All rules documented here apply to the Competitive Factions realm and only this realm on the Mineage network. Everything within the document can be changed without warning at any time. Changes will be documented in our Discord server. Our staff team as well as players must keep themselves updated. Being unaware or oblivious to rules is not our responsibility and punishments will be enforced either way.
If you need support or further elaboration check the bottom of the document or open a ticket in our Discord. When playing on our network, you agree to follow the rules laid out in this rulebook. Failure to do so will lead to punishments as listed in the document.
Rules and the associated punishments are able to be changed, removed and added at any time by the administration team. Changes to the rules will be displayed in the changelog channel in the discord as soon as possible.
Staff who are ScreenShare verified have the right to freeze you at any time and for any reason. If you do not comply with their requests then the punishments below will be given out. Staff will record ScreenShares so that they may provide proof if requested by the player and to provide proof if the player believes the staff member abused their power within the ss to do something such as IP grabbing, downloading Viruses or anything along those lines.
Strikeable offences will only be dealt with by the Strike team and Management. While punishments listed below are a guideline administrators and management may choose to increase/decrease punishments based on situations that occur. Any form of rule bending will result in severe punishment.
All bans longer than 24h count as a faction ban unless otherwise noted on this document.
You must have 15 chunks of walls plus a base with a minimum size 3x3 chunks. Failure to do so will make you ineligible for payout.
All rules broken involving faction strikes will be dealt with by the strike team. All Strike related rules fall under the discretion of the strike team AT ALL TIMES.
If a faction forgets to set up their base correctly (base region, faction core, misprinted blocks, forgetting an open hole in their base), that will be classified as player error and a rollback will not be imposed.
If a rule is broken to "Save" your base, the base's value will be given to the raiding faction. (Decision will be made by management).
Value deductions will be done at the end of the map
Advertising is not tolerated anywhere. This includes but is not limited to public chat, messages, faction descriptions or faction chat. It is the act of attempting to get other players to join another server through sending a link to that server's discord, website or the store. You may also not advertise any type of hacked client. You're allowed to speak about other server events. Recruitments for faction discords are allowed.
Spamming excessively, anything of the same or similar content more than 5 times in a short amount of time, is not allowed and the following punishments will apply to those that break this rule. If the chat flood consists of something that is not spoken via sending a message like spamming commands then the below punishment lengths will apply but will be a ban instead of a mute.
Any negative comments towards people sexuality or race will result into a punishment
Telling someone to kill themselves is strictly disallowed.
The act of doxing, ddosing or swatting will NOT be tolerated. You are also not allowed to post your "own" information, fake information, or any "public" information, not including first names. If anyone makes a threat towards you in private messages, please make a ticket on our discord so a Sr. Mod+ can verify. Any sort of joking with malicious intentions about this matter is also punishable. Any sort of discussions about doxxing of a player, whether past/present are also strictly prohibited. Each instance of this rule is handled on a case by case basis, with the final decision left to the discretion of the senior administration/management team. All proof must be submitted within 48 hours of it happening.
If you suspect and have sufficient evidence that a player is attempting to or has ddosed then PM it to a SrAdmin+ and they will act accordingly. We will not act on things done in OTHER discords or other servers or PMS to an extent. If it happens on the Mineage discord or server then you will be punished. All cases of this will be taken case by case and ALL cases will be handled and dealt with at admin+ discretion. This includes messaging your friend in-game.
Using any kind of hacked client that gives you unfair advantage is strictly disallowed.
Allying or teaming with players from other factions or with factionless players is NOT allowed. This includes multiple factions targeting another faction or player for a certain amount of time, teaming with other factions or players in events. It also includes members from different factions farming/grinding next to each other in a PvP area.
You may not use Alt accounts, Alt Factions or Wilderness accounts to bypass any of the rules or to gain an unfair advantage. Alt accounts are only allowed for AFK-ing spawners and farms and can only be part of a faction as an /f alt
The use of an Autoclicker (left click & right click) is allowed at a capped CPS of 15. Anything further will result in an automatic ban. Being on a hack client and stating you are only using the autoclicker function is not a valid excuse and will result in a ban..
