Server rules

Mute evasion

Talking on another account while you're muted.

1. Alt Muted + Your Mute Restarts

Staff impersonation

Pretending to be staff in chat, item names or anywhere else.

1. 1st1 Hour Mute
2. 2nd6 Hour Mute
3. 3rd1 Day Ban

Command spam

Spamming commands that send four or more messages to other players, like /pay or /msg spam.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2ndKick
3. 3rd1 Hour Mute
4. 4th6 Hour Mute

Command trolling

Tricking someone into running a command that hurts them, like /f disband or /f leave.

1. 1st1 Hour Mute
2. 2nd1 Day Ban
3. 3rd3 Day Ban

Inappropriate names, skins and items

Usernames, skins, capes, renamed items, pet names or builds that show slurs, nudity or hateful imagery. You'll be asked to change it first.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd1 Day Ban
3. 3rd7 Day Ban

Advertising

Posting another server's IP, Discord or website. Creators can share their own PolarMC videos and streams.

1. 1st1 Day Mute
2. 2nd7 Day Mute
3. 3rd30 Day Mute

Inappropriate links

Links to NSFW content, screamers, malware or anything malicious.

1. 1st1 Day Ban
2. 2nd7 Day Ban
3. 3rd30 Day Ban

Spambotting

Using a group of bot accounts to flood chat.

1. 30 Day Ban (every account)

Gameplay intent

Play to compete fairly. Anything that goes against the spirit of the game is reviewed by management.

1. Management Decision

DDoS, dox and swat threats

Any threat to DDoS, dox or swat a player or the server, even as a joke. Management may reduce a clear joke to a 14 day ban.

1. Blacklist

Leaking personal information

Sharing someone's IP address, real name, address or login details.

1. Blacklist

Grooming or stalking

Any grooming or stalking of another player. This is also reported to the authorities.

1. Blacklist

Scamming

Not following through on a trade you agreed to, or tricking someone out of items or money. Scammed items aren't refunded.

1. 1st3 Day Ban
2. 2nd7 Day Ban
3. 3rd14 Day Ban
4. 4th30 Day Ban

TP trapping

Teleporting someone to you so you can kill them or trap them.

1. 1st1 Day Ban
2. 2nd3 Day Ban
3. 3rd7 Day Ban

IRL trading

Trading server items, money or services for PayPal, Cash App, gift cards or anything outside PolarMC.

1. 1st14 Day Ban + Items Removed
2. 2nd30 Day Ban + Items Removed

Store item scamming

Scamming someone in a trade that involves store items or a store purchase.

1. 30 Day Ban

Chargebacks

Opening a payment dispute or chargeback on a store purchase.

1. Banned Until the Dispute Is Closed

Spamming

Sending the same or similar message three or more times in a short time, or flooding chat with lots of messages.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd5 Minute Mute
3. 3rd30 Minute Mute
4. 4th2 Hour Mute

Character spam and caps

Long strings of repeated letters or symbols, or needless all-caps messages.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd5 Minute Mute
3. 3rd30 Minute Mute
4. 4th1 Hour Mute

Encouraging rule breaking

Asking or paying other players to spam or break rules.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd15 Minute Mute
3. 3rd1 Hour Mute

Disrespect and harassment

Repeatedly targeting, insulting or harassing players or staff.

1. 1st30 Minute Mute
2. 2nd2 Hour Mute
3. 3rd6 Hour Mute
4. 4th1 Day Mute

Excessive swearing and filter bypass

Constant swearing, or getting around the chat filter.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2ndWarning
3. 3rd30 Minute Mute
4. 4th2 Hour Mute

Slurs and hate speech

Racist or derogatory terms, or attacking someone for their race, religion, sexuality or gender.

1. 1st6 Hour Mute
2. 2nd1 Day Mute
3. 3rd3 Day Ban
4. 4th7 Day Ban

Threats and self-harm encouragement

Death threats, or telling someone to hurt or kill themselves.

1. 1st1 Day Mute
2. 2nd3 Day Ban
3. 3rd14 Day Ban
4. 4th30 Day Ban

English in global chat

Use English in global chat so staff can moderate it. Any language is fine in private messages and party chat.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd15 Minute Mute
3. 3rd1 Hour Mute

Begging

Begging players or staff for ranks, items, in-game money or real money.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd15 Minute Mute
3. 3rd1 Hour Mute

Arguing with staff in chat

Publicly arguing with staff decisions or doing their job for them. Open a ticket in the Discord instead.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd30 Minute Mute
3. 3rd2 Hour Mute

Discord Terms of Service

Follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, including the minimum age of 13.

