Preamble

To keep the SurvivalCraft-MC Network, our TS3 server, and our Discord server, great places to play, and talk on, we need to enforce a strict set of rules.

For staff, it’s recommended you keep a physical copy of the rules near your computer at any time, to be more efficient with punishing players, instead of having to look at the rules on the website. If you do go with the printed method, be sure to frequently update your printed copies.

 

(we get it. the rules are 2,000 words long, and is as complicated as…well…it’s complex! It’s how we keep the server a nice one to use)

 

Minecraft Server Rules

This section deals with Minecraft Server rules, and what the rules are there.

Chat Related Rules

• Spamming the chat – 35 minute mute
• Using excessive caps in the chat – 35 minute mute
• Talking Like This In The Chat – Annoys staff/players, 50 minute mute first time, 80 minute mute second time and on
• Flooding the chat (excessive messaging) – 40 minute mute
• Flooding the chat with useless characters – 55 minute mute
• Talking on other languages – While our primary chat language is English, you may initally speak in a different language, so we can translate your chat to ours, and this is allowed, but not all your statements or questions may be heard. It’s highly recommended to use a translation service like Google Translate to translate your words into English.
• Swearing in the chat – If it excessively happens (even though we have a filter), 35-75 minute mute depending on the severity
• Generally being rude to other users – 90 minute mute 1st time, 180 minute mute 2nd+ time
• Hackusating – 25-75 minute mute depending on severity
• Hack threats – 2 hour to 4 hour ban depending on severity
• Arguing – 15-85 minute mute depending on severity with normal players, 35-105 minute mute depending on severity with staff members
• Chat Trolling (Alt+F4, etc.) – 4 hour mute, along with a 30 minute ban.
• Mini-Modding – Acceptable on the server, but in moderation. If someone is mini-modding excessively, a 2 hour mute will be warranted
• Light Advertisement (e.g. Come play on Super Awesome Server!, Watch my videos at youtube.com/superawesomeguy) – 1-4 hour mute depending on severity
• Harassment of players and staff members – 7 day to permanent ban depending on severity
• Revealing personally identifiable information (PII for short) – Permanent ban 1st time, no matter the severity. (However, this doesn’t include jokes like: There’s no place for 127.0.0.1 for the holidays, 192.168.1.1 hax0r that kidz!)
• Bypassing the chat filter (i.e. for advertising, cursing) – 2 hour mute to permanent ban depending on severity
• Inappropriate chat behavior – Permanent mute
• Abusive behavior (Being very verbally abusive towards others, e.g. sex, nudity, etc.) – Permanent Ban/IP Ban, with a possible police contact, with an IP lookup warranted.
• Death threats – Permanent/IP ban, if severe enough, and IP lookup will be warranted, with the server owner contacting the local police in the area (if possible)
• Encouraging deathly activities (suicide, drugs, etc.) – Permanent ban/IP ban, and a very high likelyhood of a police contact.
• Discrimination/Racism – Permanent mute, if severe enough, a permanent ban
• Calling others with disabilities (autism, etc) – 28 day to Permanent ban depending on severity
• Calling others offensive words (examples will not be listed!) – 14 day to Permanent ban depending on severity
• Arguing about religions, beliefs, etc. – 7 day mute to permanent mute, or 14 day ban to permanent ban depending on the severity. However, the freedom of the practice of religion is fully supported on our network.
• Medium Advertisement (e.g. Join supercool.com and the first 20 people get free admin, Personal message saying come to my server!, or saying Join this awesome server! first 5 get the highest rank!) – Permanent Mute, and a 14-day ban
• Severe Advertisement (e.g. Spamming join mysupercoolserver.com!, and bypassing the filter, The SCMC network is terrible, and has abusive staff and terrible gamemodes! Come join mysupercoolserver.com! We have awesome gamemodes and don’t ban for any reason!) – Permanent Ban
• Impersonation of a player/staff member – Permanent Ban
• Unapproved links, scam links, unapproved transactions – Permanent Ban/IP Ban for the scammer. If the end receiver was in with the deal, the end receiver will not be punished. If we find that the scammer has scammed many others before, we will contact the police, and cooperate with them.

 

Gameplay Related Rules

• Gameplay Trolling – 35 minute to 2 day ban depending on severity
• Killing other users’ animals – 1 hour to 7 day ban depending on severity
• Griefing and/or “Raiding” other creations from other users – 7 day ban to permanent ban depending on the severity, and how the creations got griefed or raided throughout all times. (This rule does not apply in the Factions gamemode!)
• Map exploiting – Warning to 2 day ban depending on severity
• Gameplay bug exploiting – 1 day to 7 day ban depending on severity
• Inappropriate usernames – Permanent Ban, but can be appealed for on the forums if the user changes their username. If the issue occurs once more, it is a permanent ban without an appeal.
• Inappropriate Optifine capes – Permanent Ban, but can be appeal for on the forums if the user changes their cape. If the issue occurs once more, it is a permanent ban without an appeal.
• Creating offensive or very offensive structures (Nazi symbol, human parts, etc.) – Permanent ban the first time.
• Unapproved mods – Permanent/IP Ban
• Hacking in general (e.g. movement, regen, kill aura, aimbot, etc.) – Permanent Ban
• Cheating violation level going above 7500 – Permanent Ban

