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This page explains frequentlyCiv-specific used words special to Civjargon, orslang, multiplayerand Minecraftabbreviations.
 
== MechanicsLand Protection ==
 
{{Jargon
=== Land Protection ===
|jargon=Reinforce
|redirect=Reinforce
|description=To protect a block from being broken or used without permission.
|main=Citadel
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Reinforcement
|redirect=Reinforcement
|description=The material used to [[#Reinforce|reinforce]] a block. Usually stone, iron ingots, or diamonds.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Snitch
|redirect=Snitch
|main=Snitch
|description=A [[#Reinforce|reinforced]] noteblock or jukebox that allows the owning player to be notified of and to log player behavior within the area around them.
}}
 
{{Jargon
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|redirect3=Acid_block
|description= [[#Reinforce|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 [[#Grief|griefing]] cleanup or removing unused structures.
|main=Citadel#Acid Block
}}
 
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|jargon=Bastion
|redirect=Bastion
|main_article=Bastion
|description=A special type of block that provides a protective effect over a wide area. As a verb, it means to protect something with the range of a bastion block. Typically comes in two kinds: [[#Vault_Bastion|Vault Bastion]] and [[#City_Bastion|City Bastion]].
|main=Bastion
}}
 
 
{{Jargon
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}}
 
=== Economy ===
 
{{Jargon
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|redirect=Factory
|description=A crafting station that allows for the mass production of items, as well as recipes for normally uncraftable items. Factories are typically specialised to an area of production, such as “Iron Tools” or “Redstone Mechanics.”
|main=Factory
}}
 
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}}
 
=== OtherCombat Infrastructure ===
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Alt vaultDRO/IRO/SRO
|redirect=Alt_vaultDRO_IRO_SRO
|redirect2=DRO
|description=A term used to describe a logged-out secondary account that stores valuable items within its inventory. This strategy prevents theft while the account is inactive, ensuring instant access upon logging in. This method has limitations, such as unavailability while the account is [[#Pearling|pearled]] and the requirement of real-money purchases for each account.
|redirect3=IRO
|redirect4=SRO
|description=Abbreviation for diamond/iron/stone [[#Reinforce|reinforced]] obsidian respectively. Typically used in secure structures, or to annoy other players with hard-to-remove blocks.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=AltRings
|redirect=AltRings
|description=Obsidian trenches, usually [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|IRO]] but sometimes [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|SRO]], which surround a [[#Spike|vault spike]] and are used to defend against a ground-based assault.
|description=Alternative accounts utilized by players alongside their main account. They serve various purposes, including swift logins at distant locations ("combat alt") or concealing identity for activities like [[#Raider|alt raiding]] or spying.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=BotSkybunker
|redirect=BotSkybunker
|description=An obsidian bunker, usually above a [[#Vault|vault]], used to defend against [[#Skybridge|skybridges]].
|main_article=Bot
|description=A script, often utilizing [[#Bots#Macromod|MacroMod]], designed to automate resource gathering tasks such as farming and mining. "Bot" can also refer to an [[#Alt|alternate account]] running such scripts.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Chest vaultSpike
|redirect=Chest_vaultSpike
|description=A line through the obsidian pyramid at the center of a [[#Vault|vault]], diamond reinforced on a separate shared group, to allow sharing access to the chest containing [[#Pearl|pearls]].
|description=A secure arrangement featuring numerous [[#Reinforce|reinforced]] chests, strategically spread to hinder [[#Raider|raiding]] by increasing the time required to break multiple chests, thereby discouraging illegitimate acquisition of stored valuables.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=ComponentVault
|redirect=ComponentVault
|description=A giant, reinforced obsidian structure which is used to securely hold [[#Pearl|pearls]]. These are the basis of warfare and are how people hold prisoners of war. Can also refer to just the [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|DRO]] pyramid in its center. Not suited for storing items, for that see [[#Chest_vault|Chest Vault]].
|description=Uniquely marked items employed to create bastions or the bastion factory. These items are first generated in other factories, drawing from the tech tree.
|main=Vault
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=DRO/IRO/SROTrench
|redirect=DRO_IRO_SROTrench
|description=Used for protection of cities and [[#Vault|vaults]]. Dug very deeply, often to bedrock, and [[#Bastion|bastioned]] to prevent bridging, so that access to the contained area can be tightly controlled.
|redirect2=DRO
}}
|redirect3=IRO
 
|redirect4=SRO
{{Jargon
|description=Refers to diamond/iron/stone [[#Reinforce|reinforced]] obsidian respectively. Used in secure structures usually for storage or defense.
|jargon=Pot bunker
|redirect=Pot_bunker
|description=An [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|IRO or DRO]] room made to enable people to heal, repair armor, and get new [[#Pots|pots]] during fighting outside of a [[#Vault|vault]].
}}
 