1. Discord Ban Until Resolved

Spam and channel misuse

Spamming, mass-pinging staff, or using channels for the wrong thing, like bot commands in #general.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd1 Hour Mute
3. 3rd12 Hour Mute

Harassment and drama

Starting drama, targeting people, or bringing outside fights into the server.

1. 1st2 Hour Mute
2. 2nd12 Hour Mute
3. 3rd7 Day Discord Ban

DM advertising

Sending members unwanted DMs advertising other servers or services.

1. 30 Day Discord Ban

Voice chat abuse

Mic spam, loud or obnoxious sounds, unapproved soundboards, or screaming in voice channels.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2ndVoice Mute
3. 3rd1 Day Discord Mute

NSFW content

Posting sexual content, gore or very inappropriate memes or links.

1. 30 Day Discord Ban

How bans become strikes

Any ban of 24 hours or longer counts as a faction ban. 4 faction bans add up to 1 strike, and a blacklist is 3 strikes automatically.

1. 4 faction bans1 Strike
2. Blacklist3 Strikes

Strike thresholds

Strikes add up over the season. Wealth is removed at the end of the season, not when the strike is earned.

1. 4 strikes15% Faction Wealth Removed
2. 8 strikes30% Faction Wealth Removed
3. 12 strikes60% Faction Wealth Removed
4. 14 strikesFaction DQ + Disband

Instant disqualification

No warning for any of these: exploiting bugs or glitches, exploiting Tebex or store bugs, serious permission abuse by staff, using raid detectors, or giving or merging value between factions.

1. Faction DQ

Player error

If your base has a real design flaw, like a hole you forgot to seal, a misconfigured core or a badly set region, that's on you. It won't be rolled back.

Breaking a rule to save your base

If you break a rule specifically to stop a raid from succeeding, the base's full value goes to the raiding faction. Management makes the final call.

1. Value Given to Raiders

ScreenShares

Any ScreenShare-certified staff member can freeze and screen-share you without giving a reason. Every SS is recorded, which protects you too. If you think a staff member crossed a line during your SS, point to that recording in your report.

Buffer size

49 chunks total for your main base. If your base isn't in a corner, the 49 chunks are measured from its center, so an even-sized base may lose a chunk to fit. The buffer can hold up to 10 chunks of walls, with one counter per side. No oceans on a buffer counter, and no unbreakable blocks, regenerating walls, slime walls, fences, gates or anti-nukes of any kind, including on the buffer itself.

1. During graceWarning
2. After graceDefense Removed + Strike (admin discretion)

Base spacing

Bases need 100 chunks between the edge of your buffer and your nearest neighbor's. Your own faction can't run two bases next to each other, and you're limited to one base per map quadrant, farm claims included (your cane farm can't share a quadrant with your main base).

1. Two factionsNewer Base Unclaimed
2. Same factionNewer Base Removed
3. Rebuilding after1 Faction Strike

Base accessibility

Your base must be reachable by ender pearl, so no large air gaps that make it unraidable. Every spawner has to stay creeper-eggable, and no slabs anywhere in your buffer.

1. Warning
2. 1 day to fix, then Base Removed
3. Shell already breachedValue Given to Raiders

Water sources

One chunk of open water (ocean) is allowed anywhere in your buffer. Any defense is fine inside that chunk except unbreakable blocks or regenerating walls.

1. Admin discretion

Countering during shield or grace

Buffer counters can't be used while your faction is shielded or in grace.

1. 2 Faction Strikes + Raiders Rolled Back

Buffer counter limits

One buffer counter box per side, empty boxes included. If you're off shield, or your shield ends in under two hours, you can't move a counter. 360-degree counters aren't allowed.

1. During graceFix Before Grace Ends, or Removed + Strike
2. After graceExtra Boxes Removed + Strike

Corner rights

Whoever claims a corner chunk first owns it.

One corner per faction

No exceptions.

1. Illegal Corner Claim Removed

Cheating for a corner

Using timers, speed hacks or fly to beat someone to a corner.

1. Permanent Ban + Claim Removed

Aggressive claiming near bases

Claiming land right next to another faction's base with no real purpose isn't allowed. After grace, claiming near a base is fine for raiding or wall-scaling. Anything else gets unclaimed.

