General Factions Rules:
- Disbanding a Faction will result in the permanent loss of the assets that come with it (bank, chest, upgrades etc.). Before disbanding, be sure that you have removed all those before disbanding as they cannot be replaced.
- Leaving dogs in any Faction land (including warzone and safezone) that is not yours or the wilderness will result in their death. We will not replace them.
- Damaging someone whilst standing in a safezone by any means is not allowed.
- Any instances where factions acquire illegal Faction Top value, we will issue necessary reductions to their Faction Top value at the end of the map. All reductions will be announced at the time of decision, so it is not unknown. Examples of illegal Faction Top value can be, but are not limited to:
- Abuse of a glitch to discover mechanics that should not be part of the game.
- Abuse of rules / methods to prevent the raid on an area with significant Faction Top value. The raid must be of significant attempt and staff must be satisfied with the raid attempt. This will heavily rely on the proof you provide, so recording raid attempts would help.
- -Use of other accounts to grind, or attempt to grind, into kill leaderboards (this includes any leaderboard that requires kills to get on) is not allowed.
- -For a faction to be eligible to place in the Faction Top, Senior Staff must agree that the faction's value is contained within their own base and not just a selection of "value only" chunks in another faction's base. This will not be proactively checked so if you have a concern, it must be reported in a ticket.
Account/Alt Account Rules:
- Your account is your responsibility. Punishments will be made against the account regardless of who signed into the account. We recommend not giving out your account information.
- Using websites that give you mass alts for free to join and give benefits to your main account over and over is not allowed.
- Non-full accounts (like cheaper accounts you can find online) are not supported by the VitalCraft server. Whilst they are not against the rules, if you lose access to one of these accounts, we will not help you by transferring anything over to a new account. Your progress will be lost.
- Use of alt accounts to grind quests is not allowed.
General Build Rules:
- Pointless Redstone loops or item droppers are not allowed and will be removed.
- Any contraption with the design to intentionally slow down / crash the server or a player's client is not allowed and will result in severe punishment. NOTE: Although 0-tick farms are made with the intention to farm, they are extremely laggy so fall into this rule category and are automatically broken upon being made.
- Any builds that violate any of our chat rules are not allowed. This covers things such as building sexual objects, racist builds etc.
- Nether portal trapping isn’t allowed.
- Building above the Nether is not allowed.
- Breaking the bedrock floor or bedrock roof (in the Nether) by any method or exploit is not allowed.
- Building bases out of tile entities such as enderchests, signs, cobwebs etc., can cause FPS lag and is not allowed.
- If bases are found to be unraidable, you will have 24 hours, once notified, to correct the unraidability or the base will be destroyed. Staff members will perform an inspection of the base and determine raidability.
- No more than 3 regen walls per base.
Glitches and Illegal Activity Rules
- Having hacked clients, cheating texture packs, auto clicker, or other cheats active on your online account is not allowed, regardless of use. Anything that gives you an unfair advantage in the game falls into one of the categories.
- Use of a weight or any other mechanism of allowing a mouse or keyboard button to be continually triggered without the presence of a player actively holding down the button themselves is not allowed. We will deem your player as AFK clicking (auto clicking) if you are unable to respond to the AFK checks we give you in game.
- Macro scripts to initiate interval commands or auto-joining are not allowed.
- Use or abuse of ANY exploit is not allowed. Exploits must be reported to staff immediately through a ticket in the VitalCraft Discord. This includes any method of duplicating items that are deemed by staff to be exploitative.
- Bypassing rules by ANY means is not allowed.
- Being in the knowledge that someone is hacking, abusing glitches, or evading a ban and not reporting it (especially using it to your advantage) will be treated with severe consequences.
- Hitting people behind anything that is protected but can be opened (doors, trapdoors, etc.) is allowed. However, using low ping or any other method to hit people behind solid blocks is not allowed. To report someone doing this, you must provide clear video evidence. NOTE: Any non-glitch method of damaging someone behind a wall (creeper eggs on the other side, shooting arrows into the corner of where 2 blocks meet which cause them to phase through slightly etc.) is ALL legal. We only disallow using glitches to remove, or phrase through, a solid block to hit someone behind.
