Server Rules
Please note that the contents of our rules are NOT all-inclusive. Moderation action may be taken at any time as needed to maintain a fun, chill server environment. Some punishments may not pertain to any rule perfectly, if at all, especially during events.
For information on punishments and appeals, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
It's your responsibility to stay up-to-date with our rules. We will provide announcements in the CMC Discord whenever any major rule changes occur.
General Behavior Rules
These rules apply in all Minecraft contexts, including events. Much of this should be common sense.
Absolutely No Orbiting Streamers
While on the server, ensure you are on task and not simply online to spectate streamers. We want to maintain a positive experience for both the streamer as well as other players, so help us do that. This rule includes Carson, his friends, and anyone else who may be live on the server.
If you are being pushed by a forcefield, that is your chance to leave. Hanging around nearby after a forcefield push is generally a bad idea and may end with less-than-ideal consequences for you, such as being killed, teleported away, or even temporarily banned.
You're welcome to interact with streamers organically, but taking actions that are largely, or entirely, disruptive to them or their streams is not allowed and may result in a punishment. If you're being told to go away, go away. If you can't think of anything to do in the area surrounding a streamer other than look at them, chances are you shouldn't be there.
Don't enforce rules yourself
If someone's negatively impacting your experience, even if it's slightly outside of the rules, report it to staff. Do not retaliate, as retaliation makes it harder for us to fairly punish all parties involved. "They started it" stops being a good excuse rather quickly.
Players should not attempt to enforce any rules themselves, especially if they're player-made rules. The only exception to this would be respectfully requesting someone adjust their build to conform to a particular town's aesthetics or remove it. If any players attempt to force you to do anything (such as unironically trying to bully you into not running in their town), please report it to staff immediately.
Treat everyone with respect
Do not be rude or hostile towards other players, including in your communications with them outside the server. Toxicity and/or personal quarrels that bleed over into the server often end up a problem staff has to deal with. It's possible to be permanently banned for simply causing too much trouble on the server, so keep it chill and to a minimum as much as possible.
Hate campaigning, spreading rumors, or otherwise petty/toxic behavior is not allowed. This is up to staff discretion on what constitutes each of these things. In general, baseless accusations aren't cool. We will not and have not taken reports at face value on this. If you don't like someone, do your best to avoid interacting with them on the server. Please report any behavior like this as soon as you notice it happening.
If someone asks you to stop doing something, you should do your best to accommodate within reason. Being obnoxious is lame and will be treated as such by staff.
No Cheating!
We do allow a limited set of gameplay-enhancing mods, which you can find info about here. However, most mods that affect gameplay are not allowed. Anything that constitutes cheating (such as X-Ray, Speed Hacks, Flight Hacks, Autoclickers, Macros, or other external tools) will result in a permanent ban. If a mod gives you more information than just what you could potentially remember (such as a cave finder or free cam), it should not be used.
Attempting to reverse the world seed will result in a permanent ban if we learn of it. Please use our world map if you're looking for a particular structure or point of interest.
Avoiding our AFK kick is generally considered cheating and may result in a warning. Using an automated means to accomplish this (such as an auto clicker or anti-afk bot of some kind) will result in more severe punishments typically.
Use of an alt as a bot, or even running a bot on your main account, is not allowed. Do not use Baritone on our servers. All inputs made in the game should be made by a real human being.
Do not abuse duplication bugs or other exploits in the game for your own gain. If you discover an issue that could duplicate items, give players an infinite amount of resource, or otherwise seems broken, please report the issue for a reward.
No Griefing or Stealing
This is not an anarchy server. All player-made builds and creations should not be touched unless you have permission. This includes adding things onto these builds, such as modifying someone's build during a build event or digging a large moat around someone's claim. If it's not yours, don't mess with it.
Unclaimed chests, shulkers, furnaces, and other containers should not be used if they're not yours. You're welcome to use Ender Chests in other players claims, though. Don't kill named mobs for any reason - we have logs on that kind of thing.
