I am looking for a mod that allows protecting chunks of land in exactly 16^3-sized cubes, where all 12 edges are perfectly aligned with the actual world chunk edges regardless of where the player is standing when the chunk is claimed (except they must be in the chunk, of course - how else does the mod identify which chunk to protect?)
The purpose is for my server, so that players can protect areas in a sane fashion, and they don't end up with oddly misaligned areas when a region gets crowded with different peoples' areas. For example, most servers use a different system where you can protect an area of pretty much any size; near spawn, you will see gaps between areas in some places, and unusually thin areas where players have claimed space between other areas just to have a place closer to spawn (or whatever else in the region may be of interest, if it isn't near spawn; such as a town far away from spawn)
I have seen some mod which allows players to claim areas 16 nodes "wide" and 16 nodes "long", but I doubt this is perfectly aligned with the real chunk system because the height of the claimed area is hard-coded into the mod, usually having a value not equal to 16. For my purpose, the protection system must be perfectly aligned with the chunk system.
Is this even possible, or am I mistaken? If it is possible and a mod for it doesn't exist, I may look into trying to make a mod for it when I finish my other projects, and this will further delay the creation of my server. If a mod for this does exist, please let me know about it so that it may be introduced to public knowledge and made available for me and others to use within servers.
thank you