To provide an optimal experience, these rules have been created to make the game as fair and enjoyable as possible. The rules are subject to change at any time. Any alterations will be announced on Discord. 

Rule Information:

• Punishments can be appealed on Discord by raising an “Appeal” ticket.

• If you have any questions please raise a ticket on Discord.

• When appealing, stating that a rule is not listed or you were not aware of it as a reason to do it will not be classed as a valid reason and your punishment will not change.

• Encouraging any sort of punishable offense will result in you being punished.

• Faction Strikes will reduce f top Value after 3 Strikes are reached. 

• If any rule is broken, that player or offending party will be punished. The punishment is specified in this document or under the discretion of an administrator.

• It is the responsibility of the player to be knowledgeable of the rules and to stay updated if the rules are changed.

• All listed offense durations and actions are standard procedures and are always subject to staff discretion. If staff feel your case deserves a longer or lesser punishment, they reserve the right to issue as such.

Chat Rules

Spam/Encouraging Spam: 
Repeating the same messages, flooding chat, repeating random characters. This also includes; TPA spam, private message spam, faction command spam and KOTH capture spam etc.

English in Chat: 
Our staff primarily speak English, we request that English be used in chat. Players who wish to speak other languages are able to do so via private message or faction chat.

Advertising: 
Putting a link/IP in chat that relates to another server. Youtube content related to Mineage should be posted in the #Media channel on discord, not in chat. You will be punished depending on the type of advertisement.

Releasing Personal Info: 
Do not release personal information on another player, how you gained this information does not matter and will still result in a ban without question. This includes; Last Name, Address, Phone Number, Email or any Information regarding other Family Relations or Significant Others.

Malicious Threats:
We take threats seriously, whether it be in-game or Discord. Examples include; Doxing, Denial of Service Attack, Hijacking, Hacking Accounts, Death Threats or Insinuating.

Punishment Evasion:
Attempting to evade punishments such as mutes or bans using another account will lead to your current punishment being doubled on both accounts.

Racism, Discrimination and Derogatory Remarks: 
The use of extreme discriminative or racist language, including slurs is not allowed.  This rule includes using [item] with a disrespectful/racist name.

Sexual Harassment/Remarks: 
Sexually harassing any member of the community will not be tolerated.

Gameplay Rules

Unfair Advantages and Hacking: 
Any form of client or external programs that may provide you with an unfair advantage over other players or provide additional help in or outside of combat. The punishment given will vary depending on the unfair advantage / hacks used.

Fly Boost:
Flyboosting any faster than 2x speed is forbidden.

Exploiting in any way shape or form / gameplay intent: 
Abusing plugins or systems for their unintended purpose or exploiting in any way. Exploiting, duping or anything that affords you an unfair advantage. This rule is highly situational and punishments may vary.

Aiding A Cheater: 
Aiding a rule breaker or cheater by any means. Including but is not limited to; Providing a cheater with gear, pvping with a cheater(allying or trucing). Failing to report a cheater to staff.

Automated Work: (Automation)
This rule is all-encompassing meaning you are not allowed to tape down your mouse, setup macros/scripts or anything that is not you performing the actions. This also includes any form of mouse modification like physical autoclickers or double-clicking tools.

Abusing A Glitch/Bug: 
Using our server’s plugins or features in a way that they are not intended to be used is forbidden. This includes game freezing. If any bugs are found, they should be reported directly to staff. The punishment will depend on the severity of the bug abused.

Causing Lag: 
Examples include lag machines, automatic farms, or throwing large amounts of items on the ground.

Selling Items (IRL Trading): 
You are not allowed to trade for/with PayPal or Crypto etc.

Forging Proof: (Forging)
Attempting to get a player punished for a rule they did not break by creating fake evidence by editing screenshots or a video in any way. This applies to all types of forging proof for any circumstance.

Insiding:
Insiding a faction is not allowed. This includes but is not limited to: stealing items, unclaiming bases, fake wall checks, sabotaging the faction in any way. (This also includes joining a faction on an alt with the intent to hack and get banned inside that faction)

Faction/Base Rules

Factions Merging:
Merging two factions for the purpose of getting a higher spot on f top is not allowed. Merging before grace ends is allowed but any other merges have to be approved by staff with one faction giving up their value. (This includes allowing another faction to raid you then joining them after)

1st Offense: Value removed and a Faction Strike
2nd Offense: Admin discretion

Protecting/Destroying Value:
Blocking up your spawners with blocks/water is not allowed. If a faction breaches the box with spawners illegally protected they receive all those spawners. Destroying value in order to prevent the raiding faction from getting it is also not allowed.

1st Offense: All protected or destroyed value given to the raiding faction and 1 faction strike
2nd Offense: Admin discretion based on severity

Bitch claiming:
Claiming right next to someone's base to prevent them from getting their full buffer claim is not allowed during grace. If there are multiple claims in a corner; the faction holding the true corner claim will receive it.

1st Offense: Unclaiming/damage rolled back and 1 Warning.
2nd Offense: Unclaiming/damage rolled back and 1 Faction Strike.

TnT Detectors:
Using any modification or construct that allows or could allow the detection of TNT is prohibited. Redstone must not be placed on or near the walls of a base. Being AFK on or near walls for more than 5 minutes is also prohibited.

