-=- Heists -=-

What is a heist?

A heist is a roleplay ‘raid’ where the attackers are allowed to lockpick various chests and/or armour stands to steal from their targets This is purely roleplay and any Out of Character usage is frowned upon, including during the planning.

Committing a Heist:

On the day of the Heist, at the approved time agreed upon by the leader of the Heist and the Moderators handling it, the leader must make a modreq. Either the Moderator handling the discussions with the leader or another informed and up to date moderator regarding the heist in question may take the modreq. Said Moderator/Moderators will be in spectetor/vanish as the heist to occurs.

To start a heist you can fill out this application, these should take place in peak hours of the servers. You may purchase both lockpicks and bolt cutters from the thief shops scattered around the map.

Heist Rules:

• A heist may consist of three to six players
• lockpicks attempts may be emoted (#q) and rolled (/roll -q) in quiet chat
• Use of the lockpicking plugin is not permitted during heists
• Players are permitted to bring up to five thievery tools each with them on a heist. (ex. Bringing 3 Lockpicks and 2 Bolt Cutters.)
• Regular roll rules are applied except chests and iron bars are now added:
  • Wood door —  17+ (10+ with a lockpick)
  • Iron door —  19+(15+ with a lockpick)
  • Locked sign —  17+ (10+ with a lockpick)
  • Glass / Window — 12+
  • Chest/Furnace/Shulker — 16+ (LOCKPICK REQUIRED)
  • Item Frame/Armor Stands  —  16+ (BOLT CUTTERS REQUIRED)
  • Bookcases/Lecturns —  16+ Per Book
  • Iron bars — 15+ (BOLT CUTTERS REQUIRED)
  • Fences — 15+ (BOLT CUTTERS REQUIRED)
  • Glass Pane Gates  —  15+ (BOLT CUTTERS REQUIRED
    
    
     
• With a Roll lower then 10 a thievery tool breaks and may no longer be used.

• With a roll lower then 5 the item is jammed and no further lockpicking attempts may occur for the rest of the heist.

• Shulker Boxes within a chest will be counted as an expansion of that chest’s inventory, they will not require additional lockpicking.

• After a heist is done another may not be conducted on the same targeted settlement for two weeks.

• Hiests need to be around prime time for the area, so the defenders have a fighting chance. It’s up to the defenders to engage those partaking in the hiest.

• If the heisting group is caught and attacked by anyone in the city, the member of the city will be given Defender (Guard) Default. Only those around at the time will be allowed to initate the combat. They may use a Rally Bell or via shouting to alert others of the city of the heist.

• Event and Staff Area’s may not be heisted.

• Warp and Soulstone may not be used to gain entry to an area.

• The main objective of a heist must be made clear to the handling moderator/moderators. (Ex. General Thievery, Specific target item, etc.)

• No Blocks may be broken during a heist. (Excluding rolls as outlined above.) All routes of entry must be accessible prior to the start of the hiest, any secret entrances such as tunnels must be known through RP.

• Heists must be planned ingame through Rp. Screenshots will be required by Moderation prior to approval.

• If costumes/disguises are made for the heist. They must be lore friendly and made in-game.

• Heist members may only take up to 6 items with them from the heist. Only empty shulker boxes may be taken as part of this.

• In addition to the above, heist groups will be permitted to steal up to a single placed RP item. These items can include but are not limited to from, crystals, thrones, chairs, tables, anvils, piles of rare books, paintings, etc. This item may not be in a chest, item frame, shulker box or armor stand. Taking the item must make RP sense and will be up to the handling moderators discretion.

• Moderators will need to inspect the inventories of all players before and after the heist.

• You have two hours to complete the heist, starting when the moderator overseeing the heist notifies the leader to start. Once the time limit is up, no items may be stolen and you must leave the area.

• Moderators who come across excessive amounts of doors blocking a single path to a room may treat it as two doors for lock-picking purposes. 

• Any staff member that participates in a heist must have their Pex taken for the duration of the heist or use an alt account due to unfair advantages. 

Overseeing Moderators may be using recording Software during a heist for documentation purposes.

For the duration of this war, these raid rules and respective updates to them will be in effect for the participating factions. If you have a question about the validity of a raid target being eligible under this conflict, contact moderation. These rules are prone to updates as moderation views the conflict play out.

With both sides agreeing to war, the terms of the conflict are the following

1. Best 2/3 Skrimishes is the Winner

2. No Allies, Alts or Mercenaries
3. Dwarf Victory: 45k and the Orc Targoth
4. Orc Victory: 35k and New Dwarf Snaga

The Raid Terms:

For the participating factions:
 

1. ) 3-6 – 1 day Settlement Raid Cooldowon
   2.) 7-10 person– 2 day Settlement Raid Cooldowon (Numbers may be subject to change pending victory of first official skirm)

The Raid Process:

Before commencing a raid you must:

1. Place a modreq, stating where you are raiding from and where you intend to raid and state your number of participating raiders.
    

2. If your raid has 10 ore more people you must wait for moderator response to oversee the raid, ignoring this will see your raid nullified once moderation is alerted.
    

3. Assemble your entire rally at the rally location stated in the modreq and travel together to the raid location, do not pick up extra raiders along the travel route.
    

4. Raiders must provide legitimate rp preluding PvP, actions taken to incite PvP in nonsensical manner will have the raid nullified.
    

5. A moderator overseeing a 10+ person raid must approve a shift to pvp mechanics, and are permitted to override the 10+ PvP default rule until sufficient rp is carried out.
    

6. Ignoring these rules or overseeing moderators will be treated as violating raid rules.

Raid Rules:

Specifics:
 

1. Once PvP begins, a raid has 30 minutes to conclude or at moderation call.

2. Prior to PvP, raiders must proceed to their raid target directly and make their raid known to the defenders via rp, thereafter defenders have defender default.

3. If raiders depart the local area / tile using “kiting’ tactics, the raid is resolved, you may not retreat and return constantly.

4. If defenders pursue attackers outside the local area / tile, PvP has 10 minutes to resolve.

5. A defender must be statused to operate a gate during a raid.

6. All attempts to /breakdown - or a similar method - LWC mid raid must be emoted in #rp, before or during PvP.

7. “Spectating” a raid / PvP is strictly disallowed aside from non combatant defenders.

8. To rally to defend against a raid, 3 emotes at a bell / alerting device is required prior to calling to discord or other communication mediums.

Raid Cooldowns:

Terms and Use:
 

1. After you have been raided, /modreq to ensure that a raid cooldown is placed, no matter the tier of war raid used, a raid cooldown stops all 3 tiers of war raiding for its duration.

2. You may not depart to raid a settlement on raid CD, until that raid CD has already expired.

3. Raid CD signs / Region greetings will be listed in DD/MM/YYYY cooldown expiration format with the placing moderator having locked the sign.

4. If you have questions about an active raid CD, contact moderation via /modreq
    

5. Occupying the road to a raid CD city with excessive numbers / time is disallowed while on CD. Contact moderation for clarification if you are concerned with your actions.
    

Some examples of actions disallowed due to raid CD:

1. Hostile action within the tile of the cooldown region
2. Hostile action on the sole roadway to a region

Wartime Roadways

1.  Hostile action with numbers of  5+ in the surrounding roadways for excessive duration (~ 1 + hours ) of a given region, raid CD or not, will be viewed as excessive and dispersed. Includes checkpoints / patrols / scouting / etc.
2. Raiders on a ongoing raid (have /modreq’d and departed their rally location) must circumvent regions with a raid CD ongoing or directly pass through along a roadway without issue.

Report Rules

Respect, Courtesy, and Truth | Nov. 24th, 2019

You’re at your wits end, you’ve tried to work things out with the other side, and you’ve offered compromise—but they just won’t cooperate. When civility breaks down and you need a third-party to mediate your conversation, the Moderation staff are here to help.

Reports are a system designed to solve out-of-character disputes. If things do not go as expected in-character then that is your character’s problem. We consider reports seriously and require that discussion is polite and authentic. You may report behaviour on official mediums, aka in-game & Discord & forums.

Here are the rules.

1. Do not post on reports unless providing evidence.
   1. If you directly witnessed the event you may write 1 reply at most that documents the incident.
   2. You may edit your reply to add only (we keep edit history).
2. Cropped screenshots are not considered valid evidence.
3. Evidence older than 3 weeks (21 days) may be considered invalid.

Disturbing or sensitive material must be reported privately. If it is a matter of community safety please attach all relevant materials to an email to safety@lotc.co.

We will remove reports that do not comply with the rules, regardless of their content. Bullying or abuse against players who file reports is a bannable offense. False accusations or uncivil behavior on a report is also bannable.

If you agree to follow these rules then you can file a report here.

●      Use common sense. You are responsible for helping build a serious roleplay environment. If you doubt you are doing the right thing, ask a moderator.

●      Respect your fellow players. Write constructively, and in good-spirit of our community. You must behave civilly.

●      The staff is here to help. We volunteer ourselves to this community out of love and a desire to see it succeed. If you have issues with any of us please contact that member’s respective Manager or Administrator.

●     Purposely exploiting or manipulating the rules in an attempt to use them to your own advantage and achieve the outcome the rule is designed to prevent is strictly against the rules.

●     Please keep in mind that roleplay is a double-edged sword. You are expected both to provide interactive roleplay in situations that are unfavorable to others and in situations that are unfavorable for you or your character for the good of the game.

Server Rules

Player Rules

§1.1     Do not modshop. A moderator’s verdict is final and if you wish to contest it contact the corresponding team director or a manager.

§1.2     Do not cyberbully, troll, or harass players in any way.

○      This includes interactions on Discord, Skype, Teamspeak,  etc.

§1.3     Do not share private or identifiable information about other players.

○      This is commonly referred to as ‘doxxing.’

§1.4     Do not use other player’s skins without approval, even if edited.

○      This is considered plagiarism.

§1.5     Do not share your Minecraft account. Any action taken on it is your responsibility.

§1.6     Do not abuse glitches/exploits. Report any glitch/exploit you find immediately here.

§1.7     Do not reveal any exploit or glitch to the general playerbase.

§1.8     Do not use hacked clients that grant you an advantage or cheat in any way.

§1.9     Do not use auto-clickers or mouse/keyboard features to that effect or radar.

§1.10     Do not use alternate accounts to avoid punishments such as bans and blacklists.

§1.11     Do not interact with your own characters on your alt account and vice-versa.

§1.12     Unlocked chests may be taken from freely.

§1.13     Do not grief other players builds or land-scar the map through poor building or terraforming.

§1.14     Do not make underground farms of any kind unless approved through the means of lore.

§1.15     Do not construct “instant” death traps.

○      “Instant” death traps are traps put in place to kill a player without interaction.

§1.16     Extensive usage of buttons on fortifications is not allowed.

○      You may not place buttons to block raiders for laddering.

○      You may use overhangs or more aesthetically pleasing ways to block laddering.

§1.17     Do not plagiarize other people’s work. This includes, but is not limited to: Art, lore, writing, builds, and characters.

§1.18     Do not make an area only accessible through breaking blocks mechanically to enter. There must be a mechanism in place to permit this.

○      A mechanism would be methods such as a door, gate, or redstone door; etc.

§1.19     If you must leave your computer do not stay logged in away from your keyboard (AFK). You may not use this as an excuse to leave roleplay or get out of situations you do not desire to be in. 

§1.20     We are an English speaking community. We require communication to be done in said language unless otherwise done properly in roleplay.

Chat Rules

§2.1     Do not use chat channels for anything else than their intended purpose.

§2.2     Do not advertise other Minecraft servers in public chat or through private messages on LoTC.

§2.3     Do not use racial slurs or behave antagonistically in out of character chat channels.

§2.4     Do not participate in conversation regarding inappropriate topics outside of /debate channel in game.

○      Such as sexual, racial, political or religious topics.

Roleplay Rules

§3.1     Always remain in character while in roleplay chat channels.

§3.2     Your roleplay must coincide with the server’s lore. Exclude real-world lore or lore from other games.

○       This includes not "inventing" or "creating" things that mirror more modern day tools or technology, whether by mundane or magical means. If you wish to see things of a more advanced nature, you need to write a lore submission for it. If you are interested, more information can be found here.

§3.3     Do not troll or meme in roleplay.

§3.4     Do not plagiarize people from history or characters from media.

○      Taking inspiration from the real world is fine, although plagiarism is not.

§3.5     Do not participate in, or encourage metagaming or powergaming.

§3.6     Sexually explicit or graphic roleplay is forbidden. You must ‘fade-to-black’.

○      Fading to black, or more commonly known as an FTB is an emote in which the screen ‘fades out.’ Prior to a graphic scene, you are expected to emote the screen ‘fading out.’ This is so no graphic roleplay takes place on the server. Sexually explicit would be anything relating to sexual matters.

§3.7     Sexual encounters are not permitted with characters under the age of 18.

§3.8     Brothels, prostitution, rape, beastiality and necrophilia is prohibited.

§3.9     Wherever you are mechanically, is where your roleplay character is.

○      Your inventory is not OOC, and you may not roleplay items that you do not currently possess in your inventory.

§3.10     To send a note to another player (more commonly known as sending a bird), both the person who sends the bird and the recipient of the bird are expected to emote three times.

○      It takes three emotes to send a bird, and three emotes to receive a bird.

§3.11     When you die, you do not remember how you died, or the events leading up to your death.

○      Referencing the Monks reviving your character before your character is killed will be considered a suicide. Doing this will result in the forceful pk of your character.