Lava casts are almost always not allowed and will result in bans, especially if they impact another player's base. The only exception would be using them as a way to frame out a large structure, though please attempt to clean up your mess before logging off. Giant cobblestone pyramids are an eyesore no matter where they are and should not be made.
In general, don't do anything to deliberately annoy or take from someone else. Don't steal mobs, don't let them out of their cage, don't abuse gaps in their claims, and don't make ugly stuff.
Don't intentionally cause lag
Building lag machines or abusing bugs in the game to otherwise degrade other player's experience is not allowed. Doing this will result in permanent ban - it isn't funny. Particularly server-intensive builds or farms may be disabled / nerfed if they're causing a ton of lag or otherwise making it hard for others to play.
Do not evade bans
Ban evasion is a severe offense and will result in a permanent ban for all of your accounts, even if you were only banned temporarily. Please wait out temp bans, or appeal if needed. We are far less flexible with appeals for players who have ban evaded in the past.
To avoid potential punishments down the road, please report anyone you know or suspect to be ban evading to staff.
Follow all usual Twitch chat rules
Excessive foul language, use of slurs or other Twitch-banned terms, and spam are not allowed and may result in punishment. Edgy jokes about sensitive topics (suicide, shootings, racism, etc) may result in a ban. Jokes about doxxing will result in punishment, and discussion of it as a topic is highly discouraged. Hate symbols, nazi symbolism, and any otherwise anti-semetic imagery/allusions/themed builds/jokes will lead to a permanent ban. All of these rules also apply to voice chat!
Anything that cannot be shown on Twitch should not be built. Keep it appropriate to stream, and keep it light.
Respect staff and their decisions
Staff on the server take actions necessary to keep our server a chill place to play Minecraft. These actions are in response to things done by other members of the community and are logged, as well as reviewed. For privacy, we will not share the reasons for punishments with anyone other than who the punishment was issued to. We also do not disclose who issued the punishment originally.
Producing content in the server depicting or alluding to banned users may result in a punishment and a removal of the content. Intentionally doing this for "drama" purposes will likely result in a ban, especially if you're trying to assist a banned user in communicating with someone on the server.
Arguing about punishments in server chat is not allowed. Please make a ticket in the CMC Discord if you disagree with a particular punishment that was issued.
SMPOnline Rules
These rules only apply to SMPOnline and not any events.
Avoid lagging the server
This rule is likely to be changed in Season 5 with the switch to Folia.
Automated farms are extremely laggy, especially when a lot of players are online. Anything utilizing redstone, temporarily flowing liquids, pistons, or block updates to automatically farm a material should only operate when manually turned on. Even small scale versions of these farms can cause lag due to many different players building them, so try to avoid them.
Keep your mob counts reasonable. High mob counts (such as entity cramming farms, or a billion chickens over a hopper) are not allowed and will result in your farm being deleted or otherwise rendered useless. Use this image as a guideline.
Keep mob farms / villager trading halls away from spawn or towns. These structures are a large contributor to server lag. Even small farms like this add up rather quickly with over 100 players online. Villagers may be disabled or removed if too close to high traffic areas. Mob farms may be disabled or removed by staff if they're an issue - especially if they're automated, like an automatic iron farm.
Machines utilizing hoppers are quite laggy and should be kept to a minimum. Running a large-scale hopper sorting machine can cause a ton of server lag, so we don't recommend building them. Using a hopper for converting concrete powder to concrete is known to be laggy as well.
Don't block villagers with trap doors because this is also very laggy due to issues with Villager pathing on the version the server is on. Please stick to full blocks wherever possible. Your villagers will be automatically disabled if they attempt to path through a trapdoor.
Don't make disruptive builds
Do not create obstructions on public Minecart railways. This includes push-button stops. These railways are meant to be a non-stop route and should not require manual effort from players to continue along. Any interruptions to these railways is considered griefing and will be undone, possibly with a warning included.
Avoid blocking rivers and waterways with bridges or walls. If you do terraforming to completely eliminate a river, that's perfectly fine, but don't obstruct a path players might be taking with boats. The minimum gap between water and your bridge for it to be allowed is 1.5 blocks, aka a full air block and the underside of a top slab. Try to leave more room than this, and please don't make the underside of your bridge a dark hazard where mobs can spawn. Don't leave temporary river bridges in the water.
