Factions Rules

This is where it gets interesting.
Warning:
Rule Bending, misinterpreting, finding loopholes or warping the meaning of the rules for an advantage are not permitted. In such cases, the situation will be reviewed by higher staff and appriopriate punishments will be given.

The rules stated here have been created with a reason, looking for loopholes will not be tolerated, and punishments will be enforced if necessary by our staff.

Disclaimer: Rules which we have may have missed, which we think isn't acceptable there will be appropriate punishments even if we have not stated the rule.
If your faction is breaking constant rules, abusing, individuals, racking up mass offences, factions will be at threat of being disbanded.

Factions are supposed to claim all the land they desire (cannon boxes, bases, buffers etc.) BEFORE they start building.

Several rules explain what you cannot do with unclaimed land. Please be note the list elow:

•  Building or patching cannons in the Wilderness are not allowed.
•  You cannot build or patch raid/anti-raid claims in the Wilderness.
•  Unclaimed bases in the Wilderness to hide value are not tolerated.
•  Walls can not be built in the Wilderness. All faction builds that are currently in use must be claimed.
•  Genbuckets can not be used in the Wilderness.

Scamming players while trading IS allowed. To trade with a player safely, use the /trade feature.
Auction House Scamming is not allowed
Posting scam auction listings in the auction house is not allowed. The auction house should be a safe place to buy and sell items for all players

All faction bases must be a minimum of 3x3 chunks (9 total chunks) and a maximum size of 8x8 chunks (64 total chunks). Bases can have a maximum of 3 boxes to hold their spawners.

Claims and claiming:

• Claiming land with the sole purpose of disrupting another faction currently setting up/using their base or cannon box is not allowed (one claim can be used to fly to the top as long as it doesn't disturb). (1d ban)

• Factions are only allowed to keep/use one corner, upon having more they will be unclaimed (alt factions won’t be tolerated).

• Chunk Buffer Limit: factions are allowed a maximum of 20 chunks buffering their base, the buffer starts where the main box ends. (Regens within the box are not allowed) (7d ban for all of those who claimed)

• Base merging: there should be at least 20 chunks of wilderness between the chunks from both factions. (7d ban for all of those who claimed)

Cannons:

• When raiding, Factions can be raided or counter-raided with only one cannon at the same time, per raid. You may switch cannons leaving a 10 minute gap between shots. If cannon blows up (malfunction/countered; not blown up by own fac) you can switch cannons immediately. (7d ban)
  
  

• Making Cobblemonsters with the sole purpose of griefing a base or protecting one is not allowed. (7d ban for all of those who made)
  
  

• Minimum cannon speed is 3 seconds (per button press). (7d ban for all of those who raided with a faster one)
  
  

• Disallowed cannons: worms, midairs, L stackers, roof cannons. (7d ban for all of those who raided)

  • Rev Nukes
  • Push Nukes
  • U-Fusions
  • Horizontal Pseudos
  • Horizontal Nukes
  • Multiple Wall One Shots
  • Mid Airs
  • Corner Nukes
  • Wall Removers
  • Left/Right Shooting
  • Worms
  • Chimney
  • Roof Cannons
  • Any cannon faster than 3 seconds (exception: cannons which shoot below Y = 10)
    
    
    

• Max cannon claims: 10x10 (including buffer), you may extend a 2 chunk wide claim for the barrel. (1d ban for all of those who claimed)

• No raiding with counter cannons. (7d ban for all of those who raided)

• No wilderness patching allowed, including random claims to prevent factions from raiding/countering. (1d ban for all of those who patched)

• The use of empty/raided cannon boxes to distract/protect other cannon boxes is NOT allowed (eg. trying to confuse the enemy about what box to shoot at // protecting your new cannon box with your old, raided cannon box)

• You are not allowed to shoot with more than one counter at a time (for example, you are not allowed to shoot with a buffer and a side counter at the same time). 

Base defenses:

• 45 wall protection is not allowed. Upon being made, the walls will be removed and the chunks unclaimed. (7d ban for all of those who built)

• Only 4 regen filters (pillars) will be allowed per buffer side of the base. Upon exceeding, the walls will be removed and the chunks unclaimed. (7d ban for all of those who built)

• Building unraidable walls in any way is not allowed (i.e. cactus/chest/glass etc). 14d ban for all of those who were building it.

• Your main base where your spawners are kept must be inside of the 3x3 box.
  To compete for payouts your base must be touching any border, (bonus points for a corner claim)
  
  

Spawners
Using any block or item to block/cover spawners so they cannot be cegged or tnted is NOT allowed. Spawners placed underwater can be blown up.

Instances of encasing spawners include but are not limited to:

• Completely covering spawners
• Putting spawners in faction walls
• Spawners must be placed in a 'box' between Y=30 and Y=220
• Placing spawners across the ceiling
• Using water with doors^[2]
• Surrounding or covering spawners with a line of doors/trap doors
• Using the world border to protect spawners
• Any other methods that make it incredibly difficult to blow up the spawners.

All spawners must be placed in vertical pillars with a minimum height of 5 blocks high. Spawner pillars must be a size of 5 or larger before creating a new pillar. Spawners must also have a minimum distance of 2 blocks away from any type of wall or ceiling, which includes base shells. All spawners must be easily ceggable.

You may not evade these rules by placing blocks around instead of on the spawners. This still counts as encasing and is punishable.

If the situation is found during a raid, the spawners will be given to the raiding faction

You may not use unbreakable blocks to defend or patch your base, cannon, or autocannon because they gives an unfair advantage. Slabs are allowed to be used as a base defense.

