Note: ship piracy and theft is covered under Rule 5.

You are allowed to grief and steal from unclaimed land (Wilderness) and ruined towns.

• Ruined towns are marked by a hazard symbol on the map.
• You may also steal from the Nether.

You are not allowed to grief and steal from claimed land.

• This includes livestock, chest items, communal resources, and slimefun machines. You should ask your mayor for permission before taking anything from communal chests, factories, etc.
• The only exception is damaging towns under siege using cannons. This is allowed as long as it does not involve insiding (next rule).

Insiding, or betraying, is the act of maliciously harming a town that you have been given permissions to. Please note that this rule only affects towns and not an entire nation.

There are legal and illegal forms of insiding.

Illegal insiding involves abusing permissions to modify and harm the town in two ways:

• Physically by unlocking ships, stealing, griefing or enabling griefing (e.g. deliberately staying online to let enemies bomb a town)
• As a Towny entity: (e.g. by kicking residents, emptying the town bank, unclaiming land, etc.)

Other forms of insiding are legal. These include actions like spying, leaking information and teleporting enemies inside and outside the town.

As a mayor, you are expected to be seen as a leader of the town you’ve been entrusted to. If you are given mayorship by another individual, then you are the sole person responsible for the town as a mayor. “Temporary” or “placeholder” mayors do not exist.

Likewise, mayors are not dictators and do not have full authority to take or use all items within the town. Players have rights to their personal chests, enderchests, etc.

If you are removing a player from your town, you must grant them the opportunity to retrieve their personal items. Not doing so will result in staff intervention.

Any action that harms the lifespan or general aesthetics of the map is considered map defacement. 

This includes but is not limited to:

• Lavacasting and creating 'cobble monsters'.
• Deliberate mass deforestation not required for town expansion (e.g. burning down the Amazon).
• Excavating large, gaping holes visible on the map.
• Needlessly blowing up large tracts of land.
• Building vulgar structures including, but not limited to, Nazi imagery, phallic structures, obscene messages, etc.

Deliberate and conscious map defacement is punishable.

Terraforming is allowed as long as it does not harm the general accuracy of the map.

Generally, terraforming projects which alter the view of the dynamic map are prohibited. These include, but are not limited to:

• Creating artificial islands.
• Creating artificial seas.
• Destroying large landmasses (e.g. Denmark; Madagascar).
• Draining or covering large lakes (e.g. Lake Victoria).

Vertical terraforming is allowed as long as it is not extreme. For example:

• You may flatten small mountains and hills which are obstructing the expansion of your town.
• You may not demolish entire mountain ranges, such as the Alps or Pyrenees.

Please ask staff if you are unsure whether your terraforming project would be allowed under these rules.

We ask that you make an effort to blend in your changes to the surrounding landscape. Please do not "temporarily" illegally terraform the map. Contact Staff if you have any questions.

You may mine sand in desert biomes provided the underlying stone is not exposed. We again ask that you make an effort to blend in your changes to the surrounding landscape.

Pixel art, as visible from the Dynmap or on the landscape, is not allowed. You may create art ingame through our art plugin instead.

In Nations, you are expected to create meaningful towns and nations that serve a purpose. To maintain these standards, we do not allow the landscape to be used for large, ugly, and utilitarian structures. 

Your entire town cannot be:

• An underground base
• A plain cube with no design variation
• Made of large, plain, untextured walls
• Built on a floating platform
• A factions-style base
• Floating in mid-air
• Used as a movecraft parking lot

An entire town may consist of a single castle, fort, or military base provided that it has proper effort put into it.

Castles, forts, military bases, and large structures must:

• Avoid being plain squares
• Have textured or well-designed exterior walls
• Show effort in their design and construction, similar to any passion project
• Be more complex than simply alternating two blocks to create a pattern

Please note that "siege bases" and "temporary towns/bases" are not exempt from these rules. The effort put into your town must be visible above ground as bunkers do not count as proper towns. If you need help finding blocks to use, we recommend using block gradient generators or asking staff for help.

