GriefPrevention

What it does

GriefPrevention lets players claim land themselves. Inside a claim, nobody else can build, break, open chests or hurt animals unless the owner trusts them. It's the easiest way to stop griefing on a survival server without staff watching everything.

Install

Put the jar in plugins and restart. It works straight away with sensible defaults.

How players use it

New players get a starter claim around their first chest. After that:

1. Hold a golden shovel and right-click two opposite corners of the area. That's a claim.
2. Holding a stick and right-clicking shows claims nearby.
3. Claims cost claim blocks, one per block of area. Players earn more by playing (by default, a set amount per hour online).

Commands players use most:

For staff

• /adjustbonusclaimblocks Name 1000 gives a player extra claim blocks.
• /adminclaims then a golden shovel makes claims nobody owns, for spawn and shared areas.
• /ignoreclaims lets staff build anywhere, for fixing things.

Settings are in plugins/GriefPreventionData/config.yml, including how many claim blocks players start with and earn.

Common problems

"You don't have enough claim blocks": players need to play longer, or staff can give bonus blocks.

A claim doesn't protect the Nether or End: by default claims work in the worlds listed in the config. Check Claims.Mode for each world.

Players can still be killed in claims: PvP is set per world in the config, separately from building protection.

Performance

Light. Very large numbers of claims on busy servers add a little lookup cost, but it's rarely noticeable.