Faction Rules

Robblestone

Factions Rules

NOTE: DISCORD PROOF IS NEVER VALID UNLESS WITNESSED FIRST HAND BY STAFF.

All players recognise and accept that by playing or using any part of the Robblestone, they agree that they must follow the rules set out in this document. Any players using any of Robblestone services acknowledges their use may be suspended or in other ways inhibited at any time.

THESE RULES MAY BE CHANGED AT ANYTIME WITHOUT NOTICE

Chat Rules

1. ENGLISH ONLY IN MAIN CHAT

Any language other than English is not allowed in public chat.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 30 minute mute

2. RACIAL/HOMOPHOBIC SLURS

Any words or phrases used to insult another race or sexual orientation is not allowed. Calling people “gay” is not mutable.

1st Offence: 1 hour mute

4. DEATH THREATS/SUICIDAL ENCOURAGEMENT

Implying for people to harm themselves in real life is not allowed. 

1st Offence: 4 hour mute

5. SPAMMING 

Spamming the same word more than 3 times is not allowed. Character spam is not allowed (15+ characters). Spamming as a group is also not allowed (e.g. members of a faction spamming “L”).  

1st Offence: Verbal Warning

2nd Offence: 1 hour mute

6.  Bypassing Chat Filter 

Bypassing Chat Filter with Misspelled words isn’tallowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 hour ban

7. IMPERSONATING ANOTHER PLAYER

Tricking someone into thinking that you are someone else is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 day ban

8. SENDING SHOCKING OR MALICIOUS LINKS
Sending shocking links or malicious links (such as pornographic links or IP grabbers) in chat or PMs is not allowed.

1st Offence: 12 hour ban (pornographic links)

1st Offence: Permanent Ban (IP Grabber)

2nd Offence: 2 day ban (pornographic links)

9. EXCESSIVE ADVERTISING 

Constantly advertising websites or social media (etc.) is not allowed. Advertising servers and so on and will result in a permanent ban.

1st Offence: Verbal Warning

2nd Offence: 3 hour mute

10. MUTE EVADING

Trying to evade a mute in any sort of way (using another account, talking through /helpop etc.) is not allowed. 

1st Offence: 3 hour IP mute

2nd Offence: 2 day IP ban    

11. LYING TO A STAFF MEMBER FOR PERSONAL GAIN

Deliberately lying to a staff member for personal gain or in a way that will act as an impediment for staff is not allowed.

1st Offence: 7 day ban

12. ATTEMPTING TO BLACKMAIL PLAYERS FOR PERSONAL GAIN

Trying to blackmail another player to do something for you is not allowed.

1st Offence: Permanent Ban

13. IN-REAL-LIFE TRADING/SELLING

Attempting to trade or sell anything for real money is not allowed. For example trying to sell a corner for $10.

1st Offence: Permanent Ban (depending on severity; staff member(s) in charge may issue a different punishment/ban length)

14. INAPPROPRIATE USERNAME

Having an inappropriate username (such as one that has racial slurs etc.) is not allowed.

1st Offence: Permanent Mute (until changed) - you may talk on a different account with an appropriate username and not be muted for mute evasion. 

15. DOX/DDOS/SWAT THREATS or IMPLICATIONS

Any form of doxing or DDos threats/implications is not allowed. 

1st Offence: Permanent Blacklist

16. RELEASING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Releasing yours or someone else’s personal details including but not limited to: full names, emails, passwords, social media accounts, financial information, government issued documents, address(es) and/or any other personal information is not allowed.

1st Offence: Permanent Blacklist

17. HIJACKING SOMEONE ELSE’S ACCOUNT FOR PERSONAL GAIN

Any form of hijacking or non consensually logging onto an account (or threatening to) for personal or faction gain is not allowed.

1st Offence: Permanent Blacklist 

Gameplay Rules

1. BLOCK GLITCHING

Any form of block related glitching is not allowed. Hitting someone in a 1x1 if their  hitbox is visible is allowed.

