MCU Wiki / Server Rules

## **Server Rules:**

**Tier 1 Rules**

**Infractions:**

**General Rules**

**1). CHAT:** Excessive spamming, toxicity, or hostility

**2). CHEATING:** This includes the use of hacked clients, illegal modifications, or other unfair advantages

**3). INSIDING:** Exploiting Towny perms in a town/nation for griefing, mass theft, self-destruction for self or 3rd party benefit

**4). ADVERTISING:** Advertising another similar server in their interest

**5). EXPLOITS:** Utilizing duplication exploits, invincibility exploits, or other severely unfair bugs

**6). ALTS:** Using more than 1 alt in this discord server and in-game server

**7). SERVER SABOTAGE:** Using this server against its interests, for the benefit of another server or other motive(s) This can include false defamation of staff, server raiding, etc

**8). LYING TO STAFF:** Using staff to abuse their power for your own benefit, this can include using fake evidence for reports, creating false accusations, etc

**9). FANTASY:** Using fantasy attributes for towns or nations, when having absolutely no geographical or historical significance

Notice: This includes Towny titles, tags, and names

**10). GRIEFING:** Making destructive withers, lavacasts, and server griefing, or griefing around others claims while at peace *Terraforming is allowed but is considered server griefing if it is deliberately hurting the map*

## **War Rules:**

**Infractions**

**1). War Evasion:** A town or player leaving a nation in order to prevent being flagged **during** war

**2). War Log:** Leaving the server before *10 minutes* has elapsed after a town in your nation has last been flagged

**3). Sky flagging:** Placing a flag on a elevated built structure that isn't in the original ground

**4). Obsidian Coverage:** The use of Obsidian, Crying Obsidian, or Netherite Blocks to cover a flag

**5). Betrayal:** The leaving of a nation to join an enemy nation during a war between them

*Rule Changes during War:*

**1). GRIEFING:** During war griefing around an enemy's town is allowed *Making destructive withers, lavacasts, and server griefing are never allowed even at war*

**2). INSIDING:** During war insiding another's town or nation while secretly being on the others side is allowed

**3). CLAIM BLOCKING:** During war using claim blocking to hurt the enemy nation is allowed

## **Grinding Rules:**

**1). Counterfeiting:** Gold blocks are disabled from Bastion Remnants, Piglins trade with Emeralds instead of Gold, and Zombie Piglins/Piglins do not drop gold *This is to prevent the grinding of the server currency*

**2).** Players are allowed to use others' grinders without their permission

**3).** Using illegal modifications and/or clients for Grinding is more punishable than simply using illegal modifications and/or clients for other purposes

## **Latency Rules:**

**1)**. Lag machines are strongly against the rules, blatant ones will lead to a permanent ban

**2).** Large redstone machines that objectively have a devestating effect on the server's performance will inspected and possibly removed if not changed by the builder

**3).** Limit the amount of ImageOnMap or /tomap used as excess can cause severe lag

## **Claiming:**

**1). Hollow Claiming** Hollow claims are claims that have an enlarged boundary while having no claims inside the boundary They are not allowed for town/nation claiming

**2). Border Gore** Though claims may be different based on different towns, absurd claiming such as never-ending lines, explicit shapes, etc are not allowed

**3). Claim Blocking** The prevention of another town/nation's expansion through your own town/nation's absurd blockage is only allowed during war

**4). Ocean and Sea Claiming** Towns and Nations may only claim up to 6 chunks of Ocean or Sea coast beyond their inland claims Ocean and Sea claiming is not allowed however, you may claim rivers or other bodies of water

## **Tier 2 Rules:**

The following Rules are potentially punishable by law, and definitely most severely from the server

**DDOSing**- A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.

**Doxxing**- Searching and broadcasting of private authentic information about specific person against their will, based on the internet technologies, evil-minded as a general rule

**Botting**- The usage of a device or piece of software that can execute commands or perform routine tasks, as electronic searches, usually without user intervention against the server

**Backdoor**- A backdoor is a covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a server

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙛 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙛 **Tier 1** 𝘽𝙮𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮

## **Discord Rules:**

• Use text channels appropriately, **a few examples are**

- For News and Nations only send invites of your News or Nations discord that is for this server only - For player reports in the future use those tickets for player reports only and not bugs or appeals

- Use #debate for debates do not bring political debates to #general

• Swearing is allowed, however **excessive harassment will not be accepted** in this server

- Racial slurs directed to specific people in this server will not be tolerated

• All ideologies and beliefs are allowed, however group-based extremists ideology such as Neo-Nazi, ISIS, Anarchist groups in real-life **will not be tolerated** in the community of this server

• Doxxing in this community whether it is in-game, DMs, this Discord, or affiliated Discords will lead to a **permanent ban in-server and in this discord**

• Advertising similar Minecraft servers is prohibited

• Spamming is muteable - Copypastas and mass texts that are not apart of discussion or debates are apart of spamming

• This is a **non-NSFW** server, NSFW content is not tolerated anywhere here, this does not apply to connected discord server

• Sending/Linking any harmful material such as viruses, IP grabbers or jumpscares will result in a **permanent discord server ban**

• Raiding or mentions of raiding are not allowed

## **Staff Rules:**

Moderators:

Moderators in MC-Universe are to enforce rules and to ensure the server is safe and fair to play in. To make the server a fun experience for the community we want the server to be a corrupt free experience therefore we have these following rules for Moderators

Moderators cannot: - Ban for a time period exceeding 30 days without Evidence\* for an Admin to check

- Join or own a nation

- Participate in wars

- Have access to the control panel or players' IP for IP-banning

- Do appeals, it is Admin based

- Support\* other nations, towns, or players

- Aggressively PvP

- Use Moderator commands such as creative mode, flight, give, etc for building their towns or selling items to other players

Moderators can: (Not Limited To)

- Own an independent town

- Mute players that they determined have broken the Chat Rules

- Defensively PvP - Always use God Mode (Invincibility)

- Emergency ban players that have broken Tier 2 rules without evidence

- Moderate wars and ban hackers swiftly before evidence has been given to an Admin

- Trail X-Ray and search mining patterns to determine possible cheating

- Use Moderator commands to compensate players or to fix problems such as Griefing, Lag Machines, etc

Helpers:

Helpers in MC-Universe are to help inform the community and welcome new players to the server. Helpers are very crucial to the community because they can help the server 24/7 when Moderators or Admins may not be online They can also help give Moderators an idea of the server's gameplay firsthand

Helpers cannot:

- Ban players

- Spawn in items

- Use creative mode

- Use moderator commands

- Use spectator mode during their own War, PvP, Building, or other gameplay Helpers can: (But not Limited to)

- Mute players that have broken Rule #1 CHAT, (Excessive Toxicity, Spamming, Harassment)

Helpers can: (But not Limited to)

- Mute players that have broken Rule #1 CHAT, (Excessive Toxicity, Spamming, Harassment)

- Spectate wars and inform moderators about Warlogging, Hacking, or other infractions with evidence

- Join and own nations

- Participate in their own wars but cannot spectate it themselves

- Join and own towns

• Evidence\* -Evidence can include recording, screenshots, chat logs, etc Support\*- Support means to give bias to friends, associates, acquaintances, or allies

• These rules on Staff are to ensure a community-based server and prevent Staff abuse

• Staff reserve the right to punish rulebreakers without evidence if necessary