Civilizations and Membership

Civilizations and membership

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This wiki documents Civilizations 1.0.1. Numbers are bundled defaults; in-game menus and previews show your server’s current values.

On this page: Founding a civilization · Joining and leaving · Leadership transfer and disbanding · Who can do what · Established members and capacity

Founding a civilization

Stand in the chunk you want as your capital, carry the required physical civic items, and run:

/civ create River Kingdom

Names contain 3–24 characters and may use letters, numbers, spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens. Names are case-insensitive identifiers; there is no separate civilization tag required by this command.

Default founding cost:

Cost	Amount
Heavy Cobblestone (masonry:1)	4
Bound Timber (timber:1)	2
Currency	0

That is 36 ordinary cobblestone and 18 accepted logs if you craft all six civic items from scratch. These costs come from your inventory because a new civilization has no stockpile yet.

The site must be an eligible unclaimed chunk in an allowed world/biome, outside reserved/protected areas, and satisfy the default 12-chunk minimum separation rule from other civilizations. You must be unaffiliated and clear of membership cooldowns. Review the green/red confirmation GUI before founding; it rechecks the price and site when you accept.

Founding makes you leader, establishes the capital claim, and starts a 14-day founding peace shield. While the shield is active, the civilization cannot declare or be targeted by a normal campaign.

Joining and leaving

A leader or advisor uses /civ invite <player>. Invitations expire after 10 minutes by default. Accept with /civ accept <civilization> or decline with /civ deny <civilization>. A player belongs to one civilization at a time.

The default membership-change cooldown is 24 hours after departure. Joining a new civilization does not carry the former civilization's researched technology with you. Leaving or being removed terminates private plot rights without a refund; trust and listings are cleaned up. A leader must transfer leadership or disband rather than leave the civilization leaderless. Campaign membership locks can prevent changes.

Leadership transfer and disbanding

Use /civ transfer <player> to make another current member the leader. The former leader becomes an advisor if a slot is available (or the recipient vacated one), otherwise a citizen.

If the leader has been offline for seven full days, a current advisor can use /civ claimleadership to take over. A citizen can claim leadership only when the civilization has no advisors at all, including offline advisors. The first eligible claim that succeeds becomes leader. The former leader remains a citizen and keeps their property.

An online leader cannot be replaced this way, and reconnecting resets the seven-day wait. Saved activity preserves the wait across restarts; current login/logout observations also count. Claims recheck leadership and the advisor roster before applying the change. Campaign membership locks still prevent leadership changes. This is a player-initiated command with a fixed seven-day rule, not an automatic transfer or an extra notice period.

/civ disband previews and confirms archival of the civilization. It releases claims, ends membership/private rights, clears invitations, and cancels active research. Remaining treasury money is staged for payout to the former leader; it is not divided among citizens. Physical builds remain in the world, but the civilization’s protection ends. Campaign locks and unresolved-operation checks can prevent disbanding.

Who can do what

Action	Citizen	Advisor	Leader
Contribute resources, inspect stockpile, buy eligible plots	Yes	Yes	Yes
Manage an owned private plot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Invite members, manage eligible citizen removals	No	Yes	Yes
Claim/unclaim eligible land and manage public plots	No	Yes	Yes
Start/cancel research; complete stockpile work orders	No	Yes	Yes
Set the civilization home in its capital	No	Yes	Yes
Appoint advisors, transfer leadership, disband	No	No	Yes
Claim leadership after the leader is offline 7 days	Only if no advisors exist	Yes	Already leader
Move the capital, withdraw treasury money, set weekly taxes	No	No	Yes
Declare/cancel a campaign or offer/accept peace	No	No	Yes

Advisors do not receive unrestricted control over leaders, other advisors, or citizens' private property. Ownership rules and current campaign restrictions still apply. Server administrator permissions are separate from these civilization roles.

The default advisor limit is 3, increased by research. Use /civ members to see roles and establishment progress.

Established members and capacity

A member becomes established after 72 hours of membership and at least 120 minutes of tracked activity within the 14-day activity window, with sufficiently recent activity. Establishment is recalculated; simply inviting inactive accounts does not immediately increase capacity.

Default claim capacity is:

min(128, 8 + 2 × established non-leader members + research bonuses + administrator bonus)

The capital counts as a claim. The leader is excluded from the per-member claim bonus. Research can also increase advisor limits, private-plot limits, and research queues.

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