Rules

This page contains very detailed information about the server rules, punishment system and appeals. If you don't understand a certain rule, you should refer to this page.

## Punishments

Each time you get punished, you get a point. This depends on the severity or the current situation. **When you reach 8+ points you are out.** However for certain rules the points systems cancels out for their severity. For this reason, all the rules are marked in different colors, green, orange, red and dark red:

* **Green** highlighted rules are the light ones, they can be from a warn to a light mute. This gives you **1pt**.
* **Orange** highlighted rules are for most rules you can find on the server, they can include, warns, normal mutes and even bans. The length of those punishments can vary on the staff member. This gives you **2pts**.
* **Red** highlighted rules are the severe rules, although you can get banned for a month or muted for also a month, these are often together with the dark red ones. This gives you **3pts**.
* **Purple** are the most severe, examples can be toxicity, doxxing and even exploiting. These are permanent and if somehow pardoned you have in your positions **4 pts**.

Having **3+ pts** can result in a **weekly ban or mute**, depending on the situation.

Having **6+ pts** can result in a **monthly ban or mute**.

Having **10+ pts** can result in a **permanent ban or mute from the server**. This includes IP-Bans.

Staff members are allowed to punish accordingly and they are allowed to make the duration longer or shorter. Do not argue about your punishment.

**If you are annoying or generally toxic you will be banned.**

## **1.** Offensive, Inappropriate, or Illegal Builds

### **1.1** No offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive builds

This includes, but is not limited to, tall 1x1 towers that serve no real purpose, genitalia, lavacasts, and discriminatory builds. Offensive structures or symbols are not allowed either. Please ask a staff member before doing so. This rule applies everywhere - even within your claim.

### **1.2** No major terraforming

This includes building large islands, draining large lakes, or closing geological features leading into geographical areas (i.e. blocking rivers/straits). Generally, projects which significantly alter the appearance of the map on the dynmap are prohibited. It is strongly recommended to ask the staff before starting any terraforming projects.

* **1.2.1** Sand mining or chunk mining: Do not Mine large amounts of sand in the middle of the desert. Sand is a valuable tool but leaving massive holes near towns or in the middle of Africa is not a nice sight. Each time you mine, make sure to cover it up.
* **1.2.2** Alteration of the map using a large amount of tnt: Massive holes or alteration of the map that shows the usage of large amounts of tnt is no longer allowed.

### **1.3** Map art

Map art is not allowed in the wild. Map arts must be in claims as it is considered “Major Terraforming”. Map arts that contain offensive, NSFW and even light-nsfw will be punished as rule 1.1 . If you are unsure if the theme breaks the rules, ask a moderator.

### **1.4** No unintentional or intentional lag machines

A farm that uses clocks, slow or fast is not allowed. If you need to put a clock to your farm make it so that you turn it on while you are there and close it as you leave. Making clocks, 0-tick machines, Using a large amount of redstone and hoppers is not allowed meaning, large farms, massive sorters or massive auto smelters are not allowed. If you are unsure of your design, ask a staff member.

### **1.5** Farms

Mass farms, iron farms, gold farms and farms that rely far too many redstone and hoppers are not allowed. 0-Tick is disabled by plugins. You can make exp farms, all basic resource farms ect. If you are unsure with your design, ask a staff member.

## **2.** Protected Structures

### **2.1** No destroying/griefing any means of transportation (rails, ice roads, paths, etc.), even if they are in the wilderness

This rule also applies to planets and the nether.

### **2.2** No griefing/looting

This includes griefing/looting from property that is located within 16 blocks (1 chunk) of claimed land with clear malicious intent, or from the inside of the town (if you have building permissions). Looting unclaimed areas is allowed.

### **2.3** No illegal builds

Building within 1 chunk of a town (even with no clear malicious intent) without the permission of the town owner is prohibited. This includes building roads, canals, etc. Building walls around the town to limit players from getting out despite being 1+ chunks away is also not allowed.

* **2.3.1** War structures: War structures should be temporary. A war structure can be made within 1 chunk of a town but only when the said town is being sieged.

## **3.** Illegal town actions

### **3.1** No inappropriate town/nation names or boards

This includes swear words. Town names are encouraged - but not required - to be realistic. This also includes titles or surnames.

