Mineage Factions Rules

Point Assignment per Ban Type

• Cheating - 2.0 points
• Ban Evading - 1.0 point
• Duping - 4.0 points
• Mass exploitation/glitch abuse - 4.0 points

Faction Conduct and Management

• Benefiting from a successful Insiding attempt - 3.0 points
• Joining to get faction banned - 3.0 points
• Unauthorized merging (post-grace) - 4.0 points

Land Claiming and Territory

Faction leaders will receive one warning for any of these rules, a second offense will result in points.

• Excess buffer walls or distance violation - 1.0 point
• Holding multiple corners - 1.0 point
• Illegal raid claims - 1.0 point
• Creating factions with alts from an existing faction - 1.0 point

Base Building and Defense

• Blocking/destroying value - 1.0 point
• Exceeding base size - 1.0 point
• Illegal Base Defences - 2.0 points

Raiding and Cannoning

• Wall breaching too quickly - Administrative Discretion
• Violating cannon usage protocols (multi-fire, etc.) - 1.0 point
• Using any prohibited cannon type - 2.0 points
• Illegal Patching Methods - 2.0 points
• Illegal Counter Cannoning - 1.0 point
• Extra cannon box walls - 1.0 point
• Breaking cannon construction limits - 1.0 point

Note: The only faction that can counter a raid cannon is the faction being attacked.

Player Interactions

• Allying - 1.0 point
• Cleaning - 1.0 point
• Raid Hostage - 2.0 points
• Raid interference - 2.0 points

Strike Thresholds

• Strike 1 (4 points) - 15% Reduction
• Strike 2 (8 points) - 30% Reduction
• Strike 3 (12 points) - 60% Reduction
• Strike 4 (14 points) - Factions Top Disqualification + Every Members F-TOP Eligibility Voided

1. Insiding

Insiding a faction is strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to:

• Stealing items from faction storage
• Unclaiming base territory without authorization
• Conducting fake wall checks
• Sabotaging the faction in any way
• Joining a faction on an alternate account with the intent to hack and get banned inside that faction

2. Faction Merging

Merging two factions for the purpose of achieving a higher position on the F-Top leaderboard is prohibited. The following rules apply to faction merging:

• Merging before grace period ends is permitted
• Any merges after grace period must be approved by staff with one faction relinquishing their value
• Allowing another faction to raid you and then joining them afterward is considered an unauthorized merge
• Any attempted loopholes to circumvent proper merging procedures will be punished
• Agreeing to merge with a faction for the purpose of raiding them is not allowed and will be considered insiding

3. Account Sharing / Roster Bypassing

Account sharing or using alternate accounts to bypass roster limits is prohibited.

• Players may not log into, use, or play on another player’s account for any reason.
• Players may not use wilderness or faction alt accounts for any reason other than to AFK spawners or farms.

1. Buffer Claims

The maximum buffer size is set per map and will be specified on Discord. This determines the maximum number of walls allowed in the protection of a base. The following restrictions apply:

• Bases are not allowed to be within the specified buffer distance 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 faction's buffer will be removed

2. Bitch/Grief Claiming

Claiming territory directly adjacent to another faction's base to prevent them from establishing their full buffer claim is prohibited during the grace period. If there are multiple claims in a corner, the faction holding the true corner claim will receive priority. Grief claims are not allowed in a factions buffer and can be removed upon report.

Cobble monsters are permitted so long as they are not constructed within a bitch claim. Cobble monsters can be constructed in wilderness regardless of circumstance.

3. Corners

Factions holding multiple corners will have excess corners removed. Bases that are in line with each other on the same axis must be further than 100 chunks away.

4. Raid Claims

The maximum raid claim size is 9x9 chunks, with only 3 being allowed per side. Raid claims can extend 2 claim lines 8 chunks on each side for adjustment. Raid claims made without the intent to use them will be unclaimed by staff.

5. Trap Claims

A faction may only posses 1 trap claim per warzone with a maximum size of 2x3 claims.

