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On a server, players build together in '''teams'''. A team shares its buildings, its research and its point accounts. There are no ranks: every member may do everything. Between teams there is one hard rule: you can never open, pick up or reconfigure another team's buildings. You can only raid them, and only if the world allows it.

== The world team ==
Until you found or join a team, you belong to the '''world team''' together with every other player who has none. Buildings placed by players without a team belong to the world team as well. A world in which nobody founds a team therefore plays like one big shared factory.

Buildings keep the team they were built by. If you found a team later, everything you built before stays with the world team, and you can no longer use it.

== Managing your team ==
Type <code>/team</code> or open the '''Team''' tab of the [[BlockFactory:Field Manual and HUD|Field Manual]] to open the team window. Everything in the window also works as a command:

{| class="wikitable"
! Action !! Button in the window !! Command
|-
| Found a team || Found || <code>/team --create=<name></code>
|-
| Invite a player || Invite || <code>/team --invite=<player></code>
|-
| Accept an invitation || Accept || <code>/team --accept=<team></code>
|-
| Leave your team || Leave team || <code>/team --leave</code>
|-
| Vote to kick a member || Vote kick || <code>/team --kick=<player></code>
|-
| Rename the team || Rename || <code>/team --rename=<name></code>
|-
| Set the team colour || Apply colour || <code>/team --color=#RRGGBB</code>
|}

* '''Names''' can be up to 24 characters long; longer names are cut off.
* '''Founding''' a team or '''accepting''' an invitation takes you out of your old team.
* '''Every member''' can invite players, rename the team, change its colour and start a kick vote. An invited player gets a chat message and accepts in the team window.
* '''Kicking:''' a member is out as soon as more than half of the other members have voted for it. In a team of two, one vote is enough.
* '''Leaving''' is possible at any time. You return to the world team and lose access to the old team's buildings and research. A team whose last member leaves keeps its buildings and becomes ownerless (see below).
* '''Team colour:''' new teams start grey-blue (#5A7FA8). The colour is used for your team's map markers.

=== What a team shares ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Shared inside the team !! Kept apart between teams
|-
| All buildings its members place || Other teams cannot open, pick up, turn or change the settings of them
|-
| Research progress and the Gob and Gol point accounts (see [[BlockFactory:Research|Research]]) || Every team researches on its own
|-
| Blueprint library of the [[BlockFactory:Goblin Planner|Goblin Planner]] || Blueprint files can be copied between team folders by the server operator
|-
| [[BlockFactory:Death and Respawn|Cryo Capsules]] as respawn points || Another team's capsules do not work for you
|-
| Gates open for team members || They stay shut for everyone else
|-
| Map markers of Cryo Capsules and Rangertowers, and attack groups spotted by your Rangertowers || Other teams do not see them
|-
| Progress at the [[BlockFactory:Great Portal|Great Portal]] || Each team fills its own bar
|}

The world itself is shared: noise and unrest count for the whole world, so a loud team wakes the nests for its neighbours too (see [[BlockFactory:Enemies|Enemies]]).

=== Team chat ===
* <code>/channel --to=team</code>: your chat messages only reach members of your team and are marked <code>[Team]</code>.
* <code>/channel --to=all</code>: back to the normal chat.
* <code>/channel</code>: shows which channel you are writing in.

== Foreign buildings ==
If you try to open, pick up, turn or reconfigure a building of another team, you get the message "''This belongs to the team … You can only raid it.''"

== Raids ==
A raid means damaging another team's buildings. Whether that is possible depends on the [[BlockFactory:World Settings|world settings]]:

{| class="wikitable"
! Setting !! Default !! Effect
|-
| <code>IsPvpEnabled</code> || false || Without PvP no raids are possible at all
|-
| <code>Raids</code> || true || With raids off, foreign buildings cannot be damaged even with PvP on
|-
| <code>StartProtectionHours</code> || 2.0 || A team cannot be raided for this many hours after it was founded
|-
| <code>OfflineProtection</code> || false || When on, a team with no member online cannot be raided
|-
| <code>AbandonedAfterDays</code> || 14 || After this many days without a member online, a team's factory counts as ownerless
|}

How a raid works:
* '''Hitting''' a foreign building deals 10 damage, at most one hit every half second.
* '''[[BlockFactory:Weapons and Armor|TNT]]''' damages foreign buildings within 4 blocks when the rules allow a raid. TNT belongs to the team of the player who placed it and never damages that team's own buildings.
* If the rules forbid the raid, you get a message saying why: PvP is off, raids are off, the team is still under start protection, or nobody of that team is online.
* '''Destroyed''' buildings are lost; their contents drop on the ground as loot. A ghost of the building stays in its place. [[BlockFactory:Goblins|Goblins]] from a Goblin Hut in range can rebuild it, and the rebuilt building belongs to the team of the hut whose Goblin built it.
* Buildings that are not player-built (bunker, ruins, landmarks, Death Chests) cannot be damaged.

=== Towers and players ===
When PvP is on, your towers also shoot at players of other teams in range. This does not depend on the <code>Raids</code> setting. Towers never shoot at members of their own team. See [[BlockFactory:Defense|Defense]].

=== Ownerless factories ===
A team is ownerless when it has no members left, or when none of its members has been online for <code>AbandonedAfterDays</code> days (0 turns the time limit off). The world team is never ownerless.

* An ownerless factory stands still: its machines stop working.
* If PvP and raids are on, it can be raided even while start protection or offline protection would apply.
* As soon as a member is online again, the factory runs again.

== See also ==
* [[BlockFactory:World Settings|World Settings]]
* [[BlockFactory:Commands|Commands]]
* [[BlockFactory:Defense|Defense]]
* [[BlockFactory:Death and Respawn|Death and Respawn]]

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