MineCraft Server Rules
General Faction Rules
1. Insiding Factions
Insiding will result in a ban. This is described as betraying your faction by unclaiming all, stealing spawners, mining spawners and/or stealing/removing F Top value, insiding is not limited to just these actions. A faction leader is the judge of your ban and ultimately decides if you should be banned or not if the proof is validated by higher staff members.
(a) Insides do not count when you mistrust another faction with faction permissions and they abuse this trust or when chest loot is stolen.
(b) If you are insided while being raided you will NOT be compensated.
(c) You will only be compensated if the loot is found
Punishment: The player who insided will be banned for the rest of the season, the faction is rolled back if loot is found.
2. Allying/Teaming/Leaching
PvP teaming is allowed and there will be no set punishment for it, unless its two factions (that aren’t physically allied) teaming with one another against a third faction at a RAID. You may also not be present at a raid for any reason if you are not allied with the raiding faction or defending faction, or gain loot from it.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning (if the faction was raided and there was “enough” teaming they will be rolled back)
Repetitive Offences: 1 Day Ban
3. Alternate Factions
You are allowed a maximum of 1 alternate faction, failure to comply will result in a disband of the third faction.
Punishment: Illegal alt faction is disbanded.
4. Corners
You are allowed a maximum of 1 corner, this includes different worlds.
Punishment: You will be given a warning, where you will have 6 hours to unclaim any extra corners. If after the 6 hour time limit the corners are still not removed, an admin+ will forcefully remove any extra corners.
5. B**** Claiming
If you claim land with the sole purpose of disrupting another faction currently setting up their base claims they will be unclaimed. B**** claims will be unclaimed during grace period however after grace period ends they will be allowed.
Punishment: All b**** claims during grace period will be removed if reported.
6. Merges
You may not merge at all.
Punishment: All value from the merging will be removed.
7. Excessively Cheating/Ban Evading
If more than 4 players are caught hacking in your faction or ban evading you will receive the following punishment.
Punishment: First Offence 5 Day Ban Second Offence 8 Day Ban Third Offence Perm Ban
8. Giving/Sharing FTOP Wealth
You cannot give a faction wealth, this includes but is not limited to; spawners, eco, banknotes or TNT.
Punishment: 1 Day Temp Ban
Insiding will result in a ban. This is described as betraying your faction by unclaiming all, stealing spawners, mining spawners and/or stealing/removing F Top value, insiding is not limited to just these actions. A faction leader is the judge of your ban and ultimately decides if you should be banned or not if the proof is validated by higher staff members.
(a) Insides do not count when you mistrust another faction with faction permissions and they abuse this trust or when chest loot is stolen.
(b) If you are insided while being raided you will NOT be compensated.
(c) You will only be compensated if the loot is found
Punishment: The player who insided will be banned for the rest of the season, the faction is rolled back if loot is found.
2. Allying/Teaming/Leaching
PvP teaming is allowed and there will be no set punishment for it, unless its two factions (that aren’t physically allied) teaming with one another against a third faction at a RAID. You may also not be present at a raid for any reason if you are not allied with the raiding faction or defending faction, or gain loot from it.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning (if the faction was raided and there was “enough” teaming they will be rolled back)
Repetitive Offences: 1 Day Ban
3. Alternate Factions
You are allowed a maximum of 1 alternate faction, failure to comply will result in a disband of the third faction.
Punishment: Illegal alt faction is disbanded.
4. Corners
You are allowed a maximum of 1 corner, this includes different worlds.
Punishment: You will be given a warning, where you will have 6 hours to unclaim any extra corners. If after the 6 hour time limit the corners are still not removed, an admin+ will forcefully remove any extra corners.
5. B**** Claiming
If you claim land with the sole purpose of disrupting another faction currently setting up their base claims they will be unclaimed. B**** claims will be unclaimed during grace period however after grace period ends they will be allowed.
Punishment: All b**** claims during grace period will be removed if reported.
6. Merges
You may not merge at all.
Punishment: All value from the merging will be removed.