Any form of using lava and water to create a cobblestone structure, which was made to cause harm or frustration for the other faction is not allowed. You also may not obstacles on the server by spamming gen buckets, blocks, or liquids (E.g. making a wall all around spawn so players cannot exit warzone). This also includes cobble monstering/obstructing cannon boxes, potential raid claim, or potential anti raid claim locations.
Freezing your Minecraft client is not allowed.
Using FlyBoost is allowed but only up to 2x of your normal flying speed. Anything higher will result in the following punishments
If players have not reported a bug, and are abusing it to harm other players experience or use it for personal gain, this violates our rule. If a faction uses a bug or exploit to gain access to a faction's base, this is also punishable. This includes trying to duplicate or exploit items, value or money.
If a player is caught giving value or grinding outside a faction and sharing it with someone who is inside a faction will receive a punishment.
Insiding is classified as taking value from your faction, taking items, teleporting members into your base or farm, teleporting enemies into cannon boxes, giving factions information about your base, unclaiming warzone traps, etc. If a player places a spawner in a faction's territory, it is now owned by the faction and not the player. Players who betray their faction in a way that does not affect their f top value (e.g. stealing armor or tools) will not be punished by staff. However, if f-top value (e.g. money or spawners) is stolen, it is considered insiding. If a faction gets insided by another faction, the faction that conducted the inside will have to compensate the faction that was insided for all their missing value.
Leeching a raid is not allowed at all. This means you may not take from the contents of a base if another faction is raiding it. All value gained from the leechers will be removed and given to the raiding faction. This offense must be either spectated by staff or recorded.
You are not allowed to merge factions, this includes but is not limited to transferring faction wealth, value, items, gear or players between them.
You may only have one trap claim per side of the warzone, and it may be 5x5 chunks maximum.
Once you leave a current faction you are allowed to join any other factions. But if you are caught joining back to the original faction you will receive a punishment. You are also not allowed to be playing in two different faction using alts. You must play on your original account throughout the whole map.
Intentionally trapping another player with a gen/patch bucket, printer, or with a lever is not allowed. This includes intentionally placing genbuckets or lava on top of other players or anything related to getting them stuck inside blocks. This Also includes using Sand bots to trap someone. You may print back in your buffer counter, and the box (1 wall) containing it. This is the only exception to this rule.
Using any type of block or item to block or cover your spawners so they're unable to be creeper egged or blown up by TNT or obtained is not allowed. This includes placing spawners in any unattainable location such as the world border or in boxes that aren't used for the purpose of grinding them. (4 sides of the spawners must not be protected by anything)
Block glitching is not allowed, and is classified as breaking a block to quickly hit a player behind that block (e.g., hitting through doors, fence gates, or any other block). You are also not allowed to place blocks to "glitch up" to a point you would otherwise be unable to reach (e.g., spamming blocks underneath you and jumping upwards to reach a 2 block high ledge).
Hiding / Mining / Burning value at any point of the map is not allowed. Hiding and mining spawners will be allowed during grace. Must place back up once tnt enables.
A raid is deemed a legal raid if tnt breaks the base shell wall while abiding by all other rules. The use of alternate accounts or faction alts, insiding, glitching, bug abuse and more are not allowed.
If you get frozen by staff you have to join the SS Waiting Room on our discord server within 3 minutes and follow staff instructions. Failing to do so will result in a 7 day ban. If you admit using a hacked client or any other type of cheating your punishment will be reduced to 2 days.
You are not allowed to use any kind of scripts to automate farming/grinding of value. Using the F11 trick to farm cane with less user input is allowed. You can't AFK F11 (2m). You are not allowed to use multiple accounts/alts to f11 farm. You're not allowed to automate farming/grinding value at all. You must be on your PC/Laptop while grinding. You are not allowed to abuse cane fast growth.
