Residence

Residence is the self-serve area protection system. If you're used to older versions, ours has simplified things somewhat, especially with commands and the flag GUI, but it is still a massive and somewhat complicated plugin so we'll do our best to walk you through it.

For the purposes of this tutorial, "<" and ">" denote variables contained within and <a|b> indicates that you must use either a or b. With the exception of the slash "/" do not include any special characters in the commands unless explicitly indicated.

Residence Creation

First of all, to access the plugin help menu at any time you can use "/res ?".

Now before we get into how to create a residence, you might also want to know the cost and what your limits are. To view this type "/res limits". Due to the easy availability of our in-game currency the price is currently set at $0.02 per block, with refunds set at $0.01 per block. This sets the minimum residence creation of a 5x5x1 (x z y) area at a total of 50 cents. For a member to purchase a 50x50x20 plot it would cost $1,000. To go bedrock to sky on a 50x50 residence it will cost about $12,750.

Players must be active on the server for Residence protections to persist. If you are inactive more than 60 days the plugin will automatically reclaim the area for the server -- your builds will not be deleted, but protections will. You can bypass this auto-cleanup by supporting the server.

To create a residence, you'll first need to select the area you want to protect. There are two methods for residence selection:

Method One: Use a Stick

If you're not familiar with selecting a cuboid area in Minecraft, try this: imagine that in front of you there is a big cube around the area you want to protect. This cube has 8 corners where the imaginary faces meet -- we're going to pay attention to two of these corners, the one on the bottom left on the front side of the cube, which is what we'll call "position one" and the one on the top right on the back side of the cube, which we'll call "position two". Together these two points can determine the outline of the entire area. See the image to the left for an illustration.

Method Two: Use Coordinate Radii

1. Stand where the exact center of the residence will be.
2. /res select X Y Z

Your feet are the center block, so X, Y or Z = the radius of blocks along the X, Y or Z axis from your feet. e.g: /res select 10 5 10 = a selection size of 21 11 21. 10 blocks east, 10 west, 1 block in the center, 5 blocks above your feet, 5 blocks below your feet and 1 block where your feet are.

Adjust the Selection (for either method)

• If you want to expand the selection from sky to bedrock, type /res select vert
• You can also expand the selection by looking in the direction you want to expand and typing /res select expand # (where you replace the # with the number of blocks you want to expand in that direction).
  • TIP: One method I've used is to first select a 3x3 area in the blocks at my feet using the stick, left-clicking one corner and right-clicking the opposite corner. From there I simply use the expand commands until the area matches what I'm trying to protect. The particle effects make this particularly easy.
• If you selected more than you intended you can also use /res select contract # to contract the residence by # of blocks from the direction you're looking. For example, if your selection is too tall and you want to make it one block shorter you will look up and type /res select contract 1.