Rules

Rules

The PirateCraft rules are based around common sense and fairness, this page outlines the most common rules Interpretation and enforcement is down to the discretion of the PirateCraft Staff Team.

This page is not intended to be a full and final list of every existing rule and possible case. The staff team reserves the right to judge each case individually and punish or forgive at their discretion. These rules apply to all areas including Discord (where applicable).

Rules can change at any time, rules are also available in-game at/rules.

You are responsible for all activity on your account and from your IP. The use of alternate accounts is forbidden.

If you are in doubt if something is allowed, ask aStaff memberas aprivate support ticket,DiscordorForums. This allows us to correct any mistaken answers from players.

Use your common sense, if something seems like it shouldn’t be allowed it most likely isn’t!

If you have an issue with a player you can report them privately to staff by creating asupport ticket.

General Rules

• Be polite & respectful to players AND staff
  1. WeDO NOTtolerate poor attitude or disruptive behaviour.
• No Instigating, trolling, harassing, stalking, bullying
  1. Do not copy usernames of players
  2. Do not attack/pester a players or staff repeatedly
  3. Do not disparage or agitate players or staff
  4. Do not threaten players or staff
• Staff decisions are final
  1. Do not contest or harass staff members over punishments.
  2. Lost goods will not be replenished, do not beg or ask stafffor replacements
  3. Do not attempt to bypass a punishment by private messaging another staff member
• Do not game stats, bounties, or abuse game mechanics.
  1. Do not let yourself be killed by allies or crew members to claim bounties.
  2. Do not abuse game or plugin mechanics for uses they were not intended.
  3. Do not duplicate anything, if you find a dupe exploitcreate a ticket, we will reward you for reporting!
  4. Do not abuse shop signs to steal a player’s balance.
  5. Contributors: Do not /back after pvp-related deaths/suicides (including end crystal bombing).
• Do not sell in-game items or money for real-life money or trades.
• Do not impersonate staff
• Do not report or message staff with false accusations
  1. Do not abuse the reporting system or communication with staff to settle a spat with another player.
• Do not use Alternate Accounts
  1. Do not avoid Punishments with Alts.
  2. Do not use Alts to own multiple shops
  3. Do not use Alts to spy on enemy crews, steal items, gain access, or perform actions you would not be able to on your main account.
  4. Do not flood the server with lots of bots
  5. If you play on the same internet connection as friends or family, please feel free to pre-warn staff in asupport ticketso you are not flagged as using alts.
• Use common sense.
  1. These rules aren’t exhaustive; if something doesn’t appear in these rules but seems like its illegal then it probably is!
• Do not create machines that cause lag to the server or peoples clients, Do not exploit plugins to cause TPS drops.
  1. Anything that causes significant TPS or FPS lag such as large redstone contraptions may be removed by staff.
  2. Excessive gigantic farms that create TPS drops may be removed by staff.

Chat Rules

• Keep everything displayed in chat PG-13 at all times.
  1. This includes but not limited to; Crew chat, private messages, crew names, weapon names, usernames.
  2. No swearing, this includes the use of abbreviations that contain swearing
  3. No racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-religion or otherwise offensive content – we have zero-tolerance for hate speech
  4. No overly political or religious topics
  5. No spamming
  6. No arguing
  7. No unnecessary use of uppercase
  8. No trolling or any form of intentionally misleading other players
• Keep chat readable and non-toxic.
  1. English in global, please. Our team cannot moderate multiple languages.
  2. Write in full sentences&Do not spam chat with the same message over and over
  3. Do not bypass or abuse the chat filter.
  4. Do not slander players or the PirateCraft Team.
• Do not cause drama in public chats. Divert your complaints to eithersupportor theforums.
  1. Anyone participating but not limited to word-sniping, bickering, pettiness, will be muted/kicked on the spot. Insistence on participation in drama will result in a ban.
• Do not share private information with other players.
  1. Do not dox players.
• No advertising at all(that includes other servers)
  1. An exception to this is self-promoting Twitch or YouTube channels when they create PirateCraft content
     Self-promotion is limited to once every 30 minutes. Please do not spam advertise.