7. Excessively Cheating/Ban Evading
If more than 4 players are caught hacking in your faction or ban evading you will receive the following punishment.
Punishment: First Offence 5 Day Ban Second Offence 8 Day Ban Third Offence Perm Ban
8. Giving/Sharing FTOP Wealth
You cannot give a faction wealth, this includes but is not limited to; spawners, eco, banknotes or TNT.
Punishment: 1 Day Temp Ban
Faction Base Rules
9. Patching Walls With Printer
General patching rules will disallow the help to patch/repair walls from any faction but your own whilst being raided. If any other faction but yours is given permission to build and patch your walls this offense will be treated with the same punishments below.
Patching your or your ally’s walls / creating new ones while being raided with printer or gen buckets is strictly against the rules.
Punishment: 3 day ban to players, if this occurs 3 times the Players Will Get a 10 Day ban
10. Buffers
Factions are allowed to claim a maximum of 20 chunks of buffer. A buffer starts from the outermost base wall to the wilderness.
Punishment: 24 hour warning to remove excess claims -> Forcefully removed
11. Gaps
You are not allowed to have a gap in your walls/base, this is anything larger than 2 chunks of mostly air in your walls. A staff will ultimately decide the validity.
Punishment: 24 hour warning to remove excess gaps -> Forcefully removed
12. Buffers Between Bases
There cannot be a base/buffer within 30 chunks of your base/buffer. Having too small of a distance will require the newer base to be moved or have its walls shortened. You cannot have a second base in line with your main base.
Punishment: second faction is given 24 hours to remove/move, or forcefully removed
13. Regen Walls
Factions with any kind of regen wall will be punished.
Punishment: 1 Day Temp Ban and forcefully removed
14. TNT Detectors, Raid Alerts, check walls, and AFKing on Walls
Check walls with Redstone are not permitted under any circumstances. TNT/Redstone client updates (aka detectors) are not tolerated.
Punishment: for Redstone check walls, disband for raid alerts and tnt detectors. If players are caught afking on walls they will be kicked on first offence and receive a one day ban on second offence.
15. Base Defences
In no way shape or form may the following be used to defend against a raid:
Punishment: 3 day ban to people who placed it
16. Spawners (Mining/Removing/Blocking Spawners)
Blocking spawners - Spawners are not allowed to be blocked by blocks or water/lava.
Mining/Removing spawners - When getting raided and you mine/remove your spawners or when you mine/remove them and it's been less than 15 minutes after the last successful shot on your base. If a faction is to mine spawners while being raided, the faction that is raiding will receive the taken down value directly.
Punishment: players doing this receive a 3 day ban
General patching rules will disallow the help to patch/repair walls from any faction but your own whilst being raided. If any other faction but yours is given permission to build and patch your walls this offense will be treated with the same punishments below.
Patching your or your ally’s walls / creating new ones while being raided with printer or gen buckets is strictly against the rules.
Punishment: 3 day ban to players, if this occurs 3 times the Players Will Get a 10 Day ban
10. Buffers
Factions are allowed to claim a maximum of 20 chunks of buffer. A buffer starts from the outermost base wall to the wilderness.
Punishment: 24 hour warning to remove excess claims -> Forcefully removed
11. Gaps
You are not allowed to have a gap in your walls/base, this is anything larger than 2 chunks of mostly air in your walls. A staff will ultimately decide the validity.
Punishment: 24 hour warning to remove excess gaps -> Forcefully removed
12. Buffers Between Bases
There cannot be a base/buffer within 30 chunks of your base/buffer. Having too small of a distance will require the newer base to be moved or have its walls shortened. You cannot have a second base in line with your main base.
Punishment: second faction is given 24 hours to remove/move, or forcefully removed
13. Regen Walls
Factions with any kind of regen wall will be punished.
Punishment: 1 Day Temp Ban and forcefully removed
14. TNT Detectors, Raid Alerts, check walls, and AFKing on Walls
Check walls with Redstone are not permitted under any circumstances. TNT/Redstone client updates (aka detectors) are not tolerated.
