Cities

Cities

A city is a group of players who hold land together: a mayor, citizens, a treasury and a set of plots.

Founding a city

/city create <cityName>

• Costs 25 (NEW_CITY_COST), taken from your own money.
• The plot you stand on becomes the city's first plot.
• It must be at least 3 plots away from any other city (MIN_DISTANCE_FROM_OTHER_CITY_NEW_CITY), and outside the areas the server keeps free of claims.
• You become the mayor.

City levels

The number of citizens sets the city's level, and the level sets how much land it may hold:

Citizens	Plots	Summon points	Extra plots it may buy
1	2	0	2
2	4	0	4
3	8	0	8
4	16	0	16
8	24	1	24
16	30	1	30
20	38	1	38
24	44	1	44
30	50	2	50
36	56	2	56

These are the defaults; the server can change them in city_level_info.json. On top of the level, a city gets extra plots from its alliance, from plots it bought, and from bonus claims an admin grants.

Land

Command	What it does
/city claim	Claim the plot you stand on. It must touch land the city already holds. Costs PLOT_CLAIM_PRICE (5)
/city unclaim	Give the plot back to the wild. Refused while a [[sub-plot
/city extraplot	Buy one more plot above the level limit (30)
/city outpost	Claim a plot that does not touch the city (150)

What a plot is, its types and its rules: Plots.

Citizens

Command	What it does
/city invite <player>	Invite a player. The invitation lasts 2 hours (HOUR_TIMEOUT_INVITATION_CITY) and survives a server restart
/city uninvite <player>	Take the invitation back
/accept [cityName] / /deny [cityName]	The invited player answers
/city join <cityName>	Join a city that is open (/city set open on) without an invitation
/city kick <player>	Remove a citizen. Their plots go back to the city
/city leave	Leave the city. The mayor has to hand the city over first
/city set mayor <player>	Hand the city to another citizen

Citizens who cannot pay

The mayor can set a daily fee for every citizen (/city set fee <amount>, at most 50). A citizen who cannot pay their fee and the tax of their plots loses those plots — they go back to the city — but stays a citizen. If the server turns on DELETE_CITIZEN_FROM_CITY_IF_DOESN_PAY_FEE (off by default), such a citizen is removed from the city instead. The removal is written to the city log, and the mayor is told on their next login who was removed while they were away.

Settings

Command	What it does
/city set name <name>	Rename the city (20)
/city set open on|off	Let anyone join without an invitation
/city set pvp|fire|blast on|off	Defaults for the city's plots
/city set nomobspawn on|off	Keep hostile mobs off newly claimed plots; costs the city daily per plot
/city set fee <amount>	Daily fee every citizen pays
/city set color <name> / colorint <int>	The city's colour on the map and on the border grid
/city set invmsg [text]	Message sent with every invitation
/city set title <player> <title>	A citizen's title in chat
/city set emblem [layers]	The coat of arms — see Heraldy
/city set permissions <group> <use|build|attack> on|off	Default rights on the city's plots
/city set respawn nearest|home|camp	Your own choice of respawn point
/city set neutral on|off	Neutrality, see below
/city set info	Show the current settings

All of these are also on the City tab of the main window (Ctrl+Shift+U).

Neutrality

A neutral city can neither declare war nor be declared upon. It pays for that every day: 25 for a city (NEUTRAL_CITY_PAYMENT), 50 for an alliance (NEUTRAL_ALLANCE_PAYMENT).

• It cannot be declared during a war, or while a declaration of war or an ultimatum is pending.
• A city in an alliance is neutral only when its alliance is: declare it with /alliance set neutral on. A neutral alliance cannot hold unions.
• After giving neutrality up, it cannot be declared again for 48 hours (NEUTRALITY_REDECLARE_COOLDOWN_HOURS).
• The server can switch the feature off (NEUTRALITY_ENABLED).

Respawning

/city set respawn chooses where you reappear after death:

Mode	Where
nearest	The nearest of your city's respawn points
home	Your city's temples
camp	Your city's war camp, during a war

If the city has more than one temple, you can pick a particular one: right-click its temple block with an empty hand, or choose it in the respawn card on the Player page. Clicking the chosen temple again clears the choice. See Plots and the server settings TEMPLE_RESPAWN_ENABLED, TEMPLE_RESPAWN_CHOICE_ENABLED and TEMPLE_RESPAWN_CHOICE_FROM_GUI.

Treasury and the daily charge

Every city has its own account. Once per mod day the city pays the upkeep of its plots; what it cannot pay becomes debt. Money put into the treasury with /city deposit pays the debt off first. Details: Economy.

City log and rules

• City log — every notable event: citizens joining and leaving, land changes, sub-plots, removals for unpaid fees. Open it from the City tab.
• City rules — the city's default rights and flags in one place, readable by every citizen (the open-book button on the City tab).

Deleting a city

/city delete
/agree

The city's land returns to the wild, its sub-plots are dissolved, and its citizens become free players.

See also

• Plots
• Permissions and Ranks
• Economy
• Alliances