These include (but are not limited to):

• Cobblestone walls
• Banners
• Fences
• Anvils
• Cactus
• Cobwebs
• Any block that sand cannot properly stack on

Chunk Buffer Limits

Factions that claim land are allowed a maximum of 15 chunk Flat + 5 chunk Regens away from their base on all sides. Buffer claims start at the first outside wall of the actual base.
In the case of two faction bases sharing the same area, they must both have their own base claimed. This includes their main base and buffer zone. One faction may not claim the buffer or main base for the other faction.
If you choose to make a gap between your base and the first wall, the gap cannot exceed 2 chunks in length.
There must be a gap of 40 chunks between all factions.^[5] This gap begins from the end of a faction's buffer zone.

Regens For this upcoming map of Faction, we will be adding Regens! Along with the usual walls and sand walls, there are 4 types of Regens that we will be allowing on our rule page. These types of regens can be seen below:

Minechats If only the back is filled with lava / Frontfills
- if both the back and the middle is filled with lava.

Anti-One Wides



255 Regen Bar

Regen Filters

Faction Rules disallowed    

Each rule broken will receive 1 or more strikes or even temp banned.

• Abusing faction shield

• Abusing raid timer

• Anti nute walls

• Base box limit

• Buffer counter limit

• Buffer limit (20 chunks)

• Cannon TNT limit /Illegal Cannons

• Claim hindering

• Hiding spawners 

• Countering from behind

• Economy script

• Faction wide cheating

• Having a barrel (unclaimed) in wilderness

• Illegal spawner placement

• Mining spawners while being raided

• More than 1 corner

• Multiple cannons in a cannon box

• Unraidable walls

• Printer, gen bucket and sand bot patching

• Raiding while being raid banned

• Raiding without raid claims

• Sharing value

• Shooting multiple counters at once

• Strike evasion

• Tracker bots

• Watering spawners

Strikes:

• 2 Strikes -15% value deduction
• 3 Strikes - 2 days no /f shield
• 4 Strikes - 4 days no /f shield
  
• 6 Strikes - 30% value reduction
• 7 Strikes - 45% value reduction
  
• 8 Strikes - 60% value reduction
• 10 Strikes - Disqualification from Factions Top

Other:

• Camping near bases (Cannon boxes NOT included) to prevent players from flying, building, or mining is not allowed. (1d ban)

• Griefing wilderness with huge oceans or pillars (gens) etc. is not allowed. (7d ban for all of those who built)

• When being raided you are NOT allowed to break in any way, shape or form your spawners (“i didn't know we were being raided will not be a valid excuse”). 14d ban for all of those who broke spawners

• Patching with gen buckets/sandbots is NOT allowed (7d ban for all of those who abuse it)

• Raiding bases/counters saving backs/logging off inside enemy claim is NOT allowed (7d ban for all of those who abuse it)

• A faction can only claim 1 faction corner per map.
  
  
• Betraying your faction is not allowed. Under this rule falls giving away your faction base's coordinates, stealing money/XP/spawners, helping other factions raid you and anything similar.
  
  
• Sharing value among factions is not allowed. This means you are not allowed to boost other factions with money/spawners in order for them to achieve a Factions Top place or similar. Doing so will result in a direct disqualification for both factions from the Factions Top competition.
  
  
• Crashing the server, exploiting bugs and similar. Even if one person from your faction does it, the entire faction may get affected. This can (in extreme cases) lead to disqualification. The rule also covers doing things that you are not supposed to do which disrupt the experience of other players or trying to find loopholes around Factions' features and/or limitations. Contact a staff member if you are uncertain about whether something falls under this rule or not.
  
  
• Spamming the chat as a faction and making it unreadable will result in a faction punishment instead of a standard warn/mute. This means if there are 6+ faction members sending the same message in the public chat with the goal of spamming/flooding, they get punished as a faction. An exception to this is when the entire server is typing 'L', 'LOL' or similar when someone gets raided/banned/struck/etc.
  
  
• If you have 3 or more players from your faction banned for cheating-related offences, ban evasions of cheating-related bans or ban evasions of screen share bans, you will get punished. Kicking the players will not help as you will still get punished.
  
  
• Creating a new faction to evade your previous factions’ strikes is not allowed.
  
  
• Creating automatic cane farms are not allowed as they hurt the economy as well as server performance.
  
  
• Using the F11 bug / Alt + Tab to grind mobs or crops is not allowed. You must be present at all times whilst doing these actions.

Note:

• Your spawners must be placed in a base claim.
• Your faction must be at least 2 weeks old to be eligible for a payout
• Not knowing the rules is considered ignorance on your part and you will suffer the consequences regardless.
• The faction leader is responsible for the actions of their members. If one of them breaks the rules, the entire faction gets punished.
• We do not show evidence of strikes to players on request.
• Camping near bases (Cannon boxes NOT included) to prevent players from flying, building, or mining is not allowed. (1d ban)
• Griefing wilderness with huge oceans or pillars (gens) etc. is not allowed. (7d ban for all of those who built)
• When being raided you are NOT allowed to break in any way, shape or form your spawners (“i didn't know we were being raided will not be a valid excuse”). 14d ban for all of those who broke spawners
• Patching with gen buckets/sandbots is NOT allowed (7d ban for all of those who abuse it)
• Raiding bases/counters saving backs/logging off inside enemy claim is NOT allowed (7d ban for all of those who abuse it)

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