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Minecraft Civilizations

Build a home. Found a nation. Shape its future.

Civilizations turns Minecraft Java survival into a shared journey of settlement, industry, research, religion, and scheduled border wars. Join an existing civilization or lead your own: gather supplies, build on protected land, fund new technology, and defend what your community creates. No client mod is required by this plugin.

New here? Start with your first session →

Already playing? Open the command reference, technology catalog, or player FAQ.

This wiki covers Civilizations 1.0.1 and its bundled defaults. A server owner can change many rules, costs, and timings. Read the in-game menus and confirmation previews for your server’s current values.

Latest changes

• Leadership claims: advisors can claim leadership after the leader has been offline seven full days; citizens qualify only if no advisors exist.
• Divine favor: successful sacrifices raise personal favor from level 1 to 3, improving acceptance odds. Demeter now accepts bread.
• Dimension offerings: Nether and End trips require a Nether Ember or End Sigil. Find their recipes alongside the War Charter in /civ items → Other Items.
• Water-bottle compatibility: plain water can be drunk without Alchemy.

Server owners: review the 1.0.1 upgrade notes for schema and religion-catalog changes.

Choose your next step

I want to…	Read this
Get started and find a community	Getting started
Join, invite friends, or found a civilization	Civilizations and membership
Lead a functioning settlement	Leader’s handbook
Claim land and understand protection	Territory and protection
Buy a home and share it with friends	Private plots and housing
Check what my home costs each week	Weekly plot taxes
Find wilderness or travel between dimensions	Travel and dimensions
Craft and contribute civic materials	Civic resources and the stockpile
Earn Knowledge for the community	Work orders
Unlock tools, machines, and new possibilities	Research and all 26 technologies
Earn currency or fund the government	Money, trading, and the treasury
Make offerings for a god’s blessing	Religion and sacrifices
Prepare for fighting and raiding	Scheduled wars

How your civilization grows

1. Settle together. Join a civilization or found one with physical civic items. Your capital anchors connected territory.
2. Supply the community. Craft civic materials and deposit them in the permanent stockpile.
3. Earn Knowledge. Leaders and advisors complete work orders using those shared materials.
4. Research technology. Spend Knowledge and additional civic materials to unlock capabilities for current members.
5. Build and expand. Claim adjacent chunks, create common areas, and offer private homes to citizens.
6. Prepare for conflict. Eligible neighbors can declare campaigns for a scheduled fighting and looting window.

Personal currency, treasury money, civic materials, and Knowledge are separate balances. Learn what each one pays for.

Know these rules before you play

• Research changes vanilla progression. Under the default strict rules, owning a locked tool or vehicle does not unlock its use. Villager trading and physical dimension portals are disabled.
• Stockpile deposits cannot be withdrawn. Refine items to the needed tier before depositing.
• Private homes have their own access rules. Government roles do not automatically grant access to another citizen’s plot.
• Weekly taxes can cost you your plot. With currency features active, verified insufficient funds at billing immediately reclaims that plot. The starting weekly rate is zero.
• War can permanently damage builds. Ownership stays the same, but broken buildings and looted items are not automatically restored.

Useful first commands

Command	What it helps you do
/civ help	Read the in-game command tutorial
/civ tutorial	Request a tutorial book, subject to its delivery cooldown
/civ list	Find civilizations
/civ inspect	Check the land under your feet and your access
/civ items	Browse civic resources, ritual offerings, and War Charter recipes
/civ tech	Browse technology and research requirements
/civ taxes	Check your private plots’ bills and due dates
/civ war status	Check a campaign’s actual dates and permissions

See all player commands for syntax and role requirements, or use the glossary for unfamiliar terms.

Run a server

The documented target is Spigot API 26.2, Java 25, and MySQL 8.x. Currency features additionally need Vault and an economy provider; the bundled economy mode is disabled.

Start with server setup, then review configuration, permissions, and PlaceholderAPI. Operators can use administration and maintenance, admin commands, server troubleshooting, and the detailed operations runbook. Source contributors can follow building and contributing.

About this wiki

These guides were checked against the plugin README, bundled catalogs, operations documentation, and source at revision 341582d, dated September 7, 2026, for version 1.0.1. See project scope for supported systems and features outside this version.

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