Rules

1. General Conduct and Interactions

1.1 - Theft, Raiding, and Scamming: All stealing, raiding, and scamming are not punishable. This includes insiding towns. The safest place to store your items is in your Ender Chest. Pro tip: Try to acquire shulker boxes to expand your Ender Chest capacity.

1.2 - Prohibited Behaviors: Bullying, harassment, promoting self-harm, discriminatory language (racist, homophobic, etc.), inciting violence, hate speech, and sexual actions or speech towards minors are forbidden. Spam and explicit discussions on sensitive topics (sex, drugs, etc.) are not allowed.

• We do not moderate client-side voice chat plugins. (e.g Feather voice, Lunar Client voice)

1.3 - Personal Information: Do not share personal information without explicit consent. This includes photos, contact details, social network profiles, and location data. This includes threats to expose this information.

• Doxxing and threats of doxxing are a permanent ban. Conflicts between players stay in game.

1.4 - Link Sharing: Links may be shared in whispers and town chats, with only server-related links allowed in general chat. Links to inappropriate content are prohibited.

1.5 - Advertising and Promotion: Advertising other servers or IP baiting is strictly prohibited. Encouraging players to join other servers, even without sharing IPs, is also forbidden.

1.6 - Real Money Transactions: Selling in-game items, content, or services for real money is not allowed. This violates the Minecraft EULA and we must enforce this rule.

1.7 - Language and Channel Use: English is the primary language for global chats. Use designated channels for other languages and content types. Follow channel-specific guidelines.

1.8 - Impersonation: Impersonating staff, other players, or positions of authority is prohibited and subject to penalties.

1.9 - Harassment: Targeted harassment, in-game or on associated platforms, is prohibited.. This includes spamming, claim camping, and disruptive behavior that occurs for an extended period of time.

2. Game Integrity and Fair Play

2.1 - Exploits and Cheating: Benefiting from or engaging in exploits, bugs, or hacks is punishable. This includes server bugs, game glitches (e.g duping, exploits that crash other player's clients) and the use of cheat clients.

• Build mods rules:
  • EasyPlace: easyPlaceFirst, easyPlaceSinglePlayerHandling, air placing blocks, and easyPlace build reach are prohibited.
  • Printer is not allowed.

2.2 - Alternative Accounts: Only one account per player is allowed. Sibling accounts on the same IP must be verified. Account sharing is not permitted.

2.3 - Modifications: Only approved mods (e.g., OptiFine, non-exploitative HUD mods) are allowed. Mods giving unfair advantages are banned.

2.4 -Server Disruption: Intentional harm to server operations (DDoS, spamming) will result in a permanent ban and legal action.

3. Griefing and Land Use

3.1 - Town and Wilderness Griefing: Griefing using mass explosions, mass lava casts, and mass destruction of the landscape for the purpose of deforming the map is never permitted.

• Griefing your own town is permitted, within reason. 
• Looting ruined towns is permitted. Griefing ruined towns is permitted, within reason.
• Griefing roads, railways, and paths in the wilderness is not allowed. Griefing will be rolled back and the offending party will receive a punishment.

3.2 - Land Claims: Properly fill town claims without "spaghetti claiming." Claim blocking and starting "Anchor Towns" for disruptive purposes are not allowed. Siege outposts fall under 6.2.

3.3 - Environmental Preservation: Major alterations to natural landscapes and water bodies are restricted to maintain geographical accuracy.

3.4 - Map Art: Only allowed in specific areas, following content guidelines that exclude violence, discrimination, and NSFW themes

3.5 - Insiding: Insiding is not punishable. Only give permissions to those that you trust, and be careful of who you upset on the server. Reputations are important.

• Refunds cannot be provided for insiding -- only give permissions to those that you trust!

4. Naming and Representation

4.1 - Names and Representation: Town and nation names must adhere to guidelines around appropriateness, uniqueness, and relevance to geopolitics. Inappropriate player skins, usernames, and nicknames are not allowed.

5. Towny and SiegeWar Specifics

5.1 - Siege Conduct: Kill feeding, town-claim surrounding strategies, digging pits under siege banners, or building sky siege banners to disrupt sieges are prohibited.

5.2 - Inactive Siege Outposts: 

• Outposts placed next to a town for the purposes of conducting a siege are not counted as claimblocking.
• The outpost must be used to initiate a siege within two siege weekends of being placed.
• If the outpost is there for longer than two weeks without any siege on the town being conducted, the outpost is eligible for removal upon the town mayor making a ticket. The outpost owner need not be notified, and will not be reimbursed for any materials or items left at their siege outpost.

5.3 - Siege Banner Placement: The siege banner must be reasonably accessible to both sides.

Misc

 - Disrespect Towards __bruh69: Under no circumstance is it okay to be disrespect towards __bruh69, the nicest geopolitical minecraft player in history.

 - Don't yuck anothers yum.