All rules documented here apply to the OGFactions realm and only this realm on the Mineage network. Everything within the document can be changed without warning at any time by the administration team. 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.
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.
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.
If you need support or further elaboration check the bottom of the document or open a ticket in our Discord.
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.
The Faction Strike system is our method of tracking and enforcing rule violations at the faction level. Understanding this system is essential for all faction members:
Note: 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 NOT allowed. Debounce Time lower than 10MS is subject to punishment and is anti-cheat enforced.
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. You may not make obstacles on the server by spamming gen buckets, blocks, or liquids (E.g. making a wall all around spawn so players cannot exit warzone).
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 or sabotaging your own faction in any way is strictly prohibited and subject to staff punishment when reported by the Faction Leader. This includes taking faction value, currency, gear, items, armor, tools, or spawners (note that any spawner placed in faction territory belongs to the faction, not the individual player), as well as griefing or damaging the base by mining holes, unclaiming warzone traps, leaking base coordinates, purposely getting your faction raided, or teleporting non-members and enemies into your base, farms, or cannon boxes; if a faction conducts or profits from an inside, they will be required to fully compensate the victimized faction for all lost value and damages.
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.
Merging two factions to artificially boost your position on the F-Top leaderboard is strictly prohibited, meaning you are not allowed to transfer faction wealth, value, items, gear, or players between groups. While merging is permitted before the grace period ends, any merges after this window must be officially approved by staff, with one of the factions completely relinquishing their value. Furthermore, attempting to circumvent these procedures through loopholes—such as allowing another faction to raid you and then joining them afterward—is considered an unauthorized merge and will be punished. Finally, agreeing to a merge solely for the purpose of raiding the other faction is strictly forbidden and will be penalized as insiding.
You may only have 9 chunks worth of trap claims per world.
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, 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.
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 unplaced spawners is permitted besides mining / burning value at any point being raided. Additionally, spawners may be placed inside multiple obsidian boxes larger than 10x10, provided that all of these boxes are contained entirely within the faction's core base chunks.
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 not allowed to gen while being shot at or while on raid timer.
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.
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.
Printer is not allowed on the OG Faction realm. Additionally, the use of Easy Place or any modification that allows placing dispensers without crouching, or anything similar, is strictly disallowed. This is heavily prohibited and may be enforced server side.
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, 5 second rule for raiding cannons, and 5 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 ALLOWED under Y:10.
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 5000 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 5 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 25 chunks (including base). If your base is not in a corner, the 25 chunk rule will start from the middle of your base; if you have an even-sized base, you may be subject to 1 chunk removal to fit the criteria. On buffer counters, you are allowed up to 3 chunks of walls. You're only limited to 1 buffer counter per side. NO OCEANS ALLOWED on buffer counters. As well as no unbreakable blocks, regenerating walls, slime walls, any form of fences/gates and finnisters/anti nukes (includes buffer). This includes any forms of patching to create anti nukes of any sort.
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.
A Faction may have 1 chunk worth of water sources "oceans" located anywhere in there buffer. You are allowed any kind of defense within this 1 chunk beside any unbreakable blocks or regens.
You may NOT counter using your buffer counters while on SHIELD or GRACE.
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 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 10 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 till raid timer is over to gen 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 two factions; any third party that PvPs, checks buffers, or interferes with raid/counter claims or active setups will be punished. Furthermore, if a faction has a raiding cannon set up on a base, ONLY the defending faction is permitted to counter that raiding box with or without timer, and third-party assistance is strictly prohibited. Acquiring a raid timer is an open race, meaning factions may not intentionally block others from receiving timer, patch incoming shots for bases they do not belong to, or construct walls to prevent other factions from claiming timer. Finally, if you set up behind another faction's existing raiding cannon, you may not interfere with their setup or operations in any way until your faction has officially secured the raid timer, at which point standard raiding rules apply.
The maximum size of a raid claim is 9x9 with an additional 8c for a float (left/right). Raiding cannon must be inline with defending faction's base so it's breachable with defendings faction buffer counter.
You are ALLOWED a maximum of 16 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.
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 10 minutes)
You are not allowed to sand wand an active TNT shot to prevent the shot from working.
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 10 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 6 walls defending your side counter box. Slabs are allowed.
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 3 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 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.