PANDAMIUM RULES

General Rules

1. Be respectful to others.

  - It is okay to make friendly jokes, but language that is hurtful or inappropriate is forbidden. Rules #2, #3, and #5 elaborate on this more specifically.

  - Any form of harassment, witch hunting, prejudice, hate speech, or impersonation of others will not be tolerated.

  - "Others" includes other players, our staff team, Mojang employees, and anyone else who may be brought up in conversation.

2. No spamming, advertising, random pings, or unsolicited DMs. (Don't be annoying)

  - Spamming includes excessively repeating messages or letters, excessively writing in capital letters and unusual fonts, and other generally annoying behaviour in channels/chat.

  - "Advertising" is the promotion of your/others' Minecraft servers, social media accounts, or websites.

  - Advertising an event you're organising on the server or a shop, is allowed as long as it is done reasonably.

3. No offensive, hurtful, derogatory, or NSFW behaviour.

  - Swearing is allowed, but do not do it in an excessive, rude, or derogatory way.

  - "NSFW" - "not safe for work" - refers to extreme adult topics.

  - Any form of derogatory behaviour -- such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism -- will not be tolerated.

  - This extends to images, videos, links to websites, and creations in Minecraft too.

4. Use English in public channels/chat.

  - Using one language is more inclusive of everyone who is online, and allows all staff members to moderate effectively.

  - Communicating this rule to new players who don't speak English is of course fine, we just ask that you keep it brief so that moderators don't have to be constantly translating.

5. Try to keep the tone/vibe light-hearted and chilled out.

  - Arguments and heated debates about potentially controversial topics unrelated to Minecraft or Pandamium should be avoided.

   - These topics aren't completely forbidden, but can easily lead to fights and insults, which is why we ask that they be kept to a minimum.

  - If you notice that anyone is uncomfortable please try to change the topic, and if you yourself are uncomfortable please let others know.

  - This usually relates to controversial politics.

6. Do not try to loophole or get around punishments using alt accounts.

  - Alt accounts are allowed on the servers but if you have been banned or jailed and switch to an alt to continue playing, both accounts may be permanently banned.

  - If you use an alt account in order to contact staff, we will excuse that so please just be honest.

  - Please let us know about any alt accounts you or others have so that you do not take up multiple places on leader boards.

Gameplay Rules

1. No hacking, cheating, or x-raying to get an unfair advantage over others.

  - Client-side mini-map mods are allowed, unless they allow you to see the location of ores or structures underground.

  - Schematic mods are allowed, but only the visual (hologram) aspects. Any auto-placing or automated/impossible movement is not allowed.

2. All forms of stealing, griefing, and raiding are forbidden.

  - This includes killing others' pets, not paying for items in shops, and looting "abandoned" bases.

3. Do not exploit bugs or glitches introduced in snapshots that give you an unfair advantage or hinder others' gameplay -- especially, but not limited to:

  - Item duplication,

  - Crashing the server,

  - Intentionally creating lots of lag.

4. PvP (fighting other players) is allowed, just do not do it excessively or in an annoying/hurtful way.

  - Especially not again after they explicitly stated that they do not want to fight. If you're not both having fun, just don't do it.

  - Also, be mindful that some players may have Keep-Inventory disabled, so killing them without their permission may lose them lots of progress.

5. Do not use auto clickers, auto reconnect mods, or similar tools to get around the AFK timeout.

  - Being active at a farm is allowed but spending too much time there can strain the server performance due to increased entities taking up the mob cap.

  - If you are AFK and your farm starts to hurt server performance, you may be kicked or jailed as a warning. This isn't serious, but just try to be careful.

6. The Minecraft Usage Guidelines must be complied with at all times.

  - For example, do not do/share/encourage any of the following: 

    - Gambling,

    - Pornography,

    - Violence,

    - Terrorism,

    - Other unsafe content.

  - This is an enforcement by Mojang and GamerSafer, but we feel that it is entirely reasonable as it helps to keep the server a safe place.

Moderation Info / Metarules

Staff are reasonable human beings, not robots, but some more specific rules that you may want to be aware of are as follows.

- Punishments can be made as staff members see fit, appropriate to the severity of the violation.

  - We have guidelines on the durations for specific kinds of punishments though, so these decisions are not arbitrary.

- Minecraft is buggy -- especially snapshots and experimental content -- so it may occasionally happen that items get lost due to a server crash or because of other glitches. If you play here, you have to live with that.

  - Staff are not obliged to return lost items, but may do so at their discression or if the team agrees.

  - Items lost to theft/raids may be able to be recovered for you by staff.

- Intentionally helping other players break the rules, even if you don't directly break any rules yourself, may be enough to receive a punishment.

  - This includes, but is not limited to:

    - Providing items knowingly needed for an exploit

    - Lying to staff when questioned about other players' offenses

    - Or even simply not reporting known offenses of other players.

  - This is not a black-and-white rule, but please do not try to hinder moderators' jobs as they may not look favourably on you.

- Claiming to break the rules may be enough reason to receive a punishment for that offense.

  - This again falls under making our jobs as moderators harder which goes against General Rule #1.

- Punishments may be challenged by opening a "help ticket" on Discord but we are not obliged to reduce a ban length and will base our decisions on what you have to say, the situation, any additional context, and your behaviour towards us and other players.

  - You may also send the staff team messages or items in-game on the Snapshot server using /trigger mail

- Be responsible for your own account.

  - Claiming that a family member broke our rules whilst on your account will not be tolerated.

  - If it is clear that your account was maliciously hacked (e.g. you start sending scam links) we may kick or ban your account, but once you have regained access to it please inform staff and take some accountability (be apologetic).

- Using alt accounts to circumvent bans or jailtime is not allowed. Doing so may result in both accounts being permanently banned.

- For non-urgent or official communication directly with the owner, you can email pandamiummc.contact@gmail.com.

  - However, this should not be used by general users for appealing punishments or general server/gameplay questions. Please use the Discord server for that.

  - Only use this email for appealing punishments if you have no other means of communicating with the staff team.

  - This email is not accessed very frequently so please be patient and do not expect a quick response. You may be asked to move to another platform such as Discord. 

For more info, please join our discord.