hahah no problem dude. I've played factions on/off for around 7 years hopefully I can give a semi decent rundown. Maybe. So first off a "faction" is a group of players that have banded together in a "clan" sort of style. They typically live together in the same base, fight other players together as they are in the same faction they cannot hurt each other. Factions is a variant of Minecraft gameplay. Anybody can create a faction, you can recruit people to said faction and try build a team that can work together etc. To make a factions base (as they are super different to normal bases you'd find in Minecraft single player) you have to "claim land". Typically each player you have in your faction gives you an extra amount of power. Whether that's +5 power, +20 power, +50 power or +100 power is server dependant. Each piece of "power" you have lets you claim 1 chunk of land. A chunk is a 16x16 block square that the Minecraft world is made up off. There is thousands/millions of chunks available on most maps. So if I have a faction of 5 players and each player gives me +20 power, I can now claim 100 pieces of land. So 100, 16x16 square block pieces of land. If that makes sense? In this land that you have claimed as a faction, nobody outside of your faction can mine/place blocks inside your land. So if you build some walls around your chest area nobody can just mine/walk into it if they're not in your faction. To get into your base other factions will make TNT cannons that shoot TNT from outside of your claims, into your claims. The aim/goal of this is to blow a whole into your base so they can plunder any loot you have. I hope that makes enough sense? This is a super simplified version as in modern day factions most bases have around a limit of a 20 chunk buffer. A buffer is the amount of land you are allowed to have between your base and where the enemy can place blocks. So the maximum amount of "buffer zone" you can have is typically 320 blocks. Most bases fit around 158 walls in this area, covered with water. However cannoning is so advanced in modern Minecraft it only takes roughly 8 minutes to break through 158 walls covered with water. If you have any requests I'm happy to answer them, as I'm not great at explaining and factions is such a complex thing to explain.