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# Server Rules

Please note that the contents of our rules are **not** all-inclusive. Moderation action may be taken at any time as needed to maintain a fun and chill server environment. You will be held to these rules whether you read them or not**.**

**It's your responsibility to stay up-to-date with our rules.** We will provide announcements on our Discord whenever any major rule changes occur.

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## General Server Rules

All players must follow the [Minecraft Usage Guidelines](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/usage-guidelines), the [Minecraft Community Standards](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/community-standards) and the [Xbox Community Standards](https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/legal/community-standards) that you agreed to when creating your Minecraft/Microsoft account.

#### Rule 1: Be Respectful

Treat all players with respect at all times. All activity must be Twitch stream appropriate.

* No spam, threats, harassment, hate speech, or abuse.
  * This applies to chat, builds, and all in-game actions.
* Swearing is allowed as long as it is not directed at another player, excessive, hateful or abusive.

If you join a player-made town, you are encouraged to follow that town's rules, as long as they don’t conflict with these server rules.

Remember that this is a multiplayer environment, not your personal server or singleplayer world. The effects of your actions on other players must always be considered.

#### **Rule 2: English-Only Chat**

English must be the only language used in chat. This helps moderators do their job and ensures everyone can understand what's going on.

You are allowed to use other languages in private messages, books, signs or other related places, as long as you continue to follow our rules.

#### Rule 3: No Inappropriate Content

* No sexual, illegal, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate content. Again, all activity must be Twitch stream appropriate.
  * This applies everywhere, including in chat, builds, usernames, skins and capes.

We have a filter in place to block harmful content in chat, name tags, books, signs and other related items. Do not attempt to bypass this filter.

#### Rule 4: No Advertising

Advertising external services or websites is not allowed.

* Do not link personal social media, websites, or external communities.
  * You may talk about them, just don’t post links.
* This includes advertising other servers, mods, or resource packs and other related media.
* Advertising **in-game** shops and events is allowed.

#### Rule 5: No Cheating & Unfair Advantages

Do not use third-party tools to cheat or gain an unfair advantage. This includes but is not limited to:

* Hacked/cheat clients
* Macros
* Auto-Clickers
* Gameplay-altering external programs
* X-Ray resource packs
* Seed Cracking
* Duping
* Knowingly exploiting bugs

See [Banned/Restricted Mods](/crafthorizon/getting-started/server-rules/banned-restricted-mods.md) for more details.

#### Rule 6: Griefing and Stealing

We consider "griefing" to be any modification to player property without their permission, or with the intention of annoying or upsetting them.

* **No griefing or stealing in claimed land.**
  * If you are trusted to a claim, do not abuse that trust.
* Griefing and stealing are technically allowed in unclaimed land, but strongly discouraged.
  * Rule 1 applies. If a town's rules request that you don't grief, please try to respect that.

**Also not allowed:**

* Trapping players or their graves using claims.
* Randomly attacking or killing players, even if PvP is enabled.

#### **Rule 7: Lag & Performance**

Do not build anything that causes excessive lag.

* Lag machines, overly large farms, excessive redstone contraptions, or bug abuse are not allowed.
* Automatic farms are allowed but should be:
  * Kept reasonable in size
  * Turned off when not in use
* Manual mob farms should not have excessive amounts of mobs (e.g., no huge chicken farms).
  * Similarly, Villager Trading Halls should only include necessary Villagers. You don't need 6 Villagers selling the same items.
    * Additionally, Villagers should not be allowed to build up infinitely from a breeder. Kill any unneeded villagers in order to keep your villager counts as low as possible.

Staff reserve the right to remove farms, redstone or trading halls they deem to not follow these rules or are suspected to be affecting server performance. Unless performance issues are ongoing and severe, we will always attempt to contact the owner to request improvements be made first.

**AFK Kicker:**

Players are kicked after 30 minutes of inactivity for performance reasons.

* Do not attempt to bypass the AFK kicker.
* AFK pools or any other methods to stay online while inactive are not allowed.

## Punishments

Failure to follow our rules may result in your chat privileges being revoked, or your access to the server revoked, depending on the severity. **You are responsible for any actions in-game on your account!**

We do not have a standardised system for issuing punishments, such as a "3-strike rule". There are a few common types of punishment that can occur when rules are broken. All punishments noted here are logged and reviewed by other staff, as well as periodically by server management.

#### Kicks

A momentary punishment that is only logged. These may sometimes be issued for certain rule violations, such as bypassing our AFK kicker. In general, kicks have no direct consequence and typically will not lead to a ban on their own.

#### Mutes

Prevents users from typing in chat. Mutes are usually only issued against players for conduct issues, such as mild toxicity or spam.

#### Temporary Bans

A temporary punishment that restricts you from logging into the server. More severe rule violations typically receive longer temporary bans.

Multiple temporary bans are uncommon unless extremely unrelated and over a large period of time.

If you receive a temporary ban, it's very likely your next punishment will be a permanent ban if you repeat behaviour you were temporarily banned for.

#### Permanent Bans

A permanent punishment that restricts you from logging into the server. These are for the most severe of rule violations, typically when players show deliberate malicious intent, often cheaters and griefers. However, these bans may be issued for more behavioural reasons, such as hate speech or causing severe server lag.

## Reporting

Reporting rule breakers can be done through our Discord server in the **#open-ticket** channel. Make sure to provide evidence before submitting a report.

## Appeals

We do not have an appeals system at this time. However, if you genuinely believe that your punishment was unfair or made in error, please open a General Support ticket on our Discord server in the **#open-ticket** channel.