If you are banned, you are not allowed to play on alts or other accounts. If a blacklist player is evading, the account he's on while also be blacklisted and the faction will be striked.
You are allowed to use Schematics Printer only inside your faction claims. You are not allowed to printer/gen while being shot at or before 5 minutes have passed since the last shot. You are also not allowed to use printer to escape from a fight or trap a player.
Cannons that you use must abide by the following rules. Breaking any of the following rules will result in Admin discretion for a faction and a Map ban for a player that made a cannon. Rollback will occur if raiding faction breached a base with illegal cannon, as well as if defending faction breached a raiding cannon with illegal cannon.
Exception to above punishments are cannons/contraptions intentionally made to lag the server. Punishment for that will be a blacklist ban for a player that made it and 4 faction strikes for the faction (if the player is part of the faction). Trying to bypass any of these rules will result in the same punishment.
Raiding cannons as well as counter cannons must follow cannon speed rule, 2 second rule for raiding cannons, and 3 second rule for counter cannons (i.e., one wall broken for every three seconds) on our competitive factions realm. You may make use of a lever to create an automatic cannon (i.e., holding down the button is not required, a redstone clock attached to a cannon can be enabled or disabled at any time during a raid, at any y level).
Left/Right shooting are ALLOWED BUT NOT midairing . You are NOT ALLOWED to left/right shoot cannon boxes or side boxes.
Any cannon that is able to adjust twice (for e.g. Ufusions) are NOT ALLOWED.
Any cannon that uses an external barrel outside of a cannon box is NOT ALLOWED. You must be able to access the entire cannon once you breach the box.
Any cannon that shoots sand or TNT at or above y254.0 is NOT ALLOWED.
Horizontal nukes (i.e. Wall removers, T-Nukers) are NOT ALLOWED.
Reverse nukes are NOT ALLOWED at all.
Any cannon that shoots through more than 1 wall or reverse layer per button press or clock pulse is NOT ALLOWED.
Any cannon that uses any form of a push nuke or creates more than a 5 wide hole on a watered wall is NOT ALLOWED or behind the initial shot/ follow up shot. This rule must be followed on all type of cannons not just "push nuke" mechanism. (Ex. Tunneler)
Worm cannons (cannons that horizontally stack sand) are NOT ALLOWED.
Overstackers are allowed, however you can only overstack a maximum of 6 blocks (the overstacker sand / height is recognised by any sand above the height of the initial sand stack) UNLESS you are shooting through rev layers from below (in which case there is no maximum overstacking limit). You MAY use overstackers for countering.
You may only have a maximum of 3000 TNT used per cannon.
You may NOT shoot at anything using a float in wilderness or other factions claims. This means you may NOT shoot at bases, buffer counters, side counters or anything else using a wilderness float. Your cannon must be fully claimed and cannot be in wilderness.
Chimney cannons are NOT ALLOWED.
Any sort of web bust AP and TnT array are NOT ALLOWED.
Any sort of 360 cannons are NOT ALLOWED.
The limit on cannon speed does not apply to any cannon that stacks less than 10 sand and is not adjusted above y10, up to a minimum of 0.1 seconds per wall. This same minimum speed limit applies if a raider opts to 1 stack a faction and then reverse hybrid. However, the cannon speed limit of 2 seconds must be respected when shooting at any reverse layers above y15. You must wait at least 10 seconds between 10 stackers and reverse cannons.
You must wait 5 minutes before switching from a cannon that shoots below y10 to a cannon that shoots above y10.
For more info about Raiding and Defending check #5 - Raiding & Defending Rules
The maximum amount of buffer a faction is allowed to have is 17 chunks (136 walls) on the competitive factions realm in each direction starting from the base shell. On buffer counters, you are allowed up to 4 chunks of walls (64 blocks from the outer shell of the counter box. which is 32 walls). You're only limited to 1 buffer counter per side. NO OCEANS ALLOWED. As well as no unbreakable blocks, regenerating walls, slime walls, any form of fences/gates and finnisters/anti nukes. This includes any forms of patching to create anti nukes of any sort.
