Community Rules, Policies, and Guidelines

Hey everybody,

Dealing with toxicity in the Minecraft gaming community is unfortunately something that many of us have had to face at one point or another. Whether it's players cheating, griefing builds, or stealing items, it can be incredibly disheartening and can make the game less enjoyable for everyone involved.

As the administrator of a Minecraft community that focuses on survival gameplay, we strive to provide a friendly environment for all players. We believe that the game should be enjoyable for everyone, and that means creating a space where players can come together and play without having to deal with toxicity.

One of the ways we do this is by implementing strict rules and consequences for players who engage in toxic behavior. Cheating, griefing, and stealing are not tolerated in our community.

We also have a dedicated team of community helpers who are available to assist players with any issues they may encounter. Whether it's reporting a player for toxic behavior or helping to rebuild a griefed build, our team is always on hand to help.

But, we don't just want to focus on the negative. We want to foster a sense of community and camaraderie among our players. That's why we encourage players to join our Discord server, forums and to invite their friends, to share tips and advice, and to make new friends.

Ultimately, dealing with toxicity in the Minecraft gaming community is something that we all have to face at some point. But by working together, we can create a space where players can come together and enjoy the game without having to deal with negativity and toxicity. We strive to create a friendly and fun environment for all players. We're excited for you to join our community and have a great time playing survival Minecraft with us.

Privacy policies, COPPA, cookies, terms of service, local and national laws, community guidelines, and many rules for many services.. pff it's easy to get overwhelmed with a lot of information.

This thread is to help us point all those services to this thread. And then slowly start merging all the existing information. So for now, we're linking to existing information and over time putting them in this thread.

We run a public server, as a service. Joining it means you agree to our Terms of Service, and our rules, and they include but aren't limited to:

Keep it family-friendly. Users of our forums, Discord server, and Minecraft server must be at least 13 years old and must also meet any higher minimum age required by the laws of the country where they live. No cursing/swearing, racism, use of common sense, no bickering, or continuing a conversation when the staff asked to drop it. We perm ban, please don't break our rules.

We have no problem with certain mods, or clients. As long as they do not give you an unfair advantage over regular gameplay, to cheat, or to exploit, spam, or bot-flood, etc.

An example: OptiFine: OKAY, some cheat mod: NOT OKAY

In the game you can type: /rules,

which should display something like this:

Thanks for joining our family-friendly community.
The 1MB server is a community with players from all around the world who meet our minimum-age requirement. "Hi!"
Please keep it clean, and be nice to each other.
Play fair, this includes no misbehaving or cheating.

*** If you disagree to our rules, please disconnect.**

No Griefing or stealing of any type allowed.
No Spamming/flooding with text or accounts.
Listen to the Staff, their word is final.
Respect all Players, including Staff.
Fair-play: No game exploiting or cheating (this includes abusing bugs/glitches in the game!)
0-tick farms are not allowed.
Being AFK is allowed, anti-afking is not.
No Banned Blocks/Items, or duping allowed.
No Advertising or other-server discussions.
No begging for OP, Ranks, or Items.
English only in the global chat, please.
No Racism or sexist remarks and such either.
No Swearing, bullying, trolling, or flaming.
No Excessive shouting in caps, please.

Please read, understand, and agree to our rules.
including, the Community Standards for Minecraft.

But this extends to a lot of common-sense things, like command flooding, spamming commands or messages, misbehaving just because you're having a bad day. Picking a fight or jumping on someone just because you disagree with them and causing a general negative mood in the chat, obviously is also not welcome.

We run this place to escape our real life, building and exploring a virtual life. We allow people who meet our minimum-age requirement to play, so being respectful and mindful of others is something you just have to do.

If things go wrong for you, and you lose a big mob-fight and keep falling - don't rage and ruin gameplay for others, talk to a staff perhaps, maybe we can help.

If you want to know if you can or cannot do something, just ask! For example:

I have to go get dinner, can I idle in the game for a few hours?

Sure! We don't mind that you idle. We don't actually kick you for being idle.

We have players from all around the world, therefore we require everybody to speak English in the global chat.

Can I use the iOS app MineChat to join the server and chat to my friends?

Yep, that particular app is allowed.

I have a family, we are a group of five that join from the same IP, is this ok?

Yeah, I guess. As long as you own the account, and you're not cloning, you can connect a couple of times from the same IP.

OMGBOARDS.COM LINKS:

Rules: https://omgboards.com/help/terms

Cookies: https://omgboards.com/help/cookies

Reporting content: https://omgboards.com/help/reports/

1MOREBLOCK.COM LINKS:

In-game /rules, will say the above 14 points, and links to this:

Minecraft Rules (this thread) : https://omgboards.com/threads/minecraft-rules.260946/

Community Standards for Minecraft:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/community-standards/

DISCORD LINKS:

On Discord there's a #welcome channel, please read that before using our Discord server.

Additionally, Discord's Terms of Service apply: https://discord.com/new/terms

Discord Trust and Safety information: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/sections/115000344951-Privacy-and-Policy

Please note that our General Rules, Policies, and Guidelines apply on OMGboards.com, 1MoreBlock.com, and our Discord server and are always subject to change.

Please note that we may update the rules at any time due to typos, improvements, updates, and other reasons without prior notice. By connecting to the server, you automatically agree to these rules. However, if you choose not to agree, simply disconnect from the server.

