Community Standard (1)
• We welcome everyone to have fun, play fairly, and maintain good sportsmanship. Be respectful to all players and follow the rules, acting disrespectful or abusing the game will not be tolerated.

Chat Abuse & Inappropriate Content (2)
• Any kind of spam, arguments, uncomfortable topics, or inappropriate content is not allowed. You can read about what we consider inappropriate content in our Player Content Guidelines. Click Here for our Player Content Guidelines

Advertising (3)
• Advertising other Minecraft servers/realms, Discord servers, or real-world personal advertisements are not allowed. Applecraft, Hypixel, Wynncraft, Mineplex, 2B2T, and Hermitcraft may be discussed or asked to play.

Player Safety (4)
• Any behavior we believe puts a player’s safety or well-being at risk is not allowed. Some examples include but are not limited to:
• 4.1 Threatening to or actively doxing a player.
• 4.2 Sharing personal or account information about yourself or another player.
•4.3 Sending or displaying links in-game, except SnailCraft.net and Twitch streamers playing the server. Safe links may be sent in Discord.
• 4.4 Harassing or bullying others.

No Staff Impersonation (5)
• Claiming to be a staff member, changing your name or rank to resemble a staff member is not allowed.

Keep All Conversations in English (6)
• Local chat (outside of spawn/shops/events) or direct messages can be used to speak other languages.

Game Abuse (7)
• Using unfair advantages, cheating, bug abuse, duplicating (including TNT), or using complicated macros is not allowed. You can read about modifications in our Mods, Clients, & Resource Pack Guidelines.

Rule Abuse (8)
• Bypassing, attempting to bypass, or manipulating any rules or punishments is not allowed.

Limit Abuse (9)
• Bypassing, or attempting to bypass, any limits SnailCraft has set is not allowed. Examples include crossing the world border, entering blocked regions, account limits for voting and server store limits.

No Griefing (10)
• No griefing, raiding, stealing, or killing anything that does not belong to you, including in unclaimed areas, trusted claims, or server locations. Intentionally mass destroying unclaimed/wild land to troll or make it unusable is considered griefing. Destruction for resource gathering is allowed.

Nearby Claims (11)
• Do not build or claim within 100 blocks or within range or another player or their claim. Don’t bother other players on or around their land. If you’re asked to leave, you must move at least 100 blocks away or out of range from the claim and not use local chat or sethome.If players agree to live near each other, this rule will not be enforced.

Towns (12)
• If you share a base with another player or have claimed a town, you cannot leave a player's belongings unprotected or remove their access. Claim owners must provide evicted residents their belongings. We recommend owners create an area where evicted residents can pick up their belongings at any time.

• Anybody can create a town. The town mayor may create and enforce their own rules, while all the server rules remain enforced by the staff team. To avoid issues, residents should agree to the town rules prior to moving in. Town rule disputes are to be handled between the town mayor and residents.

Lag/Building Limits (13)
Any builds or items causing or intended to cause lag is not allowed. These may be removed by the staff team. Our build limits are:
• 13.1 Item Frame/Glow Item Frame Limit: 200 per chunk or 800 per base/area. 
• 13.2 Armor Stand Limit: 10 per chunk. 
• 13.3 Living Entities limit: 15 per chunk. 
• Exception: 64 optimized villagers per chunk. 
• After 15 mobs is exceeded, mobs within that chunk may no longer breed, pathfind, or collide. Excessive mobs may be erased without warning through our automatic plugin. 
• 13.4 Hopper limit: 40 per chunk. 
• 13.5 Piston limit: 40 per chunk. 13.6 Observer limit: 40 per chunk. 13.7 Redstone Repeater limit: 45 per chunk. 
• 13.8 Paintings Limit: 256 per chunk. 
• 13.9 Dropped Items Limit: 512 per chunk. 
• 13.10 Vehicle Limit: 16 per type per chunk
• 13.11 Lava casts are not allowed anywhere on the server. 
• 13.12 Large cobblestone generators are banned due to constant piston updates. All cobblestone generators are to be one module (1x5) max. 
• 13.13 Chunk loaders are not allowed. 
• 13.14 Portal farms are disabled/not allowed, except for shulker farms. 
• 13.15 Entity cramming is not allowed.

Gambling (14)
• Players hosting gambling, chance-based events/games, and pay-to-enter events/games are not allowed, including casinos, betting, and mystery boxes. Anything pay-to-enter is not allowed if the outcome is uncertain. However, specific pay-to-enter locations or events may be allowed, such as spawner rooms or other builds where the outcome is clear what you are getting.

Banks & Storage (15)
• Banks, investing, interest payments, and other systems involving storing anything for other players is not allowed.