            Persona Rules

§3.12     You can not be forced to permanently kill your character by another player without your consent.

○      By agreeing to a Staff PK clause you consent to your character being permanently killed.

○     You may create clauses with other players, but these will not be staff enforced. 

§3.13     If you permanently kill your character, you have 7 days to reverse your decision.

○      Unless by suicide or a lore enforced PK clause. See next rule for clarification.

§3.14     Death by suicide is non-reversible, unless specific lore states otherwise.

○      This includes suicidal intentions. Accidental suicide does not count; for example unknowingly drinking a toxin would not mean you have to PK. Abusing this exception may result in a PK forced by the administration. 

§3.15     Permanently killing a character can be enforced by administration, with or without consent.

§3.16     Information on your persona card must match your character.

§3.17     You cannot transfer a persona to another player. The only exceptions are between alternative accounts.

○      [3.17 is a temporary patch for Persona Rules]

            Capture Roleplay

§3.18     A player may only be held against their will for up to 3 hours of roleplay.

§3.19     A noble or leader, can be held up to 5 hours of roleplay.

§3.20     You can not be held captive for over 15 minutes without sufficient roleplay.

○      Sufficient roleplay must be interactive and have effort put into it.

       Breaking & Entering

§3.21     Locked doors, signs or trap doors may be lock picked by using the /lockpick (or /smash,  /breakdown, /break, /door) command.

○      If for some reason the plugin is not working correctly, you may make a modreq asking for a moderator’s assistance using rolls.

○      You must emote for each attempt to pick the lock, any roll below 5 fails the session.

○      You get a maximum of three attempts per lockpick/break and you have a total of up to nine attempts per settlement every 12 hours. When overseen by a moderator if the plugin is broken.

○         Remember to still roleplay your attempts and actions. You must have a valid reason for said actions. For example do not simply do /smash without proper roleplay leading up to said action and you do not just break windows to break windows.

○         Wood door — roll 17+ (10+ with a lockpick)

○         Iron door — roll 19+(15+ with a lockpick)

○         Locked sign — roll 17+ (10+ with a lockpick)

○         Glass window —roll 12+

○         Wood (fence) window —roll 15+

○         Iron (bar) window —roll 19+

§3.22     Armor stands, and item frames may only be stolen from during a heist. Unlocked chest may be taken from, but locked chest may only be taken from during a heist.

§3.23     You may not place blocks or make use of LWC during RP conflicts.

○      You may use doors, but you may not lock doors.

§3.24     Although killing other player’s livestock with sufficient roleplay is allowed, you must leave two of each animal alive.

○      You are not allowed to circumvent the rules to kill livestock.

○      You can not steal livestock without leaving two of each animal behind.

○      You must leave a sign stating the RP that played out or file a modreq if you do not have permissions through WorldGuard to place said sign.

Region & Nation Rules

§4.1     A leadership figure may only take up to 10% of the nation’s storage when they leave.

○      Moderator supervision is required for specific items that cannot be divided.

§4.2     A region owner must be notified 3 days prior to removal from the region.

§4.3     A parent region owner must notify a sub-region owner 7 days prior to region removal.

§4.4     Primary region owner, region owner majority or parent region owner permission is needed to change region ownership. Must be unique accounts to be valid.

§4.5     A player may be evicted by a region owner through /evict.

○      /evict may only be used on a player’s building after a 3 day eviction notice has passed. Using it before the 3 days is strictly forbidden.

○      Eviction notices come in the form of a sign at the entrance to the building providing the notice with the time and date of when it expires. These may be placed by stewards who are given permission to place the eviction notice by a region owner.

§4.6     Primary region owners must be the active roleplay leader of their nation.

○      If overthrown or voted out by their established government they must release their PRO status to the new active roleplay leader of the nation.

§4.7     The PRO of a nation may have permission to build on road regions that are within their nation tile.

○      These builds, or additions, on the road may not alter the road physically or change the route of the road.

○      The build may not obstruct the road or traffic along the road in anyway. This includes, but is not limited to: gates, forts, checkpoints, walls, or any other kind of aggressive structure that would suggest the listed examples above.

General Combat Rules

§5.1     Parties must decide before combat if it will be emote-combat or mechanics-combat.

○      Once this is decided parties for both sides are locked in; unless both sides agree.

§5.2     If more than 10 players are fighting, then it defaults to mechanics-combat.

○      Unless all members agree to roleplay combat.

§5.3     For mechanics-combat, all involved players must choose an appropriate /status.

§5.4     If an agreement cannot be made between emote, and mechanics-combat, the defending party chooses.

○      Guards choose the type of combat if a law has been broken.

○      Laws must be clearly documented on the forums, and the other party must be notified of their law breaking prior to guard default.

○      Otherwise, the defending party is classified as the first to be intentionally provoked.

§5.5     The type of combat can not change unless it is a unanimous decision.

○      Unless there is more than ten people involved in combat. If this is the case; mechanics-combat may be enforced.

§5.6     You can not enter a combat-prohibited area during combat, such as Cloud Temple.

○      You may not run through these areas during combat, either.

§5.7     You may not use soulstones to escape combat.

○      If you have been out of combat for ten minutes, you may use your soulstone safely.

§5.8     Villainous activity or combat near or in cloud-temple is prohibited.

○      ‘Near CT’ is defined as any roads leading from CT up to, and including, the intersection of the main road

§5.9     Making a jump with a horse/pet of 3 blocks or higher in the process of bypassing a wall is forbidden

§5.10     You may not return to the area your character died in until 30 minutes has passed and the current conflict is over. Rejoining PvP after dying is prohibited. You may not return to spectate.

§5.11   You may not spectate combat nor interact with craftbook signs unless involved in the combat.

§5.12     Soulbound items may not be taken from your character.

§5.13     Use of enderchests or /trash during roleplay or PVP is not allowed.

§5.14     For regular chests in combat, you may extract items, but you may not insert items.

○      For example, grabbing some more food or arrows from a chest is perfectly fine, but dumping your inventory before you die is not.

§5.15     If three or more people enter a city with the intent to disrupt/cause trouble, it classifies as a raid.

§5.16     Three emotes are needed to alert offline players of raiders. After the three emotes take place, you may rally from discord.

§5.17     Combat enchantments that give you an advantage in mechanics-combat are strictly forbidden.

§5.18   If a major combat situation/raid situation gets too out of hand oocly (Bickering, meta accusations, powergame accusations, hacking accusations, anything done just to bicker or stall) Then a moderator is allowed to call PVP REGARDLESS of if either side agrees or is ready to put the situation to an end. only requiring 1 manager approval.

Mechanics-combat Rules

§6.1     Sufficient roleplay is required for mechanics-combat.

○      Halting is not sufficient roleplay, the attacker must be close to the person and make an emote, trying to stop them.

○      If the person ignores the roleplay and continues moving they can be downed, revived and the RP resumed, if they run once more they may be executed.

○      An example of a sufficient emote for this purpose can be found here.

§6.2     You must ensure before a /countdown begins that the leaders of both sides have declared that their party is ready for mechanics-combat.

§6.3     A player who runs during the countdown may be downed and killed and cannot fight back until the countdown is completed.

○      However the pursuing party may fight before the countdown finishes if the fleeing party runs during countdown.

§6.4     No one may join mid mechanics combat.

§6.5     If you are downed, you may only /d20 if the victor states you may.

○      Using the /d20 command to escape capture is counted as suicide and will result in a PK.

§6.6     Lava and water buckets, flint & steel, horse dismount-glitching and boat-glitching is disallowed during combat or for mechanical gain to bypass barriers/defenses.

○      However fishing rods are allowed.

§6.7     You may not place blocks during PvP. You may also not lock doors/trapdoors/signs while in combat.

§6.8     If no combat (hits, damage, or otherwise) takes place for ten minutes then the conflict is over.

§6.9     MyPets used in Mechanics-combat (PvP) is not allowed.

Roleplay-combat Rules

§7.1    You may not escape an encounter in which both parties have interacted with each other without sufficient roleplay to justify your escape. There must be a completed /countdown before any running or moving occurs. If a player runs their opponent may down them. The runner may not fight back.

○      Sufficient roleplay being one or more detailed emotes and a logical escape encounter that is not hindered by the opposing player’s position.

○      After being downed the person left standing must revive. If the person runs a second time, they may be executed.

○      If the other party chooses not to pursue the party that is fleeing they may modreq for a moderator to bring the player back to resume roleplay if the roleplay is deemed not sufficient by the moderator.

§7.2     If you are killed in roleplay, you must /d20 unless the victor decides otherwise.

○      If the person who kills you asks you to /d20, it is not counted as a suicide.

While the server is a great way to interact and roleplay with fellow players here on LoTC, the forums is also another means of immersing yourself in roleplay without needing to be directly logged into the server. As well, forum roleplay also extends to a much broader audience and enables the player base to keep up to date with upcoming events, changes in politics, or simply learn about what is going on outside of their roleplay circle. Keeping this in mind, there are a few regulations to follow when roleplaying on the forums:
 
1- Remember to keep all your posts in the roleplay subforum character related. This corresponds to communicating with emotes or having a general conversation in character. Note that this server is PG-13 and thus all roleplay interactions must adhere to the same rules as the roleplay section of the Rules and Community Guidelines.

2- Anonymous character posts are discouraged. If you wish to keep your character unnamed, do so by adding a bit of description to the post. While ominous characters can be interesting to play, you are only permitted to roleplay a character you play and not just a random passer-by. 

3- “Thinking” posts tend to take away from the original post. Refrain from posting replies along the lines of your character having just a simple  thought or comment to make about the situation. Add some details and be creative.

4- ‘Memeing’ on a roleplay post is not condoned. If it does not adhere to the roleplay world, it should not be posted in the thread.

5- Targeting players by masking it with roleplay is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, as is stated in The Rules. Attacking someone via any LoTC medium will not be tolerated and such applies to the forum roleplay section.

6- Do not post a video or picture that does not have any roleplay relevance. If you wish to post an OOC reply containing a picture or video, place it in a spoiler.

7- Some roleplay posts can become heated, but it is important to remember that this is a game and we are all here to have fun. Keep arguments that are not bound by roleplay off of roleplay threads and try to maintain a level head. If you do have issues with another player, take it off the forums and somewhere private to discuss them.

8- If you roleplay a deceased character using the “Seven Skies Roleplay” theme, do so in a constructive manner. Do not devalue a post by posting uncreative, one-word emotes in the comments, lest they be hidden by a Forum Moderator.

9- Take pride in your posts! Put some effort into what you post, be creative, and most importantly, have fun! Happy roleplaying!

10-You must have OOC consent from the player of the specific roleplay character to do a roleplay post regarding the death of a specific roleplay character 

 
These guidelines are subject to change.

An attack on a settlement by three or more players is known as a raid. If all parties agree (defenders and attackers) then they may establish their own rules for a raid and teleportation use. Internal conflicts within a settlement are not classified as raids but what defines this will be determined by a Game Moderator should issues arise.

Before beginning a raid you must use /modreq to inform the moderation team of the Raid beginning. All that’s required is the modreq to be filed - after it has been created you can proceed with the Raid with or without moderator supervision. An example looks like this: “/modreq I am raiding Town A with 8 players and I, John Doe, will be leading the raid.”

Raiding
Killing, robbing, or causing chaos. A maximum of 10 players may participate on the attacking side in such a raid. The raiding party must begin fighting within 30 minutes of arriving. A raid may last up to 1 hour, then you must leave.

Lawless Raiding may have a maximum of 20 players on Nations if 24 hour notice is given in advance by using /modreq to place down a sign. The sign will indicate a 1 hour possible range for this to occur (Example: 6PM - 7PM). All raid times will be set in EST as standard. Normal raid rules apply and cooldowns are still enforced.

Rescue Raiding

A Rescue Raid is a raid to free a high-ranking official of a nation/settlement captured by another group (PROs, ROs, and officials on the settlement's forum page). Raiders may bring 20 players to attend the rescue where they may use TNT and ladders if necessary. Once they arrive at the settlement the raiding party has one hour to rescue the captured official. A moderator must be present for a rescue raid.

• Raid must present evidence to a Moderator prior to the raid starting (/modreq) — this information must be: how they know the official is captured, how they know where they are held, and who the raid leader of the party is.  Proof must be given through screenshots or clear evidence to the moderator.

  • Sufficient in-character knowledge of the official's whereabouts is required.

• Mercenaries and allies are allowed with sufficient roleplay. You must present proof of payment to mercenaries (shown to a Moderator) conducted prior to the raid; allies are allowed so long as the alliance is documented on the forums prior to the raid.

• Participants of a rescue raid must live in an area controlled by the settlement of the captured official. Proof must be provided prior to the rescue raid starting. This can be screenshots of region information and in-character rallying for the raid.

• Mechanics-combat must only follow after sufficient roleplay. In other words, attempt to negotiate, intimidate, bargain—and only if all else fails may combat begin.

• Settlements on cooldown can still be rescue raided once accepted by a moderator.

• Defenders may not be captured by attackers during a rescue raid. 

• Rescue raids last maximum of 1 hour.

• if the captured person is executed and the rescue raiders arrive, the rescue raiders are under normal raid limitations (e.g. time constraint and all that). After rp, if the rescue raid continues then it becomes a standard raid, if settlement is on cooldown, attackers must leave. (It will still be eligible for rescue raiding if they arrive and the player is killed while they are there, or if they arrive shortly after the player is killed without knowledge of their death, within five minutes

Raid Cooldowns
You may not attack a settlement for 4 days following a raid. Defenders must make a /modreq within two hours of the raid finishing to have a sign placed indicating when a raid has occurred. Failure to do so will result in a sign not being placed.
 