An example of the ideal effort that must be put into building a castle, fort, military base, "siege base," or similar is shown below. Please note: this does not mean you must follow this image block-by-block. This is just an example of textured walls and plenty of effort.

The nations gamemode has a finite map with finite resources. We do not have the space to accommodate large empty claims that do not provide any actual substance to the map or overall gamemode.

Creating large empty claims, large long-term claims with minimal infrastructure/builds, or large one-building/block type “garages” is prohibited. Towns should plan to store movecraft ships appropriately via sea ports, proper aircraft hangars, etc.

Only claim land that will be developed or modified in the near future. If the land goes unmodified, unclaim the land so that it can be used by others.

Likewise, please only create nations that intend to act as nations. If you are creating a town/nation, you are expected to treat it and lead it like a town/nation.

Fictional town and nation names must sound at least somewhat plausible and cannot contain vulgar or offensive language.

Names that are clearly not serious, such as “Memetown”, “Best Siege Base“, “Obsidian Clan” and “Creeper Empire”, are not allowed.

• Town and nation names cannot refer to concentration camps (e.g. Auschwitz), Nazi Germany (e.g. "Third Reich" and "Fourth Reich"), or terrorist organizations.

• Towns named after a real settlement must be made near its location.

• The capitals of nations named after current or historical states must be located in the region where that state exist(ed).
  • For example, a nation called "China" with its capital in Africa would not be allowed.

Claim blocking, the act of purposefully obstructing the expansion of a town by claiming land around it, is not allowed.

• You may not claim large tracts of land with the sole purpose of keeping it empty yet claimed.
• You may not "temporarily" violate this rule for your convenience.
• Any claims used to this end may be deleted without warning or compensation.

• You can claim natural waterways if you leave enough room for large ships to pass through them at all times. Click here to see an example of a legal claim across a natural waterway.

• You cannot claim the sea near the four server-owned naval towns: Gibraltar, Panama Canal, Suez and Bab al-Mandab in a way that diminishes their value.

• You can claim and block player-made waterways, like canals, provided that the claims do not violate Rule 4.3.

"Snake claims" are long chains of claims. This includes long disconnected claims or “temporary” long chains of claims. These are not allowed and can be deleted by staff without warning or compensation. You may not temporarily break this rule for your convenience.

Snake claims can be allowed if used to claim substantial infrastructure, but only with admin approval! Do not temporarily violate this rule without asking staff first. Substantial infrastrucure is defined as buildings, walls, movecraft ships, etc. "Ganks" are not valid structures for snake claims.

Here is an example of an illegal snake claim:

In this section, all Movecraft craft types are referred to as ‘ships’.

• You can destroy and steal ships in the Wilderness without restriction.
• You can steal unsecured ships from claimed land, as long as the theft does not involve illegal griefing (see Rule 1).
• Do not not steal ship designs using the Repair or Shipyard mechanic.
• Securing ships is your responsibility. Place extended pistons on ships to lock them down, and use gates and doors to control access to your docks. Pilot signs alone are not considered valid locks. You should always save a copy of your ship using a shipyard.

• The designer(s) of a ship have the rights to the ship design. Only they can decide who can copy or reproduce a ship design.
  • Ship designs must be submitted on the forums in the Ship Design Registry in order to be protected under this rule. This is mandatory so that staff may know who designed a ship, otherwise we have no way to determine who built a design.

• You can modify and take inspiration from a ship that you physically own but do not have the design rights to, but you cannot copy or reproduce it.

Ship design copyrighting does have some limitations:

• Individual components of a ship, such as turrets are not copyrightable entities. If someone owns a physical copy of one of your ships and were to decide to use the same turret on their own ship, that would be legal.
• Once ship building/printing rights are granted to a party, they may not be revoked.

• This rule only applies to ships of the following types:
  • Corvette
  • Destroyer
  • Cruiser
  • Dreadnought
  • Aircraft Carrier
  • Submarine
  • Fighter
  • Bomber
  • Tank
  • Heavy Tank
  • IFV
  • Armed Merchantman

• Cubes, cuboids, flying carpets, towers and large appendages such as ladders will not be tolerated.
• "Parade float" zeppelins (zeppelins with specific themes outside of traditional realistic zeppelin or airship designs) are allowed and encouraged, but please keep them SFW. They may be used in sieges as long as they do not incite harassment, toxicity, ect. 
• Movecraft warships must have a defined “bridge” and must resemble a functional ship. They do not need to be carbon copies of real-world naval vessels, but they must appear plausible as such.
• Ships violating this rule may be deleted without warning or compensation.

