Rules & Community ⚖ THE SURVIVOR’S CODE How we protect players, builds, fair play, and the strange little world we share. Rules at a Glance ☣ THE ONE RULE Do not make PlagueMC worse for the people sharing it with you. You are responsible for knowing these rules. “I did not read them” explains a mistake; it does not undo one. ⚡ The short version Respect people. No harassment, hate speech, threats, doxxing, sexual misconduct, or targeted abuse. Respect property. No griefing, theft, unwanted modification, claim abuse, or destructive trespassing. Play fairly. No hacked clients, x-ray, automation that plays for you, duping, exploits, or unfair information tools. Keep chat usable. No spam, disruptive formatting, impersonation, scams, unsolicited advertising, or explicit content. PvP requires consent. Do not attack, kill, trap, or repeatedly target players who have not agreed to fight.\n6. Do not evade moderation. Alternate accounts, VPNs, or technical workarounds must not be used to bypass a restriction. Use common sense. A loophole in the wording is not permission to harm the server or its community. Long-standing PlagueMC rules also prohibit lava casting, abusing alternate accounts for rewards or mob spawns, monopolising public farms, and creating harmful lag. The detailed pages explain each of these. Not sure? Ask staff before doing the questionable thing. Permission is much easier to obtain before the crater exists. 🧭 Scope These rules apply to: The Minecraft server and all connected worlds PlagueMC chat, private messages, Discord, and other official spaces Player shops, trades, signs, books, builds, skins, usernames, and shared media Conduct elsewhere when it directly threatens players or the server Staff may act on behavior that clearly violates the purpose of a rule even when the exact method is not listed. Rules are interpreted in context, not as a loophole-finding minigame. Community & Chat 💬 CHAT IS A SHARED SPACE Personality is welcome. Making everyone else leave the room is not. 🤝 Treat people like people Disagreement, teasing between friends, and ordinary frustration happen. The line is crossed when conduct becomes targeted, repeated, discriminatory, threatening, sexual, or deliberately humiliating. Not permitted: Slurs, hate speech, or attacks based on identity Harassment, bullying, stalking, or unwanted repeated contact Credible threats or encouragement of real-world harm Sharing private personal information without consent Sexual content involving minors, or sexual conduct directed at anyone who has not welcomed it Deliberately provoking players to create drama or punishment If somebody clearly asks you to stop contacting them, stop. 📢 Keep communication readable Avoid: Repeated messages, command spam, excessive caps, or disruptive character floods Bypassing chat filters or mutes Impersonating staff or another player Misleading links, phishing, scams, or malicious files Advertising unrelated servers, services, shops, or social channels without staff approval Dragging private reports or personal disputes into public chat Swearing alone is not an excuse to target somebody. Context and intent matter more than pretending one word exists in a vacuum. 🛡 All-ages community PlagueMC’s shared spaces must remain suitable for users of all ages. Do not post, describe, request, link, or distribute NSFW, pornographic, sexually explicit, or otherwise adult-oriented content anywhere in the Minecraft or Discord community. Keep highly political or sensitive debates out of community channels when they are likely to create hostility or derail the space. This is a survival community, not a venue for recruiting people into an argument. 📡 Discord conduct Use channels for their stated purpose and follow pinned or channel-specific guidance. Do not derail conversations, flood reactions or emojis, or repeatedly self-promote. Do not: Use offensive or explicit usernames, avatars, profiles, or status messages Add or operate unauthorised bots, webhooks, or automation Share illegal, pirated, cracked, or unlawfully distributed material Solicit money, services, accounts, or personal information deceptively Run scams, phishing attempts, fraudulent giveaways, or suspicious links Abuse mentions, direct messages, reactions, or support channels Ask staff before adding any bot or automated integration. All Discord activity must also comply with Discord’s own terms and policies. 