Creating a fresh new world to explore? Creativerse offers a set of world options that you, the world owner, can use to protect your new world before you even set foot inside.

At the same time you pick that perfect world name and description, you can choose a world password. Setting a good password will ensure that only you and those players you share the password with can join your world. This is the simplest and most powerful way you can protect your world.

As you create your world, you can also click the Advanced Options button to select any of these world rules:

• Everyone Defaults to Visitor
  After you, any new visitors to your world, invited or uninvited, will have have visitor permissions: they can not interact. dig, or cause damage. It will be up to you or a world admin to promote them to builder status.
  
  
• PVP Disabled
  Are you looking for a peaceful world, free of player-on-player stone sword bludgeoning and rimecones to the eye? This is the option for you.
  
  
• Explosives Disabled
  By selecting this option, you'll make sure that not even a single block can be harmed by TNT in your world. Careful, though! Fire, ice, and other non-TNT bombs will continue to explode as advertised.

Would you like to set one of these world options for a world you've already started? No problem!

From in the game, press escape. On the World Info panel on the right, you can click the edit icon to edit your world's basic info, including its name and password. From there, clicking the Advanced Options button will bring up the world options menu!

Besides the world options that affect your interactions with other players, there are a couple optional settings that can shape gameplay for anyone who joins your world. These options apply to anyone that plays in your world, and are marked as "creation only," so they can't be changed once they're set.

• Peaceful Mode
  If you're generally in favor of the constant threat of Trogg attacks, then leave this setting alone. Worlds set to 'Peaceful Mode' are filled with passive mobs, which will never attack you unless you pick a fight first.
  
  
• Recipes Don't Carryover
  This option is pre-selected for you. When your recipes don't carry over, you'll start out in the world at the very beginning of the crafting progression -- even if you've unlocked tons of blocks in some other world. If you deselect this option, you'll immediately have access to all the recipes you've unlocked before. Note: This option doesn't apply to recipe packs from the store or rare recipes you've found in treasure chests. You'll always remember those, no matter what this setting says.
  
  
• Claims Enabled
  This setting allows players in your world to purchase claims. Claims are patches of land with their own set of permissions and rules - if you own a claim you can make sure everything you build there is safe and protected. See the 'Claims' section below for more.

As a player in a Creativerse world, you have access to a set of commands that can be used to control how players may access and interact with the world and the players within. At any time, you can type /help in the chat window to see the list of available commands. Let's look a few of them:

• /help
  Returns a list of the available commands.
  
  
• /request
  Used by a player with visitor status to request a promotion to builder.
  
  
• /promote [admin|mod|builder|visitor]
  Brings up a list of players in the world and allows setting a player's permission level.
  
  
• /mute [minutes]
  Brings up a list of players in the world that may be muted; they will be unable to send chat messages for as long as you specify. The default is 5 minutes.
  
  
• /kick [minutes]
  Brings up a list of players in the world that may be kicked out of the world; they will be unable to re-join for as long as you specify. The default is 5 minutes.
  
  
• /ban
  Brings up a list of players in the world that may be banned from the world; they will not be able to join again unless they are unbanned.
  
  
• /unban
  Brings up a list of banned players that may be unbanned.
  
  
• /permissions
  Shows your current permissions level (visitor, builder, mod, admin, or owner). Let's take a quick look at the actual capabilities of each of these levels:
  
  
  Visitor

  Builder

  Mod

  Admin

  Owner

  Explore

  

  

  

  

  

  Interact

  

  

  

  

  Build

  

  

  

  

  Fight

  

  

  

  

  /Kick

  

  

  

  /Mute

  

  

  

  /Ban

  

  

  /Promote

  

  

  Remove Touchstones

  

  

  Unbannable

  
  
  To sum up, a visitor can't do much of anything other than look around. A builder has the default set of permissions -- they can build and interact with the world normally. A mod can kick and mute players, but can not ban. Admins can do everything, and the world owner is like an admin that can never be banned.
  
  
• /who
  Returns a list of everyone currently playing in your world.
  