== Slang ==
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Delusional
|redirect=Delusional
|description=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.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Dotposting (.)
|redirect=Dotposting
|description=A period on its own used as slang, indicating that the speaker things the replied-to content is regrettable or stupid.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=F
|redirect=F
|description=Slang reference to “F to pay respects”, usually used to indicate that the speaker is ironically paying their respects to someone.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Hsm
|redirect=hsm
|redirect2=Hsm
|redirect3=HSM
|description=Slang abbreviation for “wholesome.”
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=L/Taking an L
|redirect=L
|description=Slang used to describe when the speaker believes that someone has “lost;” i.e. they have lost in a war or they have lost something due to their own error.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Mineman/eLegos/Civman
|redirect=Mineman
|redirect2=eLegos
|redirect3=Civman
|description=Slang description used to refer to Minecraft or Civ.
}}
 
== Other ==
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Bot
|redirect=Bot
|description=An account running an automated script designed to perform resource gathering tasks, such as farming, mining, or clearing land.
|main=Bot
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Chest vault
|redirect=Chest_vault
|description=A secure arrangement featuring numerous [[#Reinforce|reinforced]] chests, strategically spread to hinder [[#Raider|raiding]] by increasing the time required to break multiple chests, thereby discouraging illegitimate acquisition of stored valuables.
}}
 
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|redirect=Hiddenore
|description=A plugin responsible for randomly generating ores upon breaking stone blocks, aiding in preventing x-ray and enabling admins to adjust ore distribution.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Mana/Meme Mana/MM
|redirect=Mana
|description=Virtual fuel for [[#Pearling|pearls]], bound to a namelayer group. Can be obtained once a day by running <code>/manaclaim</code>, yielding more mana per day if you claim it every day.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Stamina
|redirect=Stamina
|description=Virtual fuel for [[#Pearling|pearls]] or certain factory recipes. Used on CivRealms.
}}
 
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{{Jargon
|jargon=Reinforce (verb)|Waterbomb
|redirect=ReinforceWaterbomb
|redirect2=Water_bomb
|description=Using a [[#Reinforcement|reinforcement]] on a block to protect it from being broken. Used to protect builds and storage chests from getting [[#Grief|griefed]] or [[#Raider|raided]].
|description=Covering land that doesn't belong to you in a large wall of water, as a form of [[#Grief|griefing]]. Typically done outside of cities, covering large swaths of countryside so as to avoid [[#Bastion|bastions]]. Waterbombs may prove difficult to prosecute, as the method of attack involves avoiding [[#Snitch|snitches]].
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Reinforcement
|redirect=Reinforcement
|description=Smooth stone, iron ingot, diamond or other specific reinforcement items, which can be used to [[#Reinforce|reinforce]] blocks.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Snitch
|redirect=Snitch
|main_article=Snitch
|description=[[#Reinforce|Reinforced]] Noteblock or Jukebox that allows monitoring the 23x23x23 cube area around it by sending messages to the chat of its reinforcement group when a player enters the area. Jukes also record this when noone is reading chat, as well as block breaks/placements, opened chests, precise logout coordinates, killed mobs, and entering/leaving vehicles. To see the log, stand in the monitored area and run the <code>/ja</code> command, or <code>/jainfo next</code> to take screenshots more easily. The log gets deleted after 2 weeks.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Trench
|redirect=Trench
|description=Used for protection of cities and [[#Vault|vaults]]. Dug very deeply, often to bedrock, and [[#Bastion|bastioned]] to prevent bridging, so that access to the contained area can be tightly controlled.
}}
 
