Claim Block
The claim block can be placed anywhere in any standard area of the grid to claim the entire square as your own. Once completed, the area will be "contested" for 10 minutes, preventing you from interacting with the claim block or being protected by it until that time expires. Once you are protected, you will have an initial amount of protection time and must feed it items, which is discussed in the Taxation section. Claim blocks protect the area from deconstruction.
Permissions
Area Settings Name and owner of area, and who may respawn here.
- Set Owner: If there are other players in the world, you may donate ownership of the claim zone to them.
- Area Name: You may change the name of the area, which will be seen when players enter it.
- Respawn Options: Set who may respawn here.
- Share with house: Members of your house may respawn in this area. This works even if you are not the house leader.
- Share with keygroups: Share with the iron, silver, or gold keygroups.
- Share with Characters: Allow specific players to respawn in this area.
Share Options Who may build, deconstruct, and mine in this area.
- Share with house: Members of your house may build, deconstruct, and mine in this area. This works even if you are not the house leader.
- Share with keygroups: Share with the iron, silver, or gold keygroups.
- Share with Characters: Allow specific players to build, deconstruct, and mine in this area.
Buildable Block
Wood Claim Block
12 Timber + 
4 Wooden Sticks
Stone Claim Block
Claim Block 20 Large Stone + 4 Wooden Sticks
Taxation
When initially constructed, the claim block will provide one hour of protection. You must "feed" it items in order to increase the protection time; you may back pay your taxes for up to seven real days. This is a comprehensive table of item-to-time ratios for claim blocks when paying taxes. It also displays a "quality" in terms of ease of acquisition of the item, when compared with the amount of time granted.
| Item Name | Time Added | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Bandage | 40 | C |
| Berries | 20 | C |
| Bread | 29 | B |
| Cabbage | 20 | C |
| Flax Straws | 20 | D |
| Flour Sack | 96 | C |
| Goulash | 240 | F |
| Herbs | 20 | C |
| Iron Ingot | 240 | C |
| Iron Ore | 40 | D |
| Large Stone | 20 | B |
| Linen String | 48 | D |
| Log | 60 | A |
| Meat | 50 | D |
| Metal Parts | 29 | C |
| Mushrooms | 25 | C |
| Mushroom Soup | 100 | D |
| Pumpkin | 30 | C |
| Roast Meat | 60 | F |
| Roots | 10 | D |
| Roots with Shrooms | 100 | D |
| Salad | 120 | F |
| Scrap Wood Branches | 10 | A |
| Shroom Steak | 210 | B |
| Small Stone | 5 | F |
| Timber | 15 | A |
| Wheat Straws | 20 | A |
| Wooden Sticks | 4 | A |
- In above table, time is in real-life minutes for sortability.
The top five recommended fuels for your claim block are as follows:
- Wheat straw. Wheat is easily farmed once you are established, and 8 wheat grants 2h40m.
- Scrap wood branches. Stacked in 15, and unlike the 4 minute wooden sticks, grants 10 minutes each, for a total of 150 minutes per stack as opposed to 60. Excellent if you are also paying with timbers.
- Timber. Renewable, it can be gotten from the start of the game with little effort. Ounce for ounce, provides the same efficiency as logs, but can be stacked in 5's for more convenient transport and storage.
- Large stone. At 20m per stone, this can be useful if you're doing a lot of mining and not a lot of stone building. While not renewable, it is extremely abundant.
- Shroom steak. Raw ingredients grant 155 minutes, while the completed shroom steak grants 210 minutes. If you have one lying around, use it as tax as there are more nutritious foods which are easier to acquire.
Trivia
- One of every tax-usable item, when paid as tax, will grant approximately 1 day and 4 hours worth of claim time.
- 8 wheat grants 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one flour sack granting one hour 36 minutes. When cooked into four bread, 1 hour 56 minutes is granted, possibly accounting for the fuel cost.
- 10 metal parts grant 290 minutes, while 1 iron ingot only grants 240 minutes.
- Mushroom soup and Roots With Shrooms grant the exact same time as their combined ingredients, but additionally cost fuel in order to make.
- Salad and Goulash actually yield less time than their combined components.
- While it is both tedious and inefficient to run around gathering small rocks, if you need to get rid of a lot of them from either mining or digging (dirt), the claim block is happy enough to eat them.
- Contested areas will still show up as owned by you on the map.