Dungeon Realms Game Rules

Latest update: July 29, 2022

 

The purpose of these rules is to facilitate the use and enjoyment of the Dungeon Realms servers and protect the players that wish to do so. If you do anything intentionally to disrupt that, we reserve the right to modify our rules in order to stop that behavior.

 

Note: If you believe that you have been wrongfully punished, appeal on the Dungeon Realms forum using the correct format and list the information required. Failing to follow the format or not taking the appeal process seriously will lead to your appeal being denied.

https://www.dungeonrealms.net/forum/m/20125238/viewforum/7171592

*By signing up with a Dungeon Realms forum account or connecting to our game or Discord servers you agree to all rules that apply to that platform. Claiming ignorance of the rules is not a valid excuse.*

 

1. No hacking or cheating

 

What is hacking/cheating?

Hacking or cheating is using any kind of modified client or program to gain an unfair advantage over players who don’t have the same client/program. Macros, autoclickers and any other programs that allow you to do things that are not possible in the vanilla client also fall under this rule. The mods on our ALLOWED MODS list are exempt from this rule.

 

ALLOWED MODS: Optifine, VoxelMap, Labymod, Rei’s Minimap, JourneyMap, Armor HUD, The 5zig mod..

 

If you want to use a mod not listed here, contact a staff member and we will discuss whether it can be added to the allowed mods list. Using any other mods than the ones listed here can be considered a violation of Rule #1.

 

Playing with hackers/cheaters and failing to report them can also be considered a violation of rule #1.

 

Penalty:

Autofishing and automining/nuking:

- 1st offense: 5 day ban.

- 2nd offense: 10 day ban.

- 3rd offense: Permanent ban.

 

Getting banned for autofishing or automining will also lead to your profession item being deleted.

 

Autoclicking in non-PvP content:

- 1st offense: Warning.

- 2nd offense: 30 day ban.

- 3rd offense: 90 day ban. (repeating)

Combat hacks in non-PvP content (excluding autoclicking):

- 1st offense: 30 day ban.

- 2nd offense: Permanent ban.

Combat hacks in PvP content (including autoclicking):

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

Other hacks or cheats:

- The punishment may be determined based on the hack or cheat you use.

2. No exploiting bugs or glitches

 

What is exploiting bugs or glitches?

An exploit, in video games, is the use of a bug or glitch (rates, hit boxes, or

speed, etc..) by a player to gain an unfair advantage. Exploiting game mechanics or anything similar is also not allowed. This includes abusing any kind of unintended behaviour within the game, including but not limited to: duplicating items, block glitching, accessing restricted areas, safespotting etc.

 

Playing with bug abusers and exploiters and failing to report them, as well as possessing illegal items created by bug abusers, can also be considered a violation of rule #4.

 

Penalty:

Duplicating items (Duping):

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

 

Safespotting:

- 1st offense: Warning.

- 2nd offense: 1 day ban.

- 3rd offense: 3 day ban. (repeating)

For any exploit not listed above, the punishment will be decided by the staff team at the time of the incident.

3. No Real World Trading

What is Real World Trading (RWT)?

Real world trading (also called IRL trading) is trading real life currency or anything else outside of the game for in-game content. This is another method for players to gain unfair advantages over others.

Penalty:

Advertising RWT through chat (including "jokes"):

- 1st offense: 3 day mute. (repeating)

 

Advertising RWT through non-chat methods:

- 1st offense: Warning.

- 2nd offense: 1 day ban.

- 3rd offense: 3 day ban. (repeating)

Real world trading (buyer):

- 1st offense: 1 month ban.

- 2nd offense: Permanent ban.

Real world trading (seller):

- 1st offense: 6 month ban.

- 2nd offense: Permanent ban.

4. No advertising of other servers

 

What is advertising?

Advertising is posting IPs, URLs, or other contact information to something like a server in order to attract people to said server. We do not allow and will not tolerate the advertising of competing servers on Dungeon Realms. Posting IPs or URLs is strictly prohibited. This includes posting images that include the IP or address / URL. Trying to find alternate ways to post these will be treated as actually posting them.

 

Personal Twitch/Youtube links are allowed, as long as the content is Dungeon Realms related.

 

Penalty:

Advertising:

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

5. No inappropriate/offensive language, spam, or harassment

 

What is inappropriate language?

Anything you can say that is meant to annoy, hurt, or otherwise aggravate other players. This includes racist or sexist remarks, swears directed at another player/excessive swearing, or any other rude or infuriating comments.

 

What is offensive language?

Anything you can say that is considered overtly racist or sexist and is meant to degrade or dehumanize other players. This includes, but is not limited to, racial and ethnic slurs or verbal sexual harassment.

