These are the official Mineflare rules. Scroll down to view each individual tier. Should any rule be unclear, please message a staff member for clarification. Have fun!
Evading any ban or mute will result in the punishment length being doubled as a ban!
Warn → 2nd Warn → 5min Mute → 15min → 30min Mute → 1hr. Mute → 6hr. Mute → 12hr. Mute → 1d Mute
Offense 15+: 3d | Offense 20+: 7d | Offense 25+: 30d | Offense 30+: perm mute
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Chat Spam | Flooding chat with 5 or more messages in a row or spamming a line of characters. | "plz visit my islandddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd" |
| Symbols | Using excessive symbols in chat. Small non-offensive symbols are acceptable in moderation, but don't overuse or spam them. | "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" |
| Non-English | Speaking in any language other than English in public chat is not allowed. You can use island chat or private messages if you want to speak other languages. | "Hola, me gusta el mar" |
| Filter Bypass | Intentionally bypassing the chat filter with swear words or advertising. | "I like to eat sh!t" |
| Inappropriate Chat | Discussing topics which are obscene, inappropriate or otherwise have no place on the server. This includes inappropriate topics and political debates. | "No! How dare you insult the President. Let's debate this." |
| Disrespect | Disrespecting another player, staff member or the server in any form is not allowed. Continued disrespect can lead to a Toxicity punishment. Just be friendly and kind to everyone and you will never have an issue with this rule! | "You're literally the most vile human alive." |
| Fake Messages | Intentionally creating a message that is not real and usually intends to trick a player. | "[Alert] Alt +F4 for free money!" |
| Hackusating | Continuously accusing a player of hacking without providing sufficient evidence and refusing to stop after being told by staff is prohibited. When accusing a player, it is recommended that the /report command is used. | - |
| Rule Breaking Encouragement | Encouraging players to break rules on the server in any way is prohibited. Pretending that you are breaking any rules also fall under this category. | "Look at the autoclicker I'm using!!!" |
Warn → 1 Day Ban → 3 Day Ban → 7 Day Ban → 14 Day Ban → 30 Day ban
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Light Advertising | Do not encourage players to join another server, follow your social media, or click on your media link. Note that mentioning Hypixel is allowed, but not other networks that could be considered competitors. | "Let's go play my friend's Survival server, ask me for the IP!" |
| Impersonation | Users may not impersonate another player, staff member or youtuber under any circumstance. This includes nicknames. | "Hey guys! I'm the owner of the server! I'm just on an alt!" |
| Minor Glitch Abuse | Do not abuse any glitch under any circumstance. If you find a bug, immediately report it to a staff member! | Using /speed 5 in PvP |
| Event Abuse | Cheating in an event, including bypassing KOTH's restrictions with alts is strictly prohibited. This includes the Events server. | - |
| Lag Machines | Avoid creating machines or contraptions which can lag the server (intentional or unintentional). | - |
| Player Casinos | Player casinos are not allowed. | - |
| Inappropriate Builds | You cannot construct obscene, offensive or derogatory builds. | - |
| Kill Boosting | Players must not use alts, friends, etc. to kill boost. | - |
| Nickname Abuse | Players must not abuse /nick or use inappropriate nicknames. This includes impersonating staff members or YouTubers. | "/nick A$$hole12" |
| Misusing /report | Using the /report feature in a troll/nuisance-like way is not allowed. | - |
| Claim Trapping | You cannot build around a users claim with the intent of block or otherwise restricting or griefing another player. | - |
| TP Trapping | You cannot trick other users into teleporting to you and then killing/trolling them. | - |
| In-Game Scamming | Attempting to scam a user out of in game items is not tolerated. This includes but is not limited to fake auction house items, misleading trade items/attempting to remove items during a trade, etc. | - |
| Inventory Flooding | Flooding a players inventory with items with malicious intent (ex: intentionally filling a players inventory with water buckets in pvp) is not allowed. | - |
| Command Abuse | Any form of command abuse including but not limited to spamming people with duels when told to stop, using a command in an unintended way, spamming the anticheat/filter, abusing shout, etc... | - |
1 Day Ban → 7 Day Ban → 30 Day Ban → Permanent Ban
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Harassment | Bullying another user which is defined as excessive disrespect, sexual harassment, or otherwise persistent harassment is not tolerated. | - |
| Toxicity | Do not continuously break rules, test limits, or be a nuisance on the server. | - |
| Autoclicking/AFK Clicking | Automatically clicking of any kind is prohibited. This includes rebinding. If you are unresponsive in-game while grinding, mining or clicking and are banned for autoclicking, you must take responsibility for not paying attention. | - |
