim is 256 columns.
How prices work
- Every column has a price, made from the biomes in it, from the surface down through the caves.
- Rare biomes cost more, common ones less. A biome that covers a quarter of the average share of the world costs about twice as much.
- A biome gets dearer as it fills up. The last free cherry grove will cost a fortune.
- Every chunk sold anywhere raises all prices by about 1 %. Early buyers pay less.
| Command | What it shows |
|---|---|
/land price | What the column you stand on costs, why, and what a 16 × 16 of the same land would cost. |
/land stats | A menu of every biome: how rare it is, how much is owned, what a 16 × 16 of it costs now. |
Growing, shrinking, giving back
- To grow a claim, right-click one of its corners with the golden shovel and click the new corner. You get a price for the extra columns only.
- Shrinking is free, and refunds nothing.
/abandonclaimgives the land back to the commons. Nothing is refunded.- Selling or giving land to another player is not possible yet.
Sharing your land
| Command | Lets the player… |
|---|---|
/trust <player> | build and break |
/containertrust <player> | use chests, furnaces and animals |
/accesstrust <player> | use doors, buttons and beds |
/permissiontrust <player> | manage this trust list |
/untrust <player> | nothing any more |
/trustlist | (shows who can do what here) |
/claimslist | (lists your claims) |
/subdivideclaims | (draw rooms inside a claim, each with its own trust) |
Remember: a claim stops players' hands, not fire, explosions or PvP. See The world.