Factions Plugin Info

Please Note this was taken from the official Factions page!

The Chat Commands

The chat console command is /f
This command has sub commands like this:
/f alias,alias,alias [parameter] *[optional parameter]
You may use any of the aliases. They point to the same command.

These are the commands for the normal players:

/f help,h,? [page] – Display a help page
/f list,ls *[page] – Show a list of the factions
/f show,who [faction tag] – Show detailed information on a certain faction
/f map *[on|off] – Show an ascii-art map of the nearby territory. Per default it will render only when you use the command. If you specify on or off you will toggle if the map should render every once in a while.
/f power *[player name] – Show either your own power or another player’s power
/f join [faction name] – Join a faction
/f leave – Leave your faction
/f chat,c – Switch faction only chat on and off
/f home – Teleport to the faction home
/f create [faction tag] – Create a new faction with you as admin
/f desc [desc] – Change the faction description
/f tag [faction tag] – Change the faction tag
/f open – Switch if invitation is required to join
/f invite,inv [player name] – Invite a player
/f deinvite,inv [player name] – Remove a pending invitation
If your faction is closed invitations are required to join the faction.
/f sethome – Set the faction home
/f claim – Claim the land where you are standing (only the faction admin and mods can do this)
/f autoclaim – Start auto-claiming land as you walk around
/f unclaim, declaim – Unclaim the land where you are standing
/f owner [player name] – Set/remove ownership of a 16×16 claimed territory.
/f ownerlist – View a list of owners for the current area. Only works inside your own faction’s territory.
/f kick [player name] – Kick a player from the faction.
/f mod [player name] – Give or revoke moderator rights to one of the members of the faction. You must be faction admin to do this.
/f admin [player name] – Hand over your admin rights to another member.
/f title [player name] [title] – Set or remove a players title.
/f ally [faction name]
/f neutral [faction name]
/f enemy [faction name]
/f money b,balance - show faction bank balance
/f money d,deposit <amount> - deposit money into faction bank
/f money w,withdraw <amount> - withdraw money from faction bank
/f money ff <amount> <faction> <faction> - transfer money from faction to faction
/f money fp <amount> <faction> <player> - transfer money from faction to player
/f money pf <amount> <player> <faction> - transfer money from player to faction

Relations, Territory and War

The factions on the server have relations to each other. They can be ally, neutral or enemy. You choose your wished relation to another faction through a chat command.

If both factions wishes ally you will be allies.
If one faction wishes enemy you will be enemies.
You can never hurt members or allies (friendly fire is always off).
You can not hurt neutrals in their own territory.
You can always hurt enemies and players without faction.
Damage from enemies is reduced by a certain percentage in your own territory.

Only faction members can build and destroy in their own territory. Interaction with the following items is also restricted: Wooden Door, Trapdoor, Chest, Furnace, Dispenser, and Diode. Make sure to put pressure plates in front of doors for your guest visitors. Otherwise they can’t get through. You can also use this to create member only areas. As dispensers are protected you can create traps without worrying about those arrows getting stolen.

Every player has “power”. The power can at most be 10 and at least be -10. If you die you lose 2 power. Note that it doesn’t matter at all how you die. You can be killed by an enemy or drown in sand. In either case you will lose 2 power. The power will be restored over time, but only while the player is online; while offline, their power will not regenerate. It takes 5 min for 1 power to be restored while online. You will also lose 1 power for every 24 hours offline.

The power of a faction is the sum of all member power. Every power grants the faction right to claim one land/chunk. You can claim land from a faction if it has to low power.
For example:

A faction with two healthy players, Luna and DarkMaze, had a faction named Midnight. The faction Midnight had 20 power. This was because the members had 10 power each and 10+10 is 20. They claimed as much territory as they could (20 minecraft chunks that is). Then Luna went and drowned in lava. As Luna died she lost 2 power. After that she had only 8 / 10 power and the faction Midnight had 18 power as 8 + 10 = 18. At this time Midnight had more land than they could handle (20/18). Then their enemy Solar took the chance to claim some of their land. He managed to claim 2 chunks of their territory. Then he could not claim more as Midnight now had (18/18) land.


Safe Zones

The server admins can create safe zones. These zones can not be claimed by other factions. PVP is turned off and monsters may not spawn or hurt players there.

War Zones

Server admins can also create war zones, somewhat similar to safe zones. These zones however are not safe from PVP and monsters. Further, they have friendly fire enabled (PVP between allies and faction members).

Individual Ownership of Territory

For territory that has been claimed by a faction, the faction admin (and possibly faction moderators) can further specify ownership of any claimed territory to anyone within the faction using the /f owner [player name] command. This ownership will limit access to the territory to only those in the owner list, along with the faction admin and faction moderators. In general, these owned areas will extend the same protections which faction territory provides against those not in the faction to also protect against normal members of your own faction.
This can be used to provide private ownership of particular areas, or to provide a storage area for the faction admin and moderators which is safe against in-faction griefers.