Homestead Claims
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Server-side land claims and anti-grief: claim chunks, trust friends, and protect builds from griefers, explosions, fire, lava and pistons.
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Description
Homestead
Claim your land. Keep it safe.
Homestead is a complete land-claim and anti-grief mod for Fabric servers. Players claim chunks with one command, trust their friends, and everything they build is protected: from other players, and from explosions, fire, lava, pistons and mobs.
Server-side only. Players join with a vanilla client and still get the particle borders, the claim map and the "Entering…" messages.
Features
🏡 Claiming
/claimclaims the chunk you're standing in./unclaimgives it back, and/unclaim allreleases everything./claim autoclaims every chunk you walk into, which is perfect for fencing off a big base in one walk.- A claim limit that grows as you play: everyone starts with 16 chunks and earns 4 more per hour of playtime (up to 256, all configurable). Operators are unlimited.
/claim listshows all your claims with coordinates./claim infoshows who owns the chunk you're in and what you're allowed to do there.
🤝 Trust your friends
Three trust levels, and each includes the ones before it:
| Level | Lets them |
|---|---|
access |
Use doors, trapdoors, gates, buttons, levers, beds, crafting tables, anvils and other workstations, and ride your animals |
containers |
Everything above, plus chests, barrels, furnaces, hoppers, shulker boxes and chest boats/minecarts |
build |
Everything: break and place blocks, buckets, item frames, armor stands, animals |
/trust <player> [access|containers|build], /untrust <player> and /trustlist. Trust applies to all your claims at once.
🛡️ Protection from players
Inside someone else's claim, untrusted players can't:
- break or place blocks, including placing into a claim from outside it
- use buckets (no lava griefing or water flooding)
- open chests or any other container, or use doors, buttons and workstations
- hurt animals, villagers, armor stands or item frames (monsters are always fair game)
- trample crops
They get a clear message: "This land belongs to Steve."
🌋 Protection from the world
- 💥 Explosions: TNT, creepers, beds, respawn anchors and end crystals don't damage claimed blocks. The wilderness next door still blows up normally.
- 🔥 Fire doesn't spread into claims or burn claimed blocks.
- 🌊 Lava and water from outside stop dead at your border.
- ⚙️ Pistons can't push, pull or break blocks across your border, so no piston griefing from outside.
- 👾 Endermen can't steal blocks from claims, and mobs can't trample claimed farmland.
🗺️ See your land
/claim showdraws colored particle walls along nearby claim borders for 15 seconds: green for yours, red for others, gold for the server. Only you can see them./claim mapprints a colored chunk map around you in chat: yours, trusted, other players, the server and wilderness.- Entering messages appear above your hotbar as you cross borders: "Alex's homestead", "Your homestead", "Wilderness", with a ⚔ warning if PvP is on.
⚙️ Per-claim flags
Owners choose what's allowed in their land with /claim flag <flag> <true|false>. Everything is off (protected) by default:
| Flag | When on |
|---|---|
pvp |
Players can fight in your claims |
explosions |
Explosions can break blocks in your claims |
fire_spread |
Fire can spread and burn in your claims |
mob_griefing |
Endermen can take blocks from your claims |
👑 Admin tools
/claim admin bypasstoggles ignoring all claims, for moderation./claim admin servermakes the chunk you're in a server claim, protected for everyone. It's ideal for spawn./claim admin unclaimremoves any claim.
Configuration
Settings are in config/homestead.json:
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
baseClaims |
16 |
Chunks every player can claim from the start |
claimsPerHourPlayed |
4 |
Extra chunks earned per hour of playtime |
maxClaims |
256 |
Upper limit per player |
opsUnlimited |
true |
Operators have no claim limit |
enterMessages |
true |
Show "Entering…" messages when crossing borders |
Installation
- Requires Fabric Loader and Fabric API.
- Server-side. Install on the server only; players don't need anything.
- Works in singleplayer too (handy for LAN worlds).
FAQ
Can monsters still hurt me in claims? Yes. Claims protect your stuff, not you from mobs, and you can always fight monsters anywhere.
Is PvP allowed in the wilderness? Homestead only changes PvP inside claims. Outside them, your server's normal PvP setting applies.
Do claims work in the Nether and End? Yes, claims work in every dimension.
Licensed CC0 1.0: use it in any modpack, no permission needed.
Homestead Claims Team