Punishment: for Redstone check walls, disband for raid alerts and tnt detectors. If players are caught afking on walls they will be kicked on first offence and receive a one day ban on second offence.
15. Base Defences
In no way shape or form may the following be used to defend against a raid:
- Cobblestone walls (the non-full block one)
- Fences
- Cactus
- Enderchests
- Enchantment Tables
- Chests
- Banners
- Anvils
- Cobwebs
Punishment: 3 day ban to people who placed it
16. Spawners (Mining/Removing/Blocking Spawners)
Blocking spawners - Spawners are not allowed to be blocked by blocks or water/lava.
Mining/Removing spawners - When getting raided and you mine/remove your spawners or when you mine/remove them and it's been less than 15 minutes after the last successful shot on your base. If a faction is to mine spawners while being raided, the faction that is raiding will receive the taken down value directly.
Punishment: players doing this receive a 3 day ban
Cannon And Raiding Rules
17. Raid Claims
Your raid claim cannot be bigger than 10x10. You cannot have more than 1 claim per side of the base at one time.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning to remove Illegal Raid Claims, If breached staff will assess the situation for a rollback
If not Removed: Forcefully removed/shrunk + 1 Day Temp Ban
18. Anti Raid Claims
Anti-raid claims can only be a max size of 6x6 and CANNOT be in line with your base (the actual base not the walls/wraps). You cannot create “lines” of claims or anything similar to prevent people from claiming.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning to remove Illegal Raid Claims, If breached staff will assess the situation for a rollback
If not Removed: Forcefully removed/shrunk + 1 Day Temp Ban
19. Cobble Monstering
Cobble monstering in any situation will not be tolerated and will be removed as well as the players will be punished, depending on severity.
Punishment: 3 day temp ban to players involved
20. Multi-Wall One shots
A cannon may fire up to 1 shot per button press and destroy a maximum of 1 wall per button press. Any more and the raid will be deemed illegal.
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back, players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days
21. Firing Speeds
A cannon is legal only if it fires TNT every 3 seconds or slower. You cannot use multiple cannons to bypass this.
Anything that has a barrel under y:10 can fire as fast as 0.3s between shots
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back, players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days
22. Disallowed Cannons
(a) Left and right shooters are not allowed. Redirecting SAND horizontally in land that is not claimed by your faction or an ally is not allowed and will cause the raid to be illegal.
(b) Cannons that use excessive amounts of TNT that might affect the server's performance unnecessarily will not be tolerated and will be removed..
(c) Bypassing a factions walls by using a roof cannon is allowed, however, it is not allowed if you push TNT/Falling block(s) over or at 255.
(d) Wall removers are not allowed.
(e) Autos are not allowed, cannons with a barrel below y:10 are exempt, button spammers are allowed but you must click the button manually.
Note: The border breaks sand. You cannot backstack on the border.
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back + players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days, cannon removed.
Your raid claim cannot be bigger than 10x10. You cannot have more than 1 claim per side of the base at one time.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning to remove Illegal Raid Claims, If breached staff will assess the situation for a rollback
If not Removed: Forcefully removed/shrunk + 1 Day Temp Ban
18. Anti Raid Claims
Anti-raid claims can only be a max size of 6x6 and CANNOT be in line with your base (the actual base not the walls/wraps). You cannot create “lines” of claims or anything similar to prevent people from claiming.
1st Offence: Verbal Warning to remove Illegal Raid Claims, If breached staff will assess the situation for a rollback
If not Removed: Forcefully removed/shrunk + 1 Day Temp Ban
19. Cobble Monstering
Cobble monstering in any situation will not be tolerated and will be removed as well as the players will be punished, depending on severity.
Punishment: 3 day temp ban to players involved
20. Multi-Wall One shots
A cannon may fire up to 1 shot per button press and destroy a maximum of 1 wall per button press. Any more and the raid will be deemed illegal.
