Permissions.
Permissions are used to control the world. They allow the host, along with any world admins, to dictate the freedom of the player and ensure griefing won't pose much of a problem.
The permission system allows for five tiers of players.
1. Non-participants
2. Adventurers
3. Restricted Builders (and advanced adventurers)
4. Creators
5. Admins
Non Participant (No Permissions):
These players have no permissions and can't do much. It is better to give a player at least the Adventure permission so that they can participate in the game to some degree.
What they can do:
- Access crates.
- Walk around.
- Walk around.
- Kill mobs.
- Read books. (no edit)
- Read NPC speech bubbles. (no edit)
- Open unlocked doors.
Adventurer (Adventure Permission):
These players have restricted permissions but are still able to play in the world.
What they can do:
- Collect pickups.
- Access unlocked chests.
- Furnaces.
- Bookcases.
- Access Economized Shops (but not economize them).
- Rate worlds (not currently possibly on the PC version).
Restricted Builders and Advanced Adventurers (Edit Permission):
These players are able to individually edit *non grief blocks so that they can mine resources and build structures. They do not have access to any feature which allows serious griefing
*grief blocks*: Spider Eggs, Steel Spikes, NPC Spawners, Turrets, Mines
What they can do:
- Individually edit *non grief blocks.
- Set (existing) textures/keys/paintings/teleport channels.
- Economize shops.
- Toggle their nameplate visibility to Far.
- Creative -> Measure.
- Creative -> Remove Markers.
Creators (Creative Permission):
These players are your world builders, as they have fairly unrestricted access to building and creative tools.
What they can do:
- Use all Creative Tools except Creative Flood. (in Creative mode only)
- Place spider eggs, steel spikes, NPC spawners, invisible barriers.
- Use Ambient Sound and Script blocks.
- Change frequencies on Wifi blocks.
- Access System Shops. (with 1 exception, they cannot buy skeleton keys)
- Edit NPC speech.
- Edit / Copy Books.
- Add/Remove textures/keys/paintings/teleport channels.
Grief:
Turning this permission off protects against accidental, or intentional, use of features that can cause serious grief.
What they can do:
- Start fires.
- Blast permission.
- Use buckets to Flood.
- Use Creative Flood. (Creative mode only)
Fly:
Players with Fly Permission can fly around the map. Note: Players using Robotic, TesterMan, or Zeus are not bound by this permission, so they can fly even if they do not have the fly permission.
Map:
Players with Map Permission can:
- View their mini map.
- Toggle their mini-map on or off.
- View the top view surface map.
Save:
Players with Save Permission can save their clipboard as a component to their own Xbox.
Admin:
These players are your world administrators.
What they can do:
- Set permissions for other non-admin players.
- Use Zones.
- Teleport to players.
- Ghost other players.
- No Clip. (Creative mode only)
- Time FFWD/REV. (Creative maps only)
- Access the Creative Menu when Finite Resources is on. (Creative maps only)
- Remove locked chests and locked doors placed by other players.
- Edit inside Non-Edit zones.
- Buy Skeleton keys from system shops.
- Use the Admin Teleport Channel. (Red)
- Unrestricted mini-map.
- Toggle most game options.