Gameplay Rules

### 1. Oracle is a roleplay server.

What the title says. You came here to rp, and in order for everyone to be able to enjoy this, there are a few basic principles that we need you to understand and adhere to:

1. RP != SMP. This is not a server you come to to grind 24/7, optimize every last bit of the game through farms and automation, and min-max your pvp build. It is also for this reason that we are hesitant to introduce many so-called quality-of-life plugins, as they tend to be focused on SMP-type purposes rather than RP purposes. Of course, we are willing to hear out your suggestions regarding plugins, but don't be too surprised when we say no for a reason related to this.
2. RP requires participation. The entire premise of roleplay is to interact with other people in-character; for this, there are two requirements: first, you should try to be in character as often as possible, so that whenever you run into someone there is an opportunity to have an rp interaction; second, you should try to steer away from the loner/nomad life. You should consider joining a kingdom or a village or be a wanderer who visits kingdoms and villages, rather than living on your own far away from other people.
3. Play to lose. This may be a bit tough to grasp, but since Oracle has a quite significant playerbase at this point, you should always be prepared for the event that things do not play out the way you intended. If your character is evil, you should be prepared that your masterplan fails. If your character is a kingdom leader, you should be prepared to be usurped - you can't always win. But rest assured, roleplay is more fun this way, for everyone involved, including you.
4. Always obtain consent. Whenever you rp a scenario where some character would be forced to do something, you should obtain that person's consent before you actually play it out. This especially applies to cases where your group wins in a conflict against another group or person, for instance a war or a revolution. The person or group on the losing side should always be involved in planning the consequences that arise from such events (see also RP-Rules (8), (9) and (12)). Always keep in mind that you *cannot* force your will onto anyone.

It is important to us that every player understands and adheres to these principles; if we find you to be unable to do this, as a last resort, you may be removed from the server." (edited)

### 2. No Griefing

No griefing in general whether it's minor or major. However there are 2 exceptions that are allowed:

1- If the griefing is related to RP reasons, you can do it after getting approval from staff.

2- If the griefing happens during war and what we mean by war is an active battle.

### 3. No stealing.

No stealing is allowed in the server unless you get consent from the other party and it's used for RP purposes.

### 4. No hacking and exploits.

This is self explanatory and there are no exceptions. If you stumble upon an exploit or a bug, please open a help ticket to report it. If you find a potentially game-breaking bug or exploit, as in one that could severely affect another player's experience in any aspect of the game, be it rp, pvp or anything inbetween, you should not share this bug or exploit with anyone except the staff team, so as to reduce the probability that someone else will abuse the aforementioned bug or exploit.

Certain mods are also banned from use on the server, including, but not limited to:

- X-ray mods and resource packs

- Freecam mods including Replay mod

- Hacking mods

- Automatic mods (auto-fish, auto-farm) - note that we do allow Autoclicker mods to be used for building, such as the litematica printer mod

- Fetishization/Sexual mods

### 5. No Automatic farms.

This includes all the AFK farms that you can imagine, including spawners. You may do some Redstone farms that feel medieval/steampunk and have a machinery exterior to them. However, they must include some manual labor in them. The Redstone used in your farm may also not be too advanced; while we allow simple mechanisms to make your farming somewhat more efficient, more complex mechanisms like flying machines are too advanced for our setting and therefore not allowed. This includes any mob, exp and mob-drop farms which are strictly forbidden to be fully automated. manual labor in this case means significant manual labor. If your farm can be fully automated with the use of an autoclicker to press a button, it does not conform with this rule. In addition to this, in order to remain rp-friendly, we forbid the construction of farms that we deem to be too large as well as the construction of full industrial districts that do not have good rp reasons to exist.

### 6. No AutoFishing.

Usage of Autofishing techniques or mods or any other way to AFK fish is strictly prohibited and may result in a permanent ban.

### 8. Report

If People are blatantly breaking the rules. Report them by opening a help ticket at open-a-ticket . Reporting people that break the rules keeps this Minecraft server a safe place.

### 9. Inactivity log.

If you're not going to be online in the Minecraft server for a while, please send an inactivity log at #inactivity-log using the pinned format in that channel.

### 10. No offensive account names or profile pictures.

If our staff deems your name, picture or discord status to be inappropriate, you will be required to change them.

### 12. Entity cramming limit

The maximum limit for the amount of visible farmable mobs (pigs, cows, chickens, ... etc.) and hostile mobs (zombies, skeletons, ... etc.) (stacked or not) is **two mobs in** **a** **16x16 area**. only exceptions to this rule are pet animals and their limit is up to the staff to decide in each scenario.

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