Rules
Our community’s safety is our number one priority.
1. Respect Everyone
Treat others with respect and as you would like to be treated. Please use English in voice and text chat to ensure our crew and other players can understand you. This is a family-friendly server and recording and streaming is encouraged, so we ask all players to behave appropriately.
- Treat others kindly, be polite and avoid swearing and other offensive or derogatory language.
- Speak English in voice and text chat for clear communication.
- No spamming, trolling, or impersonating others.
- Keep chat clean from drama, threats, and controversial topics.
- No advertising or promoting services, products or content, with the exception of your own StageCraft content.
- If streaming or producing content from the server, include “StageCraft SMP” in your titles, with a link to https://stagecraftsmp.com in your description or chat commands where possible.
- Members must be at least 13 years old unless approved by our crew. This is to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service, as membership of our Discord server is a requirement of joining StageCraft.
2. Griefing, Theft, Claims
Griefing is irritating or angering people by being destructive, annoying or interfering with builds and belongings. Please use a sign, fence or wall with your name to claim land or an area where you would like to build.
- Respect other players’ builds and land claims (marked with signs, fences, etc.).
- Don’t build too close to others (stay 100 blocks away without permission).
- No stealing from chests.
- Avoid offensive or sexualised builds, items and skins.
- If asked to leave someone’s area, please do so.
- No ugly 1×1 pillars, holes, or floating trees; clean up after yourself.
- Land claims must be built on within a reasonable time or they will be forfeited.
- Pranking is allowed but absolutely must not be destructive.
- PvP is currently disabled. We will discuss consensual PvP in Discord.
3. Farms, Redstone
Redstone is a huge part of the game and you’re absolutely welcome to build with it. However please be mindful of server performance.
- Redstone devices must have an ON/OFF switch.
- No lag machines or zero-tick farms.
- Keep redstone contraptions neat.
- Respect entity limits to prevent lag.
- Hoppers must not be left full of items unless necessary by design. Ensure farms drain and have overflow protection.
4. Cheating, Bugs, Exploits
Cheating is not permitted. Modifications to the vanilla version of Minecraft or resource packs that give an unfair advantage are not allowed, including x-ray. If you are discovered cheating, you will face a harsh penalty.
- No cheating, hacking, or using unfair mods/resource packs (e.g. x-ray). If in doubt, ask our crew.
- Report bugs and exploits instead of abusing them.
- TNT duplication is permitted. All other dupes are banned.
5. Spawn Island
Our spawn is a mushroom island and features an iconic build we can’t wait to share with you. The spawn island also includes our shopping and gaming districts (see below), the post office and various community farms.
- Do not grief the spawn builds!
- Claim a mailbox and check it regularly.
- Respectfully use what you need from our community farms and replant.
- Avoid large-scale resource gathering under spawn (i.e. no tunnel mining).
- Existing terrain and flora can be changed or removed for suitable builds. If in doubt, check with our crew.
- You are welcome to contribute to the beautification of the island if you maintain our aesthetic without being destructive. Gardens, roads, laneways and other suitable designs are welcome.
6. Shopping District, Economy
Our shopping district is on the spawn island and diamonds are our primary currency. We use the Shopkeeper mod and shopkeeper tokens are available in the spawn build. More information and help are available in Discord.
- All members can use the shopping district.
- Use shopkeepers with diamonds as currency wherever possible. Multiple shopkeepers may be used in a store if necessary.
- All planned shops must be announced in our marketplace channel in Discord using the official template.
- Shops must have a theme (i.e. no general stores), be named and be finished and stocked within a reasonable timeframe.
- Check stock levels regularly. Shops remaining unstocked for unreasonable periods may be removed.
- No stealing from shops or modifying others’ shops.
- Respect shop entity counts and the use of armour stands and signs.
- No builds other than shops in the shopping district, with the exception of the beautification of spawn [5.6].
7. Gaming District
Our gaming district is on our spawn island and is modelled on a classic Australian landmark.
- Do not steal from or modify other players’ games.
- Finish your games quickly; unfinished games may be removed.
- Games outside the district must be free to play.
- Clearly list game rules and prices within the gaming district.
- No builds other than games in the gaming district.
8. The Nether
Community access to the nether is available through our spawn build. This season of StageCraft will not use nether tunnels as the community portal links to the nether roof, with access to the nether biomes available through the bedrock.
- Do not grief our nether build.
- Bedrock may be broken and travel over the nether roof is encouraged.
- All nether roof builds must be spawn-proofed, with the exception of self-contained farms.
9. The End
We are looking forward to discussing our community use of the end in Discord.
- Obsidian may be mined from end island pillars as these are replaced when dragons are respawned.
- If flying in the end, only travel North. The other cardinal directions are for those travelling without elytra.
Please refer back to our rules here as we agree on our use of the end.
10. Accounts, Inactivity
Please protect yourselves and our community.
- Keep personal information private. Do not publicly share our server URL or share your account details with anyone, ever.
- One account per player, unless a camera account is approved by our crew, which will be locked into spectator mode and must not be used to explore the server.
- Inactive players (over 90 days) may lose land claims and builds.
- Shops of inactive players (over 45 days) may be removed or auctioned.
- Our priority is the safety of our community. Our crew may penalise or remove anyone who breaks our rules or does not fit our community ethos.
- Attempts to evade punishments will result in long-term suspension or permanent ban.