Vanilla Extract Server Rules
by Syntaxvgm on Jan 31, 2023
Community
Respect people. Don’t be an asshole. Respect all groups.
Be careful with politics. Might be a thing best saved for voice channels, where you know everyone is ok with the subjects.
If you’re doing something that makes others uncomfortable, stop, even if their problem with it is weird to you. It might be best to take any discussion about a touchy subject to a private space with other willing participants.
If the support team asks you to stop, stop. Take it private if you want. Shutting down something that’s gotten out of hand doesn’t mean you’re in trouble.
Whatever beliefs you have, crazy or sane, Minecraft is not the hill to die on. You will be surrounded with people from many countries with different values. They are here to enjoy a happy hobby with you.
Personal harassment or advocacy of violence is the fastest way to get banned from this community.
Gameplay
- No griefing
Griefing is causing damage to any player or their property. - No Stealing
Do not take something that doesn’t belong to you, even if seemingly valueless. Just ask, people are generous! - No trolling
- No PVP without consent from all parties involved
- No bug abuse- if you are unsure if something would count here just ask!
- No X-Ray. No MRI. This includes making lava transparent to mine while swimming under it. Any camera mods should be used only for your base and not mining.
- Respect unique rules given with any competitions
- Don't intentionally cheese custom VE Advancements (example- mining stats by re-mining)
- Any bug discovered unique to our configuration or something that can cause issues like dupes with the core game should be reported to support.
Spawn
Do not build inside the designated spawn area without asking appropriate people first. Spawn is 2000x2000 (1000 each direction) and marked on the livemap with a red box.
The Nether and Portals
The nether has no border. You are allowed to build on the nether roof. Nether highways should be on the roof to keep everything standardized. You should hook up your nether portal to the nearest cardinal direction highway (NSEW). Feel free to ask others to help you get hooked up.
The End
If you already have an elytra, end raid on the north half of the map only. It’s common courtesy to give notice in chat when you are respawning the dragon. End portals in the overworld are limited in number. You can build around them, even modify them, but you must provide a way for other players to access them to hop in if they find them. You are not required to list your portal publically.
Communication and Patience
When doing things like building next to someone's base, or somewhere you think they may want later, you ask! It’s simple and keeps everyone happy. This means you’ll have to wait for answers to some things like “do you need this tunnel anymore”. We encourage people to follow this guideline- just because you can, doesn't mean you shouldn’t ask. Happy neighbors make a happy server.
Ask support if you need to figure out who something belongs to and when they were last active.
Bases
Avoid bases larger than 750x750. Walls are allowed but please, for the love of god, don’t make a 750x750 wall and quit in a week. Off base builds/farms are allowed within reason. You’ll find that most people will look to see what’s near before building, and your need to make a wall diminishes the further you are from spawn.
Client Modifications
We’re friendly to most non cheaty client mods. If you’re unsure, ask us. We allow litematica, minimap mods, and probably most quality of life mods like minihud.
Lag
We intend to give as much freedom as possible to our more technical players to build something crazy, as well as our regular players who just want farms. Still, we have some rules.
- No more than 100 friendly animals or nametagged hostile mobs within a single player's loading distance.
- No more than 100 villagers within a single player's loading distance.
- Please use a name tag to make your trading hall villagers dumber.
- Limit minecarts where possible. Hopper minecarts are allowed, but use the appropriate ammount for the collection rate you need.
- Make sure your farm doesn’t leave a bunch of ground items uncollected
- Because we have a world border, only one ocean monument claim per person. You may raid unclaimed ones and leave them for the next person to make a farm.
- Avoid excessive flashing dust
- Use of slimestone and railstone is encouraged where possible
- Follow all TNT duper guidelines
- No chunk loaders except in the explicit approved instances
- Caves inside the loading area of your base should be lit to the best of your abilities when possible
- It is ideal to separate farms you think are heavier on the server from other builds. For example- make a large gold farm, load only the gold farm.
- If this is all confusing to you, there are redstone experts in the community to help you!
Advanced
When making more complex and “bleeding edge” farms, as an advanced redstoner it is your responsibility to use tools like Carpet Mod in singleplayer to understand the lag implications before building to avoid having it removed later. If you are unsure whether to proceed, share your plans with Syntax, and get advice on how to approve from those in the community who like redstone.
These lag rules are something that you can earn flexibility from with time and trust. Some can also be broken WITH consultation from the support team. It is more important to follow the spirit of these rules than the hard limits- ask yourself WHY something is not allowed instead of skirting it by the ‘letter of the law’. Conversely, if you have a non impactful way to do something that's listed here, ask us!
Kicking the server while its down
If you are running heavy farms and see the TPS is low or there are a lot of players, it's best to stop them for now and run them when there's less people on.
Chunk Loaders
Chunk loaders are allowed for the following instance only- you have a farm that requires an overworld side and a nether side. It must work in such a way that you have to load one side to load the other- for example shulker farms. Be sure you know your plan is ok before proceeding!
Chunk loading otherwise is not allowed without specific approval from Syntax.
TNT Dupers
TNT dupers are allowed as we consider them a core part of modern minecraft redstone. However, you may only operate one duper based farm at any given time. Care must be used to isolate heavy farms with a lot of item output. Do not, for example, run a fast TNT cobble generator just for the sake of it. Run it because you need a ton of cobble. Stop your TNT cobble farm to run your TNT tree farm. One farm that needs multiple dupers firing at the same time must be approved by Syntax first. Multiple dupers only for the purpose of getting different positions is fine.
TNT duper quarries must be built only with plan approval from Support and run at scheduled times.
Bedrock Breaking
It’s allowed! If you want a roof hole like the cool kids, refer to a youtube guide or ask someone else to do it for you if you don’t know how. There is a bedrock breaking request channel in the Discord. Check the pinned message for information. Remember they can’t be replaced once broken, so break wisely!
Account names, re-joining Discord
The way channels work on discord is role based. You lose all of your roles when you leave and rejoin a Discord. If you were already accepted but need re-added to the discord, just use the application bot. You don't have to fill it out, just state that you were already a member. Staff will search for your account to verify then add you back.
Minecraft name changes are now handled automatically. Account migrations are different. If you create a new Minecraft account and wish to migrate, make a ticket with your old name and your new name. It's more than a whitelist thing, all of your old data needs migrated which needs to be done by hand. Once it's done you'll have your playerdata, advancements, enderchest, and any internal scoreboard data your old account had.
We don’t shoot from the hip!
Making mistakes isn’t always an instant ban, and admitting mistakes is a way to earn trust with the community. Most often, you’ll be told to stop doing something before simply having action taken. We catch rule breakers, but we also recognize your value- we want you to play here, and we want a happy community!