Don't build huge, ugly pathways/railways/highways through the sky. If you're slowly making progress on a large scale build like this, do your best to use high quality materials. Your infrastructure should look good - not like some kind of temporary scaffolding. Ensure you have enough materials to finish the sections of your infrastructure you've started before you create a build crossing thousands of blocks.
Don't grief other players
Building player killing traps to collect their items is not allowed. If these traps are built and used, you may be banned from the server. Pranking your friends is fine, but building a trap that someone could accidentally stumble into is not. If staff have to be called to resolve this kind of situation, punishments are likely to be issued.
Don't randomly kill or attack players with PVP enabled. There should be a reason why you're attacking someone else if you are. It should be a mutual effort. Killing other players to take their items is not allowed - return people's stuff. Don't steal items from players who died in front of you. Do your best to avoid picking up their death loot.
In general, don't make it difficult for another player to have fun.
Don't abuse our claim system
We've had numerous issues with claims over few years we've ran SMPOnline. Here's what isn't cool to do.
Do not claim limited structures and restrict access to them, such as strongholds or ancient cities. These areas are public resources and should be kept available for all players to use and benefit from. You're welcome to raid them for resources, but don't prevent others from entering. Keep in mind - claims, by default, prevent players from modifying blocks in that area. If you've claimed a stronghold, it's ideal to provide an easy-to-find, public entrance for it.
Don't claim natural resources just to claim them. If you're building a base at a dungeon or trial chamber - cool. If not, don't claim it. Claims preventing access to these things with no obvious player build, or an insignificant amount of progress after request, will be removed.
Don't claim large portions of land around a town or base. Don't claim other people's builds, either. Leave other players private bases alone.
Claiming land at spawn to sell, loan, give out, or otherwise offer to other players is not allowed. Only claim what you plan to use for your own builds. Our claim system allows you to make subclaims - however, this system is not intended to be used as town or HOA-like management. This may change in Season 5, but for now, please abide by this rule.
Claiming land solely to sell it to other players for in-game currency or items is not allowed. If you have no intent to build at a location, do not claim there. If you change your mind, unclaim the land or give it to someone you know. Don't try and market it for sale.
Don't force other players to have their base claimed by you. Let players claim their own builds. You should use our claim transfer system to make them the owner of the claim upon request. Alternatively, you may simply unclaim the land if needed. Note that this rule doesn't apply for, example, basing with other people or having your friend's base claimed for them.
Don't claim a large amount of land nearby spawn. There is limited real estate near spawn for player builds. Please be considerate of other players and limit the amount of land you or your group has claimed to mirror that of other players. Claiming large amounts of land for a potential town should not be done within 800 blocks (50 chunks) of spawn.
Do not adjust your claim lower than it needs to be. Our claims, by default, only extend down to y=30. If you're basing lower than that, feel free to extend your claim. Otherwise, leave this value what it normally is. Our default limit is at y=30 to allow players to mine and otherwise explore the underground without being impeded by player bases constantly. If you do this for no reason, you may be punished.
Notable Rule Exceptions
Some things may seem against the rules, but are not. Here's a few of them, as well as why they are an exception. This list may be added to over time.
Buying out another player's shops
Our server is very player economy driven, so other players are incentivized to buy out other player's shops simply by nature of the "open market" of the server. We allow players to put limits on their shops to dissuade competition, though it's generally wiser to increase prices to try and price your competitor out of their practices if limits would inconvenience your customers.
Politely enforcing town aesthetics
Minecraft is a very expressive, artistic game. Many players have made towns in the past with a particular "look" to them. If you don't want to conform to a particular aesthetic, it's not "cool" or "allowed" to build something completely against that aesthetic against the wishes of the town's residents. As mentioned earlier in the rules, it's better to resolve this type of thing privately than involve staff.
Creative Event Rules
These rules only apply to our Creative mode events and nothing else.