1st Offense: Warning (Redstone Removed)
2nd Offense: 1 Day Temporary Ban (Redstone Removed)
3rd Offense: +1 Faction Strike & 3 Day Temporary Ban (Redstone Removed)
4th Offense: +1 Faction Strike & 7 Day Temporary Ban (Redstone Removed)

Patching:
Using sandbots or gen buckets to patch while on raid timer is not allowed.

1st Offense: Rollback of all patches, faction strike, and a 7d player ban.
2nd Offense: Admin discretion

Buffer Claims:

• A maximum buffer of 12 chunks is allowed. This allows for a max of 96 Walls. 

• Bases are not allowed to be within 30 chunks of another faction's buffer. The space between each buffer claim may only contain raid claims. Any base built for the purpose of extending a factions buffer will be removed.

1st Offense: Faction Leader Warning (Extra claims or walls will be removed)
2nd Offense: +1 Faction Strike

Faction Bases:

• Bases that are in line with each other on the same axis must be further than 100 chunks away.

• Cobweb walls are prohibited

• Factions can only have 1 base

• Factions holding multiple corners will have excess corners removed

1st Offense: Faction Leader Warning (Claims or Base moved)
2nd Offense: +1 Faction Strike (Claims & Base in breach of the rule removed)

CrossTeaming:
Teaming with another faction or player outside of your own for any reason is not allowed.

All offences: The punishment for this offense will be based upon how egregious the incident is based on the staff member's discretion. Punishments can range from warnings to temporary bans for all knowingly involved parties.

Raid Interference:
Only the raiding and defending faction are allowed to be at the base or cannon during the raid. Interference can include but is not limited to:

• Standing on the raiding factions cannon box
• Helping the defending faction in any way
• Being at the walls or base while another faction has a raid timer.
• Blocking the raiding factions cannon
• Holding a faction on raid timer with the purpose of preventing another faction from raiding.

Punishments: (Depends on the severity, can include) Faction strikes, Temp bans, and Rollbacks

Faction Wide Cheating: 
A faction is disqualified if 3 of their f roster players receive a ban. This includes bans from cheating of any kind or ban evasion bans.

• Any attempt to circumvent the 3-ban system will be punished accordingly. Disqualification involves a removal of all placed/hidden value of all faction members and the faction being disbanded.
• Joining a faction with the intent to give them a cheating ban is considered insiding and if proven the ban will be added to the insiding faction instead. 

Faction Strikes:
Upon receiving 3 strikes, a Faction is disqualified. Disqualification involves a removal of all placed/hidden value of all faction members and the faction being disbanded.

Raiding/Cannoning Rules

Wall Breaching:
A cannon can only break 1 wall at a minimum of 10s per wall. In the event that the defending faction has built filters or anything besides a conventional watered wall and it is skipped by the raiding faction, the 10s breach timer can be ignored for that wall. Filters are built at the risk of the defending faction.

1st Offense: Warning (Raid cancelled, damage rolled back)
2st Offense: +1 Faction Strike & 3 Day Temporary Ban *For All Involved* (Raid canceled, damage rolled back + cannon removed)
3nd Offense: +1 Faction Strike & 7 Day Temporary Ban *For All Involved* (Raid canceled, damage rolled back + cannon removed)

Raid claims:
The maximum raid claim (can extend 1 claim line 5 chunks on each side for adjust) size is a 6x6 with only 2 being allowed per side. Raid claims made without the intent to use them will cause them to be unclaimed by staff.

1st Offense: Extra claims removed and 1 Warning.
2nd Offense: Extra claims removed and 1 Faction Strike.

Cannon Box:
Cannon boxes can only have a base layer wall with water + 1 chunk of walls with water. With the addition of 1 reverse layer. You are not allowed to patch past these walls. If the extra walls prevent the cannon from being breached the raid will be cancelled and all damage rolled back.

1st Offense: Warning (Extra walls removed)
2nd Offense: +1 Faction Strike (Extra walls removed)

Counter Cannons:
Only 1 counter is allowed in your buffer per side with a maximum of 2 chunks of defenses.  Any counter cannons built outside of your buffer are subject to the Cannon Box rules.

1st Offense: Extra defences removed and up to Admin discretion on its impact. 

A faction must wait 20 minutes between the last shot of one counter cannon to switch to another before firing. If this is broken, any damage done to the raiding cannon will be fixed and any patches done to the base will be removed.

Disallowed Cannons
(Note: only 1 cannon is allowed per raid timer, if you wish to switch cannons you must wait for their grace period to end.)

• Horizontal nukes

• Rev nukes

• Push Nukes

• Mid-air cannons

• Wall removers

• U-Fusions

• Any cannon that overstacks more than 8 blocks

• Any cannon that fires above y255 or below y1

• Left/Right Shooting

• Worm cannons

• Any pseudo cannon that makes purposefully makes multiple holes per shot
  
  
  

1st Offense: Admin discretion

Allowed Clients

• Lunar

• Orbit

• ReplayMod

• Badlion

• Falcun

• LabyMod

• Feather

• Essentials

• Alpine