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back, players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days
21. Firing Speeds
A cannon is legal only if it fires TNT every 3 seconds or slower. You cannot use multiple cannons to bypass this.
Anything that has a barrel under y:10 can fire as fast as 0.3s between shots
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back, players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days
22. Disallowed Cannons
(a) Left and right shooters are not allowed. Redirecting SAND horizontally in land that is not claimed by your faction or an ally is not allowed and will cause the raid to be illegal.
(b) Cannons that use excessive amounts of TNT that might affect the server's performance unnecessarily will not be tolerated and will be removed..
(c) Bypassing a factions walls by using a roof cannon is allowed, however, it is not allowed if you push TNT/Falling block(s) over or at 255.
(d) Wall removers are not allowed.
(e) Autos are not allowed, cannons with a barrel below y:10 are exempt, button spammers are allowed but you must click the button manually.
Note: The border breaks sand. You cannot backstack on the border.
Punishment: faction being raided is rolled back + players who built the cannon are banned for 5 days, cannon removed.
Miscellaneous Faction Rules
23. Eco Glitches / Duping
Exploiting an issue with the economy or a bug that allows you to dupe for an advantage.
Punishment: From 2 to 5 Day Temp Ban depending on severity + perm ban for players abusing.
24. Auto Farms
This is any farm that uses Redstone to automate farming of any crop.
Punishment: 3 day ban to builders + Removal of Automated Farm
25. Scripting
Things such as automated sell scripts or bots, mcMMO level botting and similarly severe offenses.
Punishment: Ban
Server Rules.
First Offense: Permanent Ban Offenses
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Staff Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unban.
Supporting/Encouraging child prom, or making jokes that support/encourage or are about child prom, in any way, is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught trying to scam Admins & Players for Gift Cards/Buycraft Vouchers will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Scamming for in real life money will now be punished as follows:
If you trade with another player, and you scam them so that they lose real life money, you will be banned.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught trading in-game items for PayPal, CS:GO items and Minecraft accounts, or any other account type, OR trading in-game items, or Minecraft accounts, for anything from a third party external source will now be punished as follows:
As said, trading anything on ArkhamNetwork for anything from another game, website or anywhere apart from one of Serayne92’s servers is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Charging Back or Refunding a purchase will now be punished as follows:
We do not offer any refunds. Stated on our Terms of Service & Refund Policy.
Multiple Offenses will result in a permanent ban from Buycraft and Arkham Servers
This also includes Purchasing items for others and then maliciously Charging back to cause that player harm.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban until you repurchase the items you chargebacked
Players caught blatantly advertising other servers will now be punished as follows:
Sending IP address or Domains of other servers in any type of chat or private message is not allowed. Even if you post it in Guild Chat or Party Chat, it is still not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Lag Machines of any kind are not allowed. Purposely lagging the server out, ruins the fun and experience for all players and causes unnecessary stress to developers and owners.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Any form of location glitching is not allowed.
This includes the use of teleportation commands, enderpearls, blocks, boats, explosions or any other illegitimate method to get to locations you are not supposed to have access to.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
1st Offense (Factions): 3 Day Ban
Continuous toxicity is not allowed.
Continuously harassing players, causing drama, insulting the server numerous times, etc. will result in a permanent ban without warning, possibly across all of Serayne's servers and their related platforms (such as the forums & discord), even possibly lasting through global ban resets.
Multiple Offenses: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught exploiting/duping will now be punished as follows:
Exploiting any bug to benefit yourself/others will result in the below punishment. Do not exploit any bugs, just create a Bug Report. (Subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team) Boosting on KitPvP will result in a 30 day ban for exploiting, with the second offense being permanent.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Sending, spreading or sharing scam links in any way is not allowed. Using linked spam bots is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Sharing other’s personal information (such as pictures/facebook/etc) without their consent, in any way, is not allowed.
(Subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team)
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Temporary & Permanent Ban Offenses
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unban.
