ArchMC Rules Index

We want everyone to have the best experience possible. There are some rules and limitations that the staff team has made to help keep everything fair for everyone. Please remember that our rules are not limited to everything listed below, so be sure to read all pages to avoid confusion! Use good common sense and you will be fine.

General Summary:

  • Keep everything family friendly
  • Be civil and respectful towards others while chatting
  • Keep the chat clean, don't use too many caps or spam
  • Leave any heated arguments and debates for later
  • Don't impersonate any staff or annoy them on purpose
  • Sending links to websites is not allowed, bypassing is punishable
  • Be respectful of other walks of life, do not discriminate
  • Respect your privacy and others privacy, don't reveal personal information or passwords
  • Advertising is not allowed, don't share the IP or LAN code of other servers
  • Report any Bugs or Exploits you find for a reward, don't abuse them
  • Cross Teaming, boosting, “throwing”, etc. can lead to a stats wipe
  • Play it fair and don't cheat using mods, clients, or macros

This summary is only for reference, be sure to read through all the pages.

Ingame Rules

Punishment Types

We categorize all punishments into three main categories: Chat, Gameplay and Client Modification Offenses. There is also a category called Miscellaneous Punishments which outline punishments that don’t fall into the normal punishment severities. Ingame offenses will be listed under these three categories below. Each punishment category has three sub-categories called a severity. The higher the severity, the longer the punishment. Also, the more of one type of severity you receive, the longer the punishment. Please note that Severity 1 Chat Offenses do not require a warning if the offense is reported with /report or a report ticket on the forums.

 

Other punishment types include:

Warning: You will receive an in-game text warning.

IP Ban: Your IP Address will be banned.


Please note that the offences aren’t limited to the examples in this document! These examples are only meant to give you an idea of what the offences can look like.


Mute and Ban Durations

Chat Offenses (Mutes)

Severity 1

Severity 2

Severity 3

1st Offense: 30 Minutes

2nd Offense: 12 Hours

3rd Offense: 1 Day

4th Offense: 2 Days

5th+ Offense: 3 Days

1st Offense: 2 Days

2nd Offense: 4 Days

3rd Offense: 5 Days

4th Offense: 7 Days

5th+ Offense: 14 Days

1st Offense: Permanent

Gameplay Offenses (Bans)

Severity 1

Severity 2

Severity 3

1st Offense: 1 Hour

2nd Offense: 2 Hours

3rd Offense: 3 Hours

4th Offense: 4 Hours

5th+ Offense: 5 Hours

1st Offense: 12 Hours

2nd Offense: 1 Day

3rd Offense: 2 Days

4th Offense: 4 Days

5th+ Offense: 8 Days

1st Offense: 7 Days

2nd Offense: 14 Days

3rd Offense: 21 Days

4th Offense: 28 Days

5th+ Offense: Permanent

Client Modification Offenses (Bans)

Severity 1

Severity 2

Severity 3

1st Offense: 2 Days

2nd Offense: 4 Days

3rd Offense: 6 Days

4th Offense: 8 Days

5th+ Offense: 10 Days

1st Offense: 7 Days

2nd Offense: 14 Days

3rd Offense: 21 Days

4th Offense: 28 Days

5th+ Offense: Permanent

1st Offense: 30 Days

2nd+ Offense: Permanent


Chat Offenses

Offense and Description

Examples

Severity and Notes

Spamming

 

Sending three or more similar messages within the chat box or in a short period of time. This includes countdowns.

User:

MSG1: Come to my shop!

MSG2: Come to my shop!!

MSG3: Come to my shop plz!

 

User:

MSG1: Skin competition in 3!

MSG2: 2

MSG3: 1

MSG4: GO!

Severity 1

Warning Required

Group Spam

 

Player sends a message that is intended to participate in spam, after staff have warned everyone verbally not to participate in the group spam.

 

This punishment is also used for players who reply to players who have Encouraged Group Spam. 

 

User1: Let’s spam ! #Rebel

User2: Let’s spam ! #Rebel

User3: Let’s spam ! #Rebel

User4: Let’s spam ! #Rebel

 

*Replying to a player who Encouraged Group Spam:*

User1: 123

User2: 123

User3:  123!!!

Severity 1

Warning Required

 

Reported Group Spam does not require a verbal warning before punishment. 

Character Spam

 

Sending 2 or more messages with multiple unnecessary characters, making the message long and annoying. One message can also be punishable if it contains a very excessive amount of unnecessary characters.

User: Noooooooooooooooooo!

User: Whyyyyyyyy  did uuuuu  kill meeee?!!!

 

User: Ahahahahahhahahahaha

User: Lolololololol that was so funny!