 

Server and User Related Rules

• DDoS threats – Permanent Ban/Permanent IP ban
• Hacking threats towards users/staff – Permanent ban/IP ban
• Stalking, or collecting information about any member of the network – Permanent/IP ban, if it’s severe enough, police will be contacted.
• Offending the server in any way (saying this server sucks while advertising, etc.) – If severe enough, at most, a 6 hour mute.
• Server bug exploiting – 14 day ban to permanent ban depending on severity
• Attempting to hack into server files – Permanent/IP ban, and we will contact our server provider, and possibly local police in the area with an IP lookup.
• Alternative account attacks (massive numbers of alternative accounts logging in) – Permanent ban/IP ban
• Ban evasion – IP ban on every new account that logs in, plus bans on new accounts.

 

Reporting players on the server

Please head to survivalcraftmc.net/report to report players on the server. Please leave a report under the section “Minecraft Server Player Reports”

 

 

Staff Related Rules

Please note: The staff rules are in their early stages. Please suggest rules to me! Contact details at the bottom of the page.

• Giving players items to help them cheat in Survival worlds – 1 day ban 1st time, 2 day ban 2nd time, 3 day ban 3rd+ time
• Advertising – Exact same punishments as a normal player would get
• Excessively swearing in the chat (threshold is about 10 swear words/minute) – 3 day ban 1st time, 5 day ban 2nd+ time
• Trolling users in-game – 2 day ban to demotion depending on the severity
• Abusing light stage commands (/thor, /kill, etc.) – 2 day ban 1st time, 4 day ban 2nd+ time
• Giving other players user ranks (Supporter, Emerald, Iron, Bedrock) – 15 day ban 1st time, 1 month ban 2nd time, demotion 3rd time
• Abusing medium stage commands (/gamerule, /lagg, etc.) – 7 day ban 1st time, 14 day ban 2nd time, demotion 3rd time
• Abusing high stage commands (/stop, /restart, /cg globalmute, etc.) – Demotion 1st time
• Light Griefing (under 300 blocks changed)- 28 day ban 1st time, 2 month ban 2nd time, demotion 3rd time
• Medium Griefing (300-700 blocks changed) – 2 month ban 1st time, demotion 2nd time
• Extreme Griefing (700+ blocks changed) – demotion 1st time
• Abusing CoreProtect rollback – 2 month ban 1st time, demotion 2nd time
• Attempting to hack the server – demotion 1st time. If high damage was intended, police contact may occur, IP lookup will be warranted
• Giving other players staff ranks/OP – demotion/IP ban 1st time
• Attempting to DDoS the server – demotion/IP ban, contact with MCPH may occur, IP lookup will be warranted

 

Reporting staff abuse

Please go to survivalcraftmc.net/report to report any staff abuse. Please file your report under the “Minecraft Server Staff Abuse Reports” section.

 

 

TeamSpeak 3/Discord Server Rules

 

Security Preamble

(TS ONLY) Please note, a security level of 23 is required to join the server. You can increase your security level to 23 by in the top bar, going to Settings, Identities, and on the profile that shows, clicking “Improve” next to the Security Level, and set the requested Security Level to 23. Getting a security level of 23 may take a few seconds, and up to a minute on older systems.

(DISCORD ONLY) Please note, to join our Discord server, you need to have a verified email on Discord.

Please note, our TS3/Discord server has a PG/PG-13 rating. This means that very light swear words are allowed generally, however, different ratings apply in different channels. If there is a different rating in a different channel, the description will tell you the rating for that channel.

Our TS3/Discord server rating is based off of the MPAA’s movie rating scale, mainly for chat/voice language. 

Languages Preamble

It is to be noted that the primary language of our TS3/Discord server is English. Speaking in other languages with voice is not recommended, as we really can’t translate everything you say in a different language efficiently. Speaking in other languages in chat if you do not know English is the best way to go, as we can efficiently translate your chat to our primary language. Attempting to use a translation service is also recommended, as more people will be able to understand what you might be saying.

Chat/Microphone Related Rules

• Spamming the chat in TS3/Discord – 20 minute ban 1st time, 40 minute ban 2nd+ time
• Playing unnecessary noises through your mic (static, etc.) – 2 hour ban 1st time, 5 hour ban 2nd time, 12 hour ban 3rd+ time
• Excessively swearing in channels – 2 day ban 1st time, 6 day ban 2nd time, 14 day ban 3rd+ time
• Excessively begging for talk power in channels/spamming talk power requests – 2 hour ban 1st time, 4 hour ban 2nd+ time
• Advertising through chat – 7 day ban 1st time, 14 day ban 2nd time, 28 day ban 3rd+ time
• Advertising through your mic – 20 day ban 1st time, 40 day ban 2nd time, perm ban 3rd time
• Abusive behavior through the chat – 14 day ban 1st time, perm ban 2nd time
• Abusive behavior through your mic – perm ban/IP ban 1st time
• Sexual abuse/assault/violence through chat/mic – perm ban/IP ban 1st time, contact of police as well.
• Child sexual abuse/assault/violence through chat/mic – perm ban/IP ban 1st time, contact of police as well.

