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This page explains frequently used words special to Civ or multiplayer Minecraft.
 
== Conversation ==
 
* <span id="bgpost"></span>'''[[#bgpost|bgpost]]''': An especially long, especially smug (Reddit) post by [[bgbba]].
* <span id="Channer"></span>'''[[#Channer|Channer]]''': A player preferring 4chan over Reddit to communicate.
* <span id="Civva"></span>'''[[#Civva|Civva]]''': Derogatory term for someone playing Civ servers.
* <span id="Claim"></span>'''[[#Claim|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").
* <span id="Commie"></span>'''[[#Commie|Commie]]''': A player in a communist nation or with strong communist preferences regarding government or economy.
* <span id="F"></span>'''[[#F|F]]''': Press F to pay respects, usually used ironically.
* <span id="Gank"></span>'''[[#Gank|Gank]]''': Especially easy murder of an often unsuspecting hostile player.
* <span id="Kek"></span>'''[[#Kek|Kek]]''': A variant of "lol".
* <span id="L"></span>'''[[#L|L/Taking an L]]''': Someone made a mistake and got destroyed for it.
* <span id="Mineman"></span>'''[[#Mineman|Mineman]]''': derogatory term referring to Minecraft or Civ specifically.
* <span id="Newfriend"></span>'''[[#Newfriend|Newfriend]]''':: New player who does not know much about Civ.
* <span id="Oldfriend"></span>'''[[#Oldfriend|Oldfriend]]''':: Experienced player who has been playing Civ servers for several years.
* <span id="Shitter"></span>'''[[#Shitter|Shitter]]''': Players who do shitty things ingame and add nothing to the community.
* <span id="Toxic"></span>'''[[#Toxic|Toxic]]''': somebody who really made the mindset of the community worse and spread poison via metagame behavior like doxxing and harassing players.
* <span id="Tulpa"></span>'''[[#Tulpa|Tulpa]]''': Another person in your mind ... with their own [[#Alt|minecraft account]] and [[#Loadout|combat loadout]], logged off near a foreign city, ready to attack.
 
== Combat ==
 
* <span id="Fake_prot"></span>'''[[#Fake_prot|Fake prot]]''': 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.
* <span id="Gear"></span>'''[[#Gear|Gear/geared]]''': Items required for combat, which are [[#Prot|prot]], [[#Pots|pots]], [[#Pearl|pearls]], and enchanted swords.
* <span id="Layers"></span>'''[[#Layers|Layers]]''': The number of layers of [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|DRO]] in a [[#Spike|vault spike]]. A "30 layer" vault spike means one has to mine through 30 pieces of DRO to access the [[#Pearl|pearl]] chest.
* <span id="Loadout"></span>'''[[#Loadout|Loadout]]''': See [[#Gear|gear]].
* <span id="Pearl"></span>'''[[#Pearl|Pearl (noun)]]''': Either a normal enderpearl, an [[#ExilePearl|exilepearl]], or a [[#PrisonPearl|prisonpearl]].
* <span id="Pearling"></span>'''[[#Pearling|Pearling (verb)]]''': The act of obtaining an [[#ExilePearl|exilepearl]] or [[#PrisonPearl|prisonpearl]] via killing another player.
* <span id="Pots"></span>'''[[#Pots|Pots]]''': Potions used in [[#Loadout|combat loadouts]], such as Health, Speed, Regen, Strength, etc.
* <span id="Pot_bunker"></span>'''[[#Pot_bunker|Pot bunker]]''': 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]].
* <span id="Prot_pinata"></span>'''[[#Prot_pinata|Prot pinata]]''': A player wearing [[#Prot|prot]] who can’t fight well and just takes hit after hit before dying and losing all [[#Gear|gear]] to the enemy.
* <span id="Prot"></span>'''[[#Prot|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.
* <span id="Rings"></span>'''[[#Rings|Rings]]''': 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.
* <span id="Skybridge"></span>'''[[#Skybridge|Skybridge]]''': 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]].
* <span id="Skybunker"></span>'''[[#Skybunker|Skybunker]]''': An obsidian bunker, usually above a [[#Vault|vault]], used to defend against [[#Skybridge|skybridges]].
* <span id="Spike"></span>'''[[#Spike|Spike]]''': The obsidian pyramid at the center of a [[#Vault|vault]], diamond reinforced, protecting a chest containing [[#Pearl|pearls]].
* <span id="Vault"></span>'''[[#Vault|Vault]]''': 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]].
 
