1.1 - Harassing and Killing New Players
Killing and harassing new players is strictly against the rules!
You can check if someone is new with /res (playerName).

New users that opt out of their new-player invulnerability with '/invulnurabilityoff' and engage in pvp are not protected under this rule.

1.2 - Stealing and raiding players/towns/nations
Stealing from and raiding other players, towns, and nations is allowed. Although stealing from fellow town residents is frowned upon, it is entirely up the mayor and other town authorities to prevent stealing, and take action against thieves through commands.
Towns are 100% capable of preventing their own residents from stealing from eachother via commands and in-game mechanics!

1.3 - Griefing
Traditional Griefing is not allowed. You may break & enter through builds/bases to enter them, but you may not entirely destroy them. See more in Section 3.1

1.4 - Chat Behaviors.
Spamming, sending messages that disrupt the flow of chat, or excessive raging, cursing and racism. If you want to be toxic with your chat, don't do it on any ConquerEarthMC Service or related discords

1.5 - Unwanted Behaviors.
These behaviors are not allowed on the server:
- Explicit forms of bullying
- Encouraging self-harm
- Repetitive use of racist and/or derogatory terms.
- Inciting violence, explicit forms of racial basis, hate speech against racial/social minorities.
- Explicit talk about sex, drugs, alcohol and other topics

1.6 - Personal Information.
Sharing personal information, such as the identities of others, that would be otherwise private, without their explicit permission is strictly forbidden. Personal information includes, but not limited to; photos of players (irl), phone numbers, home addresses, social networks, school location, work location, family relations, ip addresses and geological location.

1.7 - Link Sharing
You can share links in whispers and town chats. You can only share server related links in general chat. Links must also be respectful to our server rules.
No linking to sexual, violent, disturbing content is allowed.

1.8 - Advertising.
Advertising is not allowed on the server. Promoting your town or nation is fine.

1.9 - Selling content/services for real money.
You are not allowed to sell in-game items or services for real life money.

2.0 - Controversial, discriminatory, derogatory, or bigoted language and slurs are prohibited.

2.1 - Benefitting
Players knowingly benefitting from another player's exploitation or rules, exploits, glitches or hacks; will be punished equally.

2.2 - Technical errors and server exploits
Players are not allowed to take advantage of server bugs, exploits, or other technical oversights.

2.3 - Exploiting bugs & glitches
Players are not allowed to exploit or take advantage of game bugs or glitches such as duping or block-glitching.

2.4 - Alternative Accounts
Alternative accounts, otherwise known as "alts", are not allowed. You are entitled to one account per player. Alternative accounts will be suspended, and your main account will be temporarily banned if you are found breaking this rule deliberately.

Deciding to permanently migrate/switch from different platforms, such as from bedrock edition to java edition, is permitted.

If you play on the Java edition on your pc and would like to play the server away from your pc, such as on your phone, you cannot use separate accounts; instead, visit link.geysermc.org, or type '/linkaccount' in-game to link your java and bedrock accounts.

2.5 - Cheat clients and game changing modifications.
Cheat clients, macro keying and other modifications that give you a technical/gameplay advantage over another player are not allowed. If you are found breaking this rule, you will be issued a temporary or permanent ban.

These rules to not apply to any modification which does not give you an advantage such as optifine, performance optimization mods, badlion, lunar, litematica, armor effect status HUD mods, and minimal minimap mods (that dont provide any feature more than what the dynamic webmap provides).

2.6 - Intentional Lag/disruption of ConquerEarthMC Services.
Intentionally causing harm to our services through DDOS, Spamming, raiding or other illegal exploitive methods is not allowed. All illegal access will be logged in detail and reported.

2.7 - Duping
Gold and money is intended to be acquired through mining, trading, farming, or any advertised mechanic. Duplicating OR knowingly accepting duplicated gold, money, etc. with an unintended exploit will result,at a very lucky minimum, all of your combined assets, money, and wealth being completely wiped. This includes your personal balance, town bank, and nation bank. Most likely will also result in a ban.

2.8 - Gaining an advantage or benefit from any client, mod, resourcepack, shaderpack, or any other modification, that you wouldn't otherwise have on a normal unmodified vanilla instance of the game is, at the very least, cheating and highly against the rules.

3.1 - Lava Casting/Use of Lava/Water
Griefing with the use of Lava, water or lava casts is not allowed. All griefs will be rolled back and you'll be temporarily suspended

3.2 - Stealing Specifics
Stealing specific blocks/items for their value is not griefing and allowed. This does not apply to easily acquired items that would be considered valuable to you.

