# Land Claiming

### What is a Claim?

A claim is a protected area of land that belongs to you.

Inside your claim:

* No one can break or place blocks
* No one can open your chests
* No one can use buttons, doors, or farms
* You control who has access

Claims are shown with gold + glowstone borders when you use the inspection tool.

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### How to Create your First Claim

1. Use /kit claim to get a Golden Shovel, this is your main tool for creating and resizing claims.
2. Use the golden shovel to right-click two opposite corners of the area you want to protect.
3. You'll see glowing borders appear, that means your claim is created.

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### How to Resize Your Claim

1. Equip your golden shovel
2. Right-click one corner of your claim
3. Right-click the new location where you want that corner to move

The border will shift to match the new size.

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### Checking Claim Borders

Use a **stick** and **right-click** the ground.

It will show:

* Who owns the claim
* The claim boundaries
* Whether you're inside a claim or wilderness

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### Trusting Other Players

You can give players different levels of access

#### Basic Trust (Build Access)

```
/trust <player>
```

#### Container Trust (Chests & Furnaces)

```
/containertrust <player>
```

#### Access Trust (Buttons, Doors, Beds)

```
/accesstrust <player>
```

#### Manager Trust (Full Control)

```
/permissiontrust <player>
```

#### Remove Trust Access

```
/untrust <player>
```

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### Deleting a Claim

Stand inside your claim and run:

```
/abandonclaim
```

To delete all your claims:

```
/abandonallclaims
```

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### Subdividing Claims (Advanced)

You can create smaller areas inside your main claim.

1. Use the golden shovel/claim tool.
2. Run the command:

```
/subdivideclaims
```

3. Right-click two corners to create a sub-area
4. Trust players only inside that sub-area

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#### Common Problems & Fixes

"I can't claim here"

* The area might be too close to another claim
* You may not have enough claim blocks
* The area might be protected by the server

"My friend can't open chests"

* Use `/containertrust`

"I lost my claim"

* "Use `/claimslist`

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### You're Ready to Claim Land

Land claiming helps keep your builds safe and gives you full control over your space. If you need help, staff can assist you anytime!

To customise how your claim behaves, view the full list of Claim Flags with the page below:

{% content-ref url="/pages/K40edxCV1hTy96mhyOfx" %}
[Claim Flags](/survival-guides/land-claiming/claim-flags.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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