Terminology

This glossary explains how recurring words are intended to be used across the current 1MoreBlock rules and policies. It does not change the existing rules.md baseline, create an unlisted violation, or silently change a consequence.

Where a specific approved rule provides more detail, the definition and that rule should be read together. Entries and policy questions on this draft page must be reviewed before publication.

Community services and documents

1MoreBlock, 1MB, and the community

1MoreBlock and 1MB refer to the Minecraft server and its connected community. The community includes the official Minecraft server, OMGboards forums, OMG/1MB Discord server, and the people using those services.

Discord

Discord is the third-party text, voice, and media platform. Our Discord or the Discord server means the official OMG/1MB Discord server owned by Floris and operated by the team. Discord's own terms apply there in addition to the applicable 1MoreBlock rules.

Forums

The forums means the OMGboards.com community website, including its 1MoreBlock discussion, support, reporting, and appeal areas.

Minecraft server

The Minecraft server or game server means the public 1MoreBlock survival Minecraft service reached using 1MoreBlock.com, including its worlds, chat, commands, inventories, builds, plugins, and events. This is different from the Discord server.

Terms of Service

Terms of Service or ToS means the conditions governing access to and use of a service. The currently referenced community terms are linked from the Terms of Service page. Discord, Mojang, Microsoft, and other providers may also have their own terms.

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy means the document explaining how information may be collected, logged, accessed, used, retained, protected, or shared when someone uses the community services. The currently referenced policy is linked from the Privacy Policy page.

Community Guidelines and rules

Community Guidelines, community rules, and rules mean the approved behavioral and gameplay requirements for the 1MoreBlock community. Platform-specific rules and third-party standards may additionally apply where the rules expressly incorporate them.

Mojang and Microsoft Community Standards

Mojang and Microsoft Community Standards means the external Minecraft standards incorporated by reference in the current rules. They are not the same document as the local 1MoreBlock Community Guidelines.

Public server and private community

Public server means that access is generally available without a whitelist. Private community means that the services are privately owned and operated, and access may be moderated or withdrawn under the applicable rules and terms.

People, roles, and authority

Player

Player means a person using a Minecraft account to connect to or interact with the 1MoreBlock Minecraft server.

Account

Account means a Minecraft, Discord, or forum identity used to access a community service. An account is the technical identity used by a person; it is not necessarily the same thing as the person, username, IP address, or Minecraft UUID.

Server owner

Server owner means Floris Fiedeldij Dop, also known as mrfloris, who is identified as owning and operating the 1MoreBlock server and community.

Staff, team, admin, and community helper

Staff and team mean people formally authorized by the server owner to help operate or moderate the community, answer questions, review reports, give operational instructions, and apply approved rules. Titles such as admin or community helper may have different permissions; a title does not imply access to every system or category of personal data.

Owner group

Owner group means the narrower group with owner-level administrative access. The current privacy text distinguishes this group from general staff, particularly for access to IP-address information.

Permission

Permission means clear authorization from the relevant owner or an authorized team member before taking, changing, using, breeding, moving, or killing property or animals. Silence, an absent lock, or the technical ability to access something is not by itself permission.

Staff instruction

Staff instruction means a direction from an authorized staff or team member concerning immediate behavior, safety, moderation, or server operation. The current rules require players to follow such directions; whether a staff member may create a new permanent rule without publication remains a policy question.

Builds, property, and ownership

Build, base, and build area

Build or base means a player-created project and the blocks, decoration, storage, redstone, transport systems, and other property clearly connected to it. Build area means the visibly associated space used for that project. The current rules do not yet define abandoned builds, inactivity, shared-build ownership, or exact boundary tests.

Player property

Player property means items, blocks, displays, containers, mechanisms, or animals that belong to or are clearly being used by a player or group. Property does not become public merely because the server cannot technically lock or protect it.

Container

Container means a chest, shulker box, furnace, hopper, dropper, dispenser, chest minecart, chest-equipped animal, or a similar block or entity used to store, process, or transport items.