(Harshest punishment for each rule will be highlighted in red)
Players caught hacking will now be punished as follows:
Using any type of blacklisted modifications or hacked clients is not allowed. Refer to the Allowed & Disallowed - Client Mods if you aren’t sure what is allowed/disallowed.
1st Offense: 14d Ban
2nd Offense: PERMANENT Ban (Appeal on forums after 30days of being banned)
Players caught threatening to Hack, DDoS, or DOX another player will now be punished as follows:
Threatening to hack, DDoS, or DOX another player will result in being punished. Even if the threat was meant as a joke, you will still be punished.
1st Offense: 30d Ban
2nd Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players with inappropriate/racist In-Game Usernames/Skins/Pets will now be punished as follows:
If you have a username/skin/pet/etc. which is inappropriate or is offensive or contains obsessive &k it is not allowed.
1st Offense: 30d Tempban (Appeal after changing to grant immediate unban)
Multiple Offense: Could result in a PERMANENT Ban
Players caught flying/warping out of PvP Arenas whilst in combat (using illegitimate means) will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
Exploiting cobblestone monsters to bypass land claims or grief next to land claims is not allowed.
This is the act of using lava+water to make a cobblestone pyramid, and thus generating cobblestone in a place you aren't supposed to be able to build in or to grief an adjacent claim.
1st Offense: 3d Ban
2nd Offense: 7d Ban
Players caught spamming chat and commands, will now be punished as follows:
As stated above, spamming any command that will spam another player's chat is not allowed (excludes player shops).
Command Spam is considered 4 or more messages in a short period of time.
1st Offense: 1h Tempban
2nd Offense: 1d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 30d Tempban
Using illegal AK Join Messages and illegal Shouts will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 21d Tempban
Players caught ban/mute evading will now be punished as follows:
Coming on your alt whilst your other account(s) are muted or banned. Both accounts will be banned for only 7 days for evading a ban of 1 day or lower.
Ban evading: 30d Ban (Both accounts)
Mute evading: 1d Ban (Both accounts)
TPA-Trapping is not allowed.
Having people to TPA to you and then trapping them and then killing them.
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 30d Tempban
Sell Sign Blocking is not allowed.
AFKing in front of a sell sign at a mine on prison. Even if you are AFKing for just a few minutes, if a staff member catches you, you will be punished.
1st Offense: Kick from the Server
2nd Offense: 1d Tempban
3rd Offense: 3d Tempban
Using shout to encourage rule breaking is not allowed.
Using the /shout command to encourage players to break the rules. For example “/shout Message koalathis for free flamingo!!!!”
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
Any form of manipulation is not allowed.
Finding loopholes in the rules, impersonating others with malicious intent or excessively, trolling staff, repeatedly sending the same two spiteful messages in chat (which wouldn't technically be considered spam), reporting others with spoofed evidence, or attempting to get players in trouble falls under this rule.
1st Offense: 7d Tempban
2nd Offense: 14d Tempban
3rd Offense: 30d Ban
Mutable & Warnable Offenses
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Staff Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unmute. You cannot appeal a mute that is one day or less.
(Harshest punishment for each rule will be highlighted in red)
Players sending faked messages such as (name has made you a coop player/$-amount has been received from name) will now be punished as follows:
Sending messages that are meant to troll players for example setting your chat color to green and typing “$9999999 has been added to your account!”
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 15m Mute
3rd Offense: 30m Mute
4th Offense: 1h Mute
5th Offense: 1 Day Mute
Equipping a fake staff custom title is not allowed. Equipping an inappropriate custom title is not allowed. Equipping a racist title, or a title that spreads hate, is not allowed.
The "owner" title is allowed as it was given as a crate reward a while back. The “pornhub” and “brazzer” title is allowed as it was given as a crate reward a while back.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 3d Mute
3rd Offense: 7d Mute
Unintended Server Advertising is not allowed.
Sending names of other servers in chat. For example “Does anyone want to play on x?” x being another server's name. Sending messages with server names such as Skyblocky and MC-Legends is allowed, as these servers are owned by Serayne92.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 6h Mute
3rd Offense: 3 Day Mute
Social Media Advertising is not allowed.