3.3 - Major terraforming
To preserve the accuracy of real-world geography, major terraforming of the natural terrain is not allowed. In the wilderness, you can not level or destroy mountains, plains, deserts, etc... Resource collection is permitted but must done sparsely to no extremely noticeable degree. Do not drain large lakes or rivers, create artificial islands or cover the ocean with platforms (ships are okay). You may break, destroy, level, or terraform whatever you want underneath the surface BUT NOT ABOVE GROUND!

3.4 - Mass killing of peaceful mobs in another person's claims
Mass killing of peaceful mobs in someone else's claims is not allowed, i.e., Villagers, Pigs, Cows, Chicken, etc. You can of course kill whatever you want in your own claims.

3.6 - Griefing other towns and in the wild is prohibited!
Although you may steal specific blocks of value, for their value, and you can break blocks for entry into areas and buildings, you cannot grief!
You cannot break, destroy, or level a build for the sake of doing so...
If you come across an unclaimed build, you cannot destroy or lava cast it!
If it is a building outside your own town's claims, it must be preserved.

3.7 - To preserve the real-world geography and accuracy of the map, you cannot grief the wilderness.
The real-world and natural geography of the map must be preserved in the wild.
For example, if Mount Everest is unclaimed or in someone elses claims, you cannot decide to destroy it. You cannot destroy Hawaii.

3.6 - Within your own towny claims, you can do whatever you want.
Aforementioned griefing rules apply to that which is outside of your own towny claims.

For example, if you find the ruins of a totally unclaimed town, you may not destroy it in the wild... BUT if you claim said town you are now permitted to do whatever you want to the buildings within your own towny claims. If you claim a mountain, and only if its your claims, you may terraform it as much as you'd like since you can do whatever you want in YOUR OWN claims.

Lower-level residents cannot grief or destroy builds of residents of the same level, or higher authority town members. Higher authority town members, such as mayors or viceroys, may decide they do not want the build of a lower-level resident within their town, in which case they are allowed to do whatever they want with it.

4.1 - Engaging in Combat
After you have defeated someone in combat, do not engage in combat with them again unless they engage with you, steal the loot you obtained. It is best to loot and walk away after.

4.2 - Claim Hopping
You are not allowed to run in and out of claims to gain an invincible advantage over others. It is good practice to enable PVP for your whole town during sieges so as not to violate this rule.

4.3 - Spawn Camping
Do not repetitively kill someone after they have spawned in. (See Rule 4.1). Do not wait outside of their base after you have already killed them. Do not use /sethome to teleport back to their lands.

4.4 - Teleport Killing
When offering a teleport to another player or accepting a teleport it is against the rules to immediately pvp the sender or receiver (Groups of both parties included where applicable). If a party wishes to pvp the person teleported they must wait a minute from when the receiver/sender initially accepted the teleport.

4.5 - Teleport Trapping
Requesting a player to teleport to you with intent to trap them is against the rules; accepting a players teleport request into an inescapable or trapped position, that they cannot teleport from, is against the rules. For example, outlawing a player so they are unable to use teleport commands in your town then tping them into a position they cannot escape from will get you banned. Teleporting a player into an interior or closed position that they can escape by movement or command is fair and legal. If they can and do leave via teleport or other commands, no rule was broken. Ensure wherever you teleport someone to, they can exit the premises or use teleport commands.

4.6 - Siege Banner Area Preparation Rule
Before placing a siege banner, attackers must completely clear the area of any holes, walls, or other obstacles. The banner location must not be prepared in advance in any way that provides an advantage to the attackers. This includes, but is not limited to, holes, tunnels, walls, or blocks placed to slow down or obstruct defenders. Failure to comply with this rule invalidates the entire siege; the siege immediately ends and defenders receive the full war chest.

5.1 - Town Names
When creating a town, make sure your name complies with naming rules. Names can be changed by staff members if they're not following the rules.
- Fictional town names are allowed.
- Town names cannot be inappropriate, offensive or toxic.
- Towns cannot have similar names to already established towns, where one could easily be confused with another.

5.2 - Nation Names.
When creating a Nation, make sure your name complies with naming rules. Names can be changed by staff members if they're not following the rules.
- Fictional Nation names are allowed.
- Nation names cannot be inappropriate, offensive or toxic.
- Nations cannot have similar names to already established Nations/Towns, where one could easily be confused with another.

6.1 - Adjudication Authority of Staff Members
Staff members serve as the ultimate authority in matters of rule enforcement. They are not bound by predetermined standards for administering punishments. Their decisions are final. Staff members act as both the adjudicator, determining guilt or innocence, and the arbiter, assigning appropriate sanctions. They are not confined by forum regulations and may exercise discretion in disciplining or abstaining from disciplining individuals, based on any rationale they deem justifiable.

