Claiming Guide

An explanation all about claiming your spaces before the building period.

Calico Calico • Thu May 15 2025 • Edited: Sun May 25 2025
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What is a Claim?

Claims are guidelines to show the space that you will be showcasing your mod. Claims do not include

Claims are used to give others guidelines for where elements may be, please do connect with your neighbors to make sure that they are happy with your own claims being around.

How do I claim a booth?

As soon as the Testing Phase starts, the Mod Garden Team will provide a Server IP to connect to for participants to claim booths on. This will be the future build server.

Whilst on this server, you should only ever use it to claim your booth, doing anything else on this server is not appreciated during this time.

The Types of Claims

Mod Garden utilizes three different types of claims for showing what goes where. Mod Garden’s claim types are the Booth Claim, the Path Claim and the Dressing Claim.

All claims must:

  • Be at least around 40 blocks above the general terrain of the below area.

💡 Tip

With WorldEdit, you may use the /up command to teleport yourself up a specified amount of blocks, you will have glass placed under you after the teleport, perfect for quickly getting to an elevated height.

Claims are not final and are purely just guidelines so the team can estimate how large participant’s areas are. If you have empty space or communicate with neighbors about who gets a specific space, all is fine.

Booth Claims

Booth claims are claims for showing where your mod’s content is shown off. These are typically small, but hold a lot of weight.

Booth Claims are denoted using any Wool block besides White wool.

Booth Claims must:

  • Have an entrance distinguished with White Wool. These entrance markers should typically be 3 or 5 blocks long depending on the size of your booth.
  • Have a Glowcase Text Block denoting the name of the mod, as well as who the author of the mod is.

Path Claims

Path claims are claims for

Dressing Claims

Dressing claims are claims for set dressing, this would be any thematic rebuilding of an area that is not relevant to the showcase area of the mod.

These can be as large as you wish within reason and will typically stem from what would originally be a booth area.

Dressing Claims are denoted using Glass Panes

Dressing Claims must:

  • Make sure its obvious as to which booth claim(s) they originate from.

Examples

Affectionate Booth Example A valid, small standard shape for claiming a booth (156m²).

Bovines and Buttercups Booth Example A valid, medium, non-standard shape for claiming a booth (870m²).

Evil Destroyer Booth Example A valid, large, non-standard shape for claiming a booth (1682m²).

Missing Wilds Booth Example An invalid booth claim as it is too close to the ground. (Requires a minimum of around 40 blocks off the ground).