MCU Wiki / Server Rules

Server Rules:
Tier 1 Rules

Infractions:

General Rules

1). CHAT: Excessive spamming, toxicity, or hostility

2). CHEATING: This includes the use of hacked clients, illegal modifications, or other unfair advantages

3). INSIDING: Exploiting Towny perms in a town/nation for griefing, mass theft, self-destruction for self or 3rd party benefit

4). ADVERTISING: Advertising another similar server in their interest

5). EXPLOITS: Utilizing duplication exploits, invincibility exploits, or other severely unfair bugs

6). ALTS: Using more than 1 alt in this discord server and in-game server

7). SERVER SABOTAGE: Using this server against its interests, for the benefit of another server or other motive(s) This can include false defamation of staff, server raiding, etc

8). LYING TO STAFF: Using staff to abuse their power for your own benefit, this can include using fake evidence for reports, creating false accusations, etc

9). FANTASY: Using fantasy attributes for towns or nations, when having absolutely no geographical or historical significance

Notice: This includes Towny titles, tags, and names

10). GRIEFING: Making destructive withers, lavacasts, and server griefing, or griefing around others claims while at peace Terraforming is allowed but is considered server griefing if it is deliberately hurting the map

War Rules:
Infractions

1). War Evasion: A town or player leaving a nation in order to prevent being flagged during war

2). War Log: Leaving the server before 10 minutes has elapsed after a town in your nation has last been flagged

3). Sky flagging: Placing a flag on a elevated built structure that isn't in the original ground

4). Obsidian Coverage: The use of Obsidian, Crying Obsidian, or Netherite Blocks to cover a flag

5). Betrayal: The leaving of a nation to join an enemy nation during a war between them

Rule Changes during War:

1). GRIEFING: During war griefing around an enemy's town is allowed Making destructive withers, lavacasts, and server griefing are never allowed even at war '''2). INSIDING:''' During war insiding another's town or nation while secretly being on the others side is allowed

3). CLAIM BLOCKING: During war using claim blocking to hurt the enemy nation is allowed

Grinding Rules:
1). Counterfeiting: Gold blocks are disabled from Bastion Remnants, Piglins trade with Emeralds instead of Gold, and Zombie Piglins/Piglins do not drop gold This is to prevent the grinding of the server currency

2). Players are allowed to use others' grinders without their permission

3). Using illegal modifications and/or clients for Grinding is more punishable than simply using illegal modifications and/or clients for other purposes

Latency Rules:
1). Lag machines are strongly against the rules, blatant ones will lead to a permanent ban 2). Large redstone machines that objectively have a devestating effect on the server's performance will inspected and possibly removed if not changed by the builder

3). Limit the amount of ImageOnMap or /tomap used as excess can cause severe lag

Claiming:
1). Hollow Claiming Hollow claims are claims that have an enlarged boundary while having no claims inside the boundary They are not allowed for town/nation claiming

2). Border Gore Though claims may be different based on different towns, absurd claiming such as never-ending lines, explicit shapes, etc are not allowed

3). Claim Blocking The prevention of another town/nation's expansion through your own town/nation's absurd blockage is only allowed during war

4). Ocean and Sea Claiming Towns and Nations may only claim up to 6 chunks of Ocean or Sea coast beyond their inland claims Ocean and Sea claiming is not allowed however, you may claim rivers or other bodies of water

Tier 2 Rules:
The following Rules are potentially punishable by law, and definitely most severely from the server

DDOSing- A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.

Doxxing- Searching and broadcasting of private authentic information about specific person against their will, based on the internet technologies, evil-minded as a general rule

Botting- The usage of a device or piece of software that can execute commands or perform routine tasks, as electronic searches, usually without user intervention against the server

Backdoor- A backdoor is a covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a server

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙛 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙛 Tier 1 𝘽𝙮𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮

Discord Rules:
• Use text channels appropriately, a few examples are

- For News and Nations only send invites of your News or Nations discord that is for this server only - For player reports in the future use those tickets for player reports only and not bugs or appeals

- Use #debate for debates do not bring political debates to #general

• Swearing is allowed, however excessive harassment will not be accepted in this server

- Racial slurs directed to specific people in this server will not be tolerated

• All ideologies and beliefs are allowed, however group-based extremists ideology such as Neo-Nazi, ISIS, Anarchist groups in real-life will not be tolerated in the community of this server

• Doxxing in this community whether it is in-game, DMs, this Discord, or affiliated Discords will lead to a permanent ban in-server and in this discord

• Advertising similar Minecraft servers is prohibited

• Spamming is muteable - Copypastas and mass texts that are not apart of discussion or debates are apart of spamming

• This is a non-NSFW server, NSFW content is not tolerated anywhere here, this does not apply to connected discord server

• Sending/Linking any harmful material such as viruses, IP grabbers or jumpscares will result in a permanent discord server ban

• Raiding or mentions of raiding are not allowed

Staff Rules:
Moderators:

Moderators in MC-Universe are to enforce rules and to ensure the server is safe and fair to play in. To make the server a fun experience for the community we want the server to be a corrupt free experience therefore we have these following rules for Moderators

Moderators cannot: - Ban for a time period exceeding 30 days without Evidence* for an Admin to check

- Join or own a nation

- Participate in wars

- Have access to the control panel or players' IP for IP-banning

- Do appeals, it is Admin based

- Support* other nations, towns, or players

- Aggressively PvP

- Use Moderator commands such as creative mode, flight, give, etc for building their towns or selling items to other players

Moderators can: (Not Limited To)

- Own an independent town

- Mute players that they determined have broken the Chat Rules

- Defensively PvP - Always use God Mode (Invincibility)

- Emergency ban players that have broken Tier 2 rules without evidence

- Moderate wars and ban hackers swiftly before evidence has been given to an Admin

- Trail X-Ray and search mining patterns to determine possible cheating

- Use Moderator commands to compensate players or to fix problems such as Griefing, Lag Machines, etc

Helpers:

Helpers in MC-Universe are to help inform the community and welcome new players to the server. Helpers are very crucial to the community because they can help the server 24/7 when Moderators or Admins may not be online They can also help give Moderators an idea of the server's gameplay firsthand

Helpers cannot:

- Ban players

- Spawn in items

- Use creative mode

- Use moderator commands

- Use spectator mode during their own War, PvP, Building, or other gameplay Helpers can: (But not Limited to)

- Mute players that have broken Rule #1 CHAT, (Excessive Toxicity, Spamming, Harassment)

Helpers can: (But not Limited to)

- Mute players that have broken Rule #1 CHAT, (Excessive Toxicity, Spamming, Harassment)

- Spectate wars and inform moderators about Warlogging, Hacking, or other infractions with evidence

- Join and own nations

- Participate in their own wars but cannot spectate it themselves

- Join and own towns

• Evidence* -Evidence can include recording, screenshots, chat logs, etc Support*- Support means to give bias to friends, associates, acquaintances, or allies

• These rules on Staff are to ensure a community-based server and prevent Staff abuse

• Staff reserve the right to punish rulebreakers without evidence if necessary