Unprotected Settlement Raiding
Ladders may be placed on Unprotected Settlements with appropriate Role-play and Moderator supervision. Regular raid rules apply to Unprotected Settlements.

General Rules

Rallying members of a settlement to log in to defend said settlement from a raid on Skype, Discord, and any other medium is permitted once an alarming emote has been done in-game with sufficient roleplay, such as ringing a bell, lighting a beacon, etc. Sufficient roleplay must consist of a minimum of three emotes. Coordination must remain largely in-game, and Defenders must login from within the city limits. In all other instances, you may not use Skype, Discord, nor any other medium, to rally people to defend your settlement from an attack. 

Placing or breaking blocks during a raid is prohibited.

During a raid cooldown, you may not camp the edge of a territory or block entry to it (AKA “raid-baiting”). If a nation capital is on raid cooldown, then banditing on main roads in the nation tile, leading to the nation, is considered raid-baiting and is not allowed. 

If the nation is not on cooldown, you may camp for 1 hour at most per day without raiding. This includes camping roads leading up to City Gates. ]

The raiding party may initiate 3 attempts of lockpicking/breaking in/thievery, with a maximum of three rolls per attempt.

Once someone has joined the conflict of a raid they must stay within the conflict in Roleplay until its conclusion regardless of side.

If a raiding party is away from the settlement that they are raiding for more than 10 minutes without engaging in combat, the raid would be over.
 

Raiding-Ladders may be used in any territory. Each raider/s may carry up to 6 raiding-ladders each. (18 ladders max). Before the raid-ladders are placed down, the raider/s must emote placing them and roll(Sensible ladder placement only). For Nation Tiles/Regions, the ladders will be given to the overseeing GM in order to get placed down.

1. Raiding-ladders can be acquired from the Cloud Temple War Camp.
2. To successfully place the ladders upon the walls, you need to roll 7+. Rolling 6 or less results in the ladders being destroyed. (The roll affects the whole ladder column, not every ladder placed).

In order for a player to spectate a raid (/status recording), the player must be at the general area of the raid and already statused before the PvP begins. While with status recording, the player may not try to interfere with the PvP at all. (Let it be reviving/blocking arrows/place blocks or supply items).

If you die during a raid, you may not return the the settlement while the raid is occurring. You must wait for the raid to be over in order to return.

ALL WAR-POINT COSTS AND CB COSTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE ON TESTING

Hello! Welcome to Wars, starting with the first mechanic of the new system, Casus Bellis and War-points. All Casus Bellis starting on Saturday the 13^th of April at 7:00am PST will count towards the war-points system. All Casus Bellis before this date won’t be considered.

To give a quick easy rundown, this functions like the former CB system with a few tweaks. CBs will grant a nation a set amount of “War Points” to allocate towards the various “War Goals” or objectives within a conflict. These range from things like nation leader removal to eventual conquest, balanced in a way to encourage conflicts between nations that are not absolute.

There are two types of wars with this new system, Justified and Offensive Wars.

Justified Wars are essentially wars that require three separate CBs themselves to achieve, which basically open up the potential of the war system to be limitless in what you can do in a conflict.

Offensive Wars are ways nations can attack others without trying to ‘fish’ for CBs or the OOC restrictions that are carried with our current system. There is a strict limitation of what you can actually perform in these offensive wars and is there to hopefully phase in the idea of mutual respect and civility when embroiled in conflict.

Casus Bellis

Demands (5 War Points x 2)

This CB allows for Nation X to demand a tile influence, land influence, or resources of Nation Y. If the demand is refused, it allows for the demanding nation to gain a Subjugation CB against Nation Y

A Forum Post or an RP declaration made by the Leadership of the Nation is required to prove a demand.

This does not include the capital.

Resources are defined as (Materials, Minas etc.)

The amount demanded must be within reason, if a dispute arises verifying the legitimacy of the claims, a verdict will be made by Moderation Staff.

(This CB can be only claimed twice in the 60 day period. Further subjugation/demands cannot be enforced through this CB. You cannot replace subjugation demands until they expire from 60 days from initial claim)

Attack on Leadership (10 War Points x 2)

If the Leadership of Nation Y is attacked by Nation X, and they have reason to believe this was organised by Nation X. They are granted the ‘Assault on Leadership’ CB.

(This expires every 60 days)

This only will apply if the said leadership are not doing unjustifiable acts upon the territory they were attacked in. (Such as committing crimes or harassing others that are not part of their nation).

If the PRO is attacked on their land or neutral territory, where they are NOT committing villainous acts. Then Warpoints are doubled.

Leadership is defined as PRO, RO or Military Leadership or anyone designated as such on a forum post.

Rewards 10 War points. (Maximum of 20)

Aiding an Enemy (15 War Points)

Nation X believes there is probable cause that Nation Y is offering assistance to their enemies through materials, weapons, manpower, military assistance, or anything that will benefit them.

(Expires 60 days after first declaration of assistance)

This includes support for coup d'etats through items mentioned below

Rivalry / Grudge (5 x 5)

Nation X declares a rivalry upon Nation Y. These can be done through official declarations on the forums or in racial systems. (Book of Grudges). These include denouncements and other actions that would deem the said nations as enemies.

(Denouncements, unless specified will only last 60 days. Raids will be valid for 60 days after they finish)

Rivalries must be reciprocated, otherwise these denouncements hold no ground if a party does not take offence to them.

Also if Nation Y has organised aggressive claims or raids towards Nation X. The defender of the raids are granted 5 war points per raid held against the said nation.

Denouncements are further defined as declaring or proclaiming negative connotations, such as declaring heirs to a house or throne illegitimate or slandering political officials/leadership. This is heavily subjective and will require a verdict from the Moderation Team.

Rewards 5 War Points Per Claim. (Forum post verifying intent of Rivalry/Declaration.)

Rewards 5 War Points Per Raid. (Must be recorded with specific times and provided to the moderation team for verification)

Retribution - (Specified Below)

Retribution is a CB granted to an opposing faction which has lost a war recently, or by an outside faction allied to the losers before the war. The Retribution CB requires for some harsh payment or outcome made in the war lost.

This can only be used for 90 days after the war is declared over

Conquer (30 War Points)

Plunder (20 War Points)

Pillage (10 War Points)

Humiliate (0 War Points)

Betrayal -  (Specified Below)

This CB is granted when Nation X breaks the pacts of Nation Y before the said dates listed. These have certain severities attached to them and can only grant the total of 30 War Points in total.

Alliance Breaks (20)

Peace Treaties (30)

Trade Agreements (10)

Defensive Pacts (20)

These pact-breaks must be acted upon in 90 days or the betrayal CB becomes invalid.

Border Friction:  (5 - 30 Points)

If Nation X and Nation Y share a border, border conflicts may occur.

(Border Conflicts are valid for 60 days)

The Attacking Nation will only get 5 War Points from every Border Conflict, while the Defending Nation will gain 10 War Points.

(Border Conflicts are defined as raids against a bordering settlement. These can be either organised or lawless)

Example: If Nation X attacks Nation Y two times, Nation X will get 10 Points and Nation Y will get 20 War Points. However, if Nation Y then goes on the assault and attacks Nation X two times, Nation Y will gain 10 War Points and Nation X will gain 20 War Points. In the end they will both have 30 War Points on both sides in total.

Subject to change

Subjugated: (Special)

If Nation Y is subjugated by Nation X in any context, Vassal, Tributary, etc, they earn the ‘Subjugated’ CB.

Rewards Independence as a Wargoal.

Claims: (15 - 30 War Points)

A previously owned tile that is currently in possession of Nation Y, that once belonged to Nation X.

This CB would have no expiry date.

Claims must be documented or shown on the forums via a forum post.

This includes but is not limited to claims to land, marriages, heirs to thrones, landed titles, etc.

Alternatively, if a close relative of a Nation Leader wishes to declare their intent for the throne then they may get claimant CB due to a blood claim.

This claim passes down family members.

This CB also counts for an heir being usurped or someone having their titles stolen.

Rewards 15 - 30 War Points depending on the size of the claim.

(15 - Marriage Claim)

(20 - Bloodline Claim)

(30 - Direct Claim)
 

Stolen Heritage - (25 War Points)

If Nation Y has a Relic or an item of grand importance held by Nation X, that originally belonged to Nation Y, then Nation Y earns the ‘Stolen Heritage’ CB.

Further defining what a ‘Relic’ or ‘item of grand importance’ is. These items that are extremely valued by a Nation, for example, the Hammer of Urguan, Sword of Horen, the Ashwood Tree, Crown of Urguan, etc. A verdict may be given by the Moderation Team if there are disputes over the value of an item.

Any relic or item of grand importance should be submitted on the forums via the upcoming relics form, and then signed by the ST for authenticity.

Example: Nation X sponsored a group to steal Nation Y's item.

This includes obtaining it through any illegitimate means or through the auction house.

If a person resides in Nation X with the item, and Nation Y refuses to help retrieve the item, this CB can be granted against Nation Y.

Once a warclaim post is made with this CB, the relic cannot be moved from its location.

If need be, Mods will have a specially locked chests to prevent the movement of the item.

If the said nation attempts to “Evict” the chest and relic to try and gain possession of it, this CB is lost.

Rebellion  (Special)

If Nation X declares independence from Nation Y, Nation Y earns the ‘Rebellion’ CB against Nation X.

The Rebellion CB grants an automatic Conquer/Vassalise Wargoal for Nation Y if they do not allow such a split. With allowing for a justified war cost to be purchased for such.

This must be acted on in 60 days, or the rebelling vassal is granted independence automatically.

Coup D’etat (Special)

This Casus Bellis is a special one for the fact that it does not require two nations to enforce. Nation X being the overlord can be challenged by the “Pretender” for their throne if they have (RO Majority) supporting their faction.

This will be an auto-siege of the capital, where the attackers will be placed in the lower/front of the city. Defenders will have a minute then it’ll operate as a hybrid siege/skirm.

Can only be done through special circumstances at the cost of an Offensive War

Outcome will be transferring PRO to the Coup Leader and having the ability to execute the leader (PK enforced). Defender inherits such and has the ability to execute the leader of the Rebellion (PK enforced)

“Coup Operation” -

So with coups, participants will be restricted to those on the region when the warclaim goes up. Then forms will be distributed.

Siege Equipment will be available, but restricted to only explosive charges and siege ladders. There will be only 5 units available for purchase.

To successfully win the coup, defenders will either be driven out or the offensive party has occupied the seat of power which will be designated by the defending party.

Two War Styles

Justified Wars

Nations

(War Point Cap = 80)

Price - 15,000 Minas

Must provide a minimum of three CB’s to be eligible.

Independant Charters

Price - (Depending on Tiers)

Tier 3 - 10,000

Tier 2 - 7,500

Tier 1 - 5,000

Two CB’s needed to be eligible

Three wargoals available, all others unobtainable.

Conquest, Vassalise and Plunder.

If the said charter has actively made attempts of aggression towards the nation. Then the Conquest/Vassalise Wargoals are halved. (40/35 respectively).

This only applies to charters against nations. Charter v Charter are placed under the same availability as Nation v Nation

Freebuild

Price - 5,000

One CB needed to be eligible.

If a freebuild makes active acts of aggression towards a nation, the Conquest/Vassalise war-goal is quartered. (20/15)

If a freebuild makes active acts of aggression towards a charter, the Conquest/Vassalise war-goal is halved. (40/35)

Freebuild v Freebuild is subject to same costs.

Offensive Wars

(Only against nations)

Price - 30,000 Minas

Only certain wargoals are available for these wars, they are below. You still must satisfy the requirements of the special wargoals through any respective CB.

(Plunder, Pillage, Independance/Coup)

Wargoals

This is the objective behind the reasoning for the war, a Nation may only act within their allowed wargoal(s) for any actions taken on a tile. To select a Wargoal you must have a sufficient amount of War Points to use that Wargoal in the Warclaim.
 

Conquer -  (80 War Points) -  (Justified War Only) -(Admin Approval Required )

This is very simple, Any tiles with claims to Nation X are rewarded to the victor. Any tiles without claims once belonging to Nation Y are returned to Nation Y.

The new PRO of Nation X must notify Moderation Management if they wish to raze and/or salt any settlement within a conquered tile.

To ensure the conquer war-goal, the invading force must occupy the defending forces Capital through the usual steps. Where a field battle is made to establish a field camp and then a successful siege is made afterwards

Vassalize -  (70 War Points) (Justified War Only)

Defeated Nation Y may be vassalized by Nation X. Any treaties Nation Y had signed or alliances they were apart of, will be voided without consequence.

The conquered nation will be required to provide assistance to their overlord through reasonable monetary payments, material payments, manpower for their armies, or military assistance as requested.

This can only be requested by Nation X every 2 weeks.

If refused by Nation Y, a conquer Wargoal is automatically granted to Nation X.

The conquering nation will be required to provide room for the vassal to function as an RP hub

Moderator oversight may be requested for what a reasonable amount is.

Region Owners will not change with this Wargoal.

Plunder - (30 War Points) OFFENSIVE

Nation Y can Plunder Nation X for a set total of 30,000 minas and 50% of their ‘national’ storage. (This is defined as house storage, and palace storage within the walls of the area. Mass movement of items pre-pillage is not allowed) (Will be changed to an increased Mina Demand if the plugin/addition is not created in time. Raised to 45k if so.)