We believe our rules and guidelines are easy to understand, and we encourage everyone to use common sense when playing in our community. Please refrain from purposely bending the rules or finding loopholes as this is considered abusive behavior.

We are always happy to answer any questions you may have about our rules, but please avoid provoking our team with hypothetical scenarios or asking questions just to cause trouble. Such behavior is considered trolling and not allowed in our community.

Using Game Bugs / Exploits / Mods / Fair-play / Unfair-advantages

We have noticed some confusion regarding the use of game bugs, exploits, mods, and fair play on our server. We want to clarify some of the existing rules and guidelines that have been in place for years.

Firstly, macros and combat mods are not allowed as they give an unfair advantage. Exploiting game bugs or glitches is also not allowed because this provides an unfair advantage. Examples include jumping higher or further with imaginary blocks and using piston-explosions to break bedrock. However, using intended features like /tpa and /j to teleport or jump further is permitted.

Using ender-pearls to access impossible places is not allowed. Tricking the system into believing that you are playing is also not allowed. However, AFK-ing to help crops grow is permitted. AFK-ing to grind mobs using automated scripts or combat mods is not allowed because it is unfair to other players.

Anti-afking by using mechanics to trick the system into believing you are actually playing: Is abusing the game engine's intended behavior to get an unfair advantage (or at the least, you're abusing a bug to trick the system into thinking you are not actually afk), ergo: not allowed.

We consider AFK-fishing and auto-fishing to be automated behavior, and neither is allowed. We check for both and will ask you to stop if detected. If you are unsure whether an action is allowed, ask us before doing it; we will try to respond and explain the rule clearly.

We are a fair-play server that upholds the rules for the overall benefit of the community. We do not tolerate actions that cause harm to the server, such as general TPS drops, lag machines, tnt bombs, command flooding, or other obvious harmful actions. We also do not allow cheating, server-ruining actions, and toxic behavior.

We try to provide a great place where players can have fun and enjoy the game with friends and family. In return for behaving and playing fairly, we provide resources, help, friendly smiles, and, where possible, extras such as events, OP items, survival-supporting and building-supporting features, MMO/RPG games, and mini-games across one or more worlds. We cannot provide these things if we have to spend time dealing with unfair play. Sometimes, we will sanction an account with a warning, infraction, or ban.

We ask for some basic respect towards our team, players, community, and set of rules. We welcome everyone to learn from their mistakes, but we will not tolerate disrespect towards the community or rules. If you prefer a server that supports cheating and toxic communities, please try elsewhere.

I run my own server(s) because I want to play with nice people who I could consider friends, who can bring theirs, to a comfortable place where they are free from a toxic gaming community.

Thank you for reading these guidelines, and we hope you have fun playing on our server!

Advertising, Server Mentions, and Streaming Guidelines

Hey everyone! We’ve noticed some questions popping up about mentioning, promoting, or linking to other servers and streams.

Our goal is to grow our own community; we prefer if you don't provoke others to leave ours, so we have some guidelines to help keep us focused.

What’s Allowed:

Very incidentally and casually mentioning you play on other servers

You can say that you play on other servers without naming them.

Example: "I’ve been on a few other universes, but now I’m back to building on 1MB!"

We will still ask you to perhaps not mention other servers, but depending on how you phrase it, you shouldn't be sanctioned.
Streaming Other Games or Servers

You’re free to stream whatever you like—just don’t advertise those streams here.

Example: "I’ll be streaming later today, catch you all later!"

What’s Not Allowed:

Naming Other Servers

To avoid confusion and distractions, please don’t mention other servers by name.

Example (Not Allowed): "Leaving to play on Notch’s server."

This also applies to constantly mentioning that you are “going to play elsewhere.” We consider that sneaky advertising because it may make players curious about where else you play and draw them away from our server.

Advertising Streams or Videos of Other Servers

Please don’t share links to streams or videos that feature other servers.

Example (Not Allowed): "Check out my stream playing on Hypixel."
Mentioning Specific Servers in Relation to Streaming

Keep it general if you’re talking about streaming, without naming other servers.

Example (Not Allowed): "Going to live-stream on Twitch playing on Notch’s server."
Sharing Non-1MB Related Content

If your content isn’t related to 1MB, please don’t promote it here.

Example (Not Allowed): "Check out my new video! (but it’s not related to 1MB)"

Our goal is to keep our community strong and focused. This applies to everyone—players, regulars, and staff alike. If there’s been any confusion in the past, we’re clarifying things now. Moving forward, we’ll be stricter about these rules.

Thanks for understanding! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

**Taking from Chests / Stealing / Sharing / Duping Items

Hoppers, shulker boxes, chests, furnaces, and any other similar items are considered "containers," and taking items from them without permission is not allowed.**

*When a player places a container, it is automatically locked to their name. *

Other players cannot access the contents of these containers without permission. Taking items from other players without permission is considered stealing or griefing, which is a serious offense. We enforce this rule strictly and may issue permanent bans for such behavior.

Private chests:

Taking items from a chest that is clearly intended to be private is considered stealing, regardless of whether the container has a lock or not. We strongly encourage players who want a private and locked container to use the following commands to ensure it is locked to their name:

/cinfo (and click on the container) - this will show you who owns it, and as the owner, you can see who has access to it.

/lock (and click on the container) - this will attempt to put a lock on the chest.

