I didn’t think you could break tilled dirt in siege… It never worked for me ? I honestly don’t know if it’s grief or not

Fron what I heard, they were trying to shoot you through the wall (it can be done, I know from experience)

@Goldieh,

First thank you for the well written post. Your question is well stated and the confusion perfectly understandable. Let me see if I can clarify…

Allow me to start by explaining what about the previous event ‘crossed the line’ to become grief, and thus resulted in those individuals being punished. These individuals had first gained /trust on the claim from the claim owner. They waited until the claim owner left the game. Then they proceeded to empty all the chests and presumably steal it all. All of this is fine, a normal day on Pirate Craft. If they had stopped with stealing everything of value, I wouldn’t care. Removing iron doors, iron bars, beacons, etc, this is just stealing. Digging through floors and underground walls to look for secret rooms I could also understand. To ‘grief’ someone is to destroy something for absolutely no discernible reason.

In contrast, your situation is very different. What happened to you is all too common is siege warfare, pound them with cannons till they come out. You have the option to end the siege at any time, go outside and fight. If you don’t want to fight and most of your stuff is in locked chests then plan ahead and build bolt-holes to run away. If you plan to ‘wait it out’ when someone attacks then build defenses to ensure that entities you care about are well away from cannon blasts.