Community Rules

• 2.1 — Chat Spamming & Flooding: Do not flood public chat with repeated messages, excessive uppercase characters (CAPS), rapid copy-pasting, ASCII art, or unnecessary command outputs.
• 2.2 — English in Global Chat: Global chat must remain in English so moderators can supervise the community effectively. Non-English conversations are welcome in private messages (/msg), town chat (/tc), nation chat (/nc), or party chat (/pc).
• 2.3 — Advertising & External Links: Promoting or advertising other Minecraft servers, realm IPs, non-TickMC Discord servers, or commercial businesses in public chat, signs, books, or player private DMs is strictly forbidden.
• 2.4 — Inappropriate & NSFW Topics: Explicit sexual discussions, drug abuse references, graphic violence, political arguments, and controversial religious debates are disallowed in all public channels. Keep the atmosphere welcoming to players of all ages.
• 2.5 — Proximity Voice Chat Conduct: If using proximity voice chat, soundboards, mic spamming, ear rape, high-frequency screaming, or playing copyrighted/offensive music in public gatherings is strictly prohibited.
• 2.6 — Filter Evasion: Bypassing the chat filter using creative spacing, special characters, abbreviations, or foreign language slurs will be met with immediate mutes or bans.

TickMC strictly enforces fair play. Any client modification, macro, or hardware script that gives an unfair advantage over vanilla players is prohibited.

• 3.1 — Bug, Glitch & Duplication Exploitation: Discovering and using any item duplication glitch, economy exploit, bedrock breaking exploit, or plugin loophole is strictly forbidden. Players must report game-breaking bugs immediately to staff via Discord tickets. Players who responsibly disclose zero-day exploits may receive in-game reward bounties.
• 3.2 — Mod Responsibility: You are responsible for all mods loaded into your client. Saying "I didn't know this mod had an illegal feature" will not excuse a ban.

• 4.1 — Protected Land & Wilderness Policy: You are required to protect your builds and chests using Towny land claims. While wilderness exploration and harvesting are permitted, senseless wilderness griefing (e.g. lava casting, cobble monstering, destroying public pathways) is strictly punishable.
• 4.2 — Claim Boxing & Spite Claiming: Intentionally claiming plots immediately adjacent to a neighboring town's borders to entrap them, obstruct natural expansion, or extort money is prohibited. Towns must maintain a reasonable buffer unless agreed upon in writing between mayors.
• 4.3 — Landscape Defacement & Cobble Monsters: Creating giant cobble monsters, massive lava casts, continuous water towers, floating 1x1 dirt pillars, or excavating obscene chunk art is forbidden and will be rolled back with player penalties.
• 4.4 — Mayor Responsibilities & Resident Eviction: Mayors have authority over plot zoning and internal town laws. However, mayors may not kick residents intentionally to steal their storage containers or escrow deposits without giving a reasonable grace period (minimum 24 hours notice) for the player to collect their belongings.
• 4.5 — Town & Nation Names: Town and nation names must follow community standards. Offensive, derogatory, or hateful town names will be forcibly renamed or deleted without compensation.

• 5.1 — Fair Combat & Combat Logging: Quitting the game (disconnecting), teleporting out using unintended glitches, or abusing safezone boundaries while in active PvP combat is prohibited. Our combat tag plugin will automatically kill players who disconnect during battle.
• 5.2 — Teleport Trapping & Deceptive Portals: Luring players via /tpa or advertising safe trading and subsequently dropping them into lava, void, fall traps, or suffocating chambers ("TP-Trapping") is strictly forbidden. Unsafe Nether/End portals designed to trap players in bedrock or death pits are also prohibited.
• 5.3 — Spawn Camping & Harassment: Repeatedly killing freshly spawned players at server warps, public spawn hubs, or bed respawns without giving them an opportunity to leave or prepare is considered targeted griefing.
• 5.4 — Town PvP Flags: Respect town PvP toggle flags. Abusing permissions to circumvent a town's PvP safety protections will result in moderation action.

• 6.1 — Scamming & Deceptive Trades: Scamming players out of in-game currency, items, or claimed plots through deceptive agreements, false promises, or bait-and-switch tactics is forbidden. Always use official trading systems like /auction or Chest Shops.
• 6.2 — Real World Trading (RWT) & Cross-Trading: Buying, selling, or offering to trade in-game currency, items, rank keys, accounts, or towns for real-world money (PayPal, Crypto, Venmo, CashApp), external gift cards, or items on other games/servers is strictly prohibited and results in an immediate permanent blacklist.
• 6.3 — Fake Item Fraud & Auction House Abuse: Renaming cheap items using an anvil to mimic rare custom items or vote keys to deceive buyers on the Auction House is punishable. Do not use the Auction House for obscene item names or spamming the server announcements.
• 6.4 — Chargebacks & Payment Fraud: Disputing or charging back any purchase made on our official server store will cause all linked Minecraft and Discord accounts to be automatically blacklisted permanently.

• 7.1 — Account Responsibility: You are 100% accountable for all actions performed under your Minecraft account. Excuses such as "my brother/friend used my computer" or "my account was hacked" will not be accepted during ban reviews. Keep your account credentials secure.
• 7.2 — Alternative Accounts (Alts) & Ban Evasion: Players are permitted a maximum of 1 alt account for storage or builder assistance. Using alternative accounts to evade mutes/bans, farm daily starter kits, boost vote rewards, or bypass player caps is strictly banned and results in all accounts being permanently suspended.
• 7.3 — Lag Machines & Redstone Clocks: Creating intentional lag machines, rapid unthrottled redstone pulsers, chunk-loading loops, or cascading water/sand drops intended to reduce server TPS is forbidden. Unoptimized continuous redstone must include a manual shut-off switch.
• 7.4 — Excessive Entity Cramming & Mob Farms: To maintain high TPS, massive mob clustering that exceeds server limits in a single chunk will be cleared automatically without item refunds. Design farms responsibly.
• 7.5 — AFK Circumvention: Using physical weights, auto-reconnect macros, or continuous AFK pool exploits to bypass server auto-kick timers is disallowed.

• 8.1 — Staff Discretion & Authority: Staff members are appointed to maintain a healthy community and have the final authority to interpret rules and apply appropriate disciplinary actions based on context and severity.
• 8.2 — Player Reports: To report a rule violator, use the in-game command /report [player] [reason] or submit a Discord ticket with clear, uncropped screenshots or full video evidence (with F3 timestamps).
• 8.3 — Official Appeals Process: If you believe a punishment was applied in error or wish to appeal after serving part of your term, submit a formal appeal ticket on our Discord Server. Arguing with staff in public chat channels will void your appeal rights.
• 8.4 — False Reports & Staff Slander: Submitting fake reports, fabricated screenshots, or publicly slandering staff members will result in severe penalties.