🛡️Protections
We focus on non-invasive methods of anti-grief measures. Check them out below!
🛡️ Protections
We use non-invasive protection systems designed to keep your builds and belongings safe without restricting the freedom of Survival.
Rather than requiring players to claim chunks or surround their builds with invisible borders, we automatically protect many important blocks and entities as you place them.
Land & Building Protection
Our server does not use a traditional land-claim system.
We intentionally avoid dividing the Survival world into restrictive plots, chunks, or claim borders. Players are free to explore, settle, expand, and build naturally throughout the world without managing claim blocks or constantly expanding a protected region.
Instead, protection is focused on the things that matter most: your containers, interactive blocks, decorative entities, and other player-owned objects.
Many of these are automatically made private when you place them.
Where Can I Build?
You are generally free to build anywhere that is not already being actively used by another player.
When choosing somewhere to settle, use common sense and respect the space of other players.
Avoid building directly beside, inside, or on top of another player's settlement or project.
If an area clearly appears active or developed, give that player reasonable room to continue expanding.
Roads, farms, decorations, infrastructure, storage areas, and partially completed builds may all indicate that an area is actively being used.
If you're unsure whether an area has been abandoned or is available, contact the player or ask a staff member to check.
If there are no reasonable signs that another player is using an area, you're generally free to build there.
Not sure?
Ask a staff member before building. We're happy to help determine whether an area is actively being used.
What If There Is a Dispute?
The absence of land claims does not mean that another player's builds or property are free to modify.
Staff can investigate disputes involving:
Griefing
Theft
Building overlap
Destruction or modification of another player's work
Intentionally interfering with another player's settlement
When necessary, staff may use server logs and rollback tools to determine what happened and restore affected builds.
Intentionally griefing, stealing from, modifying, or deliberately crowding another player's established property may result in staff action.
Our goal is simple: provide as much building freedom as possible without forcing every player to manage claims, borders, or complicated land-protection systems.
Automated Protection
Many blocks and entities on mcGalaxy are automatically made private when placed or spawned by a player.
The player who places the protected object becomes its owner and can manage who else is allowed to access it using the /protect commands documented below.
Containers & Blocks
The following blocks are automatically protected when placed.
Decorated Pots
Furnaces
Crafters
Blast Furnaces
Shulker Boxes
Smokers
Anvils
Dispensers
Cauldrons
Droppers
Ender Chests
Barrels
Standing Signs
Brewing Stands
Wall Signs
Composters
All Hanging Signs
Beacons
All Doors
Jukeboxes
All Trapdoors
Noteblocks
Fence Gates
Lecterns
Banners
Chiseled Bookshelves
Chests
Hoppers
Trapped Chests
These protections can be modified by the owner to allow other players, groups, or supported access sources to use them.
Entities
Many player-spawned or player-placed entities are also automatically protected.
Armor Stands
Dark Oak Chest Boats
Item Frames
Jungle Chest Boats
Glowing Item Frames
Mangrove Chest Boats
Paintings
Oak Chest Boats
Leash Knots
Pale Oak Chest Boats
Acacia Chest Boats
Spruce Chest Boats
Bamboo Chest Rafts
Chest Minecarts
Birch Chest Boats
Furnace Minecarts
Cherry Chest Boats
Hopper Minecarts
Like protected blocks, these entities can be managed by their owner using the protection system.
Protection Commands
The /protect command allows you to inspect, lock, unlock, share, transfer, and otherwise manage protected blocks and entities.
/protect info
View information about a protected container or entity.
Use this when you want to check the protection or ownership information for an object.
/protect lock
Lock an unprotected container or entity.
/protect unlock
Unlock a protected container or entity.
/protect modify [add|remove] [player|group|password] <sources...>
Add or remove access sources from a protection.
This is an advanced command that allows you to manage players, groups, or passwords associated with a protection.
See Access Levels and Sources below for additional information.
/protect edit [add|remove] <player_name>
Add or remove a player's access to a protection.
This provides a simpler way to directly share a protection with another player.
/protect trust [add|remove] [player|group|password]
Manage your trusted access list.
Depending on how the command is used, it can prompt, list, or confirm changes to trusted protection access.
/protect password <password>
Enter a password for a protection that uses a password-based access source.
/protect group (create|delete|add|remove|list) [player_names...]
Create and manage groups of players that can be used with protections.
This command can be used to:
Create a group
Delete a group
Add players
Remove players
List group information
Groups are useful when several players regularly need access to the same protections.
See /protect modify for information about applying groups to protections.
/protect transfer <player_name>
Transfer ownership of a protection you own to another player.
Be careful when transferring ownership.
Once transferred, the other player becomes the owner of that protection.
Command Options
Some advanced protection commands use Access and Source options.
These determine what someone is allowed to do and who or what receives that access.
Access Levels
Available access options:
normal · trusted · admin
Normal
Basic interaction permissions.
Interact Allows interaction with a protection.
Open Allows opening a protected container.
Trusted
Additional usage permissions.
Redstone Allows redstone interaction with a protection.
Deposit Allows items to be placed inside a protected container.
Withdraw Allows items to be removed from a protected container.
Mount Allows the player to ride a protected entity.
Admin
Protection-management permissions.
Edit Allows access to use the modify command on the protection.
Only give elevated protection access to players you trust.
Sources
Available source options:
player · group · password
Sources determine who or what is being granted access to a protection.
Player
A specific Minecraft username.
Use this when you want to grant protection access directly to an individual player.
Group
A group that you have created or have Admin access to.
Groups are useful for shared bases, towns, teams, or other situations where several players should have access to the same protections.
Password
A defined password used to access supported containers or group features.
Passwords allow access to be granted without assigning it directly to a specific player.
Need Help?
If you're unsure how to configure a protection, share something with another player, or determine whether an area is available to build in, ask a staff member.
We're happy to help before something becomes a problem.
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