Rules

Rules are an important part of our server. Our guidelines ensure that our players know that they will be protected. No one is exempt from following rules, however, how one reacts to being reprimanded for breaking them can determine the consequences. There is a zero tolerance policy for challenging rules and searching for loopholes.

This community is for adults, therefore, we assume each person who applies and is accepted understands that every cause has an effect. Remember, Staff are players too.

Chat

Chat is to home to relatively clean conversation across all the platforms (Minecraft, Discord, et cetera...). We aim to stay PG-13.

• Cursing is fine to a point.
  • Cursing every other word during normal conversation is seen as immature and can become uncomfortable for everyone. If you are asked not to say a particular word, please be an adult and be mindful of that player and word.
• No racism, sexism, bigotry, hate speech, or political and religious conversations.
  • Clean jokes are allowed ("Thanks, Obama," and "Build the wall"), but they will not go further.
  • Negatively fueled jokes are NOT allowed. If you are asked to refrain, then you will be expected to do so.
  • Insensitive topics such as rape, murder, violence, or otherwise deemed as such by staff is explicitly PROHIBITED. No exceptions to this rule.
• Chat is to be free of annoyances.
  • Spamming is not allowed
  • No advertising or promoting without permission from staff
  • No begging
• Be mindful of the atmosphere others have created.
  • Don't fling poo, please.

Important: Players must be a member on Stumped Discord at all times.

Griefing

No Griefing. Period.

• Do not take people's things without permission

• You cannot destroy builds outside of abandoned raid events

• No unsolicited/harmful pranks

• Non-consensual PvP is off limits.

• Do not gather resources within a player's 200 block claim
  • No killing other player's mobs
  • Do not take any resources, even renewable resources (such as potatoes), without permission FIRST
• Do not harass players or staff
  • Do not attempt to reach a player once they ignore you within or outside of the community (discord, games, e-mail, et cetera)
  • No doxxing
  • Learn to read players. if you say something to a player and they are not replying, do not press them further
    • These situations will be handled case-by-case. If you are unsure about a player's intentions, take a screenshot for future reference in case your suspicions become well-founded. At this point, contact a Branch Manager or Co-Owner.
• No circumventing any rules, regulations, and barriers inside and out of the game, especially in ways that would give you an advantage over players.
  • AFK timer is set to a generous 30 minutes.

When in doubt, don't do to others that you wouldn't want done to you.

Redstone Rules

Griefing

• Redstone machines and mechanisms should not be used to grief other players. This includes:
  • Using redstone to deform another's build
  • Hidden noisemakers
  • Lag-inducing machines

Deactivation Mechanisms

All redstone machines and farms must have a means to be deactivated. We may require the shutoff of redstone machines due to temporary lag issues.

Having an easily-found and easily operated shutoff mechanism prevents the staff from damaging your machine in order to deactivate it.

Deactivation means:

• Pistons should no longer change position. They can be extended or retracted but should no longer move.
• Redstone signal lines should be locked to their current power.
• Hoppers should no longer transfer items into another container. It is ok to have items transfer in.
• Observers should be in a state where they are unlikely to be activated.

Lag Prevention

Reducing Light Updates

While only redstone torches emit light, all redstone components may trigger a light update during the block update if the server believes that the light level needs to be recalculated. Therefore, it is best to completely light up the area your mechanisms are in or to seal it off completely with opaque blocks so that there is a constant light level. Torches work, but glowstone and sea lanterns are best.

Ice Paths instead of Hopper Chains

When possible, transferring items over packed ice or blue ice is preferable to relying on hopper chains.

Covering Hoppers

Covering the top of hoppers that do not need to collect items from the top, such as hoppers in a hopper chain, will provide a small reduction in lag. While not huge, this reduction does add up.

The best block to put on top is a dropper, followed by an opaque block, a half-slab, and finally a furnace.

Duping Items

• Exploiting glitches in the game to clone/duplicate items (aka "duping") is not allowed. This includes items like TNT, rails, carpet, sand, gravel, etc.

Mob Farming

Prohibited Farms

• Individual gold farms
• Individual Endermen farms
• AFK fishing farms
• Individual Guardian farms

Iron Farms

Small farms are allowed, one per player. Iron farms must have a deactivation mechanism, eg: blocking line of sight to the hostile mob.

