On MCCentral 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. Our server rules may be found below. Please remember that our rules are not limited to everything listed below! Use good common sense and you will be fine.
Punishment Types
MCCentral categorizes all punishments into three main categories: Chat, Gameplay and Client Modification Offences. There is also a category called Miscellaneous Punishments which outline punishments that don’t fall into the normal punishment severities. In-game 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 Offences do not require a warning if the offence is reported through a chatreport 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 Offences (Mutes) | ||
Severity 1 | Severity 2 | Severity 3 |
1st Offence: 30 Minutes 2nd Offence: 12 Hours 3rd Offence: 1 Day 4th Offence: 2 Days 5th+ Offence: 3 Days | 1st Offence: 2 Days 2nd Offence: 4 Days 3rd Offence: 5 Days 4th Offence: 7 Days 5th+ Offence: 14 Days | 1st Offence: Permanent |
Gameplay Offences (Bans) | ||
Severity 1 | Severity 2 | Severity 3 |
1st Offence: 1 Hour 2nd Offence: 2 Hours 3rd Offence: 3 Hours 4th Offence: 4 Hours 5th+ Offence: 5 Hours | 1st Offence: 12 Hours 2nd Offence: 1 Day 3rd Offence: 2 Days 4th Offence: 4 Days 5th+ Offence: 8 Days | 1st Offence: 7 Days 2nd Offence: 14 Days 3rd Offence: 21 Days 4th Offence: 28 Days 5th+ Offence: Permanent |
Client Modification Offences (Bans) | ||
Severity 1 | Severity 2 | Severity 3 |
1st Offence: 2 Days 2nd Offence: 4 Days 3rd Offence: 6 Days 4th Offence: 8 Days 5th+ Offence: 10 Days | 1st Offence: 7 Days 2nd Offence: 14 Days 3rd Offence: 21 Days 4th Offence: 28 Days 5th+ Offence: Permanent | 1st Offence: 30 Days 2nd+ Offence: Permanent |
● CHAT OFFENCES ●
Offence 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: vislo is a scammer, he lies! STAFF: Scamming is allowed on Prison. User: vislo scams, he will take your money!! User: Guys, vislo 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: [Legend]Ben has joined the server! User: You have received $1000 from user Ben! | 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 MCCentral. | 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: [Helper]Ben: Hey! I’m staff now! | Severity 1 |
Bypassing Chat Filter Finding a way to bypass the chat filter. Bypassing slurs is a Severity 2 offence. Quoting these words is also punishable. | You can see if a word is blacklisted by using /BlacklistCheck [Word]. 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 MCC! 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, TeamSpeak 3 IP, Discord link or web store link (etc.) of another server. Advertising with fake IPs or addresses is also punishable. Sending an IP in private messages is allowed 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: <IP> | 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 Christmas Client v2 User: I use Christmas Client v2 User: I use Christmas Client v2 | 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 Offences Having 40 or more Chat Offences or Warnings combined. After being unmuted, the player is allowed to have 15 Chat Offences or Warnings before being muted again for Excessive Chat Offences. 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 OFFENCES ●
Offence 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 Skyblock spawn. | Severity 1 |
Chat / Gameplay Trolling Instructing players to do things that result in an unexpected outcome in gameplay. | User: Press Alt + F4 to get speed boost on Survival server! | Severity 1 Gameplay Trolling with the /pay scam is allowed on Prison. |
Command Spam Spamming commands so that there are 3 or more messages sent in the chat. | User is Legend rank and logs in and out to spam with the join announcement. 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. Auction House rules: - Allowed to have up to 5 items which advertise a plot or an island. If there are more, the extra ones get removed by staff. - No items which are meant to scam others. (Allowed on Prison). - No inappropriate items. | 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. (Allowed on Prison). User continues to break the Auction House rules even after a warning. | 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. | 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 Skyblock to prevent dying. | Severity 2 |
Tricking Others Into Breaking Rules Tricking players into breaking the rules on purpose. | User: Say the IP to another server to get $10 million! User: Send me a message 5 times in a row to get an Ancient Key! | Severity 2 |
Teaming / Cross Teaming Teaming with a player who belongs to another team in Capture the Flag. | User in Blue team picks up the flag of the Red team and holds it in order to prevent the Blue team from winning, and to allow his friends in Red team to win. | 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 /Chatreport Using the Chatreport system as a joke or using it repeatedly for submitting non-chat offenses by a user. | 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. Cross-server scamming is not allowed if one of the servers is a server where scamming is not allowed. | User1 and User2 made a deal of trading 10 golden carrots for $100 in-game on Skyblock. User1 gives the carrots, but User2 teleports away. User blocks the view of a ChestShop with another ChestShop, resulting in an unintended purchase. | Severity 3 Scamming is allowed on Prison! *Severe cases of scamming are not allowed on Prison. |
Death Trapping Tricking users into dying or into entering a trap which leads to their in-game death. | User1 teleports to User2, and falls into a trap. User creates a piston trap which pushes players to their death. User pushes someone else into PvP where the player dies. | Severity 3 Death Trapping is allowed on Prison! *Severe cases of death-trapping are not allowed on Prison. |
