TEAMS, CLAIMS & BASE CORE

Teams are the backbone of QuantumRift’s player-vs-player economy. Every team is anchored by a Base Core — a placeable beacon that founds your team, protects your land, and stores your treasury. This page covers how to found a team, claim land, defend it, and everything that can happen to your Core if you don’t.

1. Forming a Team

There’s no /team create command. Instead, placing a Base Core is what founds a team — it’s a single atomic action that creates your team, spawns your Core, and claims your first chunk all at once.

Getting a Base Core item

Run /basecore to receive one Base Core item. You’ll be refused if:

• You already lead a team — disband it first.
• You’re already carrying an unplaced Core — place it before requesting another (this stops anyone from stockpiling a tradeable supply of Cores).

The item itself is a vanilla Beacon, renamed “Base Core” in gold text, with lore reading:

Place to found your team’s base. One per team. Permanent. Right-click the placed Core to upgrade, manage claims, and view team balance.

Placing it

Before the beacon is allowed to go down, the game checks that:

• You’re currently teamless (already have a Core? you can’t place a second).
• There’s open sky directly above the block — no roof of any kind, so this isn’t just “not in a cave.”
• The block directly underneath isn’t deepslate or tuff — you must be above the deepslate layer.
• The target chunk isn’t already claimed by anyone.
• You’re not inside a protected POI zone.
• The chunk isn’t sitting on a post-raid placement cooldown (see Core Destruction below).

If any check fails, the beacon is pulled back out of the world and refunded to you, along with a chat message explaining why.

On success

• Your team is automatically named “**<YourName>**’s Base” (with (2), (3), etc. appended if that name’s taken), capped at 32 characters. You can rename it later.
• You become the team’s Leader.
• A model/display entity appears on the beacon.
• You’re told: “Base Core placed — your team is founded. Right-click it to manage.”

2. Team Roles & Management

Teams use a strict four-tier hierarchy. A role can only act on someone strictly below it — an Officer can’t kick another Officer.

Member cap: base of 12, +1 per Core level from level 2 onward — so your roster tops out anywhere from 12 to 16 depending on how upgraded your Core is.

/team commands

3. Claiming Land

Claims are chunk-based (16×16 columns), bought one at a time out of the team treasury — never your personal wallet.

• **/team claim** — claims the chunk you’re currently standing in. Requires Officer+.
• **/team unclaim** — releases the current chunk. Requires Officer+. Your Core’s home chunk can never be released.
• **/team claims** — lists every chunk (x, z) your team owns.

Cost

Each purchased chunk costs:

claimBaseCost (20 credits) × claimCostMultiplier (2.0)^(n-1)

where n is the number of chunks you already own before this purchase, capped at 1,500 credits per chunk.

(Your Core’s own chunk is free and doesn’t count against this list — it’s claimed automatically at placement.)

Adjacency and caps

• New claims must share a cardinal edge (north/south/east/west) with a chunk you already own — diagonal touching doesn’t count.
• Your total chunk count is capped by your Core’s level — see the table in The Base Core. A purchase is refused once you’re at cap.
• A claim purchase also fails if: you’re not in a team, you lack the role, your team has no placed Core, the chunk’s already claimed, it’s not adjacent, or the treasury can’t cover the cost.

4. What a Claim Protects

Claimed chunks are actively defended. Inside an enemy team’s claim — meaning not your own and not an ally’s — and without admin bypass, here’s what’s blocked:

• Block placement/breaking — cancelled entirely. Out in the wilderness (unclaimed land), only Dirt, Coarse Dirt, Cobblestone, and Dirt Path can be placed at all.
• Containers — chests and other inventory holders can’t be opened by outsiders. Allies can open each other’s containers. Exception: during a post-raid loot window (see below), a defeated team’s containers go public for an hour.
• Fire — can’t spread or ignite blocks inside any claimed chunk, except player-lit flint & steel and fireballs from someone authorized in that chunk. Wilderness fire behaves like vanilla.
• Pistons and fluids — piston pushes/pulls that would move a block across an ownership boundary are cancelled. Water/lava can’t flow into a claim from outside.
• Explosions — by default, nothing (TNT, creepers, etc.) can break blocks inside any claimed chunk, shield or no shield. The one exception is a siege-tool explosion (see Siege), which can strip blocks up to its resistance tier — everything above that tier, and the Core itself, stays protected unless the shield is down.
• Raid Pickaxe — a special item that can chip away at ordinary (non-defense) blocks in an enemy claim without permission, but only while that team’s shield is down. If the shield’s up, it bounces off.
• Allies bypass build and container protection entirely inside each other’s claims.

5. The Base Core — Levels & Upgrades

The Base Core is the beacon itself. Right-click it to open the management menu: Info, Core, Upgrade, Members, Allies, Bank, Energy, Research tabs.

There are 5 levels. Upgrading costs credits from the team treasury, materials from the upgrading player’s own inventory, and water drawn from the team’s shared Reservoir.

