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So I had a p-claim and logged out in my bed.

The next day I logged it back into the game and appeared in Providence naked and with no inventory.

I couldn't stay logged into the game because I had something to do so I figured I have to see what happened later so I logged out in Providence.

A few days later I log back into the game , and my character is gone. I never committed any crimes

Any idea what happened?

your leanto destroyed / declimed by town ... your character died from madness (from satying to long online )...

So If someone raids your claim and takes out your claimstone, you get booted to providence? I suppose then the best thing to do is to set up a lean-to outside of Providence so you don't get Madness? Then if you can figure out where your claim was, and after you find some clothes, to walk back over there and fight through your own defenses to try and get your claim back?

riker88 wrote:So If someone raids your claim and takes out your claimstone, you get booted to providence?

I think so. I'm not sure if they also need to claim or occupy the tile your character was when you logged out.

I suppose then the best thing to do is to set up a lean-to outside of Providence so you don't get Madness?

Yes, but its better to use a pClaim as homestead since it can be destroyed if is with silver on it (even with silver it can be destroyed by a nearby town, but they need to pay to destroy this way and the silver goes to your bank account - btw check it to see if that was the case with you, and anyway try to keep your pclaim always with silver).

Then if you can figure out where your claim was, and after you find some clothes, to walk back over there and fight through your own defenses to try and get your claim back?

With current game mechanics if the place has a new pClaim or new Town covering it will be almost impossible to intermediate players to get the base back without loosing the characters who bashed the doors or walls or took stuff. You can hire some strong player to try to get the base back but this will cost silver and you may have to buy some store packs to sell first.

Interesting, so is there a difference between a player destroying your lean-to , and a player destroying your claim stone? As in what they need to destroy them, and what happens to you when you next log in?

leanto can be claimed over and then be destroyed without leaving scents.
p-claim can be covered with a bell and declaimed (for the cost of silver) also leaving no scents.
otherwise both leave scents to be tracked down and even be summoned since it would be a crime of waste.

the best thing you can do, is find a mine, build a wall around it with some torches, store everything you own in the mine, save up for a town charter, then create a town and build some defenses.

At the moment the hermit life is difficult with out a town claim.

What protection does a village claim offer over a p-claim, seems from my reading that p claims are better because players cant trespass on a p-claim but they can on a village claim.

And why would someone cover a p-claim with a bell and then Declaim it?

gustavohvg wrote:

I suppose then the best thing to do is to set up a lean-to outside of Providence so you don't get Madness?

Yes, but its better to use a pClaim as homestead since it can be destroyed if is with silver on it

Long term this is true, but if you find yourself without a homestead and sitting in Providence naked, you should build a leanto just outside the claim and homestead it just so you can log off if you need to. Then carefully proceed into the wilds on foot to find a new home. Be very careful when you are leaving the claim and for the first hour or so of travel. I highly recommend putting some silver in the bank for emergencies like this so you can at least travel to a landmark to get started, there would be less chance of encountering someone that way.

riker88 wrote:What protection does a village claim offer over a p-claim, seems from my reading that p claims are better because players cant trespass on a p-claim but they can on a village claim.

And why would someone cover a p-claim with a bell and then Declaim it?

Very, very rarely, people have covered a Pclaim with a town claim in order to invalidate the defenses and loot a claim that looks very valuable. If you are going to have valuable structures and tons of sheds, make sure you have a very large Pclaim as well so that it is prohibitively expensive to remove.

Having a town claim yourself can prevent a declaiming, but the main benefit is that the raider needs to place a 'waste claim' over your town before being able to destroy anything. A pclaim can be attacked immediately, which is a good argument for getting low level walls and at least a couple torchposts up asap once you build that claimstone. Most hermits really don't need to worry about getting a town claim, you're not going to have THAT much stuff lying around looking tempting unless you are either an incorrigible hoarder or a big trader. Just work your way up to getting a couple layers of walls and some braziers and torchposts.

so a pclaim or a leanto can be destroyed by a passing by high level character, but for a town claim that player would need to invest resources into building a waste claim before he could destroy that town bell..

Having a p-claim or leanto in your base and then constructing a town bell within your base is the most secure because the town bell can't be destroyed without a waste claim, and the p-claim or lean-to will allow your character to call that place home and teleport back and forth to providence..

If a raider breaks into your base and destorys your p-claim or leanto you will spawn naked in providence and will have to run back to your base but because there is a town bell there the raider can't simply construct his own claim stone and effectively take over your base..

I got that right?

When you get back to your base, you can repair your walls, build another claim stone or lean-to , and get back to work..