1. Illegal Claims Removed

Trap claims near spawn

You're capped at 9 chunks of trap claims per world.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2ndClaim Removed after 10 minutes if not fixed

Firing angles

You can only fire on an enemy cannon from one side at a time, left or right. Switching to the other side means waiting 10 minutes, and you can't try a second side until the current raid timer ends. Front and back countering are never allowed.

1. Admin discretion

Patching under fire

No printer, genbucket or stacker-wand patching while you're being shot at, sand bots included. Wait for the raid timer to end.

1. Admin discretion

Genning under fire

No gen-patching while you're being shot at or while a raid timer is running against you.

1. Admin discretion

Defending from outside your claim

You can't defend your buffer or cannon box by patching from wilderness.

1. Admin discretion

Third-party interference

Raids and counters are strictly between two factions. Anyone else PvPing, scouting buffers or interfering is punished. If a raiding cannon is set up, only the defending faction can counter it. Claiming raid timer is an open race: you can't block someone from getting it, patch shots meant for a base that isn't yours, or wall off access to stop someone claiming timer. If you post up behind someone else's raid cannon, don't touch their setup until your faction has timer.

1. Admin discretion

Raid claim sizing

Raid claims max out at 9x9, plus 8 extra chunks for a left/right float. The raiding cannon has to line up with the base it's targeting so the defending faction's counter can reach it.

1. Claims used1 Faction Strike
2. Not usedRemoved + Warning

Raid claim limits

Maximum of 3 raid claims per side of a base, and every claim has to be actively helping the siege (siding a counter, for example), not just sitting there.

1. Admin discretion

Cannon box wall limits

16 walls max per side of a cannon box, not counting the shell. No anti-nuke or finnister-style walls. Anything that needs an extra shot to breach (like trap walls) counts toward the limit. Also banned on cannon boxes: water-sourced blocks between defenses, redstone defenses, regenerating walls, and any block sand can't stack on (banners, heads, cacti, enchanting tables). Adjustable boxes only count as a wall if they cover more than half the side. Wall spacing can't go over 1 block.

1. Admin discretion

Switching between buffer cannons

You can switch sides (buffer to side counter, or side to side), but wait 10 minutes either way.

1. 1 Faction Strike + Defenders Rolled Back if needed

Switching cannons mid-raid

Wait for the current raid timer to end before switching cannons. Repairing and continuing with the same cannon is fine.

1. Admin discretion

Interfering with an active shot

Sand-wanding a live TNT shot to neutralize it isn't allowed.

1. 1 Faction Strike + 12 Hour Ban

Cannon box attack restrictions

No shooting a cannon box from behind, left/right shooting it, adjusting from behind it, floating at it from wilderness, or midairing it.

1. Admin discretion

Back countering

Back-countering a cannon box, side counters included, isn't allowed.

1. 1 Day Ban + 1 Faction Strike

Cannon box accessibility

Same ender pearl rule as bases, so no large gaps. In-line gaps in cannon box walls can't go over 1 block. Corner traps that sit off-line are fine.

1. Admin discretion

Farming raid timer

Setting up a cannon just to trigger a raid timer (firing once or twice and leaving) isn't allowed. That includes shooting your own base with an alt faction for a free shield.

1. Admin discretion

What a buffer counter is for

Buffer counters are for countering incoming raids only, not for shooting someone's base, counter or side counters. You can't fire your buffer counter while shielded.

1. Admin discretion

Chimney and external-barrel counters

Neither is allowed on a buffer counter.

1. Admin discretion

Slabs on counters

Up to 10 slabs are allowed on a side counter or cannon box.

1. Illegal Slabs Removed + Admin discretion

Presides

Not allowed under any circumstances.

1. Admin discretion

Side counter sizing

7x7 claim max on a side counter cannon, with up to 6 defensive walls. Slabs are allowed.

1. Admin discretion

Raid attempt limits

Once the season starts, every faction gets at most 2 raid attempts in any rolling 24 hours, enforced automatically. Starting a raid timer uses an attempt.

Leeching raids

Looting a base mid-raid without being part of the raid. Anything a leecher takes is confiscated and given to the raiding faction. Staff need to see it live or have a recording.

1. Admin discretion

Destroying value mid-raid

You can hide unplaced spawners, but mining or burning value once a raid has started isn't allowed. Spawners can be split across multiple obsidian boxes (10x10 or bigger) as long as every box is inside your core base chunks.