### **3.2** No claim blocking

Claim blocking is when a town creates arms or disallows another town next to it to expand. Claim blocking is also creating an outpost next to a town and block the available room for the town to expand. Only mayors should report claim blocking. All claims which staff concludes to be blocking a town will be removed without any refund. Players found to be claim blocking more than once will be warned and if excessively, banned.

### **3.3** No insiding

Insiding is defined as deliberately becoming a town/nation member to grief, loot, or do other malicious actions to a town/nation. This includes, but is not limited to, joining a town to destroy a house, joining a town to loot its chests or steal a beacon, and joining a town to kick everyone out of the town upon being promoted.

### **3.4** No attacking allies by leaving the town/nation temporarily

It is prohibited to attack an ally by leaving your town/nation.

### **3.5** No taking advantage of town claims to harm/kill people

This includes, but is not limited to, lava trapping within claims (using lava to harm people with fire damage), and spawn trapping (town spawn is a trap resulting in the death of people that do /t spawn)

### **3.6** No town scamming

This is when you agree with someone that they fund your town or give you resources in return for joining their nation, but after receiving such aid, you leave/refuse to join their nation. This is only punishable if both parties agree that funding is received on the condition that you join their nation - and the condition must be clearly stated and agreed upon.

## **4.** Chat violations (NOTE: These rules apply on the CG discord as well)

### **4.1** No spamming

Flooding the chat with unnecessary messages, repetition, repeatedly advertising your town/nation/shop, or using excessive capital letters. **(NOTE: This rule applies to /msg, NC, and TC as well.)**

* **4.1.1** Spamming commands is also considered spamming.

### **4.2** No offensive remarks and excessive toxicity

Severity depends on the message content. Messages that contain discrimination of any type, excessive toxicity/harassment, and/or dangerous remarks are not tolerated. **(NOTE: This rule applies to /msg, NC, and TC as well.)**

### **4.3** No toxic, disruptive, or harmful behavior

This is a broad rule but it covers everything that makes other players’ experiences worse. This is mostly already covered in other rules and includes repetitive killing, unfair actions such as trapping, taunting, excessive and unnecessary trolling, spreading false info, and inciting violence. **(NOTE: This rule applies to /msg, NC, and TC as well.)**

### **4.4** No shady links

Links that link to NSFW/NSFL content, illegal content, or other malicious content will be punished with a permanent ban, no exceptions. **(NOTE: This rule applies to /msg, NC, and TC as well.)** *Tell players to use /map for the map link*.

### **4.5** No advertising

Promoting content unrelated to CG without the permission of the staff is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, discord/minecraft servers and/or social media channels. This rule is laxed if this is done in dms (i.e. someone messages you and asks for your yt channel or nation discord, and you reply to them in dms). However, mass dm-ing everyone with advertisements without their permission is prohibited.

* **4.5.1)** Advertising includes shops, town/nation invites and services. Keep in mind you should do it once every 5-10 minutes.
* **4.5.2)** The Youtube rank can bypass this rule only to promote their channel/social media accounts, this includes access to the #cg-media channel in the server discord. If you want to advertise your nation or CG related organisation discord, make a general assistance ticket in the discord and, if deemed appropriate, staff will add the link to #nation-discords or #organization-discords.

### **4.6** No doxxing

Revealing personal information or encouraging to do so, and performing any malicious cyberattacks on people is prohibited. Privately sharing information such as content creator accounts is permitted as long as all of the participants agree that such information can be shared. **(NOTE: This rule applies to /msg, NC, and TC as well. You will receive a PERMANENT BAN for this, no exceptions.)**

### **4.7** Use English in the global chat

Other languages are allowed in /msg, TC, NC, etc.

### **4.8** Bypassing the filter

If you are found bypassing the filter by either changing words, using special characters or bypassing a punishment. You will be permanently muted.

### **4.10** Stalking

Do not stalk players in discord. Stalking is not following around someone in game but rather digging into their personal media ect.

## **5.** Use of illegal modifications

### **5.1** Client-side modifications are prohibited

Examples include x-ray texture packs, killaura, jesus, fly, etc. Autoclickers of any type (farming, pvping ect.) are not allowed, even if X Youtuber said it is safe. *Minor modifications (i.e. optifine, Badlion mods, lag-reduction mods) are allowed. If you are unsure whether a mod is permitted or not, please open a ticket.*

## **6.** Exploits, Bug abuse, or Harming the server

### **6.2** No exploit abuse

Taking advantage of an unintentional bug or feature for personal gain is prohibited. Punishment depends on the severity of the exploit. Glitching through a wall would be considered a minor exploit, while duping would be considered a major exploit.

