Server Rules

**Disclaimer:** While staff will still be consistent with the rules, each violation is dealt with on a case by case basis and the greater context of any situation will be taken into account while assigning punishment, as well as anything that staff decides as a violation that may not be covered yet in the rules.

If you seem to only be on the server to cause trouble and not to play, you may be given less second chances and harsher punishments. (example: someone joining just to spam slurs)

These rules apply to everyone, old players, new players, and staff alike, and punishments shall be the same for all.

Attempts to circumvent the spirit of the law by obeying the rule of the law will result in having the crime you are trying to avoid applied to you.

If you feel that Staff has wronged you, you can DM the Staff discord account and/or Espen with your concern and the wrongdoing can be discussed with appropriate action taken.

This is somewhat of a “living document,” meaning that if there is a need to add or edit rules in the future Staff will do so.

## **No Destruction of Property (includes blocks and mobs)**

 **If you repair the damage done by 3 days after being told to do so, your punishment shall be halved (rounded up).**

* **Level 1 Offense (0 points, possible verbal warning if you are online):**
	+ 1-5 cheap blocks broken.
* **Level 2 Offense (1 points, 10 minute jail):**
	+ A small, easily repairable damage. Nothing of sentimental value lost. Could be repaired in survival in about 5 minutes.
* **Level 3 Offense ( 5 points, 2 hour jail):**
	+ A sizable amount of damage, something of sentimental value possibly lost, could take about a half hour to repair in survival.
* **Level 4 Offense ( 10 points, 3 day tempban):**
	+ Damage either large or of significant sentimental value.  Could take hours or days to replace in survival.
* **Level 5 Offense (7 day tempban):**
	+ Damage either large or of significant sentimental value.  Could not be replaced without server command.
* **Level 6 Offense (very long tempban or permban):**
	+ Large scale griefs clearly only intended to wreak havoc (examples: lava casting a town, spawning withers on builds)

## **No Theft**

 **If you repair the damage done by 3 days after being told to do so, your punishment shall be halved (rounded up).**

* **Category 1: inactive players**
	+ **Level 2 Offense (0 points):**
		- Theft of junk items from abandoned chests. This is not illegal, but not encouraged as the victim may actually be active or may come back some day.
	+ **Level 2 Offense (1 point, 10 minutes jail):**
		- Theft of something mildly valuable from an abandoned chest (iron, large amounts of coal, etc.).
	+ **Level 3 Offense (5 points, 1 hour jail):**
		- Theft of something valuable from an abandoned chest (beacons, elytra, etc.).
* **Category 2: active players**
	+ **Level 1 Offense (1 point, warn):**
		- A theft that does not inconvenience the victim, but was nonetheless taken without permission.
	+ **Level 2 Offense (5 points, 1 hour jail):**
		- Theft of something mildly valuable (iron, large amounts of coal, rupees, etc.).
	+ **Level 3 Offense (10 points, 2 hour jail):**
		- Theft of something that is valuable (beacons, elytra, thousands of rupees, etc,) or a build (marquette beacon, placed heads etc.) Or something with expressed sentimental value from the player. (like a book or banner or named item).

The following two rules can be ignored on the conditions that you are not talking in global and the people who can hear you are okay with your spam or caps.

## **No Spamming**

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, warn):**
	+ If you are being annoying be prepared to be told off.
* **Level 2 offense (2 points, 20 minute mute):**
	+ Continuing after being told off, multiple back to back messages.
* **Level 3 offense (4 points, 1 hour jail):**
	+ Continuing after being told off, multiple back to back messages. Several instances of this happening.

## **No Full Caps Messages**

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, warn):**
	+ If you are being annoying be prepared to be told off.
* **Level 2 offense (2 points, 20 minute mute):**
	+ Continuing after being told off, multiple back to back messages.
* **Level 3 offense (4 points, 1 hour jail):**
	+ Continuing after being told off, multiple back to back messages. Several instances of this happening.

## **No Advertising**

* **Level 1 offense (0 point, verbal warning):**
	+ Putting an advertisement in chat for something outside of the game (don’t worry about advertising your shop etc. as long as it’s not spam) .
* **Level 2 offense (2 point, 1 hour mute):**
	+ Continuing to advertise after being warned.
* **Level 3 offense (instant permaban):**
	+ Flooding the chat with advertisements (think bots joining just to spam adverts).

## **No excessive cursing**

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, warn):**
	+ Repeatedly saying curse words to the point that it is annoying others. About 5 curse words in the span of a minute or a message with more curse words in it than normal words.
	+ Directing curse words at people maliciously and in an unfriendly/disrespectful manner.
* **Level 2 offense (1 point, 1 hour mute):**
	+ Repeatedly saying curse words and refusing to stop.