1. Value Given to Raiders

What counts as a legal raid

A raid is legit as long as TNT breaches the shell and every other rule is followed: no alts, no insiding, no glitching, no bug abuse.

1. Admin discretion

Lag machines

Anything built to lag the server, or any attempt to route around this rule.

1. Blacklist (builder) + 4 Faction Strikes

Cannon speed

Raiding and countering cannons follow the 5 second rule: at least one wall broken per 3 second window. You can rig a lever for automatic firing (a redstone clock you can toggle mid-raid, at any Y level).

Speed exceptions and switching

The 5 second rule doesn't apply to cannons stacking under 10 sand that stay below Y10, down to a 0.1 second minimum. The same floor applies if a raider one-stacks a faction and then reverses. Above Y15 on reverse layers, the 5 second rule is back. Switching from a 10-stacker to a reverse cannon needs a 10 second gap, and switching from a sub-Y10 cannon to one shooting above Y10 needs 5 minutes.

Left/right shooting and midairing

Left and right shooting are fine. Midairing isn't. Left/right shooting cannon boxes or side boxes is also banned.

Twice-adjusting cannons

Any cannon that can adjust more than once (Ufusion-style setups, for example) is banned.

External barrels

No barrel outside the cannon box. If your box gets breached, the whole cannon has to be reachable from inside it.

Y level ceiling

No shooting sand or TNT at or above Y319.

Horizontal nukes

Wall-removers, T-nukers and anything like them are banned.

Reverse nukes

Banned, no exceptions.

Multi-wall breaching

One button press or clock pulse can only breach one wall (or one reverse layer), never more.

Push nukes

Anything that pushes or opens more than a 5-wide hole in a watered wall is banned, whatever it's called. This applies to the first shot and any follow-up.

Worm cannons

Horizontal sand-stacking cannons are allowed, but only below Y10.

Overstacking

You can overstack up to 6 blocks past your first sand height. Shooting through reverse layers from below removes that cap. Overstackers can be countered too.

TNT cap

5,000 TNT max per cannon.

Wilderness floats

Floats can't be used from wilderness or another faction's claim to shoot at anything: bases, counters, side boxes, all of it. Your cannon has to be on your own claim.

Chimney cannons

Not allowed.

Web busts and TNT arrays

Not allowed in any form.

360 cannons

Not allowed.

Bunkers world

Bunkers runs its own ruleset: no cannon speed limits, no tech restrictions, cannon freely. The lag machine rule still applies if a cannon hurts server performance. You can't claim in the Bunkers world.

Hacked clients

Any client modification that gives you an unfair edge. Admitting it drops the ban to 2 days, and it still counts as a faction ban. Repeat offenses after your first mean you're banned for the rest of the season.

1. 7 Day Ban (2 Days if admitted)
2. RepeatBanned for the Season

ScreenShare compliance

If you're frozen, you have 3 minutes to join the SS waiting room in the Discord and follow instructions.

1. 7 Day Ban (2 Days if admitted, counts as a faction ban)

Teaming across factions

No alliances with other factions or factionless players. That includes several factions ganging up on one, coordinating during events, or grinding side by side in a PvP zone with someone outside your faction.

1. 1 Day Ban (everyone involved) + Admin discretion

Using alts to dodge rules

Alts, alt factions or wilderness accounts can't be used to get around any rule or gain an advantage. Alts are fine for AFKing spawners and farms, and can join your faction with /f alt.

1. Admin discretion

Autoclickers and macros

Left and right click autoclickers are banned. The anti-cheat flags anything faster than a 10ms debounce automatically. Bans after your first offense run for the rest of the season.

1. 7 Day Ban (2 Days if admitted)
2. RepeatBanned for the Season

Printer and auto-place mods

Printer, Easy Place, or any mod that places dispensers without crouching or works the same way. Enforced server-side where possible.

1. 7 Day Ban

Scripted or automated farming

No scripts to automate grinding. The F11 trick is fine for cane, but you can't AFK it: 2 minutes of inactivity is the limit, and running F11 on multiple accounts at once is banned. Abusing cane's fast-growth mechanic isn't allowed either.

1. AFK 2m+Kick
2. AFK 2m+ again1 Day Ban
3. Scripting1 Strike + Value Removed + 4 Day Ban

Obstruction griefing

Cobble gens are fine as long as they're not inside someone else's trap claim (wilderness is always fair game). Deliberately obstructing the server with gen buckets, blocks or liquid, like walling off spawn so people can't leave the warzone, is not.