This Plunder period will last 1 IRL hour after the war is ended and the Capital is occupied. Where players can move items and otherwise do damage towards buildings (This must be overseen by a moderator and done through roleplay).

70% of buildings must be left intact, with the destruction of two “Major” buildings allowed. (Cathedrals, town halls, etc.)

If the Plundered Nation cannot pay the 30,000 minas sum, then they are unable to declare wars or make pacts until it is paid. This is represented as the nation being too unstable to function.

(Can only be done to a Nation once every 3 months)

Pillage (15 War Points) OFFENSIVE + JUSTIFIED

Nation Y can Pillage Nation X for a set total of 15,000 minas and 25% of their ‘national’ storage. (This is defined as house storage, and palace storage within the walls of the area. Mass movement of items pre-pillage is not allowed) (Will be changed to an increased Mina Demand if the plugin/addition is not created in time. Raised to 30k if so.)

This Plunder period will last 30 IRL minutes after the war is ended and the Capital is occupied. Where players can move items and otherwise do damage towards buildings. (This must be overseen by a moderator and done through roleplay).

80% of buildings must be left intact, with the destruction of one “Major” building allowed. (Cathedrals, town halls, etc.)

Lockpick rules apply for breaking doors

If the Pillaged Nation cannot pay the 15,000 minas sum, then they are unable to declare wars or make pacts until it is paid. This is represented as the nation being too unstable to function.

(Can only be done to a Nation once a month)
 

Humiliation (40 War Points) - Justified

When a Nation is humiliated, they lose the ability to make any pacts or alliances for 2 IRL months,

This War Goal also granted the capture of the NL upon a successful siege, where the opposing faction can either choose to (Maim, Humiliate or Remove Claims) with mostly irreversible effects. (Monk healing cannot be employed, must use RP means to repair maim and limb damage)

A Nation can only be humiliated by a faction every three months.

(Requires the Rivalry CB)

Leadership Capture - (20 War Points) - Offensive + Justified

- Nation Y will capture the NL of Nation X, additional leadership captures and people who are ROs will require a /roll 20, 16 and higher is a capture.

This War-goal can be achieved through either Field Battles or Sieges. A successful Siege will grant NL control to the opposing faction, and a successful Field Battle will allow for a roll system to capture the NL if they took part in the war claim.

(Roll 15+ to capture, under 15 they escape)

Stop Atrocities - (Justified / Special) - 40 War Points

If Nation X has committed crimes against descendant kind and/or has been tyrannical in their mannerisms. Then Nation Y is able to interfere with such. This is a special war-goal which must be proven with RP proof to the moderators to show that this is legitimate.

The Goal of this is to allow for nations to intervene on others which are doing acts against the descendants which may be deemed truly tyrannical.

(Genocide, Inciting the end of the world etc.)

This war-goal will be completed when a Nation’s capital is occupied, or if their leader is captured. This Wargoal inherits the rules of the Leadership Capture rule. They are then given to the winning nation to be dealt with however and such acts are forcefully stopped. (NL are expected to PK from such swift justice)

Retribution - (Justified) (20 War Points)

The reclamation of one’s original land. No additional land can be acquired during this time. This must be outlined through claims and land lost originally to warclaims.

This CANNOT be used for existing claims, if you were not the original owner of that land.
 

Independence -  (Special)

A vassal of Nation Y may openly rebel to fight for independence. All nation Y must do is reclaim at least one tile for victory. They must hold this tile for at least 30 days or remain victorious from two sieges.

Requires the “Subjugated” CB

Period of 14 days, for Nation Y to act on this. Otherwise the nation earns their independence.
 

Coup D’etat (Special)

Wargoal is only achievable with the Coup CB. The attacking Coup faction will siege the Nation Tile with RO majority, winning this siege will grant the faction head PRO and then the previous PRO will be held to a PK clause, where the other party can do whatever they wish. The same applies to the Defending Nation, since of the inheritance of wargoals in wars.

This is a special case wargoal and will never be available outside of the Coup D’etat CB.

The War Overview

A few guidelines will function in place of the former tile system.

Wars will now start with a field battle which will set the progression and momentum of the war. These are the steps that will be needed to do as such.

Two Field Battles in a row won

One Field Battle won at the Capital Tile

One Siege won at the Capital Tile

Naval systems of war will be allowed in the form of field battles. With the capabilities of Minecraft, these will exclusively be skirmishes between a few boats and will be compromised within a body of water. These adhere to the same system of the land progression, naval battles will not be exempt from fortifications if they are on a coastline. To establish a siege from a coastline, a landing battle will be simulated and used as the “Field Battle” portion of establishing a camp.

“Attrition System” -

If the “Invading” faction loses a battle, they will take a penalty of (5,000 minas) as punishment for losing a planned engagement.

The invading faction is determined by whose side the engagement is leading to.

Wars “formally” end when either both Nation Leaders have signed a treaty constituting a stalemate or a surrender post with terms that they can agree upon.

OR

If any of the factions occupy the Capital tile of the opposing faction.

(Both sides inherit wargoals and can enforce them as they see fit)

Siege - Siege Camp - Field Battle #2 - Field Battle #1 - (Starting Point) - Field Battle #1 - Field Battle #2 - Siege Camp - Siege

Fortifications

Nation fortifications must be spaced at minimum 100 blocks from each Capital city OR other fort. These fortifications will require the siege process and be included within the battle path.

Fortifications must be RP friendly and presentable, it cannot include insta-kill or unescapable traps. Each fortification will be paid for every two field battles. All external fortifications will cost an extra 2000 minas per two field battles to simulate wartime upkeep.

If a fortification is within 200 blocks from a road, it will be valid as an extra siege target to progress to the capital if able. This allows for chokepoints and tactical placement from nations if they wish.

Fortifications are ONLY allowed with NATIONS. Charters and Freebuilds do not have enough “owned” land to successfully build such things.

Also, if a Nation has not built a fortification prior to a warclaim being posted, the set up of a “temporary” fortification is allowed for a base price of 10,000 minas. This will allow them to place a fortification near their tile, even if charter limitations would not normally allow as such. This will be dismantled after the war and will be a temporary inclusion until the lands allocated through tiles are rectified.

Temporary fortifications must be realistically constructed in what would be perceived as a hastily time-frame prior to battle. These fortifications would likely have wooden palisades, trenches, tunnels, traps, wooden towers, loose stonework, and other building specifications similar to what has been stated.

Battle Path

Simulating from the previous system, nation leaders will provide a general pathway of where their armies will traverse. Any fortifications or allied settlements will be considered with this and add to the progression of the war.

(Dependant Charters will count as an extra siege step if included within the battle path. Same goes for any large settlement consisting of over 50x50 blocks in size.)

Each manned fortification will require a siege to move past. Armies cannot “move” through mountainpasses and other inaccessible areas in their pathing. Field battles will be scheduled in areas which make sense within the warpath and will reflect the battle after the conflict is over.

If able, the battle path will follow the general direction of roads. Otherwise it will be subject to realistic movement.

Warzones

If both factions wish for it, a zone of conflict and PvP can be established with the consent of both parties. These Warzones hold no impact within wars, they simply allow for the ability of the warring factions to PvP and otherwise interact with each other outside of raids and warclaims. If both factions wish for conditions or more formal benefits introduced to the warzone, they must discuss it with the relevant moderators. If these requests are not too absurd, they will be approved and allowed for the warzone to have such an impact.

(These rely on a co-operative system, if one of the factions disagrees then this will not be usable and if the warzones becomes toxic and becomes a hindrance to roleplay it will be removed)

Sieges

Will be discussed in the Siege Engine Document of proper process and equipment. Using standard method of equipment you purchase and then the siege happens. Invaders must drive out the defenders from the city or gain control of majority.

War end

A war will end if one of the conditions below are met

A treaty is made by both factions declaring the wars end

The fulfillment of all wargoals

The dissolution of one of the warring factions

If the Wargoals are fulfilled, they are able to enforce the conditions of the said wargoal, otherwise all repercussions from treaties will not be enforced OOC’ly. This will grant the faction who has not broken the treaty a “Betrayal” CB.

With RP treaties made to end a war, you cannot ask for the complete subjugation of a nation without fulfilling the Vassalise/Conquest wargoal. Otherwise anything else is allowed for the other nation which is ‘reasonable’.

(Asking for a lump sum of minas which is unobtainable is not reasonable, placing a debt system upon a nation though, is.)

No calculator is provided or a pen and piece of paper.

Credit to @ScreamingDingo for final drafting and revisions.

[Link to application]

Main Rules

1. These rules are the main rules set into place for utilizing accepted lore on the server. “Loopholing” or other attempts to skirt by the rules or abuse due to a rule missing will not be excusable. If you believe you have discovered a loophole, you can report it to the ST and we will patch it. Those found abusing it will be punished.

2. Just because you have access to a lore piece OOCly does not mean your character has that information in-game. Do not RP having lore knowledge on something you have not been taught about in roleplay.

3. One must adhere to the existing lore, any attempts to powergame or lorebreak is against the rules.

4. Any lore roleplayed must have approved lore or a guide to back it up. If it is not written down in the lore or a guide, it is not valid.

5. You may approach Story Team management or the Story Team admin if you have qualms with a Story Team member’s ruling. Alternatively, you can fill out an anonymous staff report found here: Click me.

6. If you wish to submit lore, you must adhere to the following: Click me.

7. If one wishes to post a guide to a lore piece, they must first have it verified by the ST.

Lore Permissions

8. A player must wait one week after joining the server to apply for a lore application.

9. An accepted Lore Application is required to use magic, play a creature, and/or utilize advanced alchemy on a character.

   1. A student application must be made for characters who are learning a magic from a teacher with an accepted TA. The teacher of this character must vouch on the application.

   2. Unless stated otherwise, a CA requires the creator to vouch on the application.

10. Lore Applications are unique to one’s character, and do not apply to the entire account of a player.

11. A character may typically learn a total of 5 magics (also known as “Slots”), unless some magics take more slots than others, or incompatibilities exist in lore. 

12. Crafting lore items must adhere to existing lore. Magical Artifacts must be created for any magical item that slightly bends currently accepted lore. It must have been created using lore-abiding techniques/magics, though the end result may be different. All crafted lore items require an ST signature (more info here).

13. By making a lore application (magic/creature/etc.), you are declaring that you are willing to adhere to the lore of what is being applied for, including any PK clauses or other types of clauses dictated in the lore. This overrides the main server rules in regards to the 7 day policy.

14. If a player is dissatisfied with some aspect of a transformative creature or magic, they may revert their character back to the state they were before being made into the creature/picking up the magic.

    1. The player has a two week period to decide if they want to do this or not, starting from when their application is accepted.

    2. The player will lose any and all information gathered regarding the creature/magic during the two weeks, including its users, should they revert.

    3. Should the player have recorded information prior to reverting or give out information regarding the creature/magic that was previously unknown (e.g. ousting another player’s character as a creature/magic user), they lose the right to revert.

15. Any venoms/poisons/things of that nature that animals/plants have in real life does not translate into LotC.

Teaching/Spreading CAs

15. One may not teach any magics without an accepted Teacher Application. This Teacher Application is specific to the character, and do not apply to the entire account of the player.

16. If you want to spread lore that is locked behind an application, you must adhere to the following:

    1. You must wait until Tier 5 (unless otherwise stated) before posting a Teacher Application + you need your teacher to vouch that you have been taught enough to spread the magic. Logs will also be searched to see if lessons have been taught (this also replaces the former requirement if your teacher no longer plays).

    2. Your character must be capable of spreading the CA if you wish to do so, whether it be advancing to a specific type of creature with the capability of doing so or being taught a ritual to spread it.

17. A character may only teach up to 4 magics.

18. A character may only teach 3 students a specific magic at once per TA (e.g. 3 for fire evo, 3 for mental, it doesn’t stack for one magic) and must guide them until all non-ritual lessons of Tier 4 are complete. Valid RP reason must be had for those attempting to drop a student and this must be verified with a Lore Sect member of the Story Team when dropping said student. Once the student is dropped, they approach another teacher, Tier 5 mage, or their original teacher, to complete any Tier 5 learning.

19. A character may have ‘teach only’ magics, in which they do not practice the magic but they may teach it. These count towards the 4 teaching slots.

Lorebreaking

20. The Lorebreaking Protocol can be found here: click me.

    1. The following are the primary examples of what will lead to punishments under the Lore System:

       1. Trolly RP or subpar RP done while utilizing lore elements, such as magic, can lead to having your application revoked. Repeated instances can lead to blacklisting.

       2. Powergaming or RP’ing non-approved lore will result in punishment, ranging from a warning to a blacklist, along with a moderation punishment (e.g. a ban if warranted).

       3. RP’ing things incorrectly due to ignorance or simply not understanding lore will result in a warning and afterwards, result in the application being used to be revoked. If found to be malicious it will fall under “21 b”.

21. Lore punishments are account-bound, and affect all the player’s characters, including characters on alternate Minecraft accounts. 

22. Any member of the Story Team may be approached if there is any concern of lorebreaking. Screenshots and other forms of proof are appreciated, but due to log searching capabilities, it is not required. Instead, we need a timeframe for when to search the logs of the person(s) potentially breaking lore.

23. Should a person be found to be causing issues OOCly within a playerbase or breaking character to disrupt the playerbase in a negative fashion, they are liable to be stripped of any application that pertains to that playerbase and/or booted from the playerbase.