 

What is spam?

The same phrase or word being repeated over and over without an appropriate reason.

 

What is harassment?

Making repeated small-scale attacks on other players by constantly messaging them, entering their realm and refusing to leave, following them around, constantly name-calling them, etc.

 

The enforcement of this rule may vary depending on the severity of the offense, and is subject to the discretion of the staff team.

 

Penalty:

Inappropriate language/spam:

- 1st offense: Warning.

- 2nd offense: 1 hour mute.

- 3rd offense: 3 hour mute. (repeating)  

 

Offensive language/harassment:

- 1st offense: 6 hour mute/ban.

- 2nd offense: 3 day mute/ban.

- 3rd offense: 7 day mute/ban.

- 4th offense: Permanent mute/ban. 

6: No inappropriate usernames, skins, item names/lore, or buildings

 

What is an inappropriate username, skin or item name/lore?

Usernames, skins, item names, or item lore containing any derogatory terms or other offensive words/imagery is prohibited.

 

What is an inappropriate building?

Structures built by players (in realms/guild villages) containing any derogatory or other offensive words/imagery is prohibited.

 

Penalty:

Inappropriate username or skin:

   - 1st offense: Permanent ban. Make a ban appeal after changing your username/skin to be unbanned.

 

Inappropriate item name/lore:

- 1st offense: Warning, item name/lore removed.

- 2nd offense: 1 day ban, item deleted. (repeating)

 

Inappropriate building:

- 1st offense: Warning, building removed.

- 2nd offense: 6 hour ban, building removed.

- 3rd offense: 3 day ban, building removed.

- 4th offense: 7 day ban, building removed. (repeating)

7: No DDOSing, DDOS threats or doxing

 

What is DDOSing?

DDOSing (Direct Denial of Service) is overloading a person’s internet connection with packets, effectively shutting down their internet access. This is a crime in real life.

 

What is a DDOS threat?

DDOS threats are any messages, comments, or remarks that threaten or imply DDOS attacks against another player. Jokes are not excluded.

 

What is doxing?

Doxing someone is leaking their private information (real name, address, IP-address, etc) in public or to other players against the target’s will. Jokes are not excluded. 

Note: small-scale attacks (i.e. releasing of non-sensitive information without the player's consent) will instead fall under rule #5, under the harassment category.

 

Penalty:

DDOSing:

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

 

DDOS threats:

- 1st offense: 30 minute mute to 1 week ban, depending on context.

 

The more serious you sound and the more specific terms you use, the longer the penalty will be.

 

Doxing:

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

8. No ban evading

 

What is ban evading?

Bypassing any type of penalty you’ve been given by using a different account, IP address, etc. If you have been banned on one account, you may not play Dungeon Realms on any account.

 

Ban evaders are found when they play on different accounts on the same IP address. If you connect to Dungeon Realms on the same IP that another player has been banned on, you will be banned for ban evading, since there is no way for us to know whether you are an alternate account of theirs or not. Avoid playing on the same IP as rule-breaking players. If you have a sibling or other who has a tendency to cheat, there are options available online to get your own IP address.

 

Penalty:

Ban evading:

- 1st offense: Previous ban reapplied to all accounts connected to you.

 

Ban evading and breaking rules again:

- 1st offense: Previous ban increased by one stage and reapplied to all accounts connected to you.

9. No account sharing

 

What is account sharing?

Account sharing is when more than one person is using a single account to actively get ahead of other players.

Example: You and your friend are sharing an account and rotating the account between each other every 10-12 hours to farm monsters. This is considered account sharing, as you are taking advantage of the account's levels and drystreaks.

Penalty:

Account sharing:

- 1st offense: Warning.

- 2nd offense: 7 day ban. (repeating)

10. No cross-teaming in Conquest/Stronghold events

 

What is cross-teaming?

Cross-teaming is when two or more guilds work together to gain an unfair advantage. This definition will also apply to guildless players, if there are more than two guildless players acting on behalf of a guild.

Penalty:

Cross-teaming in Conquest/Stronghold event:

   - 1st offense: Points of participating guilds are reset, or participating players will receive a 30 minute ban. (repeating)

 

Note on Scamming and Trust Issues
Share any in-game items with other players you trust at your own risk. This includes giving other players access to your Minecraft account. You are held accountable for any actions you and your account takes. The staff team does not have control over issues outside of our platforms nor do they control the trust between you and another player in our game. However, excessive accounts of scamming can be considered a violation of rule #5, specifically under the harassment category.

Note: Players can request a moderator to act as a middleman for a trade that has more items than can fit in the trade menu.