Severity 1

Warning Required

 

Abuse of Another User/Disrespect/Harassment

 

Being intentionally abusive and disrespectful towards other players.

 

Harassment means continuous and ongoing bullying which is less severe than plain disrespect.

User: stfu, I hate you!

 

User: Fuck you retard!

 

User: You are literally so ugly and fat that no one likes you!

Severity 1

Warning Required

 

 

Excessive Accusations

 

Repeatedly accusing someone of hacking, scamming, ddossing, doxing or breaking the rules. 

 

Telling staff members to spectate a hacker is allowed, as this isn’t excessive. 

User: DealWiddit is a scammer, he lies!

User:  DealWiddit scams, he will take your money!!

User:  Guys, DealWiddit is a pathetic scammer!

Severity 1

Warning Required

Arguments

 

Constant arguing in public chat or in private messages to a staff member.

N/A

Severity 1

Warning Required

Fake Messages

 

Sending fake messages in an attempt to trick players.

User:  [Owner]Badministrator has joined the server!

 

User: You have received $1000 from user Badministrator!

Severity 1

Warning Required

Discussing Unapproved Deals

 

Talking about an unapproved IRL deal or trade in public chat.

 

Only trades that include web store items, in-game items and in-game services are allowed.

User: I’m selling my inventory for $50 USD PayPal! Msg me!

 

User: Selling my Minecraft account! Message me offers!

Severity 1

Warning Required

Unrelated Links

 

Sending links that aren’t related to Minecraft in public chat. 

Sending these links in private messages is allowed. Keep in mind that the links can’t be related to other Minecraft servers.

User: Check out my Instagram! [Link]

 

Links to any Discord servers that aren’t the official Discord Servers of ArchMC. 

Severity 1

Warning Required

 

 

Staff Trolling

 

Knowingly wasting a staff member’s time by asking them questions or nagging them about non-staff related matters.

User: Hey staff, please tp, I need help!

User: Lol, just joking! Could you rate my plot though?

Severity 1

Warning Required

Excessive Inappropriate Language

 

Using 3 or more cuss words in a message.

N/A

Severity 1

Warning Required

Impersonating Staff Members

 

Pretending to be a member of staff, with for example fake staff tags. 

User: [Admin]Zarif: Hey! I’m Admin now!

Severity 1

 

 

Bypassing Chat Filter

 

Finding a way to bypass the chat filter.

 

Bypassing slurs is a Severity 2 Offense. 

Quoting these words is also punishable.

Any alternative forms of the word are not allowed, including plural and partially censored forms. 

Severity 1

Encouraging Spam

 

Instructing or encouraging users to spam message(s) in public chat.

User1: Say 123 if you love ArchMC!

User2: 123

User3: 123

User4: 123

Severity 1

Inappropriate Links

 

Sending offensive or inappropriate links in chat.

Links to sexual, racist or disturbing websites. 

 

Links to hacked clients and their download pages. 

Severity 2

Racial/Religious/Political Disputes

 

Arguing over race, religion or politics in public chat.

User1: <Name> is a better politician!

User2: Nah, <Name> is!

 

User: Religions are all dumb!

Severity 2

Slurs/Discrimination

 

Using racist/derogatory words and discriminating people. Even quoting these words or using them in censored forms is punishable (for example n-word).

N/A

Severity 2

Explicit Conversation

 

Talking about inappropriate or explicit topics.

Talking about sexual topics. 

 

Talking about terrorism in a positive light. 

Severity 2

Death Threats or Wishes / Encouraging Suicide / Encouraging Self-Harm

 

Putting death threats on other players or wishing for them to die.

 

Encouraging other players to go hurt themselves in real life or encouraging suicidal acts.

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Severity 2

 

Not punishable if the message is clearly talking about an in-game death. 

DDoS Wishes / DOX Wishes / Swat Wishes / Rat Wishes

 

Wishing for other players to get DDoSsed, DOXed, swatted or ratted.

User: I  hope that you get ddossed today!

Severity 2

Chat Flooding

 

Sending several messages in chat (5+) in chat causing it to flood chat with a user’s message(s).

 

The activity of the chat and the context of the messages can be taken into consideration when issuing the punishment. 

User: My plot is amazing!!

User: Have you

User:  seen

User:  my plot

User:  yet?!

Severity 2

Advertising

 

Sharing the IP address, the website address, Discord link or web store link (etc.) of another server, or the join code of a LAN world. Advertising with fake IPs or addresses is also punishable. Sending an IP in private messages is not allowed either even if the other player has requested for it. 

 

If a user accidentally pastes a server IP in chat or gets tricked into saying an IP, they can appeal it after 1 month.