1st Offence: Physical Warning

2nd Offence: 1 day ban

2. SPAMMING /AH WITH USELESS ITEMS

Spamming items on /ah just to annoy players and fill gages is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 2 hour ban

3. FREEZING YOUR MINECRAFT

Freezing your minecraft to give yourself an advantage is not allowed (this includes logging in mid-air).

1st Offence: 1 day ban

4. SCHEMATICA TRAPPING

Using the schematica mod to place blocks and trap someone somewhere is not permitted.

1st Offence: 1 hour ban

2nd Offence: 12 hours ban

5. ANY FORM OF CANE BOTTING / SCRIPTING

Using multiple accounts to cane at the same time is also not allowed. This does not include F11 Glitch

1st Offence: Permanent Ban + 1 Faction Strike 

7. ADMITTING TO HACKING

Admitting to using any disallowed modifications including hacked clients or other illegal modification is strictly prohibited. (You can also be banned for admitting to hacking in faction chat and DMs).

1st Offence: 7 Day Ban

8. LOGGING OUT WHILST FROZEN

Logging out whilst frozen by a staff member is not permitted.

1st Offence: Appealable Ban

9. IMPERSONATING A FROZEN PLAYER

Joining discord and pretending to be a player that is about to be screenshared when you are not frozen is prohibited.

1st Offence: Appealable Ban

10. TROLLING OR RECORDING DURING SS

Any kind of trolling during a screenshare is not allowed (for example putting on pornographic content whilst you are being screenshared is strictly prohibited).

1st Offence: Appealable ban

11. GLITCH ABUSE

Abusing a glitch and/or not reporting a glitch/bug is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

12. FORGING PROOF

Using any kind of editing software to try to forge proof that incriminates another player of something they didn’t do is strictly prohibited.  - Forging proof of you with a donor rank and/or any items obtained via buycraft and/or any valuable item in game is not permitted.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

13. SPAM BOTTING

Spam botting is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

14. AFK FARMING SUGAR CANE

Going AFK and/or using an automatic sugar cane farm is not allowed. 

1st Offence: Appealable ban + 1 Faction Strike

15. BAN EVADING

Going on an account while you are banned on another is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

16. ABUSING BUYCRAFT EXPLOITS

Abusing, exploiting or using any Buycraft, or Payment glitch for your own advantage without reporting it is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: Permanent blacklist

18. DUPING, EXPLOITING A MAJOR ECONOMY BUG

Any form of duping or exploiting a major economy bug (including staff abuse) is not allowed.

1st Offence: Blacklist + Faction DQ

19. NO MINING OR HITTING BLAZES WHILE AFK

Mining or hitting blazes while AFK is not allowed. It is your responsibility to be looking at your screen to avoid failing to SS if you get frozen.

1st Offence: Permanent ban

Client Rules

1. LIGHT MODS

Any type of  illegal mods are prohibited. This rule goes for more “light mods” that are small and harmless for other players. This is at the discretion of staff.

1st Offence: 7 day ban

2. MACROS 

Use of macros or any program that contains macros is prohibited. Razer synapse

and/or any hardware configuration is allowed if it doesn’t contain any macros.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

3. AUTO CLICKER AND/OR MODIFIED MODS

Any external or internal program used to automatically left click and/or increase clicking speed is not allowed.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

4. MODIFICATIONS TO INCREASE FLY SPEED

Any external or internal program that is used to increase fly speed is prohibited and will result in a ban for usage of blacklisted modifications.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

5. REFUSING TO SCREENSHARE

Refusing to screenshare at any time after being frozen is not allowed. If you do not join the discord call within five minutes of being frozen, then this will also be classed as refusing to screenshare and you will be banned accordingly.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

6. DELETING OR EDITING YOUR FILES BEFORE AN SS

Deleting or editing anything after you have been frozen is not allowed.

This includes editing your recycling bin and/or unplugging USB or external memory drives.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

7. REFUSING TO STOP RECORDING

When being screenshared and the staff member asks you to stop recording,  you have three minutes to turn off all recording software running on your computer. Refusing is prohibited.