Private container

Private container means a container that is locked, marked private or “do not take,” located within someone's build or storage space, or otherwise clearly intended for that player or group. An unlocked private container remains private.

Public container

Public container means a container clearly marked “free” or “public,” intentionally provided as a share or trash container in a server-built public area, found as generated loot in a location the rules treat as public, or confirmed as public by an authorized team member.

Item stealing in game

Item stealing in game means knowingly taking or mechanically extracting items that are not yours without permission. This includes items in another player's containers, build, item frames, armor stands, sorters, water streams, hoppers, transport systems, or similar storage and display systems. Unlocked or imperfectly protected does not mean public.

Griefing a player build

Griefing a player build means breaking, removing, damaging, entering by breaking through, or materially changing another player's build or associated property without permission. It also includes interfering with displays, storage, mechanisms, or animals that are clearly part of the build.

World grief

World grief means damaging or stripping a persistent building or exploration world for resources in a way that ruins the shared environment for others, rather than using the designated resource-gathering world or keeping resource work within an appropriate build.

Duping

Duping means intentionally creating or obtaining duplicate items through a bug, exploit, modification, or unintended mechanic. Accidentally encountering a duplicated item or duplication bug is different from intentionally using it; the current rules direct the player to stop and report it.

Fair play and Minecraft gameplay

Fair play

Fair play means playing actively through permitted Minecraft and server mechanics without prohibited automation, exploitation, unfair information, theft, griefing, or deliberate harm to the service.

Unfair advantage

Unfair advantage means a meaningful gameplay benefit obtained through an unapproved modification, automation, hidden information, bug, glitch, or other method that is not available through permitted regular gameplay. The exact comparison point and current modification list still require review.

Cheating in game

Cheating in game means using an unapproved modification, client, launcher, script, macro, automation, bug, glitch, exploit, or unintended mechanic to gain an unfair advantage, bypass a rule, or achieve something unavailable through permitted gameplay.

Bug, glitch, and exploit

Bug or glitch means unintended behavior in Minecraft, a plugin, or the server. Exploit means knowingly using unintended behavior to gain a benefit, bypass a restriction, cross a world limit, take property, or harm the service. Accidentally discovering a bug is not the same as continuing to use it after recognizing what it does.

Modification, mod, client, launcher, loader, and script

These terms describe software or configuration that changes, extends, displays, or automates Minecraft beyond the standard client experience. A category name alone does not determine whether a particular tool is permitted; its features, use, current approval status, and resulting advantage matter.

Approved or allowlisted

Approved or allowlisted means that a specific tool or feature has been expressly permitted for the stated use. Approval may be feature-specific and version-specific; it is not permission to use other features bundled with the same tool.

Automation, macro, and bot

Automation means inputs or gameplay actions performed automatically rather than through the player's active manual control. A macro performs or repeats configured inputs. A bot or automated account is controlled substantially by software rather than by an actively present player. This definition does not resolve which passive or semi-automated in-game farms are currently permitted.

AFK or idle

AFK means “away from keyboard”: connected to the server while not actively controlling the character. Idle has the same practical meaning in the current AFK rules. Simply remaining connected and inactive is allowed.

Anti-AFK

Anti-AFK means using a mechanic, repeated input, script, movement, or other method to trick the server into treating an absent or idle player as active. The current rules prohibit anti-AFK behavior.

AFK grinding

AFK grinding, auto-grinding, or AFK gaming means gaining money, items, levels, playtime rewards, or other gameplay progress through automated actions while the player is not actively playing. The boundary between allowed passive crop growth, semi-automated farms, and prohibited AFK gains still requires a current policy decision.

Lag machine and server harm

Lag machine means a mechanism intended to reduce performance or knowingly used despite causing serious performance harm. Server harm also includes attempts to crash the server, flood commands or accounts, exploit plugins, or escalate privileges. An ordinary build that unexpectedly causes lag may instead need to be stopped or redesigned.

World limits

World limits means the configured horizontal world border and the game's permitted upper and lower bounds. The current rules also prohibit using glitches to cross those limits and prohibit building on the Nether roof.