User: Join this great server: <IP>!

 

User: Here’s the link to <Server>’s website: <Website>

 

User: Join my world: <LAN code>!!

Severity 3

 

Can be appealed in 6 months after the mute. 

Spambot

 

A large amount of users quickly spamming the server chat.

Can also be when a single user sends a message of hacked client spam.

N/A

 

Severity 3 + IP Ban

 

Hacked Client Spam

 

Sending a message that is caused by a hacked client spam-advertising itself.

User: I use Rise Client enwjgocjpigr

User: I use Rise Client owipenjwgtew

User: I use Rise Client powmxeroijg

Severity 3 + Severity 3 Client Modification Ban

Phishing

 

Trying to compromise personal information or accounts with for example phishing links.

User: Visit <Link> to get your free cape! Just enter your account details.

Severity 3

 

Can be appealed in 6 months after the mute. 

Leaking Personal Information

 

Sending personal information of a user. These may include full name, address, IP address, private social media accounts or login information to accounts. Leaking fake personal information is also punishable. 

 

Also punishable if the personal information is sent to the user whose information it is. Sharing your own information in public chat is also punishable unless proven or widely known that it is yours.

User: The IP of User2 is <IP>!!!

 

User1 in PMs to User2:  User2, I have your address: <Address>! Nice, huh?

Severity 3

 

Can be appealed in 6 months after the mute. 

Excessive Chat Offenses

 

Having 40 or more Chat Offenses or Warnings combined. After being unmuted, the player is allowed to have 15 Chat Offenses or Warnings before being muted again for Excessive Chat Offenses.

 

Only warnings and mutes within the last 2 years count towards this limit.

N/A

Severity 3

 

Can be appealed in 6 months after the mute.


Gameplay Offenses

Offense and Description

Examples

Severity and Notes

Map Exploiting

 

Exploiting the design of a map to give oneself an unfair advantage over others. 

User finds a way to escape the Bedwars waiting area.

Severity 1

Chat / Gameplay Trolling

 

Instructing players to do things that result in an unexpected outcome in gameplay.

User: Press Alt + F4 to get crate keys on the Survival server!

Severity 1

Command Spam

 

Spamming commands so that there are 3 or more messages sent in the chat.

User is spamming the /afk command to flood chat with messages.

 

User spams the /pay command.

Severity 1

 

Obstruction of Server

 

Purposely blocking the operation of the server or staff. This includes disobeying the instructions of a staff member.

 

This punishment is not limited to the examples on the right.

User continues to disrupt staff when staff is trying to do an important staff action.

 

User continues to build inappropriate builds after the build is removed by staff.

 

User fills the hopper system of another player with junk, in order to block the system from working.

Severity 2

Physical Obstruction of Others

 

Purposely, and physically blocking another user as a disruption. 

User stands in the way when another player tries to build their base.

 

This does not apply to grave trapping in Survival. 

Severity 2

Bug Exploiting (Minor)

 

Abuse of plugins/ features to gain an unfair advantage over others.

User finds a way to get out of combat tag early.

 

User glitches through a door or trapdoor. 

 

User glitch-breaks a block that they aren’t supposed to break.

 

User freezes/lags their game while falling into the void on Bedwars to prevent dying.

Severity 2

Tricking Others Into Breaking Rules

 

Tricking players into breaking the rules on purpose.

User: Say the N word in chat to get $10 million!

 

User: Send me a message 5 times in a row to get a Vote Key!

Severity 2

Teaming / Cross Teaming

 

Teaming with a player who belongs to another team in Capture the Flag.

User in Blue team on Bedwars teams up with Green team to kill Red team

Severity 2

Inappropriate Builds and Signs

 

Creating a build to offend another player or generally offensive, explicit or racial builds.

N/A

Severity 2

 

Punishable if the creator of the build can be traced. (With logs, video recording etc.) 

Mute Bypass

 

Finding a way to bypass a mute in public chat or private messages.

 

Talking through signs or items is allowed. 

N/A

Severity 2

Abuse of /report

 

Using the report system as a joke or using it repeatedly for submitting fake reports.

N/A

Severity 2

Scamming

 

Tricking someone into thinking something other than what was intended. Scamming in approved IRL trades is also punishable. See the “Scamming in IRL Trades” rule for more information. 

User1 and User2 made a deal of trading 10 golden carrots for $100 in-game on Survival. User1 gives the carrots, but User2 teleports away.

 

User blocks the view of a chest shop with another chest shop, resulting in an unintended purchase.

Severity 3

 

Scamming is not enforced in cases where the user didn't use a form of escrow (e.g. /trade, Bazaar, Auction House)

   

Bug Exploiting (Severe)

 

Abuse of plugins/ features to gain an unfair advantage over others.