           1st Offence: Appealable ban

8. VERSION CLIENTS 

Any type of version client is prohibited.

1st Offence: Appealable ban

9. OQ MINEBOT FOR SCRIPTING/MACRO OR AUTO FISH.

OQ Minebot is strictly prohibited for any other use than mass afk bots.

1st Offence: Permanent Blacklist

10. GHOST CLIENTS/INJECTED MODIFICATIONS

Any form of hacked/ghost client that needs to be injected and is self-destructible is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: Permanent Ban

11. BOOTER/BOTNET, AND/OR HAVING A LARGE IP DATABASE WITHOUT A PLAUSIBLE REASON AND PROOF THAT CONFIRMS THE REASON STATED

Having/using any type of booter or botnet is strictly prohibited.

Possessing a large database of user IPs on your computer and/or drivers without both a valid explanation and proof that backs up your explanation is not permitted.

1st Offence: Permanent Blacklist + 1 Faction Strike

12. USING PRINTER TO BREAK BLOCKS

You may not use printer mode, the schematica mod or any other automated block breaking software to break blocks. Using Schematica or a similar software to break sugar cane will result in an immediate permanent ban, and a faction warning point for the faction of the offending user(s). 

1st Offence: Appealable ban + 1 Faction Strike

Other Rules

1. AFKING WALLS

Standing idle at your walls for longer than 3 minutes is not allowed. 

1st Offense: Kick ( with a reason on why kicked)

2nd Offense: 1 day ban

2. LAG MACHINES 

Making and or using any form of lag machine is not allowed.

1st Offense: Permanent Blacklist + 1 Faction strike

3. RAID ALERTS 

Any sort of detectors used to detect if you are being raided is strictly prohibited.

1st Offense: Faction Disband

4. /F SETPAYPAL

If you don't set your Factions Paypal before payout ingame, you will not get paid out.

1st Offense: No Payout

5. WARZONE GRIEFING 

Griefing 1-2 chunks outside of warzone is not allowed. Building a structure around warzone (or even claiming around [1 Strike]) that stops players from leaving warzone is prohibited. 

Faction & Cannoning Rules

1. BUFFER LIMIT

You are only allowed a 20 chunk buffer. Patching outside your buffer is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike & 2 Day Tempban to anyone involved

2. CANNONING FROM YOUR BUFFER

You may not raid someone with a cannon inside your own buffer.

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & Rollback

3. NO OFFENSIVE TEAMING / RAIDING

If a faction is raiding a base, only the raiding faction and ally are allowed to raid, and only the defending faction and ally are allowed to defend. Once the raiding faction stops shooting, another faction can only attempt to fire at the same base 30 minutes after. You may only raid with your /f roster. (Furthermore, only one active cannon may be used per raid).

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & Rollback

3(Segment 2) RAID COOLDOWN AND GRACE
If a faction is getting raided, to get on raid cooldown/grace:

The raiding faction does not shoot a shot for a period of 10 minutes.

You may not rebuild a new cannon within the 10 minutes, you must only use the same cannonbox as before. Failure to follow these rules will result in the same punishment as breaking rule 3 (2 strikes & Rollback)

4. SPAWNERS FROM RAIDS MUST BE PLACED WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THEY WERE OBTAINED

You must place spawners obtained from raiding within 24 hours of them being exploded- e.g. from the moment the TNT destroys a faction’s placed spawner and it falls on the ground as an item. If for any reason you can’t, please notify an Admin+ about this immediately, explaining your reasoning so that a resolution can be met.

1st Offence: Spawners are confiscated

5. AUTO CANNONS 

Putting a cannon on auto using a lever is NOT allowed. No cannons that operated by a pressure plate are allowed above Y:10.

6. PROTECTING SPAWNERS

Protecting spawners with any block is not allowed. Mobs must be able to die from falling.

1st Offence: 1 Faction Warning Point

7. ROTATING MEMBERS

You are not allowed to rotate members after TNT enables. This includes inviting people from other factions to help with raiding or defending, or using alt factions to bypass. A player must have at least 24h playtime if f roster is disabled/not working.

