Rules

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Our three base rules are:

1. Griefing, killing, stealing and scamming are allowed
2. You are not allowed to:
  • use mods that give an unfair advantage ('hack clients')
  • abuse glitches or otherwise misuse anything that is not an intended part of the game in any way that confers a significant advantage
Violation of this rule will lead to a permanent ban, although admins may in some cases warn before banning. When in doubt, ask either ingame or on the forum.
3. Do not share real life personal information (PII) about other players without permission. Do not contact people outside the game without permission. Do not take ingame feuds or anger outside of the game.
  • Personal information includes things such as real name, non-Minecraft related contact information or accounts, and geographic location. This also includes false information, as long as it's probable that the information is real or that other people will believe it to be real. Neither the provenance of the information nor whether the person in question was previously ok with having it shared excuse breaking this rule.
  • The primary intent of this rule is to ensure that people can play on the server without having to worry about players taking feuds or other issues into real life. Simply: Don't take issues with other players outside the game. Ill intent exacerbates violations but is not a necessary requirement for violations, some people simply prefer to keep their real life information secret, and that should be respected.
  • A particular exacerbating factor for rule violations is real life threats of any kind. This includes implied and/or unrealistic threats, as well as threats that do not involve the use of violence.

For the wiki rules, see Simplicitypvp:Policies and guidelines.

To suggest changes to this page, please edit Rules/Sandbox, and then your change may imported back to the main page.

Discussion of rule #2

Rule #2 means that cheats such as x-ray, flymod, nuker, forcefield and so on are all banned. Glitches are taken to mean things that are obviously not an intended feature of the game, that not everybody uses, in such a way that you gain a significant advantage. This means things such as using the sand/gravel-dropping trick to see through the ground. It includes abusing bad game RNG for significant advantage, such as the "clay exploit" for finding diamonds, or reversing the game seed to locate bases from screenshots. It also includes things such as admin error or any other weird behavior from the server that is not intended, such as somehow ending up in creative mode. Duplicating items is also not allowed (anything that can be actively stored inside of containers or inventories).

One of the main goals behind this rule is to avoid an arms race where every player has to begin using some cheat in order to be able to keep up with the other players. Mods that provide quality of life improvement, but that don't put you significantly above players on vanilla clients, are generally fine. Whereas mods that allow you to do things that would make it impossible for someone on a vanilla client to compete with you are definitely not allowed. It can be hard to know exactly whether something is a significant advantage, so if you want to be safe you should avoid using any mod until you've confirmed it's acceptable.


Discussion of rule #3

This rule means that you shouldn't share any kind of non-Minecraft-related information or content about people, whether as a joke or not, without permission. Don't post fake pictures/information about people. Don't give out people's real names. Linking to somebody's Minecraft-related YouTube is generally fine. Linking to somebody's NameMC listing is ok. Linking to somebody's private facebook is not. You should not contact people or any of their acquaintances outside the game without their permission. You should not be using real life (including most content from outside the game) information or content to troll people. You shouldn't harass or blackmail people with any real life information or content, whether fake or not. Photoshopping somebody's avatar is ok. Photoshopping their real image unless they're ok with it is not ok.

Punishment is entirely up to admin discretion. This rule is not entirely rigid, as it's hard to define exactly where the border is. Some things technically against it will not be punished, and some things not explicitly forbidden by it may be forbidden. If possible, we will prefer to talk it out with the parties involved. If necessary, we may tempban and rarely permaban.

Guidance

Rule 2 says that mods or glitch abuse that give an unfair or significant advantage are not allowed. That is vague, so this section tries to help by discussing some specific cases that are allowed and some that aren't.

This list is far from exhaustive, you can use your own judgment as to whether something violates the rules, or if in doubt ask an admin.

Keep in mind that a mod being listed here does not mean it is not possible to misuse it.

Texture Packs and Shaders

Texture packs are allowed, but they may not allow you to see through solid blocks like stone, dirt, netherrack etc.

Shaders are allowed. Shaders that increase your gamma setting so that the game is always at full brightness are allowed.

Optifine is allowed.

Fullbright

Fullbright mods are not allowed. Editing your brightness through the configuration file is allowed.

Minimaps

Minimaps are allowed, but they may not give you information that otherwise you would be unlikely to gain, this means they may not show caves, tunnels or other hidden underground structures, and they may not show mobs, other players or entities in general.