| Excessive Alts | Players are limited to 3 alt accounts, not including their main account. Alt accounts may AFK but may not be doing any automated tasks. | - |
| Banning Staff | Players are not allowed to ban staff from their island. Pinging the anticheat while doing so will automatically be enforced as cheating. Any concerns about staff members abusing this privilege can be messaged to a manager. | - |
| Account Sharing | Sharing an account with the intent to grind, share items, or any other actions that may result in an unfair advantage is prohibited. | Sharing an account so it can be grinding 24/7 |
| Alt Abuse | Alts can only be used for AFKing island farms/grinders and voting. Alts may not be used to gain a competitive advantage by claiming one-time rewards multiple times. Ask a staff member if you are unsure. | - |
| Disallowed Modification | Using any mod not listed on the official legal modifications page, and not given explicit permission by staff to use. Also includes physical or digital modifications that can be considered unfair. This includes printer and setting an unreasonable debounce time (10ms minimum). This INCLUDES rebinding your left click, drag clicking and anything of the sorts. | Using easyplace or fast place. Weighing down a key with an item or programming a mouse button to double click. |
7 Day Ban → 30 Day Ban → Permanent Ban
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Hacking | Using any disallowed client, texture pack or any modifications which give you an unfair advantage are not allowed. | - |
| Threats | Users may not threaten to harm other players. This includes DDoS and Dox threats. | - |
| Griefing | Griefing which is defined as intentionally stealing, doing harm to another plot, island or player's build is not allowed. This rule also extends to griefing the survival world with lava monsters or other large scale builds. | - |
| Island Insiding | Players may not inside other island items. | - |
| Autoclicking (PvP) | Using any form of autoclicker under any circumstance is not allowed. This INCLUDES rebinding your left click, drag clicking and anything of the sorts. | - |
| Kicking Members | Kicking a player who has contributed monetary value through blocks, items, skycoins is prohibited unless there is a legitimate reason to do so. If it's unclear what a legitimate reason may be, refer to a staff member. | - |
| Alt Islands | Islands must keep everything on a single island; using a separate island to store wealth, for additional space or anything else is forbidden. This includes completing missions or other achievements in order to receive rewards. | - |
30 Day Ban → Permanent Ban
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Racism & Discrimination | Using any racist remark, racist phrase, or racial slur is strictly prohibited. Likewise, discrimination of any kind is not tolerated. | - |
| Suicide Encouragement | Any encouragement of suicide or self-harm is not tolerated. | - |
| Extreme Harassment | Any form of extreme sexual remarks or other forms of extreme harassments is not tolerated. | - |
| IRL Trading | Trading items in-game for IRL money is not allowed. You may only trade in-game items for buycraft (server store) items and giftcards. This is discouraged but allowed. | - |
| IRL Scamming | Scamming a user out of irl items or gift cards is not tolerated. | - |
| Disallowed Macro/Script | Any keybinds set to win chatgames or otherwise gain an unfair advantage over players is prohibited. This includes creating scripts to automate any actions such as fishing and farming. | - |
Permanent Ban
| Reason | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Directly promoting another server such as putting its IP in chat is not allowed. | "Join 12.345.567.8910 for FREE RANKS! Looking for STAFF!" |
| Misc. Links | IP grabbers, porn links, or otherwise harmful links are not allowed in chat. | - |
| Dupe Glitches | Duping on the server is not allowed. You may also not attempt to find exploit glitches either. Reporting these to a staff member can often be rewarded. Abusing them will get you a permanent ban. | - |
| Major Glitch Abuse | You cannot exploit any glitch with serious implications on the server. This includes server-crashing or griefing glitches. If you find a glitch, you are responsible for immediately alerting a staff member. | - |
| Botting | Using a bot to simultaneously have multiple accounts join the server and chat or perfom an action is not permitted. | - |
| Leaking Personal Info | Disclosing any personally identifiable information of players including addresses, full names, social media links, etc. is not allowed. | - |
| Inappropriate Skins | Do not wear an inappropriate skin which would not conform to the rest of our rules. | Hitler skins, naked skins. |
| Inappropriate IGN | Do not have an inappropriate IGN which would not conform to the rest of our rules. | - |
Skyblock teams may attain up to 5 disqualification points, but will face disqualification from /is top for up to a season (depending on the severity), island deletion or island leader/member punishments.
