Jargon

This page explains frequently used words special to Civ or multiplayer Minecraft.

Mechanics

Land Protection

• 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.

• Bastion: 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 and City Bastion.

• City Bastion: A type of Bastion that generally offers a wide area of protection but weaker protections than a Vault Bastion. Normally disallows players without permission from reinforcing blocks in its covered zone.

• Vault Bastion: A type of Bastion that generally offers a small area of protection but stronger protections than a City Bastion. Normally disallows players without permission from using ender pearls and placing blocks in its covered zone.

Economy

• 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.

• Factory: 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.”

• Compactor: A Factory that allows items to be compacted and decompacted.

• Compacted: Description for items that are “compacted.” A compacted item equals a stack of uncompacted items. 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

• dc/sc: Abbreviation for a double chest or a single chest of items respectively, in the context of trade. 1dc is equivalent to 54 stacks of items, and 1sc is equivalent to 27 stacks of items. Not to be confused with compacted items or compacted stacks

Other

• Alt vault: 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 pearled and the requirement of real-money purchases for each account.

• Alt: 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 alt raiding or spying.

• Bot: A script, often utilizing MacroMod, designed to automate resource gathering tasks such as farming and mining. "Bot" can also refer to an alternate account running such scripts.

• 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.

• Component: Uniquely marked items employed to create bastions or the bastion factory. These items are first generated in other factories, drawing from the tech tree.

• DRO/IRO/SRO: Refers to diamond/iron/stone reinforced obsidian respectively. Used in secure structures usually for storage or defense.

• 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.

• ExilePearl/EP: A lore-embedded enderpearl restraining its occupant from PvP, logging into alternate accounts, entering bastion fields, or approaching the pearl within a distance of 1000m.

• Grief: The deliberate placement or destruction of unsightly blocks to deface a structure or area, typically undertaken to inflict damage easily.

• Hiddenore: A plugin responsible for randomly generating ores upon breaking stone blocks, aiding in preventing x-ray and enabling admins to adjust ore distribution.

• Mana/Meme Mana/MM: Virtual fuel for pearls, bound to a namelayer group. Can be obtained once a day by running /manaclaim, yielding more mana per day if you claim it every day.

• Stamina: Virtual fuel for pearls or certain factory recipes. Used on CivRealms.

• 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.

• PrisonPearl/PP: A lored enderpearl binding its contained player to the End dimension.

• Raider: A player who is known for murdering or stealing, usually by breaking into chests.

• Reinforce (verb): Using a reinforcement on a block to protect it from being broken. Used to protect builds and storage chests from getting griefed or raided.

• Reinforcement: Smooth stone, iron ingot, diamond or other specific reinforcement items, which can be used to reinforce blocks.

• Snitch: 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 /ja command, or /jainfo next to take screenshots more easily. The log gets deleted after 2 weeks.

• 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.

Combat

• Gear/geared: Items required for combat, which are prot, pots, pearls, and enchanted swords.

• 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.

• Loadout: See gear.

• Pearl (noun): Either a normal enderpearl, an exilepearl, or a prisonpearl.

• Pearling (verb): The act of obtaining an exilepearl or prisonpearl via killing another player.

• Pots: Potions used in combat loadouts, such as Health, Speed, Regen, Strength, etc.

• 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.

• Prot pinata: A player wearing prot who can’t fight well and just takes hit after hit before dying and losing all gear to the enemy.

• Prot/ProtIV/Prot4: 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.

• Rings: Obsidian trenches, usually IRO but sometimes SRO, which surround a vault spike and are used to defend against a ground-based assault.

• 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.

• 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.

• Junk Prot/Trash prot/Fake prot: Any enchanted diamond armor that isn’t Prot IV used to bluff when the potential attacker is afraid that it might be actual Prot IV.

• Vault: A giant, reinforced obsidian structure which is used to securely hold pearls. These are the basis of warfare and are how people hold prisoners of war. Can also refer to just the DRO pyramid in its center. Not suited for storing items, for that see Chest Vault, Alt Vault.

• Vaulting someone: Putting someone's pearl into your Vault.

• Logbox: Box of reinforced blocks, usually obsidian around the coordinates of a player who logged out.

Conversation

• Belter/Beltalowda: Term referring to those who live in the Ring Space (nether dimension); and consider it their home.
• Civcraft: 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.
• Civball: User-generated visual art, typically manifesting as online comics or single art pieces, where nations/civs are personified as (typically) spherical personas decorated with their nation/civ's flag. Similar to Polandball but the name is a variant adapted to this comunity.Squareblob and Metriximor are notable artists of civball art in the civ community.
• Channer: A player originating from or preferring 4chan/... over Reddit to communicate.
• Claim: Either referring to a land claim (of a nation), or a demand for reparations from someone (as in "Claims post"/"Post claims on me").
• Commie: A player in a communist nation or with strong communist preferences regarding government or economy.
• Crayon Claim: 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.
• Delusional: A common accusation among people who accuse others insinuating that the person makes things up in their head that aren't true.
• Dotposting (.): It is common to reply with a period when someone says something regrettable, edgy, or stupid.
• EOTW: End of The World. Refers to the end of a Minecraft server.
• F: Press F to pay respects, usually used ironically.
• Flip & Burn: Referring to a complete turn around; a 180. Primarily used by Belters.
• Gank: Surprise attack, usually with an advantage on the attackers side, both in skill and numbers.
• HCF: Hard Core Factions, the gamemode of a popular PvP server whose members invaded Civcraft.
• Hsm: Septembrian slang for wholesome.
• IGN: In-Game Name, meaning the name a player goes by inside of Minecraft.
• Inner/Inyalowda: Term referring to those who live in the overworld; usually by Belters.
• L/Taking an L: Someone made a mistake and got destroyed for it.
• Mineman/eLegos/Civman: Ironic terms referring to Minecraft or Civ specifically.
• Natoid: Derogatory term towards member of the NATO alliance.
• Newfriend: New player who does not know much about Civ.
• Mediumfriend: Player who knows about civ mechanics and has played for a few months but is not jaded enough to be a oldfriend.
• Oldfriend: Experienced player who has been playing Civ servers for several years.
• OMN: Nation that is inhabited by one person only (One Man Nation).
• Pearled or Permapearled or 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.
• Satoid: Derogatory term towards member of SATO alliance
• Seethe: When someone is very mad, and is "seething" about a certain action.
• Squarespiral: When a project is started and more and more features keep pilling on to it until it grows large enough that it can never be completed, and you move to another one.
• Shitter: Players who do shitty things ingame and add nothing to the community. Can also be used as an adjective.
• Shitpost: Low effort, low quality post or comment intended to be any combination of humorous, offensive, or disruptive.
• SOTW: Start of The World. Refers to the start of a new Minecraft server.
• Superfriend: A server helper that has some admin powers but unlike an admin can still play on the server, usually involved in moderation of the civ community.
• Trud: Derogatory term towards citizens of Imperial Truidence and Holy Truidencian Empire.
• Toxic: Somebody who really made the mindset of the community worse and spread poison via metagame behavior like doxxing and harassing players.
• ttk2: Head admin of Civcraft, popularized and advanced the Civ genre.
• World Police: Self-appointed PvP group or alliance often interfering in international politics (Shortened to WP or WeePee).

References

• bgbba's guide, Dictionary section