- The usage of a printer / easy place mod for defending against PvP or raids is not allowed. These mods are for building purposes only. In the case of this rule, "defending" means immediate, close-range defense that has a direct result on the raid / pvp attempt.
- If you contact staff regarding what you believe is a server glitch that has caused something beneficial/detrimental to happen, one of the following must occur to have the situation rectified:
- You must provide a method in which the glitch can be seen. This can be done via video or instructions to see if staff can replicate what you have told them.
- You must work with staff to find a replication method so the glitch can, again, be seen in action.
- You must provide a video of the glitch in action. Even if you or staff cannot replicate the glitch, if it can be seen via a video, you have a valid argument.
- Failure to provide or find a valid replication method in your interaction with staff will result in no further action being taken on the situation. If the situation is deemed closed and you, later, DO find a replication method (or staff find it), you may be able to get back what you have lost.
Banned/Punished Account Rules:
- Do not bypass bans with alternative accounts. If you have a temporary ban and use an alternative account to enter the server, that account will receive a matching ban at a minimum, though it may be harsher.
- Use or method (on a different account, the punished accounts, or by asking other players) to send messages visible to players in chat to bypass a mute is not allowed.
- Use of signs or books during a mute IS allowed, provided they are not used to complain or continuing the discussion about the punishment, the staff, server, or rules.
Voting Rules:
- Using a VPN or any other means to vote more than once every 24 hours, whether it be for an alt or the same account, is not allowed.
- Having other people vote with your name to accumulate more than the intended votes within 24 hours is not allowed.
- Voting using someone else's name is not allowed.
Scamming, Deals, and Deception Rules:
- You cannot scam when the deal involves something that can only be obtained for real money and the opposite party is giving something tangible in return.
- You can accept / offer real money for an in-game trade however you own 100% of the risk and VitalCraft will not be involved in settling any legal disputes for either party. We also do not support real life trades and will not consider money given to / spent on other players when making decisions for the future and benefit of the server. We also advise that if you are paying someone for something, that you confirm (and screenshot) the proof that they have the item(s) before doing the trade. If you get scammed and the player does not have the item(s), we cannot spawn anything in for you. If they are proven to have the item, we can search where it went and get it.
- You can only accept real money for an in-game trade if you purchased what you want to sell with real money from our shop. This includes items won from purchased crate keys. If the item is spawned in ANY way, you cannot sell it.
- Any deal made on the server must have clear screenshots of the agreed deal prior to its occurrence for it to be enforceable by staff. If you get scammed by a player not upholding their side of the deal, when the time comes, we will NOT go through logs (if they still exist) to prove the deal for you and you can consider the items / money lost. The important things to note regarding this rule are:
- We will not uphold any deals of intangible assets. For example, if you are trading money for a rank, or items for another item etc., these are all tangible assets and have the potential to be enforced. But if you are doing something like trading money / in-game items for a promise to not do something, we will not enforce this.
- If you do not agree on a set date for the latest you want the deal to be upheld, then the user will be allowed as much time as they wish to return what is needed.
- We will not go about chasing down the "interest" that you've charged. We will only ever enforce the base deal.
- If a deal involves the future repayment of money / items and the user does not have the required asset to repay it, we will not create that asset for you. Instead, the user will receive punishment for scamming, but only if the scam is clear.
Payment Rules:
- Issuing a chargeback or any form of legal action against VitalCraft will result in a permanent ban from the entire network that will never be lifted.
- Threatening us with issuing a chargeback will hold the same weight as doing so and will be met with a permanent ban.
- Using another player's username to login as their character and make purchases in the shop is not allowed. To purchase packages for someone else, use the gifting option in the VitalCraft shop.
- Ftop winnings will only be sent to faction owner.