1. 1 Day Ban (faction ban) + Obstruction Removed

Trapping players with buckets or levers

Deliberately trapping someone with a gen bucket, patch bucket, lever or sand bot.

1. 12 Hour Ban + Victim Rolled Back

Client freezing

Freezing your own client to dodge combat or interaction.

1. 12 Hour Ban

Block glitching

Breaking a block to hit someone through the gap (doors, gates, anything), or stacking blocks to reach a height you shouldn't be able to reach.

1. 12 Hour Ban

FlyBoost abuse

FlyBoost is fine up to double your normal flight speed. Getting caught above 5x skips straight to the 2nd offense.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd6 Hour Ban
3. 3rdBanned for the Season

Exploiting and duping

Using a bug to hurt players or profit instead of reporting it, including using an exploit to get into someone's base, or duping items, value or currency.

1. Admin discretion

Feeding value from outside

Farming or generating value while factionless (or in another faction) and sending it to a real faction.

1. Admin discretion

Insiding

Sabotaging your own faction: stealing faction value, gear, tools, currency or spawners (a spawner placed on faction land belongs to the faction), mining unauthorized holes, leaking your coords, unclaiming warzone traps, getting your faction raided on purpose, or letting outsiders into your base or cannon. Handled when your faction leader reports it. If your faction knowingly benefits from an inside job, it repays the victim in full.

1. 1stMap Ban (can't rejoin that faction)
2. 2ndPermanent Ban

Merging factions and moving value

Merging just to inflate F-Top is banned, so no moving wealth, gear, items or players between groups outside a legit merge. Merging is fine before grace ends. After grace, a merge needs staff sign-off and one faction has to give up all its value. Getting raided on purpose and then joining the raiders still counts. Agreeing to merge so you can raid someone afterward is insiding.

1. Value Removed + Faction Strike

Faction hopping

After leaving a faction you can join a new one, but rejoining your old faction isn't allowed. Playing in two factions on two accounts is banned. Stick to one account for the whole season.

1. 1 Day Ban + Admin discretion

Blocking spawner access

Spawners have to stay creeper-eggable and TNT-reachable. Boxing them in, hiding them out of reach (world border included) or covering all four sides breaks this rule. Raiders finding blocked spawners after a breach is taken into account too.

1. Faction Strike

Ban evasion

Playing on another account while banned. If a blacklisted player evades, the new account is blacklisted too.

1. Evading a banPermanent Ban + 1 Strike
2. Evading a blacklistBlacklist + 2 Strikes

Advertising

Pulling players to another server, Discord or website, in public chat, DMs, faction chat or your faction description. That includes promoting hacked clients. Talking about other servers in general is fine, and so is recruiting for your own faction's Discord.

1. 1 Day Mute

Spam and chat flooding

Repeating the same or similar message more than 5 times in a short time. Spam that isn't typed into chat (command spam, for example) gets a ban instead of a mute at the same step.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd30 Minute Mute
3. 3rd2 Hour Mute

Hate speech

Attacks based on someone's sexuality or race.

1. 1 Hour Mute

Encouraging self-harm

Telling another player to harm themselves.

1. 6 Hour Mute

Doxxing, DDoS and swatting

Zero tolerance, including threats, jokes with real malicious intent, or posting anyone's real info beyond a first name (your own included). If someone threatens you privately, don't engage: screenshot it and open a ticket within 48 hours so a Sr. Mod or above can step in. DDoS evidence goes straight to a Sr. Admin or higher. We can only act on things that happen in our Discord or server, except direct threats against a PolarMC player.

1. Permanent Blacklist

Teaming

Factions can't team up past the faction size limit. Fighting with another faction to get an advantage, or splitting a faction to get around the limit, is teaming. Both factions are punished.

1. 1stWarning (both factions)
2. 2ndFaction DQ

Combat exploits

Glitching through walls, abusing pearl or class bugs, or any trick to escape combat or get into claims. Report it in a ticket instead.

1. 1st3 Day Ban
2. 2nd7 Day Ban
3. 3rd14 Day Ban

Deathban evasion

Playing on an alt or another account while your main is deathbanned.

1. Alt Banned + Deathban Restarts

Auto-clicking and macros in PvP

Auto-clickers, macros or click assist in any fight.

1. 1stWarning
2. 2nd3 Day Ban
3. 3rd7 Day Ban