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Civ servers have many unique mechanics and plugins, which encourage nation building, cooperation, trading, player-enforced rules, and conflict.
[[Civ]] servers include many mechanics and plugins which are designed to encourage emergent behavior between players, including nation building, trade and economy, and player-enforced justice. For instance, a tech tree in the form of [[Factory|factories]] encourages pooling resources, items can be traded at [[Item Exchange|item exchanges]], and a nation's laws (or whims) can be enforced by [[Exile Pearl|killing and exiling]] a player.
 
Though not every Civ server uses the same set of mechanics, those used by [[mainline]] servers have stayed relatively consistent throughout the years.
 
== Core Mechanics ==
 
These five mechanics have been present in every [[mainline]] Civ server, and are core to the identity of Civ as a genre. Additionally, almost all non-mainline Civ servers have included mechanics similar to these, though some servers may rework, tweak, or rename them.
Nearly every Civ server have these five mechanics present in one fashion or another for grouping, player-driven justice, & grief prevention.
 
* [[Citadel]] - reinforce blocks to make them harder for others to break
* [[NameLayer]] - create groups of players to manage permissions and infrastructure access to structures
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* [[Snitch]] - receive messages when somebody walks near a snitch block
* [[Exile Pearl]] - kill someone to exile them, heavily restricting their gameplay
 
== Often IncludedCommon Mechanics ==
 
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== Minor Mechanics ==
 
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* [[Vanilla Tweaks]] - balances vanilla gameplay around civ mechanics by removing or tweaking some vanilla mechanics
* [[Spawning]] - players spawn randomly in the world, potentially at predetermined "new player friendly" locations
* [[NameColors]] - donators can change their name color
* [[Chunk Limits]] - redstone related blocks can only be placed a limited number of times per chunk
* [[RailSwitch]] - allows automated rail switching
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* [[Combat Tag]] - players cannot log out during combat without a penalty
* [[Elevator]] - allows for vertical travel between elevator blocks
* [[CastleGate]] - allows for redstone-activated retractable vertical gates
* [[Miscellaneous Commands]] - miscellaneous commands that have a small to zero impact on gameplay
* [[One Time Teleport]] - new players can teleport to a player of their choice once within the first 24 hours
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== See Also ==
 
* [[The Civ Breakdown]] - an opinionated essay on the design decisions of these mechanics
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