Category:Settlements

A settlement is a distinct location wherein players have gathered. Typically, they comprise of various buildings, which are commonly unified in a building theme. Most buildings are either houses or perform a function for players.

Settlements as Builds

MCO rules do not differentiate between regular builds and settlements/villages/towns/cities. In all cases, they are merely builds started by a player and then added on to by other players.

On MCO, if a PlayerA starts a build and a PlayerB adds to it, PlayerA is considered to own the entire build:

• If PlayerB did not have PlayerA's permission, it's considered "Addition Grief",
  • PlayerB may be banned for it.
  • PlayerA is allowed to keep or remove the grief from his build.

• If PlayerB DID have PlayerA's permission, it's considered a contribution to PlayerA's build,
  • PlayerB will not be banned even if PlayerA doesn't like the addition.
  • PlayerA owns the entire build and may modify it at will.
  • PlayerB may continue to modify the build until PlayerA revokes permissions.

Ownership

• The Town Owner is the original builder of the settlement who placed the first blocks in naturally-generated terrain.
• The Town Owner only owns player-placed blocks, and so cannot lay claim to areas of naturally generated terrain except by building or modifying the natural terrain.
  • Walling in natural terrain does not grant ownership of the natural terrain. Only the wall itself.
  • If you want to lay claim to an area, you must place all the blocks in that area. This is called "Terraforming" in MCO terms.
• The Town Owner retains ownership of the entire build even in the event that contributors end up placing more blocks than the original owner.
• Contributors cannot hijack a build by building more than the Town Owner, as all those blocks would have been grief were it not for the Town Owner having granted addition/modification permissions.

Contributions

• A Contribution is any addition or modification to the build which would be considered grief or addition grief if done without the Owner's permission.
• All contributions are considered donations to the original build, become part of the original build, and so remain owned by the Town Owner.
  • This is similar to building a statue and having a player assist by building one of the statue's arms. The contributor does not own the arm of the statue. The original builder owns the whole thing.
  • Further contributions to previous contributions extend the build and extend the Town Owner's ownership.
• Even builds which do not directly contact blocks from the original build can be considered contributions if their placement would fall under the definition of addition grief by blocking the progress of the build.

Contributors

• A contributor is someone who had made additions or modifications to the original build with the owner's permissions.

Permissions

• The Town Owner can grant and revoke permissions to contribute to the build.
• Contributors have permissions to the entire build unless revoked by the owner.
• Contributors cannot revoke permissions from the Town Owner.
• The Town Owner can set Town Rules which determine who will and will not have permissions to the build,
  • Such Town Rules only affect who will and will not be permitted to contribute, but cannot override or add to MCO rules in doing so.

• If a Town Owner revokes permissions, any further modification by the Contributor is considered grief and is bannable.

Advice

• The town owner should not grant permissions to players they are not comfortable building with.
• The Contributor should not contribute to a town if they want to retain sole ownership of their build separate from the Town Owner

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See also

• category:Buildings
• category:Warps