Even simple commands like /mc colonies info 1 are just not working for me. Documentation on them is poor or nonexistant, can someone tell me what is going on? Is there some uber-command to activate them? I am not running mc as a server, I'm just playing the game locally.

I'm pretty sure I turned on all the enable-flags in the configs. All I really want to do is Claim my current town to a much larger radius... my ID of course is 1. So I type "/mc colony claim 1 20 true" and it complains I need to enter the id.... am I doing this wrong or is it bugged in single player?

For anyone that needs help with this 4 years later, if you have dimensions on for your colonies type in the following
/mc colony claim colony: 1 dimension: 1 range: 20 add: true

You need to use the commands as such: /mc colony info colony: 1 that colony: part with the space is important, and is required for all commands, in it's own way. (So, for claiming for example, you would use /mc colony claim colony: 1 range: 20 add: true) Using the commands runs a lot smoother through tab completion

On a side note regarding documentation, a new wiki is being worked on and is very near completion

That worked, thank you so much... and yes, a simple example of what you ACTUALLY need to type on the wiki would go lightyears towards making it more accessible. I had no idea named parameters were even possible in MC. =)