Example: You let your friend use your T4 Pickaxe to mine, but your friend loses it or never returns it. This is considered a trust issue, and thus staff will not help you get your pickaxe back.

Discord/Forums Rules:
All rules listed above must be followed on all Dungeon Realms platforms. Failure to follow them will result in punishment. In addition to the above rules the following rules listed below must be followed on both the forums and discord.
Note: Messages in the chat channel #toxic on discord will be less strictly enforced, however situations like constantly pinging staff members, sending pornographic content, or being extremely excessive with language are still intolerable and can get that user penalized.

Necro Posting - Do not reply to outdated / inactive threads. (forums only)
Avatars -All avatars must be appropriate for Dungeon Realms and cannot contain any inappropriate language, racism, discrimination, or explicit content.
Microphone Spamming / Inappropriate Music - Do not play loud or excessive noises through your microphone and do not play any inappropriate music which can be heard by others. (discord only)
Appropriate Links - All links posted must lead to safe and reliable sites. You may not mask these links with link shorteners. Any links found to be inappropriate will be removed and you will be punished.
Trolling - Any behavior which prevents the staff from doing their job or discourages other players to an excessive extent will be punished.
Ban Appeals -Submitting multiple Ban appeals will resort in getting them deleted, if abused again, it will resort in getting banned from our Forums.

 

1. Spamming & pinging others

No spamming, AKA sending multiple messages at once in a short span of time, constantly repeating the same message, randomly pinging others constantly that are not fine with it and anything else that closely resembles spam will not be tolerated. This includes sending the same message and the use of emojis more than 3 times in under 1 minute.

Penalty:

- 1st offense: 15-30 minute temporary mute.

- 2nd offense: 2 hour temporary mute.

- 3rd offense: 6 hour temporary mute.

- 4th offense: 24 hour temporary mute. (continuously)

 

2. No harassing other members.

No excessive use of inappropriate language or personal attacks towards other members. This includes threats and calling others inappropriate names. This includes using Emojis.

Penalty:

- 1st offense: 1-2 hour temporary mute.

- 2nd offense: 6 hour temporary mute.

- 3rd offense: 24 hour temporary mute. (continuously)

3. No inappropriate links or images

Any and all links containing porn, racism or other forms of derogatory content is strictly not allowed. Self-promotion of your own stream/content is allowed, but it must be DR related.

Penalty:

Pornograhy/gore:

- 1st offense: Permanent ban.

 

Other cases:

- 1st offense: 1 week temporary mute.

- 2nd offense: Permanent ban.

4. Avatar & name usage

Keep your username appropriate! All of the same rules apply to your username as well, meaning that in no way should your username be made to offend others or be used to intentionally impersonate staff. Keep your avatar appropriate, the use of NSFW, Racism, or other form of derogatory image is strictly not allowed. Not changing your name or avatar after been warned will get you a 2nd offense penalty.

Penalty:

- 1st offense: Warning

- 2nd offense: 1 day temporary ban.

- 3rd offense: 7 day temporary ban.

- 4th offense: Permanent ban.

 

5. Advertising other servers

Advertising other Minecraft servers in our discord and on our forums is prohibited, no exceptions. Discord server invites are fine, as long as they aren’t spammed or do not contain inappropriate content. Keep all Discord invites in #offtopic.

Penalty:

- 1st offense: Permanent ban

 

6. Ban evasion

Banning others from the discord is not something we look forward to doing, but if you're banned from our discord then it has been for good reason and any attempts to use an alternative account to evade your ban will result in the immediate ban of said alternate account(s). All accounts will be subject to the main punishment.

Penalty:

- 1st Offense: Permanent Ban

 

Stay on topic
Keep discussion appropriate to the channel. Each channel has been made for a specific reason to ensure discussion remains appropriate based off of what the intention of that channel is. Please keep chat relevant to the channel you are in.

Failure to comply with these rules may result in the termination of your account, account suspension, or permanent ban of access to the relevant Dungeon Realms platform. You agree that we have the ability and right to remove, edit, or lock any account or message at any time should it be seen fit. You also agree that any information you enter on this discussion system is stored in a database, and that "cookies" are stored on your computer to save your login information.

Any information you provide on these forums will not be disclosed to any third party without your complete consent, although the staff cannot be held liable for any hacking attempt in which your data is compromised.

 

Rules Notice:
These rules will be enforced and are expected to be followed on all Dungeon Realms platforms. Failure to follow these rules will result in the punishments listed by each rule. These rules are subject to change at any time and it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and follow the rules. Announcements may be made regarding rule changes to notify you. Excessive offenses of the above rules are at the discretion of the staff team at which point we will deal an appropriate punishment.