Minecurse 1.8.9 Faction Rules

5 mans, Unlimited Rosters • 20h Faction Shields
3 Second Raiding, 3 Second Countering • 15 Chunk Buffers
5 Day Grace, 4 Day TNT

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Disclaimer

Strike System

Faction Strike Policy:

• 1 Faction strike will be given for every 4 faction bans a faction has received.
• 2 Faction strikes will be given for every 1 Blacklist a faction has received.
• 1 Faction strike will be given for every 4 faction warnings (for the same thing) a faction has received.
• Every ban over 24 Hours will count towards faction bans unless stated otherwise.

Strike Consequences:

• 1 Faction Strike: Faction Warning (No Deduction)
• 2 Faction Strikes: 10% Value Deduction of factions value
• 3 Faction Strikes: 20% Value Deduction of factions value
• 4 Faction Strikes: 25% Value Deduction of factions value
• 5 Faction Strikes: 30% Value Deduction of factions value
• 6 Faction Strikes: 45% Value Deduction of factions value
• 7 Faction Strikes: 50% Value Deduction of factions value
• 8 Faction Strikes: 60% Value Deduction of factions value
• 9 Faction Strikes: 75% Value Deduction of factions value
• 10 Faction Strikes: 100% Faction Disqualified and Disbanded

Explanation

Screenshare Policies: Staff Members are allowed to screen share at any given point during the map, this includes during raids, teamfights, or pvp events. From playing our server, you automatically agree to these rules provided and the screen share policy. Before getting screenshared, you are not allowed to log off the server, otherwise you will be permanently banned. Your browser history and files cannot be cleared or deleted from your computer. You cannot have any computer software that blocks our ability to screen share. You make not have encryption softwares such as veracrypt. Refusing a screenshare will result in a permanent ban on our server! When being screenshared, have any blacklisted modifications on your computer and if found to be running, will result in a map ban. Admitting to cheating on our server will result in a temporary ban based on the rules provided. Having any sort of malicious or illegal activity such as databases, booters, ect, are not welcomed on our server! If found, you will be permanently blacklisted from our server

Anti Raid Claims: Any claim that has a cannon shooting at an enemy's raid claim or hinders the raiders ability to build a cannon is classified as an anti-raid claim.

Upgradable Tools: Upgradeable Harvester Hoe//Mob Sword will not be rolled back/given back if lost. If you do not wish to lose your tools, do not share them with anyone.

Payout Eligibility: You must have at least 100 walls plus a base with a minimum size of 3x3 chunks and 4 billion in value placed. Failure to do so will make you ineligible for payout. Any attempt at bypassing this rule will cause the interpretation of the rule to be put underneath administration discretion.

Loopholing: Any attempt to 'loophole' or to bypass the rules is strictly not allowed. Use common sense, and if necessary then simply ask staff for clarification via a ticket. Attempts to 'loophole' the rules will be punished at admin discretion.

Player Error: If a faction forgets to set up their base correctly (base region, misprinted blocks, forgetting an open hole in their base), that will be classified as player error and a rollback will NOT be imposed.

Instant Disqualifications

• Exploiting Glitches and/or Bugs
• Severe permission abuse by a staff member
• Raid Detectors
• If a faction quits their base will be world edited out

Chat Rules

Spamming: Chat spamming both in Minecurse chat and the Minecurse Discord is prohibited, staff will first warn the user then give the user a temporary mute if the act continues.
Punishment: 10 minute mute

Racial Slurs/Homophobic: Any attempt to insult someone due to their race/religion/or sexual orientation is not tolerated. (only if its the hard r)
Punishment: 2 Hour Mute

Suicidal encouragement/Death wishes: Threats and encouragement to physically harm someone is not tolerated.
Punishment: 1 Hour Mute

Advertising: Advertising another server via public chat is not tolerated.
Punishment: Permanent Mute

Impersonating Staff: Impersonating staff to gain any type of advantage is not tolerated
Punishment: 1 Hour Mute

Lying To Staff: Lying to staff in any way is not tolerated.
Punishment: 1 Hour Ban

Malicious Links: Malicious, phishing or account stealing links of any kind are not tolerated.
Punishment: Blacklist