Sending links or telling people the name of your Social Media accounts. For example “Go check out my twitter @FakeTwitterAccount
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 6h Mute
3rd Offense: 1 Day Mute
Players caught swearing excessively will now be punished as follows:
If a staff member believes you are swearing too much, you will be punished. Only swear when you really need to, which should be rarely.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 1h Tempmute
3rd Offense: 24h Tempute
4th Offense: 30 Day Tempmute
Players caught posting inappropriate links will now be punished as follows:
Sending links in chat that may be offensive to another user. These can include links that may frighten users. Links also leading to pornographic material is also not allowed.
1st Offense: 7d Tempmute w/ Appeal
2nd Offense: 14d Tempmute w/ Appeal
3rd Offense: 30 Day Tempmute w/ Appeal
Players caught spamming will now be punished as follows:
This includes Spamming and Flooding
Spam: Sending 4 messages under 10 seconds, or 3 related messages under 10 seconds.
Flood: Sending messages including elongated words or random characters or symbols.
Floody custom titles are not allowed.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 15m tempmute
3rd Offense: 30m Tempmute
4th Offense: 1h Tempmute
5th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Players caught impersonating staff will now be punished as follows:
Having a /nickname which makes you look like a staff member. Having a username which is very similar to a staff member will fall under ‘Inappropriate Usernames’
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3rd Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Supporting harming oneself or others is not allowed. Players caught bullying/using racism towards a staff member or another player will now be punished as follows:
Racism through titles or nicknames is disallowed. Any versions of the ‘N’ word will be considered racist. Although ‘Niger’ is a country, we will warn if you use it with the intention of being racist. We take bullying very seriously, any form of bullying will result in a punishment. For example: (iKoalas is a punt. She is a total wear.) Death threats are also punishable excluding the phrase, “kys.” If you continue to use kys to make a player feel bullied however, you will be punished.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3rd Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Using the [item] feature to show off inappropriately named items is not allowed.
The item may be forcefully taken from you, especially after breaking the rule a few times. Floody item names and names with staff ranks fall under this rule.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 1h Mute
3rd Offense: 1d Mute
Encouraging others to break the rules will now be punished as follows:
Getting other players to break the rules. For example, “Say ‘I’ if you want $1000” “Whoever guesses the number i’m thinking of gets $1000” ect.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3th Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Other Rules
Do not annoy the Developers, they are usually busy when in-game. They may issue you a punishment for affecting their work.
Lying to the owners results in a ban of varying duration.
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Staff Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unban.
Supporting/Encouraging child prom, or making jokes that support/encourage or are about child prom, in any way, is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught trying to scam Admins & Players for Gift Cards/Buycraft Vouchers will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Scamming for in real life money will now be punished as follows:
If you trade with another player, and you scam them so that they lose real life money, you will be banned.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught trading in-game items for PayPal, CS:GO items and Minecraft accounts, or any other account type, OR trading in-game items, or Minecraft accounts, for anything from a third party external source will now be punished as follows:
As said, trading anything on ArkhamNetwork for anything from another game, website or anywhere apart from one of Serayne92’s servers is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Charging Back or Refunding a purchase will now be punished as follows:
We do not offer any refunds. Stated on our Terms of Service & Refund Policy.
Multiple Offenses will result in a permanent ban from Buycraft and Arkham Servers
This also includes Purchasing items for others and then maliciously Charging back to cause that player harm.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban until you repurchase the items you chargebacked
Players caught blatantly advertising other servers will now be punished as follows:
Sending IP address or Domains of other servers in any type of chat or private message is not allowed. Even if you post it in Guild Chat or Party Chat, it is still not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Lag Machines of any kind are not allowed. Purposely lagging the server out, ruins the fun and experience for all players and causes unnecessary stress to developers and owners.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Any form of location glitching is not allowed.
This includes the use of teleportation commands, enderpearls, blocks, boats, explosions or any other illegitimate method to get to locations you are not supposed to have access to.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
1st Offense (Factions): 3 Day Ban
Continuous toxicity is not allowed.
