Official Server Rules

This page catalogues all rules for the Official Jojovein Server.

## Chat Rules:

These rules apply to chat, but may also influence general player interaction, especially when considering toxicity.

1. Swearing is fine, but **slur use, regardless of context or user, can be harshly punished**.
2. Harassment, toxicity, racism, or personal discrimination of any kind are not tolerated.
3. Extended or toxic arguments or conversations in chat can be punished.
4. Do not spam, advertise, or insert harmful links in chat.

## Gameplay Rules:

### **General Rules:**

These rules govern general gameplay and what players may and may not do in the world of the game.

1. No cheats, hacks, X-ray, cheesing, duping, or exploits of any kind. No intentional efforts to crash the game or break the server.
2. PvP Policy: You may kill anyone on sight, regardless of difference in power, but you may not chase them with warps or camp them. Definitely no spawn/Story Mode camping. Drinking blood from players at spawn is considered spawn camping and can be punished.
3. No deceptive trades or direct stealing. Direct stealing would be picking up something that belongs to a player or raiding a claimed container (does not apply to raiding unclaimed chests).
4. No swiping drops from bosses killed or spawned by another player (specifically the Ender Dragon, Wither, Abyssalcraft or Aurorian Bosses, and Raid Bosses).
5. Building near (Within broad visual range) or griefing any part of Spawn or Story Mode is prohibited. Claiming land within a close range of spawn may result in the total erasure of your clan.
6. No selling items in game for real money, period. That money is better off going to the server.

### **Server Performance Rules:**

1. Do not horde Villagers or Statues, they create TPS lag for everyone. **Have** **at most 20 statues and 20 mobs at any given base or loaded region. A maximum of 8 villagers are allowed within the same restrictions and will count towards the standard mob limit.**
2. Zero mob farms. Farms in the End are especially severe and will be destroyed on sight. We cannot allow End (or other large) farms when they reduce server performance for everyone.
3. Do not intentionally load/generate excessive numbers of chunks, especially by moving at high speeds through non-overworld dimensions (We understand the need to cover distance and explore, but don't cause problems for the rest of the players online).
4. No intentional lag-generation, obviously.

### **Boosting Rules:**

You may not boost other players, period. Boosting includes but is not limited to:

1. Giving/Trading Diaries or Stand Arrows to beginners to get them started
2. Bribing players to join your clan
3. Doing “Nice Guy” favors for beginners (Killing boss enemies for them, mining for them, etc.)
4. Trading **any enchanted books**, especially those with raised enchantment levels, such as the “Urban Dictionary." These items represent significant leaps in progression and should not be accessible to any players who have earned them themselves
5. Granting access, through portals, to any areas beyond the progression stage of a player.
6. Trading late-game armors, better Diaries, or materials (Platinum, Coralium, Dreadium, etc.) to new players who have not progressed enough to obtain them on their own
7. Giving away Cores and Stars for contests that are not officially held or approved by the server moderation
8. Stashing Items near Spawn, Story Mode, or other accessible areas where new players can easily take them to advance.
9. **Accepting Boosting** (Including non-server-sponsored rewards and stashed items)

#### **Exceptions:**

Players are permitted to boost players if they personally knew them **BEFORE** joining Jojovein. This includes:

* Family Members
* Personal Friends (IRL or Online)

### **Clan/Claimed-Land Rules:**

These rules and protections apply to clans, their members, and the land claimed by them.

1. **Unclaimed territory is completely legal to grief, rob, or claim**. Claiming land is simple and easy. If you don't do it, you will not be protected. (Claim your land!)
2. You may never grief claimed territory or the area (can be interpreted as visual range) surrounding it. Griefing includes: breaking, moving, or changing blocks through whatever means and killing, stealing, or modifying mobs. Chests in adjacent **unclaimed** territory are, however, still unprotected and can be looted.
4. Within clans, personal belongings are to be respected. Robbing other members within your own clan can be punished.
5. You may not join a clan just to steal its resources and then leave, nor may you invite someone to a clan then steal all of their resources and kick them.
6. You may never claim things that only exist in extremely limited quantities. This rule protects locations such as J'zahar's Temple or the main island of The End.
7. If a clan is disbanded, the former landholdings remain protected so long as reclaiming is done in a "timely manner" as determined by moderation staff.

## **Moderator Interaction Rules:**

These rules involve orders from or interactions with server moderation staff.

1. If given a direct order by a moderator, either individually or as a member of a group, it must be obeyed or punishments can be faced.
2. Although players are free to voice grievances with policy through recognized vectors (#suggestions on the Official Discord Server), players may not directly insult, demean, or argue with staff members.
3. If a bug is discovered, it is the player's obligation to report it to moderation staff immediately. If it is discovered that a player harbored, spread, concealed, or abused a bug known or unknown by moderation staff, it can be severely punished.
4. Unless told otherwise, players have a right to appeal bans in the #ban-appeals channel of the Official Discord Server. **If an appeal is not performed, most bans, even for minor infractions, can be permanent**.

## **A Note About Loopholes:**

Any actions taken to circumvent the written rules or general policies supported by the rules **(loopholes) will be treated** **the same as if a direct rule is broken**.
Rules are grounded in intention rather than exact written word. **If a rule is avoided such that the reason for the rule's existence is defied, there is still grounds for punishment** that can be acted upon at the discretion of the moderation team.