DDOS/DOX/SWAT Threats: The act of doxing, ddosing or swatting will NOT be tolerated. You are also not allowed to post your "own" information, fake information, or any "public" information, not including first names. If anyone makes a threat towards you in private messages, please make a ticket on our discord so a Sr. Mod+ can verify. Any sort of joking with malicious intentions about this matter is also punishable. Each instance of this rule is handled on a case by case basis, with the final decision left to the discretion of the senior administration/management team. All proof must be submitted within 48 hours of it happening. If you suspect and have sufficient evidence that a player is attempting to or has ddosed then DM it to a high up staff member and they will act accordingly. We will not act on things done in OTHER discords or other servers or Dms to an extent. All cases of this will be taken case by case and ALL cases will be handled and dealt with at admin+ discretion. This includes messaging your friend in-game.
Punishment: Blacklist

Mute / Ban Evading: This is described as when a player logs onto another account that is found to have affiliation with another account that is muted or banned with the intention to evade a mute or a ban.
Punishment: Permanent Mute / Permanent Ban

Gameplay Rules

Illegal Modifications: Anything that can give you an advantage towards other players is prohibited. This includes hacked clients, ghost clients, or forge mods.
Punishment: 2 Day Ban (Admitted) / Map Ban

Abusing Glitches/Bug Abuse: Any form of glitching or bug abuse is prohibited, this could be freezing your minecraft, block glitching, abusing an in-game feature that isn't intentionally meant to be there, etc.
Punishment: 1 Day Ban (Based on Severity)

Ban/Mute Evasion: Evading any sort of punishment is not allowed.
Punishment: IP Ban / IP Mute

Insiding: Insiding is when you join a faction and grief, destroy, or take any of the faction's belongings and leave.
Punishment: Permanent Ban & Faction Rollback (If Necessary)

Server Interference: If a player joins the server with the intent of crashing the server, causing significant lag, or breaking the server in any way, it can lead to a permanent ban.
Punishment: Permanent Ban

Account Sharing: You are not allowed to Account Share
Punishment: 1 Day Ban and 1 Faction Strike

Teaming/Faction Bypass: You are not to team with other players in pvp, raiding, or defending. If you are in a faction, you are allowed to help only your faction. You are not allowed to wall check, buffer check, run sides, or watch your faction's cannon box walls in wilderness.
Punishment: 6 Hour Ban

Merging/Faction Hopping: You are not allowed to merge. It is considered merging if you are bringing items, players, value, etc, to another faction. Faction hopping is also not allowed. Speak with a senior staff if you want to leave a faction to join a new one. This rule still applies if you are DQ'd on our server.
Punishment: 12 Hour Ban (If Faction Hopping) / Admin Discretion for Merging

Illegal Trapping: If you are trying to trap a player, you are not allowed to use schematic printer, /printer mode, gen buckets, chunk busters, or levers. Trench and suffocation trapping is allowed.
Punishment: 6 Hour Faction Ban and player Rollback (If Necessary)

Beacons: You may not use beacon effects on bases, cannon boxes, or anywhere that will give you an effect that is unfair to other players.
Punishment: Removal of Beacons & 1 Day Ban

Left/Right Auto Clicking: Left/Right autoclicking are allowed on our server, but you are only allowed a maximum of 16 cps. (You will be banned if you are on a client even if you just use these modules, we recommend using Crim or Slinky or even a mouse macro.
Punishment: Goes under our Illegal Modifications rule

Shield Abusing: Abusing your shield to where you don't have to defend at all is strictly prohibited.
Punishment: Map Ban to the faction leader and Disbanded

Fly Boost: Max flyboost is 2x flyboost
Punishment: Warning to turn it down / 3 Hour Ban

Grace Camping: During grace, you are not allowed to camp bases/farms. You must be roaming or in f stealth (if they are in printer) to watch.
Punishment: Warning/TP to spawn / 30 Minute Ban

Grinding Limitations: If you do not react within a minute of the F11 afk check, you will be banned. Same goes with grinding mobs in darkzone. You are not allowed to grind economies on multiple accounts. Cane mods, scripting or nuking is not allowed. You are not allowed to script or use mob aura on mobs. Wild grinding is prohibited.
Punishment: 1 Day Ban (Depending on the Severity)

