ChickenKingdomPlayer Wiki

Quick Start

If you are new, do not try to learn every system at once. Follow these steps and you will end up in the normal gameplay flow.

Main menus

Why can I not build or use things?

Being accepted into a kingdom does not automatically mean you can use every region. First you become a kingdom member. After that, leadership or a mayor should assign you to a capital or village. Without a settlement assignment you are usually a refugee or recruit and you may not have normal building, container or interaction rights yet.

Kingdoms

A kingdom is the main political group on the server. It owns land, has members, ranks, money, diplomacy, wars and local settlements. Your kingdom is your team. Your assigned region is where you actually live and use permissions.

Normal player goal

As a normal player, your first goal is simple: join a kingdom, get assigned to a village or capital, understand your rank, and help your kingdom with money, supplies, defense or expansion. Use /ckkingdom status whenever you are unsure.

Leadership goal

Leaders should keep the kingdom readable and stable: members should be assigned to the right settlements, the treasury should be able to pay upkeep, region types should make sense, and war or diplomacy actions should only be handled by trusted ranks.

Joining A Kingdom

There are three normal ways to join: send a request, accept an invite, or use a special join item given by a kingdom leader.

Join papers

A monarch can create a Minecraft paper item for recruitment. The item shows the kingdom name and acts as a clean player-friendly shortcut. When you right-click it, it sends the normal join request and the paper is consumed.

The paper does not bypass normal rules. If you are already in a kingdom, the normal join logic still blocks switching through an old request or recruitment item.

Village access maps

A monarch or mayor can create an empty map item for village access. This is used after you are already part of the kingdom and need to be placed in a specific village. It is especially useful for mayors because they can recruit members into their own village without forcing the monarch to handle every assignment manually.

Ranks And Rights

Ranks decide what you can manage. Your assigned region decides where those rights apply. A high rank does not automatically mean you can change every village.

How to check your own status

Use /ckkingdom status. It shows your kingdom, rank, assigned settlement, next useful step and basic kingdom information.

Mayors matter

A mayor is not just a title. A mayor runs a village. Mayors can help place players, manage village members, handle the local war chunk and make the kingdom easier to run when it becomes large.

Regions

Regions are the actual land system. You do not claim random single chunks. You claim predefined regions that are visible on Dynmap and controlled by ChickenKingdom.

Claiming land

Stand inside a claimable region and use /ckkingdom claim. If your kingdom already has a capital, you normally choose whether the new region becomes a village or a resource region.

/ckkingdom claim village
/ckkingdom claim resource

Changing a village into a resource region

This is a serious change because residents lose their official home. If the village has a mayor, the mayor must approve the conversion. If there is no mayor, the monarch gets extra warnings before converting it. Residents who lose their home become refugees.

Changing a resource region into a village

This is easier because it creates a new place to live instead of removing one. After the conversion, leadership can assign a mayor and move residents into the new village.

Capital rules

The capital is the core of the kingdom. It is not meant to be moved like a normal village. In war, a capital should only fall when the attacker has already pushed through the other logical targets.

Protection And Interactions

Region protection prevents griefing and unclear loopholes. The short rule is: in your own assigned settlement you can normally play; in someone else's protected land you usually cannot.

What to do if you are blocked

Use /ckkingdom status. If you are a recruit, refugee or not assigned to a settlement, ask a mayor or monarch to place you properly before trying to build.

Money, Taxes And Upkeep

Kingdom money is stored in the treasury. Claims, upkeep, surrender payments, supply contracts and some diplomacy or war actions use the treasury.

Treasury

Weekly upkeep

Upkeep is processed once per week by default on Saturday at 14:00 Europe/Amsterdam. The plugin may check timing more often, but losing land because of unpaid upkeep should only happen during the weekly upkeep cycle.

Taxes

Taxes are collected at the same time as upkeep. Offline players are included. If a player does not have enough money, the missed tax is recorded so leadership can see who is not paying. The player is not automatically kicked.

Supply Contracts

Supply contracts are kingdom jobs. Leadership asks for items, players deliver them, and the kingdom pays a reward. Delivered items go into a protected regional stockpile.

Contract flow for normal players

1. Open the board with /ckkingdom contracts.
2. Inspect a contract with /ckkingdom contract view <number>.
3. Collect the requested items.
4. Go to the correct region if the contract is local.
5. Deliver with /ckkingdom contract deliver <number> [amount].

Depot and stockpile

A depot is protected region storage. Contract deliveries do not go into a random player chest. They go into the region stockpile, where authorized ranks can view or withdraw them later.

Allied supply contracts

Allied supply contracts make alliances useful without adding vague treaty types. If a kingdom trusts an allied kingdom, it can allow allies to help complete supply jobs. This can support wars, rebuilding, large projects or emergency resource needs.

Independence

A village can break away from a kingdom if its mayor starts an independence process. This is a major political action, not a normal claim.

