Welcome and no problem!

Brews:

All you need to know about brewing is found here There you will find all little tips and guides to lead you to make what ever you feel 🙂

http://wiki.piratemc.com/Brewing

Wepons and Armor

That was a special for a Halloween event which will come back next year so keep your goodies!! They don’t come very often. Sadly you can’t customize your armor with some major perks that elite stuff is only when there are events, which staff would announce!

Claims

To check the amount you have left take out your golden spade (shovel) and it should pop up in the chat box in the lower left hand corner. There really is no knowing an exact location of all your claimed areas so be wise where you claim and make sure it’s worth claiming, and sethome there 🙂

You can’t use claims to prevent others from claiming or you could be punished for your actions. To buy  and sell claimblocks

/buyclaimblocks takes any amount of money out of your current balance and Invest them into claimblocks

/sellclaimblocks are selling the amount of claimblocks you have info money. Each block you sell is 0.06 and you do the math.

Lastly make sure you have /claimexplosions off unless you want a creeper ruining your vault!!

Hope I answered each question, enjoy the server and welcome again!