Continuously harassing players, causing drama, insulting the server numerous times, etc. will result in a permanent ban without warning, possibly across all of Serayne's servers and their related platforms (such as the forums & discord), even possibly lasting through global ban resets.
Multiple Offenses: PERMANENT Ban
Players caught exploiting/duping will now be punished as follows:
Exploiting any bug to benefit yourself/others will result in the below punishment. Do not exploit any bugs, just create a Bug Report. (Subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team) Boosting on KitPvP will result in a 30 day ban for exploiting, with the second offense being permanent.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Sending, spreading or sharing scam links in any way is not allowed. Using linked spam bots is not allowed.
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Sharing other’s personal information (such as pictures/facebook/etc) without their consent, in any way, is not allowed.
(Subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team)
1st Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Temporary & Permanent Ban Offenses
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Administration Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unban.
(Harshest punishment for each rule will be highlighted in red)
Players caught hacking will now be punished as follows:
Using any type of blacklisted modifications or hacked clients is not allowed. Refer to the Allowed & Disallowed - Client Mods if you aren’t sure what is allowed/disallowed.
1st Offense: 14d Ban
2nd Offense: PERMANENT Ban (Appeal on forums after 30days of being banned)
Players caught threatening to Hack, DDoS, or DOX another player will now be punished as follows:
Threatening to hack, DDoS, or DOX another player will result in being punished. Even if the threat was meant as a joke, you will still be punished.
1st Offense: 30d Ban
2nd Offense: PERMANENT Ban
Players with inappropriate/racist In-Game Usernames/Skins/Pets will now be punished as follows:
If you have a username/skin/pet/etc. which is inappropriate or is offensive or contains obsessive &k it is not allowed.
1st Offense: 30d Tempban (Appeal after changing to grant immediate unban)
Multiple Offense: Could result in a PERMANENT Ban
Players caught flying/warping out of PvP Arenas whilst in combat (using illegitimate means) will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
Exploiting cobblestone monsters to bypass land claims or grief next to land claims is not allowed.
This is the act of using lava+water to make a cobblestone pyramid, and thus generating cobblestone in a place you aren't supposed to be able to build in or to grief an adjacent claim.
1st Offense: 3d Ban
2nd Offense: 7d Ban
Players caught spamming chat and commands, will now be punished as follows:
As stated above, spamming any command that will spam another player's chat is not allowed (excludes player shops).
Command Spam is considered 4 or more messages in a short period of time.
1st Offense: 1h Tempban
2nd Offense: 1d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 30d Tempban
Using illegal AK Join Messages and illegal Shouts will now be punished as follows:
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 21d Tempban
Players caught ban/mute evading will now be punished as follows:
Coming on your alt whilst your other account(s) are muted or banned. Both accounts will be banned for only 7 days for evading a ban of 1 day or lower.
Ban evading: 30d Ban (Both accounts)
Mute evading: 1d Ban (Both accounts)
TPA-Trapping is not allowed.
Having people to TPA to you and then trapping them and then killing them.
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
3rd Offense: 7d Tempban
4th Offense: 30d Tempban
Sell Sign Blocking is not allowed.
AFKing in front of a sell sign at a mine on prison. Even if you are AFKing for just a few minutes, if a staff member catches you, you will be punished.
1st Offense: Kick from the Server
2nd Offense: 1d Tempban
3rd Offense: 3d Tempban
Using shout to encourage rule breaking is not allowed.
Using the /shout command to encourage players to break the rules. For example “/shout Message koalathis for free flamingo!!!!”
1st Offense: 1d Tempban
2nd Offense: 3d Tempban
Any form of manipulation is not allowed.
Finding loopholes in the rules, impersonating others with malicious intent or excessively, trolling staff, repeatedly sending the same two spiteful messages in chat (which wouldn't technically be considered spam), reporting others with spoofed evidence, or attempting to get players in trouble falls under this rule.
