Golden Claims

Golden Claims is a server-authoritative land-claim mod for Minecraft 1.12.2, built as an independent Forge implementation of the classic golden-shovel claiming workflow. It does not read Bukkit/Sponge GriefPrevention data - it's a from-scratch reimplementation with deep, explicit protection against modded exploits that bypass Forge's own events.

Features

Claiming & Resizing

Right-click two opposite corners with a vanilla golden shovel to create a full-height claim (minimum area of 2 blocks, so 1x2/2x1 chest claims work)
Sneak-right-click a corner to start resizing, then confirm the new location with a second click
Holding a golden shovel shows nearby boundaries live: green (owned), blue (trusted), red (denied), gold (admin), purple (resize preview)
Creating/enlarging spends the owner's allowance; shrinking and abandoning refund it automatically
Currency payments are tracked per claim so refunds stay correct even after prices change

Flexible Trust & Permissions

Independent permission grants per player or public: ACCESS, CONTAINER, ENTITY, BUILD, MANAGE, VISITOR, CARETAKER, BUILDER, or ALL
MANAGE implies everything; BUILD does not implicitly grant CONTAINER/ENTITY - fine-grained by design
Fake-player trust and per-claim automation toggles for modded machines (item pipes, quarries, etc.)

Four Allowance Modes

PLAYTIME (default) - starting allowance plus per-active-hour growth, with AFK timeout
FIXED - a flat configurable total per player
CURRENCY - pay for claim blocks through the optional Grand Economy API
UNLIMITED - no area cap; overlap, dimension, and claim-count rules still apply
Switching modes preserves all claims and mode-specific ledgers

Admin Toolkit

Server-owned claims that never expire and don't spend allowance
Stand-in inspection/resize/delete/transfer/trust/automation editing for any player's or the server's claims
Explicit, session-only protection bypass (/claimsadmin bypass on/off)
Dimension blacklist/whitelist with arbitrary (including negative, modded) dimension IDs
Inactive-account cleanup with scan/preview + confirmation, and world-relative backups/exports

Deep Protection Coverage

Block breaking/placing/multi-placing, container and item-handler access, buckets, fluid boundary flow, lava ignition, explosions, farmland trampling, mob griefing, entity interaction/damage/mounting, projectiles, fake players, and boundary piston updates
Explicit hardening against mods whose destructive abilities bypass standard Forge events, including Ghost's Explosives (TNT, landmines, C4), Star Tech's Power Blast, HeroesExpansion's grabbed-block ability, ICBM Classic and Cyclic explosives, Botania's Laputa Shard, and Cyclic's placement/building tools

Requirements

Minecraft 1.12.2
Forge (tested with 14.23.5.2864)
Java 8
Server-side only - clients do not need the mod
Grand Economy (optional - required only for CURRENCY allowance mode)

Player Commands

/claim help, info, list, name, trust/untrust, permissions, trustlist, abandon/abandonall, transfer, automation, trustmachine/untrustmachine, cancel, confirm

Admin Commands

/claimsadmin mode, allowance, dimensions, inspect, bypass, list, teleport, delete/deleteall, transfer, create, resize, trust/untrust, automation, fakeplayer, backup, export, cleanup, reload, and more