Rules

1. Do not cheat.

Cheating is defined as using any client, mod, tool, or exploit that gives an unfair advantage over other players, including but not limited to:

Hacked clients (clients that enable creative flight, speed, ESP hacks, PvP hacks, etc.),
Printer / easy place features in schematic mods,
Seed crackers,
X-ray resource packs or mods,
Autoclickers,
Macros that automate movement or player actions,
Exploiting glitches, bugs, or unintended game mechanics,
Alt abuse (see rule #19).

2. Do not flood chat, advertise in excess, or post shortened links.

Chat spam — including repeated messages or excessive repeated characters — is not allowed. This rule extends to in-game ads for selling and buying items, warps, events, or services. Avoid advertising if:
- Less than 5 minutes passed since the last time you posted an ad, or
- The ad is still visible in chat after that time.
Advertising other Minecraft servers, Discord servers, social media profiles, and other forms of self-promotion outside The Seed are not allowed. Advertisements for livestreams are fine as long as you are currently playing on The Seed — previously mentioned limits for reposting ads still apply.
Shortened links are not allowed in chat. Any content you link must comply with our rules on inappropriate content.

3. Do not Grief. Raiding is fair in unclaimed land. Do not abuse claim trust.

Grief: the unauthorized destruction or alteration of other's property is not permitted, in both claimed and unclaimed land.
- With respect to public farms, regular use is fine, and replanting is always encouraged. Excessive destruction without replanting will be counted as Grief. "Excessive destruction" will vary depending on the size of the farm in question, and the scale of damage.
Raiding: taking of items in chests and or storage, is permitted in unclaimed land only. (excludes armor stands, item frames, and jukeboxes)
Claim trust abuse: taking items or blocks in a trusted claim where you have no explicit permission from the claim owner to do so. Having trust in a claim does not permit you to take items.
Bypassing both claim and chest shop protections is prohibited.

4. No bypassing PvP protection plugins.

Do not PVP without both parties consenting. TP killing, kill warps, traps, etc. are not permitted.

5. No scamming.

Do not intentionally scam other players. This includes but is not limited to:

Breaking an agreement regarding items sold/traded.
Rigging minigames or casinos to never win.
Selling an item disguised as another legitimate item. (re-names are fine unless that item actually exists, Legends items for example)

6. Afk farms aren't allowed, but auto farms are.

Afk farm: any farm that requires a user input while that user is afk. An example is an afk fish farm.
Auto farm: any farm that can run passively without a user input. An example of this is an automated melon farm.
Macros, afk pools, and other tools to attempt to bypass the afk timer are not allowed.

7. No inappropriate content.

Inappropriate names (IGN, nicknames, pet or item names), skins, builds, map arts, or any forms of in-game content that are sexually explicit, discriminatory, or otherwise disrespectful towards others are not allowed. This rule extends to:

Content promoting discrimination based on race, ethnicity, country of origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual identity or expression, disability, and other protected characteristics,
Content depicting or promoting controversial historical figures, dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, or tragic historical events,
Content depicting or promoting political figures, past or present.

8. Do not claim or build directly next to others' claims or builds, and do not claim over other players' builds.

Claiming too close to another base, without permission, will result in your base being removed. Please consider a rough figure of 100+ blocks as a safe distance to build (this distance is not exact, and is up to staff interpretation).

9. Do not discuss real world, current politics, or illicit drugs in open channels.

Please utilize private messages or parties to discuss these topics.

10. Predatory behavior will not be tolerated.

We welcome players of all ages and backgrounds, so keep that in mind when interacting with others. Any conduct that exploits or preys on other players, especially minors, is strictly prohibited.

11. Do not harass other players.

Harassment can be identified as, but is not limited to the following:

Consistent unsolicited messaging (in-game, private messages, mail).
Unsolicited advertisements for items (in-game, private messages, mail) use trade chat.
Tp request spam.
Refusing to leave a build or claim.
- This ruling extends fully to private warps or homes, with very few exceptions.
- This ruling extends to public warps, but only if the player is creating issues for others, not simply by existing in the space.
Targeted profanity.

While we discourage the sharing of personal information in general, if you insist on doing so, please keep it in private messages.

Twitter, streaming platforms, and generic personal information are allowed. Do not share information about other people without their consent.

Consent can be requested from the artist, and offered in the form of a signed book. Selling another player's map art without consent is not permitted.

14. Staff impersonation is not permitted.

Examples of this are changing your nickname or claiming in chat to be staff.

15. Do not falsely report players.

Please refrain from filing joke or slanderous reports on other players as this wastes the staff's time and hurts others.

16. Ban evasion is not permitted.

Ban evasion is using an alt account to log in to the server to bypass an existing ban on another account.

17. Town & Warp rules do not override server rules.

Server rules will always apply to town members and owners, along with public warps, regardless of the individual rules that town or warp might have. Staff also does not enforce town or warp rules, and will only step in to enforce server rules, or to approve claim/build removals in certain circumstances.

18. Do not circumvent the chat filter.

You can adjust what is filtered in your chat with /chatfilter. If what you say is still being censored at the slurs level, it is not acceptable under any circumstance. Deliberately working around the chat filter will result in an immediate mute.

19. Do not abuse alternative accounts.

The use of alt accounts to gain an unfair advantage over other players is not allowed. This extends to:

Keeping chunks loaded.
Looting the items from public/leaked accounts.
Bypassing limitations on Jobs and Quests, i.e. using extra accounts to generate more income than possible with just one account.
Bypassing an individual account's balance limit.
Using an alt as a substitute for a real player in activities that require 2+ players to complete.
Using 3 or more alts to generate vote rewards and other limited rewards, like keyalls.

Alts may be used for:

Recording videos or livestreams.
Casual play and socializing.
Using 1-2 extra accounts to collect vote rewards and premium rank perks.

20. Lava casting, lava/water structures, or purposefully destroying unclaimed land with similar means is not allowed.

This is a destructive practice that is only allowed if you own the land in question, it is being used as a part of a larger build (the lava cast is not the build itself), and the lava, water, or cobble/blocks are not creating a trap or keeping players from escaping.

21. The advertising of in-game assets for IRLC is strictly prohibited in both public chats in-game, and in our Discord server. Any external trading should be done at your own risk, and with the understanding that we cannot assist you.

See rule 11 for additional info: DMing users unsolicited to bypass this is not allowed.