Introduction
Welcome to Renatus Network! Our goal is to provide everyone with a fun and friendly experience. We encourage everyone to get involved within the community and experience our server in a fun environment. In order for that to happen though, we must enforce guidelines so we can preserve an enjoyable environment..

General Rules

• No use of VPNs or Proxies. (This rule does not affect our content creators, partners, or staff members.)
• Alternate accounts are allowed unless they are used to avoid a punishment, this will result in an immediate IP-ban.
• No DDOS threats or attempts, whether it is a joke or not, it will be taken seriously and will result in an immediate IP-ban.
• Play the game as it was designed; no exploiting or glitch abusing, report any exploits immediately. Abusing an exploit or failure to disclose an exploit will result in a permanent ban.
• Do not use any form of hacked client or game modifications that would otherwise overstep the bounds of normal gameplay. This will result in an initial 14-day ban.
• Inappropriate skins and names are not allowed. This will result in a 30-day ban while you change your skin or name.
• We have the right to uphold these rules under any circumstances with or without leeway.
• We also have the right to ban or suspend accounts for any applicable reason that isn't explicitly stated above or below inside the rules and guidelines.
  
  
  
  Global Server Chat Rules
• Toxicity is strictly prohibited, refrain from offending or using unfriendly comments towards others.

• Slurs, hate speech, and discrimination will not be tolerated and will be punished.

• Spamming is not allowed and will result in a mute after 1-3 warnings. Spamming is inclusive of repeating the same/similar messages, and character spamming is prohibited too.

• Disrespect and vulgarity (racial slurs, not swears) are strictly prohibited, refrain from crude or indecent comments about gender, ethnicity, appearance, character, race, sexuality, physical or mental disabilities, or other degrading comments.

• Do not impersonate staff, they have a job to do so please do not interfere.

• Do not bypass the /ignore command, if you are being ignored by someone it is for a reason.

• Do not advertise other servers or Discord’s. This is a form of recruitment and it will result in an initial 14-day ban.

• Use common sense, if what you’re doing can lead to breaking the game, finding exploits, damaging the network, or otherwise doing something you are logically not allowed to do normally and reasonably, it goes without saying that it is not allowed.

• Refrain from pointlessly trolling, this means remarks that are obviously being said to annoy/antagonize players or staff.

• Anybody who joins for the first time with no intent to play and displays extreme (difference between an insult and a massive racist insult targeting people) racism, sexism, disrespect, homophobia, discrimination or hate speech will be warned and then banned for 30-days if continued. This has the goal in mind of keeping the server safe for those who want to play in a friendly environment and removing those who have no intention to play.

Server Specific Rules
By having unique maps built for you, the players, there might be some small spots that haven’t been checked for exploits. If you are trying to get outside of a map, then we will consider that as exploiting. The ban length will depend on what you did, minimum ban length will be 1w.


Battlegrounds

• Alt kill farming, farming kills off alt accounts is bannable. First offense will result in a 2-week ban, following offenses adding a week each and after 3 offenses will be a permanent ban

Parkour

• Any form of attempt to break outside maps, glitch through blocks, or unreasonable play is considered exploiting, which will result in a permanent ban if you do not disclose the information to staff.

• Any exploit involving the duplication or manipulation of coins will be punished.

• Do not attempt to submit plagiarized maps.

• Do not attempt to copy our Parkour maps.

Creative

• Do not attempt to lag the server in any way possible. This will result in a permanent ban.

• Griefing will result in a 30-day ban.

• Anything inappropriate, vulgar, or otherwise offensive that is on your plot will be cleared and you will be punished.

• If you have hacked items like hacked in potions, armor, weapons etc.. they will be taken away and you will be warned. Hacked items include any item that crashes clients or the server, or any items that attempts to violate any of our other rules.

• Item names still follow our normal chat rules. Please refrain from naming your items that violate chat rules.

• A notable exception to the "no modifications that outstep the bounds of normal play" rule is with Schematica. Feel free to use Schematica and all of its functions, including "printer" mode, on Creative.

Survival

• No more than 20 spawners per 5 chunk radius. First offense will be a warning, followed by a 1 week ban.

• No Redstone clocks or 24/7 machines. First offense will be a warning, followed by a 1 week ban.

• No scamming allowed. First offense will be a 3 day ban, this will increase from this point.

• Griefing is not allowed. Please refer to the common sense rule. Breaking another person's structures or land will result in a 1 week ban when a claim is nearby. This includes breaking unclaimed portions of a house, decorative builds, or placing/breaking random blocks/liquids inside of, or around, someones larger build.

• No TP trapping allowed, this means teleporting someone to a trap to kill them. A 3 day ban will happen first and then go up from there.

• No pushing AFK players out of a claim to kill. A warning will be issued first then a 3 day ban.

• No totem/pillager farms, this will start with a warning to remove/force removal and then a 3 day ban.

• No bounty farming your friends to split money/profit

• Schematica/Litematica is not allowed. A warning will be issued followed by a 1 week ban.

• Killing of any claimed pets or animals is not allowed.

• Over-Claiming is not allowed. Claiming within around 50 blocks of another person's claim (without their permission) will result in a warning, then a 1 day ban, increasing by 1 day for each offense up to 5 days. Leniency will be given with time to move.

Forum Rules

• If you are looking to report a player or submit an unban appeal, please follow the accepted forum regions in “Report Player” or “Unban appeal” Please follow the appropriate formats when creating a player report or unban appeal.

• No dislike bombing a specific reply/post. This will end in a warning and a ban if continued.

• Please make sure to check which category you are posting in, even if it’s for a simple submission.

Discord Rules
As we have our own channel in the discord for specific Discord Rules, there won’t be much here. #greetings is the channel you should read.
If you want to join our discord:

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.discord.gg
Repeat Offenses
If you get punished for an offense, and repeat that offense after the punishment for the offense has been lifted, your next punishment length will grow in severity based on staff discretion. This also takes into account the amount of time between each offense and the severity of each offense in relation to each other.

Appeals

• If you are looking to report a player or submit an unban appeal, please go to forms and submit the appropriate form. Please also follow the appropriate formats when creating a report or appeal else we will deny it.

• We have the right to deny any appeal or report for any reason without needing to provide an explanation.

Conclusion

As a final note: Administrators and up will always, always have the final say, (with Managers having the ability to overrule) they have experience and know how to handle situations. They have my full permission to handle every situation how they feel is right.

This ruleset was made by the Renatus Network staff team, for the players and staff to follow. The goal is not to control everyone to where it is not fun, but to provide a safe, good experience for the players of this game.
I hope this all makes sense, thank you for reading.

If you have any questions, please speak to a staff member.
- Renatus Network Staff Team