Land Claims

A Claim Stone protects an area of the survival world from other players. Only you and the players you trust can build, break or open things inside it.

Placing a claim

1. Hold a Claim Stone and right-click the top of a block in the survival world. It needs 2 free blocks above it.
2. A floating runestone appears, protecting a 16×16 area centred on it, from bedrock to the sky.
3. The border shows for 15 seconds so you can see what you’ve claimed.

Your first Claim Stone comes in the starter kit. More are sold in the Shard Shop (1,200 shards) and by Runekeeper Edda at spawn.

Your first week is free

Your very first claim gets 7 days of free upkeep, once per player. After that, a new claim pays its first week in Warding Runes when you place it.

The claim menu

Right-click your Claim Stone to open its menu:

Button	What it does
Info	Size, max size, trusted players, upkeep status
Expand	+8 to the width (4 blocks on each edge) for 2 coins per new block. 16→24 costs 640, 24→32 costs 896…
Trusted Players	Trust a player (type their name in chat) or click a head to untrust. Trusted players can build and use everything. Max 20
Upkeep	Click to pay 1 week; shift-click to pay as many weeks as you can afford (up to 8 weeks ahead)
Show Border	Shows the border for 30 seconds (only you can see it)
Stronghold	Your main claim; see below
Remove Claim	Click twice to remove. You get the Claim Stone back, and any prepaid upkeep is saved for your next stone

Upkeep: Warding Runes

Claims cost Warding Runes every week, based on their size:

1 Warding Rune per week for every 1,024 blocks of area (rounded up)

Claim size	Runes per week
16×16 or 32×32	1
48×48	3
64×64	4
96×96	9
256×256	64

You can prepay up to 8 weeks. If upkeep runs out:

1. 7-day grace period. Still protected, with reminders.
2. Unprotected. Anyone can build or break there. The claim is never deleted; paying again restores protection.

You get reminders when you join and every 30 minutes while upkeep is due soon, in grace, or unpaid.

Note

Expanding a claim converts your prepaid time to the new size. For example, 8 weeks prepaid at 1 rune/week becomes about 2.7 weeks at 3 runes/week.

Where to get Warding Runes

Source	Details
Monster drops	Vanilla hostiles 0.25% (witches and endermen 0.5%), custom monsters 1%, elites 4%, bosses always (1–2)
Shard Shop	80 shards each, or 8 for 640
Runekeeper Edda (spawn)	250 coins each
Crates	Common crate (2 runes) and Rare crate (5 runes)
Blood Moon Merchant	5 Bloodmoon Shards each, or 4 for 20
Sanguinar, the Blood Moon Herald	1–2 for every player who helped

Claim limits by rank

Rank	Claims	Max size
Wanderer, Scout	1	32×32
Tracker	1	40×40
Hunter, Slayer	2	48×48
Warden	2	56×56
Reaver, Vanquisher	3	64×64
Bane	3	72×72
Legend	4	80×80
Grimborn (and any prestige)	4	96×96

If you drop below a limit, your existing claims are kept. They just can’t grow, and you can’t place new ones.

The Stronghold

Your first claim is your Stronghold. It’s the only claim that grows with prestige: +16 blocks per side for each prestige level, from 112×112 at Prestige I to 256×256 at Prestige X. You can move the Stronghold title to another claim from the menu.

Spacing rules

• Your own claims must be at least 200 blocks apart.
• Another player’s Claim Stone must be at least 266 blocks away from yours (on X or Z), so every claim has room to grow to full size.
• Claims can’t overlap and must stay inside the world border.

What’s protected

From everyone except you and trusted players:

• Breaking and placing blocks, buckets, signs
• Chests, barrels, furnaces, doors, gates, trapdoors, buttons, levers, beds, anvils and other usable blocks
• Pressure plates, tripwires and crop trampling
• Animals, villagers, armour stands, item frames, paintings and vehicles. Trading with villagers is still allowed
• Explosions (even your own TNT), fire spread, lava, and mobs changing blocks (endermen, withers, ravagers…)
• Pistons, flowing liquids, dispensers and growing trees from outside the claim

Visitors can still use: crafting tables, enchanting tables, ender chests, stonecutters, cartography tables, looms, grindstones and smithing tables.

Caution

Monsters still spawn inside claims, and custom monsters are never protected, so you can always fight them.

Commands

Command	What it does
/claim (/claims, /land)	List your claims
/claim info	Info about the claim you’re in
/claim trust <player> / untrust <player>	Trust or untrust in the claim you’re standing in
/claim border	Show the border
/claim help	Help