Worldscale

The Worldscale is a structure that helps protect territories in a anarchism/faction wars type setting, to encourage building aboveground and not just hiding near bedrock layer.

First off, you will need Worldscale ore. Worldscale ore spawns at specific locations in the world, based on the seed. It will slowly spawn over time as the chunk it would spawn in is loaded. A Worldscale deposit lasts forever, but there's only a finite amount of them in the world to incentivize conflict/secrecy.

Mining this ore takes quite a bit of time, and when fully embedded in rock, you will be unable to harvest it completely. To harvest it, it must be exposed to the elements. Harvesting the ore successfully will drop some shards. The shards will resonate with nearby deposits and can be used to locate the others.

The polished Worldscale is the centerpiece of the structure. To function, it must have any banner placed on top of it. The more complex the banner design, the better, as it will be more difficult to counterfeit.

Merely placing the worldscale will protect the chunk it is in. To protect more chunks, it can be extended in a flat plane shape. The individual scale pieces are not required to be connected to the centerpiece. Two worldscales cannot claim the same chunks, when attempted, the block on the more recently placed worldscale will fracture, showing that a chunk cannot be claimed (this does not destroy the scale, and it can be mined as usual)

An active worldscale will inhibit blockbreaking in all claimed chunks. Blocks will be much harder to break, whether a suitable tool is used or not. There is no change to blast resistance of individual blocks, so explosions can still be used to blast through walls. Containers will also remain unprotected, there's other mods that can fill that purpose.

This effect can be negated by wearing a copy of the banner placed on the centerpiece on your head.

Only in the influence area of a worldscale, Lattice blocks can be placed to increase the hardness (read: time to break) of adjacent blocks. In theory this is intended to make lesser building materials like stone viable for building protective structures, but this will require more tweaking in the future.