What these stats mean:

• HP — the Core’s total hit points before it falls (see Siege).
• Chunk Cap — the max number of chunks your team can claim.
• Empire Tier Req. — the server-wide Empire campaign tier your team must reach before upgrading into that level. This ties Core progression to the overall server story, not just money.
• Research Mult. — multiplier on your team’s passive tech-research accrual.
• Member Bonus — added on top of the base 12-member roster cap.
• Energy Cap — ceiling on your team’s energy-bus power supply for machines and automation.
• Upgrade Discount — percentage off spawner/machinery upgrade costs elsewhere.
• Cost — water comes from your Reservoir (1 bucket = 1,000 units); copper/iron/diamonds must be physically carried by whoever does the upgrade; credits come out of the team treasury.

Upgrade rules

• Requires Officer+.
• Can’t upgrade mid-raid — “Your base is under raid — the Core cannot be upgraded until the attack ends.” No buying a defensive HP boost mid-fight.
• The Empire tier gate is strictly enforced: “Core level N unlocks at Empire tier T (current: C). Advance the Empire’s missions first.”
• The upgrading player must be online — their inventory is checked live.
• Upgrading does not heal the Core. Raising max HP doesn’t top off missing HP.

6. Claim Shields

The shield is a defense system layered onto the Core, managed with /shield.

• **/shield status** — shows ACTIVE/INACTIVE, banked charge, and remaining active time.
• **/shield activate <hours>** — activates the shield for a duration between 2 and 22 hours, drawn from your banked charge.
• **/shield deactivate** — turns it off early.

Charging

The shield banks charge passively, faster with fewer members online at once:

Charge ticks every 5 seconds. Maximum bankable charge is 22 hours (79,200 seconds). Activation costs 0 credits by default (an operator could change this).

What it does

While ACTIVE, the Core is fully invulnerable: explosions can’t touch it, melee punches bounce off with “Shield holds — the Core is invulnerable,” and even siege-tool blasts that would normally strip defense blocks are blocked outright. Once the shield drops, siege damage and (if the base becomes “contested”) melee punches can start draining Core HP.

7. Siege, Melee & Core Destruction

Melee “punch” damage

Outsiders can chip away at an unshielded Core by hitting it with a sword, axe or pickaxe — any tier works identically, a wooden pickaxe is just as effective as netherite. The Core is hit like a mob, not mined like a block: every left-click swing that lands on it is a hit (holding the button keeps swinging), each connecting hit drains 2 HP, throttled to one hit per attacker per second (20 ticks), with a hurt sound and a burst of crack particles so you can see it register. The block never mines out — the crack overlay is only your client’s guess and resets on its own.

Melee is a finisher, not an opener — it only works once the base is contested, meaning either an open raid window is active, or the Core took a siege-tool hit within the last 5 minutes (300 seconds).

• Punching your own Core triggers a normal self-break, not damage (see below).
• Allies cannot damage a Core at all — “You can’t damage an ally’s Core.”

Siege-tool damage

A dedicated siege explosion (cannon, ram, drill, or explosives carrying a “siege tier” tag) drains 100 HP per impact directly, and can strip away defense blocks up to its tier. All of this is gated by the shield being down.

Post-placement lock

A freshly placed Core can’t be voluntarily destroyed by its own team for 5 minutes (300 seconds) after placement — an anti-grief measure. “Core is still in its 300s post-placement lock; cannot destroy yet.”

What can destroy a Core / disband a team

What happens when a Core falls

• The team’s remaining treasury balance is paid out in full to the Leader’s personal wallet.
• All claims, defenses, and tech-research contributions are wiped.
• The team ceases to exist — members become teamless and must join or found another team.
• A 1-hour raid window opens over the former claimed chunks: containers become publicly lootable, and the chunks go on a placement cooldown — nobody, including the former owners, can plant a new Core there until it expires.

8. Alliances

• **/team ally invite <team>** / **accept <team>** / **break <team>** / **list** — Leader or Co-Leader only.
• Max 3 allies per team.
• Alliance invites live in memory and expire after the same 120-second TTL as player invites.
• Allied teams can freely walk, open containers, and interact inside each other’s claims — but still can’t damage each other’s Base Cores.

9. Treasury / Team Bank

The team treasury physically lives on the Base Core’s record, so deposits and withdrawals fail entirely if your team hasn’t placed a Core yet.

• Any member can deposit.
• Withdrawal permission is configurable by the Leader, per team, with three tiers:
  • Co-Leaders only
  • Officers and above (the default)
  • Everyone

Check the current setting with /team info — it’s shown as “Withdraw: <tier>”.

10. Core HP Visibility

Your Core’s current HP shows up as an action-bar readout — but only to players standing within 8 blocks of the Core, refreshed every second. Raiders have to physically push in close to gauge how close they are to breaking it; there’s no sniping the HP total from a distance.