Blockstead

# Blockstead **Your own plot in the city.** Blockstead is a CityBuild plugin for Paper servers: your team creates plots, players buy them with the server currency, invite friends with their own roles and build in peace – and the city around them is protected, too. Blockstead builds on **WorldGuard and WorldEdit**: plots and cities are ordinary WorldGuard regions, so your existing tools keep working and nothing is hidden in a proprietary format. ### Features **Plots** - Create plots from a WorldEdit selection (cuboid or polygon), over the whole world height – or between fixed heights, so plots can be **stacked** (flats in a house) - Players **buy** free plots with the server currency (any economy plugin through Vault, e.g. EssentialsX); giving a plot back **refunds** the person who paid - **Roles** per plot: owner, resident, builder, guest – with configurable rights (build, containers, doors, workstations, entities, home). Add as many roles as you like in `config.yml` - **Snapshot and reset:** every plot is saved when it is created; staff (or owners when giving it back) can restore it to exactly that state – precisely in the plot's shape, neighbours stay untouched - **Homes** on plots, safe **teleport** to any plot (lands on solid ground, never in lava) - Overviews: `/plot info`, `/plot free` (free plots with price), `/plot plots` for staff – clickable and paginated **Cities** - `/city create` turns a WorldEdit selection into a city: outside the plots only people you trust may build, so streets, squares and the city's own buildings can't be griefed - Each plot automatically belongs to the city it lies in – no manual linking - **Price per city** (and per plot, if you like), greeting and farewell messages, `/city teleport` with a landing point you set  **For your server** - **Multilingual:** every player gets the language of their Minecraft client (English and German included, more through simple language files – translations welcome) - Clickable, colour-coded help that only shows the commands a person may use - Optional **LuckPerms** prefixes and suffixes in chat, tab list (sorted by group weight) and above the head - `/announce` for highlighted server messages, configurable join message - **Safe updates:** automatic backup of the database and WorldGuard regions at every start, consistency check in the log, versioned database schema - Most staff commands work from the **console**, too - **No telemetry**, no outgoing connections ### Requirements | | | |---|---| | Server | Paper 26.3 or newer, Java 25 | | Required | WorldEdit 7.4.x, WorldGuard 7.0.19 | | Optional | Vault + an economy plugin (to buy plots), LuckPerms 5.5.85+ (prefixes) | ### Getting started 1. Put the jar into `plugins/` together with WorldEdit and WorldGuard, start the server. 2. Select an area with WorldEdit and run `/plot create`. 3. Players run `/plot claim` on a free plot – done. Everything else: `/plot help`, `/city help`. Full documentation for server owners and staff: [docs/admin.md](https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Blockstead/blob/main/docs/admin.md) · for players: [README](https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Blockstead/blob/main/README.md) · [Changelog](https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Blockstead/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) ### Open source Blockstead is free software under the **GNU AGPL-3.0**. Bug reports and ideas are welcome as [GitHub issues](https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Blockstead/issues); pull requests are accepted for translations.