  
• //
  A useful bonus command! Gives your current world coordinates in the (x, y, z) format. Here's how you would read a coordinate set of (1000, 50, -4000), as an example:
  
  The first number gives your east-west location. 1000 means you are 1000 blocks east of the center of the map (a negative number would indicate west). The second number gives your height. 50 means you are 50 blocks above the bottom of the world. The last number is your north-south alignment. -4000 means you are 4000 blocks south of the center of the map (a positive number would indicate north).

Chests and other interactable blocks have a permissions setting that can be set by their owner. Let's say you place down a processor (or a teleporter, etc...) -- that means you're officially the processor's owner, and have full control over who else can use it.

To adjust permissions settings, interact with it (usually by right-clicking or hitting 'F') and click the lock icon in the top right. That'll bring up a menu with five permissions settings:

• Just Me
  
• World Owners / Admins
  
• World Mods
  
• Builders
  
• Everyone

The different permissions levels are pretty self-explanatory, but note that no matter the setting, world owners and admins always have access.

Claims are a world protection tool added in R29. With claims, players have the ablity to totally protect 64x64 block areas of the world with individually-set permissions and rules.


First, make sure you're in a world created after R29 (launched February 24, 2016) and that claims are enabled (an advanced world setting - see the section on World Settings above). Claims can be claimed from the world map - hit 'M' to bring that up.


Click the claim you want and pay resources or coins to claim it for yourself.

Within your claim, you'll have total contol over default permissions, explosives, and PvP settings. And if one claim isn't enough? You can currently control up to 24 claims per world - and with the size of Creativerse worlds, there are tens of thousands of claim plots to choose from.

Once you've claimed some land, the shimmering wall pictured to the right lets everyone else know: "hands off!"

What if you like the idea of a PvP world, where anything goes? Here are a few simple tips that just might help keep you safe from... the griefer!

grief·er

/ɡrēfər/
noun
A griefer is a player in a multiplayer video game who deliberately irritates and harasses other players within the game, using aspects of the game in unintended ways. A griefer derives pleasure primarily or exclusively from the act of annoying others. (wikipedia)

Creativerse worlds are big. How big? If every block is a real-world square meter, a Creativerse world contains enough blocks to stack all the way from Earth to the moon a few times. If you don't want a griefer to find you, there are a whole lot of places to hide.

However, your touchstone offers players a one-way ride straight to your doorstep! If you're trying to stay off the grid, try setting your touchstone to stealth mode: Right-click or press F to interact with your touchstone. Deselect the "Allow other players to travel here" option and your touchstone will only be available for you.

Teleporters have three ID slots to allow for a huge variety of unique identifiers. If you're using teleporters, the more unique the code, the less likely anyone is to stumble across it by accident. A teleporter with an ID of "Stone, Stone, Stone" is pretty likely to be accessed, even by accident, but a teleporter coded "Chizzard Gizzard, Thatched Roof, Lumite Rod" is pretty much immune to being guessed.

Maybe you don't want to hide. Maybe you want to fight back! Get to know the arsenal of weapons, potions, and explosives available to you in Creativerse. In a PvP world, you never know when you'll need to stun, poison, and Force Bomb your opponent into oblivion.

Combat Phase 1: Get Strong

"To be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.” - Sun Tzu

Preparation can be the key to victory. Keep Advanced Potions stockpiled so you're extra hard to defeat. If you've been sipping a Health Regeneration Potion you'll auto-heal, leaving you free to dish out punishment. And for lunch consider a Mushroom Sandwich (bread + veggies + mushies) - it grants health and additional healing over time.

Combat Phase 2: Throw Stuff

Sure, you can rely on your sword, but your opponent's got one of those, too. Get a range advantage by collecting some deceptively-dangerous projectiles. You'll find rimecones near Elderwood trees. Snowcubes happen when you drop snow in a processor. And goo (dropped by mobs or processable from mold) can net you a gloopy tactical advantage.

Combat Phase 3: Your Explosive Arsenal

Creativerse provides a powerful suite of explosive options for the discerning PvPer. Armor-piercing Bombs and Explosives Bombs will weaken and damage your opponent. Force Bombs will send your opponent sailing. And stun bombs give you a stunning combat advantage you won't want to pass up.