Griefing Purposely destroying the builds of other users or stealing items without permission. | User1 destroys the build of User2 on Survival. User steals items from the island of another player. User destroys an unclaimed house in Survival’s claim world and steals the items from a chest. | Severity 3 Griefing is allowed on Prison! *Severe cases of griefing are not allowed on Prison. This rule also applies to the unclaimed areas of Survival’s claim world and the Nether. Players are also not allowed to disrupt the area near other players’ claims (for example causing major damage to the terrain). |
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 |
Bypassing Farming Limit Bypassing the built-in farming limit on Skyblock. Skyblock allows 2 players to be farming at the same time under the same IP. Bypassing this with for example VPNs is not allowed. | N/A | 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 /Chatreport. |
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. | User1 buys User2’s balance of $50 million on Prison for $20 USD. User trades a set of armour 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 Offences can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (5th+ Offence) | ||
● CLIENT MODIFICATION OFFENCES ●
Offence 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 kits or AutoSelling). | User has a macro for the /fix all command. User has a macro to disconnect from the server when low on health. User is scripting kits on Prison. | 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 Players have to be screenshared by staff before a ban for Autoclicking in PvP. (Except with mob farm autoclicking, for which a ban can be issued without conducting a screenshare.) |
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 armour 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. | 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. | Player uses the Printer feature of Schematica on Skyblock to build a farm easily. | Severity 3 |
Controller Mining Using a game controller in order to AFK mine. | N/A | Severity 3 |
Hacks Found in a Screenshare A staff member discovers active use of a hacked client on MCCentral 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 Offences can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (5th+ Offence) Severity 3 Client Modification Offences can be appealed in 6 months if the ban is permanent. (2nd+ Offence) | ||
● MISCELLANEOUS PUNISHMENTS ●
Offence and Description | Examples | Severity and Notes |
DDoSing / DOXing DDoSing or DOXing other members of the community. | Compiling and publishing private or identifying information about an individual in any way with a malicious intent. | Full Blacklist |
Mute Evading Having three (or more) accounts muted on the server simultaneously under the same IP. | N/A | IP Ban Can be appealed in 6 months after the IP Ban. Please see the thread in FAQ forums for information regarding public/shared accounts and IP Bans. |
Ban Evading Having two (or more) accounts banned on the server simultaneously under the same IP, for any of the following offences: * Severity 3 Gameplay Offences * Severity 2 Client Modification Offences * Severity 3 Client Modification Offences * Severe Griefing/Scamming/Death-trapping | N/A | IP Ban Can be appealed in 6 months after the IP Ban. Please see the thread in FAQ forums for information regarding public/shared accounts and IP Bans. |
IP Ban Evading Logging in with another IP address in order to evade an existing IP Ban. | N/A | IP Ban + Permanent Ban Can be appealed in 6 months after the IP Ban. Please see the thread in FAQ forums for information regarding public/shared accounts and IP Bans. |
TPA Spamming Spamming teleport requests to another player. | User: /tpa User2 User: /tpa User2 User: /tpa User2 | TPA Tempban Bans the user from using any teleport commands for 2 days. |
Auto Selling Using the /sell command to gain an unfair advantage over others, for example using the command with a macro/hotkey or as a script. | User has a script that runs the /sell command every 3 seconds. User has a macro, so that when they click a key on their keyboard, it automatically uses the /sell command. | Sell Revoke Revokes the access to the /sell command permanently. Can be appealed after 1 month of being issued. |
Creating Lag or Crashing the Server Intentionally creating lag or causing a crash. | N/A | Permanent Ban |
Scamming in IRL Trades Scamming in a trade that involves MCCentral web store items. The rule does not apply to other real-life goods, such as PayPal, as those trades are unapproved. | User1 trades $100 million to User2 on Prison for a $20 MCCentral webstore gift card. Then, User2 sends a fake gift card email to User1 with an already used or invalid code. | Permanent Ban Scamming in IRL Trades is not allowed anywhere on the server, even on Prison. |
Inappropriate/Offensive Username or Skin Having a username or skin that is offensive, inappropriate or racial. Includes usernames that have a blacklisted word in them. Having a username that is similar to current staff and using it for malicious intent is also punishable. | N/A | Permanent Ban Can be appealed after changing the username or skin. If the user does it again, the ban can only be appealed after 6 months. |
Severe Griefing/Scamming/Death-trapping An amplified version of regular griefing, scamming and death-trapping. This is for very serious scenarios that result in a mass amount of stolen or scammed valuables. This rule applies to all sectors of the server. | User1 steals a double chest full of robot gems from User2 on Prison. User1 scams User2 out of 10 Chunk Loaders on Skyblock. User1 gets trusted on to User2's plot mine and mines a massive amount of spawners on Prison. | Permanent Ban Can be appealed after 6 months of being issued. |