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• Be respectful and civil toward your fellow players
• No harassment or excessive trolling
• No bigotry / hate speech including but not limited to ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and religion.
• No disruptive arguments/discussions in global chat
  • Staff will ask you to take these to private message or clanchat if you wish to continue.
• No public accusations of rule-breaking or discussion of bans
  • To report rule violations, make a /modreq ingame or contact a staff member.
• No “ban baiting”
  • Ban baiting is enticing or aggravating someone into saying or doing something that will result in a ban – this may result in a ban for both parties.
• Do not build too close to another player’s build (see PVE or Creative FAQ for details)
• No posting personal information (i.e. doxxing)
• No offensive/inappropriate constructions or skins
• No impersonating other players, particularly staff
  • This includes both claiming to be another person or staff, as well as changing your screen name in a way that can be thought to be another user. In these instances your account may be banned until you can change the name again.
• Client mods that give a distinct advantage to an individual are not allowed. Click here for the list of approved client mods
• No killing/stealing mobs "owned" by other players
  • This includes any named mobs, mobs that are enclosed/restrained, claimed pet-type mobs and villagers. “Hostile mob” pets must be enclosed such that players cannot enter and be harmed (without breaking in).
• You may not trap or kill players except in designated arenas
  • This includes player traps or indirect forms or killing such as placing lava or using mobs

• You may not restrict access to your builds - the map should be open for exploration

  • Exceptions to this on PvE would include: a structure to hold villagers for trading; killing box of iron grinders (assuming iron is available to the public); small containers housing “pet” hostile mobs.

• Be Respectful to the server

• No xraying/hacking/cheating or exploiting bugs to give yourself an unfair advantage
  • Any use of xray / ore detection will result in an immediate ban and rollback of all edits.
• No griefing or block spamming
• No inducing excessive lag
  • Do not allow huge numbers of entities to build up, e.g. by idling at a non-kill mob grinder or breeding an absurd number of animals.
  • All redstone must have an off switch (or the ability to automatically turn off when not in use)
• No spam
  • 'Spam' includes a high volume of lines and/or repeated characters entered into chat.
• No Advertising non-nerd.nu servers
• Build Removal:
  • Scaffolding, 1x1 towers, or other temporary builds should be removed when you are finished with them. These structures may be removed by staff without notice.
  • Certain "very low quality" structures including but not limited to cobble/netherrack boxes, and floating skyrails may be removed if they significantly impact the surrounding area in a negative way.
  • Unfinished builds that are deemed ‘abandoned’ and are negatively affecting other builds may be removed at admin discretion.
  • Unused claims may be removed at after 1 month of inactivity on creative, or at admin discretion on pve

• Certain blocks are not permitted, please refer to the Creative FAQ or PvE FAQ for details

• Bans

  • If banned, no evading the ban - request unbans at nerd.nu/appeal
  • A minimum of 2 weeks will be added to the original ban length for every account used to evade a ban on any of our servers.
  • Any accounts used to evade a ban will be banned for the same amount of time as the original banned account.
  • Admins reserve the right to add additional time depending on the circumstances.
  • Only appealed bans will be lifted.
  • At the time at which an appeal is allowed or afterward, a player may appeal for their other accounts to be unbanned, and if the "main" account is unbanned then the alts are as well.
  • Unbanning of all alt accounts will be done by an administrator or higher.
  • At the discretion of an admin, alternate accounts could remain banned if we believe that the person appealing isn't the actual owner.
  • Bans for the alt accounts will include the name of their "main" account.

Outside Conduct Policy

We do not want to police people's lives and actions outside the server, but some outside issues can spill over into the community and have high enough potential to cause irreparable harm to our player base and community. This written policy is needed to mitigate that risk.

Anyone found to have a conviction for, admission of, or credible evidence of having committed the following will be banned from all Nerd.Nu platforms:

• Financial, physical, sexual, or other types of abuse of children, dependent adults, or elders. This list is modeled after real world mandatory-reporting requirements.
• Any crime where a conviction results in a restriction on a person's participation in public spaces, or requires notification of proximity/participation, in all applicable jurisdictions.
• Violations of other Nerd.Nu rules directed towards Nerd.Nu players such as doxxing, harassment, racism, etc.

Why this policy is needed

Nerd.Nu staff has historically avoided bans for outside conduct, but as people's online lives and offline lives become more and more intertwined we feel that the risk to the Nerd.Nu community of inappropriate real-world actions by community members has increased. It is no longer possible to completely separate online/offline personas. Knowledge of any of these real-world concerns and failure to act by Nerd.Nu staff may be construed by those unfamiliar with our existing rules as tacit approval of their actions and result in damage to the community.

This rules list cannot hope to cover all behavior or content that is inappropriate on the servers or detrimental to community, thus the admins reserve the right to warn/kick/ban players, ask players to modify builds, or form new rules when needed. Admins also reserve the right to reset player data as needed.

Events

Event server rules will depend on the event type, typically following the mold of one of the previous four server rulesets. Specific rules are established per-event.

Subreddit

• Posts must be related to the Nerd.nu Minecraft servers or gaming events
• General Minecraft content should be posted in /r/Minecraft
• Advertisements for other servers should be posted in /r/mcservers
• Silly/off-topic things should be posted in /r/mcpubliccirclejerk or /r/mcpublicofftopic