1. Protecting/Destroying Value

Blocking spawners with blocks/water is prohibited. The following rules apply:

• If a faction breaches a box with illegally protected spawners, they receive all those spawners
• Destroying value to prevent the raiding faction from obtaining it is prohibited
• Blowing up your own value with TnT or creepers is not allowed

Scattering Spawners throughout your base is not allowed.

Spawners cannot be placed in a box smaller then 16x16 without having at least a door sized hole available to access them.

2. Base Size

Your base can be up to 9x9 chunks in size.

3. Illegal Base Defenses

Using an unraidable block or defense to protect your base is prohibited.

Factions can have no more then 16 sand walls contained within their buffer in each direction.

Factions can have no more then 8 obsidian walls contained within their buffer in each direction. (this does not include the base wall or counter cannon walls.)

Factions can have no more then 12 endstone walls contained within their buffer in each direction. (this does not include the base wall or counter cannon walls.)

TNT Detectors: Using any modification or construct that allows or could allow the detection of TNT is prohibited. Being AFK on or near walls for more than 5 minutes is also prohibited.

Regeneration Walls are prohibited. Enforced by a plugin, if evaded a punishment will follow.

Your base must not be more than 5 chunks from the world boarder when living in a world corner.

4. Hiding Value

Hiding spawners in such a way that makes them unobtainable is not permitted. This includes inventories, ender chests, auction house, factions chests, and so on.

Spawners can be placed in multiple obsidian boxes provided that they are all within a faction's core base chunks.

Wilderness Claiming: Hiding value in unclaimed wilderness (outside of any faction claims) is prohibited and is punishable. Hiding value within properly claimed faction land is allowed.

1. Wall Breaching

Cannon Speed: The cannon speed limit is set per map and will be specified on Discord. This limit applies globally above Y: 10. Below Y: 10, there will be no limitation to allow the use of worm cannons, 1 stacker, and reverse cannons.

Alternate Cannon: A faction may only use 1 cannon at a time. If a faction wishes to switch cannons they must wait 20 minutes from the last shot to switch to a new cannon.

Multiple Cannons: The use of multiple cannons at the same time under any circumstances is prohibited.

Cannons that go through multiple walls at once are prohibited. Including reverse layers.

The following types of cannons are strictly prohibited on the server (This does not apply to bunkers):

• Anything more significant than a 5-wide nuke on a Watered wall.
• Midair Cannons: Any cannon that stacks TNT or sand in midair to breach walls or defenses that would otherwise be difficult to penetrate. This includes the use of web-floater cannons.
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• Phase Cannons: Any cannon that exploits game mechanics to allow projectiles to pass through solid blocks without destroying them, effectively bypassing defenses.
• Wall Remover Cannons: Cannons specifically engineered to destroy entire walls in a single shot or causing excessive destruction to base defenses.
• Multi-Shot/Pseudo Cannons Cannons: Any cannon designed to create multiple vertical holes or horizontal holes in a wall.
• U-Fusion Cannons: Cannons that Adjust multiple times allowing you to bypass base defenses etc.
• Roof Cannons: Firing cannons directly at or through the roof of a base to bypass walls is forbidden. Bases must be approached through proper defensive structures. This rule does not apply to the roof of a base that sits lower then Y = 255.
• Auto Adjusting Cannons are Prohibited
• Horizontal Nukes are Prohibited
• External barrels are Prohibited
• Push Nuke Cannons are Prohibited
• Up/Down Cannons are Prohibited
• Rev Nuke Cannons are Prohibited
• Over-stacking more than 4 blocks above the initial sand stack is Prohibited
• Worm Cannons are prohibited above Y = 10.

2. Cannon Box

Cannon boxes can only have a base layer wall with water + two chunks of walls with water, with the addition of 3 reverse layers. Patching beyond these walls is prohibited. If the extra walls prevent the cannon from being breached, the raid will be cancelled and all damage rolled back.

