Vanilly is a community for all ages; while that includes mature groups of players, it also includes younger players! Therefore the deal is simple - be nice to everyone, and try not to do anything that you may not want a little kid to see!
The Official Guideline for Players!
Last Updated: December 29th, 2023.
INTRODUCTION
This guideline is to provide players with the appropriate information for playing.
We will only punish players with sufficient evidence from logs, screenshots, or videos.
Avoid making assumptions, only act on hard evidence.
SERVER RULES
All players will receive equal punishment regardless of their previous status or affiliation with the server.
Use Common Sense
Anything that harms the community, players, server economy, or server as a whole and is not meant to be a normal feature of Minecraft or Vanilly is subject to punishment, even if it is not laid out specifically in the rules.
No Cheating, Hacking or Exploiting Bugs.
Any player who finds a way around the system to gain an advantage is considered a cheater.
Any player who modifies their client or uses a program to give them an advantage is a hacker.
All modifications/programs besides the following are prohibited:
Minimaps / Waypoints
Lighting modifications (Shaders, brightness)
Optifine (Any FPS boosting mod)
Shulker Peek
Crafting Recipe Mods
Schematica / Litematica (No AutoBuild)
REI/NEI/JEI (A menu that shows you how to craft an item)
Itemscroller (Link) (Note: Anticheat might still kick you for using this mod, just reconnect and ignore it.)
Be polite and respectful to others regardless of the situation.
Report a player or /ignore them if you feel that you have engaged in a toxic conversation with them.
Repeated violations of toxicity that negatively affect the community will result in punishment.
Bothering a player repeatedly is considered harassment.
If a player asks you to leave their land, leave the area entirely.
If a player asks you to stop messaging, then stop.
If the public chat becomes too heated over a topic, then a staff member reserves the right to break it up and mute players. Refusal to follow staff instructions in a situation like this will result in punishment.
Treating someone poorly based on race falls under the racism rule, and all players will be punished accordingly. Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's race is superior.
Any variation of socially questionable terms will not be tolerated.
This includes any variation of the N-word, regardless of context.
This includes any other racist, sexist, or homophobic terms.
This includes terms in English as well as other languages.
Impersonating staff members is not allowed.
Absolutely no political discussions are allowed in public server chat. Any discussion of political views or beliefs must occur in DM’s.
Do not discuss sensitive issues (abortion, religion, etc) in public chat. Please keep it in messages or DM’s.
No Spamming / Advertising
Spamming includes but is not limited to:
Excessive Caps/Characters/Chat Messages/Links.
Excessive use of advertisements.
Excessive use of non-ASCII characters. (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Excessive use of colored text.
Encouraging Spam (i.e. "guess a number, month, day" in general chat)
Staff will use their best judgment to determine what is considered spam.
Do not advertise other servers or discords that are not Vanilly-owned.
Keep the chat in English at all times
Chatting in your own language is only allowed in whispers.
Do not engage when you see people talking in your (none-english) language.
No Excessive Derogatory Swearing
Players can swear to express themselves, not to insult/attack others.
Allowed: “Fuck I died from a creeper.”
Not Allowed: “Fuck you, asshole.”
Vanilly is family-friendly, so most swearing will be censored regardless.
Staff members will determine when swearing becomes excessive.
No Scamming
Scamming is falsely promising one thing and then doing another. The following are examples of scamming:
Modifying items to appear as if they are still in their original state when they are not.
Renaming items in your shop and pretending it is something else (ex: naming tripwire hook “Gold Key” and selling it)
Putting an enchanted item through a grindstone and then selling it as if it was the original item.
Tricking players to gain profit.
We are not responsible and do not condone any transactions between players that involve real-life money.
No PVP’ing Unless Agreed Upon
Do not PVP unless both parties agree.
When someone bothers you, this does not give you the right to kill them.
PvP is disabled by default, but that doesn’t mean that you can PvP anyone that has it enabled.
Let an admin know what’s going on instead.
No Teleport Trapping / PvP Bypass
Portal trapping is prohibited. All Nether portals must not be blocked off with doors or blocks.
Attempting to kill a player through any means that has PvP disabled, is not allowed whatsoever.
Making any sort of trap that would lead to a player's death, is against the rules, and will be considered a malicious act.
No Death Threats / Malicious Threats / Encouraging Suicide
Malicious threats include DDOS attacks / Leaking another person’s information.
Threatening to kill a person in real life is considered a death threat.
Telling players to commit suicide, encouraging them, or jokingly saying “kys” is not allowed.
Griefing / Stealing
Do not destroy anything that is not yours.
Do not steal from chests that are not yours.
Do not steal someone else's map art.
Do not claim other peoples map art to be yours.