• Shipyards may be used for building Movecraft ships, buildings, walls, and other substantial infrastructure.
• You may not use shipyards to grief terrain, grief claimed land, block PvP regions, or disrupt natural gameplay. This includes repairing a base during a battle session.

• You are allowed to scam other players for ingame currency and items. Consider using the /contracts system to trade securely.

You are allowed to trap and kill players anywhere, with the following exceptions:

• You cannot use traps to bypass new player kill protection. This includes dropping harmful items into a new player's inventory.

If it is found that you repeatedly died during a siege to sabotage your own side, you will be punished. This will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis: nobody will be punished for simply being bad at PvP.

If you use exploits to prevent the enemy from scoring points, you will be punished and the enemy team will be awarded points. Remember, Global Rule 6 prohibits the use of exploits.

• Non-peaceful towns must be separated from other towns by eight chunks. Town claims existing prior to January 2023 may remain 3 chunks away from other towns.
• You may not partially or fully encase non-peaceful towns with friendly towns. Violation of this rule may result in surrounding towns being deleted without warning and without compensation.
  • Ideally, attackers should not have to cross claims land in order to reach a siege on your town.

An example of a peaceful and non-peaceful town violating this rule: a peaceful town partially surrounds the non-peaceful town to make it impossible to be attacked from the west.

• This would be illegal even if the peaceful town was separated from the non-peaceful town by three or eight chunks. There is no 'loophole' in the rules here: the town is still encased.
• If you are afraid of your town being sieged then you should consider setting your town to peaceful.

Do not start so-called “fake" or "meme" sieges.

A "fake" siege is besieging allied or friendly towns to obtain some kind of benefit, such blocking a hostile siege or granting the town siege immunity.

The same applies to assaults. For example, you may not begin a 'friendly' assault on a region to prevent others from assaulting it.

A "meme" siege is a siege where there is no serious attempt by the initiator of the siege to win.

Do not build cannons at high altitudes relative to your town. Such "sky cannons" are generally built for the express purpose of avoiding enemy cannon fire and are prohibited.

Siege banners must be placed overground. Placing banners underground or at a low y-level relative to the surrounding terrain is forbidden and will result in the siege being deleted.
 

Likewise, banners may not be placed above ground at a high y-level relative to the surrounding terrain.

It is not allowed to occupy friendly non-peaceful towns to force enemies to conduct a liberation siege against it instead of a conquest siege.

You may not collaborate with another player and combat tag each other for the purpose of entering a peaceful town and baiting members of an otherwise PvP-Free zone into attacking you and entering combat. This is considered an exploit of the combat system in order to bypass Non-PvP zones and will be punished as such.
If you are naturally in PvP and you enter a Non-PvP zone, this rule does not apply to you.
Combat tagging players is intended to prevent them from escaping combat. It is not intended to allow you to weasel around PvP restrictions.

• You may not grief anything that is claimed
• You may not grief unclaimed structures that are within 3 chunks of a claimed Town
  • Structure must belong to the town it is nearby in order to be protected by this rule
  • Nation-Controlled Wilderness does not count as a claim for this purpose
• You may not grief anything that is in Nation-Controlled Wilderness
  • This includes wilderness controlled by your own nation
• You may not obstruct or otherwise deface or devalue a town and its surrounding landscape
  • This includes, but is not limited to the building of walls, waterwalls, lavacasts, discriminatory structures/symbols, and anything else that may be considered unwanted or unpleasant by those who own the town you are building outside of.
• You may not destroy any sort of infrastructure (railways, bridges, or other forms of infrastructure that cannot be realistically expected to be claimed)
  • Infrastructure typically includes:
    • Roads
    • Railways
  • This rule does not protect the following types of builds;:
    • Air-Bridges without supporting structure or form
    • 1-block bridges
    • 1-block pillars
    • Underground mining tunnels
    • Anything that isn't easily identifiable as a willful attempt to build unclaimed infrastructure

You are more than welcome to Terraform the terrain on Towny; however we ask that you make an effort to blend any jarring terrain changes with the surrounding terrain.