Trap Limitations: You are not allowed at most one 5x5 trap claim per side of the warzone. You are allowed suffocation, and sand fall traps. You may trench trap but you cannot chunkbust trap. You may not use gen buckets, printer mode, schematic printer, and sandbots to trap the player.
Punishment: 1 Day Ban (Depending on the Severity)

Interfering With A Faction On Grace Period: After a faction is on grace from getting shot at, you're not allowed to be on their base or near them to disable their fly and prevent them from patching their base up or fixing their base or counters.
Punishment: Warning + Player Sent To Spawn / 30 Minute ban

B*tch Claiming: You are not allowed to b*tch claim any other faction's base/cannon box, if someone did please make a ticket to have them removed.
Punishment: Removal of B*tch claims

Countering Other Factions: If another faction is setting up on the same faction, you are not allowed to try and side and side counter their box. This also applies to cegging the webs, levers, trays, ect. You may pvp them. You are not allowed to gen blocks in front of their cannon shot to prevent them from getting timer. You may not shoot through someone's box.
Punishment: Admin Discretion

Gen bucket / Printer patching: Factions can't use gen buckets or /printer (during an active raid). You must wait till you go on grace to use gen buckets or printer patch your base walls.
Punishment: 2 Faction Strike & Patches removed & 24 hour Ban

Mining Value: You are not allowed to mine/move value around during tnt. (of course you're allowed to move spawners inside your main base.)
Punishment: 2 Faction Strikes + raiding faction receives value

Raiding Rules

Legal Cannons:

• Overstackers (Max Overstacker is 6 blocks)
• Auto Adjust

Illegal Cannons:

• Any cannon or Nukes that make larger than a 5 wide hole on standard watered walls
• Left/Right Shooting
• Midairing
• Any Nuke that does not propel downwards. (Example: Forward/Backwards Webbust Nuke, Horizontal Nukes, Reverse Nukes, Push/Pull Nukes)
• Antigravity's
• Roof Cannoning (Cannons that shoot at or above 255.0 to bypass walls)
• Cannons that destroy 2 or more spots of the walls at the same time
• Cannons that can adjust twice (Example: UFusions, ZFusions)
• Probe Cannons
• Cannons Intentionally Made to lag the server
• 360's
• Webbust Ap's
• Chimney/External Barrels
• Snakes
• Cannons that emit more than 4000 tnt per button shot
• Worms
• Underbarrels

Punishment: The offending faction receives 2 faction strikes and the defending faction receives a rollback if applicable (ADMIN DISCRETION)(Have a question about your cannon? Make a ticket. Trying to loophole this rule will result in a map ban to whoever printed it and 2 Faction Strikes.

Cannon Speeds: For raiding, you are only allowed to break 1 wall of defense every 3 seconds. For countering, you are only allowed to break 1 wall of defense every 3 seconds. 1-10 stackers below y:10 can be any speed.
Punishment: 2 Faction Strikes & Faction Rollback (If Necessary)

Cannon Claims: The biggest claim you can have on your cannon box is a 12x12, anything higher is prohibited, you are able to have a 1x10 float claim to adjust, but it has to be connected to your cannon box claim. You may only have 1 Raid Claim per side of the base. You may not shoot a cannon that is in the wilderness, it has to be claimed by your faction.
Punishment: Extra Claims Removed (Depending on the severity)

Cannon Boxes: The max amount of walls you can have on a cannon box is 24, meaning it must take 25 cannon shots to breach the box. Finnsters aren't allowed on the cannon boxes, you may have a fake ocean so your crumbs aren't messing up from the counter cannons crumbs. There must be a 1 block gap between walls. You are allowed to have 2 cannons in 1 box (only if it is for revvable purposes such as a 10 stacker and a rev) The height of your cannon box must be a minimum of 50 blocks from top to bottom.
Punishment: Extra defenses world edited out an Faction Strike (Rollback depending if it was affecting the raid)

Switching Raid Cannons: If you are switching sides to raid a faction, you must wait the entire raid timer and grace to shoot again. If shooting on the same side, you have to wait 8 minutes to shoot another cannon. There is no cooldown from switching to a 1-10 stacker and a rev, but keep in mind you may only have one cannon shooting at the same time.
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike + Player banned