You're allowed to build your base 3 chunks off border. Your base shell roof must be built at 254-255, with a 55 block length (going down). There must be a 100 chunk gap in between the end of a faction's buffer for their base and a neighboring base. This excludes your own faction having 2 bases next to each other which is NOT ALLOWED. Each faction may only have 1 base per quadrant, including farm claims (i.e., your cane farm may not be in the same quadrant as your base)
You may NOT design your base in a way that makes it unreachable via enderpearls (i.e., Large air gaps) all spawners must be creeper eggable. No slabs allowed in your base buffer.
Your base is only allowed to have 1 spawner box in total. So any spawners apart from blaze must be in just 1 box. This section must be covered by the same roof, and within the same outer base shell.
You are allowed a minimum of a 3x3 chunk base and a maximum of a 4x4 chunk base.
Your base must be from skylimit down to y 200 looking at. Meaning, your base has to be at least 55 blocks high.
A Faction may not have any water source "oceans" located anywhere in there buffer.
You may NOT counter using your buffer counters while on SHIELD or GRACE (Phase three).
Factions are only permitted one Buffer Counter box per side; This includes empty boxes. Under no circumstances are factions permitted to change the location of any buffer counter if they're off shield or if their shield disables in less than two hours. Note: 360 Counters are also not allowed.
You are allowed Only 1 base In TnT, Once TnT is enabled spawners placed in main base, becomes main base you may not switch bases or own multiple Bases, (In grace you may own as many bases you can create this rule only applies when TnT is enabled)
You are only allowed to fire at an enemy's cannon from TWO SIDE'S (left or right side of the cannon box) at any one given time. You must wait 7 minutes before switching to firing a second cannon side. You must wait for the raid timer to end to attempt again on another side. CLARIFCATION: YOU CANNOT FRONT OR BACK COUNTER.
Printer, genbucket or stacker wand patching whilst being shot at is NOT ALLOWED. You also CAN'T use sand bots to patch whilst being shot at. You must wait 5 minutes after the last shot (to gen/printer patch).
You are NOT ALLOWED to defend your buffer or cannon box by patching in wilderness outside of your claim.
A raid or countercannon attempt can ONLY be between 2 factions. Interfering with another faction's raid is classified as a third faction, party, or player that PvPs or "spectates" the raiding or the defending faction at the place of the raid, or interferes at any raid claims or counterclaims. You may not assist a faction in any way whilst they are raiding / being raided. You may not enter the raiding factions' cannon claims, defending factions side countered whilst they are shooting/being shot at, in person/in roam (i.e., checking buffers for other factions).
The maximum size of a raid claim is 15x15 with an additional 10c for a float (left/right). Raiding cannon must be inline with defending faction's base so it's breachable with defendings faction buffer counter
Raid claims must be used for the intent to raid the faction only. You are only permitted to have 2 raid claim per side of a base.
You are ALLOWED a maximum of 24 walls on each side of a cannon box excluding the cannon box shell. Anti nukes/finnster walls are also not allowed on cannon boxes. Anything that requires an additional shot to breach the cannon itself (i.e., Trap wall) will count as a wall. The following is NOT ALLOWED on cannon boxes: Water sourced blocks in between defenses (oceans), redstone defenses, regenerating walls, any block that sand cannot be stacked upon (i.e., banners, player heads, cactus, enchanting table). Adjust boxes do not count as a wall unless they cover more than 50% of the side / cannon box. You can only have your cannon box walls a maximum of 1 block apart (Staff team discretion).
If using a buffer cannon and want to switch to another (on another side of the base) you are freely allowed too. (i.e., if you are shooting with a buffer counter and want to switch to a side counter, you must wait 10 minutes , and Vis versa (switching from side to side you must wait 7 minutes)
When a faction is raiding another faction and they are 4 chunks or more into the base, that faction cannot be shot at by anybody else except the faction they are raiding. This doesn't include counter cannon buffer walls.