This rule does not give you permission to burn down a forest, mine down an entire mountain, or otherwise destroy large sections of terrain for no reason.

On Towny, it is difficult to find a reason for TNT to exist. Here are two:

• Movecraft Combat
• Controlled terraforming operations

Beyond this, there is typically no reason to use TNT and as such you are not permitted to randomly set off explosions that may damage terrain.

Theft in claimed land is not allowed, including stealing from your town members.

Theft of items in unclaimed land that has no clear relation to a nearby town is allowed.

• This means you can steal from unclaimed land, but you cannot steal from unclaimed land that is directly outside of a claimed town, as it is obvious that the items are owned by the players of the town.

Nation-controlled wilderness is nearly free game for members of the nation controlling the wilderness, however follow the above rule where if the items have a clear and distinct owner or purpose, you may not take them.

Please remember that the purpose of Towny is to encourage creativity and fun in a safe environment where players need not fear about conflict, theft, or destruction.

Items can be retrieved from another player if given permission.

In order to avoid miscommunication incidents, we encourage players to keep written accounts of permission if retrieving items from an unavailable player.

Ship piracy and theft is not allowed if the ship is secured with an immovable block or Pilot Sign.

You are not allowed to scam in-game items or currency under any circumstances.

You can not lure players into teleporting to a place that will kill them. You may not kill players who you have teleported to, requested to teleport to you, or that you have requested teleport to an area. Luring any player into teleporting into a hostile zone in order for you to kill them counts as TP killing and is illegal.

Luring people into travelling into hostile territory by any other means is legal, players should exercise caution when travelling into foreign territory.
You may lure players into arena plots so long as they have not been lured by teleporting to you or near the arena plot.

You may not lure players who have teleported to or near a PvP zone into the PvP zone to kill them. This is considered TP Killing.

Setting up traps in nation-controlled wilderness or town claims is not permitted.
You may not trap players from your town or nation unless the other party has consensually entered an Arena plot and agrees to fight.

When players go inactive in your town, we understand that their structures, chests, and other belongings take up space.

Our goal is to provide protections to both the player and the mayor in these cases.

For purposes below, playtime is considered the time from first login, to last login.

In the event the user is kicked for taxation or other reasons, the Mayor must provide an opportunity to the player upon return for them to regain their items.

Here are the Mayor guidelines for handling inactive players:

Case 1:
The player logs in, plays for a few hours, and then logs out and never returns.

Solution:
We ask that you give players who play for less than five days at least one week to return before you evict them from their plot. Once you evict them from their plot, we ask that you store everything from their plot for an additional two weeks in a secure storage area that is labelled with their username.

Once this two week storage period is over, the items are considered Town property and may be used however the Mayor wishes.

This protects the player from losing their items, and this protects the Mayor from any claims of theft against them.

Case 2:
The player is temporarily inactive, or has quit without announcement.

Solution:
We ask that you give players who play for more than five days at least two weeks to return before you evict them from their plot. Once you evict them from their plot, we ask that you store everything from their plot for an additional two months in a secure storage area that is labelled with their username.

Once this two month storage period is over, the items are considered Town property and may be used however the Mayor wishes.

This protects the player from losing their items within a reasonable period, and protects the Mayor from any claims of theft against them.

Case 3:
The player is either temporarily or permanently gone, and has given permission to take their belongings.

Solution:
Please ensure that if a player is offline for an extended period of time and has given you permission to their items, that you acquire solid evidence that you are allowed to take their items or modify their builds.

When this permission is given, we will operate within the exact wording of what the player states, and any actions taken outside of the permission given will be considered under the rules of Griefing and Theft as necessary.

Case 4:
The player has warned the Mayor of an extended absence.

Solution:
You are required to respect this extended absence warning and you may not take, store, or modify the players plot in any way.

