Hello, I am dydomite. For the past few weeks or so me and some friends of mine have been working on a charity project for new players. When we first joined we noticed we all spawned in the exact same place, and there was a small base thing nearby courtesy of Jackson of Nexus. We decided to squat it and develop more facilities for it so others can have a better start than we did. We've redecorated and have been working on projects to help newcomes settle into the server, i.e. lighting up the beach, publicly reinforced essential items like beds/crops, etc. We basically wanted it to be a place anybody can get on their feet, whether that means just getting food and wood for the voyage to a nearby town, or getting numerous ores and enchanted tools to go start your own efficiently.

I didn't want to have to do one of these 'land claim' things for a few reasons. First, because I think they're somewhat ridiculous and that the community taking them as seriously as it does will only create problems. I hoped to show that formalized land claims weren't necessary by making this place an area of repute despite it having no borders on a map. However, I don't think swimming against the current will do any good now. It seems to me land claims are necessary for any sense of political legitimacy regardless of whether actual development has occured. Secondly, Sanctuary was fairly covert. Most of it is underground and the above ground developments don't look like anything significant so this has helped us minimize crime/grief despite being where everybody starts. Keeping it off of maps helped maintain this advantage but recent events have meant we can't keep it secret without invalidating our claim on it.

Here are the claims for this charity project, codenamed "Santuary" for now. The circle is where the main build is and the line is a future canal project to connect the southern river systems to the eastern bay. We don't care if you want to build here, just stay 5 blocks away or so from our builds and we'll be fine. However, it is our land, and as such it is run by our rules. We won't be having any fancy shmancy statist government, just basic human decency kind of rules. I just don't want punks killing people in Sanctuary under the excuse that it's within their borders - Sanctuary is to be kept apolitical. If someone's hiding out there that gerfer your town then whatever but if Nerd Chops is in sanctuary asking to buy ice, you can't pearl/kill him under the justification that he's trespassing on your land.

This brings me to one of CivEx's latest land claim threads. People calling themselves 'The Federation' have claimed not only our area - despite it being developed - but also a majority of the jungle around the river splinter pictured. I can understand how they might not have known about this, so I'm not holding it against them. However, we do retain a stronger claim over the areas of land shown and as such we don't recognize their claims within the specified areas. Outside of that we don't really mind for now.

I hope the Federation can listen to reason so we don't have to live through another land claim drama. We're quiet neighbours and we aren't looking to be a sovereign state. The idea is that sanctuary can have nobody living in it at all and yet still serve it's purpose when some new player joins. Once this is finished the idea is to move on to another project and get volunteers from the international community - codenamed "Groundskeepers" - to simply stop by and access repair materials in a hidden groundskeeper-cache to touch up whatever grief will naturally occur over time. It will have no presence, no goals of expansion, and no political agenda of it's own. It's no threat to you, it's just a building with signs in it explaining what to do/where to go/how the server works. There's more than enough land in the area for the both of us, and we're already fine with you having the lion's share. I hope that with this The Federation will give up it's claims over those particular stretches of land and that other nations/individuals comment to say whether they recognize our claims as valid despite them not being made public first.

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