User finds a way to spawn in items or money unlimitedly.

 

User bypasses the anti-AFK plugins which are meant to prevent AFK farming.

Severity 3

Account Grinding

 

Using other accounts to farm kills, stats or money etc.

 

All players who are involved in the Account Grinding will be punished. 

User logs in with an alternate account and kills it repeatedly to gain stats.

Severity 3

DDoS Threats / Rat Threats / DOX Threats / Swat Threats

 

Threatening to DDoS / Rat / DOX / Swat a player.

Joking about this topic is not tolerated! Even threats made as a joke can lead to a punishment!

 

Also punishable if done in-game on signs and if a staff member witnesses the placing of the signs. 

Severity 3

 

Can only be witnessed by staff or reported with /report.

Intent to Complete Unapproved Deals / Completing Unapproved Deals

 

Trading something other than in-game goods, in-game services or web store items or attempting to do a trade like this.

 

This does not apply to the Bazaar, as it is made exactly for this purpose.

User1 buys User2’s balance of $50 million on Survival for $20 USD. 

 

User trades a set of armor on Survival for a Minecraft account.

 

User advertises a trade but after a player contacts them, it turns out that they are talking about a PayPal trade.

Severity 3

Severity 3 Gameplay Offenses can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (5th+ Offense)


Client Modification Offenses

Offense and Description

Examples

Severity and Notes

Unapproved Client Modification

 

Use of any client modification which is not on our approved modifications list. 

Minimap mod showing the locations of players and/or caves.

Severity 1

 

Fake Lag Programs

 

Use of any programs which create artificial lag for the player. 

N/A

Severity 1

Macros / Scripting

 

Using macros other than for use of chatting or other aesthetic purposes.

 

Using a script that runs a command in a pattern. (For example scripting crates or AutoSelling). 

User has a macro for the /repair command.

 

User has a macro to disconnect from the server when low on health.

 

User is scripting crates on Survival.

Severity 2

Any Use of a Hacked Client

 

Using any hacked client. Having a hacked client is enough for a ban, no hacks need to be enabled.

 

 

(Fake) Hacks in Screenshots

 

If a player has a watermark of a hacked client or a text such as “KillAura enabled” on their screen, they can be banned, even if the text is from another modification. 

N/A

 

 

Severity 3

Autoclicking

 

Using an external program or macro to modify your click speed / clicks per second. 

 

N/A

 

Severity 3

X-Ray

 

Any use of x-ray whether it's a part of an illegal modification, hacked client or texture pack.

N/A

Severity 3

Unapproved Resource Packs

 

Using a Resource Pack which shows the durability of armor or tools.

Player uses a resource pack which turns armour more red when it’s almost broken.

Severity 3

AutoFishing

 

Any use of AutoFishing whether it’s part of an illegal modification or a hacked client.

 

Does not apply to vanilla AutoFishers that can be built in vanilla Minecraft.

N/A

Severity 3

Filling Signs Automatically (AutoSign)

 

Automatically filling signs with text whether it’s through a modification or a hacked client.

Player automatically fills a sign by using Schematica printer.

 

Player automatically fills a sign by using a macro.

 

Player automatically fills a sign by using a hacked client. 

Severity 3

Use of Printer

 

Using the Printer feature of modifications such as Schematica or Litematica. Any other modifications which allow similar behaviour are also included. 

 

Note that these mods are allowed by themselves without the use of the printing feature.

Player uses the Printer feature of Schematica on Lifesteal to build a farm easily.

Severity 3

Hacks Found in a Screenshare

 

A staff member discovers active use of a hacked client on the server during the screenshare or directly prior to the screenshare.

 

N/A

Severity 3

 

Players are allowed to record a screenshare that is conducted on them, in order to protect themselves, but they are not allowed to share the video with non-staff.

Illegal Debounce Time

 

Having the debounce time set as under 10 ms in the mouse settings. Debounce time is the time it takes for a mouse click to be reset.

N/A

Severity 3

Refusal to Screenshare

 

User refuses to join Discord for screensharing  or disobeys the staff member during the screenshare. 

 

Modifying Files While Frozen

 

Logging out while frozen or during screenshare

N/A

Severity 3

 

Players have up to 5 minutes to join the Screenshare  Discord after being frozen in-game. 

 

Only a staff member can issue any sort of punishment when it comes to screensharing . A regular user cannot use this rule against another player to get them banned. 

Severity 2 Client Modification Offenses can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (5th+ Offense)

Severity 3 Client Modification Offenses can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (2nd+ Offense)

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