1st Offence: 1 Faction Warning Point per Person

8. EXCESSIVE BANS

If 5 players in your faction get banned or 2 get blacklisted, then 2 strikes will be issued.

1st Offence: 2 Strikes

9. ROOF CANNONS

Roof cannoning is prohibited. 

1st Offence: 2 Strikes + Cannon Removed (Base rolled back)

10. ONLY 3 CHUNKS OF WALLS ALLOWED PER RAID CLAIM (10x10)

Cannon boxes cannot excessively have more than 3 chunks of walls (these do not include in-buffer counters or float boxes). You cannot intentionally use the barrel of your cannon to extend your cannon box walls (if this is done you will be told to fix the barrel before receiving a strike).

1st Offence: 2 Strikes + Cannon Removed - Base rolled back if applicable.

11. PATCHING A CANNON BOX DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ANOTHER FACTION’S CANNON DURING A RAID OR PATCHING IN WILDERNESS/OUTSIDE OF RAID CLAIMS

You are not permitted to start patching your cannon box if it is directly in front of another faction’s cannon whilst another faction is being raided. Whichever faction fires the first shot is doing that raid, and you cannot interfere in the raid to significant extent until it is finished. Similarly, you cannot start patching once a raid has begun. You cannot patch in Wilderness around your raid claims or otherwise in a way that allows defences to be deployed outside your raid claims.

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & 1 day tempban for players involved

12. BASE CLAIMS BETWEEN ANOTHER BASE

Your base must be at least 20 chunks away from another base.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike and Base world edited out

13. ANTI RAID CLAIMS

6 chunks x(enemy’s raid claim width [in chunks]). The claims must not be lined up with your own base. Only 1 anti-raid claim per side of a base.

1st Offence: Warning

2nf Offence: 1 Strike

14. RAID CLAIMS

Raid claims cannot be larger than 10x10 chunks. Only allowed 1 raid claim per base.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

15. WARZONE/OUTPOST CLAIMS

Must not exceed the size of 5x5 chunks. A faction is allowed to have one claim that borders the warzone (5 chunks radius from the last warzone claim).

1st Offence: Unclaimed by an admin

16. CHECKBOXES

Checkboxes with anything inside them are not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

17. COBWEBS / CACTUS  / FENCES / FENCE GATES / BANNERS / REGENS

Using any of these items (or items alike) to defend your base is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

18. LEFT/RIGHT SHOOTING CANNONS/MID-AIR TECH

Making and/or using a cannon to left/right shoot a base is not allowed. You are also not allowed to use mid-air tech to raid a base.

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & base is rolled back

19. ONLY USE BUTTONS TO OPERATE CANNONS

Using pressure plate(s), or any other item(s) except buttons to fire your cannon is not allowed. 

1st Offence: 2 Faction Warning Points

 20. NO CANNONS THAT SHOOT MORE THAN ONE SHOT PER BUTTON PRESS

Using and/or making a cannon that shoot more than one shot per button press is not allowed.

1st Offence: 2 Faction Warning Points

21. Finsters and Anti Nukes:

You are NOT allowed to have more than ONE chunk of  Finsters built in your main buffer.
You are NOT allowed to put finsters or anti nukes on your cannon box.
You are NOT allowed to put AntiNukes on base wall.

1st Offence: 3 Faction Warning Points 

22. MINING VALUE WHILE BEING RAIDED 

Mining value while being raided is not allowed.

1st Offence: 3 Faction Warning Points (value mined will be taken away or given

to the raiding faction as decided by a manager)

24. PRINTER/GEN BUCKET PATCHING

You cannot use genbuckets or printer to patch your walls during a raid. You must wait 10 minutes after a cannon stops shooting to gen patch. This will result in the player who is patching getting banned (1 hour) and a faction warning will be issued to that faction if it is excessive.