/unlock (and click on the container) - this will attempt to remove any set lock (including access of others) from the chest.

/cmodify <player> (and click on the container) - this will attempt to grant access to this particular container for that specific player.

Private Chests (or Furnaces, or any other similar item) - even when sometimes unlocked:

A chest with a lock on it: You cannot open it. Do not attempt to exploit any game mechanics to get items out of it.
In the case of a storage room where most chests are locked, except for one or more, assume that the player's intention was to have a locked chest. It's located inside their building, within their storage space. Instead of assuming that they intended to leave it unlocked, report the open chest to a team member and the player.
If there is a public chest with a sign on it that reads "do not take!", it is still considered a personal/private chest, and taking items from an unlocked chest like this is still considered stealing. Report it to a team member if you suspect items being taken without your permission.
Using any mechanical method to take items from the containers of others is a bannable offense. This includes, but is not limited to, using carts or hoppers, exploiting bugs in the game, or anything similar.

More private item examples:

Paintings, armor stands, items on armor stands, item frames, items in item frames, items flowing through water in sorters, and items moved by droppers or dispensers into another mechanism such as a hopper are all considered private. It is difficult for the server and players to protect these items properly.

Do not take from armor stands, from item frames, from hoppers, break dragon eggs, take items moving through water systems, etc. These items are clearly there as part of a build, sorter, or decoration. They are therefore not your stuff: So don't take them! Seems pretty simple to me.

Public chests examples:

Randomly placed open chests in a server-build-area, such as the global /warp shops, are share/trash chests. They’re left open on purpose for decoration reasons. They also allow people to leave items behind for others to pick up. We do not consider taking from these chests to be stealing.
A chest at a public grinder with a sign on it that says “free stuff” or “public, you can take stuff” is left there on purpose for those who use the grinders. Others are free to take from it. Here is the rule of thumb: If you’re using the chest and someone teleports, empties it, and leaves, then the items were basically yours. It isn’t nice of them to take your work. However, it’s not a bannable offense. So be mindful and avoid disputes: Take the items more frequently.
A chest in the wild somewhere such as NPC villages or Desert Temples, Jungle Temples, etc. The obvious places.

NOTE: I say chest in the examples, but the same goes for hoppers, droppers, minecarts with chests in them, donkey with a chest.

More about public containers:

If you find a public container: Ask a team member for their opinion! It's that simple. You prevent yourself a ban, and you get team-permission to take. The team member is then NOT permitted to take the items. They came to review the chest as a team member. If they give you the okay, the items in the public chest you found are then all yours.

Duping items.

I wanted to specifically point out that duping items under zero circumstances is allowed. If you accidentally run into a duped item in your inventory avoid a ban by contacting a team member. Reporting a bug in the game that you accidentally run into usually leads to a thank you and a reward. Going out of your way to try them will lead to at least a hard to appeal ban.

Final note:

As always, I understand this all sounds like a lot of information and maybe "be careful or we ban!" but this thread is merely to give a couple of examples of an existing rule, with a bit of clarification. We've received some requests for information.

Anyway: If you go to someone's build, you do not break through a roof or wall to get in, if the door is locked. You don't try out all their chests or take from item frames, etc. It's clearly their build, so it's all their stuff. Taking anything from someone's build is simply stealing. If they have a chest "free stuff, go take it", then it's fine to take from that chest. To me, this is basic common sense. It's disrespectful to the server, and to the player who worked hard on their build area. You'd be ruining their fun.

You didn't make it? Don't take it.

You didn't place it? Don't break it.

Not sure? Ask a team member for clarification.

Oh, and the same could be said for animals in someone's build area. Ask for permission first before you breed, take, kill them. They might just be there for decoration. They might have a custom name or be a personal pet. As you can see, this rule of "if it is not yours, maybe don't do stuff with it" extends to quite a few different situations; apply it with some common sense to your gameplay.

WORLD LIMITS

It's important to stay within the world limits when playing. Here are some rules to help you:

Don't go past the world border. We have a lot of land to explore within the border.
Don't go above or below the world limits. You can't build there and you could get hurt.
Don't build on top of the roof of the Nether. This is no longer allowed and we will remove any structures we see there.
Don't exploit glitches or bugs to get past the world limits. This is against the rules and can result in punishment.

If you somehow find yourself outside of any world border or world limit, use the /home or /spawn command to get back to safety.

We want everyone to have a fun and safe experience while playing. If you have any questions about the world limits, feel free to ask.

AWAY FROM KEYBOARD (AFK)

From August 2019 onwards, these are the updated AFK rules, please read and respect them as we will start keeping a bit of a closer eye on it from now on.

