Claiming & Defenses

Setting Up a Claim (Minto Guide)

This guide explains how to set up and manage land claims on a Minto-enabled Minecraft server using anchors, nodes, nests, and paper.

Claims help protect your builds, control access, and engage in the server’s raiding system.

🧱 Anchors

To safeguard your loot and structures, you must establish and maintain a claim. Anchors serve as the core of your protection system.

Protection & Governance

A few important tidbits to keep your things safe...

• Core of Your Claim
  • Acts as the central structure of your protected area — keep it secure!
  • Defines a spherical 96-block protection radius around it.

• Claim Behavior
  • Your claim is not invulnerable — attacks can still happen.
  • Visibility delay: there is a short delay before your claim appears on the 🗺️ map.

• Protection Mechanics
  • Grants HP to blocks within its radius, making them harder to break.
  • Provides protection at a daily upkeep cost of 16 emeralds.

• Anchor Breaking
  • Breaking the anchor with any tool will drop it — be cautious!

Upkeep

• Upkeep is required to maintain claim protection and prevent raiding.
• Each additional node you place within the claim increases upkeep cost.
• Manage and pay upkeep directly at your anchor to sustain claim integrity.

Player Detection

• While you are inside your claim, all nearby players will be visible on the 🗺️ map.
• Players can check if they are inside a claim by referencing the in-game tab list (<#1345417438078042154>).

For essential claiming details, refer to <#1302667172304130070>.

🧩 Nodes

Nodes strengthen and extend your claims protection

• Connecting Nodes
  • Place nodes within the anchor’s protection radius.
  • Nodes extend claim features and can represent trusted access points.

• Managing Trust
  • Use nodes to trust or untrust other players.
  • Trusted players can interact with certain blocks inside the claim (depending on access state).

🐦 Nests

Nests allow community or team-based claim sharing.

• Nest Ownership
  • A nest is a shared group that can hold access to multiple anchors and claims.
  • Players added to a nest get permissions based on their nest role.

• Collaborative Claiming
  • Claims can be assigned to a nest to share access across members.
  • Useful for factions, friends, or town setups.

📜 Paper Utility

Paper is used for in-claim access configuration.

• Changing Block Access
  • Left-click any block inside a claim while holding paper.
  • Cycle through access states:

 - None: Only players with anchor access can interact.
 - Trusted: Only trusted players and those with anchor, nest or alliance access can interact.
 - Public: Anyone can interact freely.

🔗 External Resources

These resources area technically official, yet the minto developers don't properly maintain it, often leaving it outdated

• Anchors Guide
• Nodes Guide
• Nests Guide

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This guide is part of the Minto Wiki Project. Last updated: 4 July 2025.