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|redirect=Pots
|description=Potions used in [[#Loadout|combat loadouts]], such as Health, Speed, Regen, Strength, etc.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Pot bunker
|redirect=Pot_bunker
|description=An [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|IRO or DRO]] room made to enable people to heal, repair armor, and get new [[#Pots|pots]] during fighting outside of a [[#Vault|vault]].
}}
 
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|redirect=Prot
|description=A full set of Protection IV enchanted diamond armor, usually with other useful enchants. This is the minimum requirement to be effective in PvP. Can be seen as threatening depending on the player in question.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Rings
|redirect=Rings
|description=Obsidian trenches, usually [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|IRO]] but sometimes [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|SRO]], which surround a [[#Spike|vault spike]] and are used to defend against a ground-based assault.
}}
 
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|jargon=Skybridge
|redirect=Skybridge
|redirect2=Sky_bridge
|description=A bridge in the sky used to break [[#Bastion|bastions]] without having to break through the rest of the [[#Vault|vault]] defenses so that attackers can focus on [[#Pearling|pearling]] the defenders and mining through the [[#Spike|spike]].
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Skybunker
|redirect=Skybunker
|description=An obsidian bunker, usually above a [[#Vault|vault]], used to defend against [[#Skybridge|skybridges]].
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Spike
|redirect=Spike
|description=A line through the obsidian pyramid at the center of a [[#Vault|vault]], diamond reinforced on a separate shared group, to allow sharing access to the chest containing [[#Pearl|pearls]].
}}
 
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|redirect3=Trash_prot
|description=Any enchanted diamond armor that isn’t [[#Prot|Prot IV]] used to bluff when the potential attacker is afraid that it might be actual Prot IV.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Vault
|redirect=Vault
|main_article=Vault
|description=A giant, reinforced obsidian structure which is used to securely hold [[#Pearl|pearls]]. These are the basis of warfare and are how people hold prisoners of war. Can also refer to just the [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|DRO]] pyramid in its center. Not suited for storing items, for that see [[#Chest_vault|Chest Vault]], [[#Alt_vault|Alt Vault]].
}}
 
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|jargon=Civcraft
|redirect=Civcraft
|main_article=Civcraft
|description=The original iterations of the Civ genre ran by [[ttk2]], also referred to as [[Civcraft 1.0]], [[Civcraft 2.0]], CivTemp, and [[Civcraft 3.0]].
|main=CivCraft
}}
 
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|redirect=Crayon_Claim
|description=Excessively large land claim that is not enforced in-game, either by new nations out of poor judgement, or by established nations for greed or provocation.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Delusional
|redirect=Delusional
|description=A common accusation among people who accuse others insinuating that the person makes things up in their head that aren't true.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Dotposting (.)
|redirect=Dotposting
|description=It is common to reply with a period when someone says something regrettable, edgy, or stupid.
}}
 
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|redirect=EOTW
|description=End of The World. Refers to the end of a Minecraft server.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=F
|redirect=F
|description=Press F to pay respects, usually used ironically.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Flip & Burn
|redirect=Flip & Burn
|description=Referring to a complete turn around; a 180. Primarily used by Belters.
}}
 
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|redirect3=Factions
|description=Hard Core Factions, the gamemode of a popular PvP server whose members [[HCF Invasion|invaded]] Civcraft.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Hsm
|redirect=hsm
|redirect2=Hsm
|redirect3=HSM
|description=Slang abbreviation for “wholesome.”
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=L/Taking an L
|redirect=L
|description=Someone made a mistake and got destroyed for it.
}}
 
{{Jargon
|jargon=Mineman/eLegos/Civman
|redirect=Mineman
|redirect2=eLegos
|redirect3=Civman|description=Ironic terms referring to Minecraft or Civ specifically.
}}
 
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{{Jargon
|jargon=[[World Police]]
|redirect=World_Police
|redirect2=WP
|description=Self-appointed PvP group or alliance often interfering in international politics. Often shortened to WP.
|redirect3=weepee
|main=World Police
|description=Self-appointed PvP group or alliance often interfering in international politics (Shortened to WP or WeePee).}}
}}
 
== ReferencesExternal Links ==
 
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LzYYy8xjeUFNYKRBfzu9oLh6asoJqscSM2LzxKF7wyQ/edit#heading=h.iibda57on1hl bgbba's guide, ''Dictionary'' section]
 
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