This means mods such as Xaero's minimap, Xaero's world map, and VoxelMap are not allowed. Xaero's fairplay version is allowed.

World Downloading

You are allowed to download parts of the world to use locally.

You are not allowed to use world downloads to x-ray or for base finding. Maps based on world downloads should not show anything hidden or underground. (With exception of server-sanctioned public maps that show a slice of underground content for technical reasons.)

Bots / Automation Mods

Bots are generally not allowed. Chat-only bots are allowed. Bots that do not confer an advantage or are otherwise profitable are also allowed. [Source]

Chat

Mods that improve chat, such as Improved Chat, are allowed.

Autoreconnect

Automatically logging in after getting disconnected, better known as autoreconnect, is not allowed.

Autoreconnect also includes mods to automatically do /on. Bots however may do /on if someone sends a command to them to do so.

For bots, the compromise we've come to is that there has to be a human who actively wants the bot online and takes a manual action to log it in. This can be by having someone start the bot manually, or manually sending a command for the bot to login.

As for having a human who actively wants the bot online, that means the person must notice the bot is missing and then log it in on their own initiative. The bot may not send notifications (for example on discord) to people in order to have them log it back in.

Autoclickers

Autoclickers are allowed to a limited degree. They are permissible if they click slower than once per second, and are used while stationary.

Physically having a key or mouse button held down is allowed.

Autoclickers are not allowed in pvp or combat. Anything that lets you click faster than is normally possible is also not allowed.

End Crystal Optimizers

Mods that make placing end crystals faster with high ping or otherwise are not allowed.

Duping

Duping items that can be put into your inventory is not allowed.

Book mods

Book writing mods are not allowed. Saving books to files is allowed.

Text client

Text-only clients are fine, even if they make you hover/stay still. However in that case you may not use any movement in the client.

Seed exploits

Attempting to compute the server's seed is not allowed. Using the seed to find things is not allowed.

Entity Tracking

Using the Entity Pie Chart to track how far away certain entities are ("Pie-Ray") in order to find bases, caves etc. is not allowed.

List of mods that are probably safe to use

These specific mods are probably fine for you to use. But again keep in mind that a mod being listed here does not mean it is not possible to misuse it, and that mods may have functionality that was not reviewed or considered when the mod was added to this list.

Location exploits

Exploits are generally not allowed, and that includes exploits that let you find players or bases. Some notable exploits or cheats that are not allowed include x-ray, the thunder exploit, wolf exploit, clay patch diamond mining exploit, and arrow-owner exploit.

Because of the severe impact location exploits can have on servers such as simpvp, we consider unfair advantage to cover all such exploits by default. If you figure out an exploit, glitch, cheat or anything that could possibly be construed as an unfair or abnormal method of base or player finding, then by default you should consider that method as not being allowed. Exploits often require modded clients to function, but glitches that let you unfairly find bases or players without mods are still not allowed.

Using or further sharing information that was obtained illegitimately is also not allowed, even if you yourself did not use any banned location finding method. Mercy may be shown to people who in good faith thought the information was obtained legitimately, but once you know information was not obtained legitimately you cannot act on it, and if you suspect it might not be legitimate then you should wait to act on it until you've confirmed it was obtained legitimately.

Below are some methods of base and player finding that are explicitly allowed. If an exploit is not included on this list, assume it is not allowed and ask an admin before using it for your own protection.

Chunk borders

Following chunk borders that are created from previous versions of Minecraft are allowed on the server. This includes the more older chunk trails near Spawn that result in very obvious chunk errors caused by biome changes between early versions of Minecraft, as well as indiscriminate trails such as the lack of presence of an ore that came in a later version of the game (nether quartz, nether gold), vegetation (bamboo, kelp), or even structure differences (woolen desert temples, 1.14 villages).

Using a program/mod which highlights previously loaded chunks is not allowed. You will have to deduce which chunks are old or new yourself.

Turtle exploit

The turtle exploit, which involves following a turtle back to the location it spawned in originally, is allowed on the server. Turtle AI in Minecraft compels them to return to the location that they hatched at, meaning a turtle will travel back to the location of its birth no matter how far away it is. Because this is clearly an intended and programmed feature added by Mojang developers, following a turtle thousands or even millions of blocks to the base it was bred at originally is permitted.

See also

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