Please note, for anything regarding sexual abuse, assault, or violence, I take that stuff very seriously. Upon someone contacting me of someone being sexually abused, assaulted, or violated, I will immediately trace down the user IP, and also contact police dependent on the area located in. This is not a light manor, and I’m quite serious about this.

 

Server and User Related Rules

• Hack threats through mic/chat – 14 day ban 1st time, Perm ban 2nd time
• DDoS threats through mic/chat – Perm ban/IP ban 1st time
• Creating a channel with an inappropriate name, description, or topic – 14 day ban 1st time, removed access for channel creation 2nd time permanently. If evasion occurs, an IP ban/perm ban will occur.
• Creating channels in a spam fashion (25+ for a single user) – 14 day to 2 month ban the first time (depending on severity), removed access for channel creation 2nd time permanently. If evasion occurs, an IP ban/perm ban will occur.

Ban Evading in TS3

Ban evasions are of course a huge factor when it comes to a TS3 server. We do set our security level at 23, but that doesn’t mean someone can come on and evade the ban, as it’s much easier to do so. If we do find a user ban evading, the IP will be banned, with the users banned every time. If it gets bad enough, I’ll pinpoint a range of IPs being used, and block them through my VPS’ network. IP bans are issued through the default firewall, and never go away. Trust me on that one. However, if ban evading gets quite severe for a user, I will temporary lock down the server.

Ban Evading on Discord

Ban evading is much harder on Discord, yet it is still feasible. IP bans will usually be associated with ban evading, and severe ban evading will result in the server security level going up.

 

Reporting incidents on the TS3/Discord server

Please go to survivalcraftmc.net/report to report the incidents.

 

Appealing bans on the MC/TS3/Discord server

 

You can now appeal your bans on our new forums, located at survivalcraftmc.net/forums. If you would like to instead email me your ban appeal, you can copy the ban appeal format off of the forums, and send it to my email, o355@survivalcraftmc.net. Response times may be higher than on the forums, but it all depends.

Staff Inactivity Demotion Times

From the moment a staff member logs off, a clock will start, with how long the staff member can be inactive (not on the server) before a staff member gets demoted. The staff inactivity demotion times are listed below:

• Trial-Moderator: 10 days of inactivity
• Moderator: 28 days of inactivity
• Builder: 36 days of inactivity
• Administrator/Head Administrator: 56 days of inactivity

If a staff member expects to go inactive for longer then the demotion times listed, they may contact o355 before their inactivity. Listed below is how long a staff member can be gone on scheduled inactivity. If the times below are too short, o355 will be open to letting the inactivity extend longer, with a detailed response.

• Trial-Moderator: up to 28 days of scheduled inactivity
• Moderator: up to 56 days of scheduled inactivity
• Builder: up to 72 days of scheduled inactivity
• Administrator/Head Administrator: up to 112 days of scheduled inactivity

If a staff member is gone for more than 21 days, as per this policy, staff retraining will occur when they come back, to get them up to speed with staff regulations.

If a staff member is gone for more than the inactivity period, they will be demoted. There is a slight 1-2 hour leeway for the inactivity period, but expect no more than a 6 hour leeway.

 

Site Comments Policy

While we allow comments on our site, we make sure they comply with these rules.

• Spam comments are strictly prohibited, and will get deleted immediately.
• Each and every comment you post to the site has to manually be approved before appearing online, which normally takes up to 24 hours.
• If a comment has any links, links will be removed.
• If a comment contains swear words, we just star them out.
• If a comment contains personally identifiable information, the comment may be edited to remove the information, or get deleted all together.
• Any form of advertising in a comment will lead to the comment getting deleted.

 

Notes about punishments on SCMC services

• We will never punish without a vaild reason.
• The maximum temporary mute time is 7 days, before switching to a permanent mute.
• The maximum temporary ban time is 3 months, before switching to a permanent ban.
• Staff can get punished if they are caught making people ranks without founder permission, crashing the server, abusing, etc.

 

Notes about ISP/Police Contact

Please note, when we mention contacting the police, we will cooperate with any local, county, state, or national police. We may also cooperate with police in the area in which an IP lookup has been warranted in. Along with this, we may also cooperate with our hosting provider, OVH.

 

Closing Statements

 

Thank you for taking the time to read our rules on our services. With your knowledge, you can know how to properly use our services, without the risk of getting banned.

 

If you have a suggestion for the rules, please personally email me with a good rule to add here, by emailing o355@survivalcraftmc.net.

 

Again, thanks for reading our rules. You have just read 2396 and counting words. Hey, look! When you read this, you have now read 2409 words. That number just keeps going up. Look, right now, you have read 2422 words! I’ll stop confusing you now.

 

Regards,

-o355