Server Rules

As a community made up of people who met online and possibly only interacted on the Hobbitcraft server itself, rules have been introduced for both old and new players to follow in order to make sure the playing experience is as enjoyable as possible. We have two main rule lists, one for basic behavior - also called the Discord Rules - and one for playing on the Minecraft server itself, called Minecraft Server Rules. Of the two lists, the Minecraft Server Rules are the ones most heavily moderated and as such there are also clearly defined punishments for breaking them.

## Discord Rules

1. **Be respectful to everyone in the server.** Treat people the way that you want to be treated.
2. **Racial and Homophobic language WILL NOT be tolerated.** Also, there should be no jokes about mental health, suicide, bullying, etc.
3. **Listen to the mods at all times.** Their decisions are final and their word is law. If you believe that a Mod is abusing their power, report it to the Owner.
4. **Do NOT spam**. This includes chat and voice chat ("ear rape") spam. Please refrain from writing long paragraphs, and please refrain from stretching out your words.
5. **Do not start any drama or arguments with anyone in the server.** If you really wish to argue with someone, bring it to DM's and keep it out of the server.
6. **Do NOT attempt to find anyone's personal information**, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, etc., Do not DOX yourself, or others, any weird links are not tolerated.
7. **Do not abuse high authority** and demand that they look at your whitelist application. We have lives and will not always be able to read over them. Most likely there will be a schedule or certain day of the week for accepting new players.

## Minecraft Server Rules

1. **Do not grief or steal.** Taking items from a chest you don’t own or breaking a building you didn’t build is illegal, unless the owner of the chest/build agrees to it beforehand. This includes farms: using someone’s farm without their permission is not allowed. As long as they are done in good taste, pranking someone’s base/build is allowed, but the cleanup process of the prank should definitely take less than an hour.
2. **Pvp is not illegal, but it’s only accepted in moderation.** Killing someone continuously without their consent is illegal. Unless agreed upon differently by the involved parties, all items dropped need to be returned to their owner (this does not include the head drop that happens when a player kills a player). If a player attacks you and you kill them in self defense that’s also allowed.
	* Addition: In case the victim loses their items because of how the attacker killed them (ex. multiple explosions or lava) the attacker has to use his own resources to get back/farm back the victim's item. This does not jump into effect if the attacker loses its items because the victim used self defense. This is a risk the attacker needs to take.
3. **Respect others’ claims.** We don’t heavily moderate this but please try not to build in areas that other people claimed over. This also includes respecting the district specifications (such as don’t build a base in the shopping district or a shop in the minigame district *cough Nacho cough*).
4. **Do not xray or cheat.** Hacked clients are forbidden. Using tnt dupers, bedrock breakers or similar exploits is accepted however. Straight up ITEM DUPERS ARE NOT ALLOWED (ex. exploits that can duplicate shulkers of items).
5. **The rules specified above these five are obviously still in effect in the minecraft server as well.**

## Minecraft Server Punishments

* **Light Griefing** - referring to cases where the griefed area is small and of little value - Banned for 3-7 days, Expected to fix griefed area or it will be rolled back (admin's choice)

* **Heavy Griefing** - using explosives or other tools to damage a major area of high value - Permanent Ban, affected area will be rolled back

* **X-ray** - any form that's used to get resources - Permanent Ban, Xrayed resources deleted or auctioned (admin's choice)

* **Duping**- any form of intended item duping (does not include tnt dupers or similar, farm-oriented dupers) - Permanent Ban, Duped items deleted

* **Stealing** - stealing items or mobs (this includes not giving back a player's items after pvp, excluding heads)- Warn if one or two items, a week ban if a stack or two, Permanent Ban in every other case. Items need to be given back to their owner in all cases.

* **Repeated Killing of A Person** - when one person is killed multiple times in a short amount of time without their consent - Warn. If they don't stop they will be killed by command. If it escalates even further, they get a 3 day Ban.

* **Major Cheating** - includes hacked clients, fly hacks, kill aura and similar - Permanent Ban

## Trivia

* The Minecraft Server Punishments is a newer addition, before it there was a two warn system in use. There were several issues the admins have encountered while using it and after some conversation it was decided that a more objective and clear system would be needed. This new system was the Punishments and it scaled down the required subjectivity within it. This means that an admin's job is simply to determine whether or not an action taken was against the rules or not and if it was the punishment clear.

* On top of reducing subjectivity, accused players have the choice of calling in another admin to look at the respective case. This allows the accused player to stand his ground without having to argue against the admin. However if 3 of the 5 admins agree that the action taken was against the rules, it's no longer refutable.

* Ignorance of the rules is never an excuse

* Admin's note: If we caught you cheating just confess. There's honestly no reason to feign ignorance and make a fool of yourself.