    1. This only applies to RP issues if they are breaking character to cause issues icly due to ooc motivation. If Sally’s character attacks David’s character and the conflict is kept IRP, no one is breaking rules. Conversely, if Bob is found to be breaking character and handing out magic to spite their group then bob would be punished.

    2. Some examples of a person causing issues OOCly within a playerbase are below:

       1. John offers to teach David magic which results in Bob harassing John due to a dislike for David, discouraging John from RP’ing the way he would normally RP.

       2. Bob attempts to disconnect John from his magic with no real RP reason, due to the fact that Bob hates John OOCly.

       3. Bob does an action that goes against his playerbase IRP and then dodges RP via combat logging or other OOC methods in order to avoid RP consequence.

Freebuild Rules

Temporary Solution Until Territories Plugin | March 15th, 2018

Foreword

^{Credit goes to the Game Team for these rules.}

These rules are in place until the freebuild plugin is released and they will be adapted to suit the plugin upon its release. Due to the fluid nature of freebuild, many situations regarding freebuild settlements will be handled on a case-by-case basis with the following rules as guidelines, and exceptions made at the discretion of the GM Team based on the circumstances of a particular case.

Defining Freebuilds

All subject to GM discretion.

Petty Freebuild

A non building construct like a roadside shrine, stall or tent.

Minor Freebuild

Any freebuild settlement consisting of five or less standard buildings, such as typical houses, cottages, a single farm, etc.

Major Freebuild

Any freebuild settlement consisting of more than five buildings. Includes freebuild cities, farms, towns, large scale strongholds, and more.

Fort Freebuild

A small walled defensive compound that protects no dwellings. Includes wooden palisade camps, outposts, and PVP forts.

Build Placement, Quality and Theft

Block Placing and Destruction:

• Placing blocks to climb freebuild structures or bypass defenses is forbidden.
• You may not build closely to another Freebuild, Nation, or Nation Owned Tile. This is gauged by 125 blocks.
• Nations cannot own land in Freebuild, outside of their capital tile and their adjacent tiles.
• Buttons / other ladder-obstructions can be torn down with appropriate emotes. Basic Minecraft physics still apply, e.g you cannot climb overhangs.

Build Quality:

• If your build is not to an acceptable standard for LoTC, you will be issued a warning to improve it by Moderation Staff.
• If you do not heed the improvement warning, your build, items and claim to the land, will be removed in 7 days from the issuing of the warning.

Freebuild Inactivity:

• If your Freebuild is deemed inactive by a GM, a sign will be placed on the Freebuild. If the sign is not removed within 14 days, then the build will be removed along with your items.

Theft:

• Paintings, item frames, armour stands and unlocked chests can be stolen from, but a sign should be left to indicate the theft by the player. If you don’t have a sign at the time, modreq for one from a Game Moderator.

Evictions

• All regular eviction rules still apply in freebuild.
• Only the owner of a freebuild or their designated stewards can issue evictions within it.
• The owner of a freebuild is the holder of the property in roleplay. If this cannot be determined, it defaults to whoever constructed the build.
• Freebuilds that are deemed over 30 days inactive through logs may be evicted with as little as 3 days notice.

Staff Conduct

Our Principles as a Team | March 16th, 2018

Welcome to the Staff. You are the caretakers of the finest Minecraft roleplay server, Lord of the Craft. Every day, every moment: something crumbles, someone has a question, a request, or a dire need—something or someone needs attention and we need a frontier of eager and competent people to fulfill this duty. That’s you. And without you, there can be no server.

At some point, you decided that something on this server is meaningful to you. Meaningful enough, that you take on responsibility to keep it alive and thriving. We, the administration are, as is your community, truly grateful that you accept this responsibility upon yourself to improve and preserve our favourite roleplay server.

This post is designed to help you become familiar with your widened responsibility and likewise the staff structure.

Duty

• To know, preserve, and follow staff conduct.
• To fulfill your roles as defined by your superiors.
• To be an active, communicating participant of the staff.

Permissions

In return for your promise to fulfill your role we grant you elevated powers. We trust you to use your powers only for staff purposes—it is true that we have greater authority but do not mistake that for superiority over our community.

We call for you to know your tools, and to become competent with your toolset during your tenure. Know what is dangerous, and exercise caution to avoid unintended consequences.

If your powers are inadequate for your role, please report this to your director. It is their duty to consider this with the administration, and if necessary, to add permissions.

Finally, report any misuse. You are required to report malpractice to your team director. You can simply leave them a message.

Communication

In return for access to staff channels and staff recognition, we expect that you act appropriately and politely. This means adjusting your professionalism accordingly to the circumstance. Aim to be objective and composed. By and large, we support targeting the issues—not the individuals.

We expect that you avoid being impulsive and control yourself. Mock your community at your own risk. We absolutely forbid misinformation/speculation, dissemination of confidential matters, or instigating drama.

You are free to, and even should, offer corrections to your fellow staff. However, we expect that you will restrain yourself from public contradiction (i.e. the forums, public Discord, etc.), which often aims to humiliate or discredit (in practice, people are unlikely to admit that is what they’re doing). Find them, or their superiors, and discuss the issue.

Finally, we comprise a staff of over 90, and typically only a few administrators. For this reason, we ask that you direct your concerns and comments to your nearest superior, either manager/director whichever comes first. If they can’t help you, they will find someone who can.

Absence

If you are going away for a period over 3 days, you must notify your teams. If your teams have no procedure for hiatus, report your absence to your superiors.

If you leave for an extended period then team management may dismiss your role, especially in favour of an active candidate.

Soliciting Community Feedback

If you require wide-scale community feedback, you must coordinate this with your director. Topics that risk controversy require explicit admin approval.

You must collect information from the greatest possible selection of those affected. e.g. feedback regarding managers must be open to the entire team. Access to polling results should be provided to your director beforehand, and to any requesting administrators.

Do your best to remain objective. Be prepared to have your initial stance contradicted. If you must comment on the matter, do so in a reply to the original post to show that it is an opinion.

Once you have completed the polling, you must produce a legible, sound document—with sources and graphics where possible. Present using a medium that is straightforward and cover any relevant details.

The poll results must be maximally available as possible to those who participated. Inside polling (e.g. staff) is confidential.

Siege Equipment & Cost

War Rules | March 19th, 2018

You may use siege weapons to destroy blocks during a warclaim. Siege equipment is subject to special conditions.

Procedure

Before the Battle

These actions must be performed prior to the battle. They cannot be done once the battleground is setup–these must be done 24 hours beforehand.

• Build and pay fees for all siege weapons.
  • You may buy up to 9 siege weapons in total.
• Purchase the ammunition required to operate your equipment.

Setting Up

Do this during the 24 hours which precede the warclaim. Communicate these things to a Game Moderator responsible for the battle.

• Assign a Siege Leader, a player responsible for typing /roll for each of the siege weapons. Both siege leaders will /roll to determine initiative.
• Deliver your ammunition to the GM Team. It will be spent automatically for each volley.

Battle

• Siege weapons are fired in waves/volleys on a turn basis.
  • Siege Leaders will /roll once for every available equipment, the overseeing GM will simulate the damage on the necessary areas once all rolls are recorded.
• All equipment must be manned by sufficient personnel in order to fire.
• Prior to firing a siege weapon, the operators must perform the necessary role play to prepare and fire the weapon.

Siege Weapon Information

Weapon: Trebuchet

Weapon Cost: 2000

Ammo Cost: 100

Ammunition: Trebuchet Ammo

Function: Will destroy all structures which is done through a plugin that is tied to the treb on signs.

Weapon: Siege Tower

Weapon Cost: 3000

Ammo Cost: N/A

Ammunition: N/A

Function: Allows players to climb over enemy defenses via a moving tower. This tower moves at a rate of five blocks every two minutes when attackers of 10+ or more are standing by.

Weapon: Battering Ram

Weapon Cost: 1000

Ammo Cost: N/A

Ammunition: N/A

Function: Allows players to destroy any kind of gate via a battering ram. The battering ram must have six players to operate and will work after those six players stand in place for two minutes in time total.

Forum Rules

General Conduct On Our Forums | November 22^nd, 2018

Forum Etiquette

If you are unsure about your post you can contact Moderation. In general, if you risk being unreasonable it is likely you will break a rule.

 1.  We are an English speaking community and, as such, your posts must be in English and in a legible font.

What fonts are legible?

Can I use roleplay languages?

2.  Measured criticism is welcome. Provocation, insults, and personal remarks are punishable.

• Targeted, abusive behaviour is not tolerated.
• Avoid misleading posts. Research your material. The staff may punish misinformation, especially when done intentionally.
• Swearing in roleplay is allowed. Tasteful or humorous swearing is allowed when it is not targeted at people / groups.
• Racial slurs and epithets are bannable.

3.  Memes are permitted, however, certain sub-forums may prohibit them.

• The staff will punish ill-intentioned or malicious memes.
• Keep your forum signature reasonable. Use spoilers if necessary.
• Memes must be hidden in a spoiler in roleplay threads.

4.  Images/videos must comply with the LotC content policy. Graphic content is not permitted. This includes:

• Unreasonably or disproportionately gory content.
• Pornography and other overtly sexual content.
• Excessively gross content, loud videos and sound bites, and screamers.

Posting Rules

1.  Do not double post; use the edit button; spamming is prohibited.

What is double posting?

Can I remove a post I made?

2.  Follow sub-forum rules.

Where can I find these additional rules?

 3.  Plagiarism is prohibited.

What counts as plagiarism?

4.  No ‘Backseat Moderating’.

Where can I report rule-breaking on the forums?

5. Posting on the behalf of a permabanned player is a form of ban evading and is prohibited. 

6.  Do not advertise or solicit.

What if I’d like to post a video of my friends and I on another server?

Can I post about games outside of Minecraft?

War Rules

Procedure & Execution of War Events | March 30th, 2018

If necessary, the Game Team delivers a verdict for anything ambiguous or undefined within these rules.

To start a war, the attacking side must have a valid cause for war, or several. The term casus belli, often abbreviated to ‘CB’ means “an act or event that provokes, or is used to justify, war.” You may only use casus belli dating a maximum of 4 weeks (28 days) before the warclaim post. This is the standard unless specifically stated otherwise on the CB.

Definition

Zone of Influence: A Nation’s capital tiles and immediate tiles (adjacent). A Nation may use the area inside of this zone as a staging point for war (within reason). A Freebuild instead uses their most active settlement/property as the staging point for war.

(Phase I) Establishing A War

1. A nation determines they must attack another nation.
   1. The nation which determines is designated the attacker.
   2. The targeted nation is designated the defender.
2. The attackers submit an in-character casus belli under the Warclaims section. The Game Team reviews it within 48-hours by the following criteria:
   1. It is a well-written roleplay post that covers the reasons for which the nation must wage war.
   2. It defines the war goals of the attacking nation in clear terms. E.g. We will pillage/conquer Settlement A.
   3. The war goals consider, realistically and logically, the in-character relationships between the sides as well as their respective cultures and histories.
   4. If the claim to war is insufficient, in other words it does not represent in-character truths, a resubmission will be required. Here is a list of accepted casus belli.
3. War begins once the causes and terms are validated and approved.
   1. The defenders and attackers each send a delegation of two players from their side to the LotC War Discord, where each side is offered a private line of communication to the Game Team to submit plans, proposals, and concerns.
   2. Allies to the involved parties are locked once the war begins (though may drop out if incapable). In order to participate, two current nation leaders must have signed an agreement between their nations which declares the nature of their alliance. This agreement must be visible on the forums in the Official Alliance Treaties sub-forum.

(Phase II) Negotiating Terms

1. The attackers submit a battle plan to the Game Team. The plan details the route they take to reach the objective. Roads are the primary route of transport. The war will assume the shape of the submitted plans.
   1. A naval invasion requires that the attacking force has built sufficient transportation. In other words, ships with enough beds and storage space to accommodate each of their soldiers, defensive mechanisms, and necessary siege equipment.
   2. Navies are solely used to touch down forces due to technical and mechanical limitations. The defenders have the option to contest the landing through a beach defense so long as the landing takes place near or inside defender’s territory.

(Phase III) During the War

Definitions

Battleground: The area where player-vs-player combat takes place.

Field Battle: A battle on open grounds, which takes place at the beginning of the war, and between every siege. A field battle determines direction of the war. Field battles are used to travel the map during a war, and depending on distance there may be several to reach the next siege.

Siege Battle: A battle over a fortified position. A failed defense in a siege battle cedes land to the attackers.

Field Battle

1. May be on any open terrain. Obstacles, such as ruins, are acceptable, so long as none are fortified.
2. The defenders are notified of the direction of the attacker’s route and may pick preferable places to put up a defense.
   1. If the defenders choose to hold a point on the battlefield, suitable area for tactical maneuvers will be granted for the attackers.
3. Each side assembles in a sealed pre-built camp and are released to the field simultaneously.

Victory Conditions

• (Attacker Win) The defending force is annihilated or retreats from the battlefield.
• (Attacker Win) The defenders forego/forfeit the field battle. This condition skips to the next battle.
• (Defender Win) The attacking force is annihilated or otherwise forced from the battlefield.
• (Defender Win) The defending side, a full hour into the battle, still holds their predetermined defensive position.

Siege Battle (Siege equipment rules)

1. The defenders hold a fortified position to prevent the annexation of the land. The attackers assemble in a siege camp or siege line, depending on preference.
2. Siege weapon procedure and more information can be found here, including types of weaponry and their functions.

