Network Rules

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Network Rules​

The following rules apply across the entire network, including all game servers, the forums and the official Discord. By using any of these platforms, you agree to follow them.

These rules cannot cover every possible situation. Staff may take action against any behaviour that is harmful to the community, even if it is not specifically listed. If you are unsure whether something is permitted, please ask a member of staff beforehand.​

General Rules​

1. Punishment evasion
   Evading a ban or mute on any of our platforms is prohibited. This includes using alternate accounts, nicknames, renamed items, /pay, /trade or any other method to communicate or play while punished. Evasion may result in a network-wide blacklist.
2. VPNs and proxies
   The use of VPNs and proxies is not permitted. These services may cause your account to be linked with unrelated users and affected by their punishments.
3. Account security
   You are responsible for all activity on your account. Account sharing is permitted at your own risk; punishments issued to a shared account will not be reversed.
4. Chargebacks
   Filing a chargeback or payment dispute for any purchase made on the network will result in a permanent blacklist from the network.
5. Personal information
   Sharing, or claiming to share, another person's personal information is strictly prohibited. Fabricated information is treated the same as genuine information.
6. Harassment
   Stalking, harassing or persistently targeting another player is not permitted.
7. False evidence
   Creating or submitting fabricated evidence against any player is prohibited.

Communication​

1. Discrimination
   Racism, hate speech, bigotry and discriminatory language of any kind are strictly prohibited.
2. Threats
   Threats of any kind are prohibited, including threats to DDoS, dox or swat another person.
3. Self-harm
   Encouraging suicide or self-harm, or wishing death upon another person, is strictly prohibited.
4. Spam
   Spamming, flooding chat, mass messaging, and spamming private messages or commands are not permitted. Encouraging others to spam is also prohibited.
5. Chat filter
   Deliberately bypassing the chat filter is not permitted.
6. Inappropriate content
   Sexual content, nudity and graphic violence are prohibited in chat, usernames, nicknames, skins, builds, signs and item names.
7. Impersonation
   Impersonating staff members, or creating fake staff or punishment messages, is prohibited.
8. Advertising
   Advertising other Minecraft servers, Discord servers, server addresses or invite links is not permitted.
9. Links
   Links must be relevant to the network. Stream and video links are limited to one every five minutes. Download links, adult content and malicious or shock content are prohibited on all platforms.

Gameplay​

1. Cheating
   The use of hacked clients, unapproved modifications, macros, autoclickers, bots or any other software that provides an unfair advantage is prohibited.
2. Teaming with cheaters
   Knowingly teaming with a player who is cheating will result in punishment for all involved.
3. Exploits
   Abusing bugs or exploits is prohibited. Any issues discovered must be reported to staff or submitted as a bug report, and must not be shared with other players.
4. Alternate accounts
   Using alternate accounts to obtain additional daily rewards, vote rewards, kits or currency is not permitted.
5. Report abuse
   Submitting false or malicious reports through /report is prohibited.
6. Usernames and skins
   Usernames and skins must be appropriate. Accounts with offensive usernames will remain banned until the name is changed.

Trading​

1. IRL Trading
   IRL Trading is not supported for the buyer, seller, or anyone involved, you will receive zero assistance in anything involving these types of transactions
2. Giveaways
   Giveaways must only involve network items or rewards.

Forums​

All Communication rules also apply to the forums.

1. Relevant content
   Threads must be relevant to their section. Pointless, off-topic or duplicate threads will be removed. Replying to inactive threads (necroposting) is not permitted.
2. Applications, appeals and reports
   Submit each application, appeal or report once and wait for a response. Troll or joke submissions are prohibited.
3. Punishment disputes
   Public threads regarding punishments, or denied appeals and reports, are not permitted. Please submit an appeal or contact a staff member directly.
4. Moderated threads
   Reposting threads that have been locked or removed by staff is prohibited.
5. Reaction scores
   Artificially inflating your own or another user's reaction score is not permitted.
6. Forum reports
   The report function must only be used for valid rule violations.

Survival​

1. Griefing
   Griefing is prohibited. Only a claim owner and their trusted players may modify a claim, and changes must not affect neighbouring claims. Claim owners are responsible for the players they trust.
2. Mining
   X-ray, automated mining and AFK mining are prohibited.
3. Trapping
   Trapping players in portals, or trapping or killing players as they teleport to you, is not permitted.
4. Server performance
   Lag machines, excessive spawner setups and attempts to bypass server limitations are prohibited. Areas using a disproportionate amount of server resources may be cleared by staff.
5. Shops
   Using shop signs to mislead or scam players is prohibited.

SkyBlock​

1. AFK activity
   AFK mining and automated farming are prohibited, including weighing down keys at a generator or using a client to sell automatically.
2. Trap islands
   Islands designed to kill or harm visiting players are not permitted.
3. Portal trapping
   Blocking or trapping players at portals is prohibited.
4. Lag machines
   Builds intended to cause server lag are prohibited.

KitPvP​

1. Combat evasion
   Escaping combat by using ender pearls, bow boosting, glitching into spawn or a safe zone, or leaving the map is prohibited.
2. Spawn
   Spawn killing and attacking players from within spawn are not permitted.
3. Stat boosting
   Boosting statistics, including in duels, is prohibited. This includes farming kills from alternate accounts or other players and deliberately allowing yourself to be killed.
4. Block glitching
   Using block glitches to attack players through walls or to combat tag them is prohibited.
5. Duels
   Camping during duels is not permitted.

Events​

1. Fair participation
   Stalling, trolling or deliberately avoiding combat in events such as Sumo and Brackets is prohibited.
2. Teaming
   Teaming is not permitted in free-for-all events such as Last Man Standing.
3. Alternate accounts
   Only one account per player may participate in an event.