Stake Claim

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Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim
Skill(s) required:
Size: 1x1
Object(s) required:
Needs lighting?: No
Move/Destroy:
Liftable?: No
Repaired with: Stone
Required by:
Required by: None
Stake Claim
Stake Claim

Stake Claim

A Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim, also known as a Personal Claim or "P-Claim", is the preferred Claim Type of pilgrims in the New World. It can be marked as your Homestead and allows Fast Traveling from anywhere on your Claim, including from inside Buildings, as well as preventing Decay from occurring on anywhere on your Claim. Pilgrims entering your Claim without your Permission will leave Trespassing Scent icon.png Scents, taking items will leave Evidence Theft.png Evidence of Larceny, and attempting to Destroy icon.png Destroy you Structures will leave Evidence Vandalism.png Evidence of Waste. All acts of Crime committed on a P-Claim will give the Crime! icon.png Crime! debuff to the Criminal, and additionally will trigger nearby Aggressive Defense Structures. A Stake Claim cannot be Salvage icon.png Salvaged.

Homestead

WARNING! Having your Homestead Destroyed while you are off-line will cause you to lose all your Inventory and equipped items!

Your Homestead is your personal link in the New World, which must be tied to either a Lean-to icon.png Lean-to or a Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim. Being at your Homestead will allow you to Fast Travel ... to Providence icon.png ... to Providence. While you can only have one Homestead at a time, you can change it as frequently as you like. It is vital that you protect your Homestead as it is the place where your equipped items and Inventory is stored when you are off-line, as well as having no Homestead will not allow you to log-off and Summoned Criminal's will be instantly killed. With the Larceny Skill learned, right-clicking someone's Homestead while they are Offline will give you the option to "L3wt". Selecting L3wt will show you the you their equipment and Inventory. Looking is NOT a Crime however taking any of those items IS a Crime! icon.png Crime! and will leave Evidence Theft.png Evidence of Larceny. NOTE: You can have as many Stake Claim as you want, but you can only set one as your Homestead.

Permissions

Right-clicking a Stake Claim will bring up its Upkeep and Permission Menu.

Upkeep

WARNING! If your Stake Claim's Upkeep Silver runs out, all benefits will cease, and it can be Destroyed.

When first built, a Stake Claim will Claim over a 5x5 tile area around itself, however it can be expand it by paying Silver Pieces icon.png Silver Pieces. Right-clicking your Stake Claim will open a menu with options to expand your Claim 1x tile in any cardinal direction. This will automatically withdraw Silver Pieces from your Inventory. A Claim will lose a little bit of Silver each day, called Upkeep, once it runs completely out of stored Silver it will lose its benefits - will not protect against decay, Crime, or trigger Aggressive Defense Structures. Additionally it will become susceptible to being Destroy icon.png Destroyed. A full Stake Claim will last 2 months and the more you have expanded your Claim, the higher the Upkeep will be. Right-clicking your Stake Claim will show how much Silver is remaining and how many days it will last. The formula for the amount a Stake Claim loses in Silver per day is its size/300 + 4. More Silver can be added by selecting Silver Pieces and right-clicking them on your Stake Claim.

Destroying

There are only 3x ways a Stake Claim can be Destroyed.

  1. Declaiming - The owner can Declaim the Claim in the Upkeep Menu. NOTE: This will NOT return any of the Silver Pieces stored in the Stake Claim nor that have been used to expand the Claim.
  2. Running out of Silver - Failing to pay your Upkeep will open the Stake Claim to being Destroyed.
  3. Eminent Domain - A Claim from Town Bell icon.png Town Bell can be extended over your Stake Claim so long as they have a high enough Authority and pay twice the amount of Silver stored in your Stake Claim. This will NOT a leave Scent.

Claims

Claim Type Commonly Called Skill Required Homestead? Added Benefits
Lean-to icon.png Lean-to "Leanto" Survival Skills icon.png Survival Skills Yes
Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim "P-Claim" Settling icon.png Settling Yes
Town Bell icon.png Town Bell "T-claim" Compacts & Constitutions icon.png Compacts & Constitutions NO



Game Menu
Build (B) ⇒Buildings & Structures (B) ⇒Claims & Defenses (C) ⇒Stake Claim (C)