Rules

The goal of staff members is to keep the community a safe place and promote an enjoyable experience for all of our players. When everyone cooperates with staff members, they are better able to keep the community secure.

Staff members will never ask for personal information or any credentials to your account. File a report immediately if this happens.

All of our staff members act with the whole community in mind. Try to assist by doing the following:

• Answer their questions or recall any events you remember
• Remaining truthful
• Actively reporting rule-breaking behavior

Some things don’t help our staff members, however. Try to avoid the following:

• Mini-modding, trying to enforce rules for other staff members. Try to direct staff members to the rule-breaking behavior
• Withholding details from staff members
• Filing appeals or reports on behalf of someone else
• Evading punishments issued by staff members

All staff members can be located by the prefix before their name:

• Executives will have a [EXV] prefix and a light red name.
• Developers will have a [DEV] prefix and a light purple name.
• Admins will have a [ADM] prefix and a yellow name.
• Mods will have a [MOD] prefix and a lime green name.

We want all of our players to feel welcome, and to be a safe place for people to communicate and have fun. Everyone should be able to make new friends and have an enjoyable experience on our servers.

Think twice before sending someone something hurtful. Everyone should be able to enjoy the server safely, and everyone should be mindful of the business of other people.

All of our players should be able to experience the server in the same positive environment as everyone else. Specifically, avoid:

• Advertising other platforms or services or posting invites to servers other than this one
• Repeating the same or similar messages or avoiding any mute or chat filters
• Encouraging violence or other attacks
• Disrespecting privacy limits in-game and in real life
• Encouraging any form of self-harm
• Excessive swearing or caps
• Sharing private or personal information without their consent
• Framing other people or falsifying information
• Referring to pornography or hateful content
• Modifying creations of others without their approval
• Soliciting illegal actions
• Plagiarizing the content of others

A player is anyone who plays on any of our platforms, including our staff members.

Everyone wants to be able to enjoy the server without downtime and should have free access to the services we offer and should have access to a stable server to enjoy.

All of our players should be able to freely access a stable and lag-free server without connection issues. Specifically, avoid:

• Attempts to crash the server or cause downtime
• Large block edit operations
• Hacked clients that can cause instability
• Corrupting worlds or world chunks
• Using bot applications to spam the server

The "server" refers to all community platforms that are official to Darkstone. This includes:

• The in-game Minecraft server
• The Discord guild

When cheating or exploiting occurs, it ruins the experience for others who try to play fairly. Everyone should be on a level playing field, and shouldn't be put at a disadvantage for following the rules.

All of our players should have access to the same advantages as everyone else. Specifically, avoid the following:

• Taking advantage of a bug or error in a program or plugin
• Not reporting any bugs or errors

We have some additional restrictions for cheating and hacked clients for the Creative server. All forms of cheating are banned entirely on the Survival and Skyblock servers.

• Using hacked clients to fight or compete
• Using hacked clients to break the rules

The following clients/add-ons are permitted on Survival and Skyblock:

• OptiFine
• Lunar Client
• Badlion Client

If your client/add-on is not listed here, it is not sanctioned by the server and will be considered cheating on the Survival and Skyblock servers.

All hacked clients/add-ons are permitted on Creative so long as they do not violate the conditions set above.

A bug refers to a software bug in a program or system. It is a flaw that can result in something that was incorrect or unexpected or will behave in unintended ways.

Life is better when it's secure, and our players deserve a place without transactions or account phishing. Security also means being responsible for your own account, and its credentials should be kept to you and you only.

Staff members will never ask for personal information or any credentials to your account. File a report immediately if this happens.

Players should be able to experience an environment that is secure. Specifically, avoid the following:

• Any form of transactions or exchange of goods
• Accessing an account that isn't yours
• Pretending to be another user
• Soliciting illegal actions

Your Minecraft account is yours that controls your profile. Do not let other people access it, and regularly change your account password.

Players should notify an Executive before making another account if they intend to do so. Anything that violates United States law will be notified to proper authorities; we are based in the U.S. and work within its laws.