Being AFK is allowed.
Being idle in the game for an extended period of time is allowed.
Using any method, including automation, to prevent the system from marking you as AFK when you would otherwise be AFK (“anti-AFKing”) is not allowed.
Using AFK to auto-grind to gain resources and/or money, etc. is not why we allow AFKing, so this is not allowed.
Players can mark themselves afk with or without a reason, using the command: /afk
Moving in the game returns you from being AFK.
Players can see you are AFK, by pressing TAB or typing: /list, they can also get more details by typing: /afkcheck
The system detects idle players and automatically marks them as AFK after a certain period of time.
We do not sanction your account (with a warning, kick, or ban) if you are AFK for a long time. Don't worry about that.
We do potentially sanction your account if you use being AFK to automate playing or gain an unfair advantage over others. Examples include rebinding keys, auto hitting mobs, and other obvious cases. This also includes AFK-fishing, which is not allowed.
While you're AFK you are responsible for your account still. If you die while being away from the keyboard, you run the risk of having your dropped items despawn, and we will not return them. AFK in a safe spot at your base is recommended.
While AFK you can receive damage. So be aware if you have PVP mode on or off, and if you're safe from mobs finding you.
While AFK you can not pick up items. Please be aware of this because we cannot return your lost items.
Killing a player who's AFK by digging below them or burning them in lava, etc. is obviously not allowed.
AFK-ing to increase total playtime to grind player-rewards is not allowed, while you're AFK the playtime is paused.

AFK GAMING/LEVELLING

We've never allowed this, but people still (ab)use this, so this rule 'update' is to clarify the part when we don't want people to automate their actions. Or when we say we want to have active players and not afk-ers that auto grind. Automation itself gives you an unfair advantage over players who are actually there playing.

Being AFK and not actively playing and gaining levels of any sorts, from mcMMO to /money etc. hasn't been allowed, and moving forward this year we will be less tolerant of this and enforce this rule a bit more. If you want to grind that's always been fine, but you'd have to be there actually doing the grinding.

AFK means you're away from the keyboard, your character stands there doing nothing. And therefore shouldn't gain an advantage.

Automatically fishing because you put a book on your mouse is automation, which isn't allowed. You can't fish, if you're not there. If you wish to fish, be behind your keyboard and actually fish.

Automatically gaining mcMMO levels, for example, while you’re away from the keyboard means you’re abusing the game mechanics. It also means you’re levelling up while not actually playing. We consider that automation, which isn't allowed. For example, you can't grind mobs in a certain way that the game thinks you are, and levels you up for /money or mcMMO levels. If you wish to grind, be actively behind your keyboard doing the grinding.

At times we wish to double-check whether someone is auto-grinding while AFK. If we move the player's character and the player does not respond or become active, we assume the player was AFK-grinding.

We love it when people hang out, we understand you sometimes get called away. Heck, we even understand it if you fall asleep fishing. You're free to be AFK and AFK for extended periods of time. We do not kick or ban for this. If you wish to play the game, don't use AFK as a method to play it; if you're not there, you don't play. If you are actively there, you can actively play.

COMMUNITY STANDARDS FOR MINECRAFT

Moving forward from today onwards, our rules aren't limited to what you can find in this thread, but include the Community Standards for Minecraft as well. Which you can find here:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/community-standards

MEMES

From today onwards we no longer allow in-game memes, or memes on the forums, or on Discord. With the following exceptions:

Very incidentally, and in context of the on-going conversation.
The Discord #meme channel, it's allowed to post memes here.

When you post a meme, please understand it still has to be within the rules of the server. (So family friendly, and not to harass others, bully people with it, etc).

DISCORD

We have Discord rules. They apply as well.

Update: There's now a faq/rules channel on Discord, we will organically update this over the next few months.

FORUMS

We have forum rules. They apply as well.

BAN-APPEALS

We have historically had no ban-appeal rules, because we really prefer to only ban on a permanent basis. We do not provide temporary bans usually. However, some basic guidelines have always been desired by players, because it's always possible a staff member makes a mistake. Here is part of our internal policy regarding banned players.

Ban-appeals for the 1MB game-server or Discord chat-server are to be made through our ban-appeal sub-forum exclusively.

Emails, direct messages, private messages, bypassing any set ban to attempt to communicate with us, etc. are not allowed, and any appeal will automatically be declined.

Ban-appeals are public. We're not a whitelisted server. Keep this in mind when you communicate with us.

We only accept one ban-appeal, if you received a new ban, chances are that appealing is no longer possible.

"My friend got banned, please unban them", will be considered as 'bypassing a ban, and posting an appeal in the wrong location', and will result in any appeal to be automatically declined.

If you broke our rules on purpose, or used a hack client, got caught with a cheat-mod installed, or you know you broke the rules. You don't have to appeal, it's very likely to get declined. Lying about this to sweet-talk us will backfire.

The ban-appeal option is for those situations where a staff/team member has acted too harshly, or incorrectly.

We assume you appeal because you really wish to continue playing, therefore we expect an appeal within a week (or so). Anything over 10 to 14 days will automatically get declined.

While we try to be as fair as possible, please note that access to the Discord/Minecraft servers is at our discretion. We are free to ban without a reason, at any time, and without a warning. As a preventive measure if we suspect someone for cheating, bullying, etc. Or just based on general attitude. We have zero tolerance towards rule-breakers, abusive players, toxic behavior, or attitude. We want to spend this time playing Minecraft instead.

MINIMUM AGE: 13 OR ANY HIGHER MINIMUM REQUIRED BY LAW

We're updating our 'all ages' Minecraft Server to apply a community-wide minimum-age requirement. Users of our forums, Discord server, and Minecraft server must be at least 13 years old and must also meet any higher minimum age required by the laws of the country where they live.

My personal opinion: We're a family friendly community, if a kid wants to play a game I personally don't care. This minimum-age requirement is due to COPPA requirements, FTC enforcement, and age limits imposed by third-party services.

