Server Rules - Breaking will result in permanent BAN

Basic Rules
- No Xray, No Hacks, No Flight
- No Racism
- No Sexism
- No offensive Minecraft Skins
- No chat Harrassment, Spam or Advertising
- LIMIT profanity. Repeated cursing is not allowed.
- No fights in PUBLIC chat
- Respect mods decision. If need to bring a decision to a higher power see Ranks guide.

Player vs Player
- You may kill a player 3 times in one hour. More is considered camping and banable unless your town is at war with the other town as described in the town war section. See PvP rules and definitions for in depth list of server rules.

Stealing
- If a chest is unlocked it is fair game. There will most likely be a lockpicking mod installed as well. This is a survival server first.

Griefing
- Towny is in place to prevent griefing. If a structure does NOT have towny protection it is fair game. It is YOUR responsibility to properly use towny to protect your structures and /lwc for chests.
- You must build 15 blocks away from someone else's structure unless they give permission otherwise.
- Using water/lava on or by someones structure IS griefing and is a banable offense.

These rules are to be enforced by the staff of the server, Moderators and Admins. Do not attempt to resolve such issues through PVP or counter-attacks by griefing or stealing someone else’s stuff. This will end in you being banned.

Be mature. Be responsible.

1. No Griefing as defined in Haven

Griefing, as defined here, is the act of trying to circumvent region and towny protection by placing blocks, removing blocks, adding water or lava, or starting fires, intentionally or unintentionally causing grief. Yes, you will be banned for this. “ I didn't know” is not an excuse.

2. No Camping someones property.

Unless CLEARLY marked otherwise, such as “Anyone welcome” or “Come on in,”. You may NOT stay on someones PROTECTED TOWNY property uninvited for MORE than 15 minutes UNLESS your town is at war with said area as defined in Towny War rules section.

3. Trading vs Stealing.

Stealing consists of taking items or blocks from another person or another person’s property and not paying for them during a TRADE. If a chest is unlocked you MAY take the items. However you may NOT grief to get to a chest.

4. Restricted items.

Lighters are forbidden. Lava and Water buckets are for rank Hero and above. Fire spread is disabled server-side. If you use restricted items, you will be banned immediately, even if it does not cause damage due to server protection. If you are rank Hero and above and use water or lava to grief you will be banned immediately.

5. Client Side Code.

Client tools which allow the injection of items into the game are not tolerated. Client side code which changes the way the game works for your character, such as no-clipping, flight, healing, invulnerability, transparency textures or futuristic diamond radar type stuff, is not allowed. There is no “testing,” “playing,” or “seeing if it works.” The use of any of these tools will result in a permanent ban.

6. Chat Behavior.

Global chat is for chat of the Minecraft world of Haven. Try to limit real world conversations.

LIMITED Profanity is tolerated, abuse or harrassment of other players is not. If you talk about another in global chat in a threatining or abusive way, expect to be muted or banned. Be mindful of your audience and be aware of requests to stop. Do not spam the channel. Spammers are banned without warning. Keep caps use to a minimum.

7. Conflict Resolution.

Resolve your own conflicts when possible. Do it quickly and with compassion for the other user. You do not want the staff to have to step in and resolve them for you. You do not want to rant and rail about how someone did something to you. If a user violates a rule, simply report this to staff, and we’ll handle it. Additional profanity or conflict on your part is not necessary.

8. PVP

PVP is allowed. Camping*, Griefing* and Scamming is not. You do not 'need' to return items gained in pvp but it is a nice thing to do. You may NOT kill the same user more than 3 times in one hour. Otherwise you will be banned. See PVP rules and Definitions for complete guidelines.

9. Staff.

Haven consists of a group of Administrators, and Moderators who report to those Administrators. The Mods are tasked with certain responsibilities, to generally assist other users and guests with questions and gameplay issues. Staff is exempted from many of these rules for reasons of practicality. Moderators do not promote builders, and do not make policy decisions. Administrators make policy and set rules, in addition to promoting builders and Mods. If you are told to do something, or not to do something, by a member of the staff, follow their instructions. Hordes of guests and a constant stream of new builders come through the server. Admins generally have families and jobs AND lives, and will not tolerate additional stress in a video game. If you mess with the staff, you will be banned. Begging staff to spawn items or be teleported is grounds for immediate ban.

10. I was Banned?

If you have been banned from the server you may feel free to request a ban appeal on the server’s forums. Includes your username, what you were banned for doing, why it was wrong, and why you’ll never do it again. The admin staff will review your request and consider removal from the ban list. If you rail and rant and scream about how some mod DARED to ban you, we will likely uphold the decision regardless of other mitigating circumstances.


-Team Haven