Building & Claiming Rules

• Only claim land intended for use.
  1. Try to move away from the eyesight of spawn, warps, and other players before claiming & building.
  2. Claiming land can’t be used as a tool or weapon against someone else.
  3. Do not claim land to siege or block a player.
  4. Do not sethome for intentions of raiding or killing another player. Only set home’s you intend to use for a home.
• Griefing partially allowed in small quantities, but is frowned upon.
  1. Rule of thumb is to claim the land you want, then it can’t be griefed.
  2. You can request land beregeneratedon the forums.
  3. Rollbacks are possible but have to berequested in a ticket. Rollbacks are only granted for catastrophic loss, for an exmaple an entire city.
• Do not manipulate the contents of claims through the use of ships/gates.
  1. This includesbut not limited to;stealing chests or parts of buildings or opening iron doors through the use of ships.
  2. Stealing unlocked ships is allowed.
• No offensive structures.
  1. This includes but not limited to;phallic structures, symbols, and signs.
• No building outside of worlds (Not on top of nether).
  1. You are strictly prohibited from building on top or underneath worlds.
• Strictly no AFK pools or farms.
  1. This includesbut not limited to;auto-fishing farms and enderpearl farms.
• Box bases need to be built underground
  1. If you plan to live in a square box, it needs to be hidden underground to not be an eyesore for players around you.
• You are allowed to be creative with using the Ship plugin for vehicles other than ships, but no airships!
  1. For example, you can create turrets, cranes, trains!

Glitching, Resource Pack & Client Rules

Please play fairly.

• Do not hack, cheat, or use glitches.
  1. If you find an exploitable glitch, create asupport ticket.
  2. Items lost to glitches will not be replaced.
• Do not use any Minecraft client mods
  1. This includes but not limited to;X-ray, schematica, replay mod, pvp mods, etc.
  2. Hacked/modded clients such as Baritone arestrictlyforbidden.
  3. Youcan use approved modssuch as Optifine
• Resource Packs should be limited to only aesthetic changes.
  1. Resource packs that give you any sort of advantage in PVP are forbidden.
  2. X-ray Resource packs are strictly forbidden.

Public Shop & Warp Rules

• Killing AFK people in public warps is allowed – be careful!
  1. Do not AFK in public warps expecting to be safe
  2. Goods lost in public warps will not be replenished.
• Traps, Cannons, villager breeders, mob farms and beacons are not allowed at shops
  1. You can create attractions like theme parks or bars!
  2. You can use the big doors plugin for your shops! /doors
• Renting shops in order to sell them for profit is not allowed.
  1. Shops are reserved for people that want to rent one
• Do not create fake shop signs to scam players
  1. This includes but not limited to;creating fake rent signs.
• Do not create flashing lights or noteblock songs at shops
  1. Shops are a shared space, so we can’t have obnoxious visuals or sounds.
• You can be evicted from your shop for being inactive or breaking the shop rules to allow someone else to use your rented space.
  1. Shops that don’t sell anything for a long period of time will be unrented for someone else to use.

Punishments

Punishments can be singular or a mix of punishments based on the context of the rule-breaking this can include Jailed, Kicked, Warnings, Temp Mute, Being Lockered, Permanent Mute, Name changed, Permissions removed, Temp Ban, Permanent Ban, Stats & Rank changed.

By breaking the rules and being banned, you forfeit your right to keep your belongings and these may be removed.

Appealing

Bans and temp bans can beappealed on the forums. Other forms of punishment cannot be appealed and will be denied.

Do not private message staff requesting a punishment be removed, all requests need to be public on the forums.

What is the Locker?

The locker is a bespoke punishment on PirateCraft. The concept is based around “Davy Jones’ Locker”, a purgatory world where you can’t talk or run commands, you can only do one thing, break and place sand.

If you are sent to the Locker, you will need to break sand and exchange this sand for “Sand dollars” with Davy Jones on the pirate ship that you spawn on, this is the way you pay your way out of the locker.

• You get a fresh empty inventory in the Locker world
• There is no food or tools in the Locker.
• You cant talk or use commands in the Locker.
• You have to get yourself out of the Locker by collecting sand and paying your way out with Sand Dollars, there is no other way out of the Locker.
• You can be sent back into the locker to have to pay a higher sand dollar cost!
• The locker can be seen on thelive map.

Punishment Checker

Check any players history of warnings, bans, mutes and kicks frompunishment checker.