🏷 Names, skins, builds, and media Usernames, nicknames, skins, capes, signs, books, images, map art, builds, and linked media must follow the same community standards as chat. Staff may require content to be changed or removed. Remember: “It was a joke” describes intent. It does not erase the effect or make prohibited content acceptable. Building, Claims & Property 🏚 LEAVE OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK ALONE If you did not build it, place it, earn it, or receive permission for it, do not treat it as yours. ⛏ No griefing Griefing includes deliberately damaging, defacing, burying, flooding, burning, exploding, obstructing, or otherwise spoiling another player’s work or a shared area. It also includes indirect damage such as: Luring destructive mobs into a build Redirecting fluids, fire, pistons, or explosions across a boundary Creating traps intended to destroy property or repeatedly kill visitors Building offensive structures beside somebody else’s base Stripping an abandoned-looking build without staff approval Lava casting, whether used destructively or simply left as an obstructive eyesore Unclaimed does not mean abandoned. Unlocked does not mean free. 📦 No theft Do not take items, animals, crops, resources, shop stock, or drops belonging to another player without permission. Do not exploit unlocked containers, broken protections, hopper mechanics, shop mistakes, or access granted for another purpose. Return accidental pickups when reasonably identifiable. 🗺 Give builds room Do not crowd, surround, claim over, or deliberately interfere with an established project. Ask before connecting roads, walls, farms, redstone, portals, or utilities to another player’s area. When settling near somebody: Look for signs of active use. Check the live map. Ask when the boundary is unclear. Leave enough room for both projects to grow. 🌲 Protect the landscape Build with the shared world in mind. Avoid excessive deforestation, pointless terrain destruction, floating treetops, abandoned scaffolding, and large excavation scars in visible or communal areas. Replant trees, repair accidental environmental damage, and restore temporary work sites when practical. Resource gathering is part of survival; leaving needless destruction behind is not. 🔐 Protection is not permission Container and door protection helps prevent interference; it does not define ownership by itself. Do not use protections or claims to seize shared infrastructure, block access, hold an area hostage, or trap another player’s belongings. Found an old build? Ask staff before claiming, dismantling, or looting it. They can check history more reliably than a suspiciously empty chest can. Fair Play & Client Mods ⚔ SURVIVAL, NOT SOFTWARE ADVANTAGE If a tool finds, fights, moves, mines, duplicates, or decides for you, assume it is not allowed. 🚫 Prohibited advantages Do not use: X-ray packs, cave-finder rendering, seed cracking, or hidden-resource locators Kill aura, reach, aim assistance, velocity modification, flight, speed, or movement hacks Freecam or camera tools used to inspect areas you could not legitimately see Automated combat, mining, farming, fishing, movement, trading, or unattended gameplay Duplication glitches or methods that create, preserve, or multiply items improperly Exploits that bypass permissions, protections, cooldowns, shops, economy, or intended progression Scripts, macros, hardware functions, or external tools that produce an unfair gameplay advantage Alternate accounts used to increase local mob spawns, mass-farm rewards, multiply playtime benefits, or bypass ordinary limits Attempting, testing, distributing, or teaching an exploit can be treated the same as using it. ✅ Usually acceptable Ordinary performance, accessibility, and cosmetic tools are generally fine when they do not reveal hidden information or automate play. Examples include: Performance and shader mods UI, inventory, and accessibility improvements Replay or recording tools used responsibly Minimap features that show information you legitimately discovered Simple keybind changes that still require one human action per gameplay action This is guidance, not an exhaustive allow-list. A permitted mod can still be misused. 🐛 Bugs and exploits If you discover a bug: Stop reproducing it once you understand what happened. Do not share it publicly or profit from it. Record the time, location, and steps if safe to do so. Report it privately to staff on Discord. Good-faith reporting matters. Finding a bug is not misconduct. Concealing, spreading, or exploiting it is. PvP, Trading & Player Conduct ⚔ CONSENT REQUIRED PvP is allowed only when every participant has clearly agreed to fight. 