## **No Lewd Comments**

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, 10 minute mute)**
	+ Saying lewd comments, either vague or direct.
* **Level 2 offense (3 points, 1 day tempban)**
	+ Continuing to say lewd comments after the mute has ended or placing signs or items with lewd comments on them.

## **No Jokes about sensitive topics**

Joking about offensive or sensitive topics will be taken seriously. This includes rape, suicide, ect.

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, warn):**
	+ Repeatedly saying curse words to the point that it is annoying others. About 5 curse words in the span of a minute or a message with more curse words in it than normal words.
	+ Directing curse words at people maliciously and in an unfriendly/disrespectful manner.
* **Level 2 offense (3 points, 1 day tempban)**
	+ Continuing to say inappropriate comments after being warned.

## **No hate speech/potentially phobic remarks/slurs**

* **Level 1 Offense (10 points, 7 day tempban):**
	+ One time use (in ANY chat: global ./msg or local) will result in a tempban and will not be tolerated**, no particular hate speech/slurs/phobic remarks are worse than another nor will we be equivalating hate speech to how bad it is on a scale (it is all equally horrible on extreme levels)**, this includes any and all remarks of hate speech or phobia. Including bad words associated with hate speech in ANY scenario (not just racist slurs).

**Definition:** Hate Speech*:* abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation or disability.

* **Level  2 Offense (Perm ban):**
	+ Excessive use will result in a perm ban, caveats/definitions of level one offense still apply.

## **No hate symbols or builds associated with any hate groups**

* **Level 1 Offense (10 points, 6 day tempban):**
	+ Building any symbols or associated scenes with hate groups, examples would be a swastika or build depictions of nazi germany. This includes symbols from any and all hate groups that target minorities. Hate is not something that will be tolerated on this server and goes in direct violation of the “Respect all players” caveat. This also includes builds or signs with “jokes” that are considered to be offensive.
* **Level 2 Offense (Perm ban):**
	+ Repeat offense, or refusing to clean up first build and comply with staff's orders. (caveats and explanations/definitions of level one offense still apply)

## **No Trolling/Flaming**

**Definition:** Trolling/Flaming: Attempting to get a strong reaction from someone, often by saying hurtful or offensive things that you don't really mean.

* **Level 1 offense:(0 point, verbal warning):**
	+ Trolling/flaming another player who is clearly taking offense.
* **Level 2 offense:(3 point, 2 hour mute):**
	+ Continuing after being warned.

## **No Blackmail**

**Definition:** the act of threatening to reveal information or items to make someone else do as you want them to.

* **Level 1 Offense (Perm ban):**
	+ Any blackmail at all is not tolerated.

## **No Murder Outside of Designated PVP Areas**

* **Level 1 Offense(10 points, 2 week tempban):**
	+ Any attempted or successful killing of another player outside of a PVP area without the victim’s consent.

## **Help New Players**

Please try to help show new players around the server. We were all new at one point and everyone can use a helping hand.

## **No Asking for OP, Ranks, or Items**

* **Level 1 offense (0 points, possible warning or short mute if excessive):**
	+ Don’t be annoying.

## **Respect All Players**

The Blanket statement of “respect all players” applies, if you are not following any of the other listed rules that would indicate you are not respecting players. If you disrespect somebody in a way that is not already listed, be prepared for staff to deal with you by telling you off or muting you for up to 3 hours in severely disrespectful cases. If you are found to be very disrespectful, you may receive an average of 3 points.

## **Obey Staff**

* **Level 1 offense (1 point, warn)**
	+ Talking back to staff, and refusal to do things staff has told you.
* **Level 2 offense (1 point, 10 minute jail)**
	+ Level 1 offense, but excessively and a continual refusal to comply time and time again. This applies every time after the first event occurs and doesn’t get resolved.
* **Level 3 offense (depends on what you were punished for, but it will likely be doubled on average)**
	+ Attempts to evade mutes, jails, or bans by any means. The added punishment is harsher depending on how severe the avoided punishment is.

## **No Mods/Hacks**

* **Level  1 Offense (0 points):**
	+ Usage of hacks such as fullbright is considered legal but cheaty.
	+ Usage of map mods is less cheaty but still considered somewhat of a legal gray area.
	+ Schematic mods and OptiFine are 100% legal.
	+ Anything that is strictly completely visual goes here.
* **Level  2 Offense (1 point, 1 hour jail):**
	+ Usage of programs such as an autoclicker or any external device that makes the player perform actions without input from a real player.
* **Level  3 Offense (permaban):**
	+ Usage of hacks that affect gameplay (like kill aura) or give more information than you should have (like x-ray). If it’s from something advertised as a hacked client, it probably goes here.

