CivcraftImport:Vault

====== Vault ======

'A typical DRO vault with a 1:1 ratio'

Introduction

A Vault is a means of safekeeping valuables in Civcraft by encasing them in some structure that impedes raiders. The typical vault design in Civcraft is that of a pyramid of diamond-reinforced obsidian blocks (DRO) located at bedrock, such that raiders must spend considerable time breaking through them in order to reach the treasures within.

Each "layer" of a DRO vault fully covers the old one, requiring a raider to break an additional DRO block or blocks before moving closer to the treasure at the heart. DRO vaults are often characterized by their width-height ratiom, or slope, with 1:1 being the most basic, and 6:5 being preferred to counter certain advanced vault-breaking tactics.

Building Vaults

DRO vaults are often characterized by their width-height ratiom, or slope, with 1:1 being the most basic, and 6:5 being preferred to counter certain advanced vault-breaking tactics. The following quick-reference table shows the number of additional DRO blocks for each layer, and the total DRO count for the entire vault as each layer is added. The numbers assume 1:1 slope with a single chest at the core, which is counted as a DRO block itself in the "Vault Total" column.

Layer Number	Additional Blocks	Vault Total
1	5	6
2	13	19
3	25	44
4	41	85
5	61	146
6	85	231
7	113	344
8	145	489
9	181	670
10	221	891
11	265	1156
12	313	1469
13	365	1834
14	421	2255
15	481	2736
16	545	3281
17	613	3894
18	685	4579
19	761	5340
20	841	6181
21	925	7106
22	1013	8119
23	1105	9224
24	1201	10425
25	1301	11726
26	1405	13131
27	1513	14644
28	1625	16269
29	1741	18010
30	1861	19871
31	1985	21856
32	2113	23969
33	2245	26214
34	2381	28595
35	2521	31116
36	2665	33781
37	2813	36594
38	2965	39559
39	3121	42680
40	3281	45961
41	3445	49406
42	3613	53019
43	3785	56804
44	3961	60765
45	4141	64906
46	4325	69231
47	4513	73744
48	4705	78449
49	4901	83350
50	5101	88451

Bedrock Layering

While most of the Civcraft map has entirely flat bedrock, certain random chunks still have a "vanilla" distribution of bedrock, which is uneven and peppered with nooks and crannies. By placing a chest in one of these nooks, one can reduce the effective number of "layers" of the vault by one or more. For especially large vaults, this can result in thousands of DRO saved given the number of layers.

World Edge Vaults

Placing a vault at the edge of the map, beyond which players are teleported back, can allow a vault using as little as half the number of DRO blocks for a given layer number. The edge of the world acts as an impossible-to-cross barrier that the builder can straddle a vault over, only having the build the side within the map border. Any player who tries to go around behind the vault will be teleported to the outside of it.

Breaking Vaults

Breaking vaults is often a time-consuming affair, executed over multiple hours with as many allies as possible, as each layer of DRO must be broken through, a slow process even with Efficiency V pickaxes. During the operation, the vaultbreakers may be subject to attack by the owners

DRO Spike

A "DRO Spike" is a method of breaking vaults over the course of multiple sessions. When a session is over, the vaultbreakers will back out of their partial hole and fill it with their own reinforced DRO. When they log in again, they can thus bypass the reinforcements on their own blocks and resume where they left off. The vault owner must either break the spike and replace it with their own DRO again, or move bypass and move the entire vault away from the spike.