YouTube requires us to mark our live streams and content as 'not for kids', while Discord and other social media platforms impose their own age-related requirements. Our forum already has a minimum age, so we apply the minimum-age requirement above across our community.

This minimum-age requirement is a firm rule for users of our forums, Discord server, and Minecraft server.

Starting January 1st, 2020: 1.15.1 related updated:

Moving forward in 2020 we will be more aggressive towards 'world grief', toxic or edge behavior. Things we had as a soft rule previously we might enforce a bit more starting the new year.
Appealing to bans will mainly be ignored. Unless a blatant mistake on behalf of the staff is made there's basically no reason to appeal the ban.
We want players to play the game while actually 'being there', and this includes turning on auto farming and then leaving your computer to do something else. If we move you and you're afk and do not realise we're trying to get your attention while you're performing actions: this will be considered an unfair advantage. We're looking for active players that play fair.
If the game has vanilla features, you're free to use them. When in doubt, it's always best to ask first. However, the fact that something was or is currently allowed does not mean we cannot ask you, on a case-by-case basis, to stop, remove, or update what you are doing. For example, a redstone clock may generally be allowed, but if it causes chunk lag or affects other players, we may ask you to discontinue or redesign it.
If the game has vanilla features that you could 'use' to achieve things otherwise not possible in the game, such as 0tick farms, then we consider this abusing a bug in the game. If it's not something that Mojang intended the use for and it grossly benefits you we consider it abuse of a bug and at least an unfair advantage. Please do not make 0tick farms.
As a reminder, players may not use a Minecraft bug to their advantage merely because we have not yet patched it or cannot patch it.
As we move slowly from 1.13.2 to 1.15.1 in the new year and slowly get used to the new version, we will adjust our rules. We might upgrade some plugins and features, nerf mob spawning or how we deal with certain player behaviors. We cannot do this without your feedback. Please be civil in discussing how we run the server. This way we can better understand you and adjust our settings, features, options, permissions, and our set of rules. We will continue changing the rules—some for the better and some for the worse—in an attempt to balance them with a survival-gameplay setup.

Reminder:

From July 1st, 2020 we are on Minecraft 1.16.1, I want to use this opportunity to point out that we do not allow world grief.

You're free to mine in your base in the new /souls world, but it's a survival/build world. It's not a resource-gathering world.

Ruining the world for resources will be considered world-grief, and we will (since 1.15.2) act upon this.

Please use the /nether to get resources or at least make your mining part of your build area so it's also nice to explore by others.

The same goes for /wild, please keep the world nice, and gather resources in the /mine world.

Update:

Rules will get slowly adjusted throughout July 2020 since we've moved to a new version and might have to slightly adjust due to changes in the game(play).

The legacy 1MB Menu Nether Star rules.

We've been rather aggressive with the unique 1MB /menu item in our hotbar in the past, restoring it on every join and teleport. But we've tested various alternatives and eased up a bit during 1.15.2. Now with 1.16.1 we've decided to remove it.

If you have 1 or more 1MB Menu nether stars in your inventory, hotbar, or chests. We kindly ask you to throw them in lava.

Are you allowed to use them to craft beacons now? Yes, this is allowed. We prefer you trash them though, because they were not intended to be an in-game item. But we won't make a fuss over it.

Note please that the /menu command still works.

DISCORD SERVER RULES

As mentioned in the first post and on Discord, our general rules apply to Discord. These include everything above plus the following Discord-specific rules. These rules were previously posted on Discord; since July 2020, they have also been posted here and referenced on Discord.

*** Discord Service ***

Be advised that under Discord's Terms of Service, members must be at least 13 years old and must also meet any higher minimum age required by the laws of the country where they live.

Your activity on Discord is expected to be within Discord's Terms of Service, this includes no self-botting, no advertising, and being respectful towards others.

https://discord.com/new/terms

*** Discord Server ***

You've connected to the OMG / 1MB Discord Server. It's owned by Floris, operated by the OMG / 1MB staff/team members. Help can be provided to anybody with a question by anybody else on the server.

** OMG ** Stands for OMGboards.com, Floris' online community.

** 1MB ** Stands for 1MoreBlock.com, Floris' online Minecraft Survival Server.

Discord Rules:

Treat everybody with respect and consideration. Toxic behavior isn't welcome.

Converse in English in the public-, and voice channels.

Inappropriate accounts and avatars aren't welcome, what is appropriate is at our discretion.

Impersonating others is not allowed.

Avoid spammy messages, images, and mentions.

Unlike other servers, our staff doesn't mind if you @mention them for a question.

No self-promotion or advertisements of any kind. This Discord is meant for the OMG / 1MB community, not for your own Discord, your own servers, etc. This includes unsolicited references and links to other social media, servers, communities, and services in chat or direct messages.

Recording for Twitch/YouTube && Streaming rules

YouTube videos about 1MB are welcomed in the #minecraft channel, feel free to post them.

YouTube videos about other servers are incidentally welcome in the off topic channel under certain conditions. They must be about gameplay and must not entice others to join. No server host or IP may be mentioned.

Live-streaming our server on Twitch / YouTube / etc. is welcomed, feel free to post your live-stream link about 1MB in the #minecraft channel.

Live-streaming other servers is not allowed. Please refrain from doing so.

Avoid sharing personal information. Protect your privacy and the privacy of others.