NOTE: Telling others how to use certain exploits is prohibited and can result in a permanent mute. We do not punish if you simply encounter an exploit - as long as you report it to us in a ticket!

### **6.3** No teleportation abuse

This includes setting a home, outpost, or spawn point within 32 chunks (512 blocks) of another town for the primary purpose of teleporting there to act aggressively in any way. This includes teleporting to a public town less than 32 chunks (512 blocks) away from a person to kill them.

### **6.4** No harming people in town claims with special weapons

This includes harming people with the slime sword, lingering or splash potions, bosses.

### **6.5** No alting

Using an alt account is prohibited and will result in a temp or even perm ban. If the alt is used to evade a punishment, then you will receive a permanent ban. Please talk to a staff member if you are switching to a new account - but note that ranks, XP, or other goods will not be transferred over to your new account.

* **6.5.1** We know that some of you have siblings that you play with together. We allow this as long you don’t use it to evade a punishment or break the rules. If your sibling is banned, they have to make an appeal themselves rather than you.

## **7.** Foul play

### **7.1** No sharking

Sharking is when you wait outside of a town for someone to leave the town claims so you can attack or kill them. Waiting outside for an extended period of time is prohibited, using invis pots is now considered sharking.

* **7.1.1)** Intentionally logging off and logging on to kill someone is not allowed. Yet it is the element of surprise, this often happens outside of towns.
* **7.1.2)** Sharking is allowed when you are in a siege/war with said town/nation.

### **7.3** No scamming

If you negotiate a purchase but you do not follow through with the purchase, you will be punished for scamming. Failure to comply with the staff will result in a temporary ban and items/money being forcibly removed from town chests, your inventory, or your balance.

### **7.4** Baiting

Telling grace period players to hit you, luring them to a trap or entering a town and telling them to leave it to kill them is not allowed.

### **7.5** Trapping

Trapping is allowed but only if it is not within 16 blocks of a town. Small scaled “tnt traps” are allowed where as traps that cause environmental damage are not. If your trap intentionally or unintentionally destroys railroads or paths, you need to fix it. A trap that includes tnt, must not be near a visible path.

### **7.6** No real-life trades

Trades for items on CG for real-life money are prohibited. CG is not responsible and does not tolerate any real-life trading between players. You will be Permanent banned.

### **7.7** Do not interfere with staff actions

Attempting to kill, argue about punishments, target and threaten staff members during rollbacks or any staff actions is not allowed. If you have questions, open a ticket.

### **7.8** We are not responsible if you lose your items.

We cannot rollback your inventory if you died to another player, entity, environment or boss. We will only roll it back if you died to a bug (falling in the void while being in overworld, spawn trap in town) or got glitched. If you experience something like this, please open a ticket.

### **7.9** Offensive and inappropriate usernames or skins

No matter how funny a hitler or a naked skin, these are not allowed, even as a joke. Offensive or inappropriate usernames are also not allowed.

## **8.** Discord

### **8.1** No disruptive behavior

Behavior which disrupts the staff - i.e. unnecessary pings, opening tickets as a prank, troll appeals will be met with a ban.

### **8.2** No unnecessary pings

Do not ping people for no reason. Do not ping the staff for no reason. Only ping the staff in an emergency (i.e. someone is spamming something offensive and bypassing the chat filter).**Do not ping the founders or the admins.**

### **8.3** No nation discord trolling.

Joining nation discords to advertise, troll, or for any other malicious intent is prohibited and will result in a permanent ban from the discord server.

### **8.4** Nation discords must generally follow similar rules that are outlined in here

Excessive toxicity in a nation discord will be punished accordingly and may result in your nation discord being removed from the #nations list.

### **8.6** Don’t re-suggest already rejected suggestions

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These are the guidelines of Craftgalaxy and the punishment may be harsher or lessened depending on the context. If you have questions please open a ticket at #support-tickets under general-assistance. Not knowing even the basic rules is not a reason why you were banned. Rules can change and changes will be posted in #update-log.

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