Giving Free Grace: Putting a faction on grace purposely so they won't have to defend is prohibited.
Punishment: Timer taken + 1 Faction Strike

Printer/Gen Patching: You are not allowed to patch using gen buckets or printers (/printer or schematic printer mode). You must wait 5 minutes after the last shot to be able to gen back your cannon box walls.
Punishment: 6 Hour Ban and Walls Rollbacked (If Necessary)

Slab Limit (Cannon Boxes): You are not allowed to have any slabs on your cannon box.
Punishment: 1 Warning and Removing of Slabs

Raiding Requirements: To be eligible to raid, you must have a made base (at least 10 chunks of walls before you fire) and you must actively defend it. If you do not defend your base, your TNT will be removed and you will not be able to raid for the rest of the map.
Punishment: TNT Removed

3rd Party Raiding/Raid Interference: If a faction is 4 chunks into a base (base walls), no one else except the defending faction can shoot at them. Abusing this rule to prevent others from raiding is prohibited. You are not allowed to interfere no matter the situation. You may not pvp the defending faction if they are on grace. (on the base)
Punishment: The faction raided/attempted whilst 4 chunks into another faction will receive a full rollback, strikes may be given depending on intent. This is at strike team discretion. If a player is caught PvPing on the raiding factions base, while not being in the attempted faction, they will receive a 1 hour ban.

Countering Other Factions: If another faction is setting up on the same faction, you are not allowed to try and side counter their box. This also applies to cegging webs, levers, trays, etc. PvPing them is fine. You may not place blocks or gen blocks in front of their cannon shot so they do not get raid timer. You may not shoot through someone else's box.
Punishment: Admin Discretion

Base/Buffer Rules

Base Limitations: The maximum base size is 5x5. The minimum base size is 3x3. The base must be 55 blocks tall (Example: y:255 - 200). Your base shell may be at most 3 chunks away from the border. Your base shell MUST be above y:200.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning if in grace period / 1 Faction Strike if its in tnt period

Maximum Buffer Size: The maximum amount of buffer walls your base can have is 15 chunks, meaning you can only have walls protecting your base shell out by 15 chunks. The base shell does not count as a wall. You may only have maximum of 15 chunks claimed outwards from your base shell.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning if in grace period / 1 Faction Strike if its in tnt period

Base Gaps: There must be a 50 chunk gap between the end of a factions buffer for their base and a neighboring base.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning if in grace period / 1 Faction Strike if its in tnt period

Spawner Boxes: You can only have 1 Spawner box containing ALL your spawners, meaning you can't have separate spawner boxes. For boxes such as set boxes, they must be in your base buffer claims, but may not have any spawners.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning if in grace period / 1 Faction Strike if its in tnt period

Buffer Counter Limits: You can only have 1 Counter Cannon per side of your base (2 Counter Cannons in total), however you cannot have 2 Cannons in 1 Counter Box (such as a 255 and a 10 Stack in one box). These counter cannons MUST be within a 150 block radius from your base walls. 360's Counters are not allowed. You are not allowed to have an OS (overstacker) Counter.
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike

Buffer Counter Walls: You may have a maximum of 3 chunks of walls per buffer counter.
Punishment: Extra defenses World Edited out (if raid affecting the raiding faction will be allowed to breach your counter without having to force it. (You are allowed a fake ocean so the defending faction's crumbs don't mix in with the counters crumbs. You're not allowed to patch in the fake ocean.

Ocean Limits: You are allowed only 1 chunk of an ocean on your base (only 1 chunk is allowed to be used with an ocean pocket.
Punishment: Extra Oceans removed

Illegal Defenses: You cannot have illegal defenses such as regen walls, enclosed checkboxes, defenses involving redstone, and any other blocks affecting a faction's ability to raid.
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike + Illegal Defenses removed

Alts: You cannot have any alts on your walls as a detector. Alts can only be used to afk spawners.
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike + Alts removed

Finnster/Anti Nuke Walls: You are not allowed to have Anti Nuke/Finnster walls on your base or cannon.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning if in grace + World Edited Out / 1 Faction Strike if in tnt period

