Rules

Community Rules

All players are required to abide by these rules to ensure gameplay is kept fair and fun for everyone.

Please be sure to stay up to date with any changes/updates.

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1.0 Chat & Behavior

1.1 Unwanted Behavior

Generally covering a large variety of chat violations including but not limited to;

Self Harm Encouragement
Explicit Talk Regarding Sex
Explicit Hate Speech
Continuous Use of Derogatory Terms
Explicit Forms of Bullying

All cases of 1.1 Unwanted Behavior are to receive punishment best viewed by a staff member for the violations. Punishment will be set forth via a case by case basis.

1.2 Spam Messages

Spam messages include messages that disrupts the flow of the chat. Typically by repeating the same or similar message constantly.

Spam Violations can & will result in mutes, or warns against the offender.

1.3 Advertising

Players advertising other servers or communities will be punished accordingly. We encourage players to form communities within ours, these may consist of;

Nation Discords
Town Discords
Shops / Marketplaces
RP Discords

Major known servers casually brought up in discussion will not be punished.

1.4 Sharing Links

Harmful or potentially harmful, sexual or tracking links are not allowed.

Links for discord servers as mentioned in 1.3 Advertising are allowed as well as links such as YouTube.

1.5 Impersonating Another Player

Players found impersonating another player will be punished accordingly.

Staff Impersonating will NOT be tolerated.

1.6 Naming

Naming covers Usernames, Towns, Nations, Etc. Please follow our naming rules to avoid issues resulting in renamed towny settings or banned accounts.

Names can not be Offensive or Inappropriate. This includes other mentions via 1.1 Unwanted Behavior. Inappropriate player skins will also be punished under rule 1.6 Naming.

Naming also covers the use of IRL TOPICS being not allowed.

For Example:

IRL Religions
IRL City/Country/Etc Names
Etc

1.7 Selling Content & Services for IRL Money

No server content or services will be allowed to be sold for IRL Money.

All transactions must be conducted via trade/currency exchange/service exchange on the server.

1.8 Sharing Personal Information

Each player reserves the right to keep their personal identity to themselves. Players found sharing personal information regarding another player will be punished.

Personal Information Includes but is NOT limited to:

IRL Photos
Phone Numbers
Home Addresses
Social Networks
School/Work Locations
Family Relations
IP Addresses
Full Names

Players who provide consent to share Personal Information are ok to do so. If brought to a ticket for assistance, players will be expected to be able to prove the released data is truly theirs. Players who have given consent to share information can not further punish players after the fact. If players report the sharing of their personal information, that information will not be allowed to be shared again by that player.

1.9 Community Language (Global)

Due to Moderation limitations our community enforces the use of the English language within a global setting.

For Example:

Discord Channels
In-Game Global Chat

All other settings players are free to use whichever language they prefer. This rule is to ensure our moderation team can effectively ensure a safe environment for all community members.

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2.0 Cheating & Technical Exploits

2.1 Alternative Accounts

Alt accounts are not allowed in our community. Voting, daily quests and more are limited to provide a fair playing field for all players.

Alt accounts will be perm banned and repeat offenses will result in the primary account to be perm banned as well. 2

2.2 Intentionally Causing Server Lag

Players found intentionally causing server lag will be removed from the community all together. It is our goal to provide a well functioning server for players to enjoy.

Intentional lag includes but is not limited to:

DDOS
Botting
Server Crasher Accounts
Lag Machines

2.3 Technical Errors & Exploits

This rule covers any oversight in development progress in which the oversight is abused to give a player a unfair or unintentional advantage.

Exploits include:

Duping Items
Glitching Dungeons / Quests
Using Stacked Items (Ex: Stacking Potions)

2.4 Cheat Clients & Other Mods

Players found using cheat clients, modifications that give an unintentional advantage over other players or macro keys are not allowed.

Modifications we allow are:

Litematica w/ Easy Place (Printer Functions are not allowed and will be disabled)
Aesthetic Modifications (Shaders, Texture Packs, Resource Packs)
Armor & Effect Status HUD Modifications
Optifine or Other Performance Modifications
Minimap Mods (Must not display more information that what is provided on our Dynmap)
Replay Mod (Action will be taken if this mod is abused)

2.5 Knowingly Benefitting From & or Assisting Others in Breaking Rules

Players found assisting others in breaking a rule, encouraging rule breaking or benefitting from another player breaking the rules will be punished according to the broken rule.

2.6 Auto Farms

Players found assembling & using auto farms to gain mass items or a large advantage will not be allowed. Large auto farms heavily disrupt the player economy and can cause lag which would go against 2.2

Auto Farms NOT Allowed:

Raid Farms
Iron Farms
Gold Farms
Tree Farms Via TNT Dupes
Mob Farms (Farms That Take Advantage of Vanilla Spawning Mechanics) EX: Creeper Farms

Auto Farms Allowed:

Food Production Farms
Misc Block “Farms” (Realistically Converters)
Mob Spawner Farms (Natural Spawned or Silk Touched Spawners)
Super Smelters / Item Sorters (Not Farms but Require Lots of Redstone)
Auto Potion

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3.0 Griefing

3.1 Town Claims

Towns are allowed to claim as much as they can given available claims. We aim to enforce proper claiming techniques to offer a fair experience to all players.

Town claiming can not:

Claim Block (Cutting off a town's possible future progression for personal gains or to annoy another town)
Contain Hollow Claims (All town borders must be fully filled in and not contain a hollow center.
Siege Towns (A spontaneous claim made by an enemy town/nation in effort to restrict another towns progress)
Claim Small Gaps Between Existing Towns
Contain Disconnected Claims (Claim Arming Out and Removing Chunks)

Claiming Nearby “Official Trade Towns”

Towns may determine that they want to stay close to “Official Trade Towns” for easy access to currency exchanges.

The following restrictions are set in place to ensure others are not unable to access these towns:

Towns must be (5) Chunks away from “Official Trade Town” borders against the closest claim.
Towns may not block off or barricade “Official Trade Towns” from other players. (Claims may close off around towns but pathways must NOT be restricted to anyone. Admins have final say regarding this)

3.2 Destroying Land In or Around Claims

Players are not allowed to grief within town claims or within 3 chunks of a town's border. Players found in violation of this will be punished and damage will be rolled-back. 3.1 Destroying Land In Wilderness As the server develops in game and infrastructure is made between towns, protections for specific things are implemented here.

3.3 Destroying Land In Wilderness

As the server develops in game and infrastructure is made between towns, protections for specific things are implemented here.

Wilderness Protection Includes:

Rails (Includes connected infrastructure)
Ice Highways
Roadways / Paths
Bridges

When wilderness infrastructure is claimed after creation, the town owner has discretion to what can be done with the claimed infrastructure. The creation of a town just to grief infrastructure will not be allowed.

Players can also receive permission to destroy/alter existing infrastructure from the town/nation of ownership or the original builder.