Rules

By joining the Minecraft server or the discord server, you agree to abide by these rules. Please, read these rules carefully.
Arguing with a staff member about the specific wording of the rules will get you no-where. If a staff member tells you what you did was wrong, accept it.
Also check our allowed and prohibited mods list

Discord & Chat Rules

No racism, bigotry or hate speech

This includes the r-slur and the n-slur (even if you are of a black ethnicity). Any offence will be taken seriously.

No "Severe" NSFW

This means anything 18+, for example mentions of s*x or r*pe. Swearing/cursing is allowed.
This includes conversations, links, images, and emotes.

No advertising

This includes promotion of third parties, other guilds, other servers or self promo. You are exempt if I (RPiCPU) have permitted you to promote it or it is directly linked to True Vanilla (e.g. a faction discord that is on the server).

No doxxing

No leaking private or sensitive information about someone in real life (leaking coords of their minecraft base is fine).

No spamming

Do not flood the chat with repeated messages, links, gifs, mentions etc.
"Spamming" is 4 or more messages directly after each other. Messaging people privately is exempt

No poll manipulation

This means that when a staff member makes a poll, you can't offer rewards or incentives to vote for an option. Convincing people with reasoning is allowed however.

Don't ping staff unnecessarily

This includes:

• 6 or less hours after opening a ticket
• 2 or more times in a row

No asking for help in staff DMs

If you can deal with it in a ticket, do so.

SMP Rules

Definitions

Griefing

The destruction of a build made by another player. This means you can still steal and loot the contents of chests & barrels, and kill animals/pets/players all you want.

Spawn killing

"Spawn killing" is NOT "killing at spawn" (however, killing at spawn still follows the below definition)
here either:
One player kills another player
Multiple players kill another player
One player kills multiple players
2 or more times in a period of 20 seconds.
If the action of killing them was in self defense or to keep/get items, it is not spawn kiling. Note: this does not excuse you killing them multiple times when they were only constantly hitting you once, before the first death.

Spawn

A 2048 by 2048 square at any altitude centered from 0X, 0Z in the overworld, and a 512 x 512 square centered from 0X, 0Z in the end.

Cheating

Using client side mods to get an unfair advantage (check our allowed and prohibited mods list)

An ongoing fight

Where a player has successfully hit (with a weapon) another player in the past 30 seconds (if its 29.99 or 30.1 seconds consider it a combat log). This excludes spawn killing.

Illegal item

Any item that is unobtainable in the vanilla survival game without using bugs, exploits, commands or cheats (ex: spawn eggs)

Griefing

Griefing is allowed in any shape or form, with one exception: you cannot grief spawn (see the definitions for the definition of "spawn" and "griefing") and you cannot destroy the end portal blocks themselves (you can destroy the frame).

Chunkbans

Chunkbans are not allowed at spawn (see the definitions for the definition of "spawn").

Dupes

Duping is not allowed, excluding TNT, rails, carpet, tripwire, gravel & sand dupes. The string dupe was patched in 1.21.2, so I recommend to use a tripwire dupe instead.

Chat

The discord rules apply to the chat, signs, named items, or any form of communication in the minecraft server.

Cheats

No cheating is permitted in any way possible, unless conflicting with the "Dupes" rules.

Combat

"Combat"/"an ongoing fight" is defined in the definitions.
During combat, you can not log out. This is considered "combat logging". On the Core world, you also can't crystals or anchors during combat, however you can use it to start combat.

Illegal items

Being found using or possessing an illegal item(s) will result in an inventory wipe (and your items not being returned) + 3 day ban.

Ban evading

Planning, trying or managing to evade a ban by using an alt, VPN, or other method is not allowed.

Further info on the rules

You are fully responsible for your account(s) and your IP/network you play on.

An account/network breaking the rules will still end up with a punishment, even if the action taken wasn't yours.

DO NOT TRY TO BE SMART OR ARGUE ABOUT THE EXACT PHRASING OF THE RULES.

It will still count as a bannable offence. A good rule of thumb is that if your argument has a "but", it will likely still be against the rules.