NationsMC Official Rulebook

# The NationsMC Official Rulebook

## The NationsMC Punishment System:

Any violation of the Rules below will result in either a warning or a direct punishment. The severity of the punishment/warning will be determined based upon the severity of the violation and the users previous warnings/punishments. The standard levels of punishment are as listed below. Any punishment can be disputed in a ticket in the NationsMC discord server.

1. A Warning From Staff
2. 24-72 Hour Temporary Ban
3. Permanent Ban From The Server
4. A Permanent Ban From Both The Server And The Discord (In Extreme Cases)

## The NationsMC Basic Rules:

This is a compressed version of the basic rules for ease of access. The full and more in depth version of these rules can be found below.

1. No bigotry or harassment based upon race, identity, or sexual identity.
2. No using slurs under any circumstances.
3. No unwanted sexual interactions or roleplay.
4. No hacking, glitching, or exploiting to gain an unfair gameplay advantage.
5. No attempting to make the server unplayable for others.
6. No spamming in-game or in the discord.
7. No griefing during times of peace (see below).
8. No unnecessary or unwarranted bullying/toxicity.
9. No advertising of external servers.
10. Understand the war rules before going to war.
11. Admins are given the final say when it comes to punishment and anything relating to enforcement/interpretation.

## Basic Goals Of NationsMC:

1. Encourage and promote creativity, worldbuilding, and storytelling
2. The creation and documentation of societies created in the server
3. The creation of dynamic history, lore and mythos in the server
4. The creation and promotion of server art, maps, and other community projects
5. Creating an environment where players of all playstyles can interact and make history in fun and fair ways.

## General Moderation

1.1 NationsMC staff reserve the right to restrict or deny access to both the Discord and Minecraft server. These restrictions will only be put in place in the case of a violation of the rulebook.

1.2 Using personal beliefs to justify the breaking of any rules of this document is not allowed under any circumstances.

1.3 Using an alternate account for any reason on this server is not allowed.

1.4 Knowingly aiding a person in avoiding a ban is not allowed.

1.5 Spamming or posting unnecessary walls of text in any official NationsMC chats, in-game or on discord, is not allowed

1.6 Posting or DMing any player with the intent of advertising and non-NationsMC discord or group either in-game or in discord is not allowed.

1.7 Channels for posting announcements such as national, market, religious, are for their labeled purpose only. Any unrelated messages are not allowed and will be deleted.

1.8 Banned/muted players can only appeal in means provided by the server, asking another player to open a ticket for you is not allowed.

1.9 Skins that are NSFW or offensive are not allowed on this server.

1.10 Admin abuse is taken very seriously. If you suspect there is admin abuse going on please contact a higher level admin or one of the owners directly.

1.11 Any official pact, agreement, or treaty must be announced in the national announcements channel in the NationsMC discord.

1.12 If you are aware of another player breaking the rules and you do not report it you are considered guilty knowingly allowing a player to break the rules and will be punished accordingly.

## In-Game Moderation

2.1 Any violation of the rules listed in this document will be punished by staff accordingly. Punishments may be altered due to misinformation or more information leading to the need to change the punishment.

2.2 Admins reserve the right to confiscate/destroy any amount of items and or money deemed to have been gathered in an unfair manner or methods that are in violation of any NationsMC rules.

2.3 Any players found to have created or been involved in the creation of a lag machine or any other creation meant to lag or make the server unplayable will be punished accordingly.

2.4 Any players found to have griefed any part of the server or having ordered the griefing of any part of the server will be punished accordingly.

2.5 The creation of any faction base, lava cast, or build that is unnecessarily large and ugly is not allowed.

2.6 Any nation or land claim that has been inactive for a period of 2 weeks will be removed or transferred to another player.

2.7 Teleport trapping and portal trapping is not allowed on this server and will be punished accordingly.

2.8 Automatic farming and large redstone machines are not allowed on this server. Though semi-auto cactus farms and water activated crop farms are allowed.

2.9 Camping or surrounding another player's angel chest or spawn point with the intent to take or destroy their items is not allowed on this server and will be punished.

2.10 Joining a town or nation with the intent to steal or take advantage of the people's generosity is not allowed and will be considered land hopping which is not allowed on this server.

2.11 Stealing items of low value in small quantities is considered petty theft but stealing large amounts of low value items (more than a stack) or any amount of high value is considered severe theft and will be punished.

2.12 Selling items with the intent to scam another player, including but not limited to, renamed items, land you don't own, chest shop scamming, etc is not allowed on this server.

2.13 Admins are not responsible for items lost due to a glitch or server restart and will not compensate players for items lost in this way without valid proof. If items are lost due to direct admin interference, open a ticket and the admin team will compensate for parts or all of the items back to you.

2.14 Repeatedly killing the same player over 2 times without proper reasoning is not allowed on this server and is considered in-game harassment.

2.15 The creation of a land claim within 3 chunks of another town without permission is not allowed.