Infaru Rules

Updated 31st March 2025

Prelude

All rules are subject to staff's discretion.

Rules will be referred to by their section and sub-section. For example, lavacasting is against rule 2.1.

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, such as on the basis of gender identity, 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 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 are offline or have been AFK for more than 5 minutes.
  12. Killing a player who has been 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. Using End Crystals and Totems in any PVP context.

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

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, debarked forests, etc.

Sec 3. Player Griefing

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

  1. Harvesting or trampling crops without replanting, or killing animals without rebreeding.
  2. Claiming someone else's territory without their explicit permission.
  3. Killing pets or any other mobs with obvious significance such as 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, rails, 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 performance or hindering the gameplay experience.
  7. Destroying, modifying, or moving another player's Movecraft vessel without their explicit permission.

These actions will result in a temporary ban, the length of which is dependent on the severity of the griefing. Repeated incidents will result in a permanent ban. Due to the uneasiness of fixing Movecraft griefing, participating in this specific action will result in a permanent ban.

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 X-Ray, freecam, etc.

Whitelisted mods include:

  1. Autoclicker for non-PvP use.
  2. Common PvP mods included with widely accepted PvP clients like minimaps.
  3. Fullbright if it isn't used to gain an advantage over another player, especially during PVP.

Automatic farms are banned, automatic farms are defined as:

  1. Any player contraption that produces a large amount of items, experience, or goods with little to no input or effort.

Sec 5. Roleplay

Definitions:

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

1. 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 only used to organize events and discuss what happens on the server OOC.
  3. The only exception to this rule is #news in the official Discord.
  4. All IC activity on the Minecraft server is to happen in local chat, whispers within the same 16 block radius, and voice chats that are reasonably happening within a local area.
  5. All characters are free agents; you cannot force them to do anything they don't want to. You can only act on your own terms, and others are free to react as they will.
  6. This server is NOT set in the real world for many reasons. Learn a bit about the server and what's going on before you start, and don't simply copy real-world things like American politics.
  7. You may only have ONE ACTIVE CHARACTER 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.

2. Character Guidelines

  1. You are not the main character.
  2. All characters MUST have a staff-approved 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. When a player dies at the hands of another player in-game, and the killer states that they would like it to be canon, the victim can choose between either canonically dying or taking a grave injury.
  6. A player can only have up to two grave injuries. After that, another canon death will result in their actual death.
  7. When taking a grave injury, it can either be decided via cooperation between the two players in question, or it can be decided by staff via ticket. The grave injury MUST affect the player's RP in some way; this can add a physical disability, affect their mental capacities, or both. Try to make it fun and interesting!
  8. The exception to rule 5 is if there is beyond a doubt no way that the victim could survive the attack. This includes but is not limited to direct explosions, lava submersion (not them touching lava/fire and running away), and falling from extreme heights. If you are unsure if this exception applies, or the two players have a disagreement, then form a ticket and allow staff to decide.
  9. While not all character deaths can be planned easily, your character must have a valid reason to kill a player for a canon death / grave injury to apply. As a rule of thumb, it is always best to contact staff first via ticket. If a staff member is your target, instead of making a ticket, contact a different staff member by DM and be sure that they make note of it."
  10. Once your character dies your new one can't be the same as before, and loses all in-character offices they previously held.
    1. The only exception to this rule is #news in the official Discord.
  11. Your Character may not be in violation of any other Infaru rules.
  12. Only screenshots that are taken with "photographic intent" will count as photos within roleplay.
    1. Photographic intent is declared by sending a message reading *SNAP* (with or without the stars) in global mc chat, once the message is sent, three screenshots taken within the next 5 seconds will be allowed to be "photos".
    2. Covert photography is also allowed, however you must ⁠#open-a-ticket in advance (before the interaction where the photo is taken takes place) and still send the *SNAP* message, though in the ticket.
    3. The GUI/HUD must be hidden (F1 is the default keybind) or cropped for the photo to be valid.
    4. If there is ever doubt as to if a photo is valid or not, you can open a ticket to get the picture certified.
    5. Pictures are certified by staff via a screenshot of the "properties" window of a screenshot, to make sure the screenshots were taken within the window of time that the message was sent at.
    6. Pictures can also be certified at any time to prevent later conflict.

Sec 6. Discord Rules

  1. Don't be bigoted.
  2. Have basic respect for people.
  3. Please refrain from spamming.
  4. Don't post invites to unrelated discord servers.
  5. Don't abuse any mechanisms set up by staff.
  6. Don't post anything malicious.
  7. DON'T BE A FASCIST.
  8. [Rule 8 has been redacted by the developer]
  9. NO SLURS.
  10. No pornography.
  11. No Nazi salutes, greetings, slogans or symbols.
  12. NO ERP.
  13. Staff reserves the right to veto (or require an amendment) to any parliament/assembly/government bill that:
    1. Instructs staff to do something technically impossible.
    2. Would cause an extinction level event for the server.
    3. Conflicts with staff responsibilities/jurisdiction.
  14. No in-character talk in ⁠#ooc-general.
  15. All PARTICIPATION of politics or server events should happen in-game.
  16. Any DISCUSSION of politics and server events, or anything else not in character should go in ⁠ooc-general.
  17. Do not tell people to die.