Communication, conduct, and safety

Family-friendly

Family-friendly means suitable for a mixed-age community whose stated minimum age is 13. In the current rules this excludes profanity, sexual or NSFW content, hate speech, harassment, bullying, and other approved categories of offensive content.

Public or global chat and channels

Public chat, global chat, or public channel means a Minecraft global chat, Discord public text channel, Discord public voice channel, forum post, or comparable space visible or audible to multiple community members.

Private message

Private message means a message addressed to a limited recipient rather than posted publicly. “Private” describes who normally sees the conversation; it does not mean the message is technically inaccessible to server systems or exempt from moderation logging and review.

English-only

English-only means the current requirement to use English in Minecraft global chat and in Discord public text and voice channels. The baseline does not clearly extend this requirement to private messages or private support tickets.

Hate speech

Hate speech means content that attacks, threatens, dehumanizes, or promotes hatred or exclusion toward a person or group because of an identity-related characteristic. Context can include direct words, slurs, images, coded references, quotations, or repeated targeting.

Profanity, cursing, and swearing

Profanity, cursing, and swearing mean words or expressions ordinarily understood as vulgar, obscene, or swear words. The current rules prohibit them but do not yet define treatment of abbreviations, quotations, mild terms, partial masking, accidental use, or other languages.

Bypassing a filter

Bypassing a filter means deliberately changing spelling, spacing, capitalization, punctuation, symbols, images, or the delivery method to evade an automated moderation filter while still communicating the filtered content.

This phrase is not currently an explicit prohibition in rules.md. Making filter bypass independently punishable would be a substantive new rule that requires separate approval and change notice.

Spam and flooding

Spam or flooding means repeated, rapid, excessive, or disruptive messages, commands, mentions, images, or account connections that interfere with normal use of a service. The current rules do not set a numerical threshold, so frequency, repetition, purpose, and disruptive effect would need to be considered.

Harassment and bullying

Harassment means targeted, unwanted conduct reasonably likely to intimidate, humiliate, pressure, threaten, or make another person feel unsafe or unwelcome. Bullying means repeated or serious targeted mistreatment reasonably likely to humiliate, intimidate, exclude, or distress another person.

Trolling, flaming, and bickering

Trolling means deliberately provoking people or staff to start conflict, disrupt discussion, or cause trouble rather than participating in good faith. Flaming means hostile or insulting argument directed at a person. Bickering means a continuing petty or hostile argument, especially after staff asks for it to stop.

Toxic behavior

Toxic behavior is an umbrella description for conduct such as bullying, harassment, deliberate provocation, targeted hostility, cheating, griefing, or stealing that harms other people's ability to enjoy the community. It should not be treated as an unlimited catch-all without identifying the actual conduct and context.

Advertising, self-promotion, and other-server mentions

Advertising or self-promotion means promoting, naming, linking to, inviting people to, or repeatedly drawing attention to another server, community, stream, channel, product, or service in a place where the current rules prohibit it. The baseline contains different examples and exceptions by platform, so the applicable specific rule must also be checked.

Impersonation

Impersonation means presenting an account, name, avatar, profile, or message in a way intended to make others reasonably believe the person is someone else, including a player, staff member, owner, or outside person.

Inappropriate, offensive, and NSFW content

Inappropriate or offensive content means material incompatible with the approved family-friendly standards. NSFW content means sexually explicit, pornographic, or similarly adult material unsuitable for the community. The exact boundaries require explicit approval rather than relying only on the word “inappropriate.”

Personal information

Personal information means information that identifies, contacts, locates, authenticates, or can reasonably be linked to a person, such as a real name, address, precise location, private email address, phone number, account credentials, IP address, or identifying photograph. Information someone posts publicly can still be personal information.

Scam

Scam means a deceptive attempt to obtain another person's items, money, account access, credentials, or information. Scams are named as a moderation concern in the baseline but do not yet have a detailed standalone rule.

Grooming

Grooming means manipulating or building trust with someone, particularly a minor, for sexual, abusive, or exploitative purposes. This term needs a dedicated safeguarding and reporting procedure in addition to a definition.