Alt Limit (16)
• You may use a maximum of 3 accounts per world for voting, completing events, quests, or claiming any type of reward for something. Some events may have a different or no limit, which will be announced in Discord or at the event itself. There is no account limit for playing or farms unless you are causing lag or there is other abuse happening.

Server Store Limit & Refunds (17)
• On the server store, items with a purchasing limit, such as crate keys, are limited per person. Using several accounts to bypass maximum quantities for items is not allowed.Chargebacks for server store purchases are not allowed. This is a global limit, not per world. Contact FaeLilly or Paxolotl if you have any issues with your purchase.

Copying Original Work (18)
• Copying or reselling other player's mapart, books, banners, or other original work without their permission is not allowed, including stealing or editing original work.

Misleading Replacements (19)
• Misleading any staff member into refunding or replacing items falsely claimed as broken, lost, or stolen is not allowed.

Safe Trading (20)
• All trades must be agreed upon by everyone involved. No one should be tricked or misled. TIP: We recommend taking screenshots of trade agreements for evidence. Chat logs won’t be considered if issues arise.

Scamming (21)
• Scamming is not allowed. If you start a trade, you must either complete or undo the trade. Canceling a trade before anything is exchanged is not a scam.

• Fake items are considered a scam. Lowballing/Overpricing is allowed.

PVP in Trading (22)
• No PVP near trades. Don’t kill someone before, during, or right after trading.

Third Party Deals (23)
• No third-party trading with things outside of SnailCraft, except for skins, mapart, schematics, texture packs, and custom mods. Extortion or blackmail for real-life or in-game goods is not allowed.

Refunds (24)
• Refunds aren’t required if the trade was fair, but you’re welcome to offer one.

PVPSafe Zones (25)
• Pushing players from a PVP-disabled area to a PVP-enabled area is not allowed. PVP is enabled in the wild and Hydra-enabled claims.

TP Killing & Trapping (26)
• TP killing or trapping, or attempting to, is not allowed. Using sethomes or other means of teleportation to kill somebody is considered tp killing. In addition, trapping players is not allowed.

• You can start selling in a shop plot or open your own shop starting at 16 votes, Traveler rank, or any donor rank. Hydra rank is required to sell in a Hydra shop plot. 

• All server rules apply to shops. 

• Building above the barrier block height limit or below the bedrock limit is not allowed. 

• Joke/empty shop builds are not allowed. Shops must sell at least one item at a reasonable price within 7 days of the plot being claimed to avoid being reset. 

• Saplings and other plants that expand may not be placed anywhere, unless they are in a spot where they cannot expand. 

• A plot being used for farming is not allowed. Note: crops could be farmed by anyone on a plot and will not be considered griefing. 

• Animals, active beacons, and active jukeboxes are not allowed. 

• Redstone and pistons are not allowed, except for a simple redstone door. 

• A redstone lamp activated with a daylight sensor, redstone block, lever, or button is allowed. 

• Hoppers leading to a donation bin or services (i.e. drop a paper in the hopper for x service) is allowed up to 2 hoppers.

• Block Limits:
• Item frames (standard plots): 40, including glow item frames.
• Item frames (Hydra plots): 60, including glow item frames.
• Glow Item Frames: 10.
• Glow Signs: 10.

• Plots may be reset after 30 days of inactivity. The timer resets when the plot owner opens a chest in the plot. Items from erased plots cannot be recovered. 

• If you are going away and do not want your plot reset, place a sign on top of the barrier blocks of your plot saying so. Plots may be held for up to 60 days. 

• Alt accounts may not claim shop plots - 1 plot per person. Having official shop chests outside of the shop world is not allowed, however, you may use redstone to build shop chests in the overworld. This is to be built at your own risk. 

• Claim flags may not be set in shop plots. 

• Up to 4 players can share a plot.

Consequences
• Violation of rules is subject to a mute, ban, or jail. Our team follows specific, consistent guidelines when issuing a punishment.

• Players who continuously engage in/promote a toxic environment may receive extended mute times or a ban.

• In cases of repeated, abnormal, or severe offenses, a longer punishment may be issued, including a permanent ban, especially if we are concerned about the safety or well-being of another player.

• You are responsible for your account and the accounts you play on. If someone plays on an account you use, whether it's a friend or public account, you may still end up with a punishment if that shared account is issued a punishment.

• Punishments can be appealed in Discord in the #support channel. For Discord bans, contact a staff member directly.

By playing SnailCraft in-game and joining this Discord server, you agree to follow all of the rules. SnailCraft reserves the right to modify the rules at any time. No player is exempt from these rules. These rules may not cover every possible issue. We will take action against any content or behavior that we believe is over the line.

May 9th, 2025: Rules restructured, changelog reset.
May 9th, 2025: Added 13.10
May 14th, 2025: added quests to 1.16, added clarification to global limits to 1.17.