Konquest Economy

Konquest must depend on another economy plugin of your choice using Vault. Vault is a separate plugin which acts like a middleman between Konquest and your economy.

What is an economy plugin?

An economy plugin, like EssentialsX, Economy or EconomyPlus, allows players on your server to have a currency. Typically, the plugin will keep track of a player's money and allow them to deposit or withdraw from their account. Most economy plugins require Vault to work.

How does currency work with Konquest?

No matter what economy plugin you choose, Konquest will use its main currency and refer to it as "Favor". Konquest interacts with Vault to do the following:

• Withdraw currency from a player for...
  • Settling towns
  • Upgrading towns
  • Renaming towns
  • Claiming land
  • Using spy maps
• Deposit currency to a player for...
  • Completing quest directives
  • Defending towns
  • Capturing ruin territories

You may find that Konquest requires a lot of money to do things like settling towns and claiming land, yet it does not offer many ways of earning money. This is intentional, as it gives you the freedom to add your own custom ways for players to earn money using other plugins of your choice. It is recommended to at least provide a way for players to sell blocks to the server for money.

Do chest shops work with Konquest?

Chest shop plugins offer ways for players to turn chests into their own shops for selling or buying items with other players. This is currently the list of chest shop plugins which Konquest supports:

• QuickShop - core.integration.quickshop = true

Chest shops pose a problem with Konquest, because they can only be accessed by their owner (typically). This can be a problem because when a town is captured, all of the chests within should be available to the raiders. However, if some of those chests are shops, then raiders are effectively locked out. Also, if chest shops are made outside of towns in The Wild, then only the owner can potentially access them. This could be abused by using chest shops as unraidable containers.

Chest shop plugins supported by Konquest have the following integrated features:

• Shop can only be created inside of friendly town land (not in enemy town or The Wild)
• When a town is captured, all shops inside are deleted with the chests and contents left intact (removes shop protection)
• Players cannot use shops within enemy towns

If you use a chest shop plugin that is not supported by Konquest, then you must understand that players may be able to use the shops as unraidable containers, depending on that plugin's configuration.

Example server economy setups

These are lists of example plugins and descriptions of how to use them to implement a good economy on a server using Konquest.

Konquest Beta Server

• IP: konque.st (As of June 12, 2021)
• Economy Plugins:
  • Vault
  • EssentialsX
    • EssentialsX provides the economy currency accounts. Players can sell certain items in the worth.yml file with the "/sell" command, like iron blocks, gold blocks, hay bales, pumpkins and more. They can also sell these items using sell signs that are set up in each kingdom capital. This is one of the main ways for players to earn money through farms.
  • PlayerHeads
    • The PlayerHeads plugin will make players drop their head as an item upon death, plus most mobs have a percent chance of dropping their head. These heads can all be sold for money as well, and allows players to make money with mob grinders.
  • QuickShop
    • The QuickShop plugin allows players to create their own trading shops within towns to exchange items for money.