Rule bypass and loophole abuse

Rule bypass or loophole abuse means deliberately using a technicality, alternate method, wording trick, or narrow literal reading to achieve an outcome that a rule clearly prohibits. A player should not assume that a method is allowed merely because the exact variation is not listed.

Context

Context means the surrounding content and circumstances considered when reviewing an incident, including what was said or done, the medium, audience, apparent purpose, effect, relevant conversation, and prior interactions. Context can explain conduct; it does not automatically excuse it.

Moderation, privacy, and enforcement

Content and in-game content

Content means material created or shared through the community services. In-game content includes chat, commands, /msg, /mail, books, signs, item names, name tags, and other material recorded or displayed by Minecraft and its plugins.

Logged content and content review

Logged content means content recorded by the server, plugins, or moderation systems so it can later be searched or reviewed. Content review means staff access to or examination of that content for moderation. Logging, automated flagging, and a person reading content are different activities.

Report and flagged content

Report means information submitted to staff alleging a rule, safety, or service issue. Flagged content means content identified for attention through a report, an automated system, or an obvious rule-breaking signal. A flag is a reason to review; it is not automatically proof of a violation.

Sanction

Sanction means a moderation action applied to an account or person's access, such as a warning, infraction, kick, restriction, firewall block, or ban.

Warning, infraction, kick, ban, and permanent ban

A warning tells someone to stop or correct conduct. An infraction is a recorded rule violation. A kick disconnects an account without necessarily preventing reconnection. A ban prevents access for a stated or unstated period. A permanent ban has no scheduled end date.

Ban appeal

Ban appeal means a request for review of a ban through the approved appeal channel. The historical baseline contains conflicting statements about eligibility, timing, the number of appeals, and second chances; a current appeal policy must be selected before this entry can be final.

Ban evasion

Ban evasion or bypassing a ban means using another account, another person, or an unapproved communication route to avoid a ban or its restrictions. This is different from bypassing a chat filter.

Preventive ban

Preventive ban means restricting access based on a serious safety, security, or cheating concern before a proven rule violation is fully established. The current baseline permits this discretion but does not define an evidentiary or review standard.

Editorial and substantial changes

Editorial change means a correction to spelling, grammar, formatting, links, or presentation that does not change meaning, scope, obligations, permissions, exceptions, or consequences.

Substantial change means a change that alters meaning, adds or removes a rule, changes who or what is covered, changes an exception, or changes a consequence. The current baseline contains inconsistent statements about notice, so the future change-notification process requires approval.

Policy decisions required before publication

The current rules.md is a chronological collection containing overlapping and sometimes conflicting statements. A glossary should not silently choose between them. The following decisions need explicit approval and separate change tracking:

1. Whether bypassing a profanity or chat filter becomes an explicit prohibited action.
2. Whether the minimum age of 13 is absolute and how parent participation is handled.
3. Which local and third-party rules apply on each service, including private messages, and which text controls if they conflict.
4. The authority of staff and whether staff can create permanent obligations or only apply published rules and temporary operational directions.
5. Ownership boundaries for shared, abandoned, inactive, or unlocked builds and containers, including public grinders and generated loot.
6. The boundary between allowed passive growth or semi-automated farms and prohibited AFK grinding or automation.
7. A current modification policy for clients, launchers, minimaps, MiniHUD, shaders, resource packs, accessibility tools, macros, and other features.
8. A single advertising policy covering server mentions, streams, videos, links, public channels, and unsolicited direct messages.
9. Current definitions and examples for family-friendly content, hate speech, profanity, harassment, scams, grooming, and filter bypass.
10. The current sanction and ban-appeal process, including warnings, permanent bans, appeal eligibility, deadlines, second chances, and preventive bans.
11. Current world names and boundaries for build worlds, resource worlds, world grief, region protection, and rollback requests.
12. Privacy details for logging, human review, retention, staff access, IP addresses, UUIDs, and disclosure of ban information.
13. What counts as an editorial or substantial policy change and how players will be notified.
14. A current list of any banned blocks or items; the baseline names this category but contains no list.