Toxic behavior such as bullying, harassing others, etc. is not welcome, feel free to contact an admin (nixxy73 or mrfloris for example) for a discussion. We have no tolerance for making others feel unwanted or uncomfortable.

Offensive content such as piracy, nsfw, sexism, racism, etc. is not welcome.

Due to the sensitive nature, religious and political discussions are to be avoided.

Users of our Discord server must meet the community-wide minimum-age requirement stated above.

More information here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040724612

~ WE WILL UPDATE THESE DISCORD RULES AND MOST THINGS IN THIS THREAD THROUGHOUT 2020. IF AT ANY POINT YOU DISAGREE TO ANY CHANGES YOU ARE FREE TO DISCONTINUE USING ANY OF OUR SERVICES.

Heads-up: Upcoming changes to our grief-reporting and grief-rollback policies.

Starting Spring 2021

We've always gone out of our way to load old archives, backups of databases, etc, and nitpicked the blocks, chunks, and region files for areas that got griefed and got reported to us 12+ months later.

Last few years we've slightly adjusted this to a- be to main-worlds only, and b- up to a year.

Moving forward this Spring Update we will tighten the belt and put more responsibility in the hands of the player.

** This is a heads-up **

• We will require a certain amount of playtime before we region protect an area.

• We will update our rules or rather our grief/rollback policies to the following:

• Reports are to be made within a few weeks to a few months after the grief. It will be the responsibility of the player to keep an eye on their build. You know your builds the best!

• We will store data with a guarantee of up to six months to roll back. Meaning if you report many months later and we have purged the data, we will no longer go the extra mile and dive into our archives for you.

• We will purge data every month with a cut-off date of 30-ish weeks. (Sometimes we skip a month, or a few weeks)

• We will purge archived databases from 'way back' a lot more often. For example, in 2022 we will purge all rollback data backups from 2019 and older.

Thank you for understanding, and I hope this heads-up means that you have enough time to get online this Winter season and check your builds. If there's an issue or you need to double check something feel free to reach out to any team member. We still have enough backup and backed up data to help restore at this point. And yes, we can properly region protect your awesome hard work.

The more active and the more players build, be it 1 or 50 bases, the easier it is to region protect, roll back, etc.

Heads-up: Upcoming changes to our whitelist/blacklist of clients, loaders, mods, etc.

Starting Spring 2021

To be uber clear: Nothing really changes, we will perm ban on any type of abuse that is even common sense. We run the server for you to play on as a player. We do not run it for people to abuse the system by using bugs, unintended gameplay mechanics, etc. Any unfair advantage is against the rules. Unfortunately, this seems a very difficult concept for some people who share a different opinion. You're free to have a different opinion; there are enough other servers out there with equal-minded players. This is our server, our rules. Play within those rules or get banned; it's that black/white and we're strict about it.

In the past however we might have been giving leeway and trying to educate players as to why we like or do not like something. Moving forward and since the game and our community is now a decade old it's fair to assume the common sense rule should be the only rule technically. You should know by now that you're purposely trying to gain a benefit you would otherwise not have. So the answer is likely: no, you can't use that. We will explain less, refer to our rules, and upon breaking of our rules we will sanction your account.

Moving forward however we will also request from our team members, epic players, donators, and regular active players what they consider to be whitelisted and blacklisted things. We will review them and adjust this list accordingly. We're open to discussing items already on the list.

Things that are not allowed and result into a perm ban without option to appeal:

Any customization to the vanilla game that gives you any unfair advantage.
Abuse of the game mechanics to create unintended mechanics that give you a clear advantage or let you bypass a rule.
Unofficial clients and launchers are assumed to be used for cheating. If we suspect you of cheating and find that you are using one, we may consider that use as evidence. For this rule, we consider the Minecraft Launcher and Minecraft client supplied through Minecraft.net or by Microsoft to be official.
Modifications (plugins, mods, injections, scripts, macros, etc) that extend the game to achieve impossible things, duplicate items, or otherwise give you an unfair advantage are obviously not allowed.
Modifications as listed above that aren't on the below list and purposely try to avoid identification are considered to be used for cheating. Upon detection, we can consider that “evidence.”
Auto-farming systems that give you money, items, levels, or other benefits, and that go beyond semi-automated sorting, farming/harvesting, or piston doors, are considered an unfair advantage when they are intended to automate gameplay so you can get ahead without actually playing. We will ask you to stop. Lag machines are governed by the separate rule below.
Lag machines or any other mechanisms intended to exploit the server or its plugins—to crash or lag the server, escalate privileges, or otherwise abuse the service—are considered malicious. Sometimes we will seek financial damages and/or seek legal action. You will at least be perm banned. If you have friends in your group, they will follow you out with a ban as well.
Downloading our world through Replay Mod to gain an advantage is not allowed. If you are a content creator get whitelisted first and have an agreement with the server owner.
World downloaders, auto builders, scripts, automated accounts, bots, or even schematic visualizers are not allowed.
Litematica or Schematica is not allowed. Visualizing your build in-game is not a default mechanic and gives you an unfair advantage over others—sorry. Players who abused these tools in the past caused us to prohibit them. Complain to those players, but please respect our decision.
Mini maps that show caves, tunnels, dungeons, POI, mobs, players are not allowed. If you use one, see the below mention of it on the whitelist to make sure you dont risk getting sanctioned. Play it safe: assume that mini maps are at least frowned upon, will get you suspected of cheating, and will probably be fully disallowed in the (near) future.
Mouse or keyboard customizations that give you an advantage in pvp, grinding, etc, including macro-ing/scripting etc, are not allowed (we know who you are, this is your final warning to stop)

Things that we have officially whitelisted and for which we allow more leeway are listed below, but the common-sense rule still applies.