Defacing or destroying the natural appearance of land within 48 blocks of a land claim is prohibited.
Building within 64 blocks of a claimed land is not allowed.
Use common sense. If the builder/land owner doesn’t want something to be there, it is most likely considered griefing.
The land owner is always responsible to claim their land, but if for some reason it’s not claimed, but very obviously a “claimed land”, we will help restore and roll back any grief that happens or items stolen.
Do Not Abuse Land Power
This rule applies to all members of a land.
This includes but is not limited to the following:
Kicking active players out without letting them retrieve their items.
Kicking active players out after they store their items to steal them.
Stealing items from other players' chunks.
Griefing the land claims or surrounding territory.
Alternative Accounts
Using alternate accounts to AFK farms is not allowed.
Using alternate accounts to break server rule(s).
Using an alternate account to abuse our reward system is prohibited, such as:
Voting on them to give the keys/tokens to your main account.
Being logged on to receive global rewards, such as when a community goal is hit, emerald parties, xp parties, etc.
No IRL Land Names
This includes country/city names that exist IRL, past or present.
Not to be used in warps, claims, shops, etc.
No Inappropriate Skin/Username/Inappropriate Builds
This is a family-friendly server, we have no tolerance for anything that could be offensive to other players. A breakdown of examples is displayed below, but this is up to the discretion of staff.
Skins: Nudity, Racism, Nazi Skins, or any other representations of violence.
Usernames: Swear words, NSFW terms, or anything with racist intent.
Builds: Swastikas, phallic structures, anything politically sensitive, or swear words.
This can include things beyond the examples provided, it is up to the community and staff to recognize and resolve any sort of inappropriate nature being displayed within Vanilly
PUNISHMENT TABLE
Punishments are based on the situation and are subject to change based on the severity of the offense.
No Cheating, Hacking or Exploiting Bugs.
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Cheating
Warning
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (7 Days)
Malicious Hacking*
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
Ban (30 Days)
Ban (Permanent)
Non-Malicious Hacking
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (5 Days)
Ban (30 Days)
Minor Exploits
Warning
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
Severe Exploits**
Determined by Admin or above.
*This includes X-Ray, player combat hacks, and hacks that impact other players or the server.
**This includes server-breaking issues or issues that will have an impact on the economy and/or other players.
Bypassing Ban / Mute / Filter
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Ban / Mute
Alternative accounts receive the permanent ban/mute.
The main account will have their punishment doubled.
Players who casually say stuff like “wanna fight me on hypixel” should not get punished. But if they say like “Everyone come join me on play.minecraftserver.net!” you can perma mute.
Keep the chat in English
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Other languages
Warning
Mute (1 Hour)
Mute (3 Hours)
Mute (1 day)
Inappropriate Language
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Inappropriate Language
Warning
Warning
Mute (1 Hours)
Mute (12 Hours)
No Inappropriate Skins/Usernames/Builds
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Inappropriate Skin/Username
Permanent (until name is changed)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Inappropriate Item Names
Warning
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 days)
Ban (5 days)
Inappropriate Builds
Ban (3 days)
Ban (5 days)
Ban (7 days)
Ban (Perm)
**Inappropriate Builds can and will result in a permanent ban depending on the severity**
No Scamming
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Scamming
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
Players who cooperate with staff in returning the items will have their ban lengths reduced.
No PVP unless agreed upon
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (5 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
No Teleport Killing / Trapping
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Teleport Killing
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
Portal Trapping
Warning
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (7 Days)
Trapping
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
Players who cooperate with staff in returning the items will have their ban lengths reduced.
No Death Threats / Malicious Threats / Encouraging Suicide
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Death Threats
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Malicious Threats
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Encouraging Suicide
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
N/A
Griefing / Stealing
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Ban (1 Day)
Ban (3 Days)
Ban (5 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
Abusing Land Power
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Determined by an Admin or above.
No IRL Land Names
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Warning
Ban (1 day)
Ban (3 days)
Ban (5 days)
After the first offense, Admin will change the name of the claim.
Using Alternative Accounts to AFK/Abuse
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Main Account
Verbal Warning
Warning
Ban (7 Days)
Ban (14 Days)
Alternate Account
Ban (Permanent)
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Inappropriate Skins/Usernames/Builds
Rule
1st Offense
2nd Offense
3rd Offense
4th Offense
Inappropriate Skin/Username
Permanent (until name or skin is changed)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Inappropriate Item Names
Warning
Ban (1 day)
Ban (3 days)
Ban (5 days)
Inappropriate Builds
Ban (3 days)
Ban (5 days)
Ban (7 days)
Ban (Perm)
APPEALING A PUNISHMENT
Every player has the right to appeal their punishment if they provide sufficient evidence that they did not break any rules. Appealing can be done on our discord.