Hello, nice to meet you!
My name is Savannah, IGN 01Vanna and I am a moderator for Dogecraft. I have been playing on this server for roughly 1 1/2 years now and I have been apart of staff for roughly a year.
-Yes, there are a lot of claims indeed... but, staff is always actively working to clean up old claims/residences and also once a player has been gone for 3 months the claim will expire and the land is no longer "theirs." (But, even then a player is always expected to come directly to a staff member first regarding claims. It is acceptable to claim an old residence as long as the player is not intended to grief the base or start all over. It can be added onto, though.)
-Any mods are okay that do not make you be able to get ahead in the game: such as x-ray, any sort of combat hacks, fly hacks, etc. As long as you play legitimately, that is all that matters.
-You can buy and sell the land you claim in game, yes. Do not worry, this server is NOT a p2w server. There are various benefits and we have in our store yes, but there is plenty of things obtainable with in-game money.
-Thank you for sharing that about yourself. I would like for you to know that I personally believe this community to be very open-minded and accepting. Of course there are those who are ignorant, or close-minded, but that is apart of life and you will find that anywhere. If anyone is EVER breaking a rule, discriminating against you, or making fun of you, please please I urge to to get in contact with a staff member so that the situation can be handled appropriately.
More information about the community: This community as a whole is smaller one compared to typical communities, but I love that about this server. It is so much easier to make friends, and make connections with people. We have a lot of active staff members ranking from admin, moderator, helper, and interns. We have 2 amazing founders Niko and Pustinek. They care so much about this server, the staff members and of course the players. They are always putting in so much time and effort into this community, and it is amazing to see. Pustinek is currently coding and creating his own faction-like gamemode, which is being called raids. We also have a VERY active discord, which has hundreds of people active on it. We have other "servers" within the server including: UHC, Creative, Raids, Survival, Slimefun and Skyblock. So there is something for everyone!
Here is a more in-depth look in our rules, to help give you an idea of our community.
https://forum.dogecraft.net/d/246-rules-revamped
Please, if you have any more questions, do not hesitate to ask.
-01Vanna 🙂