OptiFine (https://optifine.net/) is allowed, despite it supporting the light emitting sources such as a torch, lantern, etc. We are now officially changing our rules regarding this 'light hack', see below. Anyway, OptiFine is whitelisted.
Fabric Loader and Fabric API are allowed, but only for plugins on our whitelist, and plugins that do not give you an unfair advantage.
Vanilla Tweaks (https://vanillatweaks.net/) are allowed, again, for whitelisted items, and tweaks/datapacks/resourcepacks that do not give an unfair advantage.
Faithful 32x (https://faithful.team/), resource pack is allowed, just like any other resource pack, but we are adding Faithful 32x and PureBDcraft to our whitelist as officially allowed. Any resource pack that gives you an unfair advantage, such as xray, etc. is obviously not allowed. If we see you run 'cheat packs' we will suspect you from cheating and look into this.
A simple mini map is allowed. We will suspect you from cheating, sorry. This is because we know it has additional features that we do not allow. You run the risk that if we suspect you from unfair pvp-ing, unfair POI finding, etc, and we see you run a mini map, we will use it as 'evidence' for gaining an unfair advantage. So turn it off or switch to another mini map without those features. You purposely run it: you purposely take the risk. Play fair, you should be fine. We do not promise to perm block mini maps in the future.
Sodium (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/sodium) and Phosphor are allowed as alternatives to OptiFine.
Shader packs are allowed (same argument as resource packs)
Macros are not allowed. If you have a disability and require an exception, talk to the owner.
MiniHUD is unfortunately allowed. I voted no, others voted yes.
Abusing the light bug is allowed. We have too many people with a visual disability that benefit from this. Some bugs in the game cause this. Profile hack leaking break the ability to turn this off, OptiFine kind of ruined light cheat already. We are giving in and against our will allowing this. Note: if you use this in an event where light plays a part and this customization helped you win: We will ban you for cheating during an event. Daily survival play is now officially allowed. Even if we dont want it to. It is officially frowned upon, not a bannable offense unless it's during an event.

Quite an update. And a messy list. It will change over the future. But now you have a headsup. Technically all these rules are already in effect, we're just in the period of discussing the specifics and will start enforcing them by spring time.

Update:

The Summer Update 2021 is here with updates to OMGboards, Discord Chat, and 1MB Minecraft server. This means it's time to review what we have ~ tighten the belt around certain rules, and loosen up on some of the existing rules. Keep a close eye on new players, but improve the way we teach them things with a smile, and we should stop staring at existing players that have been with us for a while.

And yes, as you can see, the above posts are all a huge mess, we have to start cleaning that up. And make sure it is easier to find what you are looking for.

Are you familiar with our community, can you write English quite well, and understand communities? We're looking for someone to help manage and write this content with us, because we can use the help. Feel free to reach out.

Got banned in the last ten years and really wish you could come back? Open a ban-appeal and let's turn that perm-ban into a 2nd-chance-unban. <3

We've mentioned before that we expect players to respect the Community Standards for Minecraft and the Xbox Community Standards alongside our rules. Mojang has recently announced that with 1.19 / 1.19.1 there will be in-game player reporting—more info about that here: https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us...ayer-Chat-Reporting-in-Minecraft-Java-Edition

It's time. Mojang has now released Minecraft 1.19.1. From today on, the rules on the forum, Discord, and especially in Minecraft include the Community Standards for Minecraft and the Xbox Community Standards. We will try to stay within them and enforce them. Please respect them, as we will be MORE actively referring to them.

We have unsigned chat at the moment. However, various options in our server.properties file let us control the ingame chat features. These options cover signed chat, required secure profile, and offering chat preview.

When we do have full signed chat in the (near) future, those who break the Community Standards for Minecraft may be caught by our system or manually sanctioned by our team members. Online players who feel the content should be reported may also be able to report it to Mojang for review.

We're a family friend server, and we always want people to respect that, Mojang has offered improved player safety features, and so we will gradually move to support these. We gave a heads-up, and now our rules have officially changed. For questions, please use our Discord with a private ticket

Mojang has released 1.19.2, and we've enabled in server.properties the value for enforce-secure-profile. (If set to true, players without a Mojang-signed public key will not be able to connect to the server.) If your client causes issues, stop using hack or custom clients, and use the vanilla launcher and vanilla client. They are guaranteed to work.

Updated today with a bit of a friendly but easy-to-read and understand introduction text about how we're trying to make a friendly community and toxicity has no room in it.

ℹ️ Privacy Policy (v3.2.2– March 29, 2025)

This is our in-progress privacy policy for our Discord and Minecraft community. We’ve technically had one for a while, but that setup isn’t ideal anymore. Time to start doing better. This is a working draft, but we’re putting it out here to be more transparent.

⚖️ We Respect Rules & Policies

We follow the guidelines, EULAs, and terms from the services we use, such as Discord, Mojang, and Microsoft. Their privacy policies apply to our use of those platforms and services. If you use those platforms and services, their privacy policies also apply to you. We therefore strive to follow their rules.

