Infaru Rules

Updated 6th August 2024

Prelude

All rules are subject to staff discretion..

Rules will be referred to by their section numbering, and their subnumbering. For example, the killing pets is against rule 3.3

Sec 1. Toxicity

To preserve a friendly and welcoming server, toxicity will not be tolerated on this server. Toxicity is defined as:

  1. Discrimination against minority groups, suchas on the basis of gender idenitiy, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity or religion,
  2. Using slurs or other harmful derogatory words,
  3. Spamming chat, tickets, forms, etc,
  4. Advertising unaffiliated websites, servers or other media,
  5. Harassment or bullying,
  6. Constructing lag or annoying machines,
  7. Mass indiscriminate murder or theft,
  8. Supporting or promoting hateful ideologies, such as nazism,
  9. Attempting to ruin the gameplay experience for others,
  10. Joining a town, faction, group, party, or nation with the intent to sabotage or grief.
  11. Stealing anything from players who have been offline or AFK for more than 5 minutes.
  12. A player may not be killed when AFK for longer than 5 minutes, or AFK for an unknown amount of time.
  13. Raiding a town with less than half of its occupants online, without warning and without a clear demand that could avoid it.
  14. End Crystals and Totems are unilaterally banned in a pvp context.

Single, isolated events of toxicity may only be punished with a temporary mute, kick or verbal warning, while frequent toxicity will result in removal from the server.

Sec 2. Wilderness Griefing

Wilderness griefing is defined as doing any of the following in a non-developed area:

  1. Lavacasting,
  2. Unneccessary and/or excessive wilderness destruction,
  3. Unneccessary and/or excessive use of fire and explosives,
  4. Grief builds such as dirt towers;

Sec 3. Player Griefing

Player griefing is defined as doing any of the following in a developed area:

  1. Harvesting or trampling crops without replating, or killing animals without rebreeding,
  2. Claiming using towny,
  3. Killing villagers, pets or any other mobs with obvious significance (Such as a zombie in an iron golem farm, a sniffer or allay),
  4. Destroying player-placed blocks without replacing them immediately,
  5. Destroying public works projects, such as, but not limited to: roads; nether highways; bridges; farms or tunnels,
  6. Any destruction or placement of blocks, items or mobs with the purpose of trolling, bothering players, creating an eyesore, decreasing server preformance or hindering the gameplay experience;

Please note that due to the vagueness and veriety of griefing, greifing will be handled on a case-by-case basis with varying punishments based on severity.

Sec 4. Cheating

To preserve fairness across all players, cheating is not permitted. Cheating is defined as:

  1. Using hacked clients to gain an unfair advantage, including using Killaura, Flight, Antiknockback etc,
  2. Using resource packs or mods to gain an unfair advantage, such as xray;

Whitelisted mods include:

  1. Autoclicker for non-pvp use,
  2. Common PVP mods included with widely accepted pvp clients like minimaps;

Automatic farms are banned, automatic farms are defined as:

  1. Any player contraption that produces a large amount of items, experience or goods with no or very little input or effort.
  2. Common PVP mods included with widely accepted pvp clients like minimaps;

Sec 5. Staff abuse

To preserve fairness, staff may not abuse their powers. Staff abuse is defined as:

  1. Using staff powers to gain an advantage over other players, including, but not limited to: Using creative mode to give resources for use in survival mode; Using staff powers to gain an advantage during combat, such as kicking in order to spawn trap; Using spectator mode to find hidden bases;
  2. Favoritism and nepotism,
  3. Selectively enforcing rules;


Rolplay Rules

Definitions:

  1. OOC - Out of Character; not in role play
  2. IC - In Character; in role play

Roleplay Guidelines

  1. Your character doesn't know what you know; OOC information cannot be used to push IC motives.
  2. All IC activity is on the Minecraft server, discord is to organize events and discuss what happens on the server OOC.
    1. The only exception to this rule is #news in the offical Discord.
    1. All IC activity on the Minecraft Server is to happen in local chat, whispers within the same 16 block radius, simple voice chat, and voice chats that are reasonably happening within a local area.
  3. All Characters are free agents, you cannot force them to do anything they dont want to, you can only act on your own terms and others are free to react as they will.
  4. This server is NOT set in the real world, for many reasons, such as it's set in a very contentious and grim period of history, it wouldn't give a lot of freedom for people to RP as fun things and we're not letting you larp as hitler. so, learn a bit about the server and what's going on before creating a bit etc. And don't just copy real life or American politics.
  5. You may only have up to TWO CHARACTERS AT A TIME. This forces players to put actual thought and effort into their characters, instead of trying to juggle every aspect of RP at once.

Character Guidelines

  1. You are not the main character.
  2. All characters MUST have a character declaration written up in a forum post. You can see more about this in ⁠#forum-feed
  3. Your character must have traits, motives, beliefs, etc. they abide to. They do not have to be the strictest however ignoring them consistently is against the rule.
  4. Characters should have real lives. They should eat, sleep, work, socialize, and have real motivations. Characters built solely around getting the chance to PvP and kill other player characters, colloquially known as "Joe Assassins", are not allowed.
  5. Your character can die during events (battles, protests, rp gatherings, etc. etc.) if the death is called out to be canon, you can always contest it and staff will make a decision.
  6. Once your character dies your new one can't just be the same as before, and loses all in character office they previously held.
    1. The only exception to this rule is #news in the offical Discord.
  7. Your Character may not be in violation of any other Infaru rules.

Failure to abide by those rules is failrp and will result in a warning at first, then a day temp ban, followed by a week temp ban, followed by a perma ban.

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