6.2 - Consideration of Context
In evaluating player reports, we place significant emphasis on contextual analysis. The act of rule infringement is examined within the broader framework of the entire incident. If your own actions contribute to a perception of the reported player's behavior as more reasonable or understandable, it may impact the severity of their penalty or result in no penalty at all. Contextual nuances are paramount.

6.3 - Conduct in Reporting and Interactions with Staff
It is imperative that you exhibit respect towards Staff members. Derogatory language, insults, and arguments are strictly discouraged. While Staff members do not assert an air of superiority, we do expect your deference, particularly in a report. Cooperation and respect towards staff are prerequisites. Failure to adhere to these expectations may result in the dismissal of your report, and in severe cases, potential repercussions for you. Display maturity in all interactions.

6.4 - Efficient Utilization of Staff Resources
Staff members are committed to assisting you, provided that your intentions are genuine. Clarity, decisiveness, and adherence to the aforementioned guidelines are indispensable. However, we do not entertain prolonged grievances or disputes concerning other players. Persistent misuse of our time, following a warning, may lead to the dismissal of your report, with potential consequences for you.

6.5 - Prohibition of Entrapment
Instances of provoking others to breach rules, or orchestrating scenarios for reporting purposes, are expressly prohibited. For instance, deliberately creating situations where a rule is violated may result in penalties equivalent to a rule infraction. This practice of resorting to reporting as a means of resolving conflicts rather than engaging in authentic gameplay is viewed with significant disapproval by staff. Context is pivotal in this assessment, and inciting breaches within a specific context is not exempt from scrutiny.

6.6 - Discouragement of Spam Reporting
Refrain from inundating us with multiple reports regarding the same player. If a fellow player or town member has already filed a report, duplicating it is unnecessary. Once a decision has been reached and your ticket closed, please refrain from submitting additional reports on the same matter.

6.7 - Discretion Regarding Discussions on Punishments, Reports, or Rule Violations
Engaging in discussions about punishments, reports, or rule violations with an intention to spread gossip or create an atmosphere of controversy is strictly prohibited. We are committed to fostering a healthy and constructive environment free from toxic exchanges and unfounded allegations.

6.8 - Rule by Law Policy
ConquerEarthMC's, and her service's, administration and staff Rule by Law. Rule by Law is a system of governance where laws are the primary source of authority and legitimacy for the government. Our policy is Rule by Law as opposed to Rule of Law; Rule of Law is a principle of governance where everyone, including the government itself, is subject to the same publicly known and fairly applied laws. Don't confuse the two, Rule of Law has no place here. In the context of ConquerEarthMC and her services, our policy of Rule by Law means that all users are subject to staff. The staff are the server. The staff aren't subject to the law, policy, or rules of the server, they are the rules; staff are the executive, judicial, and legislative. There is no balance of power between the users and staff as existent under the server. All users exist under the adjudication and authority of staff. If you want to challenge a staff member or their decision, you do so by approaching staff again and hoping another member disagrees with the decision as unjust, abusive or unfair; you approach staff with grievances because you have no power or ability to challenge the server and the server as staff. If you anger, annoy, or disrespect a staff member, they as the server can and likely will reject and ban you. Users have not a shred of leverage against staff or server.

6.9 - Staff can do whatever they want
Staff can do whatever they want whenever they want. They are not immune to recourse, demotion, or removal for unjust staff abuse; but this recourse is only actionable after the fact. In the moment, staff have the active right, privilege, and ability to do whatever they want. If you believe a staff member's action was abusive, unjust, or unfair, communicate with another trusted staff member to represent and fight for you. If all the staff agree with an action dealt upon you, and none believe it to be unjust or abusive, if you continue to push persecution and forgiveness for your perceived "abuse," you will be lucky to not get banned as, once again, staff can do whatever they want.

6.91 - Staff as Ultimate and Supreme Authority
Any and all staff members, and their group-roles, can use their respective perms/commands in game, on discord, and on any of Conquer's services against you, anyway they deem fit. Staff act as judge, jury, and executioner. Arguing that a rule was or was not broken is futile, as you have no say in decision-making or determination; whether or not a rule was or was not broken is ultimately up to staff. Staff reserve the right to use their perms/commands against you without reason or proof. Staff can use their authorities against you for any reason not listed under rules. Staff can come up with rules on the fly. Staff can use any of their permissions, commands, abilities, and authorities, such as banning, for any reason including being annoying or showing disrespect. Staff can do whatever, whenever, with ultimate power and authority. Consider ConquerEarthMC and her services an authoritarian dictatorship of the staff; with this being said, if you want to report a member of staff for staff abuse, do so by contacting another trusted staff member as representation.