Victory Conditions

• (Attacker Win) The defenders are cleared from their fortified position.
• (Attacker Win) The defenders are wiped out.
• (Defender Win) The attackers are wiped out.
• (Defender Win) The defending side, a full two hours into the siege, still holds the fortification.
• (Defender Win) The attacking side exhausts their siege options. In other words, busted siege equipment, no ladders, etc.

Siege Aftermath

Defenders Win: The defending side maintains control over their land and may perform a counter-attack.

Attackers Win:

• If war goals specify conquering this area: The attacking nation permanently controls the settlement. However, the attackers will not be permitted to automatically evict players on the region.
• Otherwise: The attacking nation holds the settlement for 24 hours, during which they pillage the area.

Counter Attack

1. If the defenders have the opportunity to counter-attack, they may pursue further war or elect to end the war as it stands.
2. A counter-offensive does not require any casus belli.
3. Defenders take the role of the attackers, and may reclaim any land they have lost (but may not proceed further).

War Expenditures

During the war the attacking parties must pay weekly costs to sustain the war efforts. Each ally must pay their appropriate cost in order to participate in the war. Nations pay 2000 minas each while Settlements pay 750 minas each. E.g. two attacking Nations pay 4k in total every week.

(Phase IV) War Outcomes

Ending A War

Attacking Victory

The attacking side satisfies their objectives outlined in the beginning of the war. This can mean conquering through war, though may also be the result of the defenders ceding to demands.

Treaty / Agreement

Both sides reach an agreement in roleplay that concludes the war. A treaty must be deemed satisfied in order for the war to end.

Invalidated / Insufficient Casus Belli

If a casus belli is no longer valid (e.g. a title claimant is permanently killed) or all available casus belli have been used and the attackers fail to provide additional CB’s incurred during the war.

Counter-Offensive Abandoned

An active counter-offensive is not further pursued or an option to launch a counter-offensive is relinquished.

Insufficient Funds

The attackers fail to pay the necessary expenditures to advance the war.

Aftermath

Casus Belli

The attackers lose all casus belli towards the defenders. The defenders gain casus belli towards the attackers.

Peace

War between either side is not available for at least 30 days—unless a treaty established the peace and was subsequently violated.

Tiles

If you own the largest region within the tile, the region is at least 100x100, and you are a recognized Nation, then the ownership of the tile may be transferred from the defending party to your control.

Server Guidelines

• Use common sense. You are responsible for helping build a serious roleplay environment.

• If you doubt you are doing the right thing—ask a moderator.

• Cyberbullying, rule abuse, harassment, and other antagonistic behaviour will get you banned. Even if you break no rules, we reserve the right to prevent you from using our services.

• Write constructively, and in good-spirit of our community. You may not get along, and you may not respect everyone, but you must behave civilly.

• The staff is here to help. We volunteer ourselves to this community out of love and a desire to see it succeed. If you have issues with any of us please contact an administrator.

Server Rules

• You are always in-character. Exceptions are use of out-of-character chats, i.e. /msg or /ooc. You must roleplay within server lore. Exclude the real-world or lore from other games.

• You are responsible for your own account. Any action taken or rules broken on it are your responsibility. No other player may have access to it.

• We punish any trolling or memeing in roleplay or excessive use in out-of-character.

  • This includes plagiarizing characters from media.

• Everything you build must conform to our roleplay world and lore. We penalize for any ugly, unrealistic, or physics-defying builds, and will destroy them.

• Do not Grief builds or landscape.

• When gathering resources, you must clean up any floating leaves or stone when chopping trees or mining. e.g. no floating leaves.

• We prohibit metagaming and powergaming.

  • Metagaming is using out-of-character knowledge in a roleplay situation. If your character does not know it you must roleplay that way. Organizing in-character roleplay via Skype or messaging friends privately is metagaming, especially when asking for help when in trouble.

  • You are in control of only your own character. Powergaming is emoting actions on behalf of another player.

    • Powergaming: John slices off Tom’s arm, severing it entirely. (Here you demand that Tom has lost his arm).

    • Not-powergaming: John slices at Tom’s arm, trying to sever it. (Here you give Tom a chance to decide what happens to their character).

• Nobody can force you to permanently kill your character. If you permanently kill off your character you have 7 days to reverse your decision. In rare circumstances it may be forced only by administration alone.

  • Death by suicide is non reversible unless specific lore says otherwise.

• Glitches and exploits must be privately reported immediately at this link. Revealing or abusing them will provoke a harsh ban.

• Sexually explicit or graphic roleplay (AKA cybering or excessive gore) is forbidden. A “fade-to-black” must be emoted to fast-forward these events. Brothels and prostitution are prohibited. Rape is prohibited. Sexual encounters are not permitted with any character below the age of 18. Bestiality and necrophilia are forbidden.

• Information on your persona must match your character. This includes race, age, gender, biography, etc.

• Unlocked chests may be taken from freely. Donation or shop chests cannot be stolen from.

• A player may only be held against their will for up to 3 hours of roleplay. A noble or leader can be held up to 5 hours of roleplay, the criteria for this matches rescue raids. At the end of the timeframe a player must be killed, let go, or allowed to soulstone.

• If you are held against your will for 15 minutes or more without more than a minimum level of roleplay you may soulstone freely.

• Locked Doors, Signs, or Trapdoors may be Lockpicked by filing a /modreq and following the instruction of the moderator who answers. You must emote each attempt to lockpick and /roll. Any roll of 5 or below fails the lock-picking session and you must leave the locked item. Lockpicks are consumed upon each use, success or not.

  • Wood door — roll 17+ (10+ with a lockpick)

  • Iron door — roll 19+(15+ with a lockpick)

  • Locked sign — roll 17+ (10+ with a lockpick)

  • Glass / Window —roll 12+

• Chests may be lockpicked only during a designated heist. In order to perform a heist you must schedule it with the Game Moderation Team using /modreq. Lockpicking rules apply.

  • Wood chest — roll 17+ (a Lockpick is required for each attempt)

• Minor damage is allowed, but destroying property without consent is prohibited. You may file a /modreq to remove a building. Killing of animals on property you do not own must be done with sufficient roleplay and you must leave at least 2 alive of each kind.

• You cannot construct "Instant" Death Traps

      "Instant" being traps that lock you into place and kill you without any interaction.

• Extensive usage of buttons on a settlement/castle is not allowed. Only a layer of buttons may be placed at the base of each wall, representing spikes or for decoration/redstone usage only.

• You cannot construct farms that are underground without appropriate lore allowing it

• A Leadership figure leaving a nation may only take up to 10% of the nation's storage when they leave.

      Moderator Supervision is required for specific items that cannot be divided

• Multiple personas for the same character, or personas who do not represent actual characters are not allowed. e.g. a persona for storage, extra skills, etc.

• These rules apply to ownership of regioned zones:

  • A region owner must notify (in-game, signs, forum contact, Discord) another owner 3 days prior to removing them from the region.

  • A parent region owner must notify (in-game, signs, forum contact, Discord) an owner of a sub-region 7 days prior to doing so.

  • Region ownership can only change with permission of the primary region owner, a majority of other region owners, or a parent region owner.

Combat Rules

• All parties involved must decide before PvP combat begins whether it will be emote-combat or mechanics-combat. If more than 10 players are fighting then mechanics-combat is required and /status must be set for all involved.

• If an agreement cannot be made, the defending party chooses the kind of combat.

  • Guards choose the type of combat if a law has been broken and are considered the defending party.

• Type of combat may not change after starting unless everyone agrees.

• You cannot enter a Combat Prohibited area during Combat

• Mechanics Combat (click & swing)

  • You must have sufficient roleplay leading up to mechanics-combat. The attacker must be close to the person they wish to attack and emote trying to stop them. (Halting alone is not sufficient roleplay, emoting blocking their way//tackling them after halting is). You must /countdown 10 once mechanics combat is agreed upon both sides. Both sides must be ready for the countdown to begin.

  • Nobody may join mid-combat. Only those involved at the start may fight.

  • A player who runs during countdown may be killed.

  • A pet may not be called in from another location after roleplay begins.

  • The victor may choose to revive knocked out players following the end of combat. (/d40ing to avoid being captured once downed is not allowed).

  • Lava and Water Buckets, Flint and Steel, and Boat Glitching are disallowed during combat.

• Emote Combat (type & read)

  • You may not escape the encounter without sufficient roleplay to justify your escape. If a player runs their opponent may beat them down (and if they choose, revive and resume roleplay).

  • If you are killed you must /d40 unless the victor states otherwise.

• Unless both parties consent using your enderchest before or during combat is bannable.

• The use of alt characters to begin conflict is prohibited. i.e. creating a dwarf character purely to antagonise and start war with the orcs.

• Using horses to jump over 3 block or higher walls is prohibited.

• You may not use fast-travel or soulstones to escape combat.

• Villainous activity or combat near fast-travel hubs or spawn (i.e. camping) is prohibited.

• Fire-aspect, flame, and any combat enchantments above level 1 are forbidden. You must report to a moderator if you find one.

Cause For War

War Severity & Casus Belli | March 28th, 2018

Definitions

As defined in the freebuild rules.

Minor Freebuild

Any freebuild settlement consisting of five or less standard buildings, such as typical houses, cottages, a single farm, etc.

Major Freebuild

Any freebuild settlement consisting of more than five buildings. Includes freebuild cities, farms, towns, large scale strongholds, and more.

Conquest

The process for conquest of Nations and Major Freebuild. War requires one Major plus two Minor casus belli per siege.

Revenge

^SPECIAL

If Group X declares war on Group Y and Group Y survives, then Group Y acquires Three Major CB’s which have an adjusted duration of 8 weeks.

Rebellion

^SPECIAL

If Group X in Group Y jurisdiction declares independence from Group Y, then Group Y may use this a casus belli to reclaim the rebelling territory.

Betrayal

^AUTO-SIEGE

If Group X is an ally of Group Y but betrays Group Y to help an enemy attack then Group Y may use this to satisfy a siege requirement. The two groups must have a standing and true alliance documented on the forums that is signed by both nation leaders or an official authorized to sign.

Breaking a Peace Treaty

^AUTO-SIEGE

If a publicly posted peace treaty is broken between two groups, the party who was "in the right" (as determined by the War Team) may use this to satisfy a siege requirement. Peace treaties are those that end active conflict.

Attack on Leadership

^MAJOR

If Group X attempts to kill a member of Group Y’s leadership in Group Y’s land, and it can be proven that Group Y know this was organized by Group X in character, then Group Y may use this as a casus belli.

Two Minor Casus Belli

^MAJOR

A group may combine two minor casus belli to count as one major casus belli, or use one major casus belli to satisfy 2 minor requirements.

Failing To Uphold Treaty Terms

^Minor

If there is a publicly posted treaty with both nation leaders of Group X and Y signatures in place with a term that Group Y fails to meet then Group X may use this as a casus belli. This does not apply for Peace Treaties.

Kidnapping

^Minor

If Group X kidnaps a significant member of Group Y with malicious intent (such as a noble, a member of the royal family, etc.) and Group Y can prove that they know that was the doing of Group X in character, then Group Y may use this as a casus belli.

Aiding An Enemy

^Minor

If Group X had no publicly posted and relevant active alliance or treaty with Group Y and helped Group Z attack Group Y, then Group Y may use this as a casus belli against Group X. If a Treaty exists see either Failing to Uphold Treaty Terms or Breaking a Peace Treaty

Peace-time Invasion

^Minor

If Group X invades Group Y territory with 8 or more people and disrupts the peace while they are not at war with each other, then Group Y may use this as a casus belli.

Denouncement

^Minor

If Group X posts content which denounces Group Y in a fashion that Group Y takes prompt in-roleplay offence to, then Group Y may use this as a casus belli.

Minor Freebuild Takeover

To capture freebuild on your tile or adjacent tiles to your capital tile. The procedure for this can be found here. All following causes for war apply only to Minor Freebuild. Any casus belli below will do for minor freebuild takeover.

Known Enemy of the Nation

If Group X knows and can prove that an enemy owns or is harbored within Group Y’s minor freebuild area, then Group X could use this as a casus belli.

Within Owned Tile (with Warning)

If Group X own the tile, or come into ownership of the tile that Group Y reside on, Group X may give Group Y a 7 day warning to leave or come to realistic terms with Group X. If Group Y do not leave or come to realistic terms then Group X may use this as a casus belli against Group Y.

Offensive Building

If Group X find the build by Group Y offensive (in roleplay) then Group X may give a 7 day notice to Group Y to remove the build within role-play. If Group Y do not remove the build then Group X may use this as a casus belli against Group Y. This does not relate to nation builds.

Abandonment

Group X may claim an area deserted by its former inhabitants if inactivity is verified, provided the area is within their zone of influence. (In last 30 days no recorded activity, building, and chest access).

The war rules follow the community guidelines.

Wars between two or more groups must follow the procedure outlined below. If you have any trouble with understanding, contact the War Lead or any War moderator for clarification. The war rules follow the community guidelines. If all sides in a war agree they may determine their own war procedure.

War Procedure

In order to begin a war, the attacking side must have a casus belli. The term (often abbreviated to CB) means “an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.” A casus belli is valid for 4 weeks (28 days), and for every following month decreases by one tier.

A warclaim must be posted in order to begin a war. If the claim to war is sufficient the War Team will accept it. Alterations to the claim must be brought up 72 hours before the battle.

A war begins with a skirmish unless there is valid reason for otherwise. A battle on open terrain will determine which side chooses the proceeding action: a full/partial conquest, or pillage depending on the tier of the warclaim.