| Reason | Description | DQ Points |
|---|---|---|
| Alt Islands | Islands must keep everything on a single island; using a separate island to store wealth, for additional space or anything else is forbidden. | 2 |
| Hacking/Autoclicking | For every instance of a member of an island being banned for hacking or autoclicking, a DQ point will be given. | 1 (Per Offence) |
| Unauthorized Entry | Players may not attempt to glitch, exploit, or attempt to enter an island, plot, or claim which they are kicked or banned or otherwise not allowed to enter. | 2 |
| Laggy Farms/Islands | Islands must make sure to keep lag to a reasonable level and must modify their island/farms if told to do so to decrease lag. | 3 |
| Minor Exploits | Any non game breaking glitches found and used in order to gain an unfair advantage are forbidden. Any of these glitches must be reported to a staff member. | 2 |
| Scripts | Teams may not write and run scripts in order to instantly run multiple commands or automatically perform any actions such as fishing or farming. | 4+ |
| Major Exploits | Any major glitch or exploit found (including dupe glitches) and used without reporting it to a staff member will result in an instant disqualification. | 5 |
| Merging Islands | Islands are forbidden to merge/unmerge in order to affect /is top in any form. Any merging must be run by an admin first. | 5 |
| Splitting Wealth | Islands may not give other smaller islands their wealth in order to achieve multiple /is top rewards. Teams are only eligible for one /is top position per payout. | 5 |
| Island Boosting | Islands may not give or sell items at an unreasonable price or make any unreasonable offers to attempt to alter /is top leaderboards. | 5 |
| Extreme Toxicity | Islands may not be overly toxic in chat or in any of their actions. Fun competition is promoted, but for the sake of the community, there is a line. | 1 |
| Swapping Islands | When swapping from one island to another, players must inform a member of the management team to enforce what items are brought over. | ? |
| Unreasonable Giveaways | Giving away or performing any form of drop party with any significant value or quantity of items that may directly affect the island top leaderboards are not allowed. | ? |
| Island Owner Voting | If enough members agree that leadership of an island should be transferred, said members can create a ticket requesting a manager to review the ownership transfer. | - |
| Other Unlisted Rules | The management team reserves the right to distribute DQ Points for extreme circumstances. | - |
Players may obtain up to 3 disqualification points, but will face disqualification from /is top for up to a season (depending on the severity), island deletion or island leader/member punishments.ALL SKYBLOCK TEAM RULES APPLY TO SOLO ISLANDS
| Reason | Description | DQ Points |
|---|---|---|
| Alt Boosting | Islands must keep everything on a single island. Players may not invite their alternate accounts to the island or have any interactions with an alt account including trades, dropping items, payments, etc. | 5 |
| Island Trusting | Players may not trust other players to their island to grind, build or place value unless a proper payment has been made to the player doing the task. | 2 |
| Solo Boosting | Players may not bring any value, currency, spawners or anything else that could affect island top from an old team island to their new solo one. | 5 |