== Technical ==
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* <span id="Snitch"></span>'''[[#Snitch|Snitch]]''': [[#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, animal/player kills, and precise logout coordinates. 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.
* <span id="Vault_Bastion"></span>'''[[#Vault_Bastion|Vault Bastion]]''': A special lored sponge block which, when [[#Reinforce|reinforced]], protects a 21x21 square area from block placement and thrown enderpearls from landing, unless the player is on the bastion's reinforcement group.
 
== Combat ==
 
* <span id="Fake_prot"></span>'''[[#Fake_prot|Fake prot]]''': 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.
* <span id="Gear"></span>'''[[#Gear|Gear/geared]]''': Items required for combat, which are [[#Prot|prot]], [[#Pots|pots]], [[#Pearl|pearls]], and enchanted swords.
* <span id="Layers"></span>'''[[#Layers|Layers]]''': The number of layers of [[#DRO_IRO_SRO|DRO]] in a [[#Spike|vault spike]]. A "30 layer" vault spike means one has to mine through 30 pieces of DRO to access the [[#Pearl|pearl]] chest.
* <span id="Loadout"></span>'''[[#Loadout|Loadout]]''': See [[#Gear|gear]].
* <span id="Pearl"></span>'''[[#Pearl|Pearl (noun)]]''': Either a normal enderpearl, an [[#ExilePearl|exilepearl]], or a [[#PrisonPearl|prisonpearl]].
* <span id="Pearling"></span>'''[[#Pearling|Pearling (verb)]]''': The act of obtaining an [[#ExilePearl|exilepearl]] or [[#PrisonPearl|prisonpearl]] via killing another player.
* <span id="Pots"></span>'''[[#Pots|Pots]]''': Potions used in [[#Loadout|combat loadouts]], such as Health, Speed, Regen, Strength, etc.
* <span id="Pot_bunker"></span>'''[[#Pot_bunker|Pot bunker]]''': 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]].
* <span id="Prot_pinata"></span>'''[[#Prot_pinata|Prot pinata]]''': A player wearing [[#Prot|prot]] who can’t fight well and just takes hit after hit before dying and losing all [[#Gear|gear]] to the enemy.
* <span id="Prot"></span>'''[[#Prot|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.
* <span id="Rings"></span>'''[[#Rings|Rings]]''': 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.
* <span id="Skybridge"></span>'''[[#Skybridge|Skybridge]]''': 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]].
* <span id="Skybunker"></span>'''[[#Skybunker|Skybunker]]''': An obsidian bunker, usually above a [[#Vault|vault]], used to defend against [[#Skybridge|skybridges]].
* <span id="Spike"></span>'''[[#Spike|Spike]]''': The obsidian pyramid at the center of a [[#Vault|vault]], diamond reinforced, protecting a chest containing [[#Pearl|pearls]].
* <span id="Vault"></span>'''[[#Vault|Vault]]''': 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]].
 
== Conversation ==
 
* <span id="bgpost"></span>'''[[#bgpost|bgpost]]''': An especially long, especially smug (Reddit) post by [[bgbba]].
* <span id="Channer"></span>'''[[#Channer|Channer]]''': A player preferring 4chan over Reddit to communicate.
* <span id="Civva"></span>'''[[#Civva|Civva]]''': Derogatory term for someone playing Civ servers.
* <span id="Claim"></span>'''[[#Claim|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").
* <span id="Commie"></span>'''[[#Commie|Commie]]''': A player in a communist nation or with strong communist preferences regarding government or economy.
* <span id="F"></span>'''[[#F|F]]''': Press F to pay respects, usually used ironically.
* <span id="Gank"></span>'''[[#Gank|Gank]]''': Especially easy murder of an often unsuspecting hostile player.
* <span id="Kek"></span>'''[[#Kek|Kek]]''': A variant of "lol".
* <span id="L"></span>'''[[#L|L/Taking an L]]''': Someone made a mistake and got destroyed for it.
* <span id="Mineman"></span>'''[[#Mineman|Mineman]]''': derogatory term referring to Minecraft or Civ specifically.
* <span id="Newfriend"></span>'''[[#Newfriend|Newfriend]]''':: New player who does not know much about Civ.
* <span id="Oldfriend"></span>'''[[#Oldfriend|Oldfriend]]''':: Experienced player who has been playing Civ servers for several years.
* <span id="Shitter"></span>'''[[#Shitter|Shitter]]''': Players who do shitty things ingame and add nothing to the community.
* <span id="Toxic"></span>'''[[#Toxic|Toxic]]''': somebody who really made the mindset of the community worse and spread poison via metagame behavior like doxxing and harassing players.
* <span id="Tulpa"></span>'''[[#Tulpa|Tulpa]]''': Another person in your mind ... with their own [[#Alt|minecraft account]] and [[#Loadout|combat loadout]], logged off near a foreign city, ready to attack.
 
== References ==