Jargon

This page explains frequently used words special to civ or multiplayer minecraft

• Acid (verb): The act of purposefully reinforcing gold blocks to remove reinforced blocks, for example grief or derelict builds.
• bgpost: An especially long, especially smug (Reddit) post by bgbba.
• City Bastion: A special lored bone block which, when reinforced, protects a 101x101 square area from reinforced block placement and exiled players from entering, unless the player is on the bastion's group.
• Component: Special lored items used to create bastions or the bastion factory. Created in other factories first, drawing from all parts of the tech tree.
• Crate: A lored chest used to compact items in a compactor. Decompacting doesn’t require them. Made in a carpentry factory using wood and iron.
• d: Diamonds, used in trade to specify prices. 20d means 20 Diamonds.
• DC, SC: Double chest or single chest, respectively. Used in trade to specify a big amount of items. 1dc means 54 stacks of items (either compacted or regular), 1sc means 27 stacks.
• DRO/IRO/SRO: Refers to diamond/iron/stone reinforced obsidian respectively.
• ExilePearl/EP: A lored Ender Pearl preventing its contained player from entering bastion fields, or coming closer than 1000m to the pearl.
• Exp/XP: In civ speak this refers to Emeralds/-blocks or Bottles of Exp.
• F: Press F to pay respects, usually used ironically.
• 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.
• Gank: Especially easy murder of an often unsuspecting hostile player.
• Gear/geared: Items required for combat, which are Prot, Pots, Pearls, and some swords.
• i: Iron ingots, used in trade to specify prices. 20i means 20 Iron Ingots.
• Kek: A variant of lol, generally used by players from 4chan.
• L/Taking an L: Someone made a mistake and got destroyed for it.
• 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 Ender Pearl, an Exile Pearl, or a Prison Pearl.
• Pearl (verb): The act of obtaining an exilepearl or prisonpearl via killing another player.
• Pearl Farming: Sending a friend to the End dimension to kill endermen and farm pearls.
• 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.
• PrisonPearl/PP: A lored Ender Pearl binding its contained player to the End dimension.
• Prot pinata: A player wearing prot who can’t PvP well and just take hit after hit before dying and losing their 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.
• Shitter: players who do shitty things ingame and add nothing to the community.
• 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: The obsidian pyramid at the center of a vault, diamond reinforced, protecting a chest containing pearls.
• Toxic: somebody who really made the mindset of the community worse and spread poison via metagame behavior like doxxing and harassing players.
• Tulpa: Another person in your mind ... with their own minecraft account and combat loadout, logged off near a foreign city, ready to attack.
• Vault Bastion: A special lored sponge block which, when reinforced, protects a 21x21 square area from block placement and thrown ender pearls from landing, unless the player is on the bastion's group.
• Vault: A giant, reinforced obsidian structure which is used to hold pearls. These are the basis of warfare and are how people hold prisoners of war.