1st Offense: 7d Tempban
2nd Offense: 14d Tempban
3rd Offense: 30d Ban
Mutable & Warnable Offenses
Appeals are allowed but subject to the full discretion of the Arkhamnetwork Staff Team. Appealing will NOT guarantee an unmute. You cannot appeal a mute that is one day or less.
(Harshest punishment for each rule will be highlighted in red)
Players sending faked messages such as (name has made you a coop player/$-amount has been received from name) will now be punished as follows:
Sending messages that are meant to troll players for example setting your chat color to green and typing “$9999999 has been added to your account!”
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 15m Mute
3rd Offense: 30m Mute
4th Offense: 1h Mute
5th Offense: 1 Day Mute
Equipping a fake staff custom title is not allowed. Equipping an inappropriate custom title is not allowed. Equipping a racist title, or a title that spreads hate, is not allowed.
The "owner" title is allowed as it was given as a crate reward a while back. The “pornhub” and “brazzer” title is allowed as it was given as a crate reward a while back.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 3d Mute
3rd Offense: 7d Mute
Unintended Server Advertising is not allowed.
Sending names of other servers in chat. For example “Does anyone want to play on x?” x being another server's name. Sending messages with server names such as Skyblocky and MC-Legends is allowed, as these servers are owned by Serayne92.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 6h Mute
3rd Offense: 3 Day Mute
Social Media Advertising is not allowed.
Sending links or telling people the name of your Social Media accounts. For example “Go check out my twitter @FakeTwitterAccount
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 6h Mute
3rd Offense: 1 Day Mute
Players caught swearing excessively will now be punished as follows:
If a staff member believes you are swearing too much, you will be punished. Only swear when you really need to, which should be rarely.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 1h Tempmute
3rd Offense: 24h Tempute
4th Offense: 30 Day Tempmute
Players caught posting inappropriate links will now be punished as follows:
Sending links in chat that may be offensive to another user. These can include links that may frighten users. Links also leading to pornographic material is also not allowed.
1st Offense: 7d Tempmute w/ Appeal
2nd Offense: 14d Tempmute w/ Appeal
3rd Offense: 30 Day Tempmute w/ Appeal
Players caught spamming will now be punished as follows:
This includes Spamming and Flooding
Spam: Sending 4 messages under 10 seconds, or 3 related messages under 10 seconds.
Flood: Sending messages including elongated words or random characters or symbols.
Floody custom titles are not allowed.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 15m tempmute
3rd Offense: 30m Tempmute
4th Offense: 1h Tempmute
5th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Players caught impersonating staff will now be punished as follows:
Having a /nickname which makes you look like a staff member. Having a username which is very similar to a staff member will fall under ‘Inappropriate Usernames’
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3rd Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Supporting harming oneself or others is not allowed. Players caught bullying/using racism towards a staff member or another player will now be punished as follows:
Racism through titles or nicknames is disallowed. Any versions of the ‘N’ word will be considered racist. Although ‘Niger’ is a country, we will warn if you use it with the intention of being racist. We take bullying very seriously, any form of bullying will result in a punishment. For example: (iKoalas is a punt. She is a total wear.) Death threats are also punishable excluding the phrase, “kys.” If you continue to use kys to make a player feel bullied however, you will be punished.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3rd Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Using the [item] feature to show off inappropriately named items is not allowed.
The item may be forcefully taken from you, especially after breaking the rule a few times. Floody item names and names with staff ranks fall under this rule.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 1h Mute
3rd Offense: 1d Mute
Encouraging others to break the rules will now be punished as follows:
Getting other players to break the rules. For example, “Say ‘I’ if you want $1000” “Whoever guesses the number i’m thinking of gets $1000” ect.
1st Offense: Formal Warning (/warn)
2nd Offense: 30m Tempmute
3th Offense: 1h Tempmute
4th Offense: 1 Day Tempmute
Other Rules
Do not annoy the Developers, they are usually busy when in-game. They may issue you a punishment for affecting their work.
Lying to the owners results in a ban of varying duration.