## **No Usage of Alternate Accounts for Personal Gain**

* **Level 1 Offense (1 point, 3 hour jail):**
	+ Usage of an alternate account for an extra teleport or for making money or any other benefits from having multiple accounts.
* **Level 2 Offense (10 points, perm ban for alt):**
	+ Usage of an alternate account for evasion of a punishment.

## **No Dupes**

* **Rupee Dupe (10 point, For each rupee duped, 1 hour of jail)**
* **Other Offense (10 point, jailtime equaling the value )**

## **Build Responsibly (respect other builds nearby)**

* **Lvl  1 Offense (1 or 5 points, warn or 1 hour jail):**
	+ If you are building within 10 blocks of another person's building without their consent they have the right to report you, and you will face potential jailings. (areas like Marquette and cities with claimed plots, and if you were to first gain consent to build that close, is a different story).
	+ (attempt to account for what was said and also future proof) If you have built a structure or claimed land within 2 chunks of the edge of the build (including outside decoration) or claim, or if you build within 5 chunks of the edge of a build that has gone at least 1 thousand blocks away from the main settlements (Which includes server run towns: Castle Town, Gerudo Town, Goron City, Rito Village, Zora's Domain, Korok Forest, Hateno Village, and Kakariko Village, as well as special cases: Yiga Town, Marquette West and East, The spring of Courage, The spring of Power, The spring of Wisdom, Vaskudoh, and the Coliseum) or warps, the owner has a right to report you and request eviction and/or jailing (areas where builds being close together is expected are to be judged case by case and fall under judgement by the civilization’s leaders first).
	+ If the player complies and removes or begins to remove the structure after 3 days, they will only receive a warning and 1 point, if they do not or are not finished in 1 day, 5 points and a 1 hour jail.
	+ Using lands to claim public infrastructure such as roads is strictly illegal and the land is subject to removal.

## **Respect Anonymity**

* **Category 1 Offense: staff anonymity (5 points, 5 minute jail - 2 month tempban depending on severity):**
	+ Alleging who Staff is to the public. (It does not matter if they are Staff. It is not okay to say that anyone is Staff) (unknowingly mentioning information which may lead people to suspect someone of being staff can lead to a less severe punishment/no punishment at all. This will be dealt with on a case by case basis more than most other crimes)-Exposing staff as staff will result in a punishment alleged by said staff member.
* **Category 2 Offense: player anonymity (perm ban):**
	+ If you happen to know the real identity or other personal real life information of someone outside of game, and you expose that without their consent in game to other players that will also result in a perm ban.

## **Builder Accountability**

 Any time that a person with WorldEdit or Creative Mode has been found to have abused their power to interfere with their own or another’s Survival gameplay.

**First Offense: 2 week tempban**

 **Second Offense: 2 month tempban**

 **Third Offense: Permaban**

## **Staff Accountability**

 Any time that a staff member has been determined to have abused their power, they shall suffer the same punishment that they unlawfully placed onto the innocent. These punishments shall be multiplicative, so if you do 10- 2 minute jails, you will be jailed for 1024 minutes, along with any punishment associated with the point system. For any jailings or mutes less than 2 minutes, the time shall be averaged to 2 minutes per crime.

* **Level 1 Offense (1 point):**
	+ If a staff member abuses their power against another player by jailing or muting them when not warranted, but the time is small (less than 5 minutes), the staff member will be punished by server administration.
* **Level 2 Offense (2 point):**
	+ If a staff member abuses their power against another player by jailing or muting them when not warranted and the time is large (greater than 5 minutes), the staff member will be given a more severe punishment from server administration.
* **Level 3 Offense (5 point):**
	+ If a staff member shows clear bias and inability to judge fairly a player and does not try to remedy this by leaving the judgement to other staff members, they shall face severe reprimands from server administration.
* **Level 4 Offense:**
	+ If a staff member accumulates 10 points within 3 months, they shall be expelled from staff and be unable to rejoin.

## **Point Punishments**

* All punishments have a 3 month probation period, so any point accumulation will apply until the crime has passed 3 months.
* If the crime which causes you to reach one of these point punishments is also punished by a tempban, the tempbans are added.
* **10 Points:**
	+ 1 day tempban.
* **20 Points:**
	+ 7 day tempban.
* **30 Points:**
	+ Long term tempban or permaban.

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