Minecraft Rules
The following rules apply to the Alinea SMP server. Our Code of Conduct applies in the game too; the rules below are additional rules for Minecraft only. As goes without saying, you are responsible for everything your account does, no matter your intentions or who is using it.
Land and property
Before we get into the rules, we first explain how land is held and how ownership works on the server, as this is important to understand the rules.
Provinces and territories
Alinea's overworld is divided into provinces and territories.
Provinces
A province is held by a player called a landholder. The landholder decides who can enter, where they can go, and whether, where, and what they can build. A landholder can also give these powers to other players.
Territories
A territory is held by no one. Anyone can explore and build in a territory. For the same reason, anyone can change or remove what others have built there. Everything outside the overworld is a territory.
Ownership
Ownership is earned, not declared. You earn it in honest ways: by making, gathering, or trading. You can lose it in two main ways:
- Abandonment. If you leave something in a territory, you stop owning it, and anyone can take it. If you die, you have a short time to pick up what you dropped before someone else can take it.
- Getting banned. If a player is banned, the administration takes ownership of everything that player owned. If the player owned something together with others, the administration takes all of it. A co-owner can ask for it back, but the administration decides, and they rarely return it.
Behaviour
With land and property out of the way, here are the exact rules.
Between players
- 1
PvP · Don't attack another player without asking them first. You always need their consent, even for a friendly hit or to get their attention.
- 2
Theft · Don't take, break, or change anything another player owns without their permission.
Provinces
- 3
Building · Don't build in a province without the landholder's permission.
- 4
Trespassing · Don't enter any part of a province that the landholder has closed to you.
- 5
Villagers · Don't keep villagers or zombie villagers in a territory, or in a province without the landholder's permission.
World
- 6
Griefing · Leave any place in the overworld at least as tidy as you found it. For example, fill in creeper holes, and don't dig up a whole beach for its sand, leaving behind a mess.
- 7
Shops · Don't build shops outside the province of Market Square.
- 8
Ocean · Don't build in or over the ocean without permission from the administration.
Fair play
- 9
Exploits · Don't attempt to get around the game's normal limits. This counts as cheating. It includes duplicating items or blocks, using X-ray, breaking bedrock, and using freecam or a minimap to find caves.
- 10
Automation · Don't use mods or other software to play the game for you. Minecraft's own systems, like redstone, are not mods or software, so they are allowed. There are two exceptions you can use: autoclickers that only hold or repeat a key without reacting to the game, and mods that move items inside your inventory or hotbar.
- 11
Lag · Don't cause lag or crashes for the server or for other players. In particular, avoid lights that flash all the time, and don't change the flow of water or lava again and again. Absolutely, do not build chunk loaders.
If something or someone makes you uncomfortable, reach out to any team member by creating a ticket on our Discord server.