🗡 PvP Do not attack, kill, trap, or pursue another player without their consent. Consent must be clear, current, and specific to the fight or event; simply entering the wilderness, carrying valuables, enabling a setting, or accepting a teleport is not consent. A player may withdraw from an informal fight unless an agreed event rule says otherwise. Not permitted: Repeatedly killing or pursuing a player to drive them from the server Teleport traps, unsafe /tpa bait, or killing during an agreed peaceful trade Camping homes, spawn routes, portals, graves, or return points for repeated kills Using alternate accounts or spectators to gain combat information Taking advantage of a known bug, severe connection issue, or staff intervention Items legitimately lost during ordinary combat are not automatically restored. Staff judge disputes by context and evidence. 💰 Trades and shops Honor the terms you clearly agree to. Verify player names, item details, quantities, and payment amounts before completing a trade. Scams, intentionally misleading listings, payment fraud, shop exploits, and abuse of obvious pricing mistakes are prohibited. Normal price negotiation and market competition are not scams. Real-money trading involving in-game items, currency, accounts, services, or server benefits is not allowed unless explicitly offered through an official PlagueMC channel. 🌾 Farms, entities, and server health Build responsibly. Staff may limit or remove machines, farms, entity collections, chunk loaders, or redstone systems that create unreasonable lag or threaten stability. Do not intentionally: Generate excessive entities, items, chunks, packets, or redstone updates Crash, throttle, stress-test, or degrade the server Leave high-impact machines running unattended after being asked to stop Abuse mechanics to disrupt chat, maps, economy, or other services Keep passive mobs to 50 or fewer per chunk. Flowing-water grinders, automatic farms, AFK farms, and other automation may be limited or removed when they are unfair, monopolise resources, or harm performance. Public farms are shared infrastructure. Use them fairly, replant or reset them where appropriate, and do not AFK at a public farm or warp when doing so prevents others from using it. Large project? Ask staff early. It is much nicer to tune a design than to dismantle a lag monument. Enforcement, Reports & Appeals 🛡 MODERATION HAS TWO GOALS Protect the community now, and make better behavior possible afterward when it is safe to do so. 📏 How rules are enforced Staff consider severity, intent, impact, evidence, cooperation, history, and risk to the server. Outcomes may include: Advice or an informal correction A warning Content or item removal Temporary restrictions, mute, jail, or removal from an area Rollback or economic correction Temporary or permanent ban Account, IP, or network-level restrictions Not every case begins with a warning. Severe cheating, threats, doxxing, destructive griefing, attacks on server stability, or ban evasion may justify immediate removal. Staff may act to contain an incident while it is investigated. A temporary restriction is not always the final decision. ?‍⚖️ Working with staff Follow reasonable staff instructions related to safety, moderation, server stability, or an active incident. You are not required to agree with every decision, but you must remain patient enough for staff to do their job. Do not impersonate staff, deliberately waste their time, interfere with an active case, or backseat-moderate other players. If a staff member mistreats you, preserve the relevant context and make a private complaint. Public escalation and retaliation make a fair review harder, not easier. 🚨 Reporting a problem Report urgent issues in game when staff are present. Use Discord for private, detailed, or offline reports. Include: Your exact username and the usernames involved. What happened, without exaggeration. Approximate time, world, and coordinates. Screenshots, video, chat context, or transaction details. What you have already done in response. Do not retaliate, publicly campaign for punishment, edit evidence deceptively, or repeatedly message multiple staff members for a faster answer. 📨 Appeals An appeal should explain: What decision you are appealing What you understand happened Why the decision should be reconsidered What will be different if access is restored An appeal is not improved by insults, threats, fabricated evidence, or having friends pressure staff. Time served alone does not guarantee access will be restored. 👥 Alternate accounts and evasion Do not use another account, address, VPN, proxy, or player to bypass a mute, ban, cooldown, restriction, or investigation. Accounts reasonably connected to evasion may also be restricted. If multiple legitimate players share a connection, tell staff when it becomes relevant rather than using that fact to conceal evasion. The best moderation outcome is boring: the harm stops, the facts are clear, and everyone can move on.