Rules

Common

• Absolutely no impersonation of staff members.
• No attempts to circumvent any protections on the server, including but not limited to the server script, LWC(Chest protection), WorldGuard(Block protection), and GriefAlert. Attempts to do so without permission will result in a ban without appeal.
• Invisible or glitched players may have their data reset without warning.
• No sharing of illegal content.
• No blatant sexism, racism, or hate speech targeted at specific users.
• No griefing, including but not limited to: destroying blocks placed by other players, flooding structures, spamming items, leaving inappropriate signs on others’ structures, destroying plants (none of these apply to chaos)
• No "grief-baiting". This means that players cannot try to get other players in trouble by tricking/forcing them to destroying structures in an attempt to get the player warned or banned. This will fall under our umbrella "Don't be a dick." rule and will (if abused enough) result in a ban.
• No placing banned items (banned items are specific to each server)
• Players blatantly using modifications to change gameplay may be asked to stop, kicked, or banned with little warning. This includes, but is not limited to: flying, noclip, invincibility, speed, and duping hacks.
• Don't be a dick (the staff reserves the right to mess with dicks...in a completely asexual and extremely self-depriving yet generous way)
• No trolling in chat (Don’t spam the chat with useless twaddle)
• You are responsible for your own account. If your account is used by someone else for griefing the server in any way, it will be banned. Please do not message the moderators with the excuse that someone else used your account. We have no way to verify this, and as such, it will not be tolerated as an excuse.
• If you are banned under one account you cannot play on other accounts on the server while the ban is still in effect. Caught playing on alt accounts while your main account is banned will result in your alt accounts being permanently banned.
• Any rules placed at spawn on the servers supersede the rules here as they will generally be more up-to-date.
• Please respect all players. Blatant harassment of the staff, or any one else, can result in a kick or a ban.
• Please don’t complain about lag or server restarts. It’s a fact of life, our technical admins are constantly working to smooth the experience, and it gets annoying. They do their best to prevent rollbacks. Since they are working for zero profit and yet give us such a nice set of servers and/or playing experience please treat the techies like the majestic beasts they are.
• Do not spam /modreq (mod requests) with silly requests or things which cannot/do not need to be resolved by staff.
• No offensive or inappropriate skins. Failure to change when asked by a mod will result in a ban until it is changed.
• No NSFW constructions (e.g. giant phallic buildings).

PvE

• Banned Items: Fire (flint and steel), TNT, flowing lava, boats, water buckets, lava buckets, (if you need water or lava placed please make a /req)
• All placed banned items (water, lava, etc) must be protected by a moderator after they are placed.
• Buckets are for milk only
• Redstone mechanisms and dispensers may be removed at moderator discretion; abuse of these may result in a ban
• No killing other players with any means. This includes, but is not limited to: Dropping lava on or around them, dropping blocks on them, or pushing them and forcing them to fall. Additionally, no traps designed to kill other players.
• The current PvE map is very beautiful but also very height-disadvantaged for players. As such we will warn/kick players who continuously build what are known as 'tard-towers' (towers that are only a single block wide) that tarnish the landscape. If you wish to reach floating islands or higher elevations please at least add ladders to these sorts of towers or create stairs. Be respectful of the map and do not mar the experience or view for other players.
• Don't Build any structure within 40-50 blocks from any StarGates.
• Large unique trees such as redwoods and acacias do not regrow, and may be part of an individual or community's landscaping. Destruction of said landscaping constitutes griefing, so if there is any doubt whatsoever as to the state of these trees, do not cut them down.
• Grinders need registering in the grinder room under spawn. They are portals for mods only, admins need to make them.
• Grinders must be protected and have an incinerator (destroys drops when no one is using, like cactus or lava)

Survival

• Banned Items: Fire (flint and steel), TNT, boats, flowing lava, and water buckets (if you need water or lava placed please make a /req).
• No killing other players outside designated PvP areas
• No killing other players with lava or any other means in PvE areas. This includes, but is not limited to: Dropping lava on or around them, dropping blocks on them, or pushing them and forcing them to fall.
• No forced takeovers of others’ bases. This includes camping in or around a base, killing unarmed players who are attempting to re-enter the base.ref
• No removing blocks from others' structures to enter them unless for PvP purposes (obvious griefing not allowed) and if any blocks are removed you must replace them even if you are killed.
• No spawn camping. This includes staying in the pve zone waiting for players to enter pvp only to kill them again and again as they attempt to leave spawn.
• Logging out and back in during pvp play with one or multiple accounts to give yourself an advantage during combat may get the player warned by a mod and if shown to be used to give the player an advantage by an admin may get the user kicked/temporarily banned from the server.
• Killing wolves/dogs/PUPPIES is allowed. Killing them in spawn is accepted as well (we treat them as just another mob that can be used as a weapon such as leading creepers around to damage players).
• No placing locked chests/furnaces, such that they are accessible by a player standing inside a non-pvp zone (e.g. protected region around spawn). Chests/furnaces that violate this rule along with any items therein may be destroyed without warning.
• Any chest that is left unlocked is fair game to be looted. You may not take the chest, nor lock it to yourself, but you may take the contents of the chest.

Chaos

• Banned Items: None
• No rules, except the common server rules (minus griefing). No hacking or client mods, specifically.
• Admins reserve the right to clean up anything making the game unplayable, including making spawn inescapable by any means.
• The map should be considered volatile and may potentially be reset at any time

Creative

• Banned Items:
  • 7 Bedrock
  • 8 Water
  • 9 Stationary water
  • 10 Lava
  • 11 Stationary lava
  • 46 TNT
  • 51 Fire
  • 52 Monster Spawner
  • 73 Redstone Ore
  • 79 Ice
  • 90 Portal
  • 259 Flint and Steel
  • 289 Sulphur
  • 325 Bucket
  • 326 Water bucket
  • 327 Lava bucket
  • 333 Boat
  • 342 Storage Minecart
  • 343 Powered Minecart
  • 346 Fishing Rod
• If you would like any of these items, you can ask a mod or an admin to place them for you.

Mumble/IRC/Nerd.nu Forums

• No “spamming” in the mumble with loud or generally annoying noises
• For Mumble you may be asked to put on push to talk, if a player fails to do so he may be moved to the channel “Turn On Push to Talk”. If a player repeatedly joins a channel and causes problems he or she may be kicked or even banned.
• No blatant sexism, racism, or hate speech targeted at specific users.
• Excessive trolling in general will not be tolerated and may result in a ban from the forum, mumble, or even the nerd.nu servers.

Banning policy

• If you are reporting a ban to the mods, you must supply some form of proof for your claims (i.e. screenshots, video, or visual confirmation by a mod/admin)
• An attempt at establishing communication will be made.
• If this fails, the player will first be kicked, and if they rejoin and continue their actions they will be banned.
• You may appeal bans by following the appeals process at nerd.nu/forum.
• Please do not make a subreddit post or it may be removed & ignored.
• Lifting bans is done entirely at the discretion of the mods / admins, and conditions may be imposed if a ban is lifted.

Wiki rules

If you destroy anything on this wiki, you will also be banned from the Reddit Public Minecraft Servers

This is taken extremely seriously. If you are banned from this wiki or the minecraft servers your may appeal your ban at http://nerd.nu/appeal.