If you have any questions, please ask before doing! NOTE: Just because it's a prohibition, doesn't mean it warrants an instant ban or mute. As a staff team, we will try our best to consider and understand situations on a case-by-case basis, and will usually resort to a verbal, unlogged warning if it is enough to solve the situation. However, punishments will be issued non-hesitantly to people who clearly cross a line.
Making any inappropriate, discriminatory, or vulgar build.
Refusing to leave a player’s general vicinity, claim, or build.
Evading claim bans.
Escaping or attempting to escape the world borders.
Making cobblestone monsters or lavacasts unless it is being utilized constructively.
Creating or using chunk loaders of any kind.
Cracking or using the world seed for intel.
Claiming
Claiming your builds and areas is extremely important for protecting your assets and builds.
Claim prohibitions
Evading claim bans
Claiming or building within 161 blocks of someone else’s claim without permission.
You can scan for nearby claims by looking in all directions and shift clicking while holding a stick.
In the main end, the minimum distance between claims is lowered to 80 blocks.
Claim removals
When someone is offline for more than 90 days, their claim may be eligible for removal if it is obstructing an active player’s ability to build and if certain conditions are met.
This does NOT mean that staff will unclaim existing bases for you to raid or steal.
Meeting some or all of the inactivity requirements does not guarantee a claim will be removed.
Claims on rare or valuable structures may be removed if not meaningfully used within 30 days of being claimed.
Playerwarps
Playerwarps cost $1 million to set. When setting a playerwarp, make sure you are setting it in an area that you own or have permission to set it in.
Playerwarp names and content must be server appropriate.
Player-run casinos are banned.
Inactive Playerwarps
If a playerwarp owner is not maintaining or restocking their pwarp for a week or more, it may be recategorized as an inactive warp. If a player is not maintaining their pwarp for a month or more, it may be renamed with an inactivity indicator.
To make a warp active again, rename it back to its original name and change its category.
Playerwarp Bans
A playerwarp owner may ban anyone for any reason. Pwarp and claim bans are not regulated by staff.
Evading playerwarp and claim bans is prohibited.
Do not set playerwarps to purposely similar versions of playerwarp names you do not own
Griefing
Greifing and stealing are bannable offenses.
Greifing includes but is not limited to:
Destroying or stealing from another player’s build, base, claim, or property.
Claiming another player’s unclaimed build or space.
Building or claiming to obstruct access or exit to or from another claim or build.
Farms built with the intent of lagging the server.
Farm entity limits
All limits are based on if you only have those entities in a loaded area. Limits may be lower if you have other entities/farms in the loaded area. These limits are a soft limit meaning that you may be required to have a lower limit than stated if there are many other entities in the area.
Bees: 75 hives or 225 bees
Only one bee farm per person; alt accounts cannot be used to load a second farm.
Shulkers: 2 farm modules
Zombie Pigmen: for single dimension overworld portal farms, no other structure, farm, base, etc. can be within the despawn sphere of the farm.
Do not build this type of farm unless you understand how it works first.
Frogs: 30
Allays: 10
Wardens: 5
Withers: 5
Sheep: 128
Chickens: 96
All limits are per simulation distance.
Staff may implement further limits on these or any other entity at any time if the entities are causing lag.
All server rules apply in calls and text channels in the HearthCraft Discord server.
#mc-chat
All server rules apply in #mc-chat.
Do not troll through #mc-chat.
Avoid spamming placeholders in #mc-chat (@pos, @bal, @power, etc.)
Breaking rules in #mc-chat may result in the player’s permission to use the channel being revoked for a period of time or permanently.
If you are under the age of 13, do not join the HearthCraft Discord server. Using Discord prior to the age of 13 violates the Discord Terms of Service. Any user below 13 will be removed from the Discord until they are old enough to join.
For players under the age of 13 who use services such as Google Meets to create voice calls, do not send the link to the call to anyone you do not know.
Do not send the links to any form of voice call or off-server communication service in a public chat
Inappropriate statuses and About Me sections are subject to the server’s rules and the staff team may request for it to be changed.
Players who refuse to change statuses or About Me sections will be removed from the server.
Appeals and discussion about punishments is only done through tickets in the HearthCraft Discord. One can either admit fault or dispute the legitimacy of the ban. For disputes on hacking-related bans, the player may send logs.
A player may appeal one hacking/cheating ban for a reduced ban time. Ban time reductions are only given when the player willingly admits to the offense they were banned for.
Mutes and warnings are not appealable.
You may open a ticket to discuss these punishments.
Do not attempt to evade a mute via signs, renamed items, etc.
Punishments issued in game often extend to Discord and vice versa.
Disclaimer
The staff team will be as reasonable and objective as possible. It is ultimately the final say of the team to decide on punishments, regardless of whether a player has broken the rules listed here. This is an extensive list, but not all inclusive.