How it works

1. The mayor starts independence and chooses the new kingdom name and color.
2. Only residents of that village can vote.
3. Each eligible resident can vote once.
4. If the vote succeeds, the village becomes the capital of a new kingdom.
5. Players who voted in favor move to the new kingdom as low-rank members.
6. Players who voted against, or did not vote, remain with the old kingdom as refugees.

If the vote fails

If independence fails, players who supported it are treated as rebels and can be removed from the old kingdom. This makes independence a serious decision instead of a risk-free button.

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is where kingdoms manage allies, truces and wars. Normal players can use it to understand relationships. High ranks use it to send requests, accept proposals or manage conflict.

Diplomacy menu

Use /ckdiplomacy. The menu is the safest way to manage diplomacy because it shows only actions that make sense for your rank and current situation.

Alliances

An alliance is a named group of friendly kingdoms. The name matters because players can clearly see which alliance a kingdom belongs to. A kingdom in an alliance should not be able to declare war on another kingdom in the same alliance.

War support calls

If an allied kingdom is attacked, allies can choose whether they join the war support call. This prevents every ally from being dragged into every conflict automatically, while still making organized help possible.

Truces

A truce is temporary peace. It is not an alliance. It mostly means kingdoms cannot immediately attack each other again. A mutual peace deal should be different from surrender: peace is a shared agreement, surrender is one side giving up and may involve payment.

War And Sieges

A war is between kingdoms. A siege is the actual attack on one enemy region. You win land by controlling the region objective, not by randomly fighting anywhere on the map.

War lifecycle

1. A high rank opens /ckdiplomacy and declares war.
2. The war becomes visible to both kingdoms.
3. An eligible enemy region is selected as the siege target.
4. The siege is scheduled inside a valid war window.
5. During the siege, both sides fight over the war chunk.
6. When the siege ends, the region either stays with the defender or transfers to the attacker.
7. After peace, surrender or war end, a truce or cooldown prevents immediate repeat abuse.

When can a siege start?

Frontlines and valid targets

A kingdom cannot freely snipe deep internal regions. The system should guide attacks toward logical frontline or border regions first. A capital only becomes targetable when it is the last logical region or when no other target makes sense.

War chunk

Every defendable kingdom region has a war chunk. This is the objective chunk that both sides fight over during a siege. The chunk must be fully inside the region. Mayors or allowed high ranks can move it before a siege, but it should not be movable during an active or pending siege.

How a siege is won

The war chunk is the main objective. Defenders gain progress by holding their own objective. Attackers gain progress faster when they control it because they must take the risk of entering enemy land. Kills can affect the fight, but the system should not reward killing once and running away. The objective is the center of the siege.

Siege rules inside the contested region

If a region falls

If the attacker wins, the region transfers cleanly. Residents of the lost region become refugees if their home region disappears. If the conquered region was a capital, it only becomes the attacker's capital if the attacker does not already have one. Otherwise it becomes a normal village. The defeated kingdom may become dispossessed and needs to rebuild by claiming a new capital later.

Surrender and peace

Peace is mutual. Surrender is one-sided. A surrender may move money from the surrendering kingdom to the winner. Use the diplomacy GUI instead of guessing loose commands.

Outlaws

Outlaws are bands outside kingdom law. They have their own hideout, stash, contracts, raids and mercenary work. They are not kingdoms and do not use the same land or rank rules.

Hideouts

An outlaw band can claim a hideout when it has at least 5 members. By default, a band can have 1 hideout.

Hideout core

The hideout core works like a kingdom war chunk. It must be fully inside the hideout region and is used as the objective during a kingdom purge. It cannot be changed during active raids or purges.

Outlaw stash

The stash is protected band storage. Lower ranks may not be able to withdraw. This prevents new members from emptying the entire band storage.

Raids, Purges And Mercenaries

Outlaw kingdom raids

An outlaw raid does not conquer a region. It is a short kingdom-wide robbery event. Outlaws can loot containers during the raid and can steal treasury money by getting enough unique defender kills.

Kingdom purge against an outlaw hideout

A kingdom can purge an outlaw hideout. This is more objective-based than a raid: the kingdom must control the hideout core chunk. If the purge succeeds, the band can lose the hideout, the region becomes neutral or claimable, open band contracts and stash data can be removed, and confiscated band money can move to the attacking kingdom treasury.

Mercenaries

Kingdoms can hire outlaw bands as mercenaries for sieges. This uses an upfront payment and possibly a success bonus. A band should only earn the success bonus if it actually helps in the contested region.

Dynmap

Dynmap shows public server information. Use it to see territories, claimable regions, war objectives and active conflicts.

Player Commands

You do not need to memorize everything. Use the menus first. This command list is meant as a quick reference when you already know what system you need.

General

Kingdom basics

Joining and member management

Kingdom items and identity

Claims, regions and economy

Supply contracts

Diplomacy and war

Outlaws

Troubleshooting