You are not allowed to sand wand an active TNT shot to prevent the shot from working.
Countering from the world border/any counter shooting from the world border side is NOT ALLOWED
Shooting from behind at a cannon box, left/right shooting a cannon box, adjusting behind a cannon box, wilderness floating or midairing a cannon box is NOT ALLOWED AT ALL.
You may NOT design your cannon box in a way that makes it unreachable via enderpearls (i.e., Large air gaps). You may not have gaps larger than 1 block between any cannon box walls that are directly in-line with your cannon box (this means you may have gaps larger than 1 block for traps near the corner of your cannon box, that are not directly in-line with it).
Setting up a cannon with the sole intent to shoot at another faction's base only a few times (or even once) to trigger a raid timer for that faction is not allowed (i.e., setting up a 40 stacker, shooting once and then leaving). This includes shooting at yourself with an alt faction to get a free shield.
You are only allowed to use your buffer counter to counter a raid attempt. You may not use your buffer counter to shoot at another faction's base, their counter cannon, or side counters. You can't shoot your buffer counter while you're on shield as well.
You may not have any sort of chimney buffer counter. Buffer counters with external barrels are also disallowed.
You are allowed 0 slabs on a side counter and a cannon box.
You are NOT allowed any PRESIDES.
You must wait until the raid timer ends to switch cannons when raiding a faction base. (You are allowed to shoot with the same cannon you were shooting with if you repair it before the raid timer ends)
You are only allowed a maximum of a 7x7 claim on a side counter cannon. With up to 8 walls defending your side counter box. Slabs are disallowed.
You are NOT allowed to back counter cannon boxes from behind. This Includes back countering side counters.
Raid claims must be used for the intent to raid the faction only. You are only permitted to have 2 raid claims per side of a base. This includes having multiple claims alongside your raid claims with the soul purpose of taking up space. (Claims must be actively being used with the purpose of siding a counter)
Whichever faction that claims the actual corner chunk first will own rights to that corner.
Your faction may only have 1 corner at a time.
Cheating to get a corner (i.e., using timer, speed hacks, or fly to get there before other players) will result in an unclaim.
Bitch claiming is NOT ALLOWED (intentionally claiming land near other factions base). After grace ends you are allowed to claim near a base only if the claim is intended for raiding the base or flying up the walls. Useless claims around a base will be unclaimed.
The raiding outpost rules are the same as the normal raiding rules as stated above besides the following exceptions:
The max size for a raiding outpost raid claim is 9x9.
You are NOT ALLOWED to defend raiding outpost outside of the "RaidOutpost" claims, meaning you may not extend walls. This includes patching an enemy factions float.
You are only allowed to fire at an enemy's cannon from TWO SIDE'S (Left or right) at any one given time. You must wait 5 minutes before switching to firing a second cannon side (SIDE CANNON). You must wait for the raid timer to end to attempt again on another side (RAIDING CANNON).
You may NOT claim, build, camp or 'grief' randomly around raiding outpost warp.
You are NOT ALLOWED to intentionally abuse the raiding outpost raid timer plugin to prevent other factions from raiding it (e.g., using an alt faction to shoot at the raiding outpost every 5 minutes).
You are NOT allowed to front or back counter cannon boxes from behind. This includes back countering side counters.
Gen Patching or Printer Patching is NOT ALLOWED whatsoever while being shot at. You must wait 5 minutes after the last shot to gen or print.
You need to wait 5 minutes to switch to another side counter after it has been shot at enemies raiding cannon
You are not allowed to counter a faction if they have raid timer on raiding outpost unless you have raiding outpost capped
Raid claims must be used for the intent to raid the faction only. You are only permitted to have 2 raid claims per side of raiding outpost.
A Cannon Box can only have 16 walls on Rpost
The Mineage staff team reserves the right to modify these rules as necessary and to handle situations not explicitly covered by these rules. The primary goal is to maintain a fair, competitive, and enjoyable Factions experience for all players.