Claim blocking is prohibited. This is the creation of new claims or towns with the intent of obstructing the expansion of another town. Such claims are subject to removal without warning or compensation.

Griefing a player's plot is strictly not allowed. Destroying designs, changing designs without permission, blowing up designs, etc are considered griefing.

Griefing the testing arena, provided that it does not violate Rule 1.2 is generally fine.

The Movecraft testing server is for testing purposes and is a provided luxury. You may not disrupt test fights by joining a fight without being asked, showing up and destroying ships without permission, building in the area of a fight, etc. Multiple infractions of this may result in complete removal from the Movecraft creative server.

Players may not purposefully crash the server, attempt to lag the server, or otherwise disrupt the server's runtime. Mistakes are inevitable, but please be aware of your ships and their capabilities.

You may merge plots with friends or town members in order to form larger shared plots, provided that you do not use alts for obtaining these plots. You may also contact staff through a ticket if you'd like a nearby inactive plot for yourself.

If a plot is found to harbor throwaway alt accounts, your entire plot may be completely wiped and revoked without warning or compensation.

You may not steal registered movecraft designs from other plots without permission from the original designer(s).

You are not allowed to post or share content that would violate Discord's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. Please keep yourself familiar with these guidelines, as we will enforce them accordingly on the Discord.

Your messages and conduct should take into account that our Discord is frequented by minors. Avoid excessive profanity and do not use slurs or discriminatory language.

You are not allowed to share NSFW, violent, malicious or otherwise distasteful content. This also applies to usernames, statuses and profile pictures.

Extremely toxic behavior in CCNet Related Discord servers may result in an ingame punishment. CCNet will not tolerate extreme toxicity within its community. If your discord server is for a CCNet nation or town, is majority composed of CCNet players, and/or involves announcements/active planning for CCNet, then it is considered a CCNet Related server. Users that violate Discord's Community Guidelines may be banned from the main CCNet Discord server and/or potentially ingame.

Do not spam messages, unnecessarily ping many users at once or mass DM users. This includes pinging or DMing Staff.

Respect your fellow community members. Do not insult, belittle or harass other users; do not bait them into arguments or provoke reactions from them.

Harassment and predatory behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated on this server, in direct messages with other members, and in servers advertised to CCNet users.

Publishing or sharing the identifiable personal details of a user without their consent ("doxxing") is strictly prohibited. Doing so will result in a permanent ban, report to Discord and possible notification of relevant authorities.

Do not advertise other Minecraft or Discord servers. Exceptions for the latter exist in the nations-discords and towny-discords channels. These are not to act as a gateway to toxic environments and invites can be removed at staff discretion. Extremely toxic behavior in these discord servers may result in an ingame punishment.

Use channels properly. Do not discuss random things in the Towny channels. Do not discuss gamemode specific things in other gamemodes channels.

Staff can act at their discretion and have the final say in any situation. If a staff member tells you to stop, stop. Staff are not required to argue with you, hear out your grievances, or listen to any kind of coping. You will not change minds by being argumentative and obnoxious with our staff.

While we welcome all players, it's essential to understand that we reserve the right to ban or remove individuals from CCNet at any time, especially in cases of abusive or hateful conduct. We do not guarantee an unrestricted right to free speech. Instead, we prioritize fostering a space where everyone feels safe and respected.

We want to make it clear that we will not entertain complaints about being removed, as our primary focus is the well-being of the entire community. By choosing to play on our server, players are required to follow the rules and guidelines set forth, regardless of personal opinions.

The rules and guidelines are also not a comprehensive list of every single thing that will ever be punishable in the history of CCNet. It would be impossible to prepare for every single possible scenario that could happen at any moment in time. As such, these rules are subject to change at any point. Staff are also given authority to enforce these rules as seen fit for any unique situation not explicitly mentioned.

Our goal is to provide you with a fun and engaging gaming experience. We encourage banter, friendly competition, and meaningful interactions. If you ever have concerns or witness behavior that goes against our community guidelines, please don't hesitate to reach out to our staff. Your help in maintaining our welcoming and respectful atmosphere is greatly appreciated.