Hiding Value: You are not allowed to hide any type of value. If you've raided a faction, the value must be placed (value must show on f-top) inside your base before your shield disables. If you raid someone while you're off shield value must be placed immediately. Keep in mind all spawners must be placed where you have set your shield and base region!
Punishment: Value gets removed + 1 Faction Strike

Defending Rules

Wilderness/Illegal Patching: You are not to patch outside your buffer claims. You may not use things such as a sand wand or throwable ceggs to interrupt the enemy shots. Any block that a cannon cannot stack upon is illegal (enchantment tables, soul sand, brewing stands, ect.)
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike + Player striked to whoever placed them

Printer/Gen Patching: You are not allowed to patch using gen buckets or printer. You must wait after the raid timer or grace to be able to gen.
Punishment: 6 Hour Ban to the Player that genned

Countering Rules: You are not allowed to counter from the border. Back or front of a cannon box.. The only time you are allowed to counter in the front of a cannon box is through buffer countering. You are also not allowed to use an overstacker as a buffer counter or side counter.
Punishment: Admin Discretion

Unraidable Blocks/Illegal Patching: You are not allowed to patch with blocks that are not full blocks (enderchests, fences, fence gates, anvils, webs, etc.)
Punishment: 12 Hour Ban to the Player that placed them

Blocking Up Value: You are not allowed to block up any spawners to prevent players from getting it. You are allowed to patch the base shell wall.
Punishment: Raiding Faction will receive the value

Side Countering Rules

Anti Raid Claims: Max Anti Raid Claim size is 9x9. Anti Raid Claims can have a maximum of 8 walls (A total of 9 shots to breach). Pre sides are not allowed. You are not allowed to OS Side. You may have 10 slabs maximum per wall. You are not allowed to front/back counter a side counter.
Punishment: 1 Day Ban to player that front/back countered

Side Counter Switching: For every side counter that you are switching to, you must a minimum of 8 minutes before shooting the next side counter.
Punishment: Admin Discretion (Based on Severity)

Countering on Shield/Grace: You are not allowed to buffer counter on Shield or Grace, however, you are allowed to side counter any box on shield that is outside your base.
Punishment: 1 Faction Strike + Cannon Rollback

Countering Timer: If your counter is blown, you must wait for 8 minutes before you can shoot with a different counter (buffer counter to side counter.) You must wait 8 minutes if you are switching buffer counters that are opposite to your base.
Punishment: Admin Discretion (Based on Severity)

Moving Buffer Counters: You are not allowed to move your buffer counters at all during the TNT period.
Punishment: New Buffer Counter world edited out

Presides: You may not have presides on your raid cannon box or base.
Punishment: Presides world edited out

Raiding Outpost Rules

Raid Claims: You are allowed a maximum of 11x11 claims but cannot have any float claims. You are allowed 16 walls per side of the cannon box with 0 slabs per walls. You can only have 1 raid cannon in one raid claim. You are allowed one claim per side of Raiding Outpost.
Punishment: 1 Faction Warning / 1 Faction Strike

Anti Raid Claims/Side Countering: You are allowed a maximum of 9x9 claims with 8 walls per side (A total of 9 shots to breach.) You may not side counter a cannon box from the back or front. You are not allowed to front/back counter a side counter!
Punishment: Player that fired the cannon 12 Hour Ban + Faction Warning

Cannon Switching: You may only use one raid cannon & one side counter at a time. You may switch your raid cannon every 5 minutes and may switch sidecounters every 5 minutes. Keep in mind if you try to hold raid timer (Example: Shooting whilst solo multiple times) your timer will be taken.
Punishment: Admin Discretion (Based on Severity)

Gen/Printer Patching: It is prohibited to gen/printer patch when getting shot at. You must wait till the raiding outpost goes on grace before being able to gen patch.
Punishment: 6 Hour Ban to the player that genned

Presides: You may not have any presides for your cannon box or raiding outpost.
Punishment: Presides world edited out

Modifying/Griefing Raiding Outpost: You may not grief RaidingOutpost for a way to make people not able to raid (For example, putting a wall next to the warp so players can't go through). Modifying RaidingOutpost walls is prohibited
Punishment: Warning to whoever modified it / 3 Hour Ban to whoever modified it