Jargon
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Civ as a genre has developed its own jargon, slang, and abbreviations over the years.
Protection
- Reinforce: To protect a block from being broken or used without permission.
- Reinforcement: The material used to reinforce a block. Usually stone, iron ingots, or diamonds.
- Acid blocking: Reinforcing using a special block (typically gold) in order to remove other reinforced blocks without needing to break them the normal number of times. Typically used for griefing cleanup or removing unused structures.
- Chest vault: A secure arrangement featuring numerous reinforced chests, strategically spread to hinder raiding by increasing the time required to break multiple chests, thereby discouraging illegitimate acquisition of stored valuables.
- Dropchest: A concealed chest located in the stone layer, distanced from civilization to safeguard wealth from raiding. It can also facilitate trading when shared with another player.
Trading
- Shop chest: A chest configured with ItemExchange. Left-click with empty hand to cycle through possible trades, and left-click with an item to perform the current trade.
- Compacted: Items can be compacted via a compactor. A compacted item is equivalent to a stack of that item. For example, a compacted item of ender pearls is equivalent to 16 ender pearls, and a compacted item of dirt is equivalent to 64 dirt. Bulk raw materials are typically traded in compacted quantities.
- Crate: Disposable item used to compact a stack of items in a compactor.
- ci: Quantity abbreviation for a compacted item, equivalent to a stack of its uncompacted form. Example — “32ci of clay blocks” — 32 compacted items of clay blocks, equivalent to 32×64 clay blocks.
- cs: Abbreviation for a stack of compacted items, equivalent to a stack of stacks of the uncompacted form. Example — “2cs of clay blocks” — 2 compacted stacks of clay blocks, equivalent to 2×64×64 clay blocks.
- i: Abbreviation for iron ingots, in the context of trade. Example — “this costs 10i” — the item costs 10 iron ingots
- d: Abbreviation for diamonds, in the context of trade. Example — “that costs 20d” — the item costs 20 diamonds
- sc / dc: Abbreviation for a single chest or a double chest of items respectively, in the context of trade. 1sc is equivalent to 27 stacks of items, and 1dc is equivalent to 54 stacks of items. Not to be confused with compacted items or compacted stacks
Combat
- Kiting: Using speed potions to travel quickly across the map while in a combat situation, usually to retreat with pearled players.
- Layers: The number of layers of DRO in a vault spike. A "30 layer" vault spike means one has to mine through 30 pieces of DRO to access the pearl chest.
- Pearling: The act of killing another player to obtain their Pearl.
- Pots: Potions used in combat, such as health, speed, regen, and strength. Debuff potions such as slowness or weakness are sometimes included.
- Prot pinata: A player wearing prot who can’t fight well. "Pinata" as they effectively deliver their gear to the enemy after dying.
- Prot: Usually refers to a full set of Protection IV diamond armor. This is generally the minimum requirement to be effective in PvP.
- Skybridge: A bridge in the sky used to break bastions without having to break through the rest of the vault defenses so that attackers can focus on pearling the defenders and mining through the spike.
- Logbox: Enclosed box of reinforced blocks (usually obsidian) around the coordinates of a logged out player. Intended to immobilize them for a period upon logging in.
- DRO / IRO / SRO: Abbreviation for diamond, iron, and stone reinforced obsidian respectively. Typically used in secure structures, or to annoy other players with hard-to-remove blocks.
- Rings: Obsidian trenches, usually IRO but sometimes SRO, which surround a vault spike and are used to defend against a ground-based assault.
- Skybunker: An obsidian bunker, usually above a vault, used to defend against skybridges.
- Spike: A line through the obsidian pyramid at the center of a vault, diamond reinforced on a separate shared group, to allow sharing access to the chest containing pearls.
- Trench: Used for protection of cities and vaults. Dug very deeply, often to bedrock, and bastioned to prevent bridging, so that access to the contained area can be tightly controlled.
- Pot bunker: An IRO or DRO room made to enable people to heal, repair armor, and get new pots during fighting outside of a vault.
Conversation
- Claim: Either a land claim of a nation, or a demand for reparations from someone (as in "Post claims on <player>").
- Crayon Claim: Excessively large land claim that is not enforced in-game.
- EOTW: End of the world. Refers to the end of a Civ server.
- Gank: Surprise attack, usually with an advantage on the attackers side.
- HCF: Hard core factions, the gamemode of a popular PvP server whose members invaded Civcraft in the HCF Invasion.
- Newfriend: A new player to the Civ genre.
- Oldfriend: Experienced player who has been playing Civ for several years.
- OMN: One man nation. A nation inhabited by a single player.
- Pearled / Permapearled / Perma: Pearled means being imprisoned inside of a pearl, adding "perma" or by itself means being pearled permanently.
- Proof: Used by individuals who believe themselves to be innocent against accusations of shittery, often asking if there is any basis behind the accusation.
- Shitter: Players who do shitty things ingame and add nothing to the community. Can also be used as an adjective.
- SOTW: Start of the world. Refers to the start of a new Civ server.
- Superfriend: A player with some level of in-game moderation powers on a server. Unlike an admin, superfriends can still play on the server.
- WP / Weepee: World Police.
- Delusional: Slang commonly used to imply that the speaker thinks the person being described is making fictional things up in their head and treating them as true.
- Dotposting / .: A period on its own used as slang, indicating that the speaker things the replied-to content is regrettable or stupid.
- Hsm: Slang abbreviation for “wholesome.”
- Mineman / e-legos: Slang description used to refer to Minecraft or Civ.
Other
- Bot: An account running an automated script designed to perform resource gathering tasks, such as farming, mining, or clearing land.
- Exile pearl / Prison pearl: Different variants of a Pearl.
- Grief: The deliberate placement or destruction of unsightly blocks to deface a structure or area, typically undertaken to inflict damage easily.
- Obby bomb: Covering something that doesn't belong to you in SRO, as a form of griefing. Often used to refer to a hostile entity placing significant amounts of obsidian on a city.
- POS: "Pearl on sight", used to mark a player as a criminal or threat.
- Raider: A player who is known for murdering or stealing, usually by breaking into chests.
- Waterbomb: Covering land in a large wall of water, as a form of griefing. Typically done outside of cities to avoid bastions. Waterbombs may prove difficult to prosecute, as the method of attack involves avoiding snitches.