Do not spawn in buggy items
Creating bugged out items, such as splash potions that kill creative players, is not allowed. We've taken a number of measures to prevent players from spawning in such resources, but we'd prefer if you just don't try it out. Anything else that may be disruptive (such as an extremely loud noise maker, an entity spawner, or anything that crashes players) is not allowed.
Don't be obnoxiously loud
Music machines are fine, though it's likely they'll stop functioning properly if TPS degrades enough. Anything else that's intended to be loud should not be built as it's going to be removed / disabled by staff.
Abuse of goat horns will result in a punishment - probably a temp ban if we can't mute it for whatever reason.
If you're being wicked annoying in VC you're just going to get muted or banned. Don't harass staff to unmute you during the event unless you were simply muted incorrectly.
Leave other player's stuff alone
Putting random stuff on other player's builds is not allowed. Every build in the event should be built to the intent of the person who made it, untainted by others. If you accidentally break someone's build, try and fix it or ask staff for help fixing it. In general, though, do your own thing!
No Cheating
Use of automatic schematic placement, or really any off-the-web schematics at all, is not allowed in our build events. Automatic placement, easy placement, or other ways of schematic printing are not allowed. You're welcome to use the schematic as a blueprint, but automatic placement is not allowed.
Competitive Event Rules
These rules only apply to events we run where players are directly competing for a reward of some kind. Note that many punishments that occur during competitive events are only temporary.
Follow all event rules
It's critical that you review any specific rules laid out at the beginning of an event before participating. Failure to follow these rules may result in a ban or disqualification. Some event rules may allow behaviors not normally permitted, such as griefing. Ensure you've fully reviewed all event rules so you know what's allowed.
Absolutely no cheating
Almost all players on our servers play the game legit and per our rules. However, those of you who choose to cheat to try and get an advantage will be banned. Report anyone you think is cheating in the event to staff immediately to avoid potential punishment and penalties due to your association with them.
Appeals
Everyone using CMC services, including the Discord, is allotted one appeal for a valid ban. If you were rightfully temp-banned, it's generally advised to wait it out unless you believe it was made in error. Permanent bans must be appealed to be removed.
Bans we determine to be unfair or made in error will not use your appeal. We sometimes will offer a second appeal, but this is far from guaranteed and is only done in special circumstances.
You should use the Discord invite available to you in your ban message to appeal your ban. If you're unable to see a Discord invite, then you're welcome to use this invite.
Punishment Types
We do not have a standardized system for issuing punishments, such as a "3 strike rule" or anything along those lines. However, there are a few common types of punishment that can occur when rules are broken. All punishments noted here are logged and reviewed by other staff, as well as periodically by server management.
Kicks
A momentary punishment that is only logged. These may sometimes be issued alongside warnings for certain rule violations, such as avoiding our AFK kick. In general, though, these punishments have no direct consequence and typically will not lead to a ban on their own.
Mutes
Can occur in both text chat and voice chat. Sometimes are permanent, sometimes are temporary. You may have to contact staff to remove this type of punishment if it doesn't expire after a few days. These punishments are usually only issued against players for conduct issues, such as mic spam or mild toxicity.
Warnings
A temporary punishment that expires after 30 days. These are issued for minor infractions and do not have any consequence on their own. Receive 3 warnings and you will be kicked for your "final warning." After 4 unexpired warnings, you will be automatically permanently banned from the server. If you're warned while offline, you will be notified via a chat message upon logging in.
Temporary Bans
A temporary punishment that restricts you from logging into the server, expiring in varied amounts of time. More severe rule violations typically receive longer temporary bans. Multiple temporary bans are uncommon unless extremely unrelated and over a large period of time. If you receive one of these, it's very likely your next punishment will be a permanent ban. This is especially true if you repeat behavior you were temporarily banned for.
Permanent Bans
A permanent punishment that prevents you from logging into the server. This is for the most severe of rule violations, typically when players show some sort of deliberate malicious intent. Often, these are issued against cheaters and griefers. However, these bans may be issued for more behavioral reasons, such as toxicity or general misconduct. These are also issued, as noted in the Warnings section, after 4 unexpired warnings.
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