The attacker may establish siege grounds if they win a skirmish on the perimeter of their target. The defenders must win to maintain their borders. In order to capture any subsequent settlements the attackers must wage a field battle in-between.

If the defending side wins they become the attackers and choose the trajectory of the war. They may either besiege an opposing fortification or stand their ground. A fortification may be attacked weekly, and three consecutive defenses will result in a stalemate.

General

Once a siege is declared you may not use creative-mode to alter terrain or structures. A settlement should be war-proofed at the time of construction, rather than a week before a warclaim. “PvP forts” with insta-kill traps and murder holes are not permitted, structures must follow server rules regarding builds. During a siege all lockpicking is similar, reference the server rules.

War Severity

The consequences of a battle are determined by the tier of the casus belli.

(3) Pillages

Chests may be pillaged. Leaders face no consequences upon death. Reasonable war reparations will be handled in-character, failure to comply results in a casus belli.

(2) Vassalage

Conquered settlements receive “ruined” renovations. Chests may be pillaged, anti-griefing rules still apply. Leaders killed in battle may be captured with a best two out of three rolls of at least 14+. Nation / faction may be fully vassalized. It will still exist, but in servitude to the victor.

(1) Conquest

Conquered settlements receive “ruined” renovations. Chests may be pillaged, anti-griefing rules still apply. Leaders killed in battle may be captured or permanently killed with a best two out of three rolls of at least 14+. Death while in captivity also results in permanent death. If a capital is taken then the leader is captured automatically. Conquered faction may be subjugated or purged from existence, all owners lose full control to the victors.

Cost of War

Siege weaponry may be purchased prior to battle. Weaponry requires ammunition in order to be used. Each side is in charge of building their own siege engines.

Leaders are responsible for the /roll for their siege weapons, and also roll at the beginning to determine which side fires first. Shots are executed in volleys or waves and are done on a turn basis.

Trebuchet / Catapult

Cost: 1,000

Players operating: 3

Ammunition: Stoneshot

Results in moderate to heavy damage to terrain and structures.

Rune Cannon

Cost: 1,250

Players operating: 3

Ammunition: Stoneshot / Ironshot / Fireshot

Results in moderate to heavy damage to terrain and structures.

Ballista

Cost: 600

Players operating: 3

Ammunition: Heavy iron shovels or iron lances.

Results in light to moderate damage to a wooden structure.

Siege Tower

Cost: 1,000

Players operating: 10

Results in movement forward.

Battering Ram

Cost: 500

Players operating: 6

Results in damage to gates. Each hit removes health. Gate health depends on the time it takes to destroy the gate by hand.

The raid rules follow the community guidelines.

An attack on a settlement by more than one player is known as a raid. If all parties agree (defenders and attackers) then they may establish their own rules for a raid and fast travel use.

Lawless Raiding

Killing, robbing, or causing chaos. A maximum of 2 - 4 players may participate in such a raid. The raiding party must begin fighting within 30 minutes of arriving. A raid may last up to 1 hour, then you must leave. In times of war, these are considered war raids and may have up to 12 players.

Lawful Raiding

This type of raid requires moderator approval and bypasses raid cooldowns. Lawful raids must occur within 12 hours of provocation.

Rescuing an individual or defending a settlement by raiding the settlement of the attackers. A maximum of 2 - 12 players may participate in such a raid. If rescuing, the raiders have 2 hours to do so, and if TNT and ladders are necessary they may be used. The raiding party must begin fighting within 30 minutes of arriving. A raid may last up to 2 hours, then you must leave.

Raid Cooldowns

You may not attack a settlement for 2 days following a raid. If the settlement is defended successfully they may increase this cooldown to 5 days.

General Rules

Placing or breaking blocks during a raid is prohibited. During a raid cooldown, you may not camp the edge of a territory or block entry to it (AKA “raid-baiting”). This includes camping roads leading to a Fast Travel. If you have no cooldown, you may camp for 1 hour at most per day without raiding. When raiding, you may use fast-travels between islands (such as boats) but may not use player-owned fast-travels on land (such as carts). A maximum of 3 raiders may initiate up to 3 attempts of lockpicking/thievery.

Any changes, additions or removal of rules will be commented below, by the appropriate staff member.

Community conduct

Lord of the Craft mission statement

General rules

Construction and Theft rules

Combat Rules

War rules

Raid rules

Forum rules

The forum rules follow the community guidelines.

• We are an English speaking community and, as such, your posts must be in English so that we keep it easy for everyone to read and understand. Appropriate IC languages may be used in the roleplay section, however “txt l1k3 dis” is not acceptable and neither is WRITING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

• Criticism must be made in a constructive manner. Make an effort to remain mature and uphold the good nature of each discussion; we do not tolerate toxic or deceitful behaviour.

• Do not double post; use the edit button; spamming is prohibited.

• Post things in the right section and with the right format if applicable. When unsure, look for pinned topics in that sub-forum.

• Some sub-forums, especially in the roleplay section, have additional rules. Check for any pinned topics before posting.

• No plagiarism and no illegal or copyright infringing material.

• No pornographic material or adult content is permitted.

• No abusive or targeted material and swearing must not be directed at anybody.

• Do not advertise other forums or servers.

• Keep your signature a reasonable size. Use spoilers if necessary.

• No backseat moderating.

Subforum Rules

Additional rules that must be followed in their respective sub-forums.

• Forum Roleplay
• Trading Subforum
• Support & Assistance
• Player Reports
• War Subforum
• Debates Subforum

“To maintain respect while interacting with other players. Be a builder of this community, not a hinderance or detriment.”

1. Derogatory remarks directed toward those on Lord of the Craft mediums of communication will not be tolerated. This includes racist/homophobic/sexual/otherwise vulgar terms or crude and insensitive comments for the sake of insulting the player they’re directed to.
   
   The nature and severity of the remarks and context of the situation will be determined at the discretion of moderators when they are notified of a situation, or witness one. Common sense follows, if you don’t have anything nice to say, simply don’t say it. Do not make this community an unpleasant, nor unwelcoming one.
   
   Examples:
   /t Bob **** you, ******.
   Referral in RP of terms associated with real world races/groups. It’s RP, if you want to   be racist, at least be original and have it make sense with the world you’re in.
   /looc Respond to the RP you ******* *****.
   ((The kikery is strong.
   Etc.
   First offense - 15 minute tempban with warning message
   Second offense - 2 hour tempban with warning message
   Third offense - 1 day tempban with warning message
   Fourth offense - 1 week tempban with a final warning message
   Fifth offense - 4 week ban with an appeal required.
    
2. Harassment - obsessive, malicious or nefarious behavior directed toward another player will not be tolerated.
   
   This will apply to all platforms of communication and media. If clear evidence is supplied through means not directly associated with Lord of the Craft, it will still be followed up on. This includes Lord of the Craft forums, the server, and the Teamspeak - as well as - Skype, Teamspeak as a whole, Youtube, Facebook, you name it.
   
   Spreading of personal or private information will result in a ban of six months. There will be zero warning, aside from you reading this right now. It does not matter if you were the one to find it, or you were the one to continue spreading it.
   Media created to isolate and target specific players within the community will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Those found to be generating such will be banned for one month. Those found to have continued to share it once they were shown it, banned for one week. There will be no warning.
   In-game harassment that includes poor and or malicious RP that is enacted to target or single out an individual for the purpose of harassment, in most cases for OOC reasoning, will not be tolerated. Two week ban, followed by a two week villain blacklist after the player has appealed. Scenarios will be analyzed case by case and left to the moderators to decide if the claims of such are legitimate.
   Sexual harassment under any circumstances will not be tolerated. This applies to everyone. References to rape, general sexual assault - non-consensual advances or vulgarity of that nature directed to either a player OOCly, with any form of communication, or a character RPly will not be tolerated. Three months, no warning.
    
3. Behavior that disrupts the flow of roleplay without directly isolating or targeting another player, while not as consequential, shall still be dealt with accordingly with clear protocol from now on. Essentially anything that is considered a joke taken too far.
   
   Commonplace stereotypes incorporated excessively in a character to create a blatantly offensive portrayal or reference to real world cultures, groups, races will not be tolerated. Players guilty of this will be banned for four weeks.
   Pop culture references, real world references*  incorporated into roleplay or the creation of a character to an excessive extent will not be tolerated. Players guilty of this will be banned for two weeks.
   *Anything that can be construed as blatantly ‘modern’ or otherwise sourced from material that has had no prior place in LotC. - TMNT skins, dwarf cops with air support, etc.
   
   The use of  “memeage” in roleplay will result in an immediate ban of one week without a warning, appeal required. Examples include, allahu akbar or any variations of it, the term ‘edgy’, the word meme itself, rare pepes, mr. skeletal, ayy lmao, etc. You know, we know, don’t act stupid.
   
   The ban will be made at discretion of the moderators who witness it. You will not be able to dispute this.
    
4. Additions will be made if circumstances considered to not fall within any of these categories occur.

 
1st
 
Conquered settlements can receive "ruined" renovations. Pillaging of chests is allowed, anti-griefing rules apply.
Leaders upon death in battle  face being captured on a +14 /roll (best two out of three) or immediately permakilled. Death while in captivity will be enforced permakilling. If a capital of a settlement is taken, capture is mandatory, unless the leader was not directly involved in the fighting. This will be enforced through kill messages during the battle, keep screenshots handy.
Potential to be fully conquered and subjugated. Your nation or faction has the opportunity to be wiped off the map and possibly even the history books. If you are completely conquered, you lose all control OOCly - and naturally RPly, of what happens to the territory and people you once ruled.
 
2nd Tier
 
Conquered settlements can receive "ruined" renovations. Pillaging of chests is allowed, anti-griefing rules apply.
Leaders upon their death in battle will face capture on a +14 /roll (best two out of three) there is no permakilling clause. Death while in captivity will be a permakill only if the player says it is. Staff will not intervene upon the life or death of a character, merely their capture.
Potential to be fully vassalized. Your nation or faction will still exist, but as an underling to a more superior foe - now your ruler.
 
3rd Tier
 
Conquered settlements will not be tampered with, in regards to builds. The pillaging of chests will still be permitted.
Leaders upon their death in battle face zero consequence. Capture and permadeath are subjective and determined by their players, enforced by no one.
War reparations will be enforced but ultimately the fate of your nation or faction remains intact. (Subject to be overruled by war management, pending the RP leading up to a specific warclaim.)
 
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Established Cost of War
 
Siege Engines - Will need ammunition to use. If you don’t have the ammunition, you cannot use them in a warclaim. All factions will be in charge of building their own siege engines. 
 
Success/hit is determined at 15/20. Every two points higher determines a degree of success, aka, making the brush size one point larger to illustrate the damage/movement.
 
Trebuchet/Catapult 
Cost: 500
Players operating: 3
Ammunition: Stone Shot
Result: Moderate to heavy damage to all structures and terrain. 
 
Ballistae - 
Cost: 300
Players operating: 3
Ammunition: Heavy iron shovels or iron lances.
Result: Light to moderate damage to a wooden structure. 
 
Siege Tower -
Cost: 500
Players operating: 10
Result: Movement forward.
 
Battering Ram - 
Cost: 250 minas
Players operating: 6
Result: Damaging gates. Each hit removes health from the gate. Gate health is dependent on the time it takes to destroy the material of the gate by hand. 
 
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Sieges
 
Artillery Stages - Attacking siege engines will have a period to fire upon the enemy fortifications, at this point in time attacking infantry will not be able to advance due to the risk of friendly fire. Once the besieging infantry is within proximity to the walls, defending siege engines will be obsolete due to both angles and risk of killing their own troops at lower levels. 
 
Doors - Coinciding with conventional rules, you require a 17+ to break down any doors or locks. To avoid issues of relocking during the engagement, doors will simply be destroyed. 
 
Environmental Hazards - During a siege, the structural integrity of the fortification is obviously compromised. Attackers and defenders alike will have to exhibit caution and prudence during their maneuvers. Otherwise they may find themselves crushed, suffocated, or trapped for the enemy to find. Lifts that are ‘destroyed’ will in fact be destroyed. Soldiers that are within the proximity of a brush damage change will be /kill’d, etc. 

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Skirmish Agreements
 
Skirmish agreements are what will now replace large scale raiding. The established warfront will have a zone of conflict that is to be prepped for the upcoming warclaim, this zone will be where warring sides may skirmish without limitations. Agreeing to a skirmish agreement, showing collective sportsmanship from both sides, and keeping ‘it’ on the field will result in minor perks over the course of the war to both sides. 
 
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Raid Rules
  
Raid baiting is not allowed, unless it is for the purpose of raiding within the raid rules. Definition of Raid Baiting: 3+ enemy-affiliated players not contributing to non-hostile RP and refusing to leave when requested.
 
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Horses in Wars, Raids, or any other conflict may not be used as a means to jump over walls or other fortification 3 or more blocks tall.  It may be possible mechanically but it makes no sense in RP.  People found doing so will be banned for the duration of the conflict they are participating in, and perhaps longer if they are a repeat or problem offender.
  
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Refer to the reply below by Fireheart for further information regarding the types of raids!

1. No racist or abusive material may be posted at any time, regardless of who it’s aimed at. We’re all here to have fun, and attacking people isn’t alright.
    
2. Under no circumstances is pornographic material or material considered to be adult content to be posted. Any material posted of this nature will warrant a harsh ban.
    
3. Do not post material that is illegal in any way. This includes plagiarism and material that infringes copyright. Example: If you take pictures from DeviantArt and claim them as your own, people do notice, and you will be punished. 
    
