Rules

ALL SERVICES

• 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 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
    • Any use of xray / ore detection will result in an immediate 1 month 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.

• Additional revision-specific rules can be found on each servers page.
  • PvE Information Page
  • Creative Information Page

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

MUMBLE/IRC/FORUMS/WIKI

• On mumble, no "spamming" with loud or annoying noises
• On mumble, please use push-to-talk
• On mumble, no recording unless you have permission from everyone in the channel
• Please mark all NSFW links as such - do not send NSFW material to minors or people who are not interested in seeing it.
• No "griefing" the wiki