3. Counter Cannons

Only 1 counter cannon is allowed in your buffer per side with a maximum of 3 chunks of defenses. The following rules apply:

• Any counter cannons built outside of your buffer are subject to the Cannon Box rules
• A faction must wait 10 minutes between the last shot of one counter cannon to switch to another before firing
• Shield Countering: Countering while on shield is not allowed, you are only permitted to use a side counter.
• 360 Counters: 360-degree counters are not allowed as buffer counters.
• Back-countering is no longer allowed ruguardless of the type of cannon.
• Counter Cannons must be within 5 chunks horizontally of the base wall.
• Any Counter Cannon must only shoot in the quadrant it was built in and cannot shoot at other quadrants.

4. Patching

*A raid is considered to be ongoing when a faction has a raid timer. "I didn't know" is not a sufficient reason for breaking the rules.

Gen Patching: The use of sandbots or gen buckets to patch while on raid timer is prohibited.

Wilderness patching is prohibited. This applies to base walls, raid, side or counter cannon.

5. Bunkers

Bunkers raiding has no cannon technology or speed limits. There are no cannon limitations for bunkers, with the exception of cannon tech that harms the server. Cannoning in this world is exempt from all cannon / raiding rules with the exception of the cannon impacting server performance. At which point it will be punishable under the lag machine rule.

Raid claims for bunkers also cannot exceed an area of 32 chunks.

Bunkers are not impacted by grace period.

6. Raid Attempts

After SOTW, factions are limited to a maximum of 2 raid attempts per 24-hour period globally. This limit is enforced server-side and applies to all factions.

How it works: Starting a raid timer counts as one raid attempt. The 24-hour period begins when the first raid timer is initiated.

Exemptions: Bunkers are exempt from this rule and are not subject to the raid attempt limit.

1. Allying

Allying is when one faction, while fighting another faction, gets a benefit from a third party. One-Way allying is when a faction is allying with a faction without the other faction's permission. This is a Senior Moderator and above only situation.

2. Raid Interference

Only the raiding and defending faction are allowed to participate in an active raid. Interference includes but is not limited to:

• Blocking the raiding faction's cannon
• Attacking players during the raid (On the walls, in the base, or sitting around the cannon)
• Stealing loot during a raid (Spawners, Chest Loot, Mob Drops)
• Side countering another faction's raid cannon before or during another faction's shield is prohibited.

During an active raid, the raiding faction cannot leak out any coordinates. The raid belongs solely to the raiding faction, and coming to steal any loot during an active raid will be considered interference.

3. Cleaning

Cleaning is when one faction is fighting another faction, and a third party that was not already a part of the original fight joins and kills drained players or interferes as to be involved in the fight.

*This only applies in fights within the Nether and Warzone. Further discretion for incidents that occur around traps.

* Senior Moderator & Above Discretion

4. Holding Hostage

This is when someone is trapped but barely being killed, there must be a 5+ minute video for it to be considered holding hostage. If a bow is being fully drawn back; it's not holding hostage, but someone spam bowing is.

5. Raid Hostage

Holding a faction on raid timer with the purpose of preventing another faction from raiding. Shooting once every 10 minutes to extend the duration of the raid will be seen as a bypass. A faction must at least go through 8 walls to refresh the cooldown.

6. Illegal Trapping

Inability to Pot: Any trap that a player can physically not pot in (Piston or Lever Trap)

Suffocation Traps: Any trap that suffocates a player whether that be with a piston and a block or something similar.

*Non exhaustive list, can be updated at any time while adjusting to new methods.

7. Block Glitching

Any successful attempt to block-glitch someone is a punishable offence. Block glitching a player to death will result in their inventory rolled back.

1. Mouse Debounce Time

Debounce Time lower than 10MS is subject to punishment and is anti-cheat enforced.

2. Printing

Printing on OG Factions is strictly prohibited. This is OG factions so Printing will be a heavily policed action and the punishment lengths will match the crime. All cases will be dealt with on a case by case basis, some of which may result in a warning.

3. Flight Speed Limit

A maximum of 2x flyboost is allowed on the server. Anything higher is not allowed and will be enforced plugin side.

Subject to change on which ones aren't allowed.