Land & Protection
In a shared world, anyone could mine your house — unless you protect it. Openverse handles this with robots that project a protection field over your land.
Robots
A robot is a placeable companion that claims and defends an area. Place one near your build and it projects a protection field: inside that zone, only you (and people/teams you allow) can build or break blocks.
Placing & owning
- Place a robot from your inventory like any item.
- The robot is bound to you as its creator — only you (or an admin) can pick it up or change it.
- You can rename your robot and manage a small 4-slot inventory inside it.
Permissions (who can do what)
The protection field carries an access control list (ACL):
- You, the creator, always have full build/destroy rights.
- You can grant rights to everyone, to specific teams, or keep it private.
- Optionally, a restoration rule can auto-repair griefed blocks back to their saved state after a delay — so even if something slips through, the land heals itself.
Powering your robot with Bling
Robots run on a battery, and the battery is fed with Bling (the in-game currency).
- A robot has an internal battery plus up to 4 module slots for extra battery capacity.
- While placed in the world, a robot drains charge over time. While carried in your inventory, it recharges.
- Feed it Bling to extend its life: each unit of Bling adds roughly 2.4 hours of power (the rate is 1 Bling ≈ 8,640 seconds).
- Robots last up to about 28 days by default, with a hard ceiling around 30 days — keep them fed so your claim never lapses.
- If a robot fully runs out of charge, it expires and returns to your inventory, and its protection ends until you place and power it again.
Keep your land safe: check your robot’s battery regularly and top it up with Bling before it runs dry. An unpowered claim is an open claim.
Unmuckers & reclaiming land
Separate from protection, an unmucker clears the Muck from a wide area around it (hundreds of blocks). Combine an unmucker (to clean the land) with a robot (to protect it) to carve a safe, buildable home out of corrupted territory.
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