1st Offence: 1 Faction Warning Point + Users doing it will be banned

25. NO CANNON CAN SHOOT FASTER THAN ONCE EVERY 3 SECONDS

You’re not allowed to shoot at a faction with a cannon faster than 3s! This does not apply to cannons under Y:10

1st Offence: 2 Faction Warning Points

25(Segment 2) YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED 2 COUNTERS PER SIDE
You’re allowed to have 4 total buffer counters, 2 on each side.

1st Offence: 1-2 Factions strikes depending on the severity. (If found during grace - then we will ask you to remove. )

25(Segment 3) YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE U-FUSIONS.
You may not use U-Fusions, or order of entity u-fusions.

1st Offence: 1 Faction Strike

25(Segment 4) HORIZONTAL NUKES ARE NOT ALLOWED.
You may not use any horizontal nukes, penis nukers, wall removers etc… any faction caught using these will be given a strike and the other party will get rolled back.

1st Offence : 1 Faction Strike

25(Segment 5) YOU MAY NOT WILDERNESS ADJUST.
You are only allowed to do adjustments within your claims, wilderness adjusting is not allowed.

1st Offence : 1 Faction strikes + The raid will be stopped and rolled back.

25(Segment 6) REV NUKES ARE NOT ALLOWED.
Using a rev nuke will result in a punishment.

1st Offence : 1 Faction Strike

25(Segment 7) CANNON AND BASE ROOF
Building base roof at 256

You are NOT allowed to build a base roof at 256, however you may build your cannon box roof at 256 for 255 adjustments.

1st Offence : 1 Faction Strike

26. UN-RAIDABLE BASE

Making a base that is impossible to raid is not allowed. For example, making a base that has no water is not allowed as it is impossible to swim to the top of a base without water.

1st Offence: 3 Faction Warning Points + Base will be fixed

27. HIDING SPAWNERS

Hiding spawners will result in a disqualification from the map’s payout.

(This rule does not apply when spawner placement is disabled).

1st Offence: Disqualified from FTOP

28. ONE CANNON MAY BE USED PER RAID

Using more than one cannon per raid is not allowed.

1st Offence: 3 Strikes

29. UNRAIDABLE SPAWNERS

Placing spawners at Y:256 or placing spawners randomly on roof of your base is not allowed Example: Click Here

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

30. ONLY 1 CORNER PER FACTION

Having multiple corners claimed is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

31. BITCH CLAIMS

Having bitch claims on someone's base is not allowed.

1st Offence: Warning

2nd Offence: 1 Strike

32. HAVING SIGNIFICANT VALUE IN MORE THAN ONE BASE..

The majority of your spawners (90%) must be placed in one base or in one cubic area that is raidable with all the spawners placed together.

1st Offence: 3 Strikes

33. USING ALTS TO BYPASS A RULE/PLUGIN OR WIN FTOP

Using an alt faction to bypass plugin limits, bypass rules or win FTOP is strictly prohibited.  Trying to win multiple FTOP prizes will result in a DQ.

1st Offence: 4 Strikes

34. CHUNK BUSTERING AND/OR TRENCH PICKAXING DURING A RAID

You are not allowed to use chunk busters or trench pickaxes to mine spawners or destroy the base.

1st Offence: 3 Strikes + Rollback

35. RAIDING SOMEONE WITH AN ACTIVE SHIELD

Attempting to raid someone while their shield is enabled is not permitted. (This rule applies if the shield plugin is not working / glitched)

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & Rollback

36. LOGGING ALTS IN ENEMY TERRITORY

Logging alts in enemy territory to use as a method of teleportation is strictly prohibited.

1st Offence: 2 Strikes & Rollback

37. RACIST OR OFFENSIVE FACTION NAME

You may not have a racist, homophobic (or in any other way offensive as deemed by staff) faction name.

1st Offence: Warning
2nd Offence: 1 Strike

                          Faction Strikes

Each faction gets a maximum of 6 warning points until they are disbanded and disqualified from payout.

1 Strike - Warning Strike

2 Strike - 10% Reduction of value at final payout

3 Strikes - 20% Reduction of value at final payout

4 Strikes - 30% Reduction of value at final payout

5 Strikes - 50% Reduction of value at final payout

6 Strikes - Faction disbanded