We Respect You Even More

We care about your experience in the community. That’s why we’ve spent the last few years improving how we handle data. Some examples:

We avoid keeping backups of personal data longer than necessary (like your Discord profile info, Minecraft server data, or email correspondence).
We’ve reconfigured our systems so that if you connect through rerouted services, your real IP address isn’t forwarded.
We support your use of VPNs and proxies. (We don't mind)
We've changed how plugins store data. We no longer save or forward your IP unless necessary, for example for security reviews or permanent bans. We mainly rely on Minecraft account UUIDs and Discord user IDs. Each Discord account has a unique numeric Discord user ID. We may use that ID to identify, directly mention or tag, or sanction the correct account.

Only the owner group can access IP addresses: general staff cannot request them. And again, most of the time, we don’t care about them unless something serious is going on.

We don’t sell, share, trade, or hand over your personal data to third parties (see (1) below). We’re not a big tech company that makes you the product. We care about fun, friendships, and fairness, not about building a user db for profit.

️ Security & Bans

-# exception (1)

If you’re a repeat rule-breaker or a bot/spammer, we may temporarily firewall your IP. It’s a protection thing. Depending on severity, we might share your UUID and the ban reason with the owners of other servers so that they can consider placing a preventive ban.

About Personal Info

If you put personal information in your public profile, we (and our tools/plugins) can technically see it. So… maybe don’t? Your name or other details might appear, but we’re not collecting that info into some mega-profile or selling it. Still, keep your privacy in mind when sharing publicly.

Both Discord and Mojang let you change usernames, gamertags, etc. Use that flexibility if needed.

About Kids & Age Restrictions

If you are under 13, you are not allowed to join our forums, Discord server, or Minecraft server. The same applies if you are under any higher minimum age required by the laws of the country where you live. Sorry. We don’t want to deal with requirements under the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) or the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) concerning children’s personal data. A parent or guardian joining with a child remains responsible for the child’s participation. Their presence does not waive this minimum-age requirement.

If someone self-identifies as being below the applicable minimum age, staff will temporarily restrict that person’s access until the person reaches the required age. Once eligible, that person can appeal and rejoin.

Community Safety

We take community safety seriously. Stick to the guidelines. Be mindful of who you interact with and what you share. If someone is targeting or harassing you, message the staff privately. We have zero tolerance for that kind of behavior. We won’t turn it into drama, but we will take it seriously and act appropriately. Your safety and privacy matter.

Final Notes

This post is just a start as we transition from forums to Discord. Although the information is not new, we have not officially posted it here before.

We may make edits to this privacy policy without formal announcements if they're editorial. But if we make any substantial changes, we will notify the community. Continuing to use our services after such updates means you agree to those changes. If you don’t—no hard feelings, just leave.

Joining and staying in our community means you’ve read, understood, and agreed to our:

Rules
Guidelines
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

...and that you’re not here to cause trouble. If you are, feel free to leave.

November 10th, 2025 - Clarification on content-review

We have always been transparent about the content we are logging and reviewing for moderation. However, it is clear our existing rules currently don't properly communicate this. This post is the only thing that we've changed in this thread of community guidelines / rules. Yes, we have more changes planned for 2026. We are trying to overhaul our rules regarding AFK-grinding, whether we move AFK-players around, and other topics. We are also trying to make our rules easier to search and digest. But more about that in 2026, hopefully.

Side note: We have slowly moved to depending on the Minecraft account UUID for moderation, but we deal with a lot of plugins and services. We stopped caring about your IP address years ago. However, we still do not adequately or fully filter it out. Hopefully, in our 2026 /rules update we will also provide more clarification on this topic.

️ Moderation & Privacy

At 1MoreBlock.com, we take player safety and a family-friendly atmosphere seriously.

By participating in our community, you understand that we may log—and in many cases do log—activity data from our forums, community Discord server, and Minecraft server. We use this data to provide and manage community membership, link roles and groups between services, and moderate and protect the community.

On our forums, public activity and private messages are stored in the forum’s database. On the Minecraft server, public chat and private player-to-player messages are written to server log files. Private player-to-player messages include /msg, /whisper, and /mail. All commands you run are also written to server log files. Other logged or reviewable information may include books, signs, item names, name tags, and other activity or content that our plugins make available.

Messages and other content posted within our community Discord server may be logged or available to staff for moderation. Private direct messages between Discord users are not exposed to us, so we cannot monitor or log them.

Logging content and reviewing it are different. Staff do not read everything or continuously monitor private conversations. They may review content when it is reported, flagged, clearly stands out as a possible rule violation, or during occasional reviews of recent logs. Depending on the service and tools involved, staff may see relevant content in-game, in moderation channels, or in stored logs.

Review may be necessary for suspected server advertising or invitations, hate speech, harassment, scams, grooming, spam, profanity, or other prohibited content. Ordinary conversations are not our focus unless they are reported, flagged, stand out during moderation, or become relevant to a suspected violation.

Our purpose is to protect the community, not to pry into ordinary conversations. Context matters, and before taking action, staff will try to review enough surrounding information to understand the situation fairly.

⚖️ Fair Play & Free Speech

By joining our server and playing, you agree to our community guidelines.

“Free speech” does not mean players can use our platform to harm others or spread hateful, inappropriate, or disruptive content.

This is a private community, and moderation is in place to ensure everyone can enjoy the server safely.