Claimseal | Land Claims & Disputes v1.0.0

Claimseal
Claimseal is a chunk-based land claim plugin with a permanent audit trail and automatic dispute resolution. Players claim the ground they stand on, trust friends to build with them, and every change is written to a log that cannot be edited in-game. When two players contest the same chunk, Claimseal settles it on the spot using the priority rules you choose, so staff never have to referee a land argument.

Built for: Survival, SMP, Skyblock.



How claiming works
A claim is a single 16 by 16 chunk. Stand anywhere in it and run /claim claim to take it. One chunk always has exactly one owner, which is what lets a dispute resolve to a single winner. Inside a claim, only the owner and trusted members can build, open containers, and use doors and switches. Wilderness outside claims is never touched, so redstone and farms behave exactly as vanilla. Releasing a claim takes two confirmations, so it never happens by accident.

The audit trail
Every claim, unclaim, trust change, dispute, and admin action is written to a permanent per-chunk log with the actor, the timestamp, and a short detail. Nothing in it can be edited from in-game. The log survives a chunk changing hands, so the full history of a piece of land is always visible.



Automatic dispute resolution
When a player believes a chunk should be theirs, they stand in it and run /claim dispute. Claimseal does not open a ticket. It reads an ordered list of priority rules from the config, applies the first one that favors a side, records the outcome, and tells both players why. The available rules are inactivity (owner has not logged in for X days), staff-priority (higher claimseal.priority weight wins), claim-balance (fewer total claims wins), and possession (owner always keeps the land, a safe rule to put last). The default setup only lets a challenger take an abandoned chunk after 30 days of owner inactivity. A loser has to wait before challenging the same chunk again, so disputes cannot be spammed.

Features

• Chunk-based claiming with a clean dashboard GUI.
• Four trust levels (access, container, build, manager), editable in a menu or by command.
• Block, container, and interaction protection for claimed land.
• A permanent, per-chunk audit log browsable in a menu.
• Automatic dispute resolution with owner-configurable priority rules.
• A dispute history menu for players and staff.
• Per-world and per-player claim limits, raisable by permission.
• Optional PlaceholderAPI placeholders for claim counts and chunk ownership.
• Full config and messages files with a live reload command.
• SQLite storage with saves pushed off the main thread.

Commands
Base command /claimseal, aliases /claim and /land.

• /claim menu - open the claim dashboard.
• /claim claim - claim the chunk you are standing in.
• /claim unclaim - release the chunk (confirm twice).
• /claim trust <player> [level] - trust a player, default level build.
• /claim untrust <player> - remove a trusted player.
• /claim info - show who owns the current chunk.
• /claim audit - open the audit log for the current chunk.
• /claim dispute - contest the claimed chunk you are standing in.
• /claim disputes - open your own dispute history.
• /claim admin delete - remove any claim you are standing in.
• /claim admin transfer <player> - hand a claim to another player.
• /claim admin disputes - open the server's full dispute history.
• /claim reload - reload config and messages live.

Permissions

• claimseal.use - claim chunks and manage your own claims. Default: everyone.
• claimseal.dispute - open a dispute against a claim. Default: everyone.
• claimseal.admin - admin tools, reload, manage any claim. Default: op.
• claimseal.limit.<number> - raises a player's total claim cap to at least that number.
• claimseal.priority.<number> - sets a player's dispute priority weight, used by the staff-priority rule.

Configuration
config.yml is fully commented and covers claim caps (total and per-world), which worlds allow claiming, container and interaction protection toggles, the dispute rule order and its cooldown and inactivity thresholds, and audit log size and retention. messages.yml holds every player-facing line in MiniMessage format. Run /claim reload after editing, no restart needed.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21 to 26.1.2.
• Paper, Spigot, or Bukkit.
• Java 21.
• Optional: PlaceholderAPI.

Installation

1. Drop Claimseal-1.0.0.jar into your plugins folder.
2. Start the server once to generate config.yml and messages.yml.
3. Edit config.yml to taste, then run /claim reload.

Try it first
Claimseal is live on our test server, hosted here on BuiltByBit. Use the test server link on this page to connect and try the claiming, trust, audit, and dispute tools yourself.

Support
Questions and bug reports are welcome. Join the No Click Studios Discord at https://discord.gg/drBwA958bn.