Marriage, Adoption & Family Trees

Beliefs includes a family system alongside religion. Players can form marriages, adopt family members, see ancestry and explore records over time. These relationships are separate from your current faith: changing religion does not erase your family.

Open the family menu

Choose Family from /faith, or use /partner for the partner menu.

You can find marriage and adoption proposals, your existing connections and family-tree options from these screens.

Marriage and consent

A marriage requires every participant's consent. The system supports marriage groups with more than two partners, subject to the religion's rules and the server's limits.

To propose a marriage:

1. Open Family and select Propose marriage, or use a Marriage Ring on another player.
2. Select the people who will take part. Participants need to be online and nearby for relevant steps.
3. Send the marriage request.
4. Each invited person reviews and accepts separately.
5. When everybody has consented, finish the request in Family → Requests. Some marriages are officiated by an eligible priest or clergy member.

One Marriage Ring is used when a marriage completes successfully, not when the proposal is sent. Keep the ring available until the ceremony is finished.

Marriage Ring recipe

The plugin's default recipe is:

Gold   Diamond   Gold
Gold   Empty     Gold
Gold   Gold      Gold

That is 7 Gold Ingots and 1 Diamond in a crafting table. Availability and marriage policies are subject to SolarCiv's live settings.

Marriage and interfaith permissions are controlled by the officiating faith. Partner groups can also share experience while eligible partners are online.

Leaving a marriage

Choose Divorce in the family or partner area to leave your marriage group. This does not automatically remove any recorded parent-child relationships.

Adoption

You can propose a relationship between a parent group and a child:

1. Open Family → Propose adoption.
2. Choose the proposed parent or parents and child.
3. Submit the request.
4. Every parent and the child must consent.
5. Complete the adoption through the request screen when everybody is ready and nearby.

An ordinary adoption does not require a priest; some family requests can instead be coordinated as priest-led ceremonies. A person cannot be both parent and child in the same adoption. Recorded parent-child connections can later be ended through the family relationship controls.

Family trees and previous lives

Open a player profile or the family menu to view Family Tree. Trees can show marriages, parents, children and extended connections. You can explore another person's ancestry with:

/faith family <player> <depth>

Depth is limited to keep family trees readable. Your life and family history remain after leaving a faith.

Ask a priest for help

For a marriage or other eligible family ceremony, the Priest help screen can notify compatible online clergy and suggest a meeting place. This helps organize a gathering - it does not replace anyone's consent.

Partner conveniences

/partner also contains options for partner visits and a shared chest, but these features are disabled by default in the supplied configuration and may not be available on SolarCiv. The family and marriage features do not depend on those conveniences being enabled.

Keep it consensual

No player is required to accept a marriage, adoption or priest invitation. Unwanted pressure or harassment is not acceptable roleplay; see the server rules.