Minecraft Rules
Welcome to the Alinea Minecraft Rules. These rules ensure the server stays fun, fair, and collaborative for everyone. Follow these guidelines to ensure everyone has a great experience—whether you’re building, grinding, or exploring. Remember to also follow the Code of Conduct, which applies across all spaces—from the server itself to Discord and beyond.
General Minecraft Rules
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Ask before attacking
Always get permission before attacking someone, even for playful punches, or to get someone’s attention. Not everyone enjoys being hit, so ask first and keep it friendly!
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Earn your ownership
You can’t just claim something as yours—you need a good reason. Ownership comes from building, crafting, or being gifted something, not just saying it’s yours.
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Respect others’ ownership
Don’t steal, take, break, or mess with anything that belongs to someone else without their permission.
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Respect the authority of rulers
Respect the authority of the rulers within their province. Do not build within a province without permission from the ruler. Also take note of the provincial rulers to see what rulers can and cannot do within their province.
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No ownership in territories
Anything you leave behind unattended in a territory is considered abandoned and can be taken or repurposed by others. This includes items and builds. However, if you die, your belongings won’t be considered abandoned as long as you return to claim them promptly. Consider building inside a province for protection.
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Don’t deface the overworld
Don’t do anything that harms the overworld’s natural beauty, disrupts its design, or leaves it looking worse than it was. Making the world messy, unsightly, or unpleasant is not allowed. This includes things like blowing up terrain or houses without a good reason; leaving behind floating trees, creeper holes, or nerd poles; stripping resources like sand or dirt in ways that ruin the landscape; or making offensive or inappropriate markings. Clean up after yourself and help keep the world beautiful for everyone. These rules are not typically enforced in the Nether, the End or the Underground.
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Terraform with care
If you change the natural landscape, make sure it looks good and blends with the surroundings. Terraforming isn’t just functional—keep the terrain natural and beautiful.
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Don’t destroy trial chambers
Do not take trial spawners, destroy trial vaults, or disrupt trial chambers in any way.
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Build on land
Don’t build in the ocean—stick to land for your structures. It’s okay to tweak the coastline a little to fit your build, but keep it natural and don’t overdo it.
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Explore freely
Feel free to visit other players’ property unless they’ve clearly marked or communicated that entry is restricted. Always respect signs or requests to stay out.
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Harvest freely
You’re welcome to harvest crops from publicly accessible farms unless the owner has clearly asked you not to. Just make sure to replant what you take, so the farms stay plentiful for everyone!
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Sail freely
You’re welcome to use unattended boats found in the water.
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Don’t keep villagers
Don’t keep villagers or zombie villagers without owning an equivalent number of Villager Rights. The availability of Villager Rights is limited and depends on the province you live in. Talk to your local Lord for more information.
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Build low outside provinces
Don’t build anything taller than 32 meters outside a province. Want to build higher? Build in a province.
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Don’t create private markets
Don’t set up new shopping districts or markets. Small one-off shops with only a few items are fine, but for anything else, consider using the existing shopping areas created by the administrators.
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Banned players’ belongings
When a player is banned, all their belongings are transferred to the Crown. If any items or builds were co-owned, the other owners lose their rights too, but can contact staff to resolve the situation fairly.
Fair-Play
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Don’t exploit
Don’t use glitches, bugs, unintended mechanics, or design flaws to bypass intended limitations or do things the game wasn’t meant to allow. This includes duplicating items, using x-ray texture packs, breaking bedrock, or using the F3 menu to find caves.
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Play manually
You can use modifications to automatically eat food, automatically switch items in your hotbar or inventory, or automatically click or press keys. However, don’t use modifications or tools to automate any other actions, including but not limited to aiming the crosshair, fishing, or mining.
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Prevent lag
Avoid causing lag or server instability with your builds. If something you create—such as redstone contraptions, mob farms, or other systems—causes lag, you are responsible for fixing or optimizing it to keep the server running smoothly.
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Don’t use chunk loaders
Don’t build devices or contraptions that keep chunks loaded when no players are present. This includes any method to force chunks to stay active outside normal gameplay.