Be respectful.

Treat every player and staff member like a real person, because they are one. Banter and friendly trash-talk between people who consent is fine. The line is when it stops being fun for the other person, and the test is simple: if they ask you to stop, you stop. Slurs, hate speech, and content designed to demean someone for who they are never qualify as "just a joke" and are handled under harassment, not chat-tier rules.

No harassment.

Targeting another player with bullying, repeated insults, threats, discriminatory language, or any pattern of attention they've asked you to stop is harassment, regardless of how it's worded. This is treated more seriously than minor chat issues and starts at a 24-hour mute, escalating quickly. See Moderation & Punishments for the full escalation table.

Take disputes out of public chat.

If you have a problem with another player, a staff decision, or something that happened in-game, do not air it in global chat or in unrelated Discord channels. Open a ticket in Discord. Public drama almost always makes the situation worse and pulls bystanders into a fight that wasn't theirs. Staff cannot mediate something they only see one side of in chat.

PvP is consent-only.

Do not attack other players unless both of you have agreed to fight. PvP outside arranged fights, spawn camping, repeatedly killing the same player, or following someone around to harass them all count as harassment. If a player has a PvP toggle off or has asked you to stop, leave them alone. Loot from non-consensual kills can be returned by staff.

Do not call out cheaters in public chat.

If you think another player is cheating, do not accuse them in chat, do not start a witch-hunt, and do not tell other players to avoid them. File a report through a Discord ticket and let staff investigate.

Modded Minecraft is full of legitimate items that look like cheating at first glance:

• Jetpacks and flight rings
• Teleport amulets
• Fast-place tools
• Dozens of other late-game gadgets

Public accusations get the accuser punished alongside the accused if the accusation turns out to be wrong, and they make staff's job harder either way.

Respect claims and other players' work.

Never break, take from, or modify another player's builds, claimed land, or items without their permission.

This also covers borderline cases:

• Stripping unclaimed builds you find while exploring
• Opening unlocked chests on someone else's plot
• Using a player's farms while they're offline

If something looks abandoned, ask staff before assuming it is. Full claim and griefing rules live in Claiming & Land.

Keep chat clean.

Don't:

• Spam or flood with repeated messages
• Use walls of capital letters
• Character-flood (random keyboard mashing)
• Paste walls of unrelated text

Keep language reasonable. Light profanity in casual conversation is fine; chat that's mostly profanity, or profanity directed at someone, is not. If staff ask you to tone it down, tone it down.

No advertising other servers.

Do not post links to, names of, or invitations for other Minecraft servers, Discord servers, or game communities. This includes "you should also try X" comments, IPs in your build chests, signs at your base, or coded references that are clearly trying to get around the rule. Talking about another server in passing because it's relevant to a conversation is fine; recruiting is not.

Use the right channel for the right purpose.

In Discord, post help questions in the help channels, build screenshots in the build-showcase channels, and so on. In-game, use global chat for things relevant to the whole server and party or local chat for smaller conversations. Off-topic posting in dedicated channels gets your messages deleted; persistent off-topic posting after warnings escalates under chat rules.

Discord rules apply everywhere.

Everything on this rules site applies in our Discord exactly the same way it applies in-game. Discord's own Terms of Service and Community Guidelines apply on top of our rules. The same conduct standards apply in voice channels, threads, and DMs that originate from our community.

Punishments cross platforms.

Major punishments apply on both Minecraft and Discord. If you are banned from the game server for harassment, you can expect to be banned from Discord too. If you're timed out in Discord for a serious chat violation, in-game staff will be told and may take parallel action. The community is one community.

Use /ignore for minor friction.

If another player is being mildly annoying but not breaking rules, the in-game /ignore <player> command hides their chat from you. In Discord, you can block users from your client. These tools handle most low-grade friction without staff involvement. Save tickets for situations you can't solve yourself.

Report issues through tickets, not public chat.

Found a bug, exploit, lag spike, or rule-breaker? Open a Discord ticket and tell staff. Do not announce exploits in chat, do not "test" them to see if they still work, and do not name suspected rule-breakers in global. Players who responsibly report exploits get recognition. Players who use one and then claim "I was just reporting it" get treated as having used it.

One main account per player.

Choose the Minecraft account you intend to play on long term, and stick with it. That account holds your rank, claims, balance, friend permissions, history, and reputation.

Switching to a new "main" account part-way through means losing all of those and starting from scratch.

If you want to switch, open a ticket first. In some cases we can help transfer claims and rank; in others the answer is no. Either way, we can only help if you ask before you switch.

No account sharing.

You are responsible for everything that happens on your account, period. Anything someone else does while logged in as you, the punishment falls on the account owner.

The following are not defenses on their own:

• "My brother did it"
• "A friend was using my PC"
• "I got hacked"

One exception: a confirmed account compromise that you reported to staff before the rule-breaking happened. If you told us your account was breached and we have logs that support it, we work with you. Reporting compromise after the misconduct does not retroactively clear it.

Account security is your responsibility.

Protect your Microsoft account:

• Use a strong, unique password
• Turn on two-factor authentication in Microsoft Security settings
• Never share your credentials with anyone, ever
• Never paste your auth token in public
• Don't run sketchy "free cape" or "free cosmetic" tools (the most common Minecraft account compromise vector)

If you suspect your account is compromised, open a ticket immediately. Compromised accounts may be temporarily locked while staff verify ownership, and your claim contents are protected from being looted during the lock. Recovery and item restoration are handled case by case.

Username and skin standards.

Your username, skin, cape, in-game nickname, and Discord display name must not contain slurs, hate speech, sexual content, hate symbols, or content designed to target or impersonate a specific person. Borderline items are judged in context.

If staff ask you to change a skin, nickname, or display name, do so promptly. Refusing escalates under chat rules.

If you're unsure whether a skin or name is OK, ask before logging in with it. We'd rather answer the question than process a punishment.

No alt accounts.

One Minecraft account per player, period. Household members who also want to play do so on their own Microsoft accounts as their own player on the server, with their own claims, ranks, and limits. They are not your alts.

There are no approved use cases for a second account on the same player. A "build," "storage," or "display" account each doubles your share of:

• Apothic Spawners
• Force-loaded chunks
• Claimed chunks
• Per-chunk entity budget

...which is the entire reason those caps exist.

Logging in on a second account is a violation by itself:

• While your main has an active mute, ban, or ecoban → treated as ban evasion (see below)
• To dodge per-player resource caps (spawners, claims, force-loaded chunks) → treated with the same severity as ban evasion

If you want to switch which Minecraft account you play on, see "One main account per player" above and open a ticket first.

No impersonation.

Do not pretend to be a Spexce staff member, another player, a content creator, or a Mojang/Microsoft representative. This applies to in-game nicknames, skins, Discord display names, profile pictures, and behavior in chat.

Common examples we reject:

• Skins or names mimicking staff, especially with look-alike characters or zero-width spaces
• Discord profiles cloning a regular's avatar
• Anyone claiming to be "from Mojang" to phish credentials
• Players invoking false staff authority to push others around

Genuine homages or fan tributes to a public figure are usually fine. The test is whether you are actively trying to confuse other players about who you are.

Ban evasion is a permanent ban.

Joining on a new account, alt, or different IP to bypass an active ban, mute, or ecoban results in a permanent ban across all linked accounts and IPs