Mob Grinders

Both darkness-based and monster spawner farms are allowed, but must have a mechanism to disable spawning via lighting or flooding the spawn areas.

Flying Machines

Prohibited Uses

Missiles, bombers, and other means to deform another player’s build via flying machines is prohibited. Grief machines (e.g. anvil launchers, TNT cannons, etc) are also prohibited.

Standard Restrictions

As with all other redstone mechanisms, all flying machines must either have a shutoff mechanism or be connected to a timing mechanism which can be shut off. Continuously-running flying machines are highly discouraged.

In addition, all measures should be taken to reduce light updates by lighting up the path the flying machine moves through.

Movement Restrictions

Despite the name of ‘flying machines’, such mechanisms need to be contained within a build, where the path it moves along is constant and predictable. Its movement path should not cross more than 8 sub-chunks.

Player Claims

• Do not build or gather resources outside of your claim area and 200 block buffer. Use the provided resource map and quarries for gathering beyond your claim.
• Other players' chests are off limits unless specified otherwise.
• Player bases are allowed to be visited by default. If you do not wish for players to visit your home, please let players know with signs and/or fences.

Map Rules

• No player-made roads or paths outside of your claim and 200 block buffer.
• No random boats, floating trees, or crafting tables left in the wild.
• Clean up after yourself.
• DO NOT GRIEF.
• Do not make land claims in the main overworld solely for resource gathering.
• No massive terraforming outside of your claims
• Please do not raid all shipwrecks, underwater villages, buried treasure, etc on the map. If one happens to fall within your claim, you may use it as you wish.

Spawn

• Do not build approximately 200 blocks outside of the Spawn claim. Spawn is built to become larger as needed so the buffer is necessary

Nether

• All nether portals must be hooked up correctly. If you need help connecting your portal, please ask a staff member!
• Do not touch other players' portals without permission first.

The End

• Only one community enderman farm is permitted.
• Don't build large structures on the main island.
• Don't be greedy with raiding End cities

/co i

• Every player has access to the ' /co i ' command.
  • /co i shows all interactions by players with a block. This includes chests.
  • It will show a timestamp for each interaction and what interaction occurred.
    • i.e. XXXPlayer removed "23 iron"
• If you have not claimed a chest using lockette and there has been other activity that was not granted by you, please submit a support ticket documenting the incident, including pictures.

Support Tickets

• Support tickets are handled on a regular basis by staff members.
• Tickets can be submitted in the #support-tickets channel on the Discord.

Client-Side Mods

Mods NOT allowed

• Xray mods
• Flying Mods
• Hacked clients
  • Wolfram, ForgeWurst, etc.

Mods allowed

• Map Mods
  • JourneyMap, VoxelMap, Xaero's Minimap, etc
  • Mob tracking/radar is discouraged.
• Inventory Sorting mods
• Chat/Dialogue Mods
  • ChatFlow, ChatTweaks, TabbyChat, etc.
• Schematica is allowed but with exceptions
  • Printer option is NOT allowed and MUST be disabled.
• HUD Mods
  • WAILA
  • JustEnoughItems (JEI), NotEnoughItems (NEI)
    • Only to be used as recipe book, item lookup, etc.

Inactivity

• Inactivity is not being seen on the Minecraft server for at least 1 month and not being active in Discord.
• Players will be periodically assessed for inactivity where unwhitelisting may occur.
• Removing yourself from Discord will result in an automatic unwhitelisting.
• Being removed for inactivity means forfeiting your build and possessions.  
• If removed due to inactivity, you can only return by resubmitting an application.
• By letting staff know about any possibly inactivity will exclude you from being unwhitelisted.  

Player Infractions

Depending on the infraction depends on the punishment. Any staff member has the ability to discern what punishment fits any rule breaking. This includes Branch Managers. You may not question or ignore a Branch Manager to wait for the opinion of a Co-Owner.

Warnings

• We will generally try to contact a player privately to issue a warning if unwanted behavior occurs. If admins are ignored or if confrontation begins, action may escalate to a temporary or permanent ban.

Temporary Bans

• Temporary bans will result in the player being unwhitelisted for a minimum of 24 hours. The player will be responsible for themselves as normal after the temporary ban. Temp banned players may continue to use the Discord, but being confrontational can lead to a permanent ban.

Permanent Bans

• You will be removed from the Discord, removed from the whitelist, and unable to return to Stumped. There is no appeal.