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World safety

Will a fort ever wreck a player’s base?

Raid Bases avoids land players use. It refuses chunks where players have spent more than site.max-inhabited-minutes (15 by default), spots within site.player-distance of a player, and any spot with a chest, furnace, bee nest, sign or other block entity, a named or tamed mob, an item frame, armor stand, minecart or boat in the fort’s area. See Where forts rise. Before the first block changes, the whole area is saved to disk. When the raid ends, it is put back and checked block for block.

What happens if the server crashes mid-raid?

On the next start, Raid Bases restores the land from the journal, saves the world, then deletes the journal. A normal stop puts every fort back at once before the plugin shuts down.

Can players keep blocks from the fort?

No. Nothing broken inside a fort’s area drops, not even ores from the ground under it. Everything there comes back when the fort goes.

Can players hide loot in a fort?

No. Chests and other block entities can’t be placed inside a fort’s area. They would vanish with their contents when the land is put back.

Raids

Why didn’t a raid rise?

Check these in order:
  1. Players online: scheduled raids skip a turn when fewer than schedule.min-players are online (2 by default).
  2. Room: the server already has max-active raids standing (always 1 in Lite).
  3. Schedule: schedule.enabled is true, and the tier has a weight above 0 under schedule.tiers.
  4. World: worlds names a loaded world.
  5. Land: the console logs found no land after 24 tries (last: …). On worlds with lots of water, raise site.attempts or allow some site.max-wet-columns.
/raid list shows the time to the next scheduled raid.

Do more players crack the vault faster?

No. Progress fills one second per second while anyone is in range. Bring friends to fight the guards and to stop rivals from taking the vault.

What if nobody cracks the vault?

When the tier’s time-limit-minutes runs out, chat says the fort held out and it collapses with no loot.

Can I use TNT on a fort?

Yes. TNT that goes off inside a fort’s area breaks fort blocks, ignores PRO wall HP and drops nothing. A blast from outside the area can’t touch the fort, and nothing breaks the vault.

Do guards burn in daylight?

No. Guards also take no fall, suffocation, drowning, magma block or fire block damage, and they can’t hurt each other. Fire Aspect and Flame still burn them.

Why is the vault a lodestone?

On Paper 1.20.6 the vault block is behind an experimental flag, so Raid Bases uses a lodestone there unless the world has that flag on. It works the same way.

Will the first raid after a restart lag?

The first raid after a restart can cost a short hitch while Java loads the raid code and the guards’ mobs. Later raids don’t.

Custom forts (PRO)

Do I need WorldEdit installed?

Only to build and save your fort. Raid Bases reads the .schem file itself, so the raid server doesn’t need WorldEdit.

My schematic fort says it can’t be found.

Keep the file name lowercase. Tier layouts and commands are read in lowercase, so schem:MyCastle looks for mycastle.schem. Check the file is in plugins/RaidBases/forts/.

Do chests in my schematic keep their items?

No. Containers rise empty on purpose: the vault is the loot. Sign text, banner patterns and player-head skins do come across. See Custom forts.

Licence and editions

Why does PRO disable itself on startup?

It has no valid licence key, or the licence server couldn’t be reached and the key hasn’t passed a check in the last 72 hours. The console says why. Claim a key with /claim RAIDBASES in the Discord, paste it into license_key and restart. See Installation. While PRO is disabled, /raid gives Bukkit’s internal error line.

Does PRO need internet?

Yes, for the licence check on startup. If the licence server can’t be reached, PRO still starts when the same key passed a check in the last 72 hours.

Can I switch from Lite to PRO without losing my config?

Yes. Both use the same files. Swap the jar, add your key and restart.

Can I run Lite and PRO together?

No. Install one edition only.

Server software

Does it run on Spigot or Folia?

No. Raid Bases supports Paper 1.20.6 through 26.3.

Which Java version?

Java 21 or newer. Paper 26.x servers need Java 25.

Can I use Bukkit /reload?

No. Use /raid reload for config and messages, or a full restart.

Discord support

Questions, licence keys and support.