# Claiming Guide You can claim areas by using a **Golden Shovel**, one is available in `/kits`. Equipping the shovel shows you how many blocks you can claim in the chat. There are various ways you can increase how many claim blocks you can have: * Every 20-30 seconds you will receive 1 claim block. * You can purchase claim blocks in the `/shop` * You can purchase claim blocks in the `/voteshop` * You can get claim blocks in various crates at `/warp crates` * You can purchase claim blocks in the `/store` ## Creating The Claim The area will be a box, you will have to right click the Golden Shovel where you want one corner to be, then right click where you want the opposite corner to be. You will see golden particles indicating the border of your claim, these are only visible with the Golden Shovel in your main hand. To check if a certain area is claimed, **right-click** an area with a Stick. This will show you if a person has made a claim there or not.

The Golden Particles Indication A Claim Has Been Made

## Accessing The Flan Menu \ **Global Permissions** - General rules for anyone in your territory that aren't in a permission group, you can prevent people entering at all, prevent certain actions etc. Anything you set to true or false will allow/prevent ANYONE to perform those actions.

**Permission Groups** - There are two groups you can place players in, and that's **Co-Owner** and **Visitor.** In order to add a **Visitor** you can click on the paper called Visitor and then click add, then type the username of the player you want to add to the visitor group. Visitors can open doors and explore but not much else, they cannot open chests or build. Right click on the paper instead to edit the permissions for the group, you can grant visitors more permissions this way. You can also add a whole new group and set the permissions for that instead. If you screw up anything too badly or it bugs out, you can delete the claim and claim the area again to reset everything to default\ \ If you want to skip this and want to add a **Co-Owner,** which we allow a player to build, open chests and basically have access to mainly everything in the claim, you can simple do **/trust \**, replacing \ with the username of the player you wish to add.

## Creating a Subclaim A subclaim is a claim inside of a claim. Subclaims have their own permission and group sets that override the parent claim they are in (no you cannot create a subclaim inside a subclaim). Subclaim permissions have an additional value "default" instead of just true and false which simply redirects that permission back to the parent claim. To create a subclaim switch to subclaim mode using the command **/flan switchMode.** Then use the golden shovel the same way you create a normal claim. Opening the subclaim menu and editing subclaim permissions requires you to be in subclaim mode as well.

Subclaims Will Have Gray Particles Indicating Its Border

Commands	Description
`/flan menu`	Access a menu that lets you set permissions for the claim you are currently standing in
`/trust <player>`	Give the specified user full co-owner status in the claim you’re currently standing in
`/untrust <player>`	Removes co-owner from the specified user for the claim you’re currently standing in
`/flan delete`	Deletes the claim you are currently standing in
`/flan delete subclaim`	Deletes the subclaim you are standing in
`/flan switchmode`	Changes your shovel to create subclaims. These are areas within your claim that can have different permissions from the rest of it, for instance you can create a visitor friendly area and a restricted area
`/flan transferclaim <player>`	Transfers ownership of the claim your standing in to a specified player
`/flan list`	Lists your claims and the coordinates of their locations. Good for finding forgotten or lost claims

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