4. Do not post or link material that may/will cause harm to other people or their computers. This includes ‘screamers’.
    
5. Swearing is not to be directed at anyone at any time. Ever. Not only is it rude but it is highly offensive. Keep swearing to a minimum and remember to keep it tasteful and within context in RP threads - just like on the server.
    
6. Do not double post. If you need to change your post or add something extra, then use the edit button. Adding extra posts is classed as spam and may receive a warn. Spamming of any nature is not permitted. This includes posts, status updates and unnecessarily bumping topics.
    
7. Do not make a post just to correct other people. That’s not polite, and is simply unneeded.
    
8. Do not, under any circumstances; troll, flame, cause trouble or behave inappropriately. Creating unnecessary drama is not appreciated, and may be punished.
    
9. Please write in English on the forums, to keep it easy for everyone to read and understand. Appropriate IC languages may be used in the roleplay section, however “txt l1k3 dis” is not acceptable and WRITING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS can be constituted as flaming if not done in a RP context.
    
10. Backseat moderating is against the rules. This means doing the job of a moderator when you’re not in a moderating position.
     
11. Criticism is helpful and helps us try to create a server that everyone can enjoy. If you have criticism, regardless of whether it’s for the staff or other players, make sure it’s given in a constructive way. Furthermore, if you disagree with what a player or staff member is saying, you should remain mature when expressing it. Attempts to belittle players or acting with an overall destructive manner will not be tolerated.
     
12. Do not use our forums to advertise other forums or servers unless you can display proof of moderator permission.
     
13. Most sections of the forums, especially the roleplay section have rules specific to them. Please remain aware of these guidelines, as they’re in place to for the benefit of those trying to roleplay. https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/130297-roleplay-post-guidelines/
     
14. Try to post things in the right section and when applicable; the right format. If you’re not sure where you should be posting something, don’t be afraid to PM a Forum Moderator or GM. 
     
15. Please keep your signature to a reasonable size. If you want to include a lot of information or pictures, you can use spoilers to prevent it getting the signature getting too large. If your signature is too lengthy, you may have parts removed to stop it clogging up pages.
     
16. And remember, ignorance is no excuse. The use of “I didn’t know the rules” will not be accepted. If you don’t make yourself familiar with the rules, it’s your own fault if you break them. Especially since we have Forum Moderators and GMs happy to help when you don’t understand something.

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Warning Points and Forum Bans
If a moderator deems that you have broken any of these rules, are failing to follow the guidelines for sections like the Roleplay forums, or are otherwise behaving in a manner harmful to LotC and its community, they may choose to punish you via the warning system built into the forums. 
 

• Depending on the severity of your actions, you may receive 0 to 10 warning point. This is up to the discretion of the moderator, and may be influenced by your prior history. 
   
• When you reach 10 warning points, you will have your Forum AND IG accounts banned. Your first forum ban will last 1 month, however subsequent ones will be greatly extended. 
   
• When you’re forum-banned, making another account to continue using the forums will not be tolerated. This is akin to ban-evading, and will result in your ban being extended. The ONLY exception to this is making an account specifically for the purpose of appealing your forum ban. If you’re found using this account for any other purpose, it will also be banned.
   
• Any forum ban appeals should be formatted and posted like regular bans, and if given by a Forum Moderator should be addressed to the current Forum Moderator Leader. Forum Moderators do not handle ban appeals. Forum bans given by GMs may be addressed to the Forum Moderator Leader or the banning GM. 
   
• If you believe a warning point you received is unjust, you may send the Forum Moderator Leader or the warning moderator a forum PM to discuss it. There’s no guarantee it will be changed however.
   
• Warning points may be appealed after an extended period of good behaviour. If you’re attempting to appeal a point within a month of receiving it or any other warning points, your appeal will not be accepted. Any appeals after this time will be considered based on the behaviour you’ve shown since the warning.
   
• When appealing a warning point, it must be appealed to the moderator who originally gave you the point, unless they’re no longer on the staff team. If this is the case, they should be appealed to the current Forum Moderator Leader.
   
• It’s preferable that all appeals are done through forum PMs instead of skype or other mediums, so that it can be requisitioned if required. It is NOT necessarily to appeal warning points via the ban appeal methods. 

 
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When using LotC’s forums, please remember that this is what represents our server on the internet, and is usually one of the first glimpses of us that potential newcomers will see. We’d like to make a good first impression so that our community can continue to grow, so please do your part to keep the forums clean and tidy.

The abuse of glitches or any exploits are not tolerated.

Excessive trolling or use of 'memes' in roleplay are disallowed.

Hostile and Toxic behavior, directed any anyone or on any medium, will not be tolerated.

All roleplay on LoTC must abide by server lore. Lore can be found on the Wiki or Forum lore section. You cannot play as a race that is not lore-approved, and you require LM/MAT approval for races not a part of the Dwarves, Elves, Humans, Kha, or Orcs. If you wish to add lore to LoTC, it must be submitted and approved before it can be played.

Your skin must be an RP-friendly representation of your character. Obscene, offensive, or non-rp skins are not allowed. There are many skin-makers on the Forums who are happy to provide skins for new players. The use of a skin created by another player without their consent is considered plagiarism, and is disallowed.

You must remain In-Character at all times when in-game. If you need to speak out of character, do so in private messages (via /t <playername>) or local OOC chat (via starting your message with "((")

Your characters cannot interact with each other in any way. The one exception is that you may play the child of your character.

Metagaming is disallowed in its entirety. Metagaming is the use of information in roleplay that your character does not know. An example would be rallying troops to aid a friend even though your character would have no way to know he's in trouble.

Powergaming is disallowed in its entirety. Powergaming is forcing your emotes on another character. An example being the emote "John swings his sword at Tom, cutting his arm" where the emote forces the effect on the other player. An acceptable emote would be "John swings his sword at Tom, aiming to cut his arm." since the other player would be able to react to the emote.

If you die in roleplay, your character will not remember the events leading up to the death. Waking up knowing who killed you is metagaming. You also may not return to the site of your death for thirty minutes (Unless it was your character's home).

Do not change your username to anything vulgar, inflammatory, or offensive to other players on LoTC. Accounts breaking this rule will be banned for thirty days - The period of time that Mojang requires before another change can occur.

Impersonation of a Player or Staff Member, on any medium, will not be tolerated.

OOCly lying or otherwise deceiving players for your own gain is not allowed, however you may do so to (and only to) prevent being metagamed. An example in this case being if you are attempting to trick somebody IC, you don’t have to tell the truth if they ask OOCly about your plans.

"Cyber-bullying", through repeated harassment or any other means will not be tolerated. Those partaking in or promoting such will be severely punished.

Accounts may not be shared between players in any circumstance. Actions taken by your account will be treated as though they were taken by you as a player. In the event of a hacked account, please contact a moderator or administrator. If an account is traded between players, the final 'owner' must be the only one with access and all personas and items will be removed.

Hack-Clients, mods, or texture packs that provide an advantage are completely disallowed. Approved mods include:

Schematica, More Player Models, InventoryTweaks,  Damage Indicators, Aesthetic Mods, as well as Autofish (Provided you are actively rping during use).

If GM assistance is required, please make a modreq instead of a message. Only message a GM in urgent situations needing immediate aid.

Moderator verdicts are final. Do not press the issue or go to another moderator if such a verdict is unfavorable to you.

There are no GM refunds on lost items. If you die anywhere in the map, you will not have items respawned. /bread is a helpful command to help you get back on your feet, though!

Anything that can be done by players via donor perks or professions will not be done by GMs. If you need one of these services - like locks, gates, enchanting, or soulstone pillars, you must seek out a player with access. Note that event items are an exception to this.

The use of alternate personas purely for additional skills on one character is forbidden. Any character with multiple personas tied to its name will have the duplicates deleted without regard to any professions or items.

Having a persona with the race set to one other than the character's actual race is not allowed. The same applies to age and gender. Having it written in your biography, or having your biography go against what your card's properties are is not allowed. Any character card that does not match the character will be deleted without regard to any professions or items.

If you opt to permanently kill your character, you (in most cases) have seven days to decide to reverse the action. Once those seven days are over, the character can not be revived. Note that, with the exception of suicide or staff decision, you can not be forced to kill a character. However, if you explicitly state that you've PKed under any of the following situations, you are not allowed to bring back the character, even in those even days. Those situations are:

If your character commits suicide, he or she is permanently killed. This is also the case if you use knowledge of the monks to disregard the threat of death - If you're about to die and roleplay along the lines of "Kill me, I'll just be revived", you will have to PK. Note that ultimately, this is a staff decision. Attempting to force or trick another player into breaking this rule will be punished.

Explicit sexual roleplay is not permitted. If sex (or other graphic actions) occur in roleplay, use "Fade To Black" to pass over the details. FTB actions require both IC and OOC consent. Sexual FTB can not be done with more than three members of the five main races (Not event creatures!). Brothels and prostitution are disallowed, as well as Rape, involvement with a character under 18, bestiality, or necrophilia.

These rules apply to the ownership and theft of land, builds, and items.

Voxel, Worldedit, or any other GM assistance will not be permitted for assistance in construction in any situation. GMs will only use these tools for players to remove landscars, or to help clear old structures. Note that if a GM is used to clear the structure, no resources will be refunded.

Owners of regions will not be changed unless authorized by another owner of that region, or a parent of it.

Chests and doors within a region may only be unlocked by request of a region owner.

Unlocked chests may be stolen from at will. Item Frames may only be taken from by players on the region they are in.

Players may attempt to get past locks via the roll system. In order to do this, a GM is required to be present for the rolls. Requirements and rules are as follows:

Lockpicks may be purchased by a shop, and if used, will be taken from the player (1 pick per roll) in exchange for more favorable chances.

Door rolls are as follows:

Wood (Trap)doors - 17+ without a pick, 10+ with.

Iron (Trap)doors - 19+ without a pick, 15+ with.

Locked Signs (Gates, Lifts, etc) - 17+ without a pick, 10+ with.

Chests may only be picked with a specific, named item as the target. If you're looking for the 'Blue sword of ice', tell the overseeing GM before rolling. Generic items are not able to be stolen this way.

Donation chests and Shop Chests may not be stolen from.

Chests - 17+ without a lockpick, 15+ with. A roll of 5 or below without a pick will result in the lock being too damaged to open.

Only 3 members of a given party may attempt to lockpick, and each of them have 3 attempts per lock, and may attempt to pick up to three locks each.

You may not break blocks to get past LWC locks.

A lock is only valid with an LWC protection on it. If the door or chest is not mechanically locked, it is not locked in roleplay.

Arson or other means of property destruction are not allowed except during warclaims or with the plot owner's OOC permission.

Built structures must adhere to the roleplay setting. Floating or unsupported houses, underground farms are disallowed. Note that, when gathering resources, you may not leave floating leaves or strip-mine in the main world. Strip mining is permitted in the mineworld, and only in the mineworld.

Using another player's build without their permission is not allowed.  Any large build copied from any source on or off LoTC mediums require the creator's permission. Smaller builds like individual houses do not have this requirement.

If a nation leader leaves his or her position, they may take only 10% of the nation's materials with them. This must be completely RPed with oversight of one or more GMs. If the leader is PKed or otherwise abandons the character, nothing may be taken.

Due to bugs and other small issues, it may sometimes be possible to obtain disallowed items from legitimate sources. If you obtain one of the following items from any source, please make a modreq detailing the item and how you got it. The use of these items is disallowed in any capacity.

These rules apply to all conflict on Lord of The Craft, from villainy to raids.

PvP requires for all sides to confirm being ready, as well as a five-second countdown. If a player runs before the countdown ends, pvp is initiated.

Proper rp is required before PvP can be called. The roleplay must be initiated and properly advance to conflict before it goes to PvP.

If a player runs from roleplay. the other side may PvP him but must revive him to continue the rp. If they attempt to flee again, the player may be killed. Note that yelling "Halt" is not valid rp to initiate PvP. If they don't stop to respond, you cannot give chase with PvP.

Once the choice of combat has been decided, it cannot be changed except with a unanimous agreement. A player joining an rp fight in progress may not 'call pvp' unless the rest agree.

Statuses are required in PvP fights with 8 or more players. Abuse of statuses to avoid getting hit is disallowed.

Joining a PVP conflict mid-Combat is prohibited regardless of affiliation or intent.

Using your eChest to stash your inventory (or to take out equipment) after an RP has been initiated is not permitted.

Racial buffs may only be used for characters of that race. Setting a human character to an Orc for the respective buffs, for example, will result in the offending character being deleted.

You may not use a soulstone or fast travel to escape roleplay.

The use of alternate characters purely to incite conflict is disallowed. For example, you may not create a dwarf character purely for the purpose of raiding the orcs and instigating war.

“Camping” any spot for the purpose of attacking outside of your land is disallowed. No offensive excursion may last more than fifteen minutes after initial combat has concluded.

The use of horses to jump over walls greater than three blocks in height is disallowed.

Defender Default

When combat takes place, the choice of using Rolls, Roleplay or PvP is given in determining how the combat will go down. The defender is always the one who has the choice to decide how the combat is played out.

If the players involved in the combat scenario exceeds that of 8, PvP will automatically be initiated to quickly settle the dispute.

The player who initiates the combat will automatically be labelled the 'instigator'. The person they are attacking is the 'defender', and may choose the combat method.

Guards are always considered 'defenders' if the person they are combating has broken one of the following crimes:

• Physical Assault
• Thievery
• Trespassing
• Treason

Refer to this page if there are any confusions: