General Build Rules:
*Please Note That This Applies To Both Vanilla and Mythic Survial*
- No Death Traps: Any mechanics causing player death must be agreed upon beforehand. Presence in designated PvP areas implies agreement to the risk of death.
- No Griefing: Breaking, placing blocks, or taking items in/from unclaimed builds or containers is not allowed. Exceptions for Minecraft generated structures like Strongholds, Pillager Towers, Abandoned Mineshafts, etc.
- Respect Claim Protections: Bypassing private container protections of others is prohibited.
- Trusted players must adhere to claim owner instructions in builds they are trusted in.
- Claiming Etiquette: Claiming builds or containers of other players is not allowed under any circumstances.
- No Lavacasting: Intentional lavacasting to disrupt someone's build is subject to staff discretion and may result in punishment.
- Redstone and Server Integrity: Pointless redstone loops or item droppers are not allowed and will be removed. Any contraptions designed to intentionally slow down or crash the server or a player's client are strictly prohibited.
- Chat Rule Adherence: Builds violating chat rules, including sexual or racist content, are not allowed.
- No Nether Portal Trapping: Trapping players through Nether portals is not allowed.
- No Building Above the Nether: Construction above the Nether is not permitted.
- End Griefing Prohibition: Intentional griefing of the End is strictly prohibited and will result in punishment.
- No Bedrock Exploits: Breaking bedrock by any method or exploit is illegal and will be harshly punished.
PVP Rules:
- No PvP Toxicity: Toxic behavior related to PvP is not allowed; maintain sportsmanship.
- No Use of Pets in PvP Arenas: Usage of pets in PvP arenas is not permitted.
- No Exploiting Glitches: Exploiting glitches to gain unfair advantages in combat is strictly prohibited.
- No Teleporting to Kill: Teleporting players without their knowledge of where the teleport leads to kill them is not allowed.
- Fair Potion Use: Use potions in a fair and non-exploitative manner during PvP encounters.
- No Spawn Camping: Avoid camping spawn points to give players a fair chance to gear up.
- No Use of Unfair Mods: Usage of mods that provide unfair advantages in PvP is not allowed.
- No Trapping Players Unfairly: Unfair trapping of players, such as spawn trapping or creating inescapable situations, is prohibited.
- No Abusing PvP Mechanics: Abusing in-game PvP mechanics to gain an unfair advantage is not allowed.
- No Disruptive PvP Behavior: Disruptive behavior, including excessive griefing during PvP, is not permitted.
- Respect PvP Rules in Designated Areas: Follow additional PvP rules set for designated areas within the server.
Note: These PvP rules are established to ensure fair and enjoyable player versus player interactions in the survival game mode. Violations may result in appropriate penalties determined by staff.
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.
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.