Block reinforcement: Difference between revisions

Block reinforcement is a "soft" method of protecting your property in multiplayer. It allows you to reinforce most hard blocks, requiring other players to break the block multiple times (up to 800 times!) before it actually breaks and drops. There are also locks which let you lock doors and chests, which can be used in combination with reinforcing the door or chest itself.

Reinforcement is an immersive way to protect your placed blocks.  It has a high material cost but is worthwhile for your high-value blocks.  It can also be used for random blocks in the world (e.g. ores or translocator or wild beehive, though servers could make rules against doing that if it is seen as unfair).  Effectively reinforcement 'tags' the block so that another player who tries to break the block will at least be informed that it is reinforced.  For materials which require a tool to break, it will take a very long time to break a reinforced block and will have a substantial tool cost.  For blocks which break without a tool, there is no significant cost, though the reinforcement is still informative as a 'Please don't touch' notice.  (Any additional consequences for breaking another player's reinforced block may depend on server rules.)  In this way reinforcement ought to discourage casual griefing and accidental breakage.  It will not, however, deter a determined griefer.

Servers have the option making reinforcement more secure by giving players the privilege <code>denybreakreinforced</code>: this will prevent players from being able to break other player's reinforced blocks using any tool.  Other game systems such as fire or explosions or landslides or cave-ins can still destroy some reinforced blocks, however.

Hard blocks are defined as anything made out of '''stone''', '''metal''', '''wood''',  '''clay''' or '''ceramic''', also regular '''dirt blocks''' and '''ice'''.  Every '''chiselled block''' can be reinforced, it doesn't matter about the material.  '''Fences''' and '''doors''' and '''chests''' are constructed of wood and can therefore be reinforced.  '''Reed baskets''' can be reinforced.  The solid wood trunks and branches of growing trees can be reinforced, growing '''bamboo''' can be reinforced (these are all wood).  Exceptionally, even though they are plants, '''berry bushes''', '''saplings''' and most '''flowers''' can be reinforced - in real life a precious one might be chained or attached to metal stakes or similar.  Even small wooden or ceramic objects or placed